Post by Captain Jack Harkness on May 15, 2012 11:36:14 GMT -5
[Captain] [-Jack-] [Harkness]
I was much better off a coward
I was much better off a coward
Full name: Jax
Alias: Captain Jack Harkness
Race: Humanoid
Planet of Origin: Boeshank Peninsula
Age: Immortal (2000+)
Gender: Male….Mostly
Sexuality: Everysexual
Affiliation: Good
Play by: John Barrowman
Fandom: Doctor Who
Personality:
Jack Harkness' personality was willfully enigmatic. He enjoyed his persona of 'mysterious time traveler,' much of which remained constant in his experiences with Torchwood and the Doctor. Before being cursed with immortality, he was flippant former con man who loved adventuring with the Doctor and seducing beings throughout the universe. Jack automatically flirted with most people he met, not caring about their gender or if they were human, alien or even robots. The Doctor often told him to stop and Jack would often reply "I'm just saying hello".
Besides being a flirt, Jack was a drinker. He once remarked that on one occasion when he was sentenced to death, he got drunk and ended up in bed with both his executioners. He told Rose that he preferred to discuss business while he was drinking. Jack claimed to the Ninth Doctor that before he met him he had been a coward and said that he might have been better off that way.
Despite the fact that he was incapable of dying even if he wanted to, Jack retained a sense of humour, frequently telling jokes and being lively and cheerful. However, underneath his cheerful demeanour, Jack was unsure if he wanted to die or not. Living forever (or at least as near to forever as a human can live) brought him to an existential viewpoint. While he joked about grey hairs and remained silent about mortality, Jack saw death as the ultimate end of being; there was no afterlife and no one waiting for him from his past lives. Although friendly and flirtatious, Jack could also be ruthless at times and did not hesitate to kill anyone or anything that he felt was a threat. This sometimes got him into trouble with his allies in Torchwood who disapproved of his lack of compassion. On one occasion Owen Harper shot him because he felt that Jack didn't care about what they had lost. Although he could be aggressive, Jack still cared deeply about his allies and was devastated when any of them were harmed or killed.
Always a vocal, unreliable narrator of his own adventures, Jack was much of a mystery to the people he met as much as the countless lives he claimed to have led. Jack continued to protect himself with an air of mystery. No one he has encountered thus far knows his real name or many details about his career or life. He often told anecdotes about his sex life but, no one knew how many were real. Though he professed "responsibility" as his motto after the Year That Never Was.
Jack was haunted by the loss of his younger brother Gray and spent many decades searching for him. He blamed himself for Gray's disappearance because he'd let go of his hand when they were fleeing from aliens during their childhood.
Appearance:
To damned good looking for his own good, wearing his greatcoat and carrying his World War II Webley at his side. For normal wear he dresses in long black trousers and bracers, button up dark or light blue shirts that bring out his crystal blue eyes, always with an undershirt. For footwear Jack chooses simple brown lace up boots.
Scars: nope
Tattoos or piercings: nope
Distinguishing features: Beautiful Blue eyes, dashing smile, perfect teeth
Strengths: (At least 5)
* Fixed point in time and space, unable to die
* Leader of Torchwood, unlimited resources
* Quick witted, intelligent
* Well traveled about the universe, loads of information about different places and species
*Charming, can talk himself out of almost any situation
* Well trained in combat
Weaknesses: (At least 5)
* Those he cares about
* Temper
* Pride
* Ego
* Unwilling to compromise when he believes he is right
Likes: (At least 5)
* Sex
* Flirting
* Excitement
* Ianto
* The Doctor
Dislikes: (At least 5)
* The Master
* Daleks
* Threats to Earth
* His team going behind his back and against his orders
* Being left behind
Notable Artillery: Loads of stuff thanks to what is in the Hub that’s been taken from other races
Family: Brother Gray
History:
EARLY LIFE
Jack was born under a different name, which he concealed (Jax). He grew up in the 51st century in an era when attitudes towards sex differed from those prevalent in the 21st century.
ATTACK ON THE BOESHANE PENINSULA
Young Jack Harkness on Boeshane Peninsula.
