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CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: Patrick Jane
CANON: The Mentalist
CANON REFERENCE: Wikipedia and Wiki
AGE: 42
GENDER: Male
YEAR IN SCHOOL/FACULTY POSITION: Power control instructor
APPEARANCE: Picture here.
Patrick is just under 6 feet tall (177 cm), has, slightly curly blond hair. He's handsome with a friendly face and smiles a lot. He dresses almost exclusively in three piece suits, though he tends to skip the tie, and while he keeps his clothes pretty well kept his own physical appearance can be a bit scruffy, such as ruffled hair and an unshaven face.
PERSONALITY:
“Glibness and superficial charm. Check. Grandiose sense of self-worth. You betcha. Cunning and manipulative. Poor behavioural controls. Failure to accept responsibility for own actions. […] Congratulations Jane, according to the score you are a clinical psychopath.”
On the outside Jane is a very charming and happy man, and while this is not simply a mask he puts on there's still a lot more going on beneath the surface. Deep down he will probably always be a bit of a child. He loves showing off his talents, and loves even more showing off when he's right, which is most of the time. He tends to keep his ultimate conclusions about cases to himself, instead choosing to show his coworkers who the guilty party is through some kind of elaborate plan/trap he's set up for them. He also often amuses his team with magic or mind reading tricks by showing off his skills as a mentalist.
He isn't very good at following rules or listening to authority. He often goes behind his supervisor, Lisbon's, back in order to carry out his plans and even when given a direct order it's doubtful if he'll follow it. In fact, it's much more probable that he'll just ignore it. He's of the opinion that rules, or laws, shouldn't get in the way of getting to the truth or catching a killer and his plans to catch them often reflect this view.
Jane has trouble letting go of the events of his past. You can see his bad relationship with his father in his problems with authority, something he himself points out in a situation not pertaining to himself. And even though it has been ten years since his family was killed, he still hasn't begun processing it yet, instead putting all his focus and energy on finding and punishing the man who did it. He even basically moves into the CBI headquarter's attic to spend more time studying the case. And since he can't let go of what's happened he's also unable to let go of the guilt he feels for having caused the death of his family. Until he moves into the attic at CBI he slept on a mattress in his old bedroom with the Red John smily face still remaining above him on the floor, presumably painted in the blood of his wife and daughter.
He doesn't have a lot of friends, he's lost contact with almost everyone from his former life as a psychic and these days he doesn't have any relationships with people that are not related to his work with the CBI and it is difficult for him to even let them in completely.
Though while he keeps very few people close to him he cares tremendously for the ones he does and would be willing to go to any length to protect them from harm, even giving up his need for revenge. He will also do his best to ensure their emotional and physical well being, even if he does it in his own rather special way. He's also very loyal to the people he cares about. He absolutely refuses to work with any other team than Lisbon's and if forced to do so he will do anything in his power to manipulate and sabotage that team until he gets Lisbon back in charge. Apart from his team it is apparent that he cares for many of the victims whose death they investigate and for their families.
Coming back to the opening quote of this section, while I'm not going to be arguing diagnoses very much I am going to say that I doubt that Jane actually completely fits in the “clinical psychopath” slot, giving how much he actually can and does care about people. It is however very possible that he has some kind of anti personality disorder, making it difficult for him to see why some of his actions might be deemed wrong. For example he sees no real problem in putting his co-workers in serious and possibly life threatening danger as long as he is 70% sure that nothing too serious is going to happen, even if it's only to prove a point. And he has even less qualms if it's someone he doesn't really care about, or if it's someone he thinks might deserve it. He also, at one point, tricks Lisbon into thinking that she, along with about a hundred other people, have been subjected to a substance that will kill her in just a few hours. His reasoning for this is partly to catch the killer they've been looking for but the reason he has for not telling her about his plan is because she's seemed a bit down lately and this should make her feel better and make her appreciate life more once she finds out that she's not actually dying. Unsurprisingly she punches him in the face.
He also has a slightly twisted sense of justice. For one he doesn't see any difference between revenge and justice, except maybe for what the law says and as mentioned earlier he doesn't care much about that. When he and the team are unable to get enough evidence to arrest and convict a serial killer, even though Jane knows without a shadow of a doubt that he's guilty, Jane purposefully provokes him into insulting Red John during a TV-appearance, resulting in his death. And he doesn't seem to feel any remorse in having done so. The killer had to be stopped, the means to it hardly matters. He also, at one point, locks a suspect into a coffin and buries him alive, in order to make him confess when, once again, they don't have the evidence to arrest him. Of course this is done partly in order for him to fake his breakdown but he doesn't seem to have any real problems with his actions.
