List 5 facts about your favorite sim. Then, send this to 10 simblrs whose sims you adore. 💚
Ok I have two of these and they've been sitting in my ask box for a dang while because I couldn't make up my mind if I wanted to introduce my new characters from the new story I've been working on or if I just wanted to rehash Aiden facts. But fuck it, let's go with the new characters.
I've definitely posted him on this blog before but that was before I knew what kind of character he was going to be. Now that I know him more through RPing him with my friend @pixiepurr, he ended up very different from what I envisioned at first.
Bear with me, I have figured out so much backstory lore for this motherfucker and it's going to be so long and convoluted and if you read all of this, you have the patience of a saint. I've included tl;drs for the rest of you lmao.
Fact One:
Tl;dr: There is a very complicated reason that his name is what it is.
Jensen Fortescue IX is the ninth man in the Fortescue family to bear the name Jensen (obviously) but he was not the family's first choice to get the name. In fact, he only became Jensen Fortescue IX by default due to some subterfuge on his mother's part.
The Fortescue family is a very old, very powerful family of witches, known the world over for their talent in the magical arts and as you can imagine, this carries with it a great deal of pride…and pressure. The first male born in each generation has been chosen to carry not only the family name, but the first name of one of the most accomplished witches, Jensen Fortescue I. Each Jensen Fortescue has had to work tirelessly to prove that they are worthy of the name and maintaining their family's status in the world by contributing to the greater field of magic in some way in their lifetimes, whether through magical research or by performing great magical feats.
Jensen Fortescue IX or "Jen" as he is known to his family, is not the first male in his generation.
The generation prior to his only produced two daughters so there was no Jensen Fortescue born then. Those daughters went on to have sons. Magdalene, the oldest daughter, gave birth to the first son born in the generation but gave him his mortal father's family name instead of Fortescue, meaning he was out of the running to be named Jensen Fortescue.
Tabitha, the second daughter, also gave birth to a son but she intentionally kept the father a secret from everyone (including her son and potentially even the father) to keep the Fortescue family from treating her son poorly. Why? There's an even deeper backstory to that and trust me, I am sparing you from going into the entire family history here, just take what I'm saying at face value unless you want a three hour TED Talk about this fictional family's internal politics but when I say Tabitha had a valid reason to worry about that, I mean it. Since the child had his mother's surname by default, he was given the coveted special name Jensen Fortescue IX, meaning that he is now important in the family's eyes.
Yes, this is all very patriarchal and unfair for a multitude of reasons, but that's the way this family works, bullshit as it may be. The fact is, due to certain circumstances outside of Jen's control, his family would have completely discounted him as one of theirs if his mother didn't do what she did.
Tl;dr: There's something weird about his familiar.
Jen has a familiar, a black cat named Melanie. She became his familiar when he was six years old and he's had her ever since. Strangely, she doesn't seem to help magnify his magical powers the way familiars are supposed to. Even stranger still, the bond between Jen and Melanie is much stronger than the normal bond between a witch and their familiar. If separated from each other for too long, both become extremely weak, almost like their proximity to each other is the only thing keeping them alive. But why would that be the case? After all, witches and familiars typically operate separately from each other all the time. Why is it different for Jen? And why do Melanie's eyes seem so...well...familiar?
Tl;dr: He's not a very good witch.
For a witch, Jen isn't very magical. He comes from an exceedingly powerful bloodline, so it would stand to reason that he's more talented than other witches with less magical families, right? Well, that's not the case. Sometimes, he has surges of power that are on par with some of the older members of his family, yet most of the time, simple spells tire him out, leaving him drained and needing to sleep in order to recover his magic. This has lead most of his family to dismiss him as a hopelessly untalented witch. As a result, Jen spends most of his time studying every magical text he can get his hands on, hoping he can compensate with hard work rather than innate talent. This doesn't leave much time for a social life, unfortunately.
Despite being a witch, Jen likes mortal science more than magic. Maybe it's because science is something that anyone can do as long as they apply themselves to understanding the underlying concepts and it doesn't rely on a gift he was seemingly born without. When he doesn't have his nose shoved in some dusty old tome of arcane power, he's reading up on biology and chemistry. He finds it fascinating that mortals could figure out so much about the world without magic and often wonders if there's a way to combine the two disciplines for greater effect.
Tl;dr: He hates his cousin.
He has quite the temper but only when it comes to one person -- his cousin. Despite the fact that Jen is two years younger than his cousin, physically weaker, and much smaller for most of their childhood (until puberty turned him into a six foot beanpole, anyway), Jen bullied his cousin relentlessly as a child. When asked why he did it, he'd always shrug and say, "I just don't like him". Jen would be happily playing with his friends without a care in the world but the second he laid eyes on his cousin, he would become consumed by rage so all-encompassing that he could focus on nothing else but hurting his cousin as much as possible both verbally and physically. It was almost like a compulsion. The only spell Jen was ever good at as a child was creating electricity in his fingertips and he used it almost exclusively to shock his cousin. Even as adults, nothing sours his mood more than being reminded his cousin exists. Does he dislike his cousin so much due to a simple personality clash or is there something deeper -- and darker -- going on?
