️🌈 Jack Angiolo ⛅️
Optimistic • Carefree • Compassionate
🌈 history
| ⛅️ Introduction
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Jack Angiolo is one of the deuteragonists in Bewilthred. Optimistic and compassionate, everyone who meets Jack agrees he’s a complete ray of sunshine. His seemingly carefree demeanor in the face of danger is both admirable and enviable, however, Jack isn’t entirely naive. He knows how cruel the world can be, which only reinforces the motivation to be as cheerful as he is. Acting as a radiant beam of positivity amongst his friends, the boy strives to keep a smile on everyone’s faces. As long as he can keep smiling, everything and everyone is going to be okay. Right?
…However, Jack’s attitude is akin to a double-edged sword. Jack’s constant stream of positivity often comes with the price of hiding his own negative emotions, or worse, suppressing the negative emotions of others. He fears that if he is honest about all of his feelings, including the unpleasant ones, it will have catastrophic consequences. He’d rather let his feelings bubble up inside than sour the mood. He was raised to uplift, not let down, after all. It’s not like his feelings ever mattered much anyways.
But if anyone did ask him how he really felt, would he lie all over again? Or would he finally let himself tell the truth, and let other people know how he really felt inside…
Just another day, another smile, and another orchestrated response. Of course he’d have to lie, there aren’t many people who’d want to listen anyways…
But, with the warriors, maybe there can be, maybe there is…
If he could tell them how he felt…
…Maybe then, he could be happy too.
| ⛅️ Before The Story
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Warnings: Abuse, Parentification, Implied Substance Abuse
Despite his optimistic outlook on life, Jack’s upbringing has been far from pleasant. Back on Televaria, Jack lived with his mother, Summer. Being a single mother juggling both work and homelife, Summer has always had intense pressure placed on her to keep her household together. This paired with her own traumatic experiences and unhealthy behaviors made her idolize Jack, seeing him as the “only good thing” in her life. To Summer, Jack is all she has left. As a result, Summer holds Jack to insane emotional standards. She expects him to stay happy for her sake, and rarely listens to how he feels or what he truly wants.
Additionally, Summer has always been…unstable. Her tendency to repress and overwork leads her to burning out and quickly falling into periods of depression. Due to this, Jack has often had to help Summer perform basic tasks in order to keep her functioning, essentially acting as if he were the caregiver instead of the other way around. Summer’s methods of “coping”, such as her drinking, don’t help much either. Though Summer believes she is helping her son, the reality is that she is only festering a codependent relationship between the two of them that is bound to backfire the moment Jack leaves.
With this sort of homelife, it’s no wonder Jack ended up having such a warped framework of how relationships should work. Jack was able to make a lot of friends growing up, at least at first. As long as he hid how he felt and went along with what everyone else said, he’d be able to get by just fine. However, after a certain incident (that can’t be delved into without spoiling things), his habit of repressing his emotions had caught up to him. This led to the constant bullying he deals with at the hands of Jessica and her friends.
Obviously, being constantly harassed at school takes a toll on a person. Although Jack tried to ask his mother to help do something about what was happening, her dismissive and guilt-trippy responses repelled Jack from doing anything about it. Summer convinced Jack that there were many worse problems to be dealing with then “petty drama”, because of this, Jack rarely speaks up or fights back against Jessica or her friends. Over and over again, the same message was reinforced in his head. He didn’t have a reason to complain. His feelings didn’t matter. He didn’t matter.
As long as he kept on smiling, he could get through it. Couldn’t he?
…All he could do was hope he wasn’t wrong.
| ⛅️ Act 1
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By the time Bewilthred’s story begins, Summer had again dismissed Jack’s attempts to address Jessica’s bullying. Going through the usual morning motions, Jack helped his mother around the house before leaving for the bus stop, knowing Jessica and her friends were likely waiting for him there. His suspicions were right, as per usual, Jessica and her friends used their sound frequency abilities to scare Jack off. Though he was used to this sort of cycle, it still wore on him as he walked through the forest alone, trying to find another way to get to school. He wondered if there really was anyone he could talk to, really. He couldn’t help but feel alone, how could he even pretend to be happy when things were like this…
Then, the ground began to shake.
Tumbling to his feet, Jack confusedly wondered what had happened. As he got up, a glowing aura in the distance gave him his answer…
…Finding a universal rift, Jack couldn’t resist his curiosity to get a little closer. Of course, he inevitably tripped and fell inside.
Shortly after falling into the rift, Jack ended up in a garden on another planet named “Quescillia” and met six other teenagers just like him. Together, they meet Peace, the Keeper of Peace and manager of order in the universe. The seven of them are told they are part of a prophecy which says that one day seven warriors all from rifts would unite to save their universe from a rising galactic threat known as Omne, and learn that they just might be the last hope in stopping said threat from taking over the world as we know it. Peace assigns them her second in command, Hanabi to help guide them throughout their journey.
Despite their strange coming together, the group strives to do their best. Together as The Warriors of Peace (Or The WOP for short), they swear to always come out on top, and become who they’re meant to be…no matter who or what stands in their way.
