Jabber

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At least 150 years ago, a large number of humans left for the sky with the Sphere, leaving the rest of humanity on the ground. Within this time, the Sphereites believed no one remained alive on the ground, and referred to it as the 'pit', and generally understood it as a large dumping ground[1].

Within the 150 years, the garbage that was dumped by sphere onto the ground eventually formed into Trash Beasts[2]. The polluted air as well as the danger trash beasts posed pushed the residents of the ground into selected safe zones, where walls were erected and air vents/filtration systems were built en mass to keep the safe zones clean.

The level of pollution changed much of the grounds environment. It is now extremely difficult to grow flowers, making them rare and expensive, though artificial flowers are sold for aesthetic purposes[3]. Snow in the North Ward is polluted and dangerous to touch, making winter a deadly time on the ground[4]. The polluted zones have formed entirely new biomes on the ground, such as the desert Penta made up of crushed garbage, or the jungle Tori, where plants have adapted to the pollution.

The Sphere is a mobile island suspended high up in the sky through unknown methods, and knowledge of how to get to it is unknown. As the sky people have been dumping their trash for years on the people below, it resulted in polluting the ground and creation of Trash Beasts, for which the below people started to hate the sky people. Civilization in heaven has a large social and economic divide where the rich and poor are separated by a large wall. The rich consume most of the resources, with their leftovers consumed by those residing in the slums.

Originally, the group were merely thieves, but as the years went by slowly got involved in more sinister plots[1]. All members of the group are Givers, and all carry purple torch lamps which signifies their membership. One of the groups main aim is to find more Spherites like Rudo in order to learn more about the Sphere.

Raiders are split into teams of two or three, and are carefully selected for their Vital instruments to be most compatible together.

Vital instruments are powered by Anima (思念, Shinen) which is a mysterious power source on the Ground, Anima accumulates and turns into energy and causes various phenomena, Vital Instruments being one of these phenomena.[1] Vital Instrument users are called Givers because they give off anima energy to objects which causes them to awaken.[2]

Awakening

Before becoming a Giver the user has to transform into one by learning to give off Anima, this is usually done by pouring their love and care into an object but this process can be sped up by another Giver supplying Anima Energy to someone else by acting as a catalyst to trigger their awakening, this however only works for those who’ve already built a foundation to be a Giver by using the former method

Once activated, the rings transform into a set of blade-like claws (or blade-like talons). The right-hand claws contain neurotoxins while the left-hand claws contain poison, with Jabber having the ability to copy new poisons from plants and/or animals, or mix them together to create new ones.[12] This form of his Vital instrument exists due to Jabber being too powerful to enjoy fights, so he chooses to hold back his power.

Mankira is, apparently, a girl to Jabber, as he refers to the rings by name or as ‘she’.

Described as a masochist,[4] Jabber is a psychotic young man with a violent obsession for fighting. He adorns a wide grin when entering a battle and he usually only acknowledges the strong, like Zanka, and is shown to be fond of people who can put up a fight, even sparing their lives after defeating them. On the other hand, he disregards those who he sees as weak, like Gris, who, in his words “wasn’t worth anything,” after defeating him.[5] In the past, Jabber used to get in fights with people stronger than him and eventually became stronger than anyone else which dismayed him due to enjoying the type of battle in which he gets beaten down to a pulp and inflicted with as much pain as possible, saying that it “energizes” him more than anything else, to amend this he began holding back his Vital Instrument, Mankira to make battles more challenging. On the rare occasion that Jabber faces an opponent that’s truly strong he gets ecstatic due to being able to go all out and develops the desire to unleash pure brutality, even disregarding allies, enemies and his own background to do so.

Jabber is a tall and slim young man with light brown skin, hot pink eyes and brown hair styled as incredibly long wicks decorated with golden rings. His clothes are stitched together by indigo-colored mismatching fabric and a cream-colored crop-top with wide open sleeves, a quilted chest and 3 different collars. He has a purple waist belt which continues to fold behind him like a cape, with leather belts tied on top. He wears baggy dark purple pants who are similarly sewn in a beige mismatched pattern of fabric as well a pair of cream-colored Dutch clogs decorated with stitches. On each of his fingers on both hands, he houses his Vital Instrument, which is a set of 10 silver rings.