Post by jack on Jul 24, 2010 6:42:33 GMT -5
I was hoping to be Jack but I understand if someone else has already taken him.
Character Sheet
Canon
Name: Captain Jack Harkness
Age: Unknown/ Over 2000 years old
Species: near-human
Planet of Origin: Unknown
Current Occupation: Time traveler/ Head of Torchwood Three
Physical Description: Classic good looks. Rugged handsome. Dark brown hair. Bright blue eyes. Tall with wide shoulders. Generally good looking. (I am horrible at writing physical descriptions and I think you all know what John Barrowman looks like)
Personality: Jack Harkness' personality is extremely enigmatic; Jack is fond of his persona of 'mysterious time travel'. Prior to being cursed with immortality, Jack Harkness was a flippant time traveler and former con man who loved adventuring with the Doctor and seducing men and women throughout the galaxy. Subsequent to his resurrection, Jack becomes morbid and his repeated experiences with near-death (in which he experiences "nothing"), brings him to an existentialist philosophical viewpoint. Jack sees death as the ultimate end of being; there is no afterlife. After The Year That Never Was, Jack returns to his team with some of his old love of life returned. Jack continues to protect himself with an air of mystery. None of his closest friends know his real name, or many details about his career or life. He often tells anecdotes about his sex life. The utter devastation Jack experiences in the space of five days over the course of the 456 incident leave him despondent once more. The Doctor tries to shake Jack out of his depression in his own dying moments, and with the Doctor's approval, Jack proceeds to greet Alonso Frame with his trademark flirtatiousness.
History:
Early life
Originally, Jack was born under a different name, which no one knows. He grew up sometime around the year 5000, an era whose attitudes towards sex differed from those prevalent in the 21st century. Humankind, having begun expansion and exploration of the universe, met other alien species. They often pursued sexual relationships with them, regardless of differences of gender or species, the term Jack uses to refer to himself is "omnisexual".
Attack on the Boeshane Peninsula
Jack was brought up on the Boeshane Peninsula, a sandy beach-like area. He often spent time with his brother Gray and his father, Franklin, playing cricket and singing around campfires. One day an unknown enemy invaded his homeland and killed many of the inhabitants. Jack was told by his father to flee with Gray while he went back for Jack's mother. As Jack was running, Gray stumbled and Jack accidentally let go of Gray's hand. Jack continued to run, hiding in a bush as the invaders flew overhead. He returned to his home hoping to find his brother, but instead found only his father, dead. Jack claims it was the worst day of his life, and that he spent many years searching for his brother, though never found him.
Growing up
As a young man, he persuaded a friend to "join up" with him to fight against an unspecified enemy Jack merely described as "horrible". Considering Jack's friend to be the weakest of the pair, the enemies tortured him as a lesson for Jack. Jack bore the guilt of his friend's fate.
As Time Agent and con artist
Jack worked as a Time Agent with a partner, in multiple contexts, called John Hart. At some point, they spent five years trapped in a two-week time loop, with the two becoming the equivalent of a married couple after spending so much time together. Jack eventually discovered that the Agency had erased two years of his memory, which he wished to have back.
While in 1941, he assumed the alias of an American volunteer Captain Jack Harkness, who had died in action the January prior. Jack knew very little about the "real" Jack, other than basic information such as the former's date and manner of death. Having left the Time Agency, Jack became a time-travelling con artist, performing various scams using his knowledge of future events, such as demanding money for items that he knew would be destroyed before the buyer could see it. Finding pieces of space junk and directing them to soon-to-be disaster sites, Jack would sell them to passers-by, then allow the items to get destroyed before the buyers could pick up their merchandise. He would, at some point, improperly acquire a small, sleek Chula spacecraft, fitted for Human use, which could turn invisible.
Meeting the Doctor
While pulling a con with a Chula Ambulance during the London Blitz, he spotted Rose Tyler hanging from a barrage balloon and rescued her, taking her aboard his ship. Quickly deducing that Rose came from the future, he suspected that other Time Agents had discovered him. Shortly after, Rose introduced him to the Ninth Doctor. Together, the trio worked to stop the plague brought about by the ambulance's nanogenes. Jack carried an active German bomb ready to explode in his ship to save many people, and was almost killed himself. However, the TARDIS materialized within his ship and the Doctor and Rose rescued him just before the ship exploded. Jack subsequently became a new companion for the Doctor, to the delight of both Rose, who found Jack attractive, and to Jack, who found both Rose and the Doctor to be attractive. The trio shared numerous adventures together and clicked as a team to the point where Mickey Smith found himself an outsider during a shared adventure.
Jack was aboard Satellite 5 when a Dalek fleet launched their assault on Earth and was exterminated and killed while defending the satellite from their advance. He was resurrected by Rose Tyler, who at that time had the powers of the Time Vortex which turned her into the Bad Wolf. Jack later discovered he was immortal and could never fully die when killed. He was unable to rejoin the Doctor and Rose before the Doctor's TARDIS departed and was left stranded on the satellite. The Doctor, who had just regenerated, told Rose that he believed that Jack could begin the process of "rebuilding the Earth". However, this may have been a simple ruse to disguise the fact that the Doctor's instincts told him to run because from this point on Jack became a "fixed point" in time.
Life on Earth-19th century
After Jack was left on Satellite 5, he used the Vortex Manipulator to go back to Cardiff, the location of an active space-time rift. Jack ended up in1869, and unfortunately his Vortex Manipulator burned out and he was unable to leave. The manipulator was later repaired, once by the Doctor, and once by Jack (with the aid of Martha Jones) but was disabled by the Doctor soon after both occasions.