He's very confident in his own abilities and especially in his own intellect. Even the threat of firing Lisbon is able to make him even pause and think before setting up one of his scenes, not because he doesn't care but because to him there is no doubt that in the end he will be victorious and then Lisbon's job will be safe. And trying to convince him that he's wrong about something is almost certain the be an effort in futility.
Because he uses his mind as his weapon he's not very comfortable with guns, though he knows how to use them. He doesn't carry one, and wouldn't even if the CBI would let him, and prefers it if guns can be left out of the picture all together. He never gets physical with the suspect, unless he is forced to, and leaves the running and tackling bit to the rest of the team.
He's very nosy and doesn't tend to get that he's going to far before he has already managed to cross a line. Once he realizes his mistake he usually tries to cover it up with an excuse about just thinking out loud, or that he's just guessing but by then the damage has often already been done.
And finally: he's a mentalist and a very good one at that. The definition given is “Someone who uses mental acuity, hypnosis and or/suggestion. A master manipulator of thought and behaviour.” which sums it up quite good. He is very observant and can read people just by looking at them and their environment, and while his conclusions are not always right, the once he voices tends to be about 98% of the time. He's also very good at hypnotizing people and will do so even if it's not considered very ethical. He also knows a myriad of different mind (and magic) tricks that he uses on people, often in case situation but sometimes just to show off.
POWERS/ABILITIES: Psychometry and Mental resistance.
Jane can pick up memories or sensations from objects. For best result he needs to be touching the object but if he concentrates he can use his powers on any object nearby. The memories he gets are usually random and can come from any point in time, including the future, and it takes a lot of control for him to focus on one particular memory or sensation. More time and training will make this easier for him and will make the 'visions' longer and more detailed.
In addition to the psychometry he also has enhanced resistance against psychological/mental attacks. Those with good control over their power and strong enough in their usage will be able to affect him but it's very likely that the efforts of his students will just roll off him.
AU HISTORY:
As a kid Jane travelled with different carnivals together with his father, putting on the show of “the psychic boy wonder”, as well as a number of different con games in the towns they visited, to make their living. Their relationship have been strained ever since Jane entered his teen and as soon as he turned 18 Jane and his father parted ways and haven't seen each other since.
A couple of years later, travelling with yet another carnival Jane met Angela Ruskin and they fell in love. Together they left the carnival life and Jane started making his living as a psychic. He soon hit big, making a lot of money and even becoming a bit of a celebrity, making radio- and TV-appearances as well as taking on privet clients and sometimes helping out the police with his 'psychic powers'. When he was 27 he and Angela had a daughter whom they named Charlotte Ann. Generally life was good.
Then, five years later, he made the biggest mistake of his life. Appearing on a TV-show he discusses the serial killer known as Red John who at the time had killed, at least, 8 women. He had been asked by the police to try and get a psychic fix on him and see if he can get a sense of who this man is. He describes Red John as a “ugly, tormented little man. A lonely soul. Sad, very sad”. A description that can be seen as both insulting and mocking. To punish him Red John murders his wife and daughter, making them victims 9 and 10, leaving a note outside of the bedroom door telling him that he doesn't like being slandered, especially not by a fraud, and that if he truly was psychic he wouldn't have to open the door to know what has been done to his family.
After the death of his family Jane had a breakdown and spent almost a year in an insane asylum. After he gets out he visits the CBI (California Bureau of Investigation) who are handling the Red John case. After provoking one of the detectives to hit him in the face he gets invited along the case they're currently working on as well as given access to the Red John files. He ends up helping them solve the case and as a results gets hired as a consultant under the supervision of Agent Teresa Lisbon.
This was ten years ago and since then he's been working with the CBI helping them solve cases. While he sometimes uses his mutant powers in order to help the investigations along he usually doesn't need to, instead making use of his other tricks as a mentalist. During this time he has come close to catching Red John a number of times but so far he still has no idea of who the man is. One of these times even involves shooting, and killing, a man claiming to be Red John but who ultimately ends up being one of many accomplices in Red John's network.
As time passes Jane becomes more and more convinced that Red John has a mutation of his own. Exploring that possibility he comes into contact with Charles Xavier who agrees to help him search for Red John's identity. In return Jane agrees to become a teacher at the Xavier institute for as long as the arrangement is mutually beneficial. In order to do this without alerting Red John's suspicion Jane fakes another breakdown, fooling even his closest friends and co-workers and resulting in him getting fired from the CBI.
