Captain Jack Harkness
Dec 24, 2013 2:45:03 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2013 2:45:03 GMT -5
Canon
Name: That's Captain Jack Harkness, but you can call me Jack.
Age: Is just a number. Who's counting?
Gender: Male, definitely. But maybe you should double check.
Species: Human, but altered by the Bad Wolf into an immortal. Later known as Boekind
Planet of Origin: a colony world, raised in the Boeshane Peninsula
Occupation: Time Agent, con man, leader of Torchwood Three, and saviour of New (new new new new new new new new new new new new new) New York as the Face of Boe
Physical Description: Tall at around 6'1", dashing good looks and a smile that can make anyone weak at the knees. He has dark brown hair (along with a few grey as time passes), and well defined, expressive features. He is also recognizable by his almost ever present RAF coat (not that he minds taking it off ;] ).
Personality:
Intentionally mysterious, Jack enjoys playing the enigmatic time traveller. Before events on Satellite Five, he was a flippant con man and a coward, although meeting Rose and the Doctor taught him to stand and fight.
An incorrigible flirt, Jack is extraordinarily flexible in his choice of dance partners. Just about anything with a postal code is fair game, and in the Doctor's case, not even that is necessary. He also is not the commitment type, both because of his flirtatious nature, and because of his inability to die.
After becoming immortal, while Jack maintained a cheerful exterior demeanour, a more pronouncable dark side developed, both from his unsurety about whether he wished to die or not, as well as a ruthless, existential outlook on life that came from living and fighting for so long. This hardness can make him appear dispassionate, however Jack does care about his team, feeling responsible for them and taking pride in their successes.
He also cares for Rose and the Doctor (although the latter he held bitterness toward for his abandonment), visiting the Powell estate several times to watch Rose grow up from a distance, and asking about her when Rose's name was listed among the dead.
History:
Jack grew up in the Boeshane Peninsula, a tiny little place, in the 51st century. His community lived under the threat of attack, and twice Jack lost people important to him to the worst possible creatures you can imagine in this time. The first was his brother Gray, whose disappearance and subsequent torture (that he would not learn of this for centuries), Jack blames himself for. The second was a friend whom he had convinced to join him to fight against a horrible enemy. When the two were caught, his friend was considered weaker and tortured in front of Jack to teach him a lesson before Jack was allowed to go free.
When Jack joined the Time Agency as a young man, he was the first to do so in his community, earning him the nickname: The Face of Boe. In the Time Agency, Jack would meet John Hart. The two became partners both for for the agency, and as lovers. At one point, the two were trapped in a two-week time loop for the equivalent of five years, becoming the equivalent of a married couple in that time frame.
However, after Jack discovered that the Agency had erased two years of his memories, he left the agency (keeping his vortex manipulator) in favor of becoming a con man. Jack would meet the Doctor and Rose for the first time while running a scam involving a Chula ambulance during the London Blitz, having adopted the identity of an RAF Captain. After an adventure with the Doctor involving nanogenes, the discussion of why one makes a screwdriver sonic, gas mask people, and a misconception that Rose and the Doctor were Time Agents, Jack used his Chula ship to place a bomb meant to impact the area the Doctor, Rose, and recently healed people were.
Rose convinced the Doctor to save Jack in turn, and the three went travelling through space and time together, quickly becoming a very tight knit group so much so that Mickey's first impression of them was you think you're so
clever, don't you? to which they all replied yes). Jack would later be killed as part of the last defense on Satellite Five against the Daleks, but was brought back to life by the Bad Wolf. He was abandoned there by the regenerating Doctor, and was forced to use his vortex manipulator to escape.
Unfortunately for Jack, the manipulator took him to the mid 19th century (1869, when the rift was formed), not the 21st, and promptly burnt out. Later, Jack would be shot fatally in 1892 and survive, soon realizing that he was unable to die. For a time, he was in a travelling show using that as his gag: the man who can't die.
Near the beginning of the 20th century, Jack was captured by Torchwood, and tortured for information. He would be released only on the condition that he agreed to work for Torchwood, which he initially refused until learning he would need to wait a century to reunite with the Doctor.
In 1927, Jack encountered a man named Angelo who would help him track down a parasite the Trickster's Brigade wanted to infect President Roosevelt with. However, during their escape, Jack was 'killed' and Angelo was taken to jail. When the two reunited a year later, Angelo became convinced that Jack was the devil. Jack was chained up and repeatedly killed as people believed that it was the best way to learn the secret to his immortality.