He chose to remain in the city, knowing that the Doctor's TARDIS could re-fuel itself using the rift and that the Doctor would one day return there. Jack appears to have chosen to continue using the Harkness alias, or was at least using it as of 1899. Jack's second death and resurrection occurred when he was shot in 1892 during a fight on Ellis Island. Jack would find that he still aged, but very slowly, and could recover from any degree of physical harm, including death itself, given a few minutes time. In 1898 he helped save a boy, Anthony, from a Lawphorum, which had fallen to Earth. Anthony, a travelling stage show boy, had failed to predict the future of Jack when he asked him how he would die. In order to investigate the Night Travelers, he took up this idea and joined a travelling show in which he was billed as "the man who couldn't die".
Recruitment by Torchwood
In 1899, Torchwood Cardiff agents Alice Guppy and Emily Holroyd found out about Jack's immortality and about the Doctor. They captured Jack and tortured him, attempting to discover why he couldn't die and what connection he had to the Doctor, Torchwood's enemy, who they knew Jack had mentioned in various conversations around the city. He was released on the condition that he worked for them, an offer which he initially refused outright. The two asked him to reconsider this option, and Jack wound up in a bar, alone until a young girl offered to read him his fortune. To his immense surprise and bewilderment, she imparted a completely accurate prophecy of the Doctor's eventual return to Cardiff 100 years into the future. Left with nothing to do but wait for a full century, Jack reconsidered Torchwood's offer and began working for them. On his first mission he was sent to stop a criminal Blowfish, which he returned to the Hub, only to see it killed by a shot to the head. He continued working for Torchwood for over a hundred years, still pursuing his attempt to find the Doctor in the meantime.
20th century
In 1909, Jack was traveling through Lahore by train with a group of soldiers under his command, when they were killed by Fairies. Some of the soldiers had recently run over and killed one of the Fairies' Chosen Ones. In revenge, the Fairies suffocated the soldiers by forcing rose petals down their throats. Jack's presence in Lahore was part of a con intended to steal the diamond shipments the soldiers were guarding; however, he did appear to take his responsibility for the men seriously, however temporary it may have been, enough to be distressed by their deaths. His participation in the con itself was at the direction of (or at least in cooperation with) an unknown agent. Jack later left Torchwood to fight in World War I. In 1914 the Doctor met a soldier who mentioned to him that Captain Harkness had survived a bullet to the head and was recovering in hospital. Prior to February 1944, he met Estelle Cole. The pair spent some time in London together. She wanted to spend the rest of her life with him. Somehow, however, this never happened, and they lost touch with one another.
In 1965, the alien race known as the 456, communicating through radio, set up a deal where Jack, along with three other military officers, whose names he did not know at the time, would deliver to them twelve young orphans as a "gift" at a meeting point in Scotland. In exchange for the children, the unseen aliens would give to them a cure for a new strain of Indonesian flu that the aliens claimed would mutate and kill 25 million people. Jack received the assignment specifically because of his immortality, and the perception, as one of the officers later told him, that he "didn't care." Despite his misgivings, Jack followed his orders, and delivered the children. Clement MacDonald, however, slipped away from the exchange, and would have nightmares about Jack for the rest of his life.
In 1975, Jack and another Torchwood agent, Lucia Moretti, had a daughter, Melissa Moretti, who would age normally. Lucia and Jack split up sometime prior to 1977, and at the request of her mother, their daughter was sent into the Witness Protection Program, relocated and given the name of Alice Sangster, presumably arising from her mother's fear of the immortal Captain Jack. The application was approved on February 14, 1977; however, Jack eventually rebuilt a relationship with his daughter. Although Jack was a Torchwood agent at this time, he was still considered a freelance operative rather than a full-time employee.
21st century
On New Year's Day 2000, Jack, now a full-time agent for Torchwood 3 suffered a major emotional blow when one of his colleagues, Alex Hopkins, suffered a nervous breakdown and killed the entire Torchwood 3 staff. Knowing Jack couldn't die; he did not attempt to kill Jack and waited for him to arrive at the Hub before committing suicide. As the only surviving member of Torchwood Three, he would spend the next few years recruiting new members.
Leader of Torchwood Three
Jack quickly rebuilt his decimated organization, recruiting Toshiko Sato from prison in 2004 and Dr. Owen Harper in 2006. At some stage, Suzie Costello, his second-in-command, joined the team. Jack's activities at the time of the Blaidd Drwg incident in Cardiff, which involved Jack's younger, mortal self, included keeping the entire Torchwood team on lockdown in the Hub, to prevent them from seeing his younger self, and vice versa.
After Torchwood One was destroyed in 2007 during the Battle of Canary Wharf, Jack continued to work for Torchwood Three. With Torchwood One gone and Torchwood Four having gotten "lost", Torchwood Three had more or less complete freedom, and used the removal of oversight from Torchwood One as an opportunity to operate according to the ideals Jack thought the Doctor represented. He took in Ianto Jones, a survivor of Torchwood One, after some heavy persuasion by Ianto himself.
During this time, Jack held on to the hope of re-establishing contact with the Doctor, whom he believed could help him. At some point after the 2006 Sycorax incursion, Jack obtained a severed hand that had fallen from the Sycorax craft and which was identified as having belonged to the Doctor. He kept the hand in a portable hyperbaric chamber in Torchwood Three's Hub, and treated it as a prize possession, much to the occasional consternation of his colleagues. He eventually relinquished the hand to the Doctor.
After his colleague Suzie Costello was exposed as a serial murderer and shot herself, Jack recruited Police Constable Gwen Cooper as Torchwood's newest member.
Over the coming months, he helped train Gwen in dealing with aliens and alien weaponry, and before long, she had become second in command, taking over for him during his later absence. He revealed very little of himself or his origins to his team, even when pursuing a flirtatious relationship with Gwen and a more physical one with Ianto Jones. Although he rarely confided in the team, preferring to keep his past secret, Gwen was the first person to learn about his immortality, the others finding out later on. Nevertheless, he often showed great compassion for the team and other innocents who were caught up in Torchwood's missions, even though he demonstrated a far more ruthless side in dispatching the team's enemies than the Doctor might have exercised.
