Character Profile: Jordan

Inspirations:

Jordan is a combination of 5 individual characters.

First is the Tyler Durden from Fight Club. Both characters are cool and collected and charismatic to a fault and yet there's something off about both of them. When who they really are rears its ugly head the whole course of the story changes. Gone is cool cat Tyler Durden and in his place is a dogmatic monster hell-bent on setting the world back to 0. So men can be men again in a world where they've had nothing to feel satisfied with.

This photo pretty much embodies everything I want to put across. Cool but out of his freakin' mind!

Up next is the OTHER main character from Fight Club (I loved this movie and so should everyone else so give me a break) his name is Narrator/Jack/No Name Given. Despite supposedly being the blue to Durden's red he has more than a few black spots on his person. He's unbelievably pessimistic, hates the world he lives in and the people in it. Jordan definitely has a lot of that going on. Though at the same time both characters do care about things in their lives (for Jordan it's Moby, for No Name Given it's Tyler and Marla the only two people who seem to be consistent positive figures in his life).

And that's the character in a nutshell.

Up next is the character Vincent from Silent Hill 3. Vincent actually inspires the other half of Jordan's character "that evil side" which is weird as Vincent isn't really an evil character just rather creepy and greedy. The creator of the character described Vincent as " a hypocrite behind nice clothes and a neat appearance" which is weird considering his teeth are decayed at best. He has a penchant towards sadism and manipulation as he knows far more than he is willing to admit about the situation, Jordan is the same he knows what's going on but only divulges when he feels like it and by the end he still hasn't told everything.

The other aspect borrowed from Vincent was his mannerisms, Vincent is a very animated character, he gestures when he talks almost as if to an audience (an interesting or somewhat creepy detail is that if you observe closely at all times one of his eyes is looking at the player so in that sense he is talking to an audience) Jordan is similar, his attention always seems to be somewhere else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVtT5F4pqXc

To be perfectly honest I struggled to find a scene that really got the point of what I was trying to say but this is the best I could do. It is probably the scene that defines him.

 

Then there's Alex from A Clockwork Orange. Specifically his very creepy intro. The one where he's staring directly at the camera without blinking for a full 5 minutes never once breaking eye contact and legitimately making your trousers heavier with every second? That one?
Well here's an image in case you forgot:

And lastly there is Sherlock Holmes. Not just a specific version of the character but the character as whole. An isolationist jerk who only interacts with people if it allows him to show off how smart he is.