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TLDR:: jerry’s son via high school pregnancy & your local drug dealer who’s been working at high volume for about 5 years.
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full info & headcanons below the cut ! ( @volumeupdates )
( archie renaux, cis man, he/him, muse e ) oh snap! is that JAMIE SINGH? they work over at high volume where some of the other employees have labeled them as THE CATACLYSM. that’s probably because they can be a bit ( resourceful ) but also pretty ( self-serving ). they’re 24 and they’ve been living in woodstock for THEIR WHOLE LIFE. it must be their shift because i totally hear METALLICA blasting from the record store. ( aesthetics: a busted walkman playing heavy metal through the headphones, a hand-rolled blunt sticking out of his back pocket and another tucked behind his ear, the glint of a pearly smile after telling a white lie, filthy sneakers with the soles falling off ) [ EM, 23, EST, SHE/HER ]
born in woodstock to 15-year-old neha singh, whose mother agreed to help raise the baby while neha finished high school and went to college.
jamie’s mother refused to tell him (or his grandmother) anything about his father, even though jamie tried relentlessly over the years to find out who he was.
grandma did most of the actual raising in his early childhood, with neha focusing on school. then once she finished college, she decided to leave jamie in woodstock while she pursued a flashy business career.
money was super tight growing up. his grandma had spent all of her savings on sending neha to college, and as she grew older her health issues made it harder for her to work. neha sent them the occasional check from miami, but it wasn’t much. jamie always just had less than most of the other kids he grew up around.
he started dealing drugs in his first year of high school because he was tired of putting up with having so little. it was more for him than for his grandma, who would’ve wanted to know where he was getting the money anyway.
when he was 16, his operation got busted and he had to spend a year in juvie. he’d been super close to his grandma before, but she was so heartbroken and disappointed that things were never the same between them after that.
after getting back from juvie jamie swore he wouldn’t start dealing again, but he managed to get himself into other forms of trouble -- underage drinking and partying, shoplifting, vandalism, partaking in drugs even if he wasn’t selling them. always one fuckup away from getting kicked out of his grandma’s house, he got super good at letting other people take the fall. people he figured had way less to lose than he did. jamie learned to look out for himself only, with two exceptions: his grandma and muse f.
when he was 18, he was looking through some old shit in the attic and came across his mom’s journal from when she was in high school. upon reading it, jamie learned a lot about his “loser” father, including a name: jerry gordon.
was able to track jerry down after asking around, and it was total news to jerry that they were father and son too. jamie was super happy to see that his dad seemed to be like him in a lot of ways.
jamie’s mom was super angry to learn he’d sought out his dad, seeing it as a betrayal of her and her wishes. jamie narrowly avoided her never speaking to him again by lying and saying that it was jerry who came looking for him, not the other way around.
not that he was even sure why he wanted to keep his mom in his life that badly, she had a whole fancy career in miami now with a husband and a new baby more worth her time than jamie.
he took a job at high volume and bonded hardcore with jerry, after a couple of years he even started calling him ‘dad’ and it didn’t feel weird.
in the meantime, dealing drugs became a thing again because jamie was an adult and he wanted to move out of his grandma’s house. and he figured he wasn’t as stupid about it now, he’d be more careful this time.
when cops showed up at high volume with an anonymous tip about drugs at the store, jamie panicked. things were so good for him: he’d finally moved into an apartment and become close with his dad (who knew about his history and juvie, but was under the impression that jamie had moved past it), and he desperately didn’t want to lose either of those things. he quickly moved his stash to muse k’s locker, figuring they had less to lose and everyone would easily believe they were the culprit.
of course now he feels pretty guilty about it because he didn’t think the results would be as bad for muse k as they were. but when it comes down to it, he’d probably make the same choice again.
and now his dad is missing?? and it’s not even related to any of jamie’s fuckups??? he is incredibly stressed and v determined to find out what happened to him, while keeping high volume open in the meantime because he’s become pretty attached to the store over the past few years.
against his better judgment, jamie is still dealing, but not as often out of the store. sometimes though.
his personality & interests are v dudebro-like… into video games, hard rock & metal, beer, & sex when the opportunity arises. has fuckboy tendencies but is not a full-on fuckboy i think.
a friendly enough guy, even though he cares about himself more than most other people.
would stab you in the back for a corn chip <3