Transported back to 1941 by the Rift, Jack met his namesake, the original Jack Harkness, and briefly romanced him before returning to the 21st century. After the Rift was finally opened by Owen Harper, Jack returned from the past along with Tosh. Jack was forced to confront Abaddon, who was released from the rift after Bilis Manger manipulated the rest of the Torchwood team to fully open the Rift. Abbadon was destroyed while attempting to leech Jack's life, though the exertion resulted in Jack remaining dead for three days, his immortality apparently unable to save him. He was brought back to life after a kiss from Gwen. A short while after his resurrection, Jack noticed the Doctor's hand begin to glow. From inside of the Hub, Jack recognized the sound of the TARDIS materializing, elated after decades of waiting by the knowledge that the young girl's prophecy had been fulfilled and that a version of the Doctor he knew was returning to refuel. By the time the rest of the Torchwood team arrived to investigate the sound, Jack had gone.
Reunion with the Doctor
Having heard the TARDIS, Jack left the Hub chasing after the sound. With the Doctor's hand in a backpack, he managed to jump onto the ship before it dematerialised and re-materialised in the year100, 000,000,000,000. Jack is the only individual known to have withstood a trip through the vortex on the exterior of a TARDIS, thanks to his immortality. The Doctor and Jack had an awkward reunion. Jack made the happy discovery, though, that Rose Tyler had not been killed in the Battle of Canary Wharf. They met and helped Professor Yana to build a spaceship in order to help the last humans in the universe reach Utopia. After Yana opened a fob watch, the Master regained control, regenerated and took off in the TARDIS, leaving Jack, the Doctor and Martha stranded at the end of the universe.
The Doctor, Jack and Martha traveled back to 2008 with the aid of Jack's vortex manipulator, which the Doctor modified. The newly regenerated Master had been elected as Prime Minister. After being listed as one of the most wanted persons in the UK, Jack was captured on the Valiant along with the Doctor. He gave his vortex manipulator to Martha, allowing her to escape by teleporting to the ground.
After being imprisoned within the Valiant for one year, Martha Jones helped the Doctor and Jack to gain control of the ship, and Jack destroyed the Master's Paradox Machine. This resulted in time reverting one year, only those aboard the Valiant at the time retaining any memory of the year's events. After the Master's death, Jack had the opportunity to end his long exile on Earth, however out of loyalty to his team at Torchwood, he decided to stay. At some point in the course of events, the Doctor obtained his severed hand from Jack.
Return to Torchwood Three
Jack returned to Torchwood and the team, saving the life of a woman being menaced by a Blowfish. While this took place, there was some Rift activity and John Hart from the Time Agency appeared in Cardiff. Jack tracked him to a bar, where they reunited with a passionate kiss followed by a lengthy bar brawl. John caused quite a bit of trouble before leaving Cardiff via the Rift, but disclosed to Jack that his brother Gray had been found. After Jack met Martha Jones when fighting the Master, he invited her onto the team for a few days. He asked her to investigate the Pharm, a medical organization that could cure diseases that were incurable. He ordered Toshiko to close it down. But the Pharm manager shot Owen Harper and then Jack shot him. Martha stayed for a few more days and he put her in charge as Medical officer.
Unwilling to accept the loss of another teammate, Jack tracked down the other resurrection glove and brought back Owen Harper. The attempt, though successful, left Owen unable to perform his usual activities. In addition, the glove released an extra dimensional alien, the embodiment of death. Owen saved the day by using his new condition to stifle the needs of the entity, but still expressed a deep resentment towards his former leader. A regretful Jack was forced to temporarily relieve Owen until he could get used to being dead.
Second destruction of Torchwood Three
Jack's team came under further pressure when Captain John Hart returned; leaving bombs within a warehouse in an attempt to kill all the members of the Torchwood Three team. This failed and Jack found a message from John on his vortex manipulator, which included an appearance by Gray himself. Left shaken, Jack immediately went back to the Hub to confront Captain Hart, leaving the other members of the team to deal with their respective challenges. On meeting John again, Jack was killed before being chained up and made to listen whilst John explained his predicament. Jack's rogue partner then detonated strategically placed bombs in and around Cardiff, obliterating the city to Jack's horror before forcibly kidnapping him and sending both of them back through time to Cardiff in 27 AD. Here, Jack discovered that John was being manipulated by Gray, who marked his return by shooting Jack down in cold blood. Gray then forced John to bury Jack alive, 20 feet underground in the land that would become Cardiff. Gray, transformed into a merciless, sadistic beast by a lifetime of horrific torture, had blamed Jack for letting go of his hand when they were children and wanted Jack to experience a similar never-ending pain by choking on dirt, thrashing on the edge of life every time he revived, only to die again. Before totally burying Jack, John, finally pushed too far by the awareness of how wrong his actions were, slipped a signet ring into the grave with him, hoping that the signal it emitted could be used to locate Jack.
Jack in 27 AD
Stuck in a cycle of death and resurrection for centuries, Jack was discovered by Alice Guppy and Charles Gaskell of Torchwood in 1901, who had picked up the signal of John's ring (an act which confused his Time Agent partner, who had returned to the 21st century to rescue him, thinking that the ring, despite being 'guaranteed 5 millennia', had malfunctioned). Back in the early 20th century, Jack, insistent that he could not be allowed to cross his own timeline (for by now two versions of Jack were present – his past self and present self) demanded to be placed in cryopreservation for 107 years until the present day. Despite being baffled, the two granted him this request and Jack awoke again inside Torchwood Three concurrent to Gray's mayhem – just in time to prevent Gray from finishing off Toshiko with a bullet. Despite Gray's own unwillingness to absolve him, Jack forgave his brother of his trespasses. Left with no other option, a tearful Jack chloroformed and cryopreserved Gray, refusing to kill him, but the damage had already been done, as Gray had been responsible for the deaths of Owen Harper and Toshiko Sato. Jack and John parted ways on better terms, with John travelling the world of the 21st century, determined to find out why Jack found the time period so interesting. Torchwood Three would continue on, reduced to Jack, Ianto and Gwen.
