Post by Jareth on Dec 16, 2012 12:13:42 GMT -5
[ FULL NAME ] : **True Name Unknown**/ Jareth
[ NICKNAMES ] : None
[ GENDER ] : Male
[ CANON/OC] : Canon
[ POWERS] :
- Highly Powerful Glamour
- Shape-Changing (White Barn Owl)
- Transmogrification
- Control over his Entire Kingdom
- Various other Fae abilities (including 'tween walking)
[SPECIES] : Unseelie Sidhe (Fae)
FANDOM: Labyrinth
[CODENAME] : N/A
[ AGE & BIRTHDAY ] : Ageless & Doesn't Remember
[ JOB ] : Self Appointed King of the Goblins
[ AFFILIATION ] : The Fae Courts (Unseelie), The Underground Kingdom
[ SEXUAL ORIENTATION ] : Omni/Pansexual
[ PET ] : The Goblins
[ FACE CLAIM ] : David Bowie
[ LIKES ] :
- Contact Juggling
- Humans (when they're interesting)
- Challenging People
- Milk and Honey
- Nature
[ DISLIKES ] :
- Cold Iron
- Boredom
- Being Ignored
- Being Slighted
- Some Other Fae
[ STRENGTHS ] :
- Very Powerful Glamour
- Very Old
- Various Fae magics
- Transmogrification
- The Labyrinth
[ WEAKNESSES ] :
- Cold Iron
- Bound by his Word
- Can't Lie
- Sarah Williams
- Boredom
[ PERSONALITY ] :
- Proud
- Arrogant
- Mischievous
- World Weary
- Slightly Obsessive
- Domineering
- Dominant
- Infatuated
[ FAMILY] :
**Family Unknown**
[ BIOGRAPHY ] :
History copied from the Wikia
Over 1300 years prior to the events of the film, Jareth met the sorceress Mizumi at a ball and they formed a relationship. They went from world to world, whiling away their time together. Jareth eventually tired of Mizumi, considering her dull and superficial. When they came across a few goblins living in a swamp, Jareth found them amusing while Mizumi was disdainful of their presence. Ignoring her wish to leave, Jareth chose to remain with the goblins and establish himself as their King. He created the Labyrinth as the centrepiece of his new Kingdom, and told Mizumi he would only allow her to remain with him if she could find his heart, which he claimed to have hidden inside the Labyrinth. Although she tried searching the Labyrinth to find Jareth's heart, Mizumi failed and Jareth left her permanently. (Return to Labyrinth)
Jareth ruled over the goblins alone, alternately amused and frustrated by their idiocy. Jareth took it upon himself to answer the call of those who invoked the goblins when wishing a child away, challenging those who chose to recover the wished away child to run his Labyrinth. Such summons were frequent early in Jareth's reign as King of the Goblins, however they dwindled as the years passed. Eventually it became rare for Jareth to be summoned to earth to take a child, and he grew despondent, increasingly aware of the passing of time and his inability to find a suitable successor (Labyrinth: A Novel Based On The Jim Henson Film.)
Long into his reign as King of the Goblins, Jareth was summoned by Sarah to take her infant brother, Jareth took the baby, and told Sarah she had to journey through his Labyrinth to rescue her brother from his castle. Jareth fell in love with Sarah as he followed her progress through his Labyrinth, and was both unsettled and amazed by the fact she was able to overcome his Labyrinth and prove herself his equal. Jareth was shocked by Sarah's ultimate defeat of him, and, although barred from going to her in his human form, watched her through her bedroom window in his owl-form after she returned to her own world. (Labyrinth)
In the wake of Sarah's defeat of him, Jareth started to lose his powers and lost control of his Labyrinth. Jareth blamed Sarah for his failing powers, and decided that the only way for him to recover would be to have Sarah by his side in some form. Unable to have the real Sarah, Jareth asked Mizumi to make an ablation out of Sarah's dreams that he could keep with him as a companion, in exchange for a promise that Mizumi would have the Labyrinth and its King if he failed to make the ablation love him. Mizumi created Moppet for Jareth, and Jareth took Moppet back to his Kingdom. For a time, his powers returned however they soon started to falter once again.
Unable to make Moppet love him, Jareth abandoned her and refocused his energies on how he could escape his debt to Mizumi and reach Sarah. He decided to abdicate, making Toby his heir. This freed him to travel to earth, where he found Sarah. Jareth manipulated Sarah into returning with him, constructing a dream-world for them both to live in forever. Sarah discovered that the Labyrinth was in danger of collapse, and persuaded Jareth to return them to his Kingdom so it could be saved. Jareth did as Sarah bid him, and saved his Labyrinth. Although initially intent on keeping Sarah with him as his Queen, Jareth ultimately allowed her to 'follow her own path' and return to her own world. (Return to Labyrinth) However, this does not mean that he's just willing to give her up. Persistence, after all, is the way to success.