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Early Life
Little of Jean's early life is known. He has mentioned  his younger sister Yara and his father Gunnar and speaks fondly of them and his childhood, stating that it was the happiest he'd ever been. Any attempts to garner information about his mother are futile and he refuses to speak about her. He has only once indicated that Gunnar is in fact his step-father, but he never refers to him as such. Jean has never spoken of his biological father; his apparent hate for the man who abandoned him and his family runs deep.

Jean has mentioned playing in the White Forrest as a child and learning to swim in the ocean. Even as a child, he was well travelled and spent much of his time away from "home".

At the age of twelve he built his first prototype of Argent Yarrow with the assistance of Gunnar and soon after began training under him to be a weapon smith, though this plan would ultimately fall through



Teenage Years
Shortly after creating Argent Yarrow, Jean left his home and began wandering from city to city; the reason for this is unknown. He would eventually stop at an unknown city and take up residence there as an inexpensive smith and illegal Dust refiner. This would garner the attention of a small sect within White Fang intent on theft and destruction. Fearing for his life, Jean was bullied into working for them, creating hundreds of weapons.

Sometime later, he would be forced to participate in a large scale robbery, the main target being a large unrefined gemstone of Dust he would be forced to refine for whatever purpose they saw fit. Several members of White Fang and the public, as well as himself, were hurt in the process and as a result, he felt extreme remorse for having been involved. Despite having gotten away with the unrefined Dust, he was curiously denied access to the deposit and threatened at gun point. He slowly became less and less involved, eventually having nothing to do with the organization and was soon forgotten as the gang's attention turned elsewhere. At fifteen, he suddenly disappeared, taking what little he had to his name with him and turning his back on civilization. The day he disappeared, the unrefined deposit of Dust was stolen and a bounty was put on his head. Though there was no evidence to support the claims, many believe he took the unrefined Dust with him, his reason and purpose for it unknown. He would next appear two years later, having been summoned by Glynda Goodwitch to Beacon Academy, where he become a student and subsequently train to be a Hunter.