▶ PLAYER HANDLE: xan CONTACT: PM xandrei OVER 18? Yes CHARACTERS IN-GAME: Kaz Brekker (Six of Crows)
▶ CHARACTER NAME: November 11 // Jack Simon CANON: Darker Than Black CANON POINT: Post episode 15, after being saved by Misaki AGE: ~27 BACKGROUND:World background || Character history
PERSONALITY: Even though he's a Contractor, November shows some of the most personality out of any of the characters in the series. At his core, he's extremely logic driven and self-preserving, as most Contractors are. However, beyond that, he's shown to be sharp witted and mentally agile. In any of his fights, he thinks things through and thinks of them quickly. One of the biggest examples of this was when he fights Hei at the Gate in episode 6: he comes prepared with rubber boots so that Hei can't use his electricity via the water on the ground to zap him. He studies his enemies and keeps that information tucked away in order to beat them effectively. What's more, is that he is the type to have several contingency plans. In episode 5, he has a backup plan in place just in case a group tried to take Havoc away due to the possibility of leaks in the Japanese police force. Later, after he's defeated by Hei and Havoc is taken, Misaki asks him if he'd planned for it, to which he responds– if I'd known about it, it seems odd that I wouldn't have planned for it, so in other words, no. He takes pride in his planning and organizational skills in this aspect. This is what makes him MI6's top agent.
What's more is that he actually doesn't mind being a Contractor, as he states in a conversation with Amagiri. It seems as though the logical decision making and overall detachment is something he doesn't actually mind as much. Considering his profession, it's made life in MI6 considerably easier than it would be as a normal person. Contractors are usually called monsters in this world, and he's sure to have had that particular insult thrown his way. Unfortunately, he doesn't care about people's opinions in that way, taking it in stride and even perpetuating the stereotype that they're cold blooded by making off-color jokes. There are several times where he makes these jokes; when asked by Saito and Kirihara if he's been in Japan before, he says yes, stating that he's been there for assassinations (only punctuating it by 'just kidding' after their horrified reaction). This kind of amusement in people's reactions to his jokes (even if they don't yet know he's a Contractor, it seems like he finds privately hilarious) continues through the series. In fact, the only thing that seems to truly annoy him is that he absolutely despises his contract payment (remuneration), which is smoking. April even mentions that his payment is hard to watch, since he inhales the smoke and then coughs pathetically afterwards. His reply to her is waspish, rather un-Contractor like in the delivery.
Furthermore, November has a lot of qualities that develop a little later that set him apart from other Contractors. As the series progresses, he's shown to develop deeper attachments to his team and then to Misaki Kirihara. After April is put into the hospital because of the explosion Maki caused, November takes the attack fairly personally. It's seen mostly when he goes after Maki, saying with a a very vengeful expression that he needs to give the kid his "just desserts". There's no pity or mercy for Maki for what he did, Contractor logic aside. His relationship with July is a little more subtle, as it starts from July's end, when he calls November his "partner". Misaki mentions as such, and November almost seems bewildered at first. Again, in the fight with Maki, though, he seems to finally understand July and what their teamwork means to him. He trusts July to be able to get him through the situation. Lastly, his attachment to Misaki; it's fairly peculiar, as it appears to come on very suddenly. He messes with her almost incessantly in the first episode he appears– calling her by her first name, joking about leaving her with the clean up of the potential mission disaster, cracking morbid jokes. As she starts to understand where he's coming from, though, the connection between them becomes more two-way. In episode 6, she makes a morbid kind of joke on his character, which he's surprised about. She's the first person he directs July to "in case something happens", and he turns around to risk himself for her when Maki detonates the furniture in the room Misaki saves November from.
These attachments are something that prove that Contractors may not feel as much, but they can still feel something. November's one of the more developed Contractors in terms of emotions, since he shows a fair variety of them, even going so far as to essentially sacrifice himself in the end. It's something that April brings up to Misaki, letting her know he wouldn't want to involve them in the problem, obviously cared about his team and Kirihara enough to keep them out of the loop so they wouldn't be at risk.
But, along with being more attached to people, he also shows some of the uglier sides of emotion. They aren't as demonstrative since November tends to keep his cool in most situations. When he makes the snap decision to kill Havoc as her powers are coming back, Misaki mentions something about him being more afraid than she thought. To her, it's a joke, but something in the surprise on November's face insinuates it may not have been entirely untrue. With Havoc's powers being potentially one of the most dangerous, he didn't want to take the risk of them coming back and turning on him or his team– it's logical but also tinged with fear. Later, when he goes after Decade, there's a mix of emotions on the situation. He's just learned his superior officer wanted to keep the truth about being involved in eliminating all the Contractors away from him. November goes into Decade's office obviously very serious, catching his attention by freezing the man's drink by way of announcing he was there. In his short talk with Decade, he shows a bit of a conflicted attitude: he's disappointed and betrayed, there's a slight hesitance to go through with the plan. However, his anger with the situation wins out, which is ultimately the thing that allows him to kill Decade and the armed officers that show up. As he's dying, too, he shows a sort of desperation when he tries to make his last call, face falling when his voicemail message gets cut off. At the end there's a bitter acceptance, something that is shown when he decides not to fully fulfill his contract by smoking his cigarettes.
