Capt. Jack Harkness
Aug 29, 2013 0:22:05 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2013 0:22:05 GMT -5
CANON/ORIGINAL:
canon
NAME:
Jack Harkness
IDENTIFIES AS:
Captain Jack Harkness
ALIAS:
Captain Jack, Captain, Face of Boe
AGE:
37, 1000+
GENDER:
male
SPECIES:
immortal human
BIRTH PLANET:
Earth
OCCUPATION:
Torchwood leader
ORIENTATION:
omnisexual
APPEARANCE:
Jack has dark-brown hair, almost black in the right lighting, his eyes are blue, and his skin wouldn't be considered pale nor tan, he is a smooth tone of both. The usual getup is a WWII greatcoat, tan suspenders, a ever changing dress shirt consisting of white, striped white, and dark blue. Around Jack's wrist is a vortex manipulator. Most of the time Jack is very professional, but he is only a immortal human he to has his casual days, even if that means taking of the greatcoat.
PERSONALITY:
Captain Jack Harkness' personality is wilfully enigmatic; he is fond of his persona as a 'mysterious time traveller', being a flippant time traveller and con man prior to his immortality. Jack loved traveling with the Doctor, though as a termed Omnisexual, he also enjoyed flirting and seducing beings through the galaxy on his travels. Jack also liked to drink, once commenting that after being sentenced to death, he requested four hypervodkas and ended up in bed with both of his executioners. He also was a coward prior to meeting the Doctor, and even said he might have been better off being so. Despite being immortal, Jack retains a sense of humour, often telling jokes and being cheerful and lively. However, underneath this cheerful demeanour, Jack is unsure whether he wants to die or not. Jack is surrounded by an air of mystery as he is an unreliable narrator of his own life, and no one even knows his real name.
PAST:
Not much is known about the dashing, openly bisexual Captain Jack Harkness' early life. Even the name Jack Harkness is a fake. He was born in the 51st century. His father's name was Franklin and he had a younger brother named Gray. His father was killed and his was brother captured during an alien raid. Some of this is false memory planted by an alien entity, but to what extent is unknown to Jack.
Jack was the first from his era to sign up with the Time Agency and an obvious heartthrob, at the agency he was nicknamed 'the face of Boe'. This is possibly a sign of what Jack will age into, an alien head in a glass jar, said to be five billion years old.
During his time at the agency Jack is equipped with various gadgets, such as a sonic blaster, and the vortex manipulator he uses to 'space hop' his way between times.
One day whilst working for the agency, Jack woke up to find two years of his memories missing. In an attempt to seek vengeance, he leaves the Time Agency and becomes a conman, performing the "perfect self-cleaning con" on Time Agents. During which Jack uses a stolen Chula medical transportation warship to lure the TARDIS to 1941 London.
He spots the Ninth Doctor's companion Rose Tyler dangling from a barrage balloon during a Blitz air raid, and sends a tractor beam to bring her on board his ship. Jack's guess that Rose is a time agent is "confirmed" when she recognizes psychic paper, so he attempts to sell her the broken Chula ship. Impressed by Jack's charm and knowledge, she takes him to meet the Doctor.
The Doctor, unimpressed by Jack, suspects the con after mysterious things begin to happen with humans mutating into gas-masked creatures calling for their mummy. Jack is rescued by the Doctor and joins the TARDIS crew.
Jack briefly teams up with the Doctor and Rose Tyler, but after being shot by a Dalek's laser then brought back to time forever by Rose. Leaves Jack abandoned, as he attempts to return to 21st century Earth but his vortex manipulator malfunctions landing him on the late 19th century Earth. Jack becomes an integral and later leading member of Torchwood - he changes Torchwood's M.O. as an homage to the doctor - while waiting for the Doctor to reappear in Cardiff, Wales, with the TARDIS so that Jack may reunite with him and find out if he can repair his immortality. Jack alone the way picked up a Doctor detector, the Doctor's hand.
After their reunion Jack's immortality is explained to him and revealed to be a permanent and apparently eternal condition. Jack rejoins the TARDIS crew for some time before returning to Torchwood and his current team. He departs the TARDIS on good terms with the Doctor and his current companion Martha Jones.
Like most of the Ninth and the Tenth Doctor's companions Jack falls in love with the Doctor
Jack consistently demonstrates ruthless resolve and doesn't hesitate to assume terrible burdens for the greater good. Throughout life he has often been willing to do things that The Doctor balks at and doesn't flinch from inflicting violence on his enemies.
MEDICAL INFORMATION
Can never die.
RP SAMPLE:
The Rapids crashed and tumbled, white froth scrambling over rocks in a desperate race to nowhere. The noise of the water drowned out all other sounds while a silent summer sun beat down on the Earth. It was here, in this otherwise peaceful place, that Captain Jack awoke. He had spent the night falling asleep to the white noise of the rapids after a long trek from somewhere, onto bigger and better things someplace else. Or that's what he told herself anyway. In truth the captain had no clear idea of where he was going, just that he was going. He had found a rhythm in the water and went with it, further and further the past of mortality seemed to haunt him, and that lead him to this 'running' sort of phase in his life.
He let her eyes adjust to the morning light, slits of blue opening to a new day. It was already warm, and Jack knew it would only get worse. A quick drink of water from his container and he was on his feet again, slipping along between the reeds and water-grasses like a distance shadow.
The captain traveled like this for some time, in and out of the shade of the foliage and the coolness of the water. His legs were soaked up to the ankle, mud and wet things sticking to the fabric.. By the time he reached society he was out of breath, sweating to stay cool and wandering deeper and deeper into the water. It was calmer around here, and Captain took the opportunity to take a photo with his camera. Something crunched under his foot - somewhat disconcerting, but not nearly so much as what he heard right after. The sound was empty, almost longing, like the cry of a child. It intrigued him, and he followed it.
It didn't take long to find the source. Just several feet away was a small female child, lying there in the water with a look of peculiar contentment. Strange to think that this small child was so desperate for attention. He couldn't help but think of it as a big puppy, lost and alone in the big wide world. Jack had never really considered himself much of a maternal sort, but perhaps he could try his hand at it.
He emerged from the reeds, stepping lightly through the water and sending ripples out to the girl."What's got you so worked up?" He asked rather bluntly but affectionately, blue gaze fixed on the desperate kid in case this really wasn't the situation that it appeared to be.