This page is about the character(s) Steely J, Smiling J and Smirking Jaye. Smiling J is probably the father of Steely J - and Smirking Jaye is the [[Antiquity]] [[Alter Ego]] of the father. --- ### __Steely J__ Steely J is a character who appears in the stories [[Andy Kaufman Creeping through the Trees]] and [[(Little Miss) Queen of Darkness]]. His name is also mentioned in the very long list of names at the beginning of the story [[Slave Arm]]. Steely J is a high school senior and classmate of other recurring characters like [[Julie Vellum]], [[Jessica Mace]] and [[Tooms|Zane Tooms]] in the year 1998 at Onager High School in Anchorage. Steely J is described as a weird dude. He's extremely pale and talks about weird stuff. In the story, we learn a bit about his backstory: "A man of unexpected facets, he’s obsessed with ancient aliens (Greys built the Pyramids!) and a hundred and one doomsday scenarios. The universe is a hologram and the only real gods are likely horrifically evolved humanoids or giant blobs of sentient protoplasm. His father worked for a pharmaceutical company and had taken his whole weirdo family on months-long business vacations to Borneo and the Amazon Basin when the kids were little." (Swift to Chase, p. ) According to Julie, in 1998 Steely J lives at a place on the hillside with his brothers and sisters, but without his parents: "Didn’t mom and dad J relocate to the Midwest in ‘95 and basically abandon the property? Rings a bell. He’s got a litter of younger siblings. Pale, snot-nosed ankle-biters who look like they should be floating in jars of formaldehyde. Did his family abandon him?" (Swift to Chase, p. ) --- ### __Smiling J__ Smiling J is a character featured in the stories [[Tomahawk Park Survivors Raffle]] and [[Girls Without Their Faces On]]. His real name is Harrison J, but no one ever calls him that. Smiling J is a high school senior and classmate of recurring characters such as [[Lucius Lochinvar]] and [[Tooms|Butch Tooms]] in 1979 at Onager High School in Anchorage. According to Jimmy Flank, Harrison J later went on to _"...work for NASA in some deep earth research site studying cosmic rays."_ This seems somewhat in line with the character J who appears in Girls Without Their Faces On. At the end of the story, J is called Grinning J once. Years after the late 70's events in Tomahawk Park Survivor's Raffle, Smiling J kills private detective - and his old classmate - Jimmy Flank. --- ### __Smirking Jaye__ Smiling J probably has an Antiquity alter ego in the form of Smirking Jaye, one of the antagonists of the story [[Oblivion Mode]]. #Character #Swift #Antiquity