Jack was reared on the Boeshane Peninsula, a sandy, beach-like area. He 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. His father told Jack to flee with Gray, while he went back for Jack's mother. As they ran, Gray stumbled and Jack let go of his hand. Jack continued to run, thinking Gray was behind him. Jack hid in a bush while the invaders flew overhead. He returned home hoping to find his brother, but found only his dead father and his distraught mother. Jack said it was the worst day of his life. He spent many years searching for his brother unsuccessfully. Jack buried the memory of what happened that day and eventually lost his happier memories of before his father's death.
GROWING UP
As a young man, he persuaded a friend to "join up" with him to fight an unspecified enemy Jack described only as "horrible". They were captured. The enemy thought Jack's friend the weaker of the pair and tortured him as a lesson for Jack. They let Jack go, to bear the guilt of his friend's fate.
Once, when sentenced to death, he ordered four hypervodkas as a last meal and ended up bedding both executioners at the same time. He recalled them as a lovely couple who kept in touch.
AS TIME AGENT AND CON ARTIST
Jack worked as a Time Agent with John Hart, a partner in more than one context. They once spent five years trapped in a two-week time loop, becoming the equivalent of a married couple after spending so much time together. Hart admitted to having been "a good wife", closing an argument between the two as to the details of the relationship. Jack had been the first Boeshane resident to be signed up for the Time Agency, making him a "poster boy" for the area, known as the "face of Boe."
Jack found that the Agency had erased two years of his memory, which he wanted back. He left the Agency and became a time-travelling con artist, running scams using his knowledge of future events. His preferred schemes involved collecting payment for items he knew would be destroyed before the buyer could see it. Finding pieces of space junk and directing them to the soon-to-be disaster sites, Jack would sell them to passers-by, then allow the items to be destroyed before the buyers could pick up their merchandise. At some point, he acquired a small, sleek Chula spacecraft fitted for human use, which could turn invisible.
In 1941, he assumed the alias of an American volunteer, Captain Jack Harkness, who had died in action the January prior. He knew very little about the real Jack, other than basic information such as the date and manner of his death.
MEETING THE DOCTOR
While running a scam involving a Chula ambulance in the London Blitz, he spotted Rose Tyler hanging from a barrage balloon. He rescued her and took her aboard his ship. Deducing she came from the future, he thought the Doctor and she were time agents.
Rose introduced him to the Ninth Doctor and crushed his dream of conning the Time Agency. The trio stopped the plague brought about by the ambulance's nanogenes. Jack took an active German bomb ready to explode in his ship to save many people and was almost killed himself. However, the TARDIS materialised in his ship and the Doctor and Rose rescued him before the ship exploded. Jack became a new companion for the Doctor, to the delight of both Rose, who found Jack attractive, and Jack, who found both Rose and the Doctor likewise.
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 Five when a Dalek fleet launched their assault on Earth. He was killed defending the satellite against them. He was resurrected by Rose Tyler holding the powers of the Time Vortex which turned her into the Bad Wolf. The TARDIS departed before he could rejoin them. Jack was left stranded on the satellite. Jack later learnt from the Tenth Doctor that this resurrection was what made him immortal.
LIFE ON EARTH
19TH CENTURY
After Jack was left on Satellite Five, he used the Vortex manipulator in his Time Agency wrist strap to return to Cardiff, the site of an active space-time rift. Jack knew that the TARDIS could re-fuel itself using the rift, and therefore attempted to reach there in the early 21st century so that he may find the Doctor again. However, Jack ended up in 1869, and his Vortex manipulator burned out, leaving him stranded.
Jack stayed in Cardiff, choosing to continue using the Harkness alias (or was at least using it when he started working for Torchwood Three). His 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 - he noted that he had a couple of grey hairs in 2008, one hundred and thirty-nine years after arriving in Cardiff - and could recover from any degree of physical harm, including death itself, given a few minutes time.
In 1898, Jack flirted with a woman (and her father) at a music hall bar. He booked a private box to watch the performance of The Amazing Anthony – The Wonder of 1898 and referred to himself at the time as being "on duty". Over the years of Anthony Bradshaw's life, it seemed that Jack was coming to terms with his own immortality. Anthony was saved by Jack from Lawphoram, who had fallen to Earth. Anthony, the travelling stage show boy, had failed to predict the future of Jack when he asked him how he would die.
To investigate the Night Travellers, Jack joined a travelling show in which he was billed as "the man who couldn't die".
