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〈 PLAYER INFO 〉
NAME: Kirk
AGE: 23
JOURNAL:foolandsnake
IM / EMAIL: kirkduplicate@gmail.com
PLURK:![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
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RETURNING: Nope, new.
〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Jack. Handsome Jack.
CHARACTER AGE: Early 40s
SERIES: Borderlands
CHRONOLOGY: Post-endgame of Borderlands 2
CLASS: Anti-Villian? Hero? By classical definition- the former, but by personal belief- the latter.
HOUSING: Randomly housed with others.
BACKGROUND: History page
Deuteragonist to Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, Jack hires the Vault Hunters to help him regain control of the Helios Space Station. He supports the Vault Hunters in the process in all sorts of ways, from intel to connections, and so on. The relationship is very much "you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours," but Jack's outward intentions to save the moon Elpis and its residents acquire him support from those around him- the Vault Hunters, Moxxi, Roland, Lilith, and Gladstone.
Things escalate for Jack throughout the story: constant berating, constant betrayal, and the more this goes on, the more he gains a taste for killing. This slow build reaches a climax that meets extreme trauma at having his face horrifically scarred, and he snaps. Jack goes from well-intentioned hero with occasionally questionable practices to full-on bad guy. He still craves to make the world a better place; now he also wants to kill everyone who gets in his way as he does it. He takes control of Hyperion, taking the Board of Directors out of the picture with money, and then settles his own personal issues with Mr. Tassiter, the former President of Hyperion.
As the antagonist of Borderlands 2, Handsome Jack lives to make the Vault Hunters' lives hard. Real hard. By trying to kill them. Having a wealth of resources at his disposal thanks to building Hyperion as a company, he makes his main mission the cleansing of Pandora-- unifying his own personal demons with a heroic objective of eliminating the criminals of the planet and creating peace. He even builds settlements on Pandora where people can live safely and be well provided for, thanks to Hyperion.
The Vault Hunters' mission becomes one single point: Stop Handsome Jack from destroying Pandora. He is pursued relentlessly, and in this pursuit, the Vault Hunters kill his only daughter: Angel. Angel was one of six sirens in the universe, and while Jack did use his daughter to further his goals, it is unquestionable that he loved her deeply, compassion buried underneath his mania and lust for revenge. The loss of her increases his madness exponentially, blinds him of anything except for his final goal. It was the scum of Pandora that took everything away from him, and he would rid the world of them FOREVER.
Things reach the end at the Vault of the Warrior, where Jack summons the Warrior, only to lose to the Vault Hunters. Even in his dying breath, he believes that his passions were right, that his desire to bring order to the destructive society that was Pandora was justly founded. And then, at either the hands of the Vault Hunters or Lilith, he perishes.
PERSONALITY:
Jack is the guy who, upon first meeting you love to hate and hate to love. Either/or. Or both. Usually both, because he's just that great. He's loud, opinionated, with way too much swagger- and while it should be excessive it works. This is a man who knows how to own a space, and knows when he owns a space. He's not afraid of challenging others for the territory either. Jack is so confident that you love him (or just doesn't care if you hate him) that he's not afraid to get friendly, and that means invading your personal bubble or giving you that embarrassing petname that you have always hated. Deeper within all the outward bravado, it can be said that the core of his charisma was forged in the face of his adversities growing up, and even into adulthood throughout his career. When you see the darkness of a person's heart, you also see all the light that people cherish and often take for granted, and this is Jack: taking advantage of what people take for granted.
In the beginning, there was Jack, often mistakenly called "John" but never argued that his name was otherwise...
Heroes get their drive from so many different places-- positives and negatives--, and Jack is no different from this. Jack acts as the change he wants to see in the world. It's not hard to want that when you're surrounded by all manner of crime and savagery like the kind that runs rampant on Pandora. While it is sometimes hard to see because Jack is very "any means necessary", his one true goal was to protect and improve the lives of the innocent. To help should be the only necessary reward, but deeply webbed in his life is also a complicated system of neuroses that make him a barely pieced together semblance of what is considered mentally stable. Amidst these is an extremely deep narcissism, so while at this point in his life he tells himself that helping people and saving lives is more than enough, a part of him knows it isn't. A part of him craves more. A deeper recognition; the kind that people write epics about.
Laying the groundwork for all these neuroses is the affect of his unstable family situation growing up. He lost his father at a young age and was left in the care of his grandmother. While the events of his upbringing with his grandmother are not explained in detail, the later known as Handsome Jack has his own grandmother murdered by men he hired. It can be guessed that these events were equal parts damaging to his own self-worth and inspired him to become greater than just being a man. To become an ideology. Then there is his wife and daughter, the former of them we know little about other than that their daughter, Angel, was directly responsible for some sort of accident that endangered his wife. Despite this, we know that Jack loves Angel deeply and would do anything for her, keeping a photo of her on his desk in his Helios office that we see in the Pre-Sequel.