In 1965, Jack would have his first encounter with the alien race known as the 456. He was assigned to deliver the gift of 12 children in exchange for a cure to a strain of flu the 456 claimed would wipe out 25 million people.
Ten years later, Jack would have a daughter, Melissa Moretti, by a fellow Torchwood agent. Melissa does not possess Jack's immortality mutation, an when the couple split two years later, she went into the Witness Protection plan.
In 2000, the previous leader for Torchwood Three killed everyone on his team including himself except for Jack, leaving the captain to rebuild a new team in order for Torchwood to be ready for the 21st century.
Over time, he recruited Toshiko Santo, Dr. Owen Harper, Suzie Costello, (after some persuasion) Ianto Jones, and after Suzie's death, Gwen Cooper. By this time, Torchwood One had fallen in the Battle of Canary Wharf and Torchwood Four was considered lost, giving Torchwood Three a large amount of freedom. Jack would later tell the Doctor that he remade it in the Doctor's image.
At some point, Jack acquired the severed hand of the Tenth Doctor and kept it in a jar as his 'Doctor detector'.
With his team monitoring the Rift, Jack and Torchwood would face one of their own being revealed as a serial killer (Suzie), Ianto's cyber girlfriend's mind being fully converted and attempting to use Torchwood as a base of operations, fairies, cannibals, weevils, Abbadon, and much more.
When Jack noticed the Doctor's hand beginning to glow and heard the sound of the TARDIS, he raced outside and jumped on to the outside of the TARDIS as she was dematerializing. The TARDIS would eventually land at the end of the universe where Jack met the new version of the Doctor and Martha Jones as well as Professor Yana who was revealed to be the Master. When the Master hijacked the TARDIS, leaving them stranded with the man eating 'Future kind' the Tenth Doctor temporarily fixed Jack's vortex manipulator in order for them to hop back to present day Earth (from Jack and Martha's perspective).
After the events in the year that never was aboard the Valiant where the Master kept him imprisoned and tortured, Jack declined the Tenth Doctor's invitation to join him travelling, having decided to stick with his team. He returned to Torchwood to find that Gwen had taken command in his absence, and to save the life of a woman a Blowfish the team had cornered was threatening.
Soon, Captain John Hart made an appearance, flirting and fighting with Jack in equal measure, and conning them to believe that there were radioactive bombs throughout the city. In the end, Jack had to save John's life. Just before Captain Hart left, he revealed that he had found Gray.
During his absence, Gwen had become engaged to Rhys, and after discovering this, Jack backed off a bit on his flirting with her, becoming more intense with Ianto instead. The Team would face a memory altering creature Adam Smith, meet Doctor Martha Jones now of U.N.I.T. (who told Gwen that she and Jack studied under the same Doctor), mayflies, and the death of Doctor Owen Harper.
Jack, unwilling to accept his death without a proper goodbye (and an access code) found another resurrection glove, which lead to the events that turned Owen undead.
Captain John Hart would then return, attempting to kill all of Torchwood Three, and leaving a message that implicated Jack's brother Gray. Jack would soon be reunited with his brother, who had turned against him after a life time of torture, blaming Jack for his capture, and wanting to give his brother the same experience. Jack was stabbed and buried alive until Torchwood found him in 1901 thanks to a signalling device John had buried him with. Jack was then cryogenically preserved in order to prevent damaging timelines, awakening just in time to save Tosh's life.
When the Daleks moved the Earth into the Medusa Cascade, Jack along with the other so called Children of Time banded together to try and stop the Daleks from using the reality bomb by whatever methods necessary. He, along with Ten, Metacrisis, Rose, Mickey, Donna, Martha, and Sarah Jane, would help pilot the TARDIS across the universe to tow Earth back to the solar system.
Not long after, the 456 returned to Earth, this time demanding a percentage of the population of children, using all of the children of the world to do so. Jack's body was used to hold a bomb without his knowledge that detonated while he was in the Hub, although he managed to get Ianto and Gwen to escape first. Using wwhat remained of Torchwood One as their new base, the team persuaded Lois Habiba to collect evidence of the Cabinet's discussions on the new terms issued by the 456. Jack lost Ianto when, after the two had stormed the Thames House, the 456 flooded it with a virus. Jack turned himself in, but would be sprung from prison later on. Eventually, a way to defeat the 456 using a reconstitution wave was devised, using the children as a transmitter. But the wave had to be sent through one child directly, and Jack was forced to use his grandson, Steven.
Jack left Torchwood then, travelling the world, and later using his retrieved vortex manipulator to teleport to a bar in Zaggit Zagoo. It was here that the Tenth Doctor said his farewell to Jack. Well, I say 'farewell', he helped set him up with Alonso the midshipman.
