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NAME: Jesse
AGE: 21
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IM: jdmegalomaniac2
E-MAIL: macleaner@hotmail.com
RETURNING: I play the Majorloves_war and Calvin more_surreal.
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Jack Bauer.
FANDOM: The television show 24.
CHRONOLOGY: Shortly before the beginning of day 8.
CLASS: Anti-Hero. Jack Bauer will do whatever it takes to protect innocent lives, even when it's ruthless.
SUPERHERO NAME: ‘Man of the Hour’
ALTER EGO: Jack Bauer, retired federal agent/security consultant.
BACKGROUND:
Jack Bauer is currentlyforty-five fifty years old, and has led what could be conservatively described as an extremely eventful life. He served in the United States Army’s elite Delta Force, the Los Angeles Police Department’s SWAT team, and the CIA’s clandestine services before embarking on his career in the Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU). During his time there he has been a key if not essential player in the foiling of several high-impact terrorist attacks against the United States, often unfolding over the course of a single day. Over the course of his counterterrorism career Jack has faced down threats including vengeful Serbian warlords, Middle Eastern terrorists with nukes, a wide variety of corrupt corporate powers, drug lords, biological terrorism, Middle Eastern terrorists with nukes again, Russian separatists, Middle Eastern terrorists with nukes once more, rogue Russian military officials, the Chinese government, his own family, African warlords, private military contractors, and the President of the United States in his mission to keep the United States safe.
Although he has been mostly successful at preventing the terrorists and those who work with them from achieving their aims, Jack’s battles have been costly ones. His wife, his father, and his brother are all now dead- the latter two because they were involved in that day’s terrorist conspiracy. The same can be said for many if not most of Jack’s friends, some of them dead by Jack’s own hand for the sake of the greater good, others suffering in other ways as part of his never-ending struggle. Jack’s relationship with his daughter, Kim, has been characterized by frequent emotional distance, antagonism, and hostage-taking. Jack himself has personally killed hundreds of people, tortured dozens, and been subjected to extreme physical and psychological suffering in the course of his duties.
By the end of the seventh season, Jack had had enough. Exposed to a biological weapon developed by a corrupt military contractor, Jack spent the last few hours of that day coming to terms with his imminent death from degenerative nerve damage. More insidiously, that day’s events had exposed him to the consequences of his ‘whatever-it-takes’ attitude, confronting him with the costs of his actions and forcing himself to re-evaluate his own life and principles. Jack had begun that day being grilled in a Senate hearing for his extreme actions, and the things he’d done and witnessed during the course of it- such as having to threaten the lives of a corrupt Secret Service agent’s innocent wife and infant son to extract information- convinced him that the people criticizing his actions had a point. Jack reconciled with his daughter and discussed forgiveness and redemption with an imam he had previously threatened at gunpoint before slipping into a final coma induced by the bioweapon, finally ready to let go of his struggle.
An experimental stem cell treatment saved his life, but Jack was still done with counterterrorism, done with killing, torture, and betrayal. He went into retirement in New York and devoted himself to his new family: Kim, her husband, and his new granddaughter Teri. At long last Jack Bauer had found some measure of peace.
Of course, it was never going to last.
PERSONALITY:
Jack Bauer’s demeanour constantly alternates between steely cool and explosive anger. He is quick-witted, resourceful, and highly intelligent (he has a Masters in Criminology and Law) but at his core he is a man driven by his passions, a man who acts on instinct. Jack’s moral compass is immensely strong, which is what drives him to his frequently ruthless actions. His heart feels every innocent loss inflicted by the people he fights against, even though he often hides it for the sake of the mission, and that heartache compels him to do almost anything imaginable in order to preserve the lives of those people. For the sake of saving innocent lives Jack Bauer will disregard orders, steal, burgle, lie, torture, kill allies, kidnap civilians, hijack aircraft, and endanger innocent lives, all without hesitation, but rarely without remorse.
However, Jack’s commitment to the mission is not absolute. When his passions motivate him to make things personal, things get very personal. On multiple occasions he has cold-bloodedly executed defenceless enemies out of revenge, such as when David Palmer was assassinated. And while he is willing to sacrifice most friends and acquaintances if need be, those who are the most close to him, such as his daughter Kim, he will do anything for, including allowing himself to be coerced into serving terrorists in a bioterrorism plot. Even outside of his personal relationships, there are still lines even Jack Bauer will not cross, even for the greater good. In his heart, Jack wants to uphold American freedoms and ideals any way possible, to ensure a world where people like him are not necessary, and there is a limit to how much he will compromise those ideals.
