ILPROMENADE.
PLAYER
✧ NAME: Katie
✧ LJ USERNAME: the_betrayer
✧ CONTACT (EMAIL, AIM, MSN, PLURK, ETC.): AIM: harkness said, plurk: agalio, e-mail: katzudoeslj[at]gmail.com
✧ CURRENT MUSE LIST: Azula, Simon Bellamy.
CHARACTER
✧ NAME: Captain Jack Harkness
✧ SERIES: Torchwood / Doctor Who, Torchwood is his primary canon.
✧ HISTORY: History.
✧ TIMELINE: Post Children of Earth, season 3.
✧ PERSONALITY: Jack is a flirt. And he will flirt with you, your brother, your mother, and your father. He has absolutely no limitations seen within canon. No species repulses him, no gender brothers him. All that matters to Jack is how attractive he finds the person. He finds the twenty-first century to categorize relationships far too much (“you people and your quaint little categories”). Perhaps he finds them imposing, and he wishes for the freedom that he has in the fifty-first century, which is the era that he is from. He doesn’t say, but he really is a judgmental free man when it comes to relationships. And he really isn’t someone who is in the place to judge others for their choice of relationships. He will use his ability to flirt with others to get answers that people may otherwise be unwilling to give, and is certainly not above using his appearance to get his way. He is completely uninhibited and is totally comfortable in his own skin. Some may go so far as to say he is a tease, as he is not to be taken seriously - except maybe in that rare, very rare moment - when he flirts. Jack is not a man who is interested in a committed relationship. He has stated many times that he dislikes words that would pair him up with someone, and make them exclusive. This isn’t entirely his cup of tea - or so he says.
He could be what some would call the Fearless Leader, not afraid to take the bull by the horns so to speak. He’s quick to throw himself (and his team) into danger in order to get the job done. He knows that what he and his team do isn’t exactly the easiest job, but he is far from lenient on the job. He also understands that there is sacrifice to his work and wants others to be able to understand it (at a point in canon he chastises Owen for opening a rift and risking the planet to bring himself and Tosh home from the past) is not always easy to make the right choice (he sacrificed his grandson to save many, many children). Jack will throw himself into dangerous situations, and part of that stems from his inability to die and know that he will be able to come back from it. The problem comes from him throwing those who can die into the same situations. He has been called on it before, and has been generally unwilling to change in this regard. I doubt he enjoys making tough choices and being the type of guy that people find hard to work for - but he knows that if he doesn’t do it right, there won’t be another person who will.
He does enjoy being a leader, and being in control of the situation. If Torchwood had a manual, Jack probably didn’t read it or threw it out. He likes to do things his own way, and wants others to listen to his way. He will get angry if something doesn’t work, and especially angry if he knows that a situation could have been avoided had someone just done what they knew was right. Jack is someone who yells when he’s extremely angry. It’s not very often that we see him that angry in the series, though. For Jack failure is not an option. Sure, everyone fails at some point in time, but he knows his failures could put the entire world at risk. This is not acceptable to him, and he will often get angry if he sees others struggling and doing something which might lead to failure in one of his goals. This is how he is easily made angry.
Jack comes off as a confident man. He’s well put together, and well dressed. He’s not shy in his approaching others, nor is he remotely unsure in any step that he takes, or that is how it appears to others. This is a man who likely spends hours looking in a mirror. Jack knows he is attractive. In fact, if he were asked to describe himself, he would definitely focus on his appearance. In a way, though, Jack looks out of place. His style of dress has been called “classic” by others on the team. He’s not the type who would be bothered by this, nor would he consider it an insult.
Jack has a tendency to have a magnetic personality about him. People who do not know him well may call him a variety of things - mysterious, but approachable. He has a generally welcoming appearance, and he doesn’t even really try. People do enjoy being around him, and people are attracted to him. This is probably due to his confidence and strength that he has. Those fifty-first century pheromones probably don’t hurt either.
