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  • Artist Info: Name: Jasper (last name unknown)<br />
    Gender: Male<br />
    Height: 6 ft even.<br />
    Weight: Changes<br />
    Age: Appears in his late twenties or early thirties. Though he is much older.<br />
    Family: Mother [Deceased], Father [Deceased]<br />
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    History:<br />
    Life was never easy for Jasper. Jasper grew up in Briton during the Depression that effected the whole world. However, Jasper's family managed to get by on what they could. Till one day disaster stuck, and an illness took Jasper's mother's strength and made her bedridden. <br />
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    With what little schooling he knew, this child of Irish parentage was slightly embarrassed by his heritage, as the other kids would constantly ridicule him for it and his accent. After much practice and hard work he managed to fake a British one. <br />
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    However, with the illness of his mother and the loss of her income, Jasper was forced to quit and work like many other children of the time. He learned that sometimes doing hard work and grueling labor wasn't always the fast track to success and wondered if there was a faster way.<br />
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    That way came in the form of the Mafia. Recruiting his dad and finally getting wages to support himself and his family, Jasper's father devoted himself to the Mafia. Soon when Jasper was old enough, he joined in too.<br />
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    While really bright he never really got to use it because of his lack of schooling. He did have street smarts and a quick wit, and they served him well in the Mafia. But his intelligence shone when confronted with anything he didn't know. He would learn rather fast, and absorb what he could about anything related to it. In this case, he became very talented in ways of 'Extracting Information', fighting, car mechanics, and other such things.<br />
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    However, as good as things tend to get, they can always go down. And that is what happened.<br />
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    During a meeting in an ally way one night, Jasper with some other Mafia were renegotiating the corrupt cops' fees. The deal went south almost right away, and soon they were fighting with them. <br />
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    In a tussle with one officer Jasper lost his grip on a knife he was holding, and the officer he was fighting took it and stabbed him deep into his lung. Soon after the fight was over, and the cops lay dead, and the Mafia men heavily injured. <br />
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    They knew they were in for it when they could hear sirens as a kindly patron had called the cops about the scuffle. They had to leave fast as well as find a place they could heal.<br />
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    There was one Doctor, recently moved in, who was friendly towards the Mafia and often helped them out with wounds and such. So they went to see this doctor to hide and heal, dragging Jasper with them. The Doctor was Doctor Essex.<br />
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    Dr. Essex seeing Jasper's plight took him in to fix him up. However, Essex saw the potential in many different areas of Jasper that Essex couldn't pass up. <br />
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    He faked Jasper's death and took him to one of Essex's many labs. He preformed many experiments upon the hapless Mafia member. <br />
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    At the end of the treatment Essex, or Mr. Sinister, had himself a new mutate.<br />
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    Personality: Because of all the experimentation, Jasper is very prone to mood swings and has gone slightly insane from it all. He now merely wishes to be kept entertained, even so far as to working against Sinister some times to feel that rush of entertainment. <br />
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    He speaks in his Irish Accent when in an upbeat or aggravated mood. All else, especially business, he talks in a British accent.<br />
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    He seriously will hit on anything with two legs, even finding a somewhat creepy attraction to Mystique's blue form. As well as other little odds and ends, he acts remarkably sane most of the time. But that could change at any time for any reason.<br />
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    Also, coming from his Mafia background, has personal nicknames for people. Such as Boss, Bluey, tank, etc.<br />
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    Generaly rather care-free. Even in Sinister's presence.<br />
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    Powers and abilities:Shadow Manipulation on various forms.<br />
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    Jasper can materialize a shadow into a dense form, but even to make a knife requires a lot of shadow around to make. He has made spears, swords, knives, scythes, crowbars, and doppelgangers.<br />
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    He has also made himself larger or smaller depending on if he took the shadow into himself or took himself out into shadow.<br />
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    He himself has no healing factor, but if there is enough shadows around. He can melt into the shadows and absorb the shadows needed for repairs. It’s one reason why he still looks the same age as the day of his operation.<br />
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    He can also fade into shadow and be the shadow, often using this to get the jump on his enemy. He is able to engulf others into shadow as long as he is touching them. He can’t hurt others when they are shadow, so he mainly does this to just transfer them somewhere else. Sometimes the side of a building 30 floors up.<br />
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    He has slight teleportation ability where if he fades into a shadow, he can pop out anywhere that shadow touches. This effect is increased when multiple shadows are touching. <br />
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    Night is his golden time. Where almost the whole city is blanketed in shadow. It’s when he has the most material to work with.<br />
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    When touching shadows he can phase. Such as if he was standing in a shadow and a truck came barreling at him, he would be like a... shadow and not be hurt.<br />
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    His weakness is high-powered lights, and the sun. These two things limit his abilities immensely and make it hard for him to do anything. <br />
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    Though He was a mafia member and knows how to use fire arms and is of strong build from mafia training.<br />
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