When asked who sent him to investigate the Night Travellers, Jack replied simply that it was "a long story", perhaps implying that it was someone other than Torchwood.
RECRUITMENT BY TORCHWOOD
Jack in 1899.
In 1899, Torchwood Cardiff agents Alice Guppy and Emily Holroyd found out about Jack. They captured and tortured him to discover why he could not die and what connection he had to the Doctor, the Torchwood Institute's enemy. Jack was released on the condition that he undertake a mission for Torchwood. Jack was sent to stop a criminal Blowfish, which he returned to Torchwood Three's Hub, only to see it killed by a shot to the head. Disgusted by Torchwood's methods, Jack walked away from the organisation. He ended up in a bar, where he drowned his sorrows alone until a young cartomancer offered to read him his fortune. She gave 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 until his version of the Doctor coincided with his timeline, Jack reconsidered Torchwood's offer and began working for them and awaiting the Doctor's return.
Jack continued working for Torchwood for over a hundred years, still pursuing his goal of finding the Doctor in the meantime.
Shortly after this, Jack went to China during the Boxer Rebellion, where he worked with explosives.
20TH CENTURY
In 1909, Jack was travelling 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's 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 Ninth Doctor met a soldier who mentioned to him that Captain Harkness had survived a bullet to the head and was recovering in the hospital.
In 1918, Gerald Carter and Harriet Derbyshire brought in Tommy Brockless to be put in suspended animation and use him as a key to fix time shifts happening then and in 2008. At some point after this, Jack retrieved instructions on what to do with Tommy in a box temporally locked until the Rift met the same conditions as in 1918. Jack witnessed Tommy being awakened each year to see if he "still worked".
Jack wasn't present in pictures with Gerald and Harriet circa Tommy's freezing.
In 1927, Jack went to New York City on a mission to stop the Trickster's Brigade from infecting President Roosevelt's brain with a parasite. When he arrived at Ellis Island, Jack met Angelo Colasanto. The two stayed in a room in New York together and had sex. Comparing Angelo to one of the Doctor's companions, the two went to the warehouse where the parasite was being kept and killed it. As the two tried to escape, however, Jack was killed and Angelo was captured and taken to jail.
Jack is tortured repeatedly.
The next year, after Angelo got out of jail, Jack returned claiming that he had only been playing dead. Angelo didn't believe Jack, however, and assumed that Jack was the Devil. Angelo stabbed Jack and was shocked when Jack came back to life. Jack was then chained up and repeatedly killed, since people assumed that his immortality was either a miracle or a blessing. Jack then saw three men come to the room where he was chained, but he never learned who they were. Angelo decided to help Jack escape, but Jack jumped off of a building and disappeared from Angelo's life.
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.
Jack in 1965.
In 1965, the alien race known as the 456, communicating through radio, set up a deal: Jack, with the involvement of Andrew Staines, Ellen Hunt and Michael Sanders, 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 them a cure for a new strain of an Indonesian flu that the aliens claimed would mutate and kill twenty-five 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 McDonald, 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 14 February, 1977; however, Jack eventually rebuilt a relationship with his daughter. Although Jack was a Torchwood agent at the time, he was still considered a freelance operative rather than a full-time employee.
On several occasions during the 1990s, Jack visited the Powell Estate to watch Rose Tyler grow up, but did not approach her to avoid disrupting her timeline.
EARLY 21ST CENTURY
Jack in 1999.
On New Year's Day 2000, Jack, now a full-time agent for Torchwood Three, suffered a major emotional blow when one of his colleagues, Alex Hopkins, suffered a nervous breakdown and killed the entire Torchwood Three staff shortly before the end of 1999. 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.
After taking over, Jack found two people the Rift had taken and later returned to Cardiff inside the vaults. He established an institution on Flat Holm Island. Jack told the carers there that they, and others that came through, were experiments gone wrong.
THE NEW TORCHWOOD THREE
Jack in 2006.
Over several years Jack rebuilt his decimated organisation, 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.
Jack in 2007.
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. Later in 2007, 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 Torchwood One destroyed the Sycorax ship in 2006 under orders from Prime Minister Harriet Jones, Jack obtained a severed hand that had fallen from the Sycorax craft and which was identified as having belonged to the Tenth Doctor. He kept the hand in a portable container in Torchwood Three's nerve centre, the Hub, and treated it as a prized possession, much to the occasional consternation of his colleagues.