Beneath the flirt is a generally insecure and selfish man. Jack is out for himself, he’s learned through his lifetime that is commonplace, and has made it a point to not be constantly selfless in his relationships (or remotely selfless). Sure, he is considerably better about assisting people and playing hero than he was in his conman days; however Jack still lacks the ability to give someone all of himself. He prefers to keep people an arm’s length away, sometimes - the further the better. He acknowledges that he can not die, and he doesn’t want to watch others die. He is watching out for himself, and in some ways that is the best way to handle his particular situation (day to day upset isn’t really Jack).
Jack is incapable of completely trusting someone, and keeps to himself quite a lot. This isn’t an entirely selfish part of him, though, but his reasons for it may seem like it. I believe part of it is his shields he is putting up around himself, and knowing that it is difficult for others to completely understand. Part of Jack does not want to burden others with his worries, so he takes them upon himself to worry about them. Throughout Torchwood’s series, other characters learn about how he is incapable of remaining dead, but initially the only one who knows is Gwen, because she witnessed it. Sure, Jack won’t lie about it if he is asked, but he won’t make that a point of his life. Unfortunately with those “dangerous situations” it has become more and more obvious of what he is.
For all of his confidence and all of his pushing others away, Jack bears mass amounts of guilt. Everything from the belief that he lost his brother, and then Gray coming forward and openly blaming Jack for all that he had been through - all the way through the death of Ianto. Jack will always blame himself when someone on his team dies or suffers. It isn’t always best that he puts on his same-old face and physically appears to have no guilt about the entire situation. He may come off as indifferent, but we learn throughout the series that the guilt starts being pulled from him the closer he gets to his teammates (particularly Ianto). I believe that Jack has constantly carried the guilt, but his desire to not worry others kept him from displaying that he felt so horrible about anything that has happened.
Jack does not feel like he belongs. I would say that his biggest insecurity is feeling out of his time and out of place. Jack does not feel like he belongs among people, especially the twenty-first century people. He likely doesn’t even consider himself human in a lot of ways. Jack has expressed that he desires to no longer live on as he has. He wants to be normal, and be fixed (it was his reason for trying to find the Doctor for so many years of his life). He is sympathetic to a man who travels through a break in time from the past to his present, and understands and doesn’t stop the man from killing himself. Jack says that he is just like that man, someone who is “out of his time”.
✧ ABILITIES/POWERS: Jack's a skilled Alien Hunter, a Time Traveler (with a group known as the Time Agency), and a fixed point in time. Being a fixed point in time means that if he were to change, things would really be altered in the future by it. (For example, a fixed point in time would be Pompeii). Jack, as a result, can not die - or rather won't remain dead. Yes, can't die, and won't remain dead should be distinguished upon. He can, technically, die. He has died many times, but the problem is he always comes back good as new. There has not been any mention in canon if he were to lose a limb without dying and if it would regenerate, and it hasn't been tested. But part of the stipulation with “fixed point in time” is him not being capable of change, so my guess is it would (eventually) regenerate. He has regenerated from as little as his arm and his head after he was blown up in canon.
”Alien hunter” entails quite a lot. Jack is good with technology, able to work through systems in computers. He is capable of programming things, building things, and comprehending a lot of alien technology that leaves many people puzzled. He is physically capable and has decent stamina as well in a chase. He can handle a gun quite nicely, and is quite skilled with it. He is not afraid to use it, either. Technology will be mostly irrelevant here.
He’s a Time Traveler which entails really only a few things. It is never stated what precisely the Time Agency did. We simply get that they work in partners and are able to time travel. With that comes Jack's Vortex Manipulator. Jack has traveled through time with it in canon; however, it is known to be broken most recently. So it isn't more than a glorified watch.
✧ TIME OF ARRIVAL: Day.
✧ MASK DESIGN: here.
✧ PLACE OF SOLACE: Torchwood hub. (It's bigger on the inside...because it goes underground.) There's a lot to it. In essence there's a lot of workstations, his office, a shooting range, a vault, and a few cells that will still have some NPC Weevils that they've grabbed. Plus several other places.
SAMPLES
✧ FIRST PERSON: Nngh. I have a lot of threads I'll link to; rawr. here's way more than 15.
here, still more than 15.
an intro post at another game.
