Badfic Manor Application

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OOC Information:

Name/Alias:  Jeni
Age:  29
E-Mail//MSN//AIM:  AIM: hookandoil
Personal LJ:  project_jeni 
How did you hear about Badfic?   Dear Mun, but recommended by the Doctor and Rose Tyler

IC Information:

Character Name:  Captain Jack Harkness  (That’s not his real name, but was stolen from an American serviceman volunteering in the Royal Air Force during WWII).  He has previously used James Harper and James Sangster as aliases.  His real name is unknown.
Name that appears on name plaque:   Captain Jack Harkness
Character Journal:  cpt_51century 
Canon: Doctor Who/Torchwood
Point in Canon: Approximate 100 years after his last appearance in Doctor Who’s episode “The End Of Time” (this is because Season 4 of Torchwood will be starting in July and this should allow me to have him keep all current canon).
Age:  Just about 2500 years old
Birthday:  Jack was born on a planet far far away in a time even further away so dates don’t really match up anymore.  He’s given himself July 4 as his birthday though, just out of amusement for everyone thinking he’s American.

Appearance:  http://blogs.poz.com/mark/upload/Captain_Jack_Harkness.jpg

Though Jack had once been partial to wearing t-shirts, leather pants and vests, for the last few hundred years, he’s picked a more WWII-esque fashion sense to sport.  Jack wears a vortex manipulator wrist cuff, red braces (suspenders), and an RAF (British Royal Air Force) officer’s coat.  He has bright blue eyes, endless eyelashes, and dark hair generally worn in a sort of messy-chic style.  Jack also carries a Webley revolver.

 

Abilities:  Thanks to Rose Tyler, when she took on the Time Vortex and became the Bad Wolf, Jack has become a fixed point in time and therefore, is unable to stay dead.  She had only been trying to save him from a fatal shooting but accidentally gave him too much life.  Depending on the amount of trauma he’s suffered to cause him to die, resurrection can take from seconds to weeks to occur.  He has been shown to be able to be revived even after being completely blown apart from an implanted bomb.  He will regrow limbs and heal, becoming exactly as he had been when the Bad Wolf gave him her “gift.”  Resurrection is very painful for Jack.

 

Jack can also pass on some of his life energy into others, healing them or causing them to revive if they are not too badly injured.  He does this through kissing them.

 

Like all men from the 51^st century, Jack possesses evolved human pheromones which can cause people to find him attractive.  It only seems to work if they already are attracted to him.

 

Jack’s mind can not be read by telepathy and he is vaguely telepathic himself, able to push thoughts into another person’s mind as if whispering to them.  The older Jack gets, the more telepathic he becomes.

 

Personality:  Jack is an enigma, purposefully cloaking himself in mystery.  He rarely lets anything important about himself slip out and given his life as a con man and a Time Agent, he might be making most of what he does share about himself up out of thin air.  Prior to meeting the Doctor, Jack was a flippant adventurer that flirted, slept, bribed and conned his way across the universe.  Despite that, he was a good man and never wanted to actually hurt anyone, just take their money.  He is missing at least two years worth of memory however during which he is sure that he was doing bad things and had been a very bad person.

 

Jack is a natural leader, even though he comes off silly and carefree.  He is charismatic and smart, he is an excellent tactician, and he knows how to handle people.  This is likely due to him being a natural flirt.  He is onmisexual, willing to flirt and bed all genders (including non-humans and robots).

 

Despite Jack’s troubled past, he is usually smiling, telling jokes, being crude and acting happy-go-lucky.  Even though he has lost nearly everyone important to him in his life, has died well over two thousand times, and has had to do terrible things for the greater good, he remains outwardly cheerful.  No one gets passed Jack’s masks of cool suavity.  Not even Jack anymore.

 

Because Jack can not die, his motivations are generally other-person oriented.    He sees people for who they are and tries to see the good in them.  He is very protective over the people he loves, but is not shy about making more friends or giving past enemies a second (or third) chance even if he sometimes is a bit trigger happy.  Though he is fond of 20^th and 21^st century Earth, he finds their customs and cultural limitations quaint.

 

Strengths:  Jack is a man for every man (and woman, and alien gender and robot…etc).  I mean this in every way possible.  He is therefore patient, understanding, and non-discriminatory.  He is an excellent leader and trust worthy.  Jack can pilot any number of ships, cars, boats, airplanes, etc.  He is trained in interrogation methods, he can lie like a pro, and is charismatic enough to con people into doing most things.  Jack is also compassionate, though sometimes that becomes a weakness rather than a strength.  Jack is excellent with a firearm and can fix and modify all sorts of technology.  In short, he is a Renaissance man of the 51^st century.  Jack is also capable of doing extremely difficult things, making tough choices and getting others to follow with hid decisions.

Weaknesses:  Jack is sometimes too sentimental.  He has a weakness for damsels (and men too!) in distress and has a huge hero complex.  Trying to save others often puts him in harm’s way (though he can not die and can therefore be very reckless when it comes to safety).  Jack tries to distance himself from relationships, as all end with his partner dying or being unable to cope with living with a man that can not age.  He is more emotionally vulnerable than he lets on.

