Truths

By: CrystallicSky

Disclaimer: I don't even own this house I'm living in right now; do you honestly think I own Xiaolin Showdown?

Warning(s): Still tame, people.

Jack Spicer wasn't all that hard to figure out, doing what he wanted when he wanted.

He'd always been picked on as a kid, and so he wanted revenge for the way he was looked down upon by everyone, the whole reason he had become evil in the first place.

He was greedy and selfish, but since it'd gotten difficult to keep track of the stuff he wanted, he eventually decided it'd be easiest to just own everything, and thus had come about his desire to rule the world.

He wanted power, but bruised easily and had never really been able to focus on something he couldn't personally identify as art or science, and so he went after Shen Gong Wu for their magic.

Though he had one, his mom was hardly ever around anymore, and so the goth tried instead to keep Wuya's attention and pretend she was his mom for awhile; she wasn't exactly a good maternal influence, but hey, she was female, she was older than him, and she was there.

For a little while, he'd wanted Kimiko, because he wanted so badly for at least one aspect of him to be normal, and she was the only girl around his age with which he often interacted (excluding the bimbo with the cat-puns, of course).

He'd soon given up on that and realized that no, he couldn't make himself normal no matter how hard he tried to force himself to like the Dragon of Fire or any others of her sex, and came to terms with what, or rather who he did want.

Chase Young, immortal martial arts master and his complete foil in every way.

He wanted the warlord with ever fiber of his being, yes, but it'd quickly become apparent that this was truly out of his reach.

So, instead, he would do what he could, force himself to fail at every opportunity, resulting in various slapstick, trip-falls, and really anything else that made him look like an idiot.

"Why?" you may ask, "Why make himself look stupid instead of actually trying to impress the man he loved with skill?"

Because whenever he looked particularly stupid, Chase smiled, even if it was just a cruel smile, and he would do anything to make him happy.

Jack Spicer would always gladly be his clown.

A/N: The companion piece to Survival.