have a bad dad

[refactor]

the normal response to jack

Hello, Overjoyed! Hopefully DW will cooperate with me enough to post this!? lord almighty... Anyways! I'm Christy and I'm bringing you your future """hero""", Handsome Jack from the Borderlands series! If you're not familiar with Borderlands, the best way to describe Jack is that he's a walking shitpost that says stupid things constantly, is a godawful human being with a delusional hero complex, but is weirdly likeable and funny. So, essentially, I'm so sorry??

For Overjoyed, this is all still essentially true, but his AU has given his backstory a few tweaks, which you can read on his application in detail if you're interested! But essentially rather than working for Hyperion, Jack is instead working quite hard for the Company instead, since he has big dreams of taking them over and reforming it from the inside. Of course, this is reforming it to his twisted specifications, but, eh, who's keeping track of that. For now, he's a semi-high ranking manager of a sector in the Prisoner Intake Facility, so if your character is either a RAC agent or a criminal, they probably know of him! And since this is the beginning of the game, this also means there's plenty of opportunity to assume CR!

So while this is a general intro post on one hand, I'd also love to hash out any pre-established CR you might be interested in, since Jack has been here for the full five years, so there are plenty of chances to have run into him. If you have an idea, hit me up! I'm super open to them, since I'm all for skipping intro threads and jumping straight into CR!

And finally, if you'd like, add me on plurk! You can find me over at yeezus. Otherwise, if you want to know more about Jack, just check out his journal! There's a nav post right at the top, so you should be able to find anything you might need!

Comments

[inksplashes]

Hiii! This is just my formal declaration to harass Jack because he's had to deal with Kanda and Lavi swears some killjoys have a pleasant demeanor (even if they're actually stone cold but yk). Also generally just really enjoy reading your tags so. Points at eyes points at you. LET'S DO THINGS. soon.

[cauterised]

Hello Christy.....!! I feel like I've interacted with you in and out over the past several years at various games but fancy seeing you again, let's get CR at some point, etc etc. do i even need to introduce myself at this point, will i just make a fool of myself

Anyway, moving on to more interesting stuff -- Riza's an Enforcer, and been one for several years now even though she's only been 'in-game' for about a year. If you wanna go ahead and assume they've got a working relationship (maybe he hassles her squad to go round up sketchy folks every now and then when he's too lazy for a warrant) I'm game. That said she will definitely not appreciate his constant stream of verbal stupidity but hey, all the more reason for him to natter away at her. 8)

I'd say you can read my app for more details but actually don't because I wrote most of it in a panic-induced haze and now I just have Immense Regret.

[gyouten]

Ooh, a Company employee! I'm Sana and I'm playing Akemi/Ginshu from Amatsuki. His background is complicated as hell, but in short he's a wildly unethical, batshit crazy neuroscientist who's intentionally implanted himself with a false memories (his split personality is actually quite pleasant, though). Akemi was arrested 5 years ago for crimes against humanity and other science fun, but the Company bailed him out of prison because you don't just let a quality mad scientist go to waste. So maybe he met Jack when he was captured by the RAC? They're both charismatically insane, they're both terrible dads, they both have crackpot idealist goals... I think they'd be bestest friends.

[slotted]

ah! gosh, hi christy! look at my little criminal looking boy--he isn't one, but his father sure was! his dad was well-known scientist back in the day (13+ years ago) and turned his other son into a full android so that was a huge scandal and then he killed his son and himself bc he went crazy... it was a crime but david elster died before he was arrested but we can play it out that jack has heard of david elster bc of how that story spread throughout the quad if you'd like! i'll be playing leo as someone who's been given a difficult time because of his family name so we can also play it out as jack keeping tabs on him just in case. if you're interested, ofc!