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Captain Jack Harkness | Doctor Who/Torchwood | 1/3
Name: Agnes
Age: 27
Contact: plurk: Furikuchan
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Character Info:
Full Name: Captain Jack Harkness.
Called By: Jack.
Age: Appears about 40, actually is somewhere around 2,200.
Canon: Doctor Who/Torchwood
http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Doctor_Who
http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Torchwood_Institute
History: http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Jack_Harkness
Jack was born in the 51st century on a planet that has never been named. He grew up in the Boeshane Peninsula, a sandy area that contained a human colony, with his mother, his father, Franklin, and younger brother, Gray. One day, the Boeshane Peninsula was attacked by unknown aliens. Jack’s father told him to take Gray and run, while he went back for their mother. In the confusion, Jack let go of Gray’s hand, and his brother disappeared. When he tried to backtrack his steps, Jack returned back home just in time to see that his father had also died. Despite many years searching for his brother, Jack would never find a trace of Gray.
Jack left home at a young age. As soon as he could, he signed up with the Time Agency, where he would become known as the ‘Face of Boe’ for his origins in the Boeshane Peninsula. Not much of Jack’s service with the Time Agency is known. He did gain his Vortex Manipulator, a wrist-band device that would allow him to time travel, from the Time Agency. He was partnered with the man now known as Captain John Hart for an assignment that led them to be stuck in a two-week time loop for five years. The two men were partners “in every sense,” but as soon as they broke the time loop, Jack left John. He still cared for John, but not nearly as much as John loved Jack.
One day, Jack awoke to discover that two years of his memories were missing, most likely taken by the Time Agency. (Canon has never explained what has happened during these two years or why these memories were taken.) Jack left the Time Agency and became a time-traveling con man for some time. His usual con involved collecting a piece of space junk, directing it to a site that he knew from his time travel would be destroyed soon, and selling it to a local just in time for it to be destroyed, so the buyer would never find out what he had purchased.
Jack attempted to run this con in 1941 London, during the London Blitz. He had taken on the identity of Captain Jack Harkness, who was an American volunteer with the Royal Air Force, who had just died during a training mission. A Chula ambulance filled with nanogenes crash-landed at a place where a bombing would eventually fall. He got the attention of people who he believed were other Time Agents, but turned out to be the Ninth incarnation of the Doctor, and his companion, Rose Tyler. The crash of the Chula ambulance had sent nanogenes out into London, and the first template that the nanogenes encountered was the a dead body, so the nanogenes became a plague, transforming any life they encountered into gas-mask zombies. When the Doctor confronted Jack with this information, and explained that this entire situation was Jack’s fault, Jack was at first defensive, but he did realize that it was his responsibility to set things right. As the Doctor reprogrammed the nanogenes, Jack caught the bomb that was supposed to destroy the site in a tractor beam of his ship, and was willing to sacrifice himself to fix his mistake. The Doctor brought him aboard the TARDIS at the last instant, and brought Jack along as a companion.
Jack had many adventures with the Doctor, including a journey to modern-day Cardiff. Jack found out about the inter-dimensional rift beneath Cardiff, which the Doctor would use as a refueling station, since the Eye of Harmony was now cut off on Gallifrey due to the Time War. The Doctor, Jack, Rose, and Mickey Smith teamed up to stop Blon, a survivor of the Slitheen family who had attempted to destroy the earth once before. They prevented Blon from forcibly opening the Cardiff rift, and by opening the heart of the TARDIS, Blon was transformed back into an egg, and given a chance to live her life over again.
The Doctor, Jack, and Rose were taken aboard Satellite Five, a game station that operated over Earth in the year 200,100. The three of them discovered that they had been pulled into the Satellite in order to help stop an impending Dalek invasion. Rose was teleported over to the Dalek ship, but the Doctor and Jack went after her to get her back. They prepared for the defense of the Game Station while the Doctor would set up a wave to destroy the Dalek fleet. Jack told the Doctor that before he had met him, he had been a coward, and maybe he was better off that way. He kissed both Rose and the Doctor, and then set up to be the Doctor’s last line of defense against the Daleks, knowing that he would most likely die in the fight.
