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[PLAYER INFO]
NAME: Mandy
AGE: 24.
JOURNAL: tyriangalley
IM: seasonsofmists86
E-MAIL: drunkencynic@gmail.com
RETURNING: Yes, I play Ted Kord and James Potter.

[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Captain Jack Harkness
FANDOM: Doctor Who
CHRONOLOGY: Just at the end of season one, after his resurrection.
CLASS: Hero, though sometimes he errs on the side of non-heroic.
SUPERHERO NAME: Captain of the Innuendo Squad!
ALTER EGO: Jack Harkness, ….law enforcement?

BACKGROUND:

Jack is from the world of Doctor Who -- which means that he’s very familiar with species, times, and places of all kinds. He is a time-traveller, sort of like the Doctor, though he does it by a different method. Due to this fact, his history is very much non-linear and somewhat muddled, no one really knows much about his past. He was born in the 51st century, a time long after humans had spread and colonized the galaxy. Jack is not technically from Earth, though he has adopted it as his second home after some complications. He was born on the Boeshane Peninsula and had a younger brother who went by the name of Gray. They spent much of their time playing cricket and singing at campfires with their father. One day, Jack’s homeland was attacked by an unknown enemy, and Jack’s father told him and Gray to run, while Jack’s father went back for his mother. Jack lost hold of his brother’s hand and continued to run, eventually returning in search of his brother. He only found his father at their home, dead.

Eventually, after a short stint in the military, he ended up joining with the Time Agency in the hopes of finding his brother, Gray -- which was a group that used humans as their agents on unspecified missions through time. They travelled with the use of time vortex manipulators worn on their wrist. Jack gained a partner, John Hart, whom he subsequently became stuck in a two-week time loop with for five years. However, eventually Jack realized that the Time Agency had stolen two years of his memories, which he wanted back. He considered this as grounds for leaving the agency, and promptly quit. Then he became a time-travelling con artist, using his knowledge of the future to his advantage. He would demand money for objects that he knew would be destroyed without giving the buyer a chance to see what they had paid for. Some time after becoming a con man, he acquired a Chula warship modified for human use, and decided to set up a base of operations in London in 1941.

After spending some time in 1941 -- and taking on the name of a recently deceased American RAF volunteer (that would be Jack Harkness, incidentally), Jack met up with and rescued a girl hanging from a barrage balloon. One look at her clothing and her accessories confirmed his suspicions that this girl was probably a Time Agent, or at the very least, another time traveller. This girl was Rose Tyler. Jack promptly chose to begin his con on Rose, telling her that a Chula warship had crashed in London and it was about to be destroyed. He began to wine and dine Rose, who took him off to find the Doctor. The Doctor, Rose, and Jack all worked together to figure out and stop the mystery of ‘the empty child’, which Jack had inadvertantly caused by crashing a Chula ambulance in the middle of London, after admitting as much to the Doctor. The nanogenes contained in the ambulance had healed a dead child, but in an entirely wrong way, and would continue healing all of humanity in the image of that child. Our trio of intrepid travelers helped the child find his mummy, the nanogenes realized and fixed their mistakes, and just this once, everybody lived. Aside from the little fact that a German bomb was about to hit them -- Jack’s con had said as much, and he was telling the truth. So in order to save the day, Jack managed to hold the active bomb in a tractor beam and take it back to his ship. He had time to pour himself his very last martini, assuming he was going to blow up, before the TARDIS (the Doctor’s ship) materialized inside his ship, where he was greeted by the Doctor and Rose. He promptly became their newest companion, and proceeded to hit on both the Doctor AND Rose about five seconds after stepping in the TARDIS.

Anyway, they proceeded to have amazing crazy adventures throughout time and space, and eventually ended up in Cardiff so the TARDIS could refuel. The Doctor encountered an old enemy there, and Jack and Rose (and Mickey) helped him stop her and take her back home to the planet Raxicoricofallipatorius. After this, they made a quick stop in Kyoto in the 1600s, but were then very rudely transported out of the TARDIS and into various gameshows being filmed on Satellite 5 in the far future, which was a large satellite orbiting Earth. Jack was transported into a futuristic version of What Not to Wear, which involved him being naked on live TV and going through various outfits, at least until the droids hosting the show wanted to give him a facelift. Involving a chainsaw. Jack correctly realized that the games were basically deathtraps, promptly exploded the droid’s heads, and broke out to find the Doctor and Rose. They unfortunately reached Rose just as she was, to all appearances, disintegrated.

However, she wasn’t ACTUALLY disintegrated, but transported to a ship full of Daleks. The Doctor and Jack promptly located the TARDIS and headed for the Dalek fleet, where they saved Rose. The Daleks’ intention was to take over the planet Earth and destroy all of humanity, then turn them into more Daleks. Obviously, our intrepid trio had to stop them. So they returned to Satellite 5 to set up a giant radiation beam to stretch across the entire Dalek fleet, which would, hopefully, disintegrate all of them. To give the Doctor time to set this up, Jack and Rose decided to tinker with some things in the TARDIS and made a forcefield that would stretch down 5 floors, hopefully leading the Daleks upstairs and away from any more human casualties. The Doctor then sent Rose home in the TARDIS, having promised her mother that he would keep Rose safe. Then he and Jack continued their work, while Rose tried her hardest to open the TARDIS and send herself back to Satellite 5. Eventually she succeeded, and looked into the heart of the TARDIS, basically meaning the TARDIS and the time vortex took control of her body. Meanwhile, Jack and the Doctor were fighting for their lives, losing level after level to the Daleks. Jack was killed shortly before Rose and the TARDIS’ arrival. Once she had arrived back on the satellite, Rose/the TARDIS promptly disintegrated all the Daleks, and, in the process, unknowingly brought Jack back to life. The Doctor absorbed the power of the time vortex from Rose and brought her back to the TARDIS, where he would eventually regenerate. Jack came back to life and ran upstairs just as the TARDIS was leaving. According to the Doctor, because he was resurrected by the time vortex, Jack is now a fixed point in time. This means that the TARDIS doesn’t want to be around him anymore, and, more importantly, that he will come back to life every time he’s killed. Yes, even after being exploded. I’ll be taking him from just after his first resurrection, thus to save you all the other background information about his other series. :)