In a nutshell, he's very much a Contractor– he has no qualms about murdering in cold blood– but he shows many more layers under that: a quick mind, dry (and sometimes dorky) sense of humor, and a genuine connection to the people he trusts and cares about.
POWERS/ABILITIES: As he's part of MI6 and the British Secret Intelligence Service, November likely has training in base military combat, as well in espionage, interrogation, and quite possibly torture methods. His athleticism is seen in many portions during the series, so even without his powers he could probably hold his own. However, the biggest portion of his power comes from his being a Contractor, which allows him to freeze liquid he may not necessarily have direct contact with. He demonstrates this in several different (and creative) ways during the series. The first instance his powers are used in canon is when he's talking to the thugs in episode 5. When the smoking thug tries to stop him from leaving, he freezes the blood in the man's arm, causing the limb to snap clean off. Within moments, he also uses a nearby cup of tea as a weapon, splashing it towards another thug and freezing it in mid air so it could be used as a sharp projectile. In conjunction with April, he'll usually freeze whole swathes of water on the ground, effectively trapping people's feet and legs in place so they can't run. During his fight with Maki, he splashes up a significant portion of water from the puddle he's standing in, freezing it around him in order to field off the brunt of the explosion Maki creates. This hearkens back to his quick and creative thinking, something that Amagiri is impressed by.
Moreover, being a Contractor essentially makes him an equivalent to someone with anti-social personality disorder (sociopathy). He doesn't feel regret or guilt over killing or even using people to his own ends, approaching everything with logic, reason, and self-preservation in mind. The only downside to this whole Contractor business is that he has to fulfill his compulsory remuneration by smoking cigarettes after he uses his powers.
PRISMA
HANDLE: xan
CONTACT: PM
OVER 18? Yes
CHARACTERS IN-GAME: Kaz Brekker (Six of Crows)
▶ CHARACTER
NAME: November 11 // Jack Simon
CANON: Darker Than Black
CANON POINT: Post episode 15, after being saved by Misaki
AGE: ~27
BACKGROUND: World background || Character history
PERSONALITY: Even though he's a Contractor, November shows some of the most personality out of any of the characters in the series. At his core, he's extremely logic driven and self-preserving, as most Contractors are. However, beyond that, he's shown to be sharp witted and mentally agile. In any of his fights, he thinks things through and thinks of them quickly. One of the biggest examples of this was when he fights Hei at the Gate in episode 6: he comes prepared with rubber boots so that Hei can't use his electricity via the water on the ground to zap him. He studies his enemies and keeps that information tucked away in order to beat them effectively. What's more, is that he is the type to have several contingency plans. In episode 5, he has a backup plan in place just in case a group tried to take Havoc away due to the possibility of leaks in the Japanese police force. Later, after he's defeated by Hei and Havoc is taken, Misaki asks him if he'd planned for it, to which he responds– if I'd known about it, it seems odd that I wouldn't have planned for it, so in other words, no. He takes pride in his planning and organizational skills in this aspect. This is what makes him MI6's top agent.
What's more is that he actually doesn't mind being a Contractor, as he states in a conversation with Amagiri. It seems as though the logical decision making and overall detachment is something he doesn't actually mind as much. Considering his profession, it's made life in MI6 considerably easier than it would be as a normal person. Contractors are usually called monsters in this world, and he's sure to have had that particular insult thrown his way. Unfortunately, he doesn't care about people's opinions in that way, taking it in stride and even perpetuating the stereotype that they're cold blooded by making off-color jokes. There are several times where he makes these jokes; when asked by Saito and Kirihara if he's been in Japan before, he says yes, stating that he's been there for assassinations (only punctuating it by 'just kidding' after their horrified reaction). This kind of amusement in people's reactions to his jokes (even if they don't yet know he's a Contractor, it seems like he finds privately hilarious) continues through the series. In fact, the only thing that seems to truly annoy him is that he absolutely despises his contract payment (remuneration), which is smoking. April even mentions that his payment is hard to watch, since he inhales the smoke and then coughs pathetically afterwards. His reply to her is waspish, rather un-Contractor like in the delivery.