Against the Daleks in the Medusa Cascade
Later, when the Earth was relocated by the Daleks to the Medusa Cascade, Harriet Jones, a former Prime Minister and acquaintance of the Doctor, contacted Torchwood and other allies of the Doctor via the Sub-Wave Network. After receiving vital information from Martha that allowed him to reactivate his vortex manipulator, Jack teleported to the Doctor's side just as a Dalek shot him.
Subsequently, after the Doctor's regeneration aborted, Jack boarded the Crucible and surrendered to the Dalek forces. He attempted to shoot the Supreme Dalek and was "exterminated". He subsequently burrowed into the Crucible and linked up with Sarah Jane Smith, Mickey Smith and Jackie Tyler. He attempted to use Sarah Jane's Warp star to bluff the Daleks into calling off the detonation of the reality bomb but was ultimately transported to Davros' chamber instead. He helped pilot the TARDIS as it returned the Earth to its original location. He offered Martha Jones a permanent position with Torchwood, and soon after was joined by Mickey, but not before the Doctor deactivated his vortex manipulator once again, refusing to run the risk of allowing him to travel in time.
Fighting the 456
Jack's past would return to haunt him when the 456, in need of more subjects for their drug production, once more contacted Humanity by using the children of Earth as a collective mouthpiece. The British government, fearing that the secret of the deal would come out, assigned John Frobisher to deal with the situation. Frobisher, knowing Jack's role as part of the team which had negotiated with the 456, reluctantly ordered Jack's assassination. Speculating, incorrectly, that the Hub had special properties which enabled Jack's regenerative abilities, Frobisher insisted on the complete destruction of the Hub, along with Jack, who was already attempting to investigate by seeking to examine his grandson Steven. The government, through a ruse involving their agent Rupesh Patanjali, killed Jack and planted a bomb inside his body before he revived. When Jack, unsuspecting, returned to the Hub, the bomb detonated, destroying both Jack's body and the Hub, but not before Jack managed to evacuate Gwen and Ianto.
A covert ops team conveyed Jack's scattered remains to a holding facility, where he slowly regenerated his body and returned to life. When Agent Johnson realized that destroying the Hub had not rendered Jack mortal, she had him encased in concrete. Gwen and Ianto with the help of Rhys and Ianto's sister Rhiannon infiltrated the facility and rescued him.
With Ianto's knowledge of Torchwood One's old infrastructure, and a little criminal mischief orchestrated by Gwen, Jack headquartered his team inside a former Torchwood facility. Gwen arranged for the protection of former 456 victim Clem MacDonald by bringing him to "Hub 2," as Rhys came to call it. Jack himself tracked down Frobisher and warned him to call off the assassination, or the 1965 incident would be disclosed. However, Frobisher countered with a new bombshell: Johnson's team had taken Jack's daughter Alice and grandson Steven hostage in order to ensure Jack's silence in the plans to negotiate terms with the 456.
Jack, Gwen, Ianto and Rhys retaliated by persuading Lois Habiba to collect incriminating evidence against the entire Cabinet regarding the new terms, then threatening full disclosure unless Torchwood was allowed access to the 456. Storming into Thames House to confront the aliens, Jack and Ianto promised a "fight to the death." In response, the 456 released a virus into the Thames House, killing all inside. Among the victims was Ianto, who died in Jack's arms.
A tearful Captain Jack surrendered to the authorities, blaming himself for Ianto's death. He instructed Gwen to have Rhys surrender himself as well, and arranged for the couple to return to Cardiff, with instructions to inform Rhiannon of her brother's death, and to see to the needs of her family.
As the world governments began capitulating to the demands of the 456, and began rounding up children by the millions, Jack found himself sprung from prison by a surprise ally - Agent Johnson, who had become disillusioned and convinced by Alice to take a stand. With the aid of Johnson and Mr. Dekker, who had managed to escape the massacre at Thames House, Jack devised a way to defeat the 456 using a reconstitution wave of a similar wavelength to that the 456 had used to kill Clem, using the children as one vast transmitter. There was one major catch: in order for it to work, the wave needed to be channeled through one child, for whom the force of the transmission would be deadly. Only one child was available to serve as the "transmitter." Ignoring his daughter's screams and protests, Jack used his own grandson, Steven, as the prime transmitter. The plan succeeded, and the 456 were violently ejected from Earth. However, Steven died as a result, and Alice severed all contact with Jack, walking away without speaking a word.
Leaving Torchwood Three
Jack then travelled the world for six months. He did not find it enough to rid himself of his guilt. Saying good-bye to Gwen and Rhys, he used his vortex manipulator (which Rhys and Gwen had retrieved from the ruins of Torchwood) to signal a nearby cold fusion freighter and teleported off into space.
Some time later, Jack was drowning his sorrows in a local bar and surrounded by various alien species, when a barman handed him a folded piece of paper which indicated that someone's name was Alonso. Looking up, he saw the Doctor – making his parting goodbyes – staring back, before gesturing towards the man approaching the bar. Seizing the opportunity, Jack addressed Alonso by his first name and told him that he was psychic when asked how he knew him. The Doctor left as Jack continued to flirt with Alonso.
Additional medical information When he dies he comes back to life shortly after and all injuries are healed.