Finally, for Jack, honesty and trust are very important, considering how rare they are in his line of work. His word is worth a lot to him, and when he gives it, he damn well means it... although he will break it if it’s absolutely necessary. For the same reason, he does not take betrayal well at all.
POWER:
FEDERAL AGENT: Jack retains his canonical skillset, namely that of being one of the most badass human beings ever portrayed on television. A lifetime spent in Special Forces, black ops, and counterterrorism services has left him in peak physical condition despite the incredible amounts of abuse his body has endured; this is backed up by absolutely tremendous willpower. He is a lethal unarmed combatant with a real talent for improvising weapons out of whatever happens to be nearby and for using the environment to his advantage, and is a crack shot with a wide variety of firearms. He also has a great deal of skill in demolitions, can speak Spanish, Russian, and German, and is capable of flying an airplane and helicopter. Jack is also an experienced, talented and ruthless interrogator, willing to do almost anything to break a captive and as such is skilled (though not infallible) at discerning whether or not his subjects are telling the truth.
LONG DAY: In addition, I would like to make the superhuman endurance he displays on the show an actual superpower. In Capeandcowl, Jack would gain the ability to function at peak physical and mental efficiency without the need for rest, food, drink, medical attention, hygiene or going to the bathroom for precisely twenty-four hours, although the more he exercised this power, the more recovery time he would require.
THERE’S NO TIME: On the show, Jack never seems to have any problem getting where he needs to go within the hour, despite having to foil terrorist threats within such traffic-congested areas as Los Angeles, New York, and Washington D.C. Therefore, I would like to give him the ability to dispel traffic. This would be a subconscious, involuntary effect that would manifest itself through the subtle and inexplicable rerouting of traffic patterns around any ground-based vehicle Jack is in so that he will never experience any serious delay in reaching his destination- at least, not caused by traffic.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE:
[Sound of gunfire, car engine running at high speed, tires screeching, Jack Bauer yelling into the communicator]
Attention to anyone in the downtown area, this is Jack Bauer, I am in pursuit of multiple armed hostiles in two unmarked white vans! I have reason to believe they are in possession of chemical weapons and- [gunfire, glass shattering] -DAMN IT!- and that they intend to use them on civilian targets. Anyone in the area able to intercept, respond at once. We’ve got to stop these guys before they release this gas, if we don’t thousands of people are gonna die.
Listen, I need to go off-comm and focus on the pursuit, but there’s still a good chance I’m gonna lose these guys. If the gas is released then the only way to stop it will be to incinerate it. It’ll take temperatures of over- [screech]- two thousand degrees Fahrenheit to completely destroy it. If we can’t stop these people in time- [gunshot]- I need to know we have a backup plan, that someone’s standing by ready to burn the area! If the gas gets out, don’t hesitate, just do it! Someone, please acknowledge that you’re in the area and able and willing to do this. It’s the only way.
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE:
The following sample takes place between 1 PM and 2PM. Events occur in real time.
As far as interrogations went, Jack decided it was worse than his last one, in front of the Senate, but better than the one before that, which had involved a Sangelan militiaman and a red-hot machete. He was sitting with his hands cuffed behind a desk in the police station, with two very unimpressed officers glowering at him. He stared back at them, his face impassive. He had dealt with far, far worse than municipal law enforcement, even the City’s.
The two officers in front of him were giving him a variation on a talk he'd gotten a great many times during his career. It was the ‘what the hell were you thinking Jack’ talk. He’d received this talk for many different things, ranging from torturing a Senator’s Chief of Staff in the White House to allowing an innocent man to die on the operating table. By comparison, stealing a civilian helicopter in order to get to an apartment building before a terrorist bomb could destroy it and the hundreds of people inside was downright mild.
Most of the police and ‘heroes’ of the City didn’t see it that way, of course, which was why Jack had been hauled to the station by someone with more spandex and superpowers than sense after he’d disarmed the bomb. He’d already tried to explain to these people that there had been no time, he still didn’t know who in the City he could trust (half these ‘heroes’ were constantly accusing the other half of corruption, after all), and that one unconscious pilot was a small price to pay for hundreds of saved lives. He had yelled, first at the vigilante who’d apprehended him, then at the police, that they had to let him go because the people responsible for the bomb were still out there and likely intending to carry out more attacks within the next 24 hours. No one had listened. It seemed that the City had spent so long without law and order that those responsible for maintaining it were willing to cling to whatever they could hold on to, no matter what the situation. Jack could sympathize, but innocent lives were at stake and- Wait.