Jack asking Gwen to join Torchwood.
The team had been testing the resurrection gauntlet on a series of murders which unknown to Jack were committed by Suzie to make her understand the glove further. At a hospital, he helped capture a Weevil. Police Constable Gwen Cooper followed Jack from this hospital to Torchwood. He showed her around the Hub, then laced a drink with retcon to make her forget about everything.
After Suzie was exposed as a serial murderer, she tried escaping by shooting Jack, but when he revived, she shot herself. Jack recruited Gwen, whose memories had resurfaced, as Torchwood's newest member. Gwen became the only person on the team who knew of Jack's immortality.
Jack chased after a meteorite containing the sex gas creature, where Gwen had accidentally released it. He tricked the gas creature into leaving Carys Fletcher and entering the Torchwood portable prison cell. The entity was poisoned by Earth's atmosphere and died.
As Gwen was a "beat cop", and untrained in firearms, Jack trained her to protect herself.
Jack helped Gwen and Owen capture a quantum transducer Bernie Harris had been carrying. He later confiscated the alien artefacts Bernie had been trying to sell. He failed to prevent the death of Ed Morgan Gwen indirectly foresaw with the transducer. Jack then ordered to lock the transducer away.
Ianto had hidden the partially-converted Cyberman Lisa Hallet inside the Torchwood Hub. Jack and the others managed to bypass the Hub's lockdown and escape, but Ianto rushed back for his girlfriend. After Lisa had placed her brain inside the body of another human, the rest of the team had no choice but to kill her.
Jack re-encountered the same fairies that had killed his men in Lahore. He saw them kill Estelle Cole and he prevented Gwen from stopping Jasmine Pierce, their new Chosen One from joining their ranks as they could have destroyed the Earth.
The Torchwood team travelled to the Welsh countryside to investigate a series of gruesome murders. The Torchwood S.U.V was stolen by a group of cannibals that harvested travellers once every ten years. The team followed the cannibals to their village. Right as his team were captured, Jack stepped in and incapacitated the cannibals. The cannibals were arrested by the police.
The Torchwood team discovered a teleporter buried in the ground for two hundred years, alongside a corpse of a soldier with his heart ripped out. An Arcateenian called Mary threatened Tosh's life, demanding her transporter back. Jack reprogrammed Mary's teleporter as her handed it back and she was teleported straight into the Sun.
While investigating a murder case with Suzie's involvement, Gwen revived Suzie using the resurrection gauntlet, and started having her life drained by the constant link the gauntlet maintained between them. After shooting her achieved nothing, Jack ordered Tosh to destroy the gauntlet, killing Suzie and saving Gwen's life.
Jack saw John Ellis, Emma-Louise Cowell and Diane Holmes come through the Rift from 1953 Earth. He befriended John, as he was also a man out of his own time. As John had nothing left to live for, he committed suicide. Unable to convince John to continue living, Jack held his hand as the car fumes overwhelmed John.
At some point during this time, Jack was kidnapped and Gwen searched for him. This event would later be significant to Miracle Day.
Early in 2008, Jack shut down a Weevil Fight Club, freed the Weevil captive there and saved Owen's life. Owen chastised Jack for saving him, saying that he felt "totally at peace".
Jack meets his namesake.
Tosh and Jack investigated music from the 1940s playing from The Ritz. The Rift brought them back to 1941, where they met Jack's namesake. Jack bonded with the real Jack over war stories and inadvertently complicated his relationship with Nancy Floyd. The two Jacks had a brief romance. Owen opened the Rift with the Rift Manipulator to return Jack and Tosh to the 21st century.
Jack confronting Abaddon
The opening of the Rift brought diseases and people across time and space. Jack was forced to dismiss Owen. Owen later returned and shot Jack; through Bilis Manger's manipulations, Owen re-opened the Rift to send everything back. Jack resurrected and the rest of his team learnt of his immortality.
