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Player Information

Name: Veth
Age: 28
Contact details: vethica, Vethica#7481 @ discord
Other characters: None

Character Information

Name: Valmont
Canon: Jackie Chan Adventures
OU/AU/CRAU/OC: OU

World info: Jackie Chan Adventures takes place in (stop me if you've heard this one) a world much like ours, except magic is real. Actually, pretty much all world myths are real in some way or another, up to and including Santa Claus. Maybe surprisingly, given the amount of trouble magic causes over the course of the show, though, it's still a secret from the general public. The show proper takes place in the early 2000s, but since I like to be special, I'm pulling Valmont from his appearance as a kid in 1976 (see the wiki page on that episode).
History: Wiki link!
Canon point: Post-"Through the Rabbit Hole"
Age: 11

Personality:

We spend a not insignificant chunk of Jackie Chan Adventures' run getting to know Valmont - that is, the 36-year-old crime lord Valmont, in the present day. We spend all of two episodes with the 11-year-old version of him, and in one of those he's just his older self, deaged. So the character as I'm playing him is really only a one-episode wonder. Regardless, we can extrapolate a fair bit of his personality from those ten or fewer minutes of screentime, and I'm going to try and do so here!

▶ ARROGANT. Eleven-year-old Valmont's first words on screen, directed at a group of strangers, are "What do you buffoons want?" Sure, they're his future minions, to whom he'll refer in such terms regularly during the series proper, but he doesn't know that. So we can only gather that this is how he regularly addresses people he doesn't know and doesn't care to, which in turn suggests he sees himself so far above them that he doesn't have to rely on such minor things as social niceties. (Apparently he took them for door-to-door salesmen, which... only mitigates the rudeness slightly.)

▶ NEFARIOUS. Suppose you're a preteen boy, and time travelers have just informed you that you're going to grow up to be a criminal mastermind. Do you:
a) protest the idea due to your sound moral compass;
b) take some time to seriously consider it;
c) immediately hatch and carry out a plan to knock out an adult man, kidnap him, and hold him for ransom to obtain valuable magical artifacts?
If you chose c), congratulations! You're Valmont. Seriously, it's one thing to accept that you're destined for a life of villainy, and another to dive in headfirst. The kid can't have been entirely on the side of the angels up until this point, and it kind of makes you wonder why his parents sent him to go study abroad in the first place, anyway.

▶ CREDULOUS. Come to think of it, how likely are most preteen boys to believe strangers when they claim to be from the future, anyway? Probably not massively, but the instant Valmont hears it, his eyes go wide. Luckily for him, these particular time travelers happen to be telling the truth, because although we don't see their full explanation of time travel, their role in Valmont's future, or the existence of magic in general, we do see him accept those things pretty unquestioningly.

▶ COWARDLY. When Valmont grows up, he'll have martial arts skills that allow him to hold his own against the likes of Jackie freakin' Chan. At the age he is now, he... doesn't. Indeed, with a posh upbringing like his, he's probably never been in as much as a schoolyard scrap. When an adult Jackie grabs him by the scruff of his fancy short-panted suit and threatens to kill him, a terrified Valmont can only beg his henchmen, "Do as he says, please!" When, later, he begins making vague threats of his own toward kid-Jackie, all the other boy has to do is throw a punch that stops short of his face, and Valmont immediately screams like the proverbial girl and faints. Brave he ain't.

Character changes: Heck... I just want him to experience more supernatural and/or future nonsense. He never actually gets a chance to play around with magic directly, and given that he still takes glee in such things as an adult, I want to let him have a little fun with it while he's still a kid. In between being exasperated with all the dumb grown-ups on this newfangled network, probably, of course.

Capabilities: Valmont is a human eleven-year-old with no powers whatsoever. He doesn't even have the fighting skills he'll grow up to show off yet. He's got nothin'. He chloroformed a man once?

Sample: Here!

Notes: hi again... also my headcanon first and middle names for him are Niles Julian and I'll probably end up using them in game, since even the poshest of kids can't go by just his last name forever