PERSONALITY:

First and foremost, Jack Harkness is a man of mystery. He likes it that way, and actively encourages his mysteriousness. Not even the Doctor knows a lot about who he is, which is saying something. There are, however, a few constants. He is an incorrigible flirt -- Jack is, in a word, omnisexual. He will hit on anyone and anything, including the Doctor, who is very much (in theory) not into dating his companions. Before the Doctor, he generally played the role of the mysterious conman, never staying in one place for very long and keeping his own safety as the most important thing in his life. As he put it, when in Pompeii, he always made sure to ‘get out before volcano day.’ Jack does, however, have a fondness for Earth in both the 20th and 21st centuries, which is one of the reasons why he’s stayed there so long.

As stated, prior to his meeting with the Doctor, Jack was basically concentrating on himself -- the need to stay alive, get out, and make money. Maybe to actually find his brother, but primarily his was a selfish existence. He’d lie, cheat, and steal to make ends meet -- still will, if it works to his advantage. To those who don’t look close, Jack is incapable of taking anything seriously, though he is a very confident and capable leader. He enjoys being in charge -- there’s a reason the identity he appropriated was a ‘Captain’. He may not be the best leader or make the smartest choices, but he is a natural-born leader and knows it. He is irreverent to a ridiculous degree, choosing to flirt with various people in the midst of Dalek attacks and/or share stories about sexual encounters at the point of death. He enjoys flirting with danger and most anything else that comes along. Jack has a talent for empathy, though he has been used to using this talent as a weapon, to understand people and use them to get what he wants. The Doctor helped him turn that around and start opening up a little bit, learn how to be a good person again.

The Doctor (mostly) changed that, made him see that the human race, the Earth was worth fighting for. Jack has a huge capacity to love -- that much is evident in his love of flirting/sex/anything involved with it. He loves humans, he (much later) loves his Torchwood team, and he’s desperately in love with the Doctor, even if he prefers to (usually) keep it to himself. This is sometimes a liability, but Jack will do anything to help the people he cares about. This love makes him loyal to a fault -- even when most people would expect him to escape, save himself and damn the rest, he will return, despite all odds. He remembers everyone he’s ever cared about and worked with, and will do whatever he can to help them, including dying. When you’re Jack, though, dying is only a temporary setback. His team and friends come first, no matter what. He would happily define himself as a hero, though not one who plays by the rules.

POWER:

- Immortality -- he can’t be outright killed, but he can die for a short amount of time. Also, he’s not invulnerable. Dying does hurt. Every time.
- Unexpected nakedness! That is, whenever he says ‘It’s getting hot in here’, everyone’s clothes in the room he’s in will automatically disappear.

[CHARACTER SAMPLES]

COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE:

[The video opens on a mildly-disoriented, handsome man in a WW2-era coat, looking at the camera with some surprise, then turning away.] Hero, huh? It’s been a while since I’ve been called that, but I’ll take it.

[He’s addressing the Porter now, his voice filled with playful flirtation.] How about I show you how heroic I can be? [There’s a pause, then a zap, and:]

Ow, ow, okay, I get the point, it’s not the time. ...Maybe later, sweetheart. [He turns back to the camera and gives it a little wave.] I really hope this isn’t like the last mysterious place I got zapped to, that one ended kind of badly. No one’s going to give me a face-off, right? Or defabricate me? ...Though I gotta say, I wouldn’t mind the last. [He sobers a minute, then gives the camera a friendly smile, though his eyes are worried, too serious.] I’m Captain Jack Harkness, for whoever wants to know.

LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE:

Well, this was new. For the first time in who knows how long (Jack didn’t, he’d stopped counting over the years), he’d found someone, something he could care about. Those someones just happened to be a Time Lord from Gallifrey and a young blonde woman. When they showed up in his ship, Jack was happy enough to die for them, to save them and the hundreds of Londoners from a German bomb about to explode. He’d figured he’d lived long enough, better to go out a hero, saving the city, than a coward escaping yet again. The Doctor had taught him that there were things worth saving. He’d fully expected to die for those things, which is why it was such a surprise to have a police box show up in his nice little ship.

He’d stepped into the TARDIS after the Doctor had called to him, grinning widely. This ship was impossible, and the man who owned it was even more impossible. Jack liked impossible things. (The good-looking company didn’t hurt one bit, either.) And what was more impossible than travelling through galaxies in a flying police box? This was going to be one of the better adventures he would have, he could already tell. “Much bigger on the inside,” he said, stepping forward and quirking an eyebrow at the couple dancing in front of him. This? This was going to be fantastic.

FINAL NOTES ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER:

IMPORTANT QUESTION. Can Jack hit on the ‘Porter when he arrives? Because it would be totally awesome if he did, but I’m okay with not doing it too.

Also, can he have his psychic paper? It’s basically just a little piece of paper that says whatever Jack wants it to say.