Jack did, indeed, die fighting, emptying all his ammunition into three Daleks, before being shot by their rays and killed. However, the Doctor had sent Rose home in the TARDIS in order to protect her. Rose forced the TARDIS to go back by opening the heart of the TARDIS and absorbing its energy. She returned to Satellite Five, and used the TARDIS energy to destroy the Dalek fleet.
The Doctor tried to get Rose to give up the energy, but she proclaimed, “I bring life.” At this moment, Jack resurrected for the first time. Jack would later discover that this action had permanently brought him back to life, and no matter how many times he would die, he would always come back.
However, the Doctor and Rose left the station without Jack. Jack used his Vortex Manipulator to teleport off the station, aiming for the 20th century, but he got the calculation wrong and ended up in the year 1869, when his manipulator promptly burnt out, and he could not teleport again. Jack made his way to the Cardiff rift, knowing that the Doctor would have to return to the rift to refuel at some point. However, Jack didn’t know that previous versions of the Doctor were still refueling at the Eye of Harmony in Gallifrey, and therefore, the Doctor would not return to the rift for a very long time.
In 1899, Jack was discovered by agents of Torchwood Three in Cardiff. He was brought in as a person of interest for his inability to die and because he was asking about the Doctor in public places. Jack originally did not want to work with Torchwood, but he encountered a fortune teller who told him that he would have to wait at least a century until the Doctor would return. Jack accepted a commission at Torchwood Three and spent the next century working for them.
Not all of Jack’s time waiting was spent in Cardiff. Jack would travel to India, China, South America, and various places around the British Isles. His main concern was to not encounter a previous version of the Doctor. When he would finally find the Doctor again, he would complain about “having to wait on a version of you that coincided with me.” He was certainly aware of the other versions of the Doctor, but he could not risk encountering any of them.
Jack’s long wait had made him jaded, and by 1965, he had a reputation for being the Torchwood agent that didn’t care. When an alien race known as the 456 came to Earth and threatened to release a deadly virus unless they were given twelve children, Jack was the agent chosen to hand over the kids. Jack drove the twelve orphans to the meeting point, and watched as they were picked up by the 456. Unknown to Jack, the aliens missed one of the children, Clement McDonald, who escaped. This act would haunt Jack for the rest of his days, but he would give himself the bitter comfort that the exchange seemed to work, because the 456 left Earth alone.
Shortly thereafter, in 1969, the alien-fighting military organization known as UNIT was formed. While it is clear that UNIT and Torchwood knew about each other’s existence, they would never work together in an official capacity, since UNIT was strictly military, and Torchwood was notorious for not answering to any authority. It has been suggested that Jack knows of UNIT’s structure, for example, the existence of the Brigadier, and the fact that previous versions of the Doctor have worked with UNIT, which gives Jack another reason to distance himself from the organization.
In 1975, Jack had a daughter with fellow Torchwood agent Lucia Moretti. Their daughter, originally named Melissa, aged normally, and seemed to have none of Jack’s regeneration capabilities. Lucia left Jack in 1977, and retired from Torchwood, with her daughter. The daughter was put in Witness Protection, and given the name Alice Sangster. Jack eventually rebuilt a relationship with his daughter, who knew about Jack’s immortality. Alice’s son, Steven, however, believed that Jack was his uncle, and not his grandfather.
On New Year’s Day, 2000, a member of Torchwood Three, Alex Hopkins, murdered the rest of Torchwood’s staff at the time, while under the influence of alien technology. Alex apologized for not being able to take Jack with him, and then shot himself. As the only member of Torchwood Three left, control of the Cardiff base fell to Jack.
Jack would slowly rebuild his staff, recruiting second-in-command Suzie Costello, technical expert Toshiko Sato in 2004, and medic Dr. Owen Harper in 2006. On Christmas, 2006, a Sycorax ship appeared over London, and the freshly-regenerated Tenth Doctor went to stop them. What had been 150 years for Jack was a day later to the Doctor. Jack did not find out about the Doctor’s appearance in time to go see if it was the right one. The Doctor had lost his hand in a swordfight with the Sycorax leader, but was able to regenerate it instantly. After Torchwood One shot down the Sycorax ship, Jack was able to go investigate the wreckage. He found the Doctor’s fallen hand, and kept it in stasis as a “Doctor-detector.”
