John Kramer

John Kramer was a diligent and hard-working man who was just as devoted to his wife and his unborn son as he was to his work, which was dedicated to helping those who were disadvantaged by society. He had strong moral convictions and a strong sense of justice. Even before his transformation to Jigsaw, John believed that only the knowledge of impending death could show if someone were willing to fight for their survival. Furthermore, he had a genius-level intellect and an excellent understanding of facts in diverse fields of science. Still, he was also somehow spiritual and was interested in esoteric subjects such as Chinese astrology.

However, when his son died, and John was diagnosed with incurable cancer, the latter suffered from severe depression and turned away from his wife and his work until he eventually tried to commit suicide but unexpectedly survived. Because of this, John realized that he wanted to live and decided to spend the remaining time of his life testing other people's will to live in order to convince them to value their lives and the lives of those around them. Though John believed in his self imposed mission, he also showed that he was willing to give it up when he was convinced he had been cured of his cancer.

Therefore, John became the Jigsaw Killer and started to test other people's will to survive by putting them in gruesome, potentially deadly situations. Despite these games' immense brutality, John took no pleasure in his victims' suffering and death but instead saw it as a necessary evil for them to learn to appreciate their lives. Nonetheless, he occasionally tended to confront his victims with their sins in a mocking way. He always tried to keep an emotional distance between himself and his test subjects during his games, so his personal feelings would not affect his work.

Despite his general ruthlessness, John genuinely cared about his surviving victims and the people close to him. For example, he tried to do everything in his power to prevent Amanda from failing her test and was saddened by her failure and subsequent death. In the case of Lawrence Gordon, John took care of his injuries and nursed him back to health. He also saved Logan Nelson from his death, thinking he should not die due to an error as it would go against his understanding of justice. He removed Logan's bucket and freed him from his shackle. Upon seeing the deep cuts on his back, John felt pity for him. Thus, he treated Logan's wounds and convinced him to join his mission as his first accomplice. John's care of his surviving victims was also displayed by his wish for Gabriella to be taken to a hospital when she had succeeded in passing her test. He also did everything he could to save Lynn after Jeff passed all his tests. And despite turning away from his wife he never stopped loving her, while being operated by Lynn he had a flashback of her and, mistaking Jill with Lynn, he told her that he loved her, and in a recording he made for Jill he reassured her that she'd always been in his heart. In Mexico, he befriended a child named Carlos, and when Cecilia forced him to participate in the games made by John, he was greatly concerned and tried to persuate Cecilia to spare him since Carlos had nothing to do with it and was completely innocent.

Over the years, John rallied several disciples around him, who followed his will and continued his games, even after his death. While doing so, he manipulated his accomplices through his charismatic personality and by using their mental instability. However, this didn't mean he trusted them, in order to be absolutely certain they wouldn't fail him he often made them go through their own tests so they could prove they were worthy of following his will and legacy. The only one he actually fully trusted was Dr. Lawrence Gordon, given that he managed to pass succesfully his test and loyaly followed and assisted John in many of his traps by providing his medical knowledge no questions asked, the trust John had to Gordon went beyond of Hoffman's and Amanda's trust, since he left Gordon a personal video recording in which he requested him to watch out his ex wife Jill and act if anything happened to her (implying he knew Hoffman's sociopathy would make him act reckless and eventually kill her) in exchange of keeping no secrets from him, something he'd never done with anyone of his disciples (since he didn't tell Amanda that Dr. Lynn and Jeff Denlon were married and he never told Hoffman or Amanda about Gordon).

John strongly disliked when being compared to a cold-blooded murderer, telling to detective Matthews that he has actually never killed anyone personally and that all those deaths are the result of his victims' choice and willingness to live. He also despised being framed and imitated. He kidnapped Hoffman and threatened the detective with turning him into the police because he killed his sister's murderer by imitating John and later blaming him for his death. He always found the mere act of killing as something disgusting and he personally despised murderers. Nonetheless, he was not above using violence in order to protect himself. when detective Tapp and Sing went to the place he was building his traps and devices, he attacked cutting Tapp's throat, although in self-defense and avoiding any vital zone so he could live.

When he felt it was necessary, he could act intimidating and frightening as an insurance his victims took their tests with the outmost seriousness. When Dr. Lynn was somewhat reluctant of providing him medical asistance, John changed his behavior and showed a very imposing attitude, scaring her making the doctor ultimately agree to operate him while her husband was having his own test. Also, he seemingly lost his fear of death, when he gave Jeff a final test and the later chose to kill him, John simply smiled due to correctly guessing he wouldn't be able to leave his thirst for vengeance.

John was also extremely cunning and calculative, always being several steps ahead of everything. He anticipated to many things and acted way before those things could even happen. He made the test subjects of the Nerve Gas House to play the game days before the police could even find out and when they found his location he staged everything reproducing the video recording of that game making them believe it was happening at that moment. He also anticipated what would his test subjects do, like anticipating Jeff's incapacity to let go his thirst for vengeance by having abducted his daughter and recording a tape that would only reproduce if he killed him, having a tape prepared for Hoffman anticipating he would be the last one alive (which also meant he had the intuition that both he and Amanda would die), requesting Jill to deliver some tapes of new test subjects to Hoffman and requesting Dr. Gordon to act in order to stop Hoffman if Jill died. According to his ex wife, everything they did in their lives, including his urban project and the hospital she was working in to help her patients, was because he planned it, and liked having everything under control, to the point even after his death all that happened was because he planned it to happen that way. Even after becoming Jigsaw, he retained some of his moral codes. He refused to mistreat his test subjects, saying to Hoffman to not resort to brutality. He was also very firm in applying the rules of their games, something he always reminded to his apprentices. He always believed that everyone deserves a chance to redeem themselves, even those that seemingly didn't. However, John could also become very vengeful. After realizing he was scammed by the Pederson Group he abducted all of them, with the assistance of Amanda, and tested them.

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