✧ THIRD PERSON: Jack had woken up in strange places before. Usually it was following a night of enough drinks to kill the average person. Sometimes it was after a very painful death where his body had to spend some time regenerating. He was in one piece, and he didn't remember getting drunk (which he realized meant very little), and there was no one next to him. He was disappointed by the latter, but got up from where he was laying. He stretched, feeling an odd soreness in his back. Instead of being bothered by that fact (when he had, in fact, never experienced such a thing, even in those 1800 years he spent underground), he was just amused.
"I must be getting old," he said, realizing it was for no one but himself. He laughed, shifting back on his heels and turning to examine the room.
Strange place, check. He realized that without alcohol meant he was likely abducted in some way. Not entirely unusual when your occupation was dealing with alien lifeforms on a day to day basis. And he had experience with a rift that had the ability to pull people into it. He looked around the room, and shrugged. Just because it didn't seem like it was alien, doesn't mean it wasn't. There were a lot of places he hadn't been.
He shoved his hands into the pockets of his coat. He found something in his pockets that looked similar to his phone he had at home, but something about it wasn't quite the same. He turned the device on, and then dropped it back into his pocket. Once he figured out where he was, he would make some phone calls. If this so called phone even would allow him to call home, or make any calls.
On a far wall, he saw a mirror following his home. He had noticed it in passing, but hadn't looked too closely. He approached it, placing a hand on the glass of the mirror. It showed Cardiff, people moving through the streets, the events of the 456 forgotten for the most part. They hadn't really learned after everything that had happened. He was disappointed, but knew they weren't ready. Or they just didn't want to remember the children they had almost lost.
So, he had to figure out where he was and how he got there, now. And without an obvious answer in place, Jack followed one of his rules of thumb: "When in doubt, the Rift did it." That meant anything he would experience would likely be a surprise. That was okay to him, he didn't completely mind surprises as long as they didn't end in a horrible, painful death followed by a horrible, painful regeneration.
He shoved his hands in his pocket and made his way for what appeared to be the way out. For all that Jack knew, he would end up in a giant pit of fire or lava. He was prepared for something horrible to happen. Jack was always prepared.
✧ ORIGINAL CHARACTER QUESTION: Jack is not an OC :)
✧ NAME: Katie
✧ LJ USERNAME: the_betrayer
✧ CONTACT (EMAIL, AIM, MSN, PLURK, ETC.): AIM: harkness said, plurk: agalio, e-mail: katzudoeslj[at]gmail.com
✧ CURRENT MUSE LIST: Azula, Simon Bellamy.
CHARACTER
✧ NAME: Captain Jack Harkness
✧ SERIES: Torchwood / Doctor Who, Torchwood is his primary canon.
✧ HISTORY: History.
✧ TIMELINE: Post Children of Earth, season 3.
✧ PERSONALITY: Jack is a flirt. And he will flirt with you, your brother, your mother, and your father. He has absolutely no limitations seen within canon. No species repulses him, no gender brothers him. All that matters to Jack is how attractive he finds the person. He finds the twenty-first century to categorize relationships far too much (“you people and your quaint little categories”). Perhaps he finds them imposing, and he wishes for the freedom that he has in the fifty-first century, which is the era that he is from. He doesn’t say, but he really is a judgmental free man when it comes to relationships. And he really isn’t someone who is in the place to judge others for their choice of relationships. He will use his ability to flirt with others to get answers that people may otherwise be unwilling to give, and is certainly not above using his appearance to get his way. He is completely uninhibited and is totally comfortable in his own skin. Some may go so far as to say he is a tease, as he is not to be taken seriously - except maybe in that rare, very rare moment - when he flirts. Jack is not a man who is interested in a committed relationship. He has stated many times that he dislikes words that would pair him up with someone, and make them exclusive. This isn’t entirely his cup of tea - or so he says.
He could be what some would call the Fearless Leader, not afraid to take the bull by the horns so to speak. He’s quick to throw himself (and his team) into danger in order to get the job done. He knows that what he and his team do isn’t exactly the easiest job, but he is far from lenient on the job. He also understands that there is sacrifice to his work and wants others to be able to understand it (at a point in canon he chastises Owen for opening a rift and risking the planet to bring himself and Tosh home from the past) is not always easy to make the right choice (he sacrificed his grandson to save many, many children). Jack will throw himself into dangerous situations, and part of that stems from his inability to die and know that he will be able to come back from it. The problem comes from him throwing those who can die into the same situations. He has been called on it before, and has been generally unwilling to change in this regard. I doubt he enjoys making tough choices and being the type of guy that people find hard to work for - but he knows that if he doesn’t do it right, there won’t be another person who will.
