But in that moment, Jasper couldn’t see the bigger picture. Many have blamed Jasper for escalating the conflict when he shot the Grounders that his sharp eyes spotted in the trees. The bridge to save the camp, he cooks up their gunpowder for the battle and he fires the rockets that finish it all. Prisoner, he fires the first shot at the peace talks, he blows up He was its very first casualty, he enables them to take Lincoln For a kid who’d never have chosen to be a warrior, he ends up playing a more pivotal role in the war than any other delinquent. “I need to do this” he tells Clarke, because he tends to feel a distorted sense of responsibility over his own bad luck.įor Jasper, the Grounder war becomes his own lonely battle to fight, his demon to slay, his fear to overcome. A day later Octavia gets abducted by a Grounder and Jasper insists on being on her rescue party, despite being terrified to leave the camp. Shouldn’t sit too close to him because he thinks he might be cursed. He warns his first crush, Octavia, that she Heart on his sleeve, who makes friends fast and falls hard for any Substance abuse and near-death experience, Jasper is a kid who is just too sensitive for the harsh planet he’s been landed on. Many drugs he’s inflicted on his tender teen brain and the PTSDĬondition sprung from his spearing ordeal, but even if it wasn’t for his These paranoid visions may come from the too We get a sense of Jasper’s intensely concentrated perception when he eats the Jobi nuts and hallucinates Grounders invading their camp, the specter of death still reachingįor him and his friends. He’s the first to spot the river snake that attacks OctaviaĪnd he finds the knife that murdered Wells. He sees life through his own lens and he often perceives things that He’s a character who oftenįails to see the bigger picture but what he does see, he sees in a tightįocus. Goggles were always the perfect prop for Jasper. He may not be cut out for war, but war just has a way of finding him. He would have never chosen to be a fighter, but Jasper has repeatedly been forced into fighting for survival, a soldier conscripted by circumstance. And he has remained in that role of the dying kid, the too-broke-to-fix kid, ever since - never getting a chance to recover. He became the scream of pain in the camp that nobody wanted to ![]() His injury may not have ended Jasper’s life, but it still shattered his sense That’s who Jasper Jordan was all his young life right up until the moment he swung on a vine across a river and then jumped around whooping to his friends. ![]() Jasper was always meant to be the happy go lucky kid, the life of the party kid. What comes after for the kid who almost dies on his first day on Earth? For me, Jasper is a fascinating study of what happens to a person when they are wrenched away from their natural state of being. 117 notes DecemJasper Jordan, The Dying Kid
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