In 2007, a void ship punched a hole between realities, and left a dimensional hole that allowed mysterious ghosts to come through into this world. Torchwood One built the Canary Wharf tower to reach the hole and investigate it, as well as to examine the ship that no one knew anything about. Jack was aware of the actions of current Torchwood One director Yvonne Hartman, but was unable to warn her away from experimenting with the dimensional hole as an energy source.
The ghosts turned out to be Cybermen, beings that existed to convert all other forms of life into the “perfect” life form by removing all humanity and replacing it with technology. The Cybermen came across dimensions at all places in the world at once, and Jack with Torchwood Three had to fend off the Cybermen attack on Cardiff to make sure the rift manipulator technology at the base did not fall into the Cybermen’s hands.
The Battle of Canary Wharf, as it was later called, was fought as the Doctor arrived, and tried to stop the Cybermen invasion, but at that same point, the void ship opened to reveal Dalek survivors of the Time War. With the Daleks and the Cybermen fighting over Torchwood One, the Doctor eventually closed the dimensional gap, trapping the Cybermen and Daleks in the void, but trapping Rose Tyler in another dimension. Rose Tyler was listed as deceased at the Battle of Canary Wharf, and Jack believed that she was dead.
With Torchwood One destroyed, Torchwood Three was now the primary Torchwood base. They scavenged the wreckage of Torchwood One, and pulled everything they could back to Cardiff. Shortly thereafter, a former Torchwood One employee named Ianto Jones approached Jack to try to get a job. Jack was resistant, especially after he found out about Ianto’s past with Torchwood. Ianto later ran into him again, and asked for his help in capturing a loose pterodactyl that had fallen through the rift. After this incident, Jack agreed to hire Ianto as essentially an administrative assistant, rather than field personnel.
Jack was immediately attracted to Ianto, and would flirt or openly make passing remarks, only to be met with Ianto accusing him of harassment. Jack would never push his attentions onto Ianto, though, believing Ianto to be still recovering from the death of his girlfriend, Lisa Hallet, at the Battle of Canary Wharf.
As Torchwood investigated the properties of the Resurrection Gauntlet, they ran across a police constable, Gwen Cooper, who was intrigued by Torchwood. She successfully tracked down their base and asked for answers. When Jack tried to retcon her by drugging her to remove her memories, she was able to partially shake it off, and determine that Suzie Costello was committing murders in order to test the power of the Gauntlet. When Gwen and Suzie confronted each other, Jack tried to intervene, but Suzie shot Jack. Jack resurrected in front of Gwen and Suzie, and Suzie shot herself before Jack could take her into custody. With Gwen knowing Jack’s secret, Jack had no choice but to recruit Gwen to Torchwood.
Jack would maintain an attraction to Gwen, but he could never figure out if he truly wanted Gwen, or if he wanted the normal life that Gwen had with her boyfriend, Rhys. He would constantly urge her to make sure to keep her regular life and Torchwood balanced, as if it was important to Jack for her to keep a normal life.
Shortly after Gwen’s hiring, it was revealed that Ianto’s girlfriend, Lisa, was not dead, but had been partially Cyber-converted at the Battle of Canary Wharf. Ianto had been hiding Lisa in the basement of Torchwood Three in order to keep her alive. After accidentally sparking a rampage that almost got them all killed, Jack and the rest of the team shot Lisa down. Ianto repeatedly rose to Lisa’s defense, even after Lisa had tried to kill him. Jack’s unofficial first kiss with Ianto was when he was trying to revive him. With Ianto’s betrayal revealed, but Lisa dead, Jack put Ianto on suspension, but was eventually able to forgive Ianto, realizing that he would have done the same thing for someone he loved.