History: A full history can be found here: http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Jack_Harkness

Jack was born on Boeshane.  His mother and father were killed in an alien invasion when he was young and his brother, Gray was captured.  Jack was never able to save him.  In his teens, he joined up with the Time Agency, a quasi-police agency that chased criminals through time.  He was partnered with John Hart and they became lovers at times.  After the time Agency was dissolved, Jack became a con man.  That was where he first met Rose and the Doctor (9^th regeneration).  During their adventures, he was killed by a Dalek and brought back to life by Rose Tyler as the Bad Wolf.  The Doctor left him behind, unbeknownst to Jack, because he was ‘wrong’ and Jack used his manipulator to try and find him on Earth.  His manipulator broke and he spent the next two hundred years waiting for the Doctor to return.  During that time, he realized he couldn’t die or age.

 

After being forced to join the Torchwood institute, set up to guard Earth against aliens, Jack eventually took over Tochwood Three in Cardiff, Wales and reshaped it to be less warlike and more like the Doctor.  He met up with the Doctor again while he was refueling his ship and learned about why he couldn’t die and why he was left behind.  Jack eventually returned to his new team at Torchwood Three. 

 

Jack’s brother Gray eventually found him, killing some of his team members.  He buried Jack under 20 feet of dirty in AD 27 to be dug up in the 1900s.  During that time, he endured countless cycles of suffocation deaths and resurrections.  Eventually, Jack subdued his brother and froze him.  Not long after, an alien race called the 456 returned to Earth to harvest children and make them into drugs for their race.  Ianto, Jack’s lover, was killed by them.  Jack discovered that there was only one way to expel the 456 from Earth: use his own grandson as a transceiver.  This killed the boy.  Distraught, Jack left Earth and has been wandering around ever since.

 

((Season 4 of Torchwood begins in July of this year.  Jack returns to Earth to help Torchwood figure out why no one on Earth is able to die.  Jack’s canon occurs approximately 100 years after Season 4 of Torchwood, during which time he’s been exploring time and the universe.))



 First Person Sample:  

 

[Jack’s woken up in a lot of odd places before with little or no memory of what he did the night just preceding it.  Therefore, when he finds and figures out how to use his Blackberry, he’s really very calm.  Shockingly blue eyes peer out from beneath a forest of dark lashes.]

 

Hello!  Is this thing on?  I don’t suppose there’s anyone out there that might be able to tell me where I am?  Or who I was with?

 

[That sounds pretty bad actually.  He makes his smile brighter.]

 

Love the room though!  Is there room service here?  I wouldn’t say no to chocolate biscuits and coffee when you come back!

 

[He makes a bit of a face when no one answers right away and turns the feed off.]



 Third Person Sample:   

 

Jack loved his crew.  It was, by far, the biggest group of people he had ever had under his command, but that was what made it exciting.  Sure, they were scavengers, a bit mangy, a little bit too hyperviolent and prone to long bouts of drinking and sexual escapades, but he really couldn’t blame them.  Pirates, no matter the time period or the type of vessel, Jack found, always tended to be about the same.

 

Slipping into his navy blue RAF coat, something he had held onto fastidiously over the last one hundred years since their deaths, Jack bared his teeth to the mirror to have the plaque sonic blasted off, stepped under the usually fault decontaminator, and headed out into the hallway.  “Morning, Captain!” came a chorus of greetings and Jack answered each one back with a smile.  He climbed the steps towards the galley and pulled himself through the port rigging with a piece of purposefully burnt toast in his mouth on the way up to the bridge.

 

“Captain on the deck!”

 

“Thanks, Grant,” Jack replied.  “Status?”

 

“We’ve run into another of those sentient nebulae again,” his first officer explained and Jack rolled his eyes.

 

“Standard procedure, then.”  Jack rounded his chair and went to stand at the window as his crew fired an offering of chocolate milk and paper products towards the pink gas cloud.  “Someone needs to stop turning everything sentient,” Jack complained.  “Although that banana we ran—“  He never got the rest out.  The ship pitched and rolled in the blackness of space and before Jack could even ask what the hell was going on, he lost consciousness.

Links:  Though most of the RP in my journal are in a different verse than this one, if you want more samples of my writing or of how I play Jack, you can check there. 

Notes:  My current head canon for Jack includes a period of time about 100 years after the still to be aired 4^th season of Torchwood during which time he becomes an actual captain of a space pirating vessel, therefore earning his title as ‘captain’ finally.  I’ve chosen this point to bring Jack into the Badfic Manor canon, and therefore, write a little snippet of how he got to Badfic Manor as my third person sample.

Bonus:  Jack is just so much fun to play!  He’s absolutely nothing like me, which makes him a bit of a challenge.  He flirts with everything.  Shamelessly.  He’s also very deep and mysterious leaving a lot of interpretation and space for head canon!