25 -- I'M HALF ASLEEP SO OBVS IT'S MEME TIME.

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it's 1:30am and i'm in Emiri's bedroom so of course i should do a relationship meme for Jack.

comment & i'll deliriously inform you what jack thinks about your character/s

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There really is nothing I can say in response to that, is there.

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I HAVE BEEN SAVING THAT FOR A WHILE. :)

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I still have like, this half-finished thing in My Documents titled ESSAY - campfuckudie - incomplete - Jack Harkness's mind is a labyrinth of issues!!!!1 (my organization is awesome) and it details a little of Jack's horrible canon predilection to fall in love with people he's just met even though he knows he shouldn't and that he's inevitably going to lose them; to death, if nothing else (and usually before the episode is out.)

This is relevant just because he does love Stein, though god knows he'd never admit it. It's not an epic romance, it's not the kind of possessive boyfriend love that says, I have found my partner for life, it's the idea that he feels something more for him than just, hey, you're kinda hot (which is his standard reaction to most people.) Stein challenges him and provokes different aspects of him, and therefore that exasperated Oh-Stein-Why-So-Crazy fondness and occasional sexual harassment is Jack's way of loving him. I guess. It doesn't really change anything, it just means he's even more melodramatic if it looks like Stein might die. But I think Stein was the first person in Camp to get added to that list (uh, aside from like. Rose. Gwen. Ianto. The Doctor. The first person from Camp, I should say.)

But Jack's still a hardass, and he's also jaw-clenchingly convinced that he must Never Ever let Stein hurt anyone, and when Stein does and feel bad about it, or feels like, guilty for not feeling bad, or something equally convoluted and impossible, it will be All Jack's Fault. Something something responsibility, insert long paragraph about lessons learned from The Doctor here. So he's not actually skeeved about Stein's hobbies (unless they put him in direct danger of being sliced open, the unexpected glasses-glinting attention sometimes freaks him out because I mean, Torchwood - old Torchwood, they saw him as an experiment and plaything, because of what he was. And Jack doesn't really want to associate Stein with the old crowd. Or, for that matter, John Hart, but I think I went over something like that the last time I did this meme.) Blood and sadism don't really faze him, it's because he's convinced Stein is trying to remain moral that he puts him in the Good Guys box, and why he gets to righteously indignant towards people who are trying to, idk, corrupt him. (terrible choice of word, but I mean like. Graham & Medusa, etc.)

Anyway, I promised myself I would keep this succinct and I totally just deleted two extra paragraphs, but I will save it for my essay, which will never see the light of day. So in conclusion: