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8. Jay Hunter

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One thing I've noticed about myself while making this list is that, in a handful of cases, I tend to enjoy characters that don't have much of a voice of their own, whether it's Radio Tuner flying and bopping along to music or Romalthi hiding silently behind a mask with no way to communicate beyond actions. Another character archetype I've found myself enjoying are those that can't particularly assert their own worth and really just need someone at their side. Jay Hunter fills both of those roles in a way, and is ultimately one of the things I'm most proud of in the entire campaign.

Probably about 50ish sessions back, we found ourselves in Dublin, Ireland. The situation in Ireland is a bizarre one, one of the most bizarre we've come across in fact. From what we could gather, Titania, tyrannical queen of Faerie, made some sort of deal, and in doing so transported many of the residents of the Fair Lands to Ireland. But they didn't all just appear in Ireland, they specifically seem to have taken the place of the actual citizens of Ireland. Leprechauns, Firebrand rangers and other magical beings have appeared throughout the countryside, and nobody's entirely sure what happened to the people of Ireland. Did they die? Did they get transported to Faerie? Or did they perhaps combine with the magical creatures that took their places?

Early on into the session, we're attacked by a banshee. A much shorter than a normal monstrous banshee, about 5 and a half feet tall and lanky. We eventually defeat the banshee, and it isn't long before Bloodfruit is at odds with the rest of her group. The others believe the banshee should put down; it's a dangerous monster that killed a potential ally. But Bloodfruit, being how she is, feels something special for the creature. It's dangerous, but it's also young and scared and only acting out of its root instincts.

Eventually the rest of the group gives into Bloodfruit's insistence, and as we explore we find in the banshee's possession the ID of a young boy named Jay Hunter. Reason suggests that the Jay Hunter of Ireland is the human whose place was taken by this banshee, but to this day we still don't know entirely what happened. Is Jay the child somewhere behind the mask of the banshee (who, in need of a name, we've called Jay ever since). Or maybe the human Jay is off in Faerie somewhere, or maybe he's dead.

But Jay the Banshee, despite being by any stretch an untameable creature of pure violent id, has taken on a weird sort of friendship with Bloodfruit, at least in one direction if not both. Jay is ever so slightly calmer with her than with other humans, and after many fruitless attempts to communicate with Jay in Ireland, she actually helped protect us (perhaps just by trying to protect herself) from incoming parademons. We brought Jay to Z'onn Z'orr's environmental chamber, but eventually had to move her out (as we needed the chamber and Jay is still too dangerous to be around people.

With the help of the Shining Knight and Nightmaster, Jay was moved out to the abandoned Justice League Antarctia HQ, where she nows treats the destroyed building as a sort of home, feasting on equated penguins that are foolish enough to waddle into her territory. And still, Bloodfruit attempts to find a sort of common ground with Jay, refusing to see the banshee as anything but a lost soul and one of our strongest potential allies.

Hint for #8: Kind of like Jay, this character was originally introduced to us as an enemy.