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Personal journal: sarcasto_chick
Email: savvyslayer89@yahoo.com
Characters played (if applicable): Nathan Petrelli (Heroes)
Character name: Captain Jack Harkness
Genre (TV/books/etc): TV
Fandom: Torchwood
Canon point: Jack is being brought in post the events of Torchwood 2x13, 'Exit Wounds'. Actually, I thought it over. Post the events in 4x13 of Doctor Who, 'Journey's End', if you please. No reason not to include it if I'm going this far.
Programmed Possession: The coat, of course. Torchwood 3, aka The Hub.
Abilities/Weaknesses: Jack can't die. And not for lack of trying. After Rose Tyler took the time vortex into herself to stop the Daleks and save everyone at the end of Doctor Who 1z12 (The Parting of the Ways), she brought Jack back to life after he'd been killed by Daleks. The thing was, she apparently took away his ability to die after that. So he ages, but nothing found has been able to kill him just yet.
Psychology/Personality: Captain Jack is a con artist, which makes him one of those 'man of many faces' types. He does his best to, and often will, fit any situation that he finds himself in. It doesn't matter if it's a lie or not, it's what's necessary, and that's all that matters.
Whether it's 'Time Agent' (before Doctor Who), 'con man' (Doctor Who 1x09-10), 'soldier' (pre-Torchwood), 'Torchwood Agent' (Torchwood 2x12), or 'Commander in Chief of Torchwood' (all Torchwood episodes), he tends to wear his many faces well. But there's still always a distinct personality that is Jack that shines through, in how he interacts with others. Not to mention how he dresses.
Over the years, however, he's become more serious in the face of his responsibilities. Jack chose to become the one who will 'take the shot' when no one else will, making hard decisions when the other members of his team are getting emotional. Whether it means killing or harsh justice, in the face of betrayal or at the potential cost of innocent lives, Jack is the first to pull the trigger. Suzie Costello (1x01) and Mary the Whoring Space Criminal (1x07) being just two prime examples of this attitude.
He is still, however, more of a lover than a fighter. And as John Barrowman has said, pretty much with "anyone with a postal code". His current relationship with one Ianto Jones non withstanding, even if he can't touch, Jack will most certainly look. And flirt. To excess. He knows he's charming, and loves to capitalize on that. As a prior criminal, it was his job after all.
Still, he's loyal to Ianto Jones, with whom he's developed a physical and emotional relationship. They shared an attraction straight from the beginning, although it never came to pass that a move was made until somewhere between 1x04 ('Cyberwoman') and 1x08 ('They Keep Killing Suzie'). There's a bit of emotional cheating on Jack's part with Gwen Cooper, who pushes him to be better than he is and cracks some of that hard exterior he's put up over the years.
Jack is far from quick to let anyone in on his past, tending to keep things as vague as possible instead of letting people in, no matter how close they are to him. Gwen was the first to find out he can't die simply by accident after Suzie shot Jack in the head, and none of the other members of the team were even aware of it (1x01). Toshiko learned of his military past when they were stuck in the Cardiff Blitz (1x12). Overall, if someone learns something new about Jack Harkness, it usually isn't because he told them about it.
The connections he forms are more about emotions and in the moment instead of past experiences, and are severed quickly in the face of betrayal or to keep himself from getting hurt. There are a few he can't let go of (Owen Harper was brought back from the dead because of that), but overall, once you've crossed Jack, there is very little chance of fixing the damage to the relationship.
The only real exceptions to the rule are once again Gwen and Ianto, Gwen still seeming to get through to Jack by battering ram-esque methods sometimes, and Ianto through his ever developing relationship with Jack. Jack's reluctance stems from the fact that he knows he'll watch them all grow old and die some day, and he'll continue having to live without them. But it seems to be unavoidable. All in all, that's probably healthier, don't you think?
History:
Brace yourselves, gang.
So all in all, there is no hard and fast history for Captain Jack Harkness. Captain Jack Harkness isn't even his real name. But let's go with what we know. Jack was born on the Boeshane Peninsula. He had one younger brother, Gray, and his two parents. They lived under constant threat of invasion, and one day, it came to pass. Jack's brother Gray was taken by the creatures who attacked them, and his father was killed. Jack bore the guilt of losing Gray by letting go of his hand when they were running for cover, and still bears it.
