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Name: Jack Rackham Door: TDM door pass (Dominant) Canon: Black Sails Canon Point: post-season 2, before time skip Age: 32 Appearance: There he is History: Jack @ Fandom Wiki Personality: Pride - Pride is Jackās defining quality. Though he can swallow it if it is advantageous in the long run, he is motivated, more than anything else, by his desire to cement a legacy. While most of his peers came to piracy for money or freedom from colonial rule, Jack wants to make a name for himself that will outlive him. As a foppish sort, who is not particularly talented in battle, Jack struggles to earn the respect he craves from ābetterā, or at least more fearsome pirate captains like Blackbeard and Charles Vane, to be counted as notorious among their ranks. Heāll get there at any cost, more than willing to lie, cheat, steal, kill, and endlessly fuss over his skull-and-swords flag design to put his name in the history books. Itās when he gains a reputation as a traitor and is unable to sail that heās at one of his lowest points, because itās then when Jack is in danger of dying as a nobody. Even when he seems to be headed towards inevitable execution, he refuses to take a way out that would come with a new identity in a new place, because he refuses to give up the name and reputation heās cultivated. Wily - Jackās a slippery guy. He has to be, to take his place among the other pirate captains, in a brutal and violent environment, as someone physically weaker that doesnāt look the part. Heās not a skilled combatant, but he is a skilled tactician and a smooth talker, able to play the brain to his alliesā brawn. Jackās wits are what enables him to snatch a massive stash of treasure from a Spanish treasure galleon that had been shipwrecked, after another crew had spent weeks stalking the ship and taking it down. That gold, stolen right out from under the most feared pirate crew in the Bahamas, helps him advance his position into a local leader, and puts his name on the map. At the same time, Jackās scheming often comes back to bite him, in over-thinking and over-talking, he can lose the trust of others who see him as wily and duplicitous. Disregard for right and wrong - Jackās not a sociopath, he understands the difference between right and wrong. He just doesnāt care, as long as he and his partner, Anne Bonny, are safe, Jack it doesnāt matter who is upset or who is hurt in his efforts to get to the top - and in most of the time, he can convince them to come back around eventually anyway. In one case, he tricks his close friend Vane into capturing a slave ship, so that he may use the slaves to rebuild the fort necessary to protect his ill-gotten gold, knowing that Vane was born a slave himself and would never have gone after that shipās human cargo if he knew. In another, he allowed the few men left on his crew to keep a prisoner that they were beating and raping for their amusement, fully aware of and against what they were doing to her, but allowing it to continue to retain their loyalty. Appeals to Jack have to be to his sense of reason, not his conscience, because even in cases like these where he expresses guilt, he sees the end as justifying the means, every time. Loyalty - Despite all of this, the few people that Jack finds himself close to, he will remain loyal to until heās dead and buried. He has a partner, lover, and nearly life-long companion in Anne, who he would do anything for. Jack extends her all of the tenderness and understanding that a rough life like theirs could possibly allow, despite their opposite personalities and the period-typical understanding that a pirate crew is no place for women. He wants so badly for her to be happy that after she realizes that she is queer, he accepts and even encourages her to pursue a relationship with the woman sheās interested in, despite his insecurities and jealousy about the situation, because he is that certain that their bond will always be unbreakable. That sense of loyalty extends even to close bonds that have departed, the kinship becomes a grudge that he nurtures against those responsible for his friendās execution, and he uses any means necessary to get back at them. Powers and Abilities: Nothing supernatural, heās a normal guy! The closest thing he has to a āpowerā is his ability to sway people into seeing things his own way. Inventory: A dagger, a bag of gold coins, and these sick shades. |