After the Rift was opened, Jack was forced to confront Abaddon. Abbadon was destroyed while attempting to leech Jack's life, though the exertion resulted in Jack remaining dead for 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 recognised the sound of the TARDIS materialising, elated after decades of waiting by the knowledge that the young cartomancer'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
Jack with Martha and the Tenth 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 year 100,000,000,000,000. This made Jack the only individual known to have withstood a trip through the time vortex on the exterior of a TARDIS, thanks to his immortality. The Doctor and Jack had an awkward reunion, owing both to the Doctor's regeneration into his tenth body since they last met and the fact the Ninth Doctor had seemingly abandoned him on Satellite Five. Before long the Doctor admitted that he had run from Jack because his unique nature as a living temporal anomaly made the Time Lord physically uncomfortable when near him - even looking at Jack was an effort. Jack made the happy discovery, though, that Rose had not been killed in the Battle of Canary Wharf as he had believed. They met and helped Professor Yana to repair a spaceship in order to help the last humans in the universe reach Utopia. After Yana opened a fob watch, it reawakened the human as the Time Lord the Master, regenerated into a new body and took off in the TARDIS with the Doctor's hand still inside, leaving Jack, the Doctor and the Doctor's companion Martha Jones stranded at the end of the universe.
Jack, Martha and the Doctor in hiding.
The Doctor, Jack and Martha travelled back to 2008 with the aid of Jack's vortex manipulator, which the Doctor modified. The 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 Jack had been imprisoned and tortured on 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 using a Heckler & Koch G36 assault rifle. This resulted in time reverting one year. Only those aboard the Valiant at the time retained any memory of the year's events.
Jack says his goodbyes to the Doctor and Martha.
After the Master's death, Jack had the opportunity to end his long exile on Earth, but out of loyalty to his Torchwood team, he decided to stay.
RETURN TO TORCHWOOD THREE
Captain Jack shoots the Blowfish.
Jack returned to Torchwood and the team, saving the life of a woman being menaced by a Blowfish.
Jack reunited with Captain John Hart, who had come through the Rift searching for some canisters that had also come through. Captain John told Torchwood that they contained radioactive bombs. John tricked Jack, pushing him off the top of an office building and taking the canister. Jack caught up with John, but the contents of the canisters were actually components of a bomb that latched onto the DNA of the owner of the canisters' murderer. Jack confused the bomb by injecting John with the DNA of the Torchwood team and safely disposed of it. Jack then asked John to leave. As he did so, he said he found Gray.
Torchwood took in Beth Halloran on suspicion over the deaths of two burglars. Jack ordered a mind probe on her, and her true identity, the sleeper agent Keryehla Janees surfaced. Once Tosh deactivated the link, an advance guard of Cell 114 attacked Cardiff. Jack and Gwen stopped "David" from attacking a stockpile of nuclear warheads. Before David committed suicide, he told Jack the rest of Cell 114 had already arrived on Earth and factored Torchwood into their plans. Rather than let her sleeper agent form take over, Beth pretended to threaten Gwen and Torchwood killed her.
Jack reawakened Tommy Brockless for what would be the last time. Time shifts at St Teilo's Hospital started occurring and Jack's instructions to send Tommy and Toshiko back opened. Jack gave Tommy a small Rift Manipulator in order to close the time shifts. Toshiko then projected an image of herself to Tommy to tell him how to use the "key".
Gwen's fiancé Rhys Williams discovered what Gwen had really got up to. Jack gave Rhys a brief tour at Torchwood and used his position as a transport manager to sneak into Harries & Harries. An alien that could replenish its cells indefinitely was being mutilated there so its meat could be sold. Jack saw Owen mercy kill the creature and felt sorry for it. Torchwood then had its workers retconned and the alien incinerated. Jack asked Gwen to give Rhys retcon, but she refused.
The memory-altering creature Adam Smith altered Torchwood Three's memories, making them think he had been a team member for years. After doing this, Jack's memories of Gray and his father resurfaced. Jack realised that all the memories of Adam were false and Adam's files only dated back 48 hours. Torchwood Three took retcon and erased all trace of Adam's existence on file.
Jack invited Martha onto the team for to investigate The Pharm, a medical organisation that could cure diseases thought incurable. He ordered Toshiko to close the Pharm down once he learnt of their mistreatment of humans and aliens alike, but The Pharm's manager, Aaron Copley, shot Owen and then Jack shot him.
Unwilling to accept the loss of another teammate, Jack tracked down the other resurrection gauntlet and brought back Owen. The attempt, though successful, left Owen unable to digest food, sleep, or enjoy sex. In addition, the glove released an extradimensional alien, Duroc, 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 leader.
