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MAY 2024 CANON ACTIVITY CHECK

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• player/ooc name: milky
• character tags: jayden cross

4 ic posts for canon characters:

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• FIT FOR A KING (APRIL 15)
• DISADMINATE (APRIL 28)
• ANTIGONE (MAY 10)
• DUST & SHADOWS (MAY 18)

summarize 2 plots that are in-progress and being threaded:

• LOYALTY & LEGACY: ROCKET'S CHOSEN[break][break]
  Loyal and devout to the organization he calls home, Jayden is one of many who make up the face of Team Rocket. His plot has always been one centered around loyalty and devotion; as someone who had been once it's pawn, as now an Avatar and Admin within the organization, he becomes one of it's pillars.
  
  [break][break] As admin of Offense and Training Recruitment, even in his Cursed avatarship, Jayden spends a lot of time either recruiting fellow grunts or training them to their truest potential. In DOLLHOUSE THEORY, with MAKI YUKIMURA, he continues their mentorship by evaluating her for Team Rocket's SPECTRA division. He does the same for Gerald Kaiser, a man who he recruited into the organization years ago in exchange for his sister's safety and Alba Evovae, a man who he believes will be one of Rocket's brightest minds. He pushes Fenelle Miller to their limits in FLESH AND BONE and In addition, he also continues the process of assisting the transfer of Kanto recruits into Hoenn, needing fresh blood more than over with the upcoming war. With Asriel Pryde and Victoria Beckett both, he believes in their promise and strength, encouraging them both to sign up for the upcoming GAUNTLET.
  
  [break][break] Jayden lends his expertise to Aurelie Lefevre in both FIT FOR A KING and SCARS BOTH OLD AND NEW, as a testament to their ongoing relationship.
  
  [break][break] He maintains his mentorship with Hitoshi Inoue, even in despite of his Avatarship, in SHAPELESS IN STEEL; is relentlessly in pursuit of his one-sided friendship with Grigori Sokolov even in a faraway DREAM; supports @tempest in his research with AVATARSHIP.
  
  [break][break] Jayden's greatest power is one that he does not even consider a power — to him, such loyalty and devotion is a given. A means to an end. All within Rocket hold the greatest power for potential, and it is his job to make sure that they get there.
  
  [break][break] During their adventures in the RKS machine, he says as much to howard slayte. You won't be worthless. Howard hates him for it.
  
  [break][break] Yet, for Jayden, it changes nothing. Team Rocket is his very being, his past, his present — his undying future.
  
  [break][break] Even if it leads to his downfall, as scripted in Grigori Sokolov's WELL-SPRING PROPHECY.
  
  [break][break] themes: loyalty, devotion, idolatry, zealotness
  
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  RELATED THREADS: [break][break]
  rocket bonding: [break]
  FIT FOR A KING [break]
  EXPOSURE [break]
  THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES [break]
  INTERVIEW W/ TEMP [break]
  FLESH & BONE [break]
  DUST & SHADOWS [break][break]
  
  SPECTRA: [break]
  DOLLHOUSE THEORY [break]
  BLACKEST HAND [break]
  ICEBREAKER [break]
  ESCAPE FROM OFFICE HELL [break]
  REFRACTION [break][break]
  
  RKS WITH HOWARD [break][break]
  
  RUINOUS CATS DREAM OF FROZEN SHEEP [break][break]
  
  DISADMINATE
  
  

• THE PURSUIT OF POWER[break]
  
  Since his inception, Jayden's character arc has always been positioned against the idea of power and influence. Being a life-time Rocket, bureaucracy and hierarchy come second nature to him. It's why he doesn't think himself worthy of the position when he first rises to BEAST, as he explains to howard slayte in the RKS machine, or honestly even when he's chosen to ascend to ADMIN alongside Felix Gallagher.
  
  [break][break] But through all of this, each moment that he spends in his position slowly chips away at his complacency. It's what weakens him to the influence of his Ruinous patron, the potential for success that Jayden always sees desperately in other people but never himself. His bond with CHIEN PAO is the trigger-point for his ambition, which he says to Cillian Quinn and Elisabeth Fiorelli when he's initially chosen. It continues on in conversations he has with THEO BECKETT and Cillian Quinn both after, and culminates in his promise to Elisabeth Fiorelli in DEAD OF WINTER.
  
  [break][break] His FATHER WINTER 2 thread implies it too, that Jayden's path - while an arduous one - weaves a winding road. He can continue on the path he's on, being obedient and loyal to the organization that has only cast him harm, or he can forge his own.
  
