Jacuzzi Splot is a crybaby. No way around it, he cries sometimes. A lot. Almost always. This is a kid you can't expect much from. Or so a lot of people would think.
Jacuzzi Splot is the bravest coward in the world. Almost everything terrifies him, and when I say terrifies, I mean it brings him to tears. He cringes at the slightest provocation, and even his smiles look like he's afraid someone's going to hit him. It's almost pathetic, really. The kid's got some severe anxiety issues, leaving him apologizing for every move and whimpering at any scare. He's like a kicked puppy.
It's hard to believe he's co-leader of a gang of bootleggers during the prohibition who took down 18 mafia speakeasies in one night single-handedly. Or that he's got a small army of people who will come and beat the shit out of you if you fuck with him. Or that Jacuzzi--with no delusions like Claire, no immortality like Czes, no training like Chane, no guns like half the goddamn train, no... whatever you want to call it that Isaac and Miria have--manages to out badass nearly every person in the cast.
Jacuzzi is nothing if not sincere. It's obvious how he feels, more so than any character I've ever seen. When he's upset, he cries. When he's happy, he smiles. And when he's worried, he voices it. There's something about a sincerity like that that has to be based in goodness. Jacuzzi is always full of the best of intentions. He might get scared, but he always does his best to do what he thinks is right, whether it's within the law or not. If it means making and distributing alcohol because he disagrees with the prohibition, he'll do it. If it means getting a tattoo on his face for his scarred girlfriend, he'll do it. If it means trying to protect someone actively hurting him, he'll do it. If it means taking out mafia territory in revenge for his dead eight friends, he will do it. And if it means facing down a monster that killed a great deal of people on a train, don't you doubt him, he will get on the roof of that train and do it.
If it means turning himself in for a ransom, he'll do that too. And that's where the draw to the kid comes from. Jacuzzi's sincerity extends to how much he cares about people. When he believes someone is good, there's no changing his mind. He'll care about that person, and do so with more honesty than you'd think someone so easily scared could manage. When it comes to matters of friendship, Jacuzzi never thinks about himself. Nice says it always leaves him at a loss, but it also leaves him with a lot of friends to back him up.
And it's true. Jacuzzi's gang really cares about him. When Chane is held for ransom and Jacuzzi goes to turn himself in, the members of the gang who are in New York with him all show up after him, despite the note saying that he should come alone and his insistence that he has to. When reminded of this fact, they all respond without blinking that they came alone, too. In a show of the closeness of the group, Jacuzzi notices that one of their number is not a normal member of the gang just by his voice. Jacuzzi's gang of bootleggers? Yeah, they're close.
Jacuzzi's balanced out by his partner and co-leader of the gang, Nice Holystone. Where he's timid and scared, she's more outgoing and adventurous, with a fondness of things that could blow people sky high, even after her accident that left her covered in scars. No matter how incompatible the pair might seem, they work better together than apart. She keeps him on his feet and he keeps her from getting arrested.
In all his timid nature and easily scared life, Jacuzzi still has the potential in him to be a brave motherfucker. In a show with a full cast of badasses, there are moments when Jacuzzi out badasses them all. He fights a man with a flame thrower on top of a train yielding only a single cherry bomb that comes out of his girlfriend's eye socket Nice why oh god why. He faces the Rail Tracer only moments later, severely injured, sure the monster was going to kill him, without batting an eyelash. And he turns himself over to be given to the Russo family, who wants him not only dead, but painfully dead, in order to save Chane Laforet, who he may have known a few days. He can summon more courage in him in a second than most people can summon in their whole lives.
Courage and cowardice aside, there's one thing that's constant about Jacuzzi Splot: He's a complete and total derp. He and Nice have been a thing for ten years and he still hasn't kissed her. His philosophy on crying is something most people could never understand: he cries whenever he feels like crying so when he faces a day he needs to be brave, he'll have run out of tears and he can face it head on. When he realizes he's cried too much, he says he's cried for Nice as well, so she won't have to cry when she's sad. He ignores injuries trying to be a Big Damn Hero in the OVA but even then still shakes with fear. He's a comic relief more often than he's not. When Claire reveals himself as the Rail Tracer, Jacuzzi is so startled he falls over. The kid's a dork, plain and simple. But despite being powerless in a world full of immortals, being afraid of everything, and being a bootlegging criminal, Jacuzzi manages pretty well to play the part of a hero.
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Jacuzzi. Has not. A single one. He's not immortal, he's not sort of immortal, he's not anything. He's just him. He has no abilities that can be taken away. Because he's just that awesome.
Jacuzzi Splot | Baccano! | Reserved
Character Series: Baccano! (Anime)
Character Age: 16
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