JABBER WONGER

"I hate taking stuff when there's nobody to take it from, now I’m all turned on.” JABBER WONGER

Jabber Wonger (ジャバー・ウォンガー, Jabā Wongā) is a character in Gachiakuta. He’s a member of the Raiders' Front Line.

Due to his actions, Jabber is the main antagonist of the Raiders Trap Arc, and a supporting antagonist in the Trash Storm Arc and the Information Broker Arc.

Jabber is a tall young man, with a very lean and muscular figure. He has light brown skin, long, dark brown hair styled into dreadlocks with gold cuffs, dark pink eyes, and thin, dark brown eyebrows with slits in the middle. His nails are painted dark blue, and on his hands he wears a ring on each finger, which, collectively, form his Vital Instrument, Mankira. Jabber's ears each have two lobe piercings, but he does not wear earrings.

His Raiders' uniforms consists of white stitched clogs, dark-blue baggy pants with striped cuffs ending above his ankles and white stitching around the back, a purple sash cinched to his waist by a brown belt, which has the Raiders' lantern attached to it, a shirt with a hood -the bottom half being black and the upper half being purple- and cropped jacket made of white fabric with frayed sleeves, topped by a purple quilted fabric vest, which is kept shut by golden clasps. He wears two metal bangles on each of his wrists.

Described as a masochist,[4] Jabber is a disturbed young man with a violent obsession for fighting. He adorns a wide grin when entering a battle and he usually only acknowledges those he considers strong, like Zanka, and is shown to be fond of people who can put up a fight, even sparing their lives after defeating them. On the other hand, he disregards those who he sees as weak, like Gris, who, in his words “wasn’t worth anything,” after defeating him.[5] In the past, Jabber used to get in fights with people stronger than him and eventually became stronger than anyone else which dismayed him due to enjoying the type of battle in which he gets beaten down to a pulp and inflicted with as much pain as possible, saying that it “energizes” him more than anything else. He even began holding back his Vital Instrument, Mankira to make battles more challenging. On the rare occasion that Jabber faces an opponent that’s truly strong he gets ecstatic due to being able to go all out and develops the desire to unleash pure brutality, even disregarding allies, enemies and his own safety to do so.[6]

Overall Skill Level: He is one of the most dangerous Raiders, being an extremely lethal combatant. Even against several skilled Cleaners, he manages to stand out, using his Vital Instrument with great dexterity and speed, and can even suppress its power to prolong the fight and make it more fun for him.

Enhanced Strength: Jabber's brute strength combined with his Vital Instrument allows him to easily cut through stones and deliver heavy attacks that can destroy everything around him. Zanka has demonstrated difficulty blocking Jabber's blows even though he is strong enough to kill Trash Beasts with a single blow.

Enhanced Durability: Not only Jabber never showed any reaction to pain when Zanka (who appears to be a little faster than him) broke one of his ribs with a touch with his Vital Instrument and when Riyo shot him multiple times, but even she said that this would not be enough to kill him due to his endurance. He is incredibly strong, being shown to take serious hits from Vital Instruments in quick succession and still have the strength to fight.[7] or even quickly recover being buried under a large amount of rubble.[8]

Enhanced Endurance: Due to his masochism, he can withstand multiple blows and suffer severe injuries that made him unconscious, as shown when he manages to still his fight with Rudo after being punched in the face numerous times. [9]

Agility: Jabber is shown to be a incredible agile person, capable of even jumping the floating pieces of giant stone pillars he sliced during the fight against Rudo. As well jumping through different angles of the walls.[10]

Vital Instrument Mankira Normal Anime Mankira: A Vital Instrument made up of 10 rings.[11] Suppressed form: Once activated, the rings transform into a set of blade-like claws (or blade-like talons). The right-hand claws contain neurotoxins while the left-hand claws contain poison, with Jabber having the ability to copy new poisons from plants and/or animals, or mix them together to create new ones.[12] This form of his Vital instrument exists due to Jabber being too powerful to enjoy fights, so he chooses to hold back his power.[13] Mankira Supressed Anime Released form: The real form of Mankira that Jabber uses when going all out. In addition to Jabber’s previously described abilities, Mankira significantly increases in size, surpassing Jabber’s entire body and the claws are now attached to Jabber’s fingers by string, increasing the range of his attacks [14] which he can use to his advantage both offensively and defensively.[15]

The name 'Jabber Wonger' may be a reference to the Jabberwocky poem by Lewis Carroll. The nonsense poem details the made-up Jabberwocky creature, described with 'claws that catch', perhaps inspiring Mankira, Jabber’s Vital Instrument. As a verb, "to jabber" also means to talk rapidly, indistinguishably, or unintelligibly, perhaps an allusion to Jabber constantly talking during his battles.