What RP board(s) Eleventh Doctor, Tenth Doctor, Ninth Doctor, and Torchwood
Character Sheet
Canon
Name: Captain Jack Harkness
Age: Unknown/ Over 2000 years old
Species: near-human
Planet of Origin: Unknown
Current Occupation: Time traveler/ Head of Torchwood Three
Physical Description: Classic good looks. Rugged handsome. Dark brown hair. Bright blue eyes. Tall with wide shoulders. Generally good looking. (I am horrible at writing physical descriptions and I think you all know what John Barrowman looks like)
Personality: Jack Harkness' personality is extremely enigmatic; Jack is fond of his persona of 'mysterious time travel'. Prior to being cursed with immortality, Jack Harkness was a flippant time traveler and former con man who loved adventuring with the Doctor and seducing men and women throughout the galaxy. Subsequent to his resurrection, Jack becomes morbid and his repeated experiences with near-death (in which he experiences "nothing"), brings him to an existentialist philosophical viewpoint. Jack sees death as the ultimate end of being; there is no afterlife. After The Year That Never Was, Jack returns to his team with some of his old love of life returned. Jack continues to protect himself with an air of mystery. None of his closest friends know his real name, or many details about his career or life. He often tells anecdotes about his sex life. The utter devastation Jack experiences in the space of five days over the course of the 456 incident leave him despondent once more. The Doctor tries to shake Jack out of his depression in his own dying moments, and with the Doctor's approval, Jack proceeds to greet Alonso Frame with his trademark flirtatiousness.
History:
Early life
Originally, Jack was born under a different name, which no one knows. He grew up sometime around the year 5000, an era whose attitudes towards sex differed from those prevalent in the 21st century. Humankind, having begun expansion and exploration of the universe, met other alien species. They often pursued sexual relationships with them, regardless of differences of gender or species, the term Jack uses to refer to himself is "omnisexual".
Attack on the Boeshane Peninsula
Jack was brought up on the Boeshane Peninsula, a sandy beach-like area. He often spent time with his brother Gray and his father, Franklin, playing cricket and singing around campfires. One day an unknown enemy invaded his homeland and killed many of the inhabitants. Jack was told by his father to flee with Gray while he went back for Jack's mother. As Jack was running, Gray stumbled and Jack accidentally let go of Gray's hand. Jack continued to run, hiding in a bush as the invaders flew overhead. He returned to his home hoping to find his brother, but instead found only his father, dead. Jack claims it was the worst day of his life, and that he spent many years searching for his brother, though never found him.
Growing up
As a young man, he persuaded a friend to "join up" with him to fight against an unspecified enemy Jack merely described as "horrible". Considering Jack's friend to be the weakest of the pair, the enemies tortured him as a lesson for Jack. Jack bore the guilt of his friend's fate.
As Time Agent and con artist
Jack worked as a Time Agent with a partner, in multiple contexts, called John Hart. At some point, they spent five years trapped in a two-week time loop, with the two becoming the equivalent of a married couple after spending so much time together. Jack eventually discovered that the Agency had erased two years of his memory, which he wished to have back.
While in 1941, he assumed the alias of an American volunteer Captain Jack Harkness, who had died in action the January prior. Jack knew very little about the "real" Jack, other than basic information such as the former's date and manner of death. Having left the Time Agency, Jack became a time-travelling con artist, performing various scams using his knowledge of future events, such as demanding money for items that he knew would be destroyed before the buyer could see it. Finding pieces of space junk and directing them to soon-to-be disaster sites, Jack would sell them to passers-by, then allow the items to get destroyed before the buyers could pick up their merchandise. He would, at some point, improperly acquire a small, sleek Chula spacecraft, fitted for Human use, which could turn invisible.
Meeting the Doctor
While pulling a con with a Chula Ambulance during the London Blitz, he spotted Rose Tyler hanging from a barrage balloon and rescued her, taking her aboard his ship. Quickly deducing that Rose came from the future, he suspected that other Time Agents had discovered him. Shortly after, Rose introduced him to the Ninth Doctor. Together, the trio worked to stop the plague brought about by the ambulance's nanogenes. Jack carried an active German bomb ready to explode in his ship to save many people, and was almost killed himself. However, the TARDIS materialized within his ship and the Doctor and Rose rescued him just before the ship exploded. Jack subsequently became a new companion for the Doctor, to the delight of both Rose, who found Jack attractive, and to Jack, who found both Rose and the Doctor to be attractive. The trio shared numerous adventures together and clicked as a team to the point where Mickey Smith found himself an outsider during a shared adventure.
Jack was aboard Satellite 5 when a Dalek fleet launched their assault on Earth and was exterminated and killed while defending the satellite from their advance. He was resurrected by Rose Tyler, who at that time had the powers of the Time Vortex which turned her into the Bad Wolf. Jack later discovered he was immortal and could never fully die when killed. He was unable to rejoin the Doctor and Rose before the Doctor's TARDIS departed and was left stranded on the satellite. The Doctor, who had just regenerated, told Rose that he believed that Jack could begin the process of "rebuilding the Earth". However, this may have been a simple ruse to disguise the fact that the Doctor's instincts told him to run because from this point on Jack became a "fixed point" in time.
Life on Earth-19th century
After Jack was left on Satellite 5, he used the Vortex Manipulator to go back to Cardiff, the location of an active space-time rift. Jack ended up in1869, and unfortunately his Vortex Manipulator burned out and he was unable to leave. The manipulator was later repaired, once by the Doctor, and once by Jack (with the aid of Martha Jones) but was disabled by the Doctor soon after both occasions.