  Drawn by his patron's ruinous influence, he escalates his rivalry with both Greyson Connors and @illie.
  
  [break][break] He fights with Greyson Connors during the EXCURSIONS, once again called nothing but a dog to Rocket.
  
  [break][break] In ANTIGONE, for the first time, he selfishly prioritizes his desires over the organization's. Even howard slayte urges him down this path, witnessing the admin's POISONED state and rightfully attributes such relentless loyalty to nothing but a foolish dream. PRISMATIC PENITENTIARY too becomes a relentless struggle of will — between the allure of power and the pursuit of naive happiness — as the human part of him continues to chip away.
  
  [break][break] As he steps forward into this Ruinous path, Jayden is beginning to discern his own will after so many years of being chained under someone else's control. But is this his will? Or is he just being controlled again by another's chains?
  
  [break][break] themes: power, rising, control, will, greed, sacrifice
  
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  RELATED THREADS [break][break]
  
  KISSING THE KILLER'S HAND (FW2) [break]
  RKS WITH HOWARD [break]
  VS GREYSON [break]
  ANTIGONE [break]
  ECLIPSE OF THE HEART [break]
  RUINS [break]
  ANCHOR [break]
  DEAD OF WINTER [break]
  MOCHI CHAIN [break][break]
  
  PRISMATIC PENITENTIARY
  
  

if an avatar, summarize how you've utilized[break]the legendary/avatarship for collaborative narrative:

• THE DEADLY INFLUENCE OF A RUINOUS PATRON[break]
  
  It's no secret that jayden cross's relationship with CHIEN PAO is self-destructive.
  
  [break][break] From the first moment that the Ruinous Beast set it's eyes on him, it saw him as a piece of prey. It saw him in nearly the same way that Rocket views it's populace — weak and dispensible, but necessary to utilize. However, the longer Jayden finds himself wrapped in the cat's deadly influence, it becomes more and more difficult to discern which emotions are his own and which emotions are due to his influence.
  
  [break][break] He says it first to Cillian Quinn BREAK ME APART and then again in DEAD OF WINTER with Elisabeth Fiorelli. He and Chien Pao are one and the same.
  
  [break][break] But Jayden never had a choice in his Avatarship. At least, not in the way others do. Chien Pao sunk it's fangs into his flesh without permission during Disseminate, and has continued to tug him in the direction that it best sees fit.
  
  [break][break] Yet, despite that, is that the truth? Is will so easy to erase decades worth of influence?
  
  [break][break] Many people now see Jayden only as a monster, influenced by the ruinous power of his patron. However, they forget why he was chosen in the first place. Past and present weave together when Jayden aids illeana reyes in repairing the fractured world in ANTIGONE. Perhaps it is his growing desire for independence that allows him to temper the brewing hatred within him.
  
  [break][break] Under the ruse of trying to grow stronger for Rocket, Jayden establishes the mentorship of all three Underbosses in his own Cursed avatarship. To no one's surprise, he's willing to go to extreme lengths, allowing himself to get burned alive in RUINS so that he can then utilize such skills in his confrontations with PENELOPE LIVY.
  
  [break][break] In PRISMATIC PENITENTIARY, Jayden experiences what it's like for the first time to be relieved from his patron's bond. His mind is clearer, his thoughts are sweeter. fern delaney is certainly happier for it. But rather than relief, he feels a sense of profound emptiness, a weakness that he no longer craves. Instead, he willingly seeks solace in his encounters with PENELOPE LIVY in the DREAM WORLD more than once. This time, his self-destruction is his choice.
  
  [break][break] It has him ignoring even fern delaney in PRISMATIC PENITENTIARY, where he fights annalise henderson, Eris Halla and Melody Miro. All of that all-consuming hatred lends him even more power in the final confrontation with CYLLORA and the Megalopolans, where he attempts to wipe away the lives of those who have enslaved them.
  
  [break][break] And thus, a new path appears. Hatred does not merely turn Jayden into a mindless beast; it grants him control and power in ways he never had before.
  
  [break][break] But the question remains — will it be worth it? Will it be worth all that relentless sacrifice?
  
  

• any notes/comments: THANK U SO MUCH SHIVERLY AND SPIRAL FOR ALL U DO!! Also, most importantly, thank you for all my thread partners and their gorgeous writing. I feel so, so privileged to be able to tell these stories with such a diverse, exceptionally talented and overall wonderful community.
  
  [break][break] FYI: If any of these plots strike out to you and you would like to thread something, please reach out!! Especially if you are interested in any Ruination/hatred beats, as well as anyone who is interested in connections from Kanto or preparing for the upcoming WAR. THANK YOU!!

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