One of the cops, the female, higher-ranking one, was telling him something he hadn’t known before. The man he’d shocked unconscious with a Taser in order to commandeer his helicopter, one George Daniels, had a heart condition. If someone with healing powers hadn’t been nearby at the time, he probably would have died from heart complications thanks to Jack Bauer needing a ride. This part, too, was all too familiar to him: another innocent person he’d hurt in order to protect innocent people. Once, Jack would have gritted his teeth, reminded himself that it was one man against hundreds, and forged ahead. But he’d learned since then that at some point you have to draw a line in what you’re willing to do, or else you turn into a different version of what you’re fighting to stop.
Jack hung his head and sighed. “I’m sorry,” he said sincerely. “I didn’t know. You’re right. I should have found another way to get there, or at least another way of dealing with the pilot. I deserve to be arrested and charged for this. And I’m willing to face the consequences for what I’ve done.” He raised his head and took a deep breath. “Look, just let me keep participating in the case. These terrorists are gonna strike again, and I can help you stop them. I need to help you stop them, so I won't have done all this for nothing. I can provide advice, analysis, expertise. Even if it’s from a jail cell. I know it’s hard for you to trust me right now, but please. Let me help.”
The two officers exchanged a look, then nodded. One of them, the man, came around the table, took Jack by the arm, and began to lead him out of the room. They spoke kind words to him about how they would see what was possible, and looked at him with sympathy and understanding. They were relaxed. Their guard was down.
Jack’s elbow slammed into the closest officer’s face like a thunderbolt, and he dropped straight to the floor. Before the other one could do more than widen her eyes in surprise Jack was on her, charging with his shoulder into her midsection and shoving her back. She fell backwards heavily, her head connecting with the wall before she lay still. A second later Jack had the keys in his hands, a second after that the cuffs were off, and a second after that one of their guns was in his hands and he was out of the room and on the move again. Too many seconds for him to spare, too much time wasted. It was now almost two o’clock and he’d been in that room for almost an hour while terrorists plotted further attacks on American soil. Their next strike could be imminent, and he was willing to do anything to prevent it.... at least, almost anything.
Jack Bauer moved through police headquarters, alone and with no one to trust, his mind focused on nothing but the mission and the fact that, once again, he was running out of time.
It was going to be another long day.
FINAL NOTES ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER:
Is there anything else about your character that you feel we should know, that isn't covered in any of the earlier sections? This field is optional.
NAME: Jesse
AGE: 21
JOURNAL:
megalomaniac2IM: jdmegalomaniac2
E-MAIL: macleaner@hotmail.com
RETURNING: I play the Major
loves_war and Calvin more_surreal.[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Jack Bauer.
FANDOM: The television show 24.
CHRONOLOGY: Shortly before the beginning of day 8.
CLASS: Anti-Hero. Jack Bauer will do whatever it takes to protect innocent lives, even when it's ruthless.
SUPERHERO NAME: ‘Man of the Hour’
ALTER EGO: Jack Bauer, retired federal agent/security consultant.
BACKGROUND:
Jack Bauer is currently
Although he has been mostly successful at preventing the terrorists and those who work with them from achieving their aims, Jack’s battles have been costly ones. His wife, his father, and his brother are all now dead- the latter two because they were involved in that day’s terrorist conspiracy. The same can be said for many if not most of Jack’s friends, some of them dead by Jack’s own hand for the sake of the greater good, others suffering in other ways as part of his never-ending struggle. Jack’s relationship with his daughter, Kim, has been characterized by frequent emotional distance, antagonism, and hostage-taking. Jack himself has personally killed hundreds of people, tortured dozens, and been subjected to extreme physical and psychological suffering in the course of his duties.
By the end of the seventh season, Jack had had enough. Exposed to a biological weapon developed by a corrupt military contractor, Jack spent the last few hours of that day coming to terms with his imminent death from degenerative nerve damage. More insidiously, that day’s events had exposed him to the consequences of his ‘whatever-it-takes’ attitude, confronting him with the costs of his actions and forcing himself to re-evaluate his own life and principles. Jack had begun that day being grilled in a Senate hearing for his extreme actions, and the things he’d done and witnessed during the course of it- such as having to threaten the lives of a corrupt Secret Service agent’s innocent wife and infant son to extract information- convinced him that the people criticizing his actions had a point. Jack reconciled with his daughter and discussed forgiveness and redemption with an imam he had previously threatened at gunpoint before slipping into a final coma induced by the bioweapon, finally ready to let go of his struggle.
