Allow Me to Introduce Myself…

My name is Jasper Quentin Blood, though Jasper will suffice. I am twenty-eight years old (with both feet and an arm in the grave) and am a female of particularly petite stature. I have been a student of the Russian language, Political Science, History, and Foreign Policy in the past. I am currently a student occupied in the study of law. When not consumed by academia, I write fanfiction as both a creative outlet and an escape from the drudgery of adulthood. I tend to prefer fictional characters to human-beings and spend a lot of time in my own head, surrounded by my own musings and imaginings.

I have always gravitated toward villains and/or darker, frequently amoral characters and so many, if not all, of the stories you see published below (which are not many at present – I started writing fanfiction when I was 12 and have had the good sense to realize that 1) boy, that writing did not age well and 2) I presently only update one, Athena, and so have been systematically whittling down the list of stories I keep posted over time, depending on how I feel about them and whether I hope to revive them in the future) will concern villains, typically as the main protagonists (or antagonists, depending on which side of the coin you choose to look at).

Find me on AO3 under the pen name Jasper_Blood!

A Wildly Varying List of Characters, People, and Things I Adore

One HYDRA leader with a deformed red skull for a face by the name of Johann; the hilariously bloodthirsty Hans Landa; a certain cannibalistic Mads Mikkelsen by the name of Hannibal; a slightly off-kilter billionaire with a fetish for the color green by the name of Norman Osborn; a straight-razor wielding Barber hailing from Fleet Street; a sunglass-sporting, rapidly multiplying Agent Smith; a gas-mask-clad assassin whose name is Karl; a psychotic faerie by the name of Reth; a dead composer by the title of Gershwin; several Rhapsodies all colored in blue; an overture from Cuba; an American in Paris; a Devil by the name of Woland and his entourage; and perhaps a few poets, the list goes on and seems to vary wildly each year.

Favorite Characters

Johann Schmidt AKA The Red Skull AKA Hugo Weaving - Captain America: The First Avenger

Agent Smith - Matrix Trilogy (also Hugo Weaving...)

Elrond - Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit (also Hugo Weaving...)

Anyone played by Hugo Weaving (can you tell I'm a fan?)

Grand Admiral Thrawn - voiced and played by Lars Mikkelsen

Hans Landa - Inglourious Basterds

The Green Goblin played by Willem Dafoe or the Spectacular Spiderman Animated version...

The Darkling - the Grisha Trilogy by Leigh Bardugo

Father Rhun Korza - The Order of the Sanguines Series by James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell

Sweeney Todd AKA Johnny Depp

Hannibal Lecter AKA Mads Mikkelsen (For those Silence of the Lambs fans, yes, I do appreciate Anthony Hopkins' interpretation as well)

Karl Ruprecht Kroenen - Hellboy

Gentleman Ghost - Batman Brave and the Bold

Richard Roxburgh's Dracula - Van Helsing

Daniel Craig's James Bond- Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, Spectre

Hannes Messemer's Kommandant Von Luger - The Great Escape, 1963

Reth - The Parananormalcy Series by Kiersten White

The Phantom - As portrayed by Michael Crawford in the original Broadway production of the Phantom of The Opera

Favorite Quotes (Some Film, Some Literature)

"Tomorrow, HYDRA shall stand master of the world, born to victory on the wings of the Valkyrie. Our enemies' weapons will be powerless against us. If they shoot down one plane, hundreds more shall rain fire upon them. Cut off one head, two more shall take its place... Hail HYDRA!" - Johann Schmidt AKA The Red Skull, portrayed by Hugo Weaving in the film Captain America: The First Avenger

"Captain America, how exciting! I am a great fan of your films!" - Johann Schmidt AKA The Red Skull

"Not a scratch, Doctor, not a scratch." - Johann Schmidt AKA The Red Skull

"No matter what lies Erskine told you, you see, I was his greatest success!" - Johann Schmidt AKA The Red Skull

"Arrogance is not a uniquely American trait, but I must say you do it better than anyone." - Johann Schmidt AKA The Red Skull

"The problem with wanting is that it makes us weak." - The Darkling, The Grisha Trilogy by Leigh Bardugo

"What is the reason? Soon the why and the reason are gone and all that matters is the feeling. This is the nature of the universe. We struggle against it, we fight to deny it; but it is of course a lie. Beneath our poised appearance we are completely out of control." - The Merovingian, The Matrix: Reloaded

"At last, my arm is complete again." - Sweeney Todd, Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

"No, my friend. Revenge is the fire that keeps me warm in the eternal cold of the grave." - Gentleman Ghost, Batman: The Brave and the Bold

"Ah, my old necktie. Some things never go out of fashion." - Gentleman Ghost

"Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you, Van Helsing!" - Count Dracula in Van Helsing

"Once upon a midnight dreary, I pondered weak and weary, over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore - while I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, as of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door." - The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

"You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing." - The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

"While the stars that oversprinkle, all the heavens seem to twinkle with a crystalline delight; keeping time, time, time in a sort of rhunic rhyme, to the tintinnabulation that so musically wells from the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells..." - The Bells by Edgar Allan Poe

"One kiss, my bony sweetheart, I'm after a prize tonight, and I shall be back with the yellow gold, before the morning's light." - The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes

"It looks, after all, as if you will see Berlin before I do." - Kommandant Von Luger, portrayed by Hannes Messemer in the Great Escape, 1963

Bands and/or Composers that Inspire my Writing

In Athena at least, I got into the habit of starting out each chapter with a snippet of a song that particularly inspired it, and I hope that perhaps some of you may give the songs a try!:) My tastes range from symphonic/power and progressive metal to classical music to classic and progressive rock. I absolutely adore the Russian romantic-era and modern-era composers, having studied Russian in college and having spent a summer studying in Saint Petersburg. Some of my favorites of each are below if you'd like to give any a try:)

Bands:

Nightwish (Symphonic/Power Metal)

Epica (Symphonic/Power Metal)

After Forever (Symphonic/Progressive Metal)

Delain (Symphonic/Power Metal)

Charlotte Wessels (Indie Pop/Rock/Metal)

Kamelot (Symphonic/Power Metal)

Ghost (Metal/Hard Rock)

Oceans of Slumber (Progressive Metal)

Opeth (Progressive Metal)

Lacuna Coil (Hard Rock/Gothic Metal)

Dear Mother (Alternative Rock/Progressive Metal)

Star One (Progressive Metal/Progressive Rock)

Arjen Anthony Lucassen's Ayreon (Progressive Metal/Progressive Rock)

Auri (Folk)

Cellar Darling (Folk Rock/Metal)

Behemoth (Very Face-Melty Satanic Metal)

Blind Guardian (Symphonic/Power Metal)

Judas Priest (Nothing but the classics!)

Symphony X (Progressive Metal)

Tarja (Symphonic Metal)

TesseracT (Progressive Metal/Progressive Rock)

Classical Composers:

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Franz Liszt

Dmitry Shastakovich

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

George Gershwin

Igor Stravinsky

Frederic Chopin