RP Meme: 10 of your own characters → Jameson Barton

There is a lot I could say about Jameson. When he first started being my character, he was a static, boring character with nothing going on for him except that he liked people, and even that wasn’t anything major. He would talk to people who talked to him. Once I got comfortable in the family of characters and Jameson made his first close friends, he really started to grow in my mind. His family evolved, his love of his sisters grew, his relationship with his father and mother became apparent in my mind. His life sprung into life in my mind, as if I was holding the universe in my hand and I could peer inside and see every corner, every star, every galaxy, and every inch of the milky way that was Jameson.

His family is the world to him. His relationship with each family member is vastly different, yet they all work as a functional whole to act as the anchor to keep his chipper, friendly and outgoing personality concrete. When he was younger, he was fearless, and recklessly so. He didn’t think there was anything bigger that his home and he wanted to take on everything to show he could come out as the strongest. Except he always saw his older sister, Kria, as the strongest person in the world. She was his role model, his guide, his confident and his best friend. He could always trust her to tell him the blunt and honest truth, especially when he needed it. When he was forced to watch her be made to fight others, he saw her compassion in helping someone else drag her down and create a gaping hole in her armor, becoming her biggest weakness. Watching her die on a big screen tore him to shreds.

This is where his younger sister, Kirsi, showed how much of an anchor she could be. She was unfailingly innocent, loving, and whole-heartedly good. Nothing could sully her soul and there was nothing that could taint her pure existence. She showed him that being strong wasn’t being the strongest fighter, it was having the strong soul. The willingness to give up yourself for a bigger cause. If Kria was his strength, Kirsi was his heart and together they created an indestructible being. With his father’s lessons on a kind heart and patience and his mother’s on responsibility and control, in the strange manner that they came in, he became a person he had wanted to be for many years, even if he could never admit it.

Finally, it was time to test himself. Was he ready to stand on his own feet? He become an independent person, but was he ready to hold himself together? While away in the Capitol, Kirsi fell in, and during his return she passed away. It broke him into a thousand pieces and his heart was a dark as night. There was nothing to show him that the world was good if someone so pure and innocent as Kirsi had to die when there was medicines to treat her. It was then that Clary walked through the door. They’d known each other for a few years now, but it was only during a poker game that was meant to lift both their spirits that he realised what he had missed out of all along. 

Although he was utterly frightened of the experience, he found himself falling in love, and this love built up his heart once more. Every moment together with Clary was able to strengthen him again, so much so that even when he felt himself falling apart again he was able to stay together and do whatever he needed to do. To me, Jameson is a character -nay, a person- who is always growing, always learning and who will forever be teaching me lessons on how to be a better person and how to be happy. I find myself connecting with him on a level that seems magical. He is a part of my soul that I cannot access myself while I have what he needs to come to life. 

One of the happiest moments of my life was all the planning going into Clary’s proposal. Then the Christmas Eve proposal that seemed to be out of a dream. And then their wedding, their rushed wedding before a heartbreaking plot. Every day, spending hours with Jameson and Clary and their love and watching it grow has been a wonderful experience for me. There has never been anything better than knowing love, even if it’s through a character. Jameson is like another part of me, and it feels as if I have found complete and true love myself. Nothing has felt more incredible and magical than that. 

Jameson has this complex level of childishness while also being completely mature when he needs to be. He has a balance of being serious while being himself and having that self be someone who likes what he likes and isn’t afraid to show it no matter what it is, whether it’s cookies or disney movies, or singing Maroon 5 in the car. He wants to bring out the good in people while learning the good in himself. A boy who grew into a man and took a journey to find a better self. The most exciting part about him is getting to see his future. I love looking into his future and knowing he would be a great father. I can’t wait to see what lessons we can learn together, what he can teach me, and what he can teach his children and perhaps mine.