Furthermore, November has a lot of qualities that develop a little later that set him apart from other Contractors. As the series progresses, he's shown to develop deeper attachments to his team and then to Misaki Kirihara. After April is put into the hospital because of the explosion Maki caused, November takes the attack fairly personally. It's seen mostly when he goes after Maki, saying with a a very vengeful expression that he needs to give the kid his "just desserts". There's no pity or mercy for Maki for what he did, Contractor logic aside. His relationship with July is a little more subtle, as it starts from July's end, when he calls November his "partner". Misaki mentions as such, and November almost seems bewildered at first. Again, in the fight with Maki, though, he seems to finally understand July and what their teamwork means to him. He trusts July to be able to get him through the situation. Lastly, his attachment to Misaki; it's fairly peculiar, as it appears to come on very suddenly. He messes with her almost incessantly in the first episode he appears– calling her by her first name, joking about leaving her with the clean up of the potential mission disaster, cracking morbid jokes. As she starts to understand where he's coming from, though, the connection between them becomes more two-way. In episode 6, she makes a morbid kind of joke on his character, which he's surprised about. She's the first person he directs July to "in case something happens", and he turns around to risk himself for her when Maki detonates the furniture in the room Misaki saves November from.
These attachments are something that prove that Contractors may not feel as much, but they can still feel something. November's one of the more developed Contractors in terms of emotions, since he shows a fair variety of them, even going so far as to essentially sacrifice himself in the end. It's something that April brings up to Misaki, letting her know he wouldn't want to involve them in the problem, obviously cared about his team and Kirihara enough to keep them out of the loop so they wouldn't be at risk.
But, along with being more attached to people, he also shows some of the uglier sides of emotion. They aren't as demonstrative since November tends to keep his cool in most situations. When he makes the snap decision to kill Havoc as her powers are coming back, Misaki mentions something about him being more afraid than she thought. To her, it's a joke, but something in the surprise on November's face insinuates it may not have been entirely untrue. With Havoc's powers being potentially one of the most dangerous, he didn't want to take the risk of them coming back and turning on him or his team– it's logical but also tinged with fear. Later, when he goes after Decade, there's a mix of emotions on the situation. He's just learned his superior officer wanted to keep the truth about being involved in eliminating all the Contractors away from him. November goes into Decade's office obviously very serious, catching his attention by freezing the man's drink by way of announcing he was there. In his short talk with Decade, he shows a bit of a conflicted attitude: he's disappointed and betrayed, there's a slight hesitance to go through with the plan. However, his anger with the situation wins out, which is ultimately the thing that allows him to kill Decade and the armed officers that show up. As he's dying, too, he shows a sort of desperation when he tries to make his last call, face falling when his voicemail message gets cut off. At the end there's a bitter acceptance, something that is shown when he decides not to fully fulfill his contract by smoking his cigarettes.
In a nutshell, he's very much a Contractor– he has no qualms about murdering in cold blood– but he shows many more layers under that: a quick mind, dry (and sometimes dorky) sense of humor, and a genuine connection to the people he trusts and cares about.
POWERS/ABILITIES: As he's part of MI6 and the British Secret Intelligence Service, November likely has training in base military combat, as well in espionage, interrogation, and quite possibly torture methods. His athleticism is seen in many portions during the series, so even without his powers he could probably hold his own. However, the biggest portion of his power comes from his being a Contractor, which allows him to freeze liquid he may not necessarily have direct contact with. He demonstrates this in several different (and creative) ways during the series. The first instance his powers are used in canon is when he's talking to the thugs in episode 5. When the smoking thug tries to stop him from leaving, he freezes the blood in the man's arm, causing the limb to snap clean off. Within moments, he also uses a nearby cup of tea as a weapon, splashing it towards another thug and freezing it in mid air so it could be used as a sharp projectile. In conjunction with April, he'll usually freeze whole swathes of water on the ground, effectively trapping people's feet and legs in place so they can't run. During his fight with Maki, he splashes up a significant portion of water from the puddle he's standing in, freezing it around him in order to field off the brunt of the explosion Maki creates. This hearkens back to his quick and creative thinking, something that Amagiri is impressed by.
Moreover, being a Contractor essentially makes him an equivalent to someone with anti-social personality disorder (sociopathy). He doesn't feel regret or guilt over killing or even using people to his own ends, approaching everything with logic, reason, and self-preservation in mind. The only downside to this whole Contractor business is that he has to fulfill his compulsory remuneration by smoking cigarettes after he uses his powers.
INVENTORY: Two packs of his preferred cigarettes, lighter, tacky green sunglasses, gun, extra magenta tie.
MOONBLESSING: Cordis
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