❚❚❚❚❚ BASICS.
■ NAME & ID CODE: Jonathan "Jack" Benjamin | NHD-A10-BNJ-131 ■ CANON: Kings, end of series. Plus ten years of CDC woops. ■ AGE: 35 (physically about 30, he asked for a halt on aging as a mission reward) ■ CURRENT TEAM & STATUS: Black Team. Stressed, depressed but well dressed. ■ LANGUAGE: "Judaean", which is like weird ancient Hebrew with some modern in it, idk. See language section below for more. KINGS IS HARD. Has learned standard English as it's known from most moderny canons by now, and probably some alien languages idk. ■ INVENTORY: Here.
|
❚❚❚❚❚ IC.■ PHYSICAL AFFECTION: Sure, but as a rule on reciprocation or Jack's reaction to it, generally, if Jack hasn't voluntarily touched you, it's probably not a great idea to touch him if you're expecting anything reciprocating. He might even just dead-eye you until you let him go, depending on who it is. For real, dude doesn't even hug his own mother back. Casual hook-ups will have positive contact during, obv, but it'll cease after the fact. TOUCHING HIS SPINE IS A BAD IDEA, even if he's more chill with it now. About nine years ago, Jack was pretty brutally tortured for seeeeveral hours/close to a day, and it involved breaking every vertebrae in his spine one at a time, and he had to remain conscious for it, and ended up paralyzed and confused for a while too so. As a general rule, you probably don't want your character touching his spine, even if it is pretty and glowy and shiny and sticking out of his back now, unless they want to be punched, shoved or pistol whipped. :|b His general back is fine, just, fingers directly poking at his spine is super not okay. ■ PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: Sure, expect retaliation. Jack sort of uses violence for coping, so go for it. Also, he's really cruel, and will absolutely use powers on people, I'm sorry. ■ RELATIONSHIPS: He's very sociable (the catch is if he's being sincere about it or not), and he'll be happy to make connections with people and pretend he's a lot more charming than he is, especially if it's someone he sees as useful. As for romantic relationships thooooough, probably not going to happen, but he'll flirt like hell. He is gay (won't stop him flirting with girls excessively), but still really doesn't talk about it much at all (it'll be like once in a year that the word 'gay' actually comes out of his mouth). DTF hook ups, though, he'll def be down for, as long as you never expect more from him or push for more :| ■ MENTAL INFORMATION: Go for it, re: telepathy. Let me know your dude is trying to peek in his head and I'll supply some small text to help out. Jack's thoughts are going to be a lot different from what's coming out of his mouth. He's constantly hiding a lot of things, and he's not nearly as pleasant as he acts. ■ MEDICAL INFORMATION: Mostly, he's normal human, aside from some cybernetic upgrades. First, he has a reinforced skeleton, not made from any kind of metal, specifically for the purpose of making sure Erik Lehnsherr doesn't rip his bones out of his body. We decided it was 'vague super durable space material', probably now upgraded to what the rovers are built from (also something that can't be affected by Magneto). Secondly, he has a cybernetic spine, that can be seen half exposed down the length of his back, made from the same material as his restructured spine, fused in with it. It's hooked into all his neural junk and is the main thing that powers his brain shenanigans abilities. Other than that, he's human. ■ FAVORITE SENSORY INPUT: Sight ■ OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS & TRIGGERS: Offensive Subjects: homophobia, daddy issues/so much as saying the name Silas Benjamin to him, abandonment issues, suicide/suicidal ideation. Triggers: DAMAGE/PAIN/CONTACT WITH HIS SPINE (won't incapacitate him, just make him go all 'i will fucking shoot you' and hate you), scenes with a lot of carnage (especially of soldiers/comrades), the... concept that his entire life has been wasted and he has nothing in his future except more of the same misery? IT IS VERY SPECIFIC and it takes a specific scenario to get to that. If he’s forced to go back to Gilboa, basically. Or if he learns that DAVID BROUGHT GOD HERE, because the Bible that wrote up their story, Jack basically looks at like a death prophecy. But this is probably the biggest trigger (outside of spinal touching post-gliese meeting), because it’s canonically made him a little bit suicidal. Or at least, made him request/demand execution. Has to really be a solid and present thing to be an issue, though, not just mentioning/talking about it. Check here for more details. ■ ADDITIONAL PERMISSIONS: Neural shenanigans!! pls go fill those out |