He chose to remain in the city, knowing that the Doctor's TARDIS could re-fuel itself using the rift and that the Doctor would one day return there. Jack appears to have chosen to continue using the Harkness alias, or was at least using it as of 1899. Jack's second death and resurrection occurred when he was shot in 1892 during a fight on Ellis Island. Jack would find that he still aged, but very slowly, and could recover from any degree of physical harm, including death itself, given a few minutes time. In 1898 he helped save a boy, Anthony, from a Lawphorum, which had fallen to Earth. Anthony, a travelling stage show boy, had failed to predict the future of Jack when he asked him how he would die. In order to investigate the Night Travelers, he took up this idea and joined a travelling show in which he was billed as "the man who couldn't die".
Recruitment by Torchwood
In 1899, Torchwood Cardiff agents Alice Guppy and Emily Holroyd found out about Jack's immortality and about the Doctor. They captured Jack and tortured him, attempting to discover why he couldn't die and what connection he had to the Doctor, Torchwood's enemy, who they knew Jack had mentioned in various conversations around the city. He was released on the condition that he worked for them, an offer which he initially refused outright. The two asked him to reconsider this option, and Jack wound up in a bar, alone until a young girl offered to read him his fortune. To his immense surprise and bewilderment, she imparted a completely accurate prophecy of the Doctor's eventual return to Cardiff 100 years into the future. Left with nothing to do but wait for a full century, Jack reconsidered Torchwood's offer and began working for them. On his first mission he was sent to stop a criminal Blowfish, which he returned to the Hub, only to see it killed by a shot to the head. He continued working for Torchwood for over a hundred years, still pursuing his attempt to find the Doctor in the meantime.
20th century
In 1909, Jack was traveling through Lahore by train with a group of soldiers under his command, when they were killed by Fairies. Some of the soldiers had recently run over and killed one of the Fairies' Chosen Ones. In revenge, the Fairies suffocated the soldiers by forcing rose petals down their throats. Jack's presence in Lahore was part of a con intended to steal the diamond shipments the soldiers were guarding; however, he did appear to take his responsibility for the men seriously, however temporary it may have been, enough to be distressed by their deaths. His participation in the con itself was at the direction of (or at least in cooperation with) an unknown agent. Jack later left Torchwood to fight in World War I. In 1914 the Doctor met a soldier who mentioned to him that Captain Harkness had survived a bullet to the head and was recovering in hospital. Prior to February 1944, he met Estelle Cole. The pair spent some time in London together. She wanted to spend the rest of her life with him. Somehow, however, this never happened, and they lost touch with one another.
In 1965, the alien race known as the 456, communicating through radio, set up a deal where Jack, along with three other military officers, whose names he did not know at the time, would deliver to them twelve young orphans as a "gift" at a meeting point in Scotland. In exchange for the children, the unseen aliens would give to them a cure for a new strain of Indonesian flu that the aliens claimed would mutate and kill 25 million people. Jack received the assignment specifically because of his immortality, and the perception, as one of the officers later told him, that he "didn't care." Despite his misgivings, Jack followed his orders, and delivered the children. Clement MacDonald, however, slipped away from the exchange, and would have nightmares about Jack for the rest of his life.
In 1975, Jack and another Torchwood agent, Lucia Moretti, had a daughter, Melissa Moretti, who would age normally. Lucia and Jack split up sometime prior to 1977, and at the request of her mother, their daughter was sent into the Witness Protection Program, relocated and given the name of Alice Sangster, presumably arising from her mother's fear of the immortal Captain Jack. The application was approved on February 14, 1977; however, Jack eventually rebuilt a relationship with his daughter. Although Jack was a Torchwood agent at this time, he was still considered a freelance operative rather than a full-time employee.
21st century
On New Year's Day 2000, Jack, now a full-time agent for Torchwood 3 suffered a major emotional blow when one of his colleagues, Alex Hopkins, suffered a nervous breakdown and killed the entire Torchwood 3 staff. Knowing Jack couldn't die; he did not attempt to kill Jack and waited for him to arrive at the Hub before committing suicide. As the only surviving member of Torchwood Three, he would spend the next few years recruiting new members.
Leader of Torchwood Three
Jack quickly rebuilt his decimated organization, recruiting Toshiko Sato from prison in 2004 and Dr. Owen Harper in 2006. At some stage, Suzie Costello, his second-in-command, joined the team. Jack's activities at the time of the Blaidd Drwg incident in Cardiff, which involved Jack's younger, mortal self, included keeping the entire Torchwood team on lockdown in the Hub, to prevent them from seeing his younger self, and vice versa.
After Torchwood One was destroyed in 2007 during the Battle of Canary Wharf, Jack continued to work for Torchwood Three. With Torchwood One gone and Torchwood Four having gotten "lost", Torchwood Three had more or less complete freedom, and used the removal of oversight from Torchwood One as an opportunity to operate according to the ideals Jack thought the Doctor represented. He took in Ianto Jones, a survivor of Torchwood One, after some heavy persuasion by Ianto himself.
During this time, Jack held on to the hope of re-establishing contact with the Doctor, whom he believed could help him. At some point after the 2006 Sycorax incursion, Jack obtained a severed hand that had fallen from the Sycorax craft and which was identified as having belonged to the Doctor. He kept the hand in a portable hyperbaric chamber in Torchwood Three's Hub, and treated it as a prize possession, much to the occasional consternation of his colleagues. He eventually relinquished the hand to the Doctor.
After his colleague Suzie Costello was exposed as a serial murderer and shot herself, Jack recruited Police Constable Gwen Cooper as Torchwood's newest member.
Over the coming months, he helped train Gwen in dealing with aliens and alien weaponry, and before long, she had become second in command, taking over for him during his later absence. He revealed very little of himself or his origins to his team, even when pursuing a flirtatious relationship with Gwen and a more physical one with Ianto Jones. Although he rarely confided in the team, preferring to keep his past secret, Gwen was the first person to learn about his immortality, the others finding out later on. Nevertheless, he often showed great compassion for the team and other innocents who were caught up in Torchwood's missions, even though he demonstrated a far more ruthless side in dispatching the team's enemies than the Doctor might have exercised.
