It is that time of week again….the time when I remove the digit and get round to blogging about another one of Clappers Wreake’s finest, who will be playing a starring role in the upcoming Hector iApp ‘We Negotiate with Terrorists’. This week it is Jarvis.
Jarvis is the assistant to Chief Superintendent Meeks, and chief clerical guy in the Clappers Wreake PD. Ironically he hates paperwork, but being assistant to Meeks means that even the most basic of procedures requires a myriad of paperwork to be completed, filed, duplicated and then filed again. Despite his dislike for his clerical duties, he enters into his role with an unsavoury relish, as he has one eye on the Chief Super’s job so he must keep up appearences. He is a loyal, bordering on obsessive, assistant to Meeks and can frequently be found in the Chief’s office peeling his grapes or ironing his copy of the Daily Depress. He regards his current situation as a necessary evil in his quest for promotion up the Clap’s pecking order.
He seems mild mannered on first glance, but simmering just underneath the surface is a tiny white hot ball of rage waiting to be unleashed at the drop of a hat. Or the drop of a hat without the correct Object Trajectory Amendment Authorisation form being completed in duplicate. He feeble physical form means that these tirades seldom result in anything other than a snickering after he leaves the room.
The only thing Jarvis hates more about his job than the endless paperwork, is Hector. There is nothing that Jarvis would like to see more than Hector tossed off the force and into the gutter where he belongs. Hector’s blatant disregard for rules and regulations, in particular, Human Effluent Evacuation Form 39-G, has won him a dangerous enemy in Jarvis. But Hector shows Jarvis the same healthy disregard that he shows to pretty much everyone and everything.