❚❚❚❚❚ OOC.■ PLAYER: Jen ■ PREFERRED CONTACT: Wuzzafuzzle ■ BACKTAGGING: Definitely ■ THREADHOPPING: Go for it, as long as the other person is cool. ■ FOURTHWALLING: I'm cool with it, but be aware that mentioning the Bible to Jack will reaaaaaally not go over well ■ ACTION VS PROSE: Prefer action, but I can do prose ■ OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS & TRIGGERS: Animal torture. Really detailed holocaust commentary, but it's sort of hit and miss. I can handle a lot of it and I'm fine with it most of the time. Please never make holocaust jokes around me, though. ■ YES/NO SCENARIOS: No's are: Animal torture, hmm holocaust related things? like idk if it’s too close to it i might not be able to do it. Bugs under skin 8|, peeermanent mutilation (loss of limbs or other body parts) I’d rather not do but idk we can talk about it. Pretty much everything else is cool. Check here for more details.
■ ANYTHING ELSE? Nada, hit me up on aim or plurk if you have questions. |
❚❚❚❚❚ LANGUAGE.■ BIBLICAL HEBREW: As a note on the language Jack natively speaks, I've been doing ranting plurks about trying to figure this out since the beginning of this gd game. THIS IS THE ISSUE. Kings is a modernization of a biblical story, with real, biblical geographic places within it (not exactly where and what they should be (i.e., instead of just a mountain "Gilboa" is a country)), and there is no England or America, therefore, despite the fact that the show is done in English with American accents, they don't actually speak English, considering English wouldn't be a thing. BUT, the name of the language they speak isn't actually said in canon at all. So, if we're going on the biblical side of things, they should speak Biblical Hebrew, which is a dialect that is ancient and dead and extinct, but at the same time it's liiiiiike, idk, you could go any which way with it because it's a modernized AU of the bible vdskfjdlfdas SO. AFTER MUCH DEBATE, AND THIS PLURK HERE, I decided that having 'English That Isn't Actually Called English' didn't work for threading things where Jack had to actually say what language he spoke. So I've decided that what Jack speaks is basically Biblical Hebrew, with some modernization in it, and that fits more with the theme of the show and actually gives me something solid he can SAY instead of having to work around it awkwardly.
BUT, according to THIS HERE, and obviously, Biblical Hebrew wasn't called Biblical Hebrew, and the people in Jack's world don't know they're a bible story, lmao. So, where it says The Hebrew Bible also shows that the language was called יהודית 'Judaean, Judahite' (see, for example, 2 Kings 18:26,28), seeing as Kings/Samuels is where a lot of the Jonathan, David and Saul story comes from, that's the word I'm going to use for Jack's language. It'll always be one of the two from now on. 8| SORRY FOR THE CONFUSION, GUYS, THIS CANON IS FRUSTRATING.
Also, since Jack was a prince and heir to the throne of what was basically supposed to be Israel, I assume he would have also spoken some of the other Canaanite languages, so if you see that mentioned, that's why. Also, a lot of the other Canaanite languages are mainly just dialect shifts, aside from like Phoenician, so they should mostly all be pretty close to Hebrew to begin with. NOT THAT IT'LL MATTER, UNLESS SOMEONE APPS JESUS OR SOMETHING IDEK.
As for handwriting (because Gaia and I had fun with it), Jack's typical handwriting looks like this:


 - PiS Hans Hand Pro.
And his signature looks like this (because he was raised to be a fancy shit):

- Byron.
|