Jack's a mongrel when it comes to species identification, but ticks the human checkbook on forms since he's at least 70% human, and that's what counts on the forms. Do to his non-human heritage, he doesn't have a fixed sex, but can regulate his/her hormones to be either male or female. But to some sketchy genetics, he would have more luck carrying a child than fathering one.
The parenting structure norm was three adults, and than he's in the middle of an unknown number of siblings - but by the time the war rolled around, he was the oldest child still at home. He has at least two older siblings, and one that was six or younger when he left home.
Jack's not from Earth, but from a former human settlement that intermingled extensively with the original inhabiter's of the planet. I'm not sure what implications would be, other than what Jack grew up with was a base-eight counting system that for a very long time was the only system he could do higher maths in, and the writing system that he still keeps his datebooks in is a curcioutus-looking script that runs right to left.
One of Jack's first exposures to 20th century English was Glen Miller, specifically, "This is the Army, Mr. Jones." He learned to sing it before he learned the language, and even now when he sings the tune, a trace of his original accent shows up.
One of his parents died during the war when the munitions factory they were working at got bombed. One his older siblings died fighting, or so everyone hopes as they were MIA and the family prefers that they were killed in action instead of being tortured to death in the camps. Another one of his other older siblings was a medic in the war.
I'm a bit fuzzy on the war, so I don't have any ideas of what Jack did before his capture - but afterwards, when there wasn't so much as a peace but a cessation of active hostilities, he was a professional torturer after learning a lot watching others being tortured in the camps.
More fuzziness when it comes to transitioning from the military to the Time Agency! Other than being a slight thing for history and swing music and that it got him far away from his home.
His partner at the Time Agency gave him the name James Harper on a job.
The Agency ate up a lot of his time, but he began settling down with someone he met at a 51st century version of a bar. It was a little tense, as Jack was a workaholic and the Agency ate up a lot of his personal life. This experience is one of the reasons that Jack tells his co-workers not to let they're partners drift away. Jack isn't quite sure what put the nail in the coffin of that relationship, as the two years that got stolen from him contained the end - he only figured that out after he saw ex at the bar with someone new, and a passer-by said that his ex had been with that person for over a year. ( I'm fiddling with the idea that time Jack got pregent was with this partner, and the baby didn't live longer than six months, and Jack "delt" by throwing himself further into his work. )
Jack found out that his memories had been stolen after falling asleep on the couch in the lounge of the Time Agency and waking up two centuries in the past with a new haircut, a bit more masculine looking, and his wristband registering that Jack was two years older by his relative time line. I think that he left the agency, and they tried to wipe his mind of his entire time there - but only got those two years.
Jack hasn't seen his family since he's left the Time Agency. Which he's still wanted by.
I think that's it. And I have really, really over thought this to the point of insanity, haven't I?
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Date: 2007-04-24 12:20 am (UTC)The parenting structure norm was three adults, and than he's in the middle of an unknown number of siblings - but by the time the war rolled around, he was the oldest child still at home. He has at least two older siblings, and one that was six or younger when he left home.
Jack's not from Earth, but from a former human settlement that intermingled extensively with the original inhabiter's of the planet. I'm not sure what implications would be, other than what Jack grew up with was a base-eight counting system that for a very long time was the only system he could do higher maths in, and the writing system that he still keeps his datebooks in is a curcioutus-looking script that runs right to left.
One of Jack's first exposures to 20th century English was Glen Miller, specifically, "This is the Army, Mr. Jones." He learned to sing it before he learned the language, and even now when he sings the tune, a trace of his original accent shows up.
One of his parents died during the war when the munitions factory they were working at got bombed. One his older siblings died fighting, or so everyone hopes as they were MIA and the family prefers that they were killed in action instead of being tortured to death in the camps. Another one of his other older siblings was a medic in the war.
I'm a bit fuzzy on the war, so I don't have any ideas of what Jack did before his capture - but afterwards, when there wasn't so much as a peace but a cessation of active hostilities, he was a professional torturer after learning a lot watching others being tortured in the camps.
More fuzziness when it comes to transitioning from the military to the Time Agency! Other than being a slight thing for history and swing music and that it got him far away from his home.
His partner at the Time Agency gave him the name James Harper on a job.
The Agency ate up a lot of his time, but he began settling down with someone he met at a 51st century version of a bar. It was a little tense, as Jack was a workaholic and the Agency ate up a lot of his personal life. This experience is one of the reasons that Jack tells his co-workers not to let they're partners drift away. Jack isn't quite sure what put the nail in the coffin of that relationship, as the two years that got stolen from him contained the end - he only figured that out after he saw ex at the bar with someone new, and a passer-by said that his ex had been with that person for over a year. ( I'm fiddling with the idea that time Jack got pregent was with this partner, and the baby didn't live longer than six months, and Jack "delt" by throwing himself further into his work. )
Jack found out that his memories had been stolen after falling asleep on the couch in the lounge of the Time Agency and waking up two centuries in the past with a new haircut, a bit more masculine looking, and his wristband registering that Jack was two years older by his relative time line. I think that he left the agency, and they tried to wipe his mind of his entire time there - but only got those two years.
Jack hasn't seen his family since he's left the Time Agency. Which he's still wanted by.
I think that's it. And I have really, really over thought this to the point of insanity, haven't I?