SAMPLE
1ST PERSON SAMPLE:
[ The feed opens showing Jane lying on a couch in his office, smiling widely into the camera. ]
Hello everyone! For those of you who don't know, my name is Patrick Jane and come next semester I will be teaching anyone who needs it how to better control your powers. And considering you're basically all teenagers living together in an enclosed space, who also happen to have rather impressive mutations, that would be all of you.
Of course if there's anyone who feels that they can't wait until then you're free to come by my office. This couch is really comfy so I'll probably be here most of the time. Turns out school can be rather boring if you don't have anything to do, so anything you can do to liven it up would be welcome. Except explosions, I think I could live without those.
THIRD PERSON SAMPLE:
He surveys his new office. It's very different from his old one, not that you could really call that much of an office at all, and while it objectively is a much nicer room there's still something missing from it. It's a bit too quiet, a bit too closed up. He sighs and lies down of the couch, it's not quite as comfortable as his old one but it's nice enough. The ceiling above him is white and free of any interesting stains for him to focus his gaze on. He would have to change that, some coffee might do the trick. Or maybe some paint...
His thought are interrupted by the sound of his phone, vibrating against the desk. He doesn't need to look at the display to know who it is, but he does it anyway. Teresa Lisbon. The vibrations stop and a little while later there's the expected beep telling him that he has a new voicemail. One to add to the other seven he hasn't listened to yet. They've all left him some, and he's kept them all, but almost everyone had given up by now. Everyone except her. He wonders if there the time will ever come when she'll truly wash her hands off him. He doesn't think so.
Of course that doesn't stop her from being upset with him, if fact they all are. Upset that he didn't come for them before he supposedly snapped, upset over what he'd done, upset that he was putting up walls between them now, keeping his distance. But they would understand. This was his best way to catch him, to catch Red John. The would see why he'd done what he'd done if he just explained it to them, even if they would be angry with him for a while for not having told them from the beginning. And then everything would go back to how it used to be. He was sure of it.
PLAYER: Kim
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evilteaCHARACTERS PLAYED: Yuui Fluorite
the_saner_oneCHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: Patrick Jane
CANON: The Mentalist
CANON REFERENCE: Wikipedia and Wiki
AGE: 42
GENDER: Male
YEAR IN SCHOOL/FACULTY POSITION: Power control instructor
APPEARANCE: Picture here.
Patrick is just under 6 feet tall (177 cm), has, slightly curly blond hair. He's handsome with a friendly face and smiles a lot. He dresses almost exclusively in three piece suits, though he tends to skip the tie, and while he keeps his clothes pretty well kept his own physical appearance can be a bit scruffy, such as ruffled hair and an unshaven face.
PERSONALITY:
“Glibness and superficial charm. Check. Grandiose sense of self-worth. You betcha. Cunning and manipulative. Poor behavioural controls. Failure to accept responsibility for own actions. […] Congratulations Jane, according to the score you are a clinical psychopath.”
On the outside Jane is a very charming and happy man, and while this is not simply a mask he puts on there's still a lot more going on beneath the surface. Deep down he will probably always be a bit of a child. He loves showing off his talents, and loves even more showing off when he's right, which is most of the time. He tends to keep his ultimate conclusions about cases to himself, instead choosing to show his coworkers who the guilty party is through some kind of elaborate plan/trap he's set up for them. He also often amuses his team with magic or mind reading tricks by showing off his skills as a mentalist.
He isn't very good at following rules or listening to authority. He often goes behind his supervisor, Lisbon's, back in order to carry out his plans and even when given a direct order it's doubtful if he'll follow it. In fact, it's much more probable that he'll just ignore it. He's of the opinion that rules, or laws, shouldn't get in the way of getting to the truth or catching a killer and his plans to catch them often reflect this view.
Jane has trouble letting go of the events of his past. You can see his bad relationship with his father in his problems with authority, something he himself points out in a situation not pertaining to himself. And even though it has been ten years since his family was killed, he still hasn't begun processing it yet, instead putting all his focus and energy on finding and punishing the man who did it. He even basically moves into the CBI headquarter's attic to spend more time studying the case. And since he can't let go of what's happened he's also unable to let go of the guilt he feels for having caused the death of his family. Until he moves into the attic at CBI he slept on a mattress in his old bedroom with the Red John smily face still remaining above him on the floor, presumably painted in the blood of his wife and daughter.