Likes: Strong people, spicy food, chewy food, people having a murderous intent towards himself.[16] Dislikes: Weak and boring people.[17]

Jabber's body odor smells bad, but when Cthoni can't endure it any longer she forces him to bathe.

The Raiders (荒らし屋, Arashiya) are a major criminal organization in Gachiakuta. They're a group of Givers on the Ground, and their goal is to collect the Watchman Series and destroy the Sphere.

They are one of the major antagonist groups of the series overall.

Originally, the group were merely thieves, but as the years went by slowly got involved in more sinister plots[1]. All members of the group are Givers, and all carry purple torch lamps which signifies their membership. One of the groups main aim is to find more Spherites like Rudo in order to learn more about the Sphere.

Raiders are split into teams of two or three, and are carefully selected for their Vital instruments to be most compatible together.

Front Line

A team consisting of the Raider’s most necessary and powerful members; it is a higher rank within the organization and this rank makes it so they receive orders from Zodyl directly and go on missions on their own, such as when Bundus was instructed to find the Choker Maker.[2] Raiders make strong use of the fact that Cleaners are only used to fighting large opponents like Trash Beasts, and thus struggle against them.

Givers (人通者（ギバー）, Gibā) is the title given to people who possess the ability to use Vital Instruments, They are also referred to as 'dependents' by citizens of the Ground.

Vital instruments are powered by Anima (思念, Shinen) which is a mysterious power source in the Ground. “Anima” accumulates and turns into energy, an anima that causes various phenomena, Anima accumulating in objects is one of those phenomena. The origin of givers is unknown. Scientists on the ground hypothesise it is due to 'human potential', however Mymo, through endless research, has concluded that givers are the result of energy left behind The Ancient Rulers, who's energy quickened human evolution giving birth to givers.

Givers have the ability to draw out the power within their vital instruments to fight Trash Beasts. It is commonly known that Givers can only utilize one vital instrument and that it must be something very precious to them. Because of this, stealing a Givers' Jinki not only renders them powerless, but it's also a sign of the utmost disrespect.

The Ground (下界 Gekai), referred to as the Pit by the Spherites, is the surface of the world, a wasteland with a mostly toxic environment infested with Trash Beasts due to the constant downpour of trash from the Sphere. It’s inhabited by humans called Groundlings.

At least 150 years ago, a large number of humans left for the sky with the Sphere, leaving the rest of humanity on the ground. Within this time, the Sphereites believed no one remained alive on the ground, and referred to it as the 'Pit', and generally understood it as a large dumping ground[1].

Within 150 years, the garbage that was dumped by the Sphere onto the ground eventually formed into Trash Beasts[2]. The polluted air as well as the danger trash beasts posed pushed the residents of the ground into selected safe zones, where walls were erected, and air vents/filtration systems were built en masse to keep the safe zones clean.

The level of pollution changed much of the Ground's environment. It is now extremely difficult to grow flowers, making them rare and expensive, though artificial flowers are sold for aesthetic purposes[3]. Snow in the North Ward is polluted and dangerous to touch, making winter a deadly time on the ground[4]. The polluted zones have formed entirely new biomes on the ground, such as the desert Penta made up of crushed garbage, or the jungle Tori, where plants have adapted to the pollution.

Spherites (天界人 Tenkai Jin) are humans who live on the Sphere. They are descendants of people who originally lived on the Ground but later left for the sky, dumping their trash to the Ground, hence the harsh conditions.

The Cleaners (掃除屋, Sōjiya) are a group in Gachiakuta. They employ a large number of Givers who use their powers to exterminate Trash Beasts on the Ground.