Transported back to 1941 by the Rift, Jack met his namesake, the original Jack Harkness, and briefly romanced him before returning to the 21st century. After the Rift was finally opened by Owen Harper, Jack returned from the past along with Tosh. Jack was forced to confront Abaddon, who was released from the rift after Bilis Manger manipulated the rest of the Torchwood team to fully open the Rift. Abbadon was destroyed while attempting to leech Jack's life, though the exertion resulted in Jack remaining dead for three days, his immortality apparently unable to save him. He was brought back to life after a kiss from Gwen. A short while after his resurrection, Jack noticed the Doctor's hand begin to glow. From inside of the Hub, Jack recognized the sound of the TARDIS materializing, elated after decades of waiting by the knowledge that the young girl's prophecy had been fulfilled and that a version of the Doctor he knew was returning to refuel. By the time the rest of the Torchwood team arrived to investigate the sound, Jack had gone.
Reunion with the Doctor
Having heard the TARDIS, Jack left the Hub chasing after the sound. With the Doctor's hand in a backpack, he managed to jump onto the ship before it dematerialised and re-materialised in the year100, 000,000,000,000. Jack is the only individual known to have withstood a trip through the vortex on the exterior of a TARDIS, thanks to his immortality. The Doctor and Jack had an awkward reunion. Jack made the happy discovery, though, that Rose Tyler had not been killed in the Battle of Canary Wharf. They met and helped Professor Yana to build a spaceship in order to help the last humans in the universe reach Utopia. After Yana opened a fob watch, the Master regained control, regenerated and took off in the TARDIS, leaving Jack, the Doctor and Martha stranded at the end of the universe.
The Doctor, Jack and Martha traveled back to 2008 with the aid of Jack's vortex manipulator, which the Doctor modified. The newly regenerated Master had been elected as Prime Minister. After being listed as one of the most wanted persons in the UK, Jack was captured on the Valiant along with the Doctor. He gave his vortex manipulator to Martha, allowing her to escape by teleporting to the ground.
After being imprisoned within the Valiant for one year, Martha Jones helped the Doctor and Jack to gain control of the ship, and Jack destroyed the Master's Paradox Machine. This resulted in time reverting one year, only those aboard the Valiant at the time retaining any memory of the year's events. After the Master's death, Jack had the opportunity to end his long exile on Earth, however out of loyalty to his team at Torchwood, he decided to stay. At some point in the course of events, the Doctor obtained his severed hand from Jack.
Return to Torchwood Three
Jack returned to Torchwood and the team, saving the life of a woman being menaced by a Blowfish. While this took place, there was some Rift activity and John Hart from the Time Agency appeared in Cardiff. Jack tracked him to a bar, where they reunited with a passionate kiss followed by a lengthy bar brawl. John caused quite a bit of trouble before leaving Cardiff via the Rift, but disclosed to Jack that his brother Gray had been found. After Jack met Martha Jones when fighting the Master, he invited her onto the team for a few days. He asked her to investigate the Pharm, a medical organization that could cure diseases that were incurable. He ordered Toshiko to close it down. But the Pharm manager shot Owen Harper and then Jack shot him. Martha stayed for a few more days and he put her in charge as Medical officer.
Unwilling to accept the loss of another teammate, Jack tracked down the other resurrection glove and brought back Owen Harper. The attempt, though successful, left Owen unable to perform his usual activities. In addition, the glove released an extra dimensional alien, the embodiment of death. Owen saved the day by using his new condition to stifle the needs of the entity, but still expressed a deep resentment towards his former leader. A regretful Jack was forced to temporarily relieve Owen until he could get used to being dead.
Second destruction of Torchwood Three
Jack's team came under further pressure when Captain John Hart returned; leaving bombs within a warehouse in an attempt to kill all the members of the Torchwood Three team. This failed and Jack found a message from John on his vortex manipulator, which included an appearance by Gray himself. Left shaken, Jack immediately went back to the Hub to confront Captain Hart, leaving the other members of the team to deal with their respective challenges. On meeting John again, Jack was killed before being chained up and made to listen whilst John explained his predicament. Jack's rogue partner then detonated strategically placed bombs in and around Cardiff, obliterating the city to Jack's horror before forcibly kidnapping him and sending both of them back through time to Cardiff in 27 AD. Here, Jack discovered that John was being manipulated by Gray, who marked his return by shooting Jack down in cold blood. Gray then forced John to bury Jack alive, 20 feet underground in the land that would become Cardiff. Gray, transformed into a merciless, sadistic beast by a lifetime of horrific torture, had blamed Jack for letting go of his hand when they were children and wanted Jack to experience a similar never-ending pain by choking on dirt, thrashing on the edge of life every time he revived, only to die again. Before totally burying Jack, John, finally pushed too far by the awareness of how wrong his actions were, slipped a signet ring into the grave with him, hoping that the signal it emitted could be used to locate Jack.
Jack in 27 AD
Stuck in a cycle of death and resurrection for centuries, Jack was discovered by Alice Guppy and Charles Gaskell of Torchwood in 1901, who had picked up the signal of John's ring (an act which confused his Time Agent partner, who had returned to the 21st century to rescue him, thinking that the ring, despite being 'guaranteed 5 millennia', had malfunctioned). Back in the early 20th century, Jack, insistent that he could not be allowed to cross his own timeline (for by now two versions of Jack were present – his past self and present self) demanded to be placed in cryopreservation for 107 years until the present day. Despite being baffled, the two granted him this request and Jack awoke again inside Torchwood Three concurrent to Gray's mayhem – just in time to prevent Gray from finishing off Toshiko with a bullet. Despite Gray's own unwillingness to absolve him, Jack forgave his brother of his trespasses. Left with no other option, a tearful Jack chloroformed and cryopreserved Gray, refusing to kill him, but the damage had already been done, as Gray had been responsible for the deaths of Owen Harper and Toshiko Sato. Jack and John parted ways on better terms, with John travelling the world of the 21st century, determined to find out why Jack found the time period so interesting. Torchwood Three would continue on, reduced to Jack, Ianto and Gwen.