And then there was Handsome Jack, unafraid of reaching up to those who kept him underfoot, breaking their ankles, then their legs, then their fingers, then their wrists, then their arms, then all the other bones in their body before strangling them with the chain of his pocket watch after drawing out their suffering for far too long.
Jack is a Class AAA Narcissist, and the breaking point for him is tail end of the Pre-Sequel when Lilith says "Yo Bro, you're crazy so we don't trust you not to fuck up the world. Ergo, we fuck you up instead." Not literally, of course. But as Jack synchronizes (for lack of a better term) with an ancient alien technology that shows him not only the location of another vault but the exact events of his own future while babbling about how he can understand everything that exists in the universe, she essentially punches this alien technology into his face, which irreparably damages him physically, emotionally, and mentally. This is Jack's point of no return. His world becomes about eliminating every trace of anything and/or anyone he hates. Lilith, and by extension also Sirens (except for his daughter Angel, but this is a complicated relationship here). Tassiter and every shitbag at Hyperion that ever looked down on him. Blatant scum and villainy, and thus the bandits of Pandora, himself excluded because he is the Hero. Every negative trait he has seems to amplify in the wake of this, like all of his restraints were not only loosened, but burned down into a fine dust easily scattered by one breath.
Beginning of Jack's misadventure with the Vault Hunters of Pre-Sequel, he's shot and asks for help, managing to make jokes about it in the process. It's not a first or he's just that unafraid of the consequences, but this is the first incident of stress because it opens a chapter of his life where things were taken out of his control and he has to fight to get things back. He reaches out to fix this, unafraid of asking for help when he needs it, only to be met with conflict after conflict. During an interrogation, he threatens a man just enough to get what he needs. Contented, he begins to walk out, and then aforementioned man pulls out a gun and threatens Jack. Things are caving down on him and for the first time, Jack snaps past the point of holding himself back, shooting the guy, though he has mentioned that he doesn't like killing people. As this sinks in, that he had the power in that moment to take someone's life away... He realizes that he likes that feeling. The more he kills, the more he gains a passion for it. His superego begins to devolve, leaving his ego to retain his perception of how society works, only to manipulate it to his maximum gain. The satisfaction of his id becomes the driving principle in his life.
Very literally throttling his way up the corporate ladder, Money is a big player in Jack after his collapse in sanity. With it, he can use absolutely any means necessary to get what he wants: the contents of a Vault (specifically the Vault of the Warrior, but any Vault is a good one). Vaults become his endgame because the contents can change the fate of an entire world depending on how you wield what lies within. Power is all that Jack wants to feel writhing underneath his hands as he sucks the life out of all the trash that he wants to purge from his world. To see something perish brings him joy; to take the life himself brings him pleasure and satisfaction.
When he loses his daughter Angel, whatever small trace of his superego that may have remained crumbles completely. A beast is liberated in the clichéd man with nothing left to lose. There is no reason for him to resemble decent anymore. Bandits and Vault Hunters were to blame one hundred percent for the destruction of everything in his life that was important to him: his pride, his face: icon of his pride, and his family. This loss consumes him. It colors every wave of his hand, every twitch of his brow. To see children after this point will bring Jack every bit of sorrow, rage, and envy he can feel in equal measure.
And yet in the face of so much tragedy in his life, he has learned to meet it with a shit-eating grin and laughter. Sure, his sense of humor is absolutely vulgar and quite sarcastic, but this is what gives the man life. This is what holds his carefully strung together being together after cracking so much. His jokes are terrible but also tend to be heavily relatable, which makes it hard to really judge him for it so much as squirm uncomfortably at the lack of filter. The timing could be better, the color of his humor could be less dark, but his tone of voice is always so damn cheerful about it. To carry anger and laughter in that way that is both overtly and passively aggressive is quite a skill, and one that he has in spades.
But of course, no human being is complete without the biggest motivating power of all: fear, and Jack's really do bring clarity to why he is a terrible person underneath all of the games that he plays. He is a man that has been in so many dark places in his own life that the loss of control of even the smallest thing would lead Jack to believe that his entire house of cards is falling apart. Married to this is also an underlying current that he has failed completely if people can't recognize him and the work that he does. He feels and believes so strongly that his cause, while almost entirely self-serving, is noble. And it pains him to see people that don't believe in the same thing and recognize his efforts. Jack is incapable of rationally handling his fears and thus these things fuel the irrational behavior of his id. This is why most people believe Jack to be a psychopath.