Then came Miracle Day, when Jack's blood was poured into "the Blessing" which controlled a morphic field around the Earth. While this lasted, humans became immortal, and that which was previously immortal (read:cancer cells, Captain Jack) mortal. Miracle Day only ended when Jack's now mortal blood was poured into the Blessing.
Addition Medical Information:
Jack was a typical human up until the events on Satellite Five where Rose became the Bad Wolf by absorbing the Time Vortex. The Bad Wolf's last act before Nine defused her was to bring Jack back to life. However, in doing so, Jack became a fixed point, living forever and unable to die. He has, however, continued to age, if at a much slower rate.
RP Sample:
He never understood why so many people wanted to kill him. Was it his face? The finely cut figure he made in uniform? Some people just couldn't handle perfection. But Jack could be generous, he could afford to forgivingly offer them the chance to appreciate it instead. His philosophy on human beauty matched his philosophy on history, best experienced for yourself. And who was he to deny others?
Ordering up a hypervodka, Jack winked to the bartender, he then turned to the booth where they were seated. His companions tonight were so straitlaced and tense.
Well, let it not be said that anyone left his company that tense.
"You know what? Can I get three more of those?"
Downing half his first in one go, he idly wondered if this was really going to be his last night. Not on Earth, but alive at all. Because if it was... well, he might as well shoot to fulfill some fantasies. Nothing holding him back now.
Not that there usually was, come to think of it. Unless his partner(s) were into bondage. He could work with that.
Finishing his first drink, Jack took the other three hypervodkas back to the booth, setting one in front of his two companions.
"Such long faces. You guys need to lighten up. The night's still young."
He just smiled when the elder of the two gave him a spiel about professionalism and his wife cautiously took a sip.
"It's just one drink, Roth. What's it going to hurt?" Jack smiled winningly. "Besides, it will help you with that tension in your shoulders."
He glanced to the woman, "He's going to do some serious damage to his spine if he keeps that up. We really ought to see about fixing it."
She started to giggle as the man spluttered, then turned her attention to convincing her husband that it really was just one drink, and their appointment wasn't until the morning anyway.
Just a drink.
Jack grinned as he settled in between the two.
It was never 'just a drink' with him, but one step at a time.
Name: That's Captain Jack Harkness, but you can call me Jack.
Age: Is just a number. Who's counting?
Gender: Male, definitely. But maybe you should double check.
Species: Human, but altered by the Bad Wolf into an immortal. Later known as Boekind
Planet of Origin: a colony world, raised in the Boeshane Peninsula
Occupation: Time Agent, con man, leader of Torchwood Three, and saviour of New (new new new new new new new new new new new new new) New York as the Face of Boe
Physical Description: Tall at around 6'1", dashing good looks and a smile that can make anyone weak at the knees. He has dark brown hair (along with a few grey as time passes), and well defined, expressive features. He is also recognizable by his almost ever present RAF coat (not that he minds taking it off ;] ).
Personality:
Intentionally mysterious, Jack enjoys playing the enigmatic time traveller. Before events on Satellite Five, he was a flippant con man and a coward, although meeting Rose and the Doctor taught him to stand and fight.
An incorrigible flirt, Jack is extraordinarily flexible in his choice of dance partners. Just about anything with a postal code is fair game, and in the Doctor's case, not even that is necessary. He also is not the commitment type, both because of his flirtatious nature, and because of his inability to die.
After becoming immortal, while Jack maintained a cheerful exterior demeanour, a more pronouncable dark side developed, both from his unsurety about whether he wished to die or not, as well as a ruthless, existential outlook on life that came from living and fighting for so long. This hardness can make him appear dispassionate, however Jack does care about his team, feeling responsible for them and taking pride in their successes.
He also cares for Rose and the Doctor (although the latter he held bitterness toward for his abandonment), visiting the Powell estate several times to watch Rose grow up from a distance, and asking about her when Rose's name was listed among the dead.
History:
Jack grew up in the Boeshane Peninsula, a tiny little place, in the 51st century. His community lived under the threat of attack, and twice Jack lost people important to him to the worst possible creatures you can imagine in this time. The first was his brother Gray, whose disappearance and subsequent torture (that he would not learn of this for centuries), Jack blames himself for. The second was a friend whom he had convinced to join him to fight against a horrible enemy. When the two were caught, his friend was considered weaker and tortured in front of Jack to teach him a lesson before Jack was allowed to go free.
