Jason

Jason is the player's character (PC) in Dreaming with Elsa (2015), the first game ever set in the Elsaverse. As non-player character (NPC), he also appears in several other titles, either as a protagonist of some short stories or as a side character. After getting in a relationship with Elsa, Jason is currently working as a manager of her girlfriend's bookstore; during that tenure, he has cheated on her with Trisha, who seduced him to steal the "Morpheus". He doesn't have any powers.

Character Overview
In order to allow players to self-insert themselves more easily, when Jason is first introduced as the PC in Dreaming with Elsa he is basically a blank slate: throughout the game, the only background information provided about him is that he lives alone and works as a delivery man for a publishing company, despite having an university degree (in one of his dates with Elsa, the player can choose his major, but that detail is completely irrelevant on the Elsaverse canon). There's no clue about what his tastes, his hobbies, his family or his past relationships are, and his only known friend is his colleague, Conner, who doesn't have any problem to deceive him following Chloe's orders. This lack of depth besides being Elsa's boyfriend is carried over next titles, where nothing else is unveiled about him.

Although he is always a supportive and respectful man, players can choose in DwE whether Jason is a sweet and romantic guy or a more daring and sexual one; however, once that game is over, Jason's canon personality is clearly the former. This makes him the perfect match for Elsa, and the man she needs by her side while she evolves from a shy and insecure girl to a powerful Dream Master. During the short stories that follows Dreaming with Elsa, he is depicted as a quiet, calm, and hard worker man, a man who is deeply in love with Elsa but who is also a bit insecure himself. He is mature enough, though, to not be freaked out by Elsa's powers; quite the opposite, he's amazed by them and doesn't feel any jealously of her becoming more and more powerful. However, as she keeps growing and becoming a more and more confident girl, he starts to second guessing himself, as she is not the girl she first met anymore. The dream gang-bang in DwE: Multiplicity (2017) seems to put him at ease about Elsa's true feelings for him, at least momentarily.

But things got more complicated for him after Morland's defeat. In Elsa's Nightmares (2019-2020) Jason becomes the victim of Elsa's inner self, who abuses him, suffocating him and then breaking him one of his fingers, in order to make Elsa stop using her powers just for sex. Although she was not consciously hurting Jason, the fact is that she indeed hurt him, and their relationship suffered from it. In Elsaverse: Transitions (2020-2021) it becomes apparent that the couple weren't able to properly clear things up, with Elsa's trip to Switzerland to help Miranda becoming a convenient opportunity to put some distance between them and let time heal the wounds. Being left as Elysian Books manager during Elsa's absence, Jason decides to hire an extremely friendly stranger called Trisha as a shop assistant. It's hinted that she has a power to make people trust her and being talkative to her, and Jason falls entirely for it, using her as a couple therapist to verbalize his doubts about this new Elsa. Finally, she ends up seducing Jason and having sex with him on Elsa's bed; Trisha is then unveiled as a new villain, as she sedates Jason (although her boss, Charles, asked her to kill him) and steals the "Morpheus".

Miscellaneous

 * In Jason's appearances and cameos in Saving Chloe (2018) and the AAA (2018) novella he's still depicted as a delivery man, the job he already had in Dreaming with Elsa. It's not until Elsaverse: Transitions when he starts working for Elsa.


 * Initially, Jason lives in the same apartment building of Jessica Springfield, although they don't seem to have a close relationship as neighbours, since in DwE he didn't remember Sarah's name. In Elsa's Nightmares it's stated that he has moved into Elsa's apartment.


 * Players' criticism about Jason's shallow characterization were dutily noted by Tlaero, who from then on tried to add some more background to her male main characters.