Jamison "Jam" Rivera
Guitarist for Twisted Temper.
Description
Character
The overbearing guitarist of Twisted Temper is known for his severe tongue and dark humour. As the unofficial leader of the pack, Jamison “Jam” Rivera starred as the unlikely hero of the Twelve Months (book) series. In part one of the trilogy, he was instantly perceived as a woman loving, short tempered egocentric whose knee-jerk reactions, more than once, landed him in trouble. Book one was based around his struggle with his feelings and control issues for the heroine, Sylvie Embers. Book two, Twelve Months: Reprieve (book) brought a whole new, darker stack of problems for the guitarist. With his obsessive love for Sylvie at an all-time high, new hurdles had to be faced and old habits died hard. With the release of book 3 Twelve Months: Broken Chord (book), there was an emergence of a more mature Jamison as he battled to get his ‘ever after.’
Physical appearance
Jamison is best known for his dark looks and intimidating façade, thanks to his love of grungy, black clothing, tall stature, and dark hair. With the addition of the multitude of wristbands that line his wrist and the metal rings that adorn his fingers, Rivera became an instant favourite amongst readers. There are several references throughout the series to his obsidian regard. In R. Gadd’s upcoming release, Glorified Soul, the main protagonist best describes Jamison’s eyes:
“If it wasn’t for the constant patterns of blacks and browns swirling through his eyeballs, I’d consider him dead inside. He didn’t need to show more, I guess; his eyes always did the talking. They were a Pandora’s box that elicited discomfort, elation, lust, perplexity, and dread in others. His disposition was always guarded because his eyes were the judges. Anybody who dared know where they stood with Jamison Noah Rivera merely had to glance into them.”
Notable tattoos/piercings:
Jamison is best known for his two bird tattoos: the black artwork on his chest, and the more colourful additon inked on his back. In book one, we discover he was fruitlessly hiding a tattoo of a black phoenix that spanned the length of the left side of his torso:
“I braced myself for something horrific, but what met my eyes was the most prodigious image I’d ever seen. Apart from the amazingly tight and defined expanse of chest and stomach that greeted me, on the entire left side of his torso, from hip to shoulder, lay an immense tattoo—a colossal and magically menacing image of a phoenix inked entirely in black. The bird’s tail was made of flame-shaped feathers that wrapped around the bottom of his back, its curved body twisted up his ribcage, and its head and beak rested on Jamison’s chest. The impressive wing gracefully folded over his shoulder onto his back in intricate lines.”
In book three, Rivera reveals the newest ink on his back to a dumbstruck Sylvie. In the story, the tattoo is a tribute and a reminder of his feelings for the leading lady:
“Color—masses of it, hit my retinas like a rainbow blowing apart at the seams. Everything burning into my gaze blasted through me in an assault of beauty and vibrancy. His back, the back that once housed a wing and foot of an onyx phoenix was now a pallet of purples, silvers, greens, and yellows. My phoenix wasn’t the only bird now inked deep into the skin of the man I loved. He had a mate now… a blindingly vivid accession that flew with him, or from him depending on how you looked at it. Spanning from his shoulder, stretching down his spine, all the way down to his lower back laid the most exquisite bird I’d ever seen. It was a solid burst of love and light in contrast to his dark and fierce phoenix. The bird’s head rested contently on Jamison’s shoulder as the slender body swept down his spine in an infusion of greens, purples and yellows. A silver and violet wing stretched to the phoenix’s wing on Jamison’s other shoulder, touching each other at the tips. My eyes traveled down the body, and I choked on the saliva stuck in my throat. Connecting the feet of the two birds was a braid made up of italic words, the same words he once uttered to me—Vous pour la vie, Sylvie. They were what held these two birds together as they tried to fly away in different directions.”
Romantic Relationships
- Sylvie Eloise Embers
- Samara Kendrick
- Dee West
Notable quotes
Excerpt from Twelve Months: Reprieve (book)
- “Vous pour la vie, Sylvie.”
Excerpt from Twelve Months: Broken Chord (book)
- “Motherfucking love—humans were stupid with that shit. Almost like we were never equipped to deal with the force of that ass-blasting minefield. The raw, blunt, pull your flesh from your body kind of pleasure-pain it elicited was obsessive, made us maniacs for a fix. It surged, it left you with little choice, it was overbearing, and I was certainly never ready for it. Hell, I’d proved that over a year ago. But, I also now knew the barren wasteland you would become when it departed. I knew that shit from A-Z. By some miracle, she was here now, in my arms, and the vacant was suddenly occupied, the meaningless had purpose again. Yeah, the girl wanted to be friends—a word I hated more and more with each passing moment. But I was going to give her that, I was going to give her every damn thing she wanted. If I spent the rest of my life being her friend, being the guy that she ran to when some other shit for brains broke her heart, and they would because she would always, deep down, belong to me, then so be it. Moments like this made the heartache of seeing her with someone else worth it. To hold her, to let her know I was hers. To trade her despair with solace and reliability—that was my guarantee to her. Truth and motherfucking Amen to that.”
Excerpt from Twelve Months: Reprieve (book)
- “I’m in love with you, not just for a little while, for keeps… Until I die of some nasty respiratory disease from the years of abuse I’ve put my lungs through. In fact, I’ll probably still love you even when I’m nothing more than gray powder sitting in a garish urn on your mantelpiece. I’ll haunt the shit out of you in this life and the next because you’re who I’m gonna want to be with… ad infinitum.”
Books
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Major Appearances
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Minor Appearances
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Intellectual Property
This character was created by: R.Gadd (Author)
Available for guest appearances? With author's permission.
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