Jangalang
- Classification: Supe
- Alignment: Villain
- Origin: In life, a cruel man who took pleasure in the torture of slaves. In death, an angry spirit finishing what he started.
Physical Description
Special abilities
- Soul Displacement - If you're not at home, he can pull your soul into his own realm and hunt you down unless you escape.
- Jingle - He could summon the spirit of one his masters using his instrument, and temporarily insert it into the nearest white person.
- Total Fear - In the real world, if someone hears his instrument most people will enter into a state of paralyzing fear and will be unable to move.
Specialized Equipment
- The Instrument - His instrument is incredibly sharp, causes illusions and a state of mania. The jawbones he has on the instrument can whisper, speak and sing eerily. It also can bite people if it's close enough.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
The one known as Jangalang was once a black man somewhere in the deep american south. The true location being lost to time, but his story still survives. He was born to some of the lighter skinned black people that only worked in the house. They unfortunately took on the shameful ideals of their owners. They believed in the racial hierarchy that was imposed upon them, and they passed that belief onto their son. He was raised to be completely subservient to his masters and to ensure their prosperity at all costs, and that those who worked outside were awful people.
So he grew up perfect in parents eyes, even going so far as to help catch people who tried to escape. But his ways of helping his master went beyond others. The first time he did it, he beat the person with a tambourine until they were unconscious, earning him the name Jangalang. His master fueled his brutality, allowing him to torture and eventually kill people. It would easily become his specialty, he'd fashion himself his own instrument with bells, whistles, and the bones of his victims. He became known for shaking his instrument, signaling someone was going to die that night.
His master used the fear to his advantage. He didn't want Jangalang killing openly. He'd always set whoever the victim was up in a situation that would leave them alone with no one to hear their screams. His enjoyment of killing his own people spurred a rage inside of the others. They couldn't take knowing someone didn't come home last night, and later seeing a brand new bone on Jangalang's instrument. So when they had the chance they revolted, killing the master's first all without Jangalang knowing. Then they put the same fear in his heart as he did them for so long. They hunted him down, chopped him up and threw him in a shallow grave next to the ones he loved so much.
But even in death he did not quit, his spirit festered inside those angry bones waiting to be unleashed upon those who damned him. An organization aiming to properly bury slaves who were disrespectfully laid to rest found his bones. Thinking they were doing the right thing they put his bones back together, opening a doorway for his spirit. He possessed one of them and killed everyone. He now searches for the descendants of those who killed him, but he'll settle for anyone with enough melanin.
So he grew up perfect in parents eyes, even going so far as to help catch people who tried to escape. But his ways of helping his master went beyond others. The first time he did it, he beat the person with a tambourine until they were unconscious, earning him the name Jangalang. His master fueled his brutality, allowing him to torture and eventually kill people. It would easily become his specialty, he'd fashion himself his own instrument with bells, whistles, and the bones of his victims. He became known for shaking his instrument, signaling someone was going to die that night.
His master used the fear to his advantage. He didn't want Jangalang killing openly. He'd always set whoever the victim was up in a situation that would leave them alone with no one to hear their screams. His enjoyment of killing his own people spurred a rage inside of the others. They couldn't take knowing someone didn't come home last night, and later seeing a brand new bone on Jangalang's instrument. So when they had the chance they revolted, killing the master's first all without Jangalang knowing. Then they put the same fear in his heart as he did them for so long. They hunted him down, chopped him up and threw him in a shallow grave next to the ones he loved so much.
But even in death he did not quit, his spirit festered inside those angry bones waiting to be unleashed upon those who damned him. An organization aiming to properly bury slaves who were disrespectfully laid to rest found his bones. Thinking they were doing the right thing they put his bones back together, opening a doorway for his spirit. He possessed one of them and killed everyone. He now searches for the descendants of those who killed him, but he'll settle for anyone with enough melanin.
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
His spirit still intends on torturing and capturing as many black people as possible. As revenge and to satisfy his fallen masters.
Ol' Janga
Come on Ol' JangaA song made in celebration by the survivors who escaped. It's vaguely remembered by most of the modern day descendants as just another kind of Negro Spiritual.
You can't catch me now
Come on Ol' Janga
cus' I'm in the house
Come on Ol' Janga
I ain't hear no bells a whistlin'
Come on Ol' Janga
Now you're the one whose heads a missin'
Everybody! come on now
No mo' bells so I can't tell if Ol' Janga can run on his feet so well
No mo' whistling to massa in the kitchen cus massa ain't got no ears to listen
No mo' bones our brothers can sleep cus' Janga's over there still lying in 3
No mo' screams or chains to hold
The road is a waiting and we're ready to go
So toss them bells and whistles and bones
Cus' Jangalang can't come getcha no mo'
Jangalang can't come getcha no moooooo'
Jangalang can't come getcha no mo'
Date of Death
Sometime in the 1800s
Birthplace
Somewhere in the South
Children
Gender
Male
Eyes
Varies
Hair
Varies
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
Black
Height
Varies