Everything you ever needed to know about my JCA OC, cus' you're probably gonna be seein' them around.
More info sitting pretty under the cut, it's a doozy.
Personality:
Kilmer is something of a selfless 'big sister' type, quick to patch up someone's wounds without asking too many questions. This tends to make them the one to help mend the Enforcers' bruises after Chan Incidents.
They find themselves feeling like things just might as well happen the way they do no matter how odd, giving them something of a deadpan personality... Mostly. In some odd running joke, the talismans and dark magic doesn't seem to phase or scare them, as they're not actually impressed by finding out that Shendu is alive or that the rocks make fire come out of your hands. However, if someone's doing something as minor as using their favorite mug or ate their lunch out of the fridge, hell breaks loose and Kilmer quickly earns the nickname Killer.
Despite all this though, they do care very deeply for their 'co-workers' as much as they fear it's not really reciprocated, as the thugs were the closest thing to a friend group they ever had, and would risk putting themselves in harm's way to help them if it came to it.
And yes, they're aware they further rose the Dark Hand's redhead quota. The Hak Two jokes got old fast.
Plot:
PRE-JCA:
A child of distant parents and a good handful of siblings to care for, Kilmer became desensitized to the idea of 'dirty work' and taking care of others quickly on in life, but for all that time spent they never had time to develop friendships or many personal goals.
Upon moving out and trying to find ANY sense of real self in school, they found themselves talking to friends of friends of cousins of classmates, going to increasingly lavish and increasingly less than legal parties to get the last rush of their late 20s, to feel something from the youth they felt was squandered. Somewhere in that pipeline to dark delights they met Valmont at a party, who found himself charmed by the cynical redhead the more they seemed to keep running into each other. Inevitably burner numbers were exchanged and the two grew closer, though their feelings towards each other didn't seem quite equal.
Eventually the crime lord's need for secrecy and...a close hold on his possessions insisted that Kilmer simply come live with him so as to not leave so many tracks, and the latter obliged. The next couple of years together was a plunge into the clasp of indeed dark hands outstretched, of shimmering champagnes and bloody interrogations of those who crossed them. Kilmer wanted for nothing with such riches, but perhaps a love that felt a little more earnest, as Valmont always felt too busy and emotionally distant to provide.
Naturally, none of this improved when he brought in a massive golden dragon statue with glowing eyes and 12 odd holes that suddenly started talking and demanding the vacancies filled.
SEASON 1:
Things quickly felt like they had been turned on their head, as what used to be aimless living quickly became more complicated. Valmont had often insisted that Kilmer simply mind their business and that life for them would be grander than ever sooner than he could snap his fingers, but the redhead still couldn't help but feel that this was a little TOO granted. Many dirty glances were shot between them and that statue, not seeming to care much for its threats. Yeah, Chernobyl could melt my face off too, what makes you special?
They tended to do their best to follow along on the talisman trips as best as they could, even getting caught up in a few scuffles with the Chans and being left on nurse duty when they got clobbered. Though Jackie found himself reluctant to lay any hands on them if possible because he could judge that they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time, Jade certainly didn't know much better and the two became rather familiar with each other's tricks in a light rivalry. Yes, they threw hands with an 11 year old.
When Shendu was finally released and shit frankly went south, Kilmer was arrested with the Dark Hand as an accomplice and was therefore broken out with the others as well. With the dragon out of their hair, now was the matter of that squandered money...
SEASON 2:
Oh, did I say the dragon was gone? HA! HA HA!
While Kilmer wasn't immediately present at the big heist and 'the possession', they were quick to notice something was deathly wrong with Valmont as someone who had known him the most intimately, and for once they COULDN'T roll with the fact that something weird was happening, certainly not how painful it was that they couldn't even provide their distressed lover any comfort without being shoved away by the demon.
They had been forced to join the hunt for the Demon Portals (as Shendu couldn't fathom the point of having a loser's 'concubine' lazing around the hideout when there was work to be done) and that went no better than it did canonically because, why would it?
By the time they're planning to free Dai Gui, Kilmer has finally had enough and their indifferent façade has finally eroded out of worry and, in lack of better judgement, they attempt to strangle out Shendu in thinking the body can just be knocked out and they can drag him to the Chans to FIX this garbage. That Uncle guy knows just about everything else, right?!
However, in a rude matter of manipulation Shendu passes the wheel to a Valmont who is now confused and terrified that his partner is attacking him, causing them to release their grasp and open themselves to getting palm-blasted in the face and sent crashing into a wall to the 'Uhhh shit nice knowing you dude' of the Enforcers.
The dragon prepares a breath of fire, being all too glad to wipe out a traitor who's done nothing this whole time but piss him off, but in a rare shot of 'giving a crap about anyone besides himself' Valmont forcibly takes enough control to redirect the blast and sputter for the men to get Kilmer OUT, RIGHT NOW and regardless of any protests.
Being picked up and thrown out by Hak Foo only for Shendu to temporarily weld the door shut to avoid Kilmer's reentry no matter how much they banged on it and yelled, the last they would see their partner for a long time was seeing him doubled over having a screaming argument with his own self. You really wouldn't think it would get worse, huh?
(Kilmer is not seen or heard for the rest of season's 2 or 3, but in this time they're in the swing of putting their life back together, getting a real job and an apartment and generally trying to keep their head low for past criminal involvement.)
Season 4:
I already have a pretty good idea of exactly where I'm going with this, but it will be updated properly when I have full context of this season and the next. TL;DR one's past can't quite be escaped for all their best attempts, and that very past is currently dead broke, desperate for help and going to have to learn a few things if he wants to be let back in their life.