After joining up with a friend to fight unnamed creatures in an also unnamed military organization, Jack lost his friend to the creatures who tortured him as a lesson to Jack. He left the military, joining up with the Time Agency to travel across the universe. Which led to a lot of interesting activity, a partnership with 'Captain John Hart' (five year partnership while stuck in a two week time loop -- Which also doubled as a relationship between the two of them where John fell in love).
Jack went out on his own after he discovered that the Time Agency had stolen two years from his memory, and betrayed him. He became a criminal, a hustler pushing space junk, and on one of these cons met The Doctor and Rose Tyler. After a rather interesting incident involving gas masks and a kid spreading an alien virus, not to mention a near death experience, he wound up staying on with them. Jack fought with The Doctor and Rose to stop the Daleks on Satellite 5. He was killed in a last stand against the Daleks, trying to hold them back via gunfire which really didn't do all that much.
But instead of staying dead, he got granted a second chance. And a lot more chances to follow. In the final battle thanks to Rose Tyler becoming the Bad Wolf, she used the time vortex inside the TARDIS to bring Jack back to life. Somehow, this made him unable to die. He could be killed, but he'd always come back. There wasn't much chance for explanation, The Doctor and Rose left Satellite 5 and left Jack behind.
In an effort to get off the station and back to Cardiff so he could set about finding The Doctor when he refueled the TARDIS via the time rift that runs through the city, Jack used the vortex manipulator from the Time Agency and due to some technical difficulties got stuck in 1869 Cardiff. With no other options than to live out his life no matter how many times he was killed until he could find The Doctor again, Jack was a man out of times forced to adapt.
He fought in a number of wars, taking on the name Captain Jack Harkness after falsifying the records of a deceased RAF pilot (who he would later meet in years to come), and saw a great deal that he rarely spoke about. Finally, after a barfight one night that left him with a wine bottle in his stomach, he met with Torchwood. They coerced, and finally talked him into, becoming an agent. After all, what else did he have to do?
Through the years following Jack worked with Torchwood to hunt down alien threats and scavenge the technology they left behind. On New Year's Eve in 1999, the head of Torchwood, Alex, saw the future through an alien artifact. Horrified by what he saw, he snapped, and killed all Torchwood's agents, and then himself. He left the agency to Jack, for him to rebuild and 'give it a purpose, before it's too late'.
Jack did his best to do exactly that. Bringing Toshiko Sato, Dr. Owen Harper, Suzie Costello, and Ianto Jones on board, he set about making a new Torchwood. One that would be better and accomplish far more than the Torchwoods prior ever could. In particular, Torchwood London, which he severed all ties with. (The exception being Ianto, who after a bit of work on his part, convinced Jack to let him on board.)
It wasn't always perfect. Suzie turned out to be a killer after being enticed too much by the power offered by the 'Resurrection Gauntlet' (or 'Risen Mitten', according to Ianto), and after three murders and being discovered by Gwen Cooper, killed herself. Gwen was then inducted into the team, having caught Jack's attention from the very beginning due to her persistence, intelligence, and her empathy that surpassed his own. Oh, and her looks too. Regardless of sexual tension and a lot of clashing, Gwen became a close friend of Jack's and an integral part of the team.
Jack developed a more physical relationship with Ianto, although it's not exactly pinpointed precisely where and when that started exactly. They're about as serious as Jack gets, which is to say neither one of them's sleeping with anyone else and they're both fairly open about it.
Through a number of trials and tribulations with the team, Jack has done everything he could to keep them together and keep them strong. After the fight with Abaddon it was revealed to all of them that Jack absolutely could not be killed, although it seemed like a close call for a bit there. Even though they got him back, they quickly lost them soon after. The TARDIS came back to Cardiff, and Jack went chasing The Doctor to attempt to get him to fix his immortality. The Doctor confessed that he couldn't, and wasn't particularly fond of Jack for being something that couldn't really be classified and shouldn't actually exist. Martha Jones, however, who was The Doctor's companion at the time, was absolutely fond of him.
