{twenty-four, non binary, he/they} || jason ‘jay’ isolde is a mutant with the ability of cryokinesis - the ability to manipulate ice. they’ve been in new york for three years where they spend most of their time as a mortuary assistant. when i think of them, i think of burning your tongue on hot coffee, the bite of a needle making neat sutures, fingers pale and prickling in the cold. they are affiliated with no one ( neutral ).
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full name: jason alejandro isolde.
age: twenty-five.
date of birth: january 20th.
orientation: bisexual & demiromantic.
traits: facetious, independent, anxious, precocious, intuitive, resourceful, observant, pretentious, guarded, spiteful, caring, easily ruffled, dramatic, dismissive, generous, fervent, empathetic, witty, intelligent, capricious, secretive, intense, loyal, insecure, crochety-tempered.
jay was always a realist, a skinny, serious little kid from the moment he opened his eyes. born in putnam, the reddest county in upstate new york, he was never a great fan of living amongst the trees and sloping hills that seemed to hide savage bullies in every corner. he was only invited to wade into the streams with other kids his age when they could shove him face down on the banks. they do admit that they made themselves a target, scrawny and eternally smart-mouthed. winter was their only solace up there, a soft blanket of white that dampened sounds and lit up the landscape to comfort them.
named for their father, jay tries to distance themselves from the name ‘jason’ who they associate with a cold, apathetic and uninterested man that found them eternally disappointing. at eleven, he was sent to live with his paternal grandmother a few towns over who was a hypochondriac that projected onto her grandson a multitude of maladies that he would later discover, aside from actually being deathly allergic to penicillin, were utter bullshit. this part of his childhood saw him become more stressed as the idea of germs and illness took over his life. they were repeatedly told how weak they were and how they needed to be protected. shielded.
breaking free of all of this was his only focus, winning scholarships that would cushion the horrific fees of college. he moved to the city as soon as he could. jay forced himself to bleed away his squeamishness, entering the medical field and then landing in the mortuary below manhattan’s streets.
everything in his tiny world was upended when his mutant abilities manifested for the first time during an attempted mugging near his old apartment a month ago. though not unheard of they knew how rare it was for this to all be happening after puberty. they had struck him to the ground from behind, beating him before grabbing at his wrist, his powers reacted and the ice lanced out to freeze their hand solid. jason, with his background in medicine, knew immediately what a severe case of frostbite looked like. he had scrambled backwards, thoroughly injured before sprinting off into the darkness of 2am. jay is extremely nervous that this person is going to attempt to find them and retaliate or expose them completely.
after collapsing with one foot hanging out from their slightly cracked front door, mrs k the fickle landlady had prodded them with her toe a few hours later. he awoke to the cow lick at the very top of his forehead turned a striking white and unfortunately for jay, their body isn’t fully adapted to their abilities. their core temperature plummeted several degrees and never quite climbed back up since.
a co-worker, divya, has started teasing him for suddenly needing so many more layers at work, constantly sniffling pathetically. jay has found that if he uses his powers for a concentrated period of time his temperature drops further: icicles form on his eyelashes and he’s hypothesized that with continued expenditure he’d become hypothermic, experience frostbite, a coma then eventually death. he has only been able to stem some of the uncontrollable power through sheer discipline and force of will.
anyone with pre-power connections to him would have noticed a sudden regression in his behaviour. they worked for many years to overcome how antisocial they naturally were but now they’ve done an abrupt u-turn back to their old, avoidant ways seemingly out of nowhere. he figures he should spend all his time at work, deep in the bowels of the basement of the hospital, surrounded by the dead so he can’t accidentally hurt anyone else.
they’re still figuring out what gender means to them, it’s in flux, not a lot seems to be the general vibe. he doesn’t particularly worry about pronouns, he’d prefer not to be perceived at all, he only really cares about his work.
[ TL;DR late bloomer and prickly little nerd got his ice powers last month, now everything is falling apart. ]
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let him claire temple your shit, fire escape neighbours, be their superpower sensei, lunch buddies at the hospital, hook-up/fwb, insomniac coffee shop acquaintances, college friends or literally anything else! jay is a pretty old muse of mine and i’m excited to see how else his life can fall apart.


