When Jack joined the Time Agency as a young man, he was the first to do so in his community, earning him the nickname: The Face of Boe. In the Time Agency, Jack would meet John Hart. The two became partners both for for the agency, and as lovers. At one point, the two were trapped in a two-week time loop for the equivalent of five years, becoming the equivalent of a married couple in that time frame.
However, after Jack discovered that the Agency had erased two years of his memories, he left the agency (keeping his vortex manipulator) in favor of becoming a con man. Jack would meet the Doctor and Rose for the first time while running a scam involving a Chula ambulance during the London Blitz, having adopted the identity of an RAF Captain. After an adventure with the Doctor involving nanogenes, the discussion of why one makes a screwdriver sonic, gas mask people, and a misconception that Rose and the Doctor were Time Agents, Jack used his Chula ship to place a bomb meant to impact the area the Doctor, Rose, and recently healed people were.
Rose convinced the Doctor to save Jack in turn, and the three went travelling through space and time together, quickly becoming a very tight knit group so much so that Mickey's first impression of them was you think you're so
clever, don't you? to which they all replied yes). Jack would later be killed as part of the last defense on Satellite Five against the Daleks, but was brought back to life by the Bad Wolf. He was abandoned there by the regenerating Doctor, and was forced to use his vortex manipulator to escape.
Unfortunately for Jack, the manipulator took him to the mid 19th century (1869, when the rift was formed), not the 21st, and promptly burnt out. Later, Jack would be shot fatally in 1892 and survive, soon realizing that he was unable to die. For a time, he was in a travelling show using that as his gag: the man who can't die.
Near the beginning of the 20th century, Jack was captured by Torchwood, and tortured for information. He would be released only on the condition that he agreed to work for Torchwood, which he initially refused until learning he would need to wait a century to reunite with the Doctor.
In 1927, Jack encountered a man named Angelo who would help him track down a parasite the Trickster's Brigade wanted to infect President Roosevelt with. However, during their escape, Jack was 'killed' and Angelo was taken to jail. When the two reunited a year later, Angelo became convinced that Jack was the devil. Jack was chained up and repeatedly killed as people believed that it was the best way to learn the secret to his immortality.
In 1965, Jack would have his first encounter with the alien race known as the 456. He was assigned to deliver the gift of 12 children in exchange for a cure to a strain of flu the 456 claimed would wipe out 25 million people.
Ten years later, Jack would have a daughter, Melissa Moretti, by a fellow Torchwood agent. Melissa does not possess Jack's immortality mutation, an when the couple split two years later, she went into the Witness Protection plan.
In 2000, the previous leader for Torchwood Three killed everyone on his team including himself except for Jack, leaving the captain to rebuild a new team in order for Torchwood to be ready for the 21st century.
Over time, he recruited Toshiko Santo, Dr. Owen Harper, Suzie Costello, (after some persuasion) Ianto Jones, and after Suzie's death, Gwen Cooper. By this time, Torchwood One had fallen in the Battle of Canary Wharf and Torchwood Four was considered lost, giving Torchwood Three a large amount of freedom. Jack would later tell the Doctor that he remade it in the Doctor's image.
At some point, Jack acquired the severed hand of the Tenth Doctor and kept it in a jar as his 'Doctor detector'.
With his team monitoring the Rift, Jack and Torchwood would face one of their own being revealed as a serial killer (Suzie), Ianto's cyber girlfriend's mind being fully converted and attempting to use Torchwood as a base of operations, fairies, cannibals, weevils, Abbadon, and much more.
When Jack noticed the Doctor's hand beginning to glow and heard the sound of the TARDIS, he raced outside and jumped on to the outside of the TARDIS as she was dematerializing. The TARDIS would eventually land at the end of the universe where Jack met the new version of the Doctor and Martha Jones as well as Professor Yana who was revealed to be the Master. When the Master hijacked the TARDIS, leaving them stranded with the man eating 'Future kind' the Tenth Doctor temporarily fixed Jack's vortex manipulator in order for them to hop back to present day Earth (from Jack and Martha's perspective).
After the events in the year that never was aboard the Valiant where the Master kept him imprisoned and tortured, Jack declined the Tenth Doctor's invitation to join him travelling, having decided to stick with his team. He returned to Torchwood to find that Gwen had taken command in his absence, and to save the life of a woman a Blowfish the team had cornered was threatening.
Soon, Captain John Hart made an appearance, flirting and fighting with Jack in equal measure, and conning them to believe that there were radioactive bombs throughout the city. In the end, Jack had to save John's life. Just before Captain Hart left, he revealed that he had found Gray.