An experimental stem cell treatment saved his life, but Jack was still done with counterterrorism, done with killing, torture, and betrayal. He went into retirement in New York and devoted himself to his new family: Kim, her husband, and his new granddaughter Teri. At long last Jack Bauer had found some measure of peace.
Of course, it was never going to last.
PERSONALITY:
Jack Bauer’s demeanour constantly alternates between steely cool and explosive anger. He is quick-witted, resourceful, and highly intelligent (he has a Masters in Criminology and Law) but at his core he is a man driven by his passions, a man who acts on instinct. Jack’s moral compass is immensely strong, which is what drives him to his frequently ruthless actions. His heart feels every innocent loss inflicted by the people he fights against, even though he often hides it for the sake of the mission, and that heartache compels him to do almost anything imaginable in order to preserve the lives of those people. For the sake of saving innocent lives Jack Bauer will disregard orders, steal, burgle, lie, torture, kill allies, kidnap civilians, hijack aircraft, and endanger innocent lives, all without hesitation, but rarely without remorse.
However, Jack’s commitment to the mission is not absolute. When his passions motivate him to make things personal, things get very personal. On multiple occasions he has cold-bloodedly executed defenceless enemies out of revenge, such as when David Palmer was assassinated. And while he is willing to sacrifice most friends and acquaintances if need be, those who are the most close to him, such as his daughter Kim, he will do anything for, including allowing himself to be coerced into serving terrorists in a bioterrorism plot. Even outside of his personal relationships, there are still lines even Jack Bauer will not cross, even for the greater good. In his heart, Jack wants to uphold American freedoms and ideals any way possible, to ensure a world where people like him are not necessary, and there is a limit to how much he will compromise those ideals.
Finally, for Jack, honesty and trust are very important, considering how rare they are in his line of work. His word is worth a lot to him, and when he gives it, he damn well means it... although he will break it if it’s absolutely necessary. For the same reason, he does not take betrayal well at all.
POWER:
FEDERAL AGENT: Jack retains his canonical skillset, namely that of being one of the most badass human beings ever portrayed on television. A lifetime spent in Special Forces, black ops, and counterterrorism services has left him in peak physical condition despite the incredible amounts of abuse his body has endured; this is backed up by absolutely tremendous willpower. He is a lethal unarmed combatant with a real talent for improvising weapons out of whatever happens to be nearby and for using the environment to his advantage, and is a crack shot with a wide variety of firearms. He also has a great deal of skill in demolitions, can speak Spanish, Russian, and German, and is capable of flying an airplane and helicopter. Jack is also an experienced, talented and ruthless interrogator, willing to do almost anything to break a captive and as such is skilled (though not infallible) at discerning whether or not his subjects are telling the truth.
LONG DAY: In addition, I would like to make the superhuman endurance he displays on the show an actual superpower. In Capeandcowl, Jack would gain the ability to function at peak physical and mental efficiency without the need for rest, food, drink, medical attention, hygiene or going to the bathroom for precisely twenty-four hours, although the more he exercised this power, the more recovery time he would require.
THERE’S NO TIME: On the show, Jack never seems to have any problem getting where he needs to go within the hour, despite having to foil terrorist threats within such traffic-congested areas as Los Angeles, New York, and Washington D.C. Therefore, I would like to give him the ability to dispel traffic. This would be a subconscious, involuntary effect that would manifest itself through the subtle and inexplicable rerouting of traffic patterns around any ground-based vehicle Jack is in so that he will never experience any serious delay in reaching his destination- at least, not caused by traffic.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE:
[Sound of gunfire, car engine running at high speed, tires screeching, Jack Bauer yelling into the communicator]
Attention to anyone in the downtown area, this is Jack Bauer, I am in pursuit of multiple armed hostiles in two unmarked white vans! I have reason to believe they are in possession of chemical weapons and- [gunfire, glass shattering] -DAMN IT!- and that they intend to use them on civilian targets. Anyone in the area able to intercept, respond at once. We’ve got to stop these guys before they release this gas, if we don’t thousands of people are gonna die.