As the team faced more missions, Jack’s attraction to Ianto was slowly growing, and eventually, Ianto’s attraction to Jack grew back. By the time that Suzie Costello had briefly returned to life, Ianto and Jack had become intimate with each other. Gwen had started sleeping with Owen, as well, during this time, but Jack was distracted enough by Ianto that he took no notice.
After a group of people from 1953 fell through the rift to the present day, Jack grew close to John Ellis, identifying with the man who was out of his time, but was unable to prevent the man from ultimately killing himself. Owen had grown close to another rift refugee, Diane, but she left Owen to fly back through the rift. Owen took Diane’s loss hard, and broke off his affair with Gwen.
Jack and Toshiko were investigating rift activity at a dance hall, when they were suddenly pulled back in time to 1941. There, Jack met the real Captain Jack Harkness, the American volunteer whom Jack took the name of. He quickly realized that this was the real Captain Jack’s last day alive. After ignoring their attraction to each other for a few hours, the two men shared a dance and a kiss just before the rift was opened to pull them home. Jack would never forget the real man behind the name he had taken.
Re: Captain Jack Harkness | Doctor Who/Torchwood | 2/3
Unfortunately, when Jack returned home, he found out that Owen had opened the rift, not for their sake, but in an attempt to get Diane back. This manipulation of the rift created aftershocks, and random things from out of time began appearing throughout Cardiff, then spreading out through the British Isles. Due to the manipulation of Bilis Manger, the team believed that opening the rift again was the only way to stop everything. When Jack tried to stop them, Owen shot him and killed him. Jack revived in front of the entire team, too late to stop them. The opening of the rift had released the creature Abbadon, which stole life. Jack confronted Abbadon, allowing the creature to feed off his life energy in order to spare the rest of the city. Jack lapsed into a coma, and did not awaken for days.
Jack awoke, and had enough time to forgive his team for their betrayal, but before anyone could ask about his immortality, the Doctor’s hand began to glow, heralding that the correct Doctor had returned. Jack sprinted out to the plas to catch the Doctor, who tried to take off without him, but Jack clung on to the outside of the TARDIS and left with the ship.
Jack’s interference sent the TARDIS to the year 100,000,000,000,000. Flying unprotected through the Time Vortex killed Jack, but he promptly revived, and confronted the Tenth Doctor. He also met the Doctor’s current companion, Martha Jones, who he built a fast friendship with. Jack, the Doctor, and Martha, found a group of humans looking to get to Utopia, a safe haven from the end of the universe. The man in charge of the expedition, Professor Yana, was having trouble getting the ship to leave Earth. While solving the Professor’s problem, the Doctor revealed that he had known about Jack’s immortality the entire time. He told Jack that he was a fixed point in time and space now, and to a Time Lord, that was just “wrong.”
Professor Yana eventually regained his memories as a Time Lord, and became the Master, the long-time enemy of the Doctor. The Master stole the TARDIS, and tried to strand Jack, the Doctor, and Martha at the end of the universe. The Doctor fixed Jack’s Vortex Manipulator, and teleported them home. The Master had engineered things back in the present day for himself to be elected Prime Minister under the name Harold Saxon. The Master was going to herald first contact with an alien race known as the Toclafane, and the Doctor knew that this was some kind of a trick. Jack, the Doctor, and Martha snuck aboard the flying airship carrier Valiant in order to stop the Master. They found that the TARDIS had been turned into a Paradox Machine, but were unable to figure out what paradox it would keep in perpetuity until it was too late.
Jack and the Doctor were unable to stop the Master’s plans. The Master forcibly aged the Doctor to make him feeble, and killed Jack. When he revived, Jack handed Martha his Vortex Manipulator, and she was able to teleport off the ship. Jack and the Doctor were held captive by the Master for a year, along with Martha Jones’ family. Jack was repeatedly killed throughout this year by the Master, either for breaking out of his captivity, or just for the Master’s amusement. It is unknown if the Master found the Torchwood team during this year. He had hinted that Torchwood was off “on a wild goose chase in the Himalayas,” but it is unknown what happened to the team.