He doesn't have a lot of friends, he's lost contact with almost everyone from his former life as a psychic and these days he doesn't have any relationships with people that are not related to his work with the CBI and it is difficult for him to even let them in completely.
Though while he keeps very few people close to him he cares tremendously for the ones he does and would be willing to go to any length to protect them from harm, even giving up his need for revenge. He will also do his best to ensure their emotional and physical well being, even if he does it in his own rather special way. He's also very loyal to the people he cares about. He absolutely refuses to work with any other team than Lisbon's and if forced to do so he will do anything in his power to manipulate and sabotage that team until he gets Lisbon back in charge. Apart from his team it is apparent that he cares for many of the victims whose death they investigate and for their families.
Coming back to the opening quote of this section, while I'm not going to be arguing diagnoses very much I am going to say that I doubt that Jane actually completely fits in the “clinical psychopath” slot, giving how much he actually can and does care about people. It is however very possible that he has some kind of anti personality disorder, making it difficult for him to see why some of his actions might be deemed wrong. For example he sees no real problem in putting his co-workers in serious and possibly life threatening danger as long as he is 70% sure that nothing too serious is going to happen, even if it's only to prove a point. And he has even less qualms if it's someone he doesn't really care about, or if it's someone he thinks might deserve it. He also, at one point, tricks Lisbon into thinking that she, along with about a hundred other people, have been subjected to a substance that will kill her in just a few hours. His reasoning for this is partly to catch the killer they've been looking for but the reason he has for not telling her about his plan is because she's seemed a bit down lately and this should make her feel better and make her appreciate life more once she finds out that she's not actually dying. Unsurprisingly she punches him in the face.
He also has a slightly twisted sense of justice. For one he doesn't see any difference between revenge and justice, except maybe for what the law says and as mentioned earlier he doesn't care much about that. When he and the team are unable to get enough evidence to arrest and convict a serial killer, even though Jane knows without a shadow of a doubt that he's guilty, Jane purposefully provokes him into insulting Red John during a TV-appearance, resulting in his death. And he doesn't seem to feel any remorse in having done so. The killer had to be stopped, the means to it hardly matters. He also, at one point, locks a suspect into a coffin and buries him alive, in order to make him confess when, once again, they don't have the evidence to arrest him. Of course this is done partly in order for him to fake his breakdown but he doesn't seem to have any real problems with his actions.
He's very confident in his own abilities and especially in his own intellect. Even the threat of firing Lisbon is able to make him even pause and think before setting up one of his scenes, not because he doesn't care but because to him there is no doubt that in the end he will be victorious and then Lisbon's job will be safe. And trying to convince him that he's wrong about something is almost certain the be an effort in futility.
Because he uses his mind as his weapon he's not very comfortable with guns, though he knows how to use them. He doesn't carry one, and wouldn't even if the CBI would let him, and prefers it if guns can be left out of the picture all together. He never gets physical with the suspect, unless he is forced to, and leaves the running and tackling bit to the rest of the team.
He's very nosy and doesn't tend to get that he's going to far before he has already managed to cross a line. Once he realizes his mistake he usually tries to cover it up with an excuse about just thinking out loud, or that he's just guessing but by then the damage has often already been done.
And finally: he's a mentalist and a very good one at that. The definition given is “Someone who uses mental acuity, hypnosis and or/suggestion. A master manipulator of thought and behaviour.” which sums it up quite good. He is very observant and can read people just by looking at them and their environment, and while his conclusions are not always right, the once he voices tends to be about 98% of the time. He's also very good at hypnotizing people and will do so even if it's not considered very ethical. He also knows a myriad of different mind (and magic) tricks that he uses on people, often in case situation but sometimes just to show off.
POWERS/ABILITIES: Psychometry and Mental resistance.
Jane can pick up memories or sensations from objects. For best result he needs to be touching the object but if he concentrates he can use his powers on any object nearby. The memories he gets are usually random and can come from any point in time, including the future, and it takes a lot of control for him to focus on one particular memory or sensation. More time and training will make this easier for him and will make the 'visions' longer and more detailed.
In addition to the psychometry he also has enhanced resistance against psychological/mental attacks. Those with good control over their power and strong enough in their usage will be able to affect him but it's very likely that the efforts of his students will just roll off him.