They went to the end of the universe and discovered a group of humans trying to discover Utopia, their last hope and refuge against the end of everything. After The Master, who was human thanks to the use of the Chameleon Arch, woke up from his 'sleep' and regenerated into his latest form, they chased him back to the present. Only to find that The Master had taken on the name Harold Saxon and became Prime Minister of Great Britain.
A fight ensued that they lost, and Martha escaped to fight again in a year's time. They managed to beat The Master using his own psychic network against him, and thereby created 'The Year That Wasn't' after the Paradox Machine that The Master turned the TARDIS into was destroyed and erased all of the events that'd occurred under The Master's tyranny in that time. The first thing Jack wanted to do once they were free? Go back to his team, and where he realized he now belonged. And he did.
John Hart lated resurfaced to scam/attempt to kill them all out of a twisted love for Jack and a greedy need for a diamond that turned out not to exist. Following that, Jack and the team carried on until Hart returned to wreak havoc on Cardiff, a plan that it was later discovered was actually orchestrated by Jack's younger brother Gray as revenge for Gray's life as a prisoner of the creatures that had invaded their home. Jack managed to take him down, but not without the loss of Toshiko and Owen in battle.
Last we see of the team -- which is now just Jack, Ianto, and Gwen -- they're attempting to rebuild and carry on. As Jack said, 'the end is where we start from'. They come up in Doctor Who's series four finale, fighting against The Daleks when they relocate Earth to The Medusa Cascade. Past that, we'll just have to wait until the upcoming miniseries, apparently. Whenever that's being let loose.
And it probably should be mentioned that Jack may well be the mysterious all knowing alien far into the future known only as 'The Face of Boe', who genuinely seems to be just one big face. The Doctor and Martha discover this when Jack asks The Doctor what's going to happen to him. He's continuing to age, but he's not dying. Jack mentions that it's probably about vanity, he doesn't want to lose his looks. After all, he was something of a heartthrob, and the first person to enlist in the military in the Boeshane Peninsula. They called him 'The Face of Boe'.
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Personal journal: sarcasto_chick
Email: savvyslayer89@yahoo.com
Characters played (if applicable): Nathan Petrelli (Heroes)
Character name: Captain Jack Harkness
Genre (TV/books/etc): TV
Fandom: Torchwood
Canon point: Jack is being brought in post the events of Torchwood 2x13, 'Exit Wounds'. Actually, I thought it over. Post the events in 4x13 of Doctor Who, 'Journey's End', if you please. No reason not to include it if I'm going this far.
Programmed Possession: The coat, of course. Torchwood 3, aka The Hub.
Abilities/Weaknesses: Jack can't die. And not for lack of trying. After Rose Tyler took the time vortex into herself to stop the Daleks and save everyone at the end of Doctor Who 1z12 (The Parting of the Ways), she brought Jack back to life after he'd been killed by Daleks. The thing was, she apparently took away his ability to die after that. So he ages, but nothing found has been able to kill him just yet.
Psychology/Personality: Captain Jack is a con artist, which makes him one of those 'man of many faces' types. He does his best to, and often will, fit any situation that he finds himself in. It doesn't matter if it's a lie or not, it's what's necessary, and that's all that matters.
Whether it's 'Time Agent' (before Doctor Who), 'con man' (Doctor Who 1x09-10), 'soldier' (pre-Torchwood), 'Torchwood Agent' (Torchwood 2x12), or 'Commander in Chief of Torchwood' (all Torchwood episodes), he tends to wear his many faces well. But there's still always a distinct personality that is Jack that shines through, in how he interacts with others. Not to mention how he dresses.
Over the years, however, he's become more serious in the face of his responsibilities. Jack chose to become the one who will 'take the shot' when no one else will, making hard decisions when the other members of his team are getting emotional. Whether it means killing or harsh justice, in the face of betrayal or at the potential cost of innocent lives, Jack is the first to pull the trigger. Suzie Costello (1x01) and Mary the Whoring Space Criminal (1x07) being just two prime examples of this attitude.
He is still, however, more of a lover than a fighter. And as John Barrowman has said, pretty much with "anyone with a postal code". His current relationship with one Ianto Jones non withstanding, even if he can't touch, Jack will most certainly look. And flirt. To excess. He knows he's charming, and loves to capitalize on that. As a prior criminal, it was his job after all.
Still, he's loyal to Ianto Jones, with whom he's developed a physical and emotional relationship. They shared an attraction straight from the beginning, although it never came to pass that a move was made until somewhere between 1x04 ('Cyberwoman') and 1x08 ('They Keep Killing Suzie'). There's a bit of emotional cheating on Jack's part with Gwen Cooper, who pushes him to be better than he is and cracks some of that hard exterior he's put up over the years.
Jack is far from quick to let anyone in on his past, tending to keep things as vague as possible instead of letting people in, no matter how close they are to him. Gwen was the first to find out he can't die simply by accident after Suzie shot Jack in the head, and none of the other members of the team were even aware of it (1x01). Toshiko learned of his military past when they were stuck in the Cardiff Blitz (1x12). Overall, if someone learns something new about Jack Harkness, it usually isn't because he told them about it.
The connections he forms are more about emotions and in the moment instead of past experiences, and are severed quickly in the face of betrayal or to keep himself from getting hurt. There are a few he can't let go of (Owen Harper was brought back from the dead because of that), but overall, once you've crossed Jack, there is very little chance of fixing the damage to the relationship.
The only real exceptions to the rule are once again Gwen and Ianto, Gwen still seeming to get through to Jack by battering ram-esque methods sometimes, and Ianto through his ever developing relationship with Jack. Jack's reluctance stems from the fact that he knows he'll watch them all grow old and die some day, and he'll continue having to live without them. But it seems to be unavoidable. All in all, that's probably healthier, don't you think?
History:
Brace yourselves, gang.
So all in all, there is no hard and fast history for Captain Jack Harkness. Captain Jack Harkness isn't even his real name. But let's go with what we know. Jack was born on the Boeshane Peninsula. He had one younger brother, Gray, and his two parents. They lived under constant threat of invasion, and one day, it came to pass. Jack's brother Gray was taken by the creatures who attacked them, and his father was killed. Jack bore the guilt of losing Gray by letting go of his hand when they were running for cover, and still bears it.
After joining up with a friend to fight unnamed creatures in an also unnamed military organization, Jack lost his friend to the creatures who tortured him as a lesson to Jack. He left the military, joining up with the Time Agency to travel across the universe. Which led to a lot of interesting activity, a partnership with 'Captain John Hart' (five year partnership while stuck in a two week time loop -- Which also doubled as a relationship between the two of them where John fell in love).
Jack went out on his own after he discovered that the Time Agency had stolen two years from his memory, and betrayed him. He became a criminal, a hustler pushing space junk, and on one of these cons met The Doctor and Rose Tyler. After a rather interesting incident involving gas masks and a kid spreading an alien virus, not to mention a near death experience, he wound up staying on with them. Jack fought with The Doctor and Rose to stop the Daleks on Satellite 5. He was killed in a last stand against the Daleks, trying to hold them back via gunfire which really didn't do all that much.
But instead of staying dead, he got granted a second chance. And a lot more chances to follow. In the final battle thanks to Rose Tyler becoming the Bad Wolf, she used the time vortex inside the TARDIS to bring Jack back to life. Somehow, this made him unable to die. He could be killed, but he'd always come back. There wasn't much chance for explanation, The Doctor and Rose left Satellite 5 and left Jack behind.
In an effort to get off the station and back to Cardiff so he could set about finding The Doctor when he refueled the TARDIS via the time rift that runs through the city, Jack used the vortex manipulator from the Time Agency and due to some technical difficulties got stuck in 1869 Cardiff. With no other options than to live out his life no matter how many times he was killed until he could find The Doctor again, Jack was a man out of times forced to adapt.
He fought in a number of wars, taking on the name Captain Jack Harkness after falsifying the records of a deceased RAF pilot (who he would later meet in years to come), and saw a great deal that he rarely spoke about. Finally, after a barfight one night that left him with a wine bottle in his stomach, he met with Torchwood. They coerced, and finally talked him into, becoming an agent. After all, what else did he have to do?
Through the years following Jack worked with Torchwood to hunt down alien threats and scavenge the technology they left behind. On New Year's Eve in 1999, the head of Torchwood, Alex, saw the future through an alien artifact. Horrified by what he saw, he snapped, and killed all Torchwood's agents, and then himself. He left the agency to Jack, for him to rebuild and 'give it a purpose, before it's too late'.
Jack did his best to do exactly that. Bringing Toshiko Sato, Dr. Owen Harper, Suzie Costello, and Ianto Jones on board, he set about making a new Torchwood. One that would be better and accomplish far more than the Torchwoods prior ever could. In particular, Torchwood London, which he severed all ties with. (The exception being Ianto, who after a bit of work on his part, convinced Jack to let him on board.)
It wasn't always perfect. Suzie turned out to be a killer after being enticed too much by the power offered by the 'Resurrection Gauntlet' (or 'Risen Mitten', according to Ianto), and after three murders and being discovered by Gwen Cooper, killed herself. Gwen was then inducted into the team, having caught Jack's attention from the very beginning due to her persistence, intelligence, and her empathy that surpassed his own. Oh, and her looks too. Regardless of sexual tension and a lot of clashing, Gwen became a close friend of Jack's and an integral part of the team.
Jack developed a more physical relationship with Ianto, although it's not exactly pinpointed precisely where and when that started exactly. They're about as serious as Jack gets, which is to say neither one of them's sleeping with anyone else and they're both fairly open about it.
Through a number of trials and tribulations with the team, Jack has done everything he could to keep them together and keep them strong. After the fight with Abaddon it was revealed to all of them that Jack absolutely could not be killed, although it seemed like a close call for a bit there. Even though they got him back, they quickly lost them soon after. The TARDIS came back to Cardiff, and Jack went chasing The Doctor to attempt to get him to fix his immortality. The Doctor confessed that he couldn't, and wasn't particularly fond of Jack for being something that couldn't really be classified and shouldn't actually exist. Martha Jones, however, who was The Doctor's companion at the time, was absolutely fond of him.
They went to the end of the universe and discovered a group of humans trying to discover Utopia, their last hope and refuge against the end of everything. After The Master, who was human thanks to the use of the Chameleon Arch, woke up from his 'sleep' and regenerated into his latest form, they chased him back to the present. Only to find that The Master had taken on the name Harold Saxon and became Prime Minister of Great Britain.
A fight ensued that they lost, and Martha escaped to fight again in a year's time. They managed to beat The Master using his own psychic network against him, and thereby created 'The Year That Wasn't' after the Paradox Machine that The Master turned the TARDIS into was destroyed and erased all of the events that'd occurred under The Master's tyranny in that time. The first thing Jack wanted to do once they were free? Go back to his team, and where he realized he now belonged. And he did.
John Hart lated resurfaced to scam/attempt to kill them all out of a twisted love for Jack and a greedy need for a diamond that turned out not to exist. Following that, Jack and the team carried on until Hart returned to wreak havoc on Cardiff, a plan that it was later discovered was actually orchestrated by Jack's younger brother Gray as revenge for Gray's life as a prisoner of the creatures that had invaded their home. Jack managed to take him down, but not without the loss of Toshiko and Owen in battle.
Last we see of the team -- which is now just Jack, Ianto, and Gwen -- they're attempting to rebuild and carry on. As Jack said, 'the end is where we start from'. They come up in Doctor Who's series four finale, fighting against The Daleks when they relocate Earth to The Medusa Cascade. Past that, we'll just have to wait until the upcoming miniseries, apparently. Whenever that's being let loose.
And it probably should be mentioned that Jack may well be the mysterious all knowing alien far into the future known only as 'The Face of Boe', who genuinely seems to be just one big face. The Doctor and Martha discover this when Jack asks The Doctor what's going to happen to him. He's continuing to age, but he's not dying. Jack mentions that it's probably about vanity, he doesn't want to lose his looks. After all, he was something of a heartthrob, and the first person to enlist in the military in the Boeshane Peninsula. They called him 'The Face of Boe'.
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