it could be short for Jackanapes or Jack-of-all-trades
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Jackalope? He is lopey. But then teenage kittendom is by definition, lopey.
Or Jack Frost or Jack-be-nimble or CAPTAIN Jack Sparrow.
Give me the name of character (male) who is bold and foolishly persistent, playful, goofy and klutzy, and needy, attentionwise.
Gonzo of the Muppets?
ANIMAL! ANIMAL!!!!
Ferris
Sher Khan? Bagheera? Aslan?
I LOVE Ferris.
What about Fillion. (as in Nathan of course)
Or to go with characters: Feste (from 12th Night). Artemus (Artemus Gordon from Wild, Wild West). Or Monsieur Hulot?
I know you are avoiding human names, but Scaramouche ? "He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad". Scaramouser?
Alley Baba?