AU HISTORY:
As a kid Jane travelled with different carnivals together with his father, putting on the show of “the psychic boy wonder”, as well as a number of different con games in the towns they visited, to make their living. Their relationship have been strained ever since Jane entered his teen and as soon as he turned 18 Jane and his father parted ways and haven't seen each other since.
A couple of years later, travelling with yet another carnival Jane met Angela Ruskin and they fell in love. Together they left the carnival life and Jane started making his living as a psychic. He soon hit big, making a lot of money and even becoming a bit of a celebrity, making radio- and TV-appearances as well as taking on privet clients and sometimes helping out the police with his 'psychic powers'. When he was 27 he and Angela had a daughter whom they named Charlotte Ann. Generally life was good.
Then, five years later, he made the biggest mistake of his life. Appearing on a TV-show he discusses the serial killer known as Red John who at the time had killed, at least, 8 women. He had been asked by the police to try and get a psychic fix on him and see if he can get a sense of who this man is. He describes Red John as a “ugly, tormented little man. A lonely soul. Sad, very sad”. A description that can be seen as both insulting and mocking. To punish him Red John murders his wife and daughter, making them victims 9 and 10, leaving a note outside of the bedroom door telling him that he doesn't like being slandered, especially not by a fraud, and that if he truly was psychic he wouldn't have to open the door to know what has been done to his family.
After the death of his family Jane had a breakdown and spent almost a year in an insane asylum. After he gets out he visits the CBI (California Bureau of Investigation) who are handling the Red John case. After provoking one of the detectives to hit him in the face he gets invited along the case they're currently working on as well as given access to the Red John files. He ends up helping them solve the case and as a results gets hired as a consultant under the supervision of Agent Teresa Lisbon.
This was ten years ago and since then he's been working with the CBI helping them solve cases. While he sometimes uses his mutant powers in order to help the investigations along he usually doesn't need to, instead making use of his other tricks as a mentalist. During this time he has come close to catching Red John a number of times but so far he still has no idea of who the man is. One of these times even involves shooting, and killing, a man claiming to be Red John but who ultimately ends up being one of many accomplices in Red John's network.
As time passes Jane becomes more and more convinced that Red John has a mutation of his own. Exploring that possibility he comes into contact with Charles Xavier who agrees to help him search for Red John's identity. In return Jane agrees to become a teacher at the Xavier institute for as long as the arrangement is mutually beneficial. In order to do this without alerting Red John's suspicion Jane fakes another breakdown, fooling even his closest friends and co-workers and resulting in him getting fired from the CBI.
SAMPLE
1ST PERSON SAMPLE:
[ The feed opens showing Jane lying on a couch in his office, smiling widely into the camera. ]
Hello everyone! For those of you who don't know, my name is Patrick Jane and come next semester I will be teaching anyone who needs it how to better control your powers. And considering you're basically all teenagers living together in an enclosed space, who also happen to have rather impressive mutations, that would be all of you.
Of course if there's anyone who feels that they can't wait until then you're free to come by my office. This couch is really comfy so I'll probably be here most of the time. Turns out school can be rather boring if you don't have anything to do, so anything you can do to liven it up would be welcome. Except explosions, I think I could live without those.
THIRD PERSON SAMPLE:
He surveys his new office. It's very different from his old one, not that you could really call that much of an office at all, and while it objectively is a much nicer room there's still something missing from it. It's a bit too quiet, a bit too closed up. He sighs and lies down of the couch, it's not quite as comfortable as his old one but it's nice enough. The ceiling above him is white and free of any interesting stains for him to focus his gaze on. He would have to change that, some coffee might do the trick. Or maybe some paint...
His thought are interrupted by the sound of his phone, vibrating against the desk. He doesn't need to look at the display to know who it is, but he does it anyway. Teresa Lisbon. The vibrations stop and a little while later there's the expected beep telling him that he has a new voicemail. One to add to the other seven he hasn't listened to yet. They've all left him some, and he's kept them all, but almost everyone had given up by now. Everyone except her. He wonders if there the time will ever come when she'll truly wash her hands off him. He doesn't think so.
Of course that doesn't stop her from being upset with him, if fact they all are. Upset that he didn't come for them before he supposedly snapped, upset over what he'd done, upset that he was putting up walls between them now, keeping his distance. But they would understand. This was his best way to catch him, to catch Red John. The would see why he'd done what he'd done if he just explained it to them, even if they would be angry with him for a while for not having told them from the beginning. And then everything would go back to how it used to be. He was sure of it.
