appearance
headcanons
skills
forms
companionsHEIGHT: 6'5
WEIGHT: ~350lbs. big. muscle bear body type. generous amount of fat.
EYE COLOUR: light grey
HAIR COLOUR: jet black with some greying. most visible around his temples, a grey streak growing along the front cowlick, with some little extra grey hairs littered around his temples and on his beard.
VOICE: Disco Elysium Relaxing ASMR Jean Screaming at You and Calling You a Loser
NOTES:
he also has an array of self-inflicted injuries such as cutting or cigarette burns across his upper arms, forearms, and thighs. the fresher ones are mostly on the upper arms and thighs. some were done by harry when they were particularly fucked up together, or especially horny. he also has a very obvious, very gnarly scar running from wrist to elbow of his left arm.
i do have a reference drawn for him if you prefer that. it's outdated as of august 2026, but still pretty accurate overall. click to see them in full size, but be warned... they're big and contain self-harm scars and slight nudity.
jean has skills that talk to him! they’re similar to stats in any ttrpg (i think. i’ve never played a ttrpg.) where they passively offer input on situations or actively help in small ways. each stat does a dice roll to see if it will actually help in a given situation, or if it will make him look like a stupid asshole. really, it’s all just flavour text to explain some of his thought processes. clustermates, mind links, or anyone who can read minds will be able to hear them. intentional mind reading may make them sound clearer. but why would you want to listen to these assholes anyway. they do not sound like jean, but they do sound like jean’s original voice (dot major in this video).
jean’s skills aren’t direct copies of harry’s, but there are some similarities.
manque is the intrusive thoughts skill, just not the tiktok kind of intrusive thoughts. it’s a detrimentally horny drug addict and all it wants is to abuse substances and get laid – really do anything it can to get some dopamine. jean typically doesn’t want to be thinking the thoughts that manque expresses, but it’s a particularly loud skill. it often talks about wanting to fuck people or tries to convince jean that other people want to fuck him. just because manque says it doesn’t mean that it's true, or that i expect anything to come from it.
alternate forms that jean is, or once was, capable of transforming into. or just ones that were important to his overall arcs and such.
jean's demon form of sorts, also known as furiae this form is only possible when his railgun is equipped, and he can typically remain in this form for about five minutes before he needs to start pushing himself, with the maximum time being ten minutes -- though after the first five, the penalty for remaining in this form massively outweighs the benefits, and will leave him completely drained of energy for several days after. this form has a prehensile tail that he uses like a whip or a lasso, and most of its power comes from raw brute strength and simply looking scary, standing at just over eight feet tall with a wide, imposing silhouette. this form is capable of flight -- though it's more like gliding or hovering, using a cape-like set of wings. he can speak in this form, though it is a much rougher voice than his own, making his identity less obvious.
this form also has "tears" that fall from its eyes near-constantly; these tears are made of plasm, which is a clear, odourless, tasteless, and slimy substance left in the place of objects or people that have been erased from history (which is to say, lost in the pale). the plasm is absorbed slowly through the skin, causing memory loss, disorientation, and brain fog that worsen based on how much plasm is left on the skin and for how long. cleaning the plasm off the skin with soap and water will cause the symptoms to disappear over time. these effects set in far quicker with greater intensity if the plasm is ingested, but also wear off over time depending on how much was ingested.
the veins on the forearms leading to the carapace lungs are white, but flow with different colours based on which set of skills is more in control.
jean's fury form that he turned into when he became enraged. which is very easy, considering who he is. he took on the appearance of a large black heron, standing at 6'5 with his neck fully extended, 5'10 when it was tucked. he could be mistaken as a regular black heron from a [great] distance, but up close, he was way more horrible to look at. he had white eyes, canine teeth in his beak (that should have been too big for his beak to close properly), hand-like talons on his wings, and his black feathers absorbed more light than usual while also looking greasy. when his feathers fell out, they'd either stay in existence as regular feathers, or crumble into soot that quickly dissolved. touching the ones that remained left a thick black ink/soot residue on anything they touched that was extremely difficult to wash off.
in this form, jean was capable of speech, which sounded like pre-recordings played over a radio with a weak signal. he was raw adrenaline, aggression, and impulse. all he wanted to do was fight, fuck, and be the worst version of himself that he could be. he had an extremely short fuse, and went from 1-100 for seemingly no reason at all, and interacting with him in this form was like playing minesweeper with all the numbers hidden.
the true power behind this form was his curses, which usually came in the form of pale radiation that he inflicted via the white smoke that spilled from his beak at all times. the more angry he was, the thicker and more copious the smoke. when he was at his calmest, it was just small wisps. either way, it smelled like cigarette smoke, hence the name.