During his absence, Gwen had become engaged to Rhys, and after discovering this, Jack backed off a bit on his flirting with her, becoming more intense with Ianto instead. The Team would face a memory altering creature Adam Smith, meet Doctor Martha Jones now of U.N.I.T. (who told Gwen that she and Jack studied under the same Doctor), mayflies, and the death of Doctor Owen Harper.
Jack, unwilling to accept his death without a proper goodbye (and an access code) found another resurrection glove, which lead to the events that turned Owen undead.
Captain John Hart would then return, attempting to kill all of Torchwood Three, and leaving a message that implicated Jack's brother Gray. Jack would soon be reunited with his brother, who had turned against him after a life time of torture, blaming Jack for his capture, and wanting to give his brother the same experience. Jack was stabbed and buried alive until Torchwood found him in 1901 thanks to a signalling device John had buried him with. Jack was then cryogenically preserved in order to prevent damaging timelines, awakening just in time to save Tosh's life.
When the Daleks moved the Earth into the Medusa Cascade, Jack along with the other so called Children of Time banded together to try and stop the Daleks from using the reality bomb by whatever methods necessary. He, along with Ten, Metacrisis, Rose, Mickey, Donna, Martha, and Sarah Jane, would help pilot the TARDIS across the universe to tow Earth back to the solar system.
Not long after, the 456 returned to Earth, this time demanding a percentage of the population of children, using all of the children of the world to do so. Jack's body was used to hold a bomb without his knowledge that detonated while he was in the Hub, although he managed to get Ianto and Gwen to escape first. Using wwhat remained of Torchwood One as their new base, the team persuaded Lois Habiba to collect evidence of the Cabinet's discussions on the new terms issued by the 456. Jack lost Ianto when, after the two had stormed the Thames House, the 456 flooded it with a virus. Jack turned himself in, but would be sprung from prison later on. Eventually, a way to defeat the 456 using a reconstitution wave was devised, using the children as a transmitter. But the wave had to be sent through one child directly, and Jack was forced to use his grandson, Steven.
Jack left Torchwood then, travelling the world, and later using his retrieved vortex manipulator to teleport to a bar in Zaggit Zagoo. It was here that the Tenth Doctor said his farewell to Jack. Well, I say 'farewell', he helped set him up with Alonso the midshipman.
Then came Miracle Day, when Jack's blood was poured into "the Blessing" which controlled a morphic field around the Earth. While this lasted, humans became immortal, and that which was previously immortal (read:cancer cells, Captain Jack) mortal. Miracle Day only ended when Jack's now mortal blood was poured into the Blessing.
Addition Medical Information:
Jack was a typical human up until the events on Satellite Five where Rose became the Bad Wolf by absorbing the Time Vortex. The Bad Wolf's last act before Nine defused her was to bring Jack back to life. However, in doing so, Jack became a fixed point, living forever and unable to die. He has, however, continued to age, if at a much slower rate.
RP Sample:
He never understood why so many people wanted to kill him. Was it his face? The finely cut figure he made in uniform? Some people just couldn't handle perfection. But Jack could be generous, he could afford to forgivingly offer them the chance to appreciate it instead. His philosophy on human beauty matched his philosophy on history, best experienced for yourself. And who was he to deny others?
Ordering up a hypervodka, Jack winked to the bartender, he then turned to the booth where they were seated. His companions tonight were so straitlaced and tense.
Well, let it not be said that anyone left his company that tense.
"You know what? Can I get three more of those?"
Downing half his first in one go, he idly wondered if this was really going to be his last night. Not on Earth, but alive at all. Because if it was... well, he might as well shoot to fulfill some fantasies. Nothing holding him back now.
Not that there usually was, come to think of it. Unless his partner(s) were into bondage. He could work with that.
Finishing his first drink, Jack took the other three hypervodkas back to the booth, setting one in front of his two companions.
"Such long faces. You guys need to lighten up. The night's still young."
He just smiled when the elder of the two gave him a spiel about professionalism and his wife cautiously took a sip.
"It's just one drink, Roth. What's it going to hurt?" Jack smiled winningly. "Besides, it will help you with that tension in your shoulders."
He glanced to the woman, "He's going to do some serious damage to his spine if he keeps that up. We really ought to see about fixing it."
She started to giggle as the man spluttered, then turned her attention to convincing her husband that it really was just one drink, and their appointment wasn't until the morning anyway.
Just a drink.
Jack grinned as he settled in between the two.
It was never 'just a drink' with him, but one step at a time.