After a year, Martha Jones returned to save Jack and the Doctor, and by using the satellite network that the Master had put in place to try to control the human race, the Doctor was able to restore himself. Freed, Jack destroyed the Paradox Machine, which reverted time back to the point that the paradox had begun. The entire last year had been wiped out, except for the people on the Valiant. The Doctor attempted to take the Master with him on his travels, but the Master’s wife shot him, and he refused to regenerate.
Jack returned to Torchwood, rather than travel with the Doctor again, proclaiming that he had to take responsibility. The team was very angry with him for leaving, but Jack explained that he had found his Doctor. When asked why he had returned, Jack admitted that he had “come back for you,” looking at Ianto, but quickly amended that to “all of you.” He would later admit to his growing feelings for Ianto by asking him out on a proper date.
The team was confronted by Captain John Hart, who had stumbled into this time zone in search of a diamond from a woman that he had killed. John asked Jack to accompany him back traveling, but Jack refused. John pushed Jack off a building and killed him. John was understandably very surprised when Jack revived and confronted him again, later. John’s mistake was dealt with, and Jack sent John back through the rift. Just before he left, John finally told Jack, “I found Gray.” This was the first word Jack had heard of his brother in a hundred and fifty years.
A memory-manipulating alien known as Adam would recover Jack’s memories of his early life, including the last good memories of his family, but Jack would lose these memories again when he erased Adam from the team’s memory.
Jack reunited with Martha when the team was investigating the Pharm, a place that turned out to be using alien parasites to cure diseases. When the Pharm was shut down, the Pharm’s head, Dr. Copley, shot Owen and killed him. Jack hunted down the other Resurrection Glove to bring Owen back, just to say goodbye, but the effect was permanent. Jack had brought Owen back to life, but not alive. Owen had lost all his biological functions, he couldn’t breathe, eat, or even feel. Bringing back Owen also released an extradimensional being of Death, Duroc, which only Owen, already being dead, could defeat. Jack felt guilty not only for getting Owen killed, but for bringing him back to life in this hell, so he at first tried to relegate Owen to administrative duties, but eventually, he found that he needed Owen back in the field.
John Hart returned by setting a trap for Torchwood and trying to blow the team up. All members survived, but John had set multiple other bombs throughout Cardiff. John revealed that he had brought Gray to Cardiff, and he was under duress from Jack’s brother. Gray blamed Jack for his kidnapping at the hands of aliens, and now he wanted Jack to suffer. Jack was brought to the year 27 AD and buried beneath Cardiff. He spent the next 1900 years repeatedly reviving, suffocating, and dying again. Jack was eventually found and dug up by Torchwood in 1901, but he explained that he had accidentally crossed his own time-line, and had to be put in cryostasis in the hub. By the time that Jack defrosted and was able to stop Gray, it was too late to stop the death of Toshiko Sato and the second death of Owen Harper.
Jack would continue to run Torchwood with just himself, Ianto, and Gwen. Jack was able to help Martha prevent the Large Hadron Collider from opening a portal to another world. Jack helped the Doctor and Donna Noble stop Davros from destroying all of reality. And through it all, his romance with Ianto was growing closer, even as he resisted it. In 2009, when Jack was incapacitated by an alien traveling through phone lines, Ianto sat at Jack’s bedside and admitted his fears about Jack moving on and leaving him. When he awoke, Jack admitted that Ianto was “more than just a blip in time,” which would be about as close as Jack would ever get to an admission of love while Ianto was still alive.
In 2009, the 456 returned to Earth. Jack was kept unaware of the 456’s return as the government conspired to take out anyone with prior knowledge of the 456. A bomb was smuggled into the Torchwood base through Jack, and he was barely able to get Ianto and the now-pregnant Gwen out of the hub in time before it exploded. Jack’s remains were captured, and Jack spent an agonizing day regrowing his body, periodically reviving, and then dying again from the intense pain and shock. When they realized that he would not stay dead, his captors tried to encase him in concrete to keep him in one place. Ianto was still able to rescue Jack, with the use of a forklift, and freed him.
