Ah thank you for the question! ☺️ I could go on about him and Keera for hours (they’re my oldest OCs by far, created probably… 2011-2012 ish) so I’ll try to keep it succinct, but don’t feel compelled to read it all haha.
The TLDR is that he’s a little man with a severe complex, and confused feelings about his species. He was born a Dalek, but grew himself a Kaled body to live in instead. He’s in a long term (platonic, later romantic) relationship with Keera. Later in life he joins a group of similarly defective Daleks to try and recreate society after the Imperial/Renegade war wiped out the last “true” (to him and his Renegade buddies) Daleks.
This is an older artwork but I don’t think I’ve posted it before:
And here’s a longer recap of his story below:
Jester’s a defective Renegade Dalek who was rescued from the incinerator by Keera. Whatever switches in his brain that are supposed to make him act like a Dalek are flipped off. He has free will, creativity, emotions, connections, desires, and is constantly in a (losing) battle not to be driven insane by these things. He’s exceptionally intelligent and skilled in a wide range of sciences, but his foremost interest is genetics.
Jester very early on developed a disdain for himself and his casing- he felt he was inhibited from living life as he wanted. Keera spent all of her time exploring alien worlds and getting into trouble and Jester found it very difficult to keep up. That is, if he could even step foot off of her voidship without getting recognized and shot at for being the most notorious lifeform in the universe. His life’s work became recreating the Kaled genome and building himself a new body, as he sees that as the route to his freedom, and the only way Keera might reciprocate the feelings he developed for her (untrue, but it was what Jes latched onto at the time- in truth she had always liked him, and he her, but both were under the impression the other couldn’t possibly be interested.)
They were together for 32 years straight from the time they met, but became separated for a 15 year period before reuniting again. In the interim Jester completed his Kaled body (quite a shock for Keera when they did reunite, she had no idea he was even working on it, thought he was dead all those years, and didn’t recognize him,) and also met The Commander, a Renegade special ops leader who had come from the same facility that produced Jester- and possessed some of the same mental anomalies he did, just not enough to be immediately flagged for destruction the way Jester was.
At the time he didn’t join The Commander, instead returning to his search for Keera, but later on after finding her and finally becoming a couple, Jester would regroup with him and become the Chief Scientist for The Commander’s new Dalek society. The Commander views individuality as an asset to the Daleks (viewing his own impressive career and the Movellan stalemate as examples,) and is happy to let Jester do whatever he wants so long as he keeps producing out-of-the-box creative ideas and pushing the boundaries of technology in his role as a scientist. Jester’s just happy to belong and have somewhere to build his family, and The Commander’s isolationist and generally lenient policies means he doesn’t have to think too hard about the ramifications of the new weapons and technologies he creates.
In addition to his official duties, Jester continued work on his unraveling of the Kaled genome, eventually producing a much improved Mk. 2 over the Mk. 1 he grew for himself. Though there aren’t many takers, Kaled bodies do exist on loan from the scientific department for any Daleks to use on base…
Jester has 6 biological children (5 in one litter and a singleton later) and an apprentice to hand off the reigns to on genetic research at the base.
Campion - M Dhaigon Hybrid
Sarne - F Dhaigon Hybrid
Tyce - F Dhaigon Hybrid
Beckhem - M Dhaigon Hybrid
Lyla - F Dhaigon Hybrid
Serel - F Dhaigon Hybrid (21 yrs younger than the others)
Prentice - Dalek (jokingly named by Keera, but he overheard and became attached to it. Same age as Serel.)