A regretful Jack was forced to temporarily relieve Owen until he could acclimatise. Jack later had Owen retrieve the Pulse from an ailing Henry Parker. Owen became medical officer again after Martha had taken over for Owen to acclimatise, and Jack kissed Martha goodbye.
Jack crashing Gwen's wedding.
Gwen was impregnated by a Nostrovite Jack had killed. She decided against postponing her wedding to Rhys. The biological mother, "Carrie", tried forcibly taking her unborn child from Gwen's womb and Jack was forced to stop the wedding. Rhys killed the child that was killing Gwen with the singularity scalpel, while Jack killed the Nostrovite mother. The wedding proceeded and Jack put retcon inside the wedding guests' drinks.
The Night Travellers escaped from a reel of film playing inside the Electro and took the last breaths of people in Cardiff. As more of the Travellers began to leave, Jack captured the Travellers, which were made from the same material as the film, onto a camera and destroyed the negatives by exposing them to light. Before he was destroyed, the Ghostmaker threw the flask containing the breaths and all but one of the victims died.
Jack warned Gwen not to investigate the disappearance of Jonah Bevan, who unknown to Gwen had been taken away by the Rift. Ianto gave Gwen a GPS that pointed her towards Flat Holm and she found Jonah was inside, forty years older. Jack explained to Gwen what had happened to those taken to Flat Holm. Despite his protests, Gwen showed Nikki her ill son and how he screamed for most of each day.
Role Play Sample: (any from anywhere)
It seemed like it was like half his life on earth jack had spent running, not that he minded it per say but tonight he was finding it damned inconvenient. He had been out drinking, he had been out having a good time, he had been hitting on a good looking girl in a low cut shirt and honestly was about to suggest her place or his when the screaming started. So a quick ‘hold that thought’ to her and Jack moved towards the commotion to find, to his extreme shock, a weevil. It hadn’t hurt anyone in the club but Jack knew the possibility existed and there was also the question as to what it had been doing so far away from Cardiff, so far away from the rift activity that brought them from their world to earth. Of course he also knew he’d not get answers from the creature and getting it out of the club needed to happen and happen quickly, so he pointed to the emergency exit and barked out an order to a random person to open it, keeping his eyes on the weevil so as soon as the door opened he yelled at it, spooking it towards the open door. That, of course, sent it running and him now running after it.
If jack was given to honesty, which as of late he really hadn’t been, he would have told Gwen he was lonely in the states by himself. He should have packed up his things and flew back to Cardiff a good long time ago but he’d made that agreement with that enigmatic individual Crowley and if the man was going to pay up, follow through with what he had promised for Jack’s service, then he didn’t want to make himself hard to find. after everything he’d done in his life working for someone, doing things that might be distasteful, well it was all in the name of greater good in the end since with torchwood back together with all its resources would be able to ensure the safety of the world more than U.N.I.T. or hoping the doctor would show up in the nick of time to save them all. Miracle day had proven to him that neither could be counted on and honestly so many more lives could have been saved had he the hub and the resources that he once had. It’s like threats to earth had been waiting for torchwood to be gone like it was so they could come after his beloved home and he’d not stand for it anymore, no the price wasn’t too great to ensure the safety of the earth, and he was the man who would pay it.
As he rounded a corner after the weevil he didn’t at first register seeing the TARDIS or The Doctor…his Doctor…standing outside of it, his mind preoccupied with the thought of if he caught the weevil what in the world was he going to do with it. He didn’t have any containment facility here, just a smallish flat above a surf shop near the beach which cost him an arm and a leg but what a view! Running right past both the blue box and the doctor he mumbled off “Doctor” making it a few feet more before stopping dead in his tracks since he quite literally had seen a ghost. At that point the weevil could go kill someone for all the thought in his mind about it, all he could do was stand there with his back to the doctor trying to make his mind work enough to get his body to cooperate to turn around, which after what seemed like forever it did. Staring at him in disbelief a moment Jack felt like the centuries that had happened since the last time he saw the doctor had melted away, he was that young idealistic hero that had been born of traveling space and time with this man and Rose. He moved back toward the doctor, closing the space between them quickly, even before fully catching his breath, and gathering up the doctor’s cheeks into his hand he did the one thing he’d been known he wanted to do since the last time he’d seen this man, he kissed him.
