Summary

Full name: Jules Gottfried Lesage
Sex & Gender: Cis-male (he/him)
Birthyear: 1890
Height: 1.97m (6'5")
Species: Kitsune
Occupation: Starship captain; arcatech inventor.
Sexual identity: Asexual
Character: introvert, disciplined, committed, strict, conflicted, anxious, reserved.
Likes: Helping people; Sharing knowledge; Fine wine; Experimenting; Tinkering with arcatech
Dislikes: His lost limbs; War & war stories; Kitsune stereotypes; Humid climates; Seeing people suffering; Loud music

Character

Jules was born in 1890, near the French-German border. His parents were on the run from a group of religious fanatics hunting them down. With pain in their hearts, they reasoned that the only way to keep their son safe was to give him up, keeping him away from them and the dangerous people chasing after them. After all, he'd look like just another fox cub. They laid him at the doorstep of a farm with a sheep couple mourning about the death of their firstborn child, who had died from measles. They saw the sudden appearance of a child on their doorstep as a gift from God. They name him Jules, and treat him as fully part of the family. Neither Jules nor his foster parents knew about his kitsune background and thought he's just an ordinary fox.

It became clear that Jules had a talent for magic. He could will the wind to blow in the way he wanted as a child, and seemed to have an affiliation with air magic. Of course he was curious what else he could do, and found some books in the library about magic. He had to train himself, because his family didn't have to means to pay for him to study at a university. But he thought maybe if he'd save up some money, he could get to university somewhere in the future. But then 1914 came around, and he was drafted into the army, and fought on the fields in France to keep Germany at bay. These years were traumatic for him, but this became even more worrying when in 1917 he grew his second tail. Not knowing what this meant, he panicked, but he had no time to find out more about it in the midst of the war. When the war ended, he was still alive, and finally got enough money to study, and it was there that he found out he was a kitsune.

Jules was a hard-working student, sometimes to the worry of his peers. He eventually graduated cum laude, and the university of Paris saw great potential in him, and offered him a position as a researcher. Jules seemed to be particularly interested in the brand new field of arcatech, where magic and technology come together. In the interbellum years, he was one of the postgraduate students helping the professor overseeing the study to find new ways to control and apply magic in machines. Things were looking bright for him, but his dreams were shattered yet again when Germany invaded France again 1939. This time, the German regime also wanted to eliminate powerful magic users, as they are seen as "heathens" and a potential threat. This means a kitsune like him wasn't safe. He had to run, and escaped to England, and from there he booked a a one-way boat trip to Canada, and ended up in Montréal. He was later recruited by Bell Labs, having heard of his achievements in Paris, and wanted him to continue his research there. However, Jules kept a long time grudge against Germany, a country that has ruined his hopes and dreams twice.

Jules was getting lonelier as the 1960s came around. His parents were long dead, along with most people and family he knew. He was keeping himself at a distance, not willing to begin a relationship because he was painfully aware he would probably outlive them by a long time. But in the late 1960s, something miraculous happened in his life. After all these years, his biological mother had found him. To his shock, his mother turned out to be German, and had also fled to America to escape the horrors of WW2. At the point he felt the lowest in his life, his mother was a godsend for him, and she revealed more secrets about the kitsune an their community to him, as well as the name she had given to him at birth, Gottfried. However, he never became fully part of the kitsune community, always feeling like an outsider. His upbringing had made him more humble than his kitsune peers, of whom most had a certain level of arrogance that they felt elevated above the "common folk" by their long lives and magic prowess.

Jules had all the time in the world to dedicate to his research, and to train his skills in magic. Having such a long life, he could master these skills with a tremendous amount of practice. Jules was involved in plenty of breakthroughs in the field of arcatech, and he was building a name for himself. Now a professor, and a beloved one at that, he was leading the research, getting the best out of his students who worked with him. Each decade the arcatech projects became more potent, and this attracted the attention of some malicious parties. By the end of the 2020s, the progress he had made had so much potential, that the Kitsune Kult, followers of several corrupt kitsunes who propped themselves up as prophetic leaders, saw him as a major threat. One of their groups planted a bomb in his laboratory, hoping to take him out with it. The bomb went off, but it failed to kill him; he did lose his most of his left arm and leg, and one of his tails, but still managed to hold off a dozen of cultists attacking him right after he was struck. He contacted an old kitsune friend Dust immediately, knowing she had a short line to DMT, as he was requiring serious medical attention. They could fix up his arm and leg with prosthetics, but the lost tail was permanent, or at least until he would grow a new one in thirty to fourty years. Sincethen, he was putting his efforts trying to stop these cultists and their nefarious plans in a shadow war, one that eventually culminated into the Wellspring War. The third war he would be involved in...

After the war, Jules was considered to be a war hero. He was one of the few kitsune to show himself in public as being one. He was employed by the Terran Fleet to develop arcatech for their new fleet of spaceships that were in development, but found himself soon in a command role. Eventually, in 2047, he was assigned to the very first Terran-built battleship, to replace the Yorktown as Earth's guardian. He had the honour to give the ship its name, and so he became the captain of the U.F.S. Renaissance. The ship would become a platform to test the latest arcatech developments, some of which Jules certainly had a hand in. Not much later, he would develop a way to convert electricity into magic energy. This was a galactic novelty, and his name became known across the whole Alliance.
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I was sitting on this character for a while, someone who's old and scarred, but still manages to find the will to go on, and becomes his best self.

UFIS story universe by  sabrina-taur

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