<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/c/c4/Dan-Levy-DL-Eyewear-Photoshoot-dan-levy-40234121-600-400.jpg)<br/><div style="text-align: right;"><em>Faceclaim: Dan Levy</em></div></div><strong>Character: Jordan Hargreeves</strong><br/><strong>Player:</strong>Lux89<br/><br/><strong>Codename(s):</strong>Number Three, The Cartoonist<br/><strong>Powers/Special abilities:</strong>Animation<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>What Jordan sketches on paper soon becomes real for a temporary time. It only works on paper, and not on any other surface. It works with any tool or medium; pencil, pen, marker, crayon, paintbrush... Whatever he draws manifests physically in his presence lasting for an hour or less. The abstract or mythological when drawn into existence are fleeting and ephemeral, appearing for barely a minute. The realistic and recognizable ones like tools and vehicles can last longer. His portraits of people and animals sometimes appear to him as strange caricature mannequins. Other times, they appear as masterfully drawn. Cartoons, he'd call them. They hardly speak and barely obey orders but if he drew them just right, they can be superheroes of his making. Their grotesque appearance is really humiliating to him, he can't stand it, and they exit unpredictably each time which can leave him speechless.</li><li>He can leap to and from paper instantly. Seldom he retreats into hiding this way, even though he's aware that transmuting himself into a piece of paper puts him at risk. When he was younger and evasive, his adoptive father punished him once by trapping him in a drawer thus trapping him in the second dimension for the whole day. He learned that he could not escape from other sheets of paper. If he went into one, he had to come out of that particular one. This traumatized him for decades, spooking him out of paper nightmares, and nearly killed his love for art. So nowadays Jordan would use this warped dimension-traveling as a last resort, if he absolutely has no other choice. After coming out of the cartoon world, Jordan may continue to speak or behave cartoonishly for some time.</li><li>He can sense and track paper that he marked, even small pieces halfway around the world. It can be unassuming as a little bit of paper smaller than a thumb or elegant as an origami gift. Jordan calls this particular ability "the cartoonist sense", and he actually thinks saying it sounds cool or normally fine. It's not.</li></ul><br/><strong>Personality:</strong><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li><strong>Sassy:</strong> If he'd like to have a word, he will. He has tirades and throws fits, if he can't help it. Most of the time, Jordan tries to keep it under control with suppressing or judging facial expressions. Even if he's being polite, he still drips with sarcasm. He likes to demonstrate his coherence and competence, though it can backfire and look as if he's talking down to a person. He has always been a sassy sassafras, all his life, so his siblings usually know what to expect. Sometimes his cartoons diss for him.</li><li><strong>Too Serious:</strong> If there is one single whiff of drama or a superheroic mission that needs a volunteer, somehow Jordan is there. Introduces himself as the Cartoonist. He wants every chance to save the world. He uses the mantle of superhero to burden his back with huge responsibility... because that implies he has huge power. He demands respect, and has a comically complex relationship with his father Sir Reginald who Jordan craves approval from but yet resents for being given this life.</li><li><strong>Therapeutic:</strong> Jordan actively points out his boundaries with his siblings and puts in effort towards healing from his traumas at the Umbrella Academy by using exercises discussed beforehand with his therapist Dr. Daisy Ward. He places so much importance on himself and his health that he isn't aware how much he licks his wounded ego. When the situation turns out to be what he deems as unhealthy, or triggering, he will quote his therapist or make an emergency call.</li></ul><br/><strong>History:</strong><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Adopted from Toronto, Jordan was a hoot every Saturday morning at the Umbrella Academy, making toons come to life in a show he scripted. And it was about them and their adventures. It had made them roll on the floor laughing. He could make toons animate while on paper too, so there were many letters and doodles tucked under their bedroom doors he personally delivered. If it was a play, or a game, his extraordinary visual aids were put to creative use. Sir Reginald however had other plans.</li><li>Jordan was instructed to mark and tail targets, to draw their facial composites, to recreate scenes he witnessed, and to demonstrate maps of neighborhoods or establishments at their meetings. He was tested repeatedly for other abilities, such as magnetic pulling paper or telekinetically moving paper or manifesting paper out of nothing, but these attempts were failures. Sir Reginald became visibly upset and barked at Jordan to keep trying, to never give up on developing his powers because cartoons were not enough.</li><li>Jordan had a bad day that led to an existential crisis, and on that day on the verge of a mental breakdown he decided that this world needed to be of his making. He sat down in a hiding place in the Umbrella Academy and just started incessantly drawing more rooms to the Umbrella Academy. Soon enough this became a cartoonish maze that nearly drove his siblings and their father bonkers. They eventually found him and stopped him. When asked further about it, Jordan could not explain nor excuse. He could only describe it as a frenzy.</li></ul><br/><strong>Relationships/Connections:</strong><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Dr. Daisy Ward, his therapist <span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>(and best friend)</em></span></li><li></li><li></li></ul><br/><strong>Secrets/Gossip:</strong><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Siblings or fans tend to joke that Jordan hosts cartoon orgies and has sex with them. He denies this, but it was never disproved.</li><li>Jordan has another outlandish ability he's been keeping secret, or at least that's the best gossip about him anyway.</li><li>He makes his income from webcomics, which technically was never drawn on paper and never manifested.</li></ul>