Jay Pigeonson

Jay Pigeonson is a journalist from Moon Island who is Penstubal's number two rival (with number one, of course, being his imaginary rivalry with Chill57181). Pigeonson has been a thorn in Penstubal's side ever since he founded the Moon Island Free Post, which is entirely based on refuting everything the Penstubal Post ever says, as Pigeonson is tired of what he calls "Penstubal's non-facts". For those reasons, he is looked at favorably by everybody whom Penstubal opposes. He was arrested by Penstubal as President of Moon Island in 2037, resulting in hundreds of thousands protesting all across the country - 2 weeks later, he committed a daring escape from prison and fled to Maybila, where he would move the Moon Island Free Post and where he would live until the end of Penstubal's presidency.

He has been praised by penguins such as Penquino, who consider him a guardian of truth in an age where there are penguins who would believe anything a random scrub writes - however, those who know Pigeonson better believe that his anger at Penstubal stems not from his love for truth and for facts, but rather for selfish and power-hungry reasons, as Pigeonson had always seen Penstubal as a person who invaded his personal and free space by meeting his close friends like Marty Buchanan, Jolly Timmy and Mironica. Because of Penstubal's invasion of his private space, he was forced to completely break off relations with Jolly Timmy, but managed to retain some friendship with Buchanan solely because he managed to persuade him to do so, and with Mironica he formed an anti-Penstubal alliance.

Penguins like Buchanan, who have really gotten to know Pigeonson well, argue that it is not out of selfishness that he is angry at Penstubal but that it is out of insecurity and lack of genuine friendship and close connections with nearly anybody in his life - this is how he explains Pigeonson's sometimes erratic behavior. Of course, the argument that he is being selfish is easier to believe.

Biography
Jay Pigeonson was hatched in Wizzint sometime after midnight on November 2, 2000. He was described as a kid who was very shy and introverted and preferred the company of adults to the company of his peers. He was also described as having intricate respect for adults and the elderly, while harboring little, if no respect, towards penguins his age. For this reason, he was deemed socially awkward by schoolmates and his actions and words were often misinterpreted, sometimes even as insults. It wasn't till around his last year in high school did he manage to get several people who were similar to him in thought, namely Marty Buchanan and Jolly Timmy, whom he would describe as his "only friends ever in life".

Their friendship continued into college, when Penstubal arrived. Initially, Pigeonson and Penstubal were on good terms and Pigeonson confided to Buchanan how "Penstubal is clearly an honest, educated, thoughtful and passionate young man" and a "terrific friend and colleague". Pigeonson and Penstubal often spent time together at cafes around Wizzint sometimes, and they lived a truly Bohemian lifestyle for quite some time together. Several months later, however, Pigeonson found it was getting harder and harder to maintain his friendship with the other members of that group, and, since Penstubal was starting to get really assertive, to interrupt him often and was starting to dominate conversations, Pigeonson started to blame him for his woes. Over the next few weeks, Pigeonson's relations with Penstubal started deteriorating, with Pigeonson often spatting with Penstubal privately when they weren't around Buchanan and Jolly Timmy.

When Penstubal started going absolutely insane and also founded the Penstubal Post and started spewing all sorts of crazy ideas, Pigeonson had it enough, and in front of his friends fought with Penstubal and denounced him as a self-centered jerk who is the toxic source of everything harmful in his life. That's when Penstubal slapped Pigeonson, and Buchanan and Jolly Timmy had to restrain the two while Mironica had immediately taken Pigeonson's side, attacking Penstubal from the back and knocking him down even as Buchanan and Jolly Timmy were trying to stop the fight which taking place at a public park in Wizzint, open for the entire world to see.

Immediately, the day after, the Penstubal Post reported breaking news under the headline "LEGENDARY HERO JOHN PATRICK PENSTUBAL ASSAULTED BY CRAZY LITTLE GUY HE'D NEVER SEEN IN HIS LIFE, POSSIBLY PAID BY CHILL". That caused Pigeonson to burst out into tears and cry in his bedroom: he had come to the conclusion that Penstubal had torn his already-torn life apart and that he had lost all his friends because of him. Pigeonson then set out to get revenged, and he spent the next two weeks planning how to get it - he decided to seek an alliance with the very penguins Penstubal is so obsessed with, and that is Penquino, Chill and The Ed. All three, however, really didn't want to talk to this guy, not out of any personal reasons but simply because they didn't feel like it and so they tried to reject him nicely. Pigeonson didn't take their rejection as a rejection but rather as them offering support to his cause. He therefore established the Moon Island Free Post and immediately started smearing Penstubal in it.

Immediately, this spat between the two Posts caught the attention of the public, and Mironica decided to join Pigeonson's team in his post. Marty Buchanan then met privately with Jolly Timmy and Bobbie Wood, with all three agreeing that it is important of them to stay neutral in a fight between three incredibly close friends. However, Pigeonson would soon destroy his closeness with those three when he attacked Jolly Timmy as a "puppet of Penstubal" who is "willing to stand idle as Penstubal spreads lies and engages in destructive behavior that has real world consequences all around Antarctica". When Buchanan and Bobbie took Jolly Timmy's side, Pigeonson knew he could not rely on his friends anymore and so decided to make a truce with Jolly Timmy for the sake of retaining friendship with Buchanan and Bobbie - the relations with Jolly Timmy, however, were permanently damaged.

Personality
Jay Pigeonson is hard to describe. On one hand, he overthinks everything, on the other, he jumps into things without any thoughts about the consequences. On one hand, he is extremely generous, on the other, he is very cruel. On one hand, he is good, on the other, he is evil. In reality, what he really is is very unconfident, with very little hope for the future and extremely scared and easy to offend, much like Penstubal, his greatest enemy. His heart is good and used to be full of love and desire for life, but it was corrupted by hate towards those who he put the blame on for stealing everything he's ever had. He has a strong desire for power over others, motivated by a desire for power over his own life first.

Appearance
Jay Pigeonson, in spite of being white, wears black and very dark clothes, perhaps to seem edgy or special in groups.

Views
His views are greatly shaped by the collapse of his friendship with Marty Buchanan and Jolly Timmy, the two penguins with the biggest influence on his life. His views can be divided into a pre-friendship and a post-friendship period: in the pre-friendship period, his views were pretty reasonable, he was pretty kind-hearted, he was calm, and he adopted many of the same views that Marty Buchanan, his philosophical mentor, had on life. The enter Penstubal, whose behavior, after many and many years, he simply couldn't handle anymore, as his behavior had driven him crazy. Thanks to Penstubal, his views were greatly changed, a resentment started boiling towards the more-popular person in their little friend group, and so the post-friendship period resulted in his complete isolation, hate towards others, refusal to interact with others, inability to talk to others, and complete loss of control over his life.

Trivia

 * Penstubal and Pigeonson are extremely similar in both their concerns, their desires and their beliefs, and in reality Pigeonson might just be a worse and even more spiteful version of Penstubal; both penguins are abrasive and aren't really evil in their hearts.