Jayce Niles

Jayce Niles is one of the main characters of Xrosism. He is an eleventh-grader at Ocean View Regional High School and is a General captured by the Clockwork shortly after being sent to the Digital World. He is mostly used as a tool to DigiXros powerful soldiers and has unintentionally been the primary opponent to the Snowfinches and Nightowls. He befriends Sommer Fulton after she is captured, remaining close until he sacrifices himself to free Carsten Stieber in order to send the Generals home. Jayce was formerly considered as the “competitive one” in friend groups and wishes to specialize in athletics. He has taken a liking to K-Pop memes. As a General, he possesses a violet Darkness Loader, which allows his soldiers to “DigiXros,” allowing them to fuse together.

He is a rather calm hero, and following the accident involving his parents’ deaths and his leg loss, he became insecure with his prosthetic and lost his competitive flame. Jayce was dumped by his girlfriend, Gabrielle Cuevas, a French-Canadian, shortly before being transported to the Digital World due to not being able to sustain a long-distance relationship and his mental state. They had been dating for nearly a year, and Jayce never fully moved on. After his death, his Xros Code is dispersed throughout the Digital World and seeps into Stasis, where he is able to manifest. Though Sommer appears vastly different from him, they have many similarities at heart and are able to work as a team.

Early Life
Jayce Niles was born in Summerside, Prince Edward Island on December 24, 1998. He comes from a working-class family. He grew up and is currently being educated at East Tide High School.

His parents, Astra and Dalton Niles, worked often and lived in the poorer parts of Summerside. In a tragic boating accident one summer, when Jayce was sixteen, his parents drowned and Jayce lost his leg. Astra’s brother, Branden Oliverson, took Jayce under his wing. Jayce took it extremely hard, and, with Gabrielle breaking up with him a few weeks afterward due to Jayce’s mental state, he packed up his things and left one night, discovering a Digital World portal. Shortly after arriving, he was coaxed by the Clockwork into joining their team.

Personality
Outside of life as a General, Jayce lives the life of a normal 17-year-old high school student. He’s extremely insecure about his prosthetic leg and experiences phantom pains from time to time, Sommer helping him through it after she arrives. He hates comparing himself to others, knowing it’d crush his self-esteem, and is very patient with others and himself. He used to be competitive and reckless, but his personality is now calm and downcast. Jayce doesn’t complain much, keeping his problems to himself and staring off into the distance when deep in thought.

His intelligence is slightly above average, and he has a great memory, being able to remember small details. He has trouble focusing and has mild phantom pain at all times, sometimes having episodes in which the pain increases too much for him to handle. He doesn’t have any emotional attachment to DORUmon or any other Digimon, simply doing his job of being a Clockwork General so he isn’t terribly punished. Jayce accepts what he’s told, having only a one-sided perception until Sommer informs him of the other side’s perspective.

Once he’s shaken to reality due to the Clockwork’s grasp weakening, he proposes escaping to Sommer, who declines, accepting her fate. Jayce decides to escape by himself, ultimately failing and having his prosthetic leg removed. Falling into a state of defeatism, he remains compliant until the Chronograph is raided by the Talons United Army. In the final battle against Titamon in an attempt to end it all and rescue Pauline Stieber’s older brother, Carsten, he sacrifices his Xros Code to release Carsten and open a portal home, dying shortly after.

He often says “Geez” when annoyed and utilizes Canadian slang. When interrupting or starting a conversation, Jayce says “Hey, now.” He’s prone to absentmindedly picking at his prosthetic leg. Rather than humming, he clicks his tongue to the beat. He’s fascinated by card games and knows a whole array of them, having a pack on him at all times. Jayce was raised as Protestant, but once he gets to the Digital World, he gives up on it. He listens to K-Pop, differing from his parents, who listen to purely Christian rock music.

His favorite subjects were physical education, biology, and physiology and anatomy. His favorite snack is oranges. Jayce is shown to be left-handed and heterosexual.

Appearance
Jayce is a tall teenage boy. He has a fine build and appears to be underweight, with gray eyes, shaggy, mildly-wavy, black hair with long bangs - parts of his hair dyed white, and fair skin. He has a prosthetic leg that ends above the knee of his left leg.

At the time he is transported to the Digital World, he wears a dark beanie, a light-indigo, short-sleeved T-shirt with thin, dark, horizontal lines, an unbuttoned, a brown coat, azure jeans rolled up at the ends, dark, low-ankle socks, and lilac slip-ons.

Equipment

 * Darkness Loader: A Digimon-made artifact, based off of the Xros Loader, used by human characters in the Digimon Xros Wars universe. Jayce’s is a violet color, the original Darkness Loader.
 * Can temporarily combine Digimon together through "DigiXros." Unlike Xros Loaders, Darkness Loaders can forcefully DigiXros Digimon, called Force DigiXros.
 * Can temporarily evolve Digimon through "Super Evolution"
 * Can generate a viewscreen to track Digimon in the Real World

Facilities

 * Oliverson Residence: The Oliverson Residence is a two-story house in Nova Scotia, Canada, home to Jayce Niles and Devin, Branden, and Tate Oliverson, and JB and Arthur.
 * Ocean View Regional High School: The school that Jayce Niles attends. It is a public high school with the Latin motto Palma Non Sine Pulvere, which translates to “No Victory Without Struggle.”

Etymologies

 * Jayce: An English name and a short form of Jason. Jason is from the Greek name Iason meaning "healer", derived from Greek iasthai meaning "to heal."
 * Niles: An English surname that means “son of Neil.” Neil comes from the Gaelic name Niall, which is of disputed origin, possibly meaning "champion" or "cloud.”

Family

 * Astra Niles † - Mother
 * Dalton Niles † - Father
 * Devin Oliverson - Aunt
 * Branden Oliverson - Uncle (maternal)
 * Tate Oliverson - Younger cousin
 * JB - Dog
 * Arthur - Cat

Allies

 * Gabrielle Cuevas - Ex-girlfriend
 * Sommer Fulton - Teammate, friend
 * Damian Valdez - Savior, teammate
 * Linda Samberg - Savior, teammate

Trivia

 * Originally named Jay Nilan and was formerly in a discontinued Xros Wars fanfiction, Digital Union.