Let’s just hope their efforts aren’t completely in vain…the universe depends on it.
"Won't you show me the true you?"
| 🌈 Introduction
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On first impression, Jack is optimistic, compassionate, and carefree. Having a big heart, Jack will do anything to make sure the people around him are happy, even at the cost of his own well-being. Even in the face of tragic circumstances, he stays positive and encourages his friends to have faith. Some people may think Jack is naive because of this attitude, however this is far from the case. Jack’s drive to cheer people up isn’t out of stupidity, he knows very well how harsh the world can be. He’s experienced enough of it first-hand to know everyone needs a reason to keep themselves going, and he would do whatever it takes to be that reason for someone.
Jack’s positive demeanor often comes with consequence, however. Jack is a chronic people-pleaser and often represses his own emotions for the benefit of others. He hides how he truly feels about things in order to keep the social harmony in check, and to keep on people’s good sides. Though this behavior is usually limited towards himself, in his worst most stressful moments this can be done to the people around him as well. Jack is deeply afraid of what would happen if people saw the more negative parts of him, and often pushes his emotional needs aside, viewing them as “unimportant” in the grand scheme of things.
As a result, Jack can often come off as deceitful or dishonest because of his tendency to repress his emotions. His insistence on keeping all of his emotions inside may cause people to lack trust in him, since they’re unable to tell whether or not he is being honest about what he feels. This especially applies because inevitably, all emotions come up at some point. This can lead to Jack having large gaps of repressing his feelings, then having one huge explosive reaction that doesn’t reflect how he truly feels. Since he lacks proper emotional regulation, Jack has a hard time putting his feelings into words and can be hurtful to those he cares about in these bursts, only able to realize the impact of his words later.
Most of Jack’s key points of learning throughout the story is learning to open up about and regulate his emotions, especially his negative ones. Jack grew up believing his feelings don’t matter, and that he must pretend to be happy in order to keep people around him. However, now with the warriors, he has a chance to interact with and be vulnerable with people who are not only willing to listen, but relate to his struggles. He has to learn to accept all of his emotions, even the negative ones, in order to function in a healthy way.
Jack also has to learn to be honest, especially with his friends, about how he’s feeling. Though it is understandable for Jack to hide things given that’s all he’s ever known to do, he’s only hurting himself and his friends by minimizing his true feelings and thoughts. Communication is considered one of the most important aspects of relationships after all, and knowing how to do so will help stop him from falling into the same codependent patterns he’s had with others in the past. Jack, though selfless, will have to learn to be a little selfish and prioritize himself and his feelings in order to have healthy relationships with other people, especially his family and friends.
| 🌈 ACT 1
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Jack starts out Act 1 separated from his mother and usual routine for the first time. Considering he’s been his mothers rock his whole life, it isn’t shocking to say the guilt of choosing this mission over staying with her was…a lot for him to handle. Additionally, the underlying anxiety and fear of this new situation ran rampant in his head. This anxiety, though understandable, was only bound to worsen the more Jack repressed it. However, now he has the chance to have someone actually listen to him and how he felt for once, and help with the whirlwind of emotions that are bound to come from such a sudden change.
Jack’s main learning point in Act 1 is addressing some of his smaller feelings, such as fear or worry, and realizing that the people around him are not only there to help but understand him too. He also learns how to cope with and address some of these emotions in healthier ways, and finds friends that can help him process them in a more natural manner (I.E Trouble Club). While he won’t be able to be super open just yet, with little steps like these, he’s certain to be heading in the right direction.
⛅️ personality
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🌈 trivia + memorable quotes
| trivia
He and Victor were created on the same day! (September 22nd 2018)
He originally had an X over his eye, which got scrapped because I no joke forgot it was there 3 drawings after.
He was originally going to be Lia’s love interest, not Mia’s (which is SO FUNNY because of the ‘ia thing.), but this changed after I decided to make Lia an aroace lesbian.
He loves collecting plushies, he actually used to have a Narwhal plush he’d carry around with him before I forgot about it and thus the detail was thrown into the Bewilthred Lore Aether, but it was cute!
He’s the shortest member of the WOP (excluding Hanabi)
He originally had electric powers. I later removed this though because of Phoenix already having elementarian abilities in favor of him getting his yo-yo!
| memorable quotes
Work in Progress. Take everything here w/ a grain of salt!“I’m really not feeling like myself today……But I’ve gotta stay strong, and I’ve gotta stay happy. Today could be a really good day! So let’s start it right!” (Chapter 5 of the Bewilthred Script)
“I can’t tell mom about Jessica, and I can’t tell mom I ruined my shoes again either. Is there anything I can really tell her? No! I’ve got to stay positive, things will work out! They’ve got to!” (Chapter 5 of the Bewilthred Script)
“SO I DID DIE THEN! What crimes did you guys commit to get here?” “Blowing things up. Mainly by accident.” “I almost said a swear word once!” (Chapter 11 of the Bewilthred Script, Italicized is Phoenix (first) and Kai (second))
Uhm. We could always duct tape the crystal together! “I don’t think duct tape is salvaging that thing.” (Chapter 18 of the Bewilthred Script, Italicized is Nate)