And so with this in mind, it's easy to understand why Jack has such a strong sense of entitlement. If people can't meet that step for step, it feeds into his insecurities that he so carefully hides, and things crumble. The entitlement can also feed into jealousy should someone step into his territory or mess with something/someone that he perceives so greatly to be his. Don't play with his toys, even if he offers to share with you. Especially, because it's probably a trap: Jack is manipulative and unafraid of toying with things (things including people) to get what he wants and/or reach his endgame. Whatever his endgame is that the time, he becomes so focused on that one thing that it consumes him. The level of obsession that moves him is ridiculous beyond compare. But this is Handsome Jack, and this is what has kept him moving through his life with strength, dignity, and success. Regardless of how corrupted the path he took was, it's hard to say that it's not amazing the determination he displayed as he moved his way to the top.
Handsome Jack is a star. The Star. The very apex of the pyramid. He's on top of the world, baby, and he's not going anywhere else.
POWER:
➡ 1.) Need More Guns: As long as there is a conscious intent/desire, any inanimate object he touches turns into a gun. The complexity and size of the gun is proportional to the complexity and size of the object-- but the weapon also cannot exceed the size/weight of something that he could carry. He also cannot manifest additional magazines, but the gun comes with a full chamber when materialized. The item also only remains as a gun so long as he is holding it, as a safety feature, thus disallowing him from handing out guns like wildfire to kids on the street. The guns are also always in Hyperion Yellow, and have the Hyperion logo on them. Ex: A pen with a clicking mechanism could become a dart gun with a trigger mechanism vs a pencil that would be a blow-dart gun. A fully-loaded cake mixer with beaters attached might become an uzi with a small bayonet attached, and without beaters would be sans bayonet. A car could theoretically become a gatling gun, with at most a wheeled cart to sit upon.
➡ 2.) Technopathy: The rationalization for this being that there is a lot of context that shows or says that Jack is quite experienced with coding and hardware.
➡ 3.) The « blank » is now diamonds: Jack can turn inanimate objects into diamonds. Specifically diamonds. They can be the same item but composed of diamond material or into pre-cut diamonds of varying cut style, quality, and clarity. These items remain as diamonds permanently, unlike with his gun power which requires a continuous contact with his hands to retain their shape.
〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE: audio
Handsome Jack here, interrupting your usually scheduled radio broadcast! Sorry, I know, I love Taylor Swift as much as the next guy, but come on, I gotta do me guys. And it's been real fun to play along all cute with all the other kids at the sandbox, see who has the cooler toys, allllll that good stuff, [the wolfiest of whistles] but there comes a time when you have to stand up and let everyone know that playtime is over.
[There's some shuffling noises and then his breath on the microphone, voice a telling whisper and you can hear the grin in his voice.] Guess what, kiddos?
That moment has arrived! [His voice is boisterously loud now, and it's clear he had enough care to pull back for this because there's no audible crunch in the sound.] Now, I can hear you all asking yourselves, "Oh, Jack, but how? What is it? This amazing moment that you, Handsome Jack, have brought us to?" Well, [hehe] alright, I'll give you a hint.
In the time I've been here, I've observed. So much. Learned how things work here. Gotten to know the people. The Good Guys. The Bad Guys. I've seen the scum and villainy here. I've reached deep into the shadows of it and found the gritty corners hidden underneath. And you know, you can try to treat a sickness, but the symptoms disappearing doesn't mean that the illness is gone. You've GOT - TO - TREAT - the illness.
And sometimes that means purging things from the world. Now, it's no surprise to anyone what I can do. For those of you that are going to fight me - [HA.] You can try! For those of you that can see things from my point of view - I take care of my own.
I'll be keeping in touch! Handsome Jack signing out!
--Oh, I almost forgot-- I may have fibbed, I'm not actually sorry! Later kiddos!
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
The hardest part of playing along with the image of a hero here was dealing with the kids.
Okay, he had a complicated relationship with kids. Most of the time he hated the little shits. They were loud, they were needy, they couldn't take care of themselves, they were almost always crying... Ugh. Just. And they were gross. Don't know how to clean up after themselves half the time.
But then it's different when it's your own kid. You move past all that petty stuff, and he'd done that with Angel-- and then some, since she'd also been a Siren. THAT was a complicated parent/child relationship, and didn't he know it. So he wasn't Dad of the Year, but he'd loved her so damn much. And then he'd lost her and that drove him insane. It still did, but he knew that letting the anger rule him did