Now officially enemies of the state, Jack had no legal course of action. Once Gwen found Clement McDonald, Jack finally put the pieces together and discovered that this was the return of the 456. Torchwood was able to smuggle a hidden camera into the government meetings through the secretary Lois Habiba. Torchwood was able to watch as the situation deteriorated, and the government ended up promising one tenth of Earth’s population of children to the 456.
Having discovered that Jack had escaped, civil servant John Frobisher discovered Jack’s daughter and grandson, Alice and Steven, and had them captured to ensure Jack’s compliance. The situation backfired as Jack and Ianto forced their way into Thames House to confront the 456. The 456 released a virus that killed everyone in Thames House. Ianto died in Jack’s arms, finally telling Jack that he loved him, but Jack was unable to say it back. He kissed Ianto one last time as they both died, but only Jack would revive hours later.
Jack had given in to defeat, and arranged for Gwen to be taken back to Cardiff so that she would be safe and to safeguard Ianto’s niece and nephew. However, Alice had not yet given up. With the information that the government had been about to sell a tenth of the Earth’s children to aliens, Alice was able to turn her captors to Jack’s side. Jack was rescued by the people who had previously been against him, and they asked him to stop the 456. When the 456 had released their virus, they had also severed their connection with Clement McDonald. Jack was able to use this frequency to destroy the 456, but he would need a child to transmit the frequency back at the 456. With time running out, Jack was forced to sacrifice his grandson, Steven, to transmit the wave. It worked, and the Earth was saved, but Alice and Jack were both heart-broken. Alice walked out of Jack’s life and didn’t look back.
With Torchwood gone, Jack wandered the Earth for six months. He tried to put the memories of his failures in the past, but just couldn’t run away enough. He returned to Cardiff on the night of the House of the Dead. A psychic was attempting to channel the spirits of the dead. Jack arrived to find Ianto waiting for him. Ianto did not know that he was dead, and was trying to help Jack as if nothing had happened. Ianto and Jack were both confronted with the spirit of Ianto’s dead father, who eventually revealed that Ianto was dead. Ianto grew angry with Jack, but Jack admitted that he had come to the House of the Dead to find Ianto again. Out of all of the people he had lost, Ianto was the only one he wanted to see again. The demon that was bringing back the dead made Jack an offer to take Ianto and leave, instead of blowing up the rift, and sealing it forever. Jack took the deal, and attempted to leave the House of the Dead with Ianto, but Ianto refused, and took the detonator. In his last moments, Jack and Ianto finally professed their love for each other, and then Ianto went inside the rift and sealed it.
This was one heartbreak too many for Jack, and he contacted Gwen to return his Vortex Manipulator to him. He decided to leave Earth, and Gwen’s pleading was not enough to convince him to stay. In the face of too many failures, too many losses, Jack teleported away from Earth.
But where would he land?
Personality:
Day-to-day interactions with Jack will seem light-hearted. He will freely flirt with just about anyone who he believes will show interest, and a few people who won’t, just to get a reaction out of them. He is quick with a joke, and will attempt to lighten any mood that is appropriate. This mode gives way quickly in a dangerous situation, however, and at that point, the disciplined Captain persona will appear. He will be over-confident to the edge of arrogance, and always appears to have the situation in hand, even when he is in way over his head. He will be the first to throw himself into a dangerous situation, with the belief that he is expendable, especially when it is to protect someone else. This behavior predates his resurrection by Rose, and really is a core part of his personality, not just an effect of immortality. Beneath this exterior, however, are self-recriminating tendencies that border on self-destruction.
Jack’s two primary coping mechanisms are hiding behind humor and keeping up an aura of mystery towards everyone he cares about. The things that make him the most worried, such as his inability to die, will also be the first things he will make jokes about. Attempts to seriously discuss things that are troubling him will usually be met with deflection or antagonism until he trusts someone. Even after he trusts someone, he will usually respond with coping mechanism number two, and keep any personal information as mysterious as possible in an attempt to keep people at a protective distance. Revealing too much of his past actions is too emotional for him. He judges himself harshly for what he perceives to be past failures, and he believes anyone else would judge him just as harshly.