unless he was actively trying to fuck with your memories - which is to say, unless he had a reason to place a curse on you - it was just regular smoke, but breathing it in when he was trying to fuck with your memories is what caused the memory fuckery. not that anyone would know unless they dealt with him multiple times, but the pale smoke was visibly different from regular smoke in that it was black-and-white monochrome, with the thickest and strongest of it making colours look far more vivid through it. think of mould on a fruit. once the curse was inflicted - the severity of it depended on just how badly you fucked with him - it was impossible to break by regular means. he was the only one that could break it, if you could find him to strike up a deal. luckily, it was easy to spot him even during the worst kind of pale hallucinations, due to his body constantly emitting radio waves, making him the clearest thing any of his victims could see.
jean became well-known around euros and somewhat known in other regions due to his incurable curses, becoming somewhat of a cryptid.
jean's echo form was an anthro spotted hyena. while there was nothing particularly special about this form outside of enhanced senses, and it's not a form he can return to, he does have a very complicated relationship with it that lingers to this day.
due to the nature of echo as a small desert town, a lot of the residents weren't particularly woke, and spotted hyenas had a particular reputation as gender-confused scavengers and cannibals, as well as just... overall kind of creepy. male hyenas were seen as weak, submissive, and feminine, and were often assumed to be gay (bottoms of course, due to another stereotype being about the size of their dicks), or bitches to the more dominant female hyenas (or really any women). conversely, female hyenas were seen as far too masculine, dominant, aggressive, and had way too much misinformation about their own genitals floating around -- not to mention the assumption that they were all lesbians.
being masculine as a human, jean was often misgendered as a hyena. if he was a male, he was overcompensating by being hyper-aggressive and trying too hard to be masculine, and would probably be accused of being gay or gender-confused. the alternative was letting people misgender him outright. not everyone was hostile, of course - a lot of the more invasive questions were just ignorance and curiosity - but given everything else happening in echo, even the "innocent" questions very quickly wore down his psyche.
even worse: he didn't particularly mind the whole genital situation he had going on. it gave him a sense of gender euphoria to have what was essentially a dick. he just hated the circumstances that it came about.
pets or other creatures that jean has.
capitaine is a jet black horse with white markings that look similar to those of a eurasian magpie. capitaine was originally a hrimfax - jean's winter path mount - but he became a regular horse when jean switched paths. he mainly lives in raven's run ranch stables due to jean having nowhere else to keep him, and is still jean's go-to for transport.
capitaine is laid-back and friendly, and slightly less easily spooked than the average horse due to jean putting a lot of effort into training him. and though jean doesn't spoil him, he is embarrassingly affectionate towards this horse when he thinks nobody is around. his favourite treat is sour patch kids.
ambrosius is jean's daemon, and takes the form of a sulphur-crested cockatoo. while jean doesn't dislike ambrosius, he does have a complicated, bittersweet relationship with him, as ambrosius has a personality somewhat similar to harry's - which, given harry had his own stint being transformed into a sulphur-crested cockatoo, is a bit of a sore spot for jean on its own.
ambrosius is more outwardly friendly than jean, and a bit more honest about his feelings. i'll write more later, i haven't figured this part out too much yet lol.
the name ambrosius comes from the name ambrosius saint-miro, the innocence of nihilism in elysium, and is described as an entropolist; he wants to accelerate the spread of the pale throughout the world in order to bring an end to humanity.
two ginger domestic shorthair cats that jean was handed by a woman at a bus stop. originally an uglycry joke, but i grew to like them. the names were picked by harry, and are often shortened to butters and pumpkin, but they also both respond to connard. jean has made sure to keep them as indoor cats. both of them are 3 years old. jean speaks to them like they're people and only baby talks them when they're bothering him because it confuses and unnerves them enough to make them leave him alone.
butterscotch is the lighter cat, and is a little more shy than his brother while still being friendly towards people once he gets used to them. he isn't particularly clingy, but he is affectionate and likes to be in whatever room jean is in just to see what he's doing in there.
pumpernickel is much more outgoing and boisterous, and is usually the one getting up to the most mischief. he is the type of cat to have no concept of personal space, and is often hanging out on jean's shoulders, and the second jean sits down anywhere, pumpernickel is in his lap.
NATURE: impish
MOVES: thief, trick, curse, and poltergeist
bannette is jean's first pokemon, and quickly evolved from a shuppet while hanging around the house after kim showed up in denouement. she is often stealing small objects from other people and bringing them back to jean, or messing with his actual belongings to bother him. she oddly enjoys being used as embroidery practice, and often pesters jean to sit and sew little designs into her body like tattoos. which he's happy to do, since it stops her from robbing people.