Against the Daleks in the Medusa Cascade
Later, when the Earth was relocated by the Daleks to the Medusa Cascade, Harriet Jones, a former Prime Minister and acquaintance of the Doctor, contacted Torchwood and other allies of the Doctor via the Sub-Wave Network. After receiving vital information from Martha that allowed him to reactivate his vortex manipulator, Jack teleported to the Doctor's side just as a Dalek shot him.
Subsequently, after the Doctor's regeneration aborted, Jack boarded the Crucible and surrendered to the Dalek forces. He attempted to shoot the Supreme Dalek and was "exterminated". He subsequently burrowed into the Crucible and linked up with Sarah Jane Smith, Mickey Smith and Jackie Tyler. He attempted to use Sarah Jane's Warp star to bluff the Daleks into calling off the detonation of the reality bomb but was ultimately transported to Davros' chamber instead. He helped pilot the TARDIS as it returned the Earth to its original location. He offered Martha Jones a permanent position with Torchwood, and soon after was joined by Mickey, but not before the Doctor deactivated his vortex manipulator once again, refusing to run the risk of allowing him to travel in time.
Fighting the 456
Jack's past would return to haunt him when the 456, in need of more subjects for their drug production, once more contacted Humanity by using the children of Earth as a collective mouthpiece. The British government, fearing that the secret of the deal would come out, assigned John Frobisher to deal with the situation. Frobisher, knowing Jack's role as part of the team which had negotiated with the 456, reluctantly ordered Jack's assassination. Speculating, incorrectly, that the Hub had special properties which enabled Jack's regenerative abilities, Frobisher insisted on the complete destruction of the Hub, along with Jack, who was already attempting to investigate by seeking to examine his grandson Steven. The government, through a ruse involving their agent Rupesh Patanjali, killed Jack and planted a bomb inside his body before he revived. When Jack, unsuspecting, returned to the Hub, the bomb detonated, destroying both Jack's body and the Hub, but not before Jack managed to evacuate Gwen and Ianto.
A covert ops team conveyed Jack's scattered remains to a holding facility, where he slowly regenerated his body and returned to life. When Agent Johnson realized that destroying the Hub had not rendered Jack mortal, she had him encased in concrete. Gwen and Ianto with the help of Rhys and Ianto's sister Rhiannon infiltrated the facility and rescued him.
With Ianto's knowledge of Torchwood One's old infrastructure, and a little criminal mischief orchestrated by Gwen, Jack headquartered his team inside a former Torchwood facility. Gwen arranged for the protection of former 456 victim Clem MacDonald by bringing him to "Hub 2," as Rhys came to call it. Jack himself tracked down Frobisher and warned him to call off the assassination, or the 1965 incident would be disclosed. However, Frobisher countered with a new bombshell: Johnson's team had taken Jack's daughter Alice and grandson Steven hostage in order to ensure Jack's silence in the plans to negotiate terms with the 456.
Jack, Gwen, Ianto and Rhys retaliated by persuading Lois Habiba to collect incriminating evidence against the entire Cabinet regarding the new terms, then threatening full disclosure unless Torchwood was allowed access to the 456. Storming into Thames House to confront the aliens, Jack and Ianto promised a "fight to the death." In response, the 456 released a virus into the Thames House, killing all inside. Among the victims was Ianto, who died in Jack's arms.
A tearful Captain Jack surrendered to the authorities, blaming himself for Ianto's death. He instructed Gwen to have Rhys surrender himself as well, and arranged for the couple to return to Cardiff, with instructions to inform Rhiannon of her brother's death, and to see to the needs of her family.
As the world governments began capitulating to the demands of the 456, and began rounding up children by the millions, Jack found himself sprung from prison by a surprise ally - Agent Johnson, who had become disillusioned and convinced by Alice to take a stand. With the aid of Johnson and Mr. Dekker, who had managed to escape the massacre at Thames House, Jack devised a way to defeat the 456 using a reconstitution wave of a similar wavelength to that the 456 had used to kill Clem, using the children as one vast transmitter. There was one major catch: in order for it to work, the wave needed to be channeled through one child, for whom the force of the transmission would be deadly. Only one child was available to serve as the "transmitter." Ignoring his daughter's screams and protests, Jack used his own grandson, Steven, as the prime transmitter. The plan succeeded, and the 456 were violently ejected from Earth. However, Steven died as a result, and Alice severed all contact with Jack, walking away without speaking a word.
Leaving Torchwood Three
Jack then travelled the world for six months. He did not find it enough to rid himself of his guilt. Saying good-bye to Gwen and Rhys, he used his vortex manipulator (which Rhys and Gwen had retrieved from the ruins of Torchwood) to signal a nearby cold fusion freighter and teleported off into space.
Some time later, Jack was drowning his sorrows in a local bar and surrounded by various alien species, when a barman handed him a folded piece of paper which indicated that someone's name was Alonso. Looking up, he saw the Doctor – making his parting goodbyes – staring back, before gesturing towards the man approaching the bar. Seizing the opportunity, Jack addressed Alonso by his first name and told him that he was psychic when asked how he knew him. The Doctor left as Jack continued to flirt with Alonso.
Additional medical information When he dies he comes back to life shortly after and all injuries are healed.
What RP board(s) Eleventh Doctor, Tenth Doctor, Ninth Doctor, and Torchwood
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