Jack has lost enough people that he maintains a self-destructive balance of caring for people and wanting to protect them, while keeping them at arm’s length at the same time. Towards his team, he is friendly, yet trying to protect them from information that they can’t handle or situations that are too dangerous. But he never forgets that ultimately, he will fail to protect everyone, and eventually he will watch everyone he cares about die while he continues to live.
His most recent losses have made this internal conflict much more salient. Jack sacrificed his own grandson in order to save the world, and this cost him his daughter, as well, who walked out of Jack’s life immediately after the 456 incident. Jack lost the man he loved, Ianto Jones, twice, first to the 456, and then again at the House of the Dead. Jack was perfectly willing to let the rift open if it meant that he got Ianto back, but Ianto refused to let him, and walked back into the rift to save the world. One too many reminders of Jack’s failings remained, and so Jack distanced himself from Earth, entirely, and ran away.
As he arrives on the Station just after Ianto’s second death, Jack will keep a mostly surface-level interaction with people, until he works through some of his pain, or finds someone that he can trust.
Re: Captain Jack Harkness | Doctor Who/Torchwood | 3/3
2: Technically, “Jack Harkness” is not Jack’s real name, but no one other than Jack, himself, knows the name he was born with.
3: Jack has a special love for the classics, especially music and fashion from the 1940’s. People frequently comment that for someone from the future, Jack is very old-fashioned.
Powers: As Jack puts it, he can't die. Technically, he can, but he will come back to life from any death possible. The amount of time his resurrection takes can range depending on how much he was damaged when he died. From gunshot wounds or electrocution, he comes back to life in a few minutes, but it took a full day for him to regrow his body from being blown up. He has to heal any damage done before he can come back to life and be functional, although he has been shown coming briefly back to life in the middle of the healing process and then dying very quickly again from severe shock.
Special Skills: Jack has picked up a lot of skills in his long life span. He has basic hand-to-hand and marksmanship skills. While he prefers handguns, he has been shown being able to fire everything from his Webley revolver, to automatic rifles, to an alien BFG. In addition to just being able to use firearms, he is experienced in training other people to use them. His Time Agency training has given him a mind for tactics when planning and running field operations. Jack has some skill working with technology. The majority of the tech-based things he has been shown doing involved repair work or determining the purpose of random alien tech. He can use computers, but is not a programmer. He would not be able to forwards-engineer or design new technology, but with someone else’s designs, he could help you put it together. Jack can pilot alien crafts (yet, apparently, he cannot fly an airplane, despite using a cover identity of a WWII Royal Air Force pilot.)
What is your character's comm icon and why? The Torchwood symbol, white on a black background, because Jack refuses to let himself forget about Torchwood and the people he's lost along the way.
http://www.dreamwidth.org/userpic/5568497/1830171
Anything else?: Upon arrival, can Jack please find out that his vortex manipulator has burned out again? Its function hasn’t been well-established in canon, and especially Miracle Day has almost turned the thing into a sonic screwdriver, so can we just fry it?
Writing Samples:
Action Tag Sample:
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Third Person Prose Sample:
Jack finally had a moment to just sit and take in everything that happened. He had tried to run away, and instead he had gotten dragged right back into a fight. The Doctor would laugh. Oh, a part of Jack wanted to run. He could grab one of those little ships, and just keep flying. He had told Gwen he could run forever. Could he really?
This place needed people. And, Jack supposed, that was always what he wanted; to be needed. That’s all Ianto had wanted, too. Ianto wanted to be needed, and to be remembered. So what right did Jack have to run away and try to forget him?
For his sanity’s sake, Jack had the right. He stood up and scanned his surroundings, looking for something to do, some purpose to why he was here. He could still run away without running away, escape while staying in the same place. If he needed a distraction, through this ship, or its inhabitants, Jack was perfectly capable of finding one. Jack had told Gwen and Ianto once, “The end is where we start from.” Was this the place for Jack to find his new start?
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Jack will wake up... in an awkward situation. He is in what is clearly a bachelor's room from the state of it, all with a mechanic's touch in the form of tools, the smell of metal and oil. And if he turns over, he'll find the mechanic there.
Good luck.
And sorry Q.T. but I'm playing the Devil's Advocate at the moment.