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Name: Jimmy McGill AKA Saul Goodman
Canon: Breaking Bad
Canonpoint: Between Ozymandias and Granite State, before visiting the vacuum guy.
CRAU? Nope
Age: 49
Character History: how many identities can one man have

Personality: Picture a sleazy ambulance-chaser lawyer that could double as a less-than-upstanding used car salesman, and you've got Saul Goodman. Everything about Saul is something that makes lawyers look bad. He's the sort of lawyer guilty people hire; not just a criminal lawyer, he's a criminal lawyer. This well-crafted image is (mostly) an act and intentionally playing up some of his worst traits. Underneath the mask is Jimmy McGill, a far more subdued man compared to his business persona. Make no mistake, the worst parts of Saul Goodman are still part of him, but he's also an actual, rounded person capable of showing complex emotions and less of the stereotype that he puts on for his customers. Saul's more normal self is usually saved for the rare people he's actually close to rather than his clients. Compared to his appearance in Better Call Saul, Jimmy is more bitter, jaded, and depressed, in a downward spiral of his life masked by gaudy suits and garbage TV commercials.

Saul's job has him defending Albuquerque's worst, and he speaks of the crimes they commit as if they're not serious at all. He comes up with witty little quips and metaphors to describe murder, he laughs and claims people "love to take credit for the fun ones," and he shows up to visit Jesse and remarks that Walt "is now the cute one" after looking at Jesse's face. He likes to hear the sound of his own voice, and he bounces many ideas off of other people, but often it's questionable whether he really means what he says casually. He dresses like a clown and acts skeevy, but Saul does know how to do his job well. He is well versed in the law, figuring out what options are in front of him, and what might need to be fudged to get to that point. You have to know the law well to know how to break it without getting caught, and that's Saul at his most basic.

Saul knows how to capture a room's attention and make his presence known. He is charismatic, albeit slimy, and even a sort of charming when he needs or wants to be. Occasionally this confidence is to his detriment because he can and does push scams he's trying to run to the limit where he's likely to be found out. When things are going his way, Saul is in his element, but when threatened with bodily harm or risk to his business, he's quick to panic and cover his tracks. He is easily bullied into compliance or trying to talk his way out of any actual consequences when threatened.

While generally overshadowed by his flamboyant showy confidence, underneath his Saul persona, he has a massive inferiority complex brought on by growing up with his brother Chuck. Nothing Saul did ever seemed good enough for Chuck; even becoming a lawyer wasn't enough, because he didn't do it "correctly." This leads to him assuming others in his profession look down on him, or that they, like Chuck, were working to keep him down and only occasionally throwing him a bone to keep him in line.

There aren't many people this applies to in Saul's life anymore, but he will go above and beyond to help the people he loves in his own way. For years, he brought food and other necessities to his mentally ill brother and worked to try and get his brother the money he was owed. He even goes beyond a typical lawyer-client job by hand delivering money from Jesse to his ex girlfriend, offering advice that maybe he'd be better off actually talking to her himself. He isn't always the most upstanding and moral about how he shows this loyalty, but he does look out for people that matter to him and has a streak of wanting to stand up for or at least help the underdog.

Suit Preferences: Spade! If you want someone quick talking and happy to hustle people, that's what Jimmy/Saul is best at. He cut his teeth on bar scams before moving up the ladder and becoming first an honest and then a very dishonest lawyer. One of the first things people remark on when meeting him is his smart mouth that he can't seem to close. He knows how to read people and get them to relax and let their guard down, and on top of that, he also attended bartending school to some degree of success.

Powers/Abilities: Absolutely none. He's a normal human, albeit one who is really good at talking his way into and out of things.

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