Listen, I need to go off-comm and focus on the pursuit, but there’s still a good chance I’m gonna lose these guys. If the gas is released then the only way to stop it will be to incinerate it. It’ll take temperatures of over- [screech]- two thousand degrees Fahrenheit to completely destroy it. If we can’t stop these people in time- [gunshot]- I need to know we have a backup plan, that someone’s standing by ready to burn the area! If the gas gets out, don’t hesitate, just do it! Someone, please acknowledge that you’re in the area and able and willing to do this. It’s the only way.
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE:
The following sample takes place between 1 PM and 2PM. Events occur in real time.
As far as interrogations went, Jack decided it was worse than his last one, in front of the Senate, but better than the one before that, which had involved a Sangelan militiaman and a red-hot machete. He was sitting with his hands cuffed behind a desk in the police station, with two very unimpressed officers glowering at him. He stared back at them, his face impassive. He had dealt with far, far worse than municipal law enforcement, even the City’s.
The two officers in front of him were giving him a variation on a talk he'd gotten a great many times during his career. It was the ‘what the hell were you thinking Jack’ talk. He’d received this talk for many different things, ranging from torturing a Senator’s Chief of Staff in the White House to allowing an innocent man to die on the operating table. By comparison, stealing a civilian helicopter in order to get to an apartment building before a terrorist bomb could destroy it and the hundreds of people inside was downright mild.
Most of the police and ‘heroes’ of the City didn’t see it that way, of course, which was why Jack had been hauled to the station by someone with more spandex and superpowers than sense after he’d disarmed the bomb. He’d already tried to explain to these people that there had been no time, he still didn’t know who in the City he could trust (half these ‘heroes’ were constantly accusing the other half of corruption, after all), and that one unconscious pilot was a small price to pay for hundreds of saved lives. He had yelled, first at the vigilante who’d apprehended him, then at the police, that they had to let him go because the people responsible for the bomb were still out there and likely intending to carry out more attacks within the next 24 hours. No one had listened. It seemed that the City had spent so long without law and order that those responsible for maintaining it were willing to cling to whatever they could hold on to, no matter what the situation. Jack could sympathize, but innocent lives were at stake and- Wait.
One of the cops, the female, higher-ranking one, was telling him something he hadn’t known before. The man he’d shocked unconscious with a Taser in order to commandeer his helicopter, one George Daniels, had a heart condition. If someone with healing powers hadn’t been nearby at the time, he probably would have died from heart complications thanks to Jack Bauer needing a ride. This part, too, was all too familiar to him: another innocent person he’d hurt in order to protect innocent people. Once, Jack would have gritted his teeth, reminded himself that it was one man against hundreds, and forged ahead. But he’d learned since then that at some point you have to draw a line in what you’re willing to do, or else you turn into a different version of what you’re fighting to stop.
Jack hung his head and sighed. “I’m sorry,” he said sincerely. “I didn’t know. You’re right. I should have found another way to get there, or at least another way of dealing with the pilot. I deserve to be arrested and charged for this. And I’m willing to face the consequences for what I’ve done.” He raised his head and took a deep breath. “Look, just let me keep participating in the case. These terrorists are gonna strike again, and I can help you stop them. I need to help you stop them, so I won't have done all this for nothing. I can provide advice, analysis, expertise. Even if it’s from a jail cell. I know it’s hard for you to trust me right now, but please. Let me help.”
The two officers exchanged a look, then nodded. One of them, the man, came around the table, took Jack by the arm, and began to lead him out of the room. They spoke kind words to him about how they would see what was possible, and looked at him with sympathy and understanding. They were relaxed. Their guard was down.
Jack’s elbow slammed into the closest officer’s face like a thunderbolt, and he dropped straight to the floor. Before the other one could do more than widen her eyes in surprise Jack was on her, charging with his shoulder into her midsection and shoving her back. She fell backwards heavily, her head connecting with the wall before she lay still. A second later Jack had the keys in his hands, a second after that the cuffs were off, and a second after that one of their guns was in his hands and he was out of the room and on the move again. Too many seconds for him to spare, too much time wasted. It was now almost two o’clock and he’d been in that room for almost an hour while terrorists plotted further attacks on American soil. Their next strike could be imminent, and he was willing to do anything to prevent it.... at least, almost anything.
Jack Bauer moved through police headquarters, alone and with no one to trust, his mind focused on nothing but the mission and the fact that, once again, he was running out of time.
It was going to be another long day.
FINAL NOTES ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER:
Is there anything else about your character that you feel we should know, that isn't covered in any of the earlier sections? This field is optional.