He does enjoy being a leader, and being in control of the situation. If Torchwood had a manual, Jack probably didn’t read it or threw it out. He likes to do things his own way, and wants others to listen to his way. He will get angry if something doesn’t work, and especially angry if he knows that a situation could have been avoided had someone just done what they knew was right. Jack is someone who yells when he’s extremely angry. It’s not very often that we see him that angry in the series, though. For Jack failure is not an option. Sure, everyone fails at some point in time, but he knows his failures could put the entire world at risk. This is not acceptable to him, and he will often get angry if he sees others struggling and doing something which might lead to failure in one of his goals. This is how he is easily made angry.
Jack comes off as a confident man. He’s well put together, and well dressed. He’s not shy in his approaching others, nor is he remotely unsure in any step that he takes, or that is how it appears to others. This is a man who likely spends hours looking in a mirror. Jack knows he is attractive. In fact, if he were asked to describe himself, he would definitely focus on his appearance. In a way, though, Jack looks out of place. His style of dress has been called “classic” by others on the team. He’s not the type who would be bothered by this, nor would he consider it an insult.
Jack has a tendency to have a magnetic personality about him. People who do not know him well may call him a variety of things - mysterious, but approachable. He has a generally welcoming appearance, and he doesn’t even really try. People do enjoy being around him, and people are attracted to him. This is probably due to his confidence and strength that he has. Those fifty-first century pheromones probably don’t hurt either.
Beneath the flirt is a generally insecure and selfish man. Jack is out for himself, he’s learned through his lifetime that is commonplace, and has made it a point to not be constantly selfless in his relationships (or remotely selfless). Sure, he is considerably better about assisting people and playing hero than he was in his conman days; however Jack still lacks the ability to give someone all of himself. He prefers to keep people an arm’s length away, sometimes - the further the better. He acknowledges that he can not die, and he doesn’t want to watch others die. He is watching out for himself, and in some ways that is the best way to handle his particular situation (day to day upset isn’t really Jack).
Jack is incapable of completely trusting someone, and keeps to himself quite a lot. This isn’t an entirely selfish part of him, though, but his reasons for it may seem like it. I believe part of it is his shields he is putting up around himself, and knowing that it is difficult for others to completely understand. Part of Jack does not want to burden others with his worries, so he takes them upon himself to worry about them. Throughout Torchwood’s series, other characters learn about how he is incapable of remaining dead, but initially the only one who knows is Gwen, because she witnessed it. Sure, Jack won’t lie about it if he is asked, but he won’t make that a point of his life. Unfortunately with those “dangerous situations” it has become more and more obvious of what he is.
For all of his confidence and all of his pushing others away, Jack bears mass amounts of guilt. Everything from the belief that he lost his brother, and then Gray coming forward and openly blaming Jack for all that he had been through - all the way through the death of Ianto. Jack will always blame himself when someone on his team dies or suffers. It isn’t always best that he puts on his same-old face and physically appears to have no guilt about the entire situation. He may come off as indifferent, but we learn throughout the series that the guilt starts being pulled from him the closer he gets to his teammates (particularly Ianto). I believe that Jack has constantly carried the guilt, but his desire to not worry others kept him from displaying that he felt so horrible about anything that has happened.
Jack does not feel like he belongs. I would say that his biggest insecurity is feeling out of his time and out of place. Jack does not feel like he belongs among people, especially the twenty-first century people. He likely doesn’t even consider himself human in a lot of ways. Jack has expressed that he desires to no longer live on as he has. He wants to be normal, and be fixed (it was his reason for trying to find the Doctor for so many years of his life). He is sympathetic to a man who travels through a break in time from the past to his present, and understands and doesn’t stop the man from killing himself. Jack says that he is just like that man, someone who is “out of his time”.
✧ ABILITIES/POWERS: Jack's a skilled Alien Hunter, a Time Traveler (with a group known as the Time Agency), and a fixed point in time. Being a fixed point in time means that if he were to change, things would really be altered in the future by it. (For example, a fixed point in time would be Pompeii). Jack, as a result, can not die - or rather won't remain dead. Yes, can't die, and won't remain dead should be distinguished upon. He can, technically, die. He has died many times, but the problem is he always comes back good as new. There has not been any mention in canon if he were to lose a limb without dying and if it would regenerate, and it hasn't been tested. But part of the stipulation with “fixed point in time” is him not being capable of change, so my guess is it would (eventually) regenerate. He has regenerated from as little as his arm and his head after he was blown up in canon.
”Alien hunter” entails quite a lot. Jack is good with technology, able to work through systems in computers. He is capable of programming things, building things, and comprehending a lot of alien technology that leaves many people puzzled. He is physically capable and has decent stamina as well in a chase. He can handle a gun quite nicely, and is quite skilled with it. He is not afraid to use it, either. Technology will be mostly irrelevant here.
He’s a Time Traveler which entails really only a few things. It is never stated what precisely the Time Agency did. We simply get that they work in partners and are able to time travel. With that comes Jack's Vortex Manipulator. Jack has traveled through time with it in canon; however, it is known to be broken most recently. So it isn't more than a glorified watch.
✧ TIME OF ARRIVAL: Day.
✧ MASK DESIGN: here.
✧ PLACE OF SOLACE: Torchwood hub. (It's bigger on the inside...because it goes underground.) There's a lot to it. In essence there's a lot of workstations, his office, a shooting range, a vault, and a few cells that will still have some NPC Weevils that they've grabbed. Plus several other places.
SAMPLES
✧ FIRST PERSON: Nngh. I have a lot of threads I'll link to; rawr. here's way more than 15.
here, still more than 15.
an intro post at another game.
✧ THIRD PERSON: Jack had woken up in strange places before. Usually it was following a night of enough drinks to kill the average person. Sometimes it was after a very painful death where his body had to spend some time regenerating. He was in one piece, and he didn't remember getting drunk (which he realized meant very little), and there was no one next to him. He was disappointed by the latter, but got up from where he was laying. He stretched, feeling an odd soreness in his back. Instead of being bothered by that fact (when he had, in fact, never experienced such a thing, even in those 1800 years he spent underground), he was just amused.
"I must be getting old," he said, realizing it was for no one but himself. He laughed, shifting back on his heels and turning to examine the room.
Strange place, check. He realized that without alcohol meant he was likely abducted in some way. Not entirely unusual when your occupation was dealing with alien lifeforms on a day to day basis. And he had experience with a rift that had the ability to pull people into it. He looked around the room, and shrugged. Just because it didn't seem like it was alien, doesn't mean it wasn't. There were a lot of places he hadn't been.
He shoved his hands into the pockets of his coat. He found something in his pockets that looked similar to his phone he had at home, but something about it wasn't quite the same. He turned the device on, and then dropped it back into his pocket. Once he figured out where he was, he would make some phone calls. If this so called phone even would allow him to call home, or make any calls.
On a far wall, he saw a mirror following his home. He had noticed it in passing, but hadn't looked too closely. He approached it, placing a hand on the glass of the mirror. It showed Cardiff, people moving through the streets, the events of the 456 forgotten for the most part. They hadn't really learned after everything that had happened. He was disappointed, but knew they weren't ready. Or they just didn't want to remember the children they had almost lost.
So, he had to figure out where he was and how he got there, now. And without an obvious answer in place, Jack followed one of his rules of thumb: "When in doubt, the Rift did it." That meant anything he would experience would likely be a surprise. That was okay to him, he didn't completely mind surprises as long as they didn't end in a horrible, painful death followed by a horrible, painful regeneration.
He shoved his hands in his pocket and made his way for what appeared to be the way out. For all that Jack knew, he would end up in a giant pit of fire or lava. He was prepared for something horrible to happen. Jack was always prepared.
✧ ORIGINAL CHARACTER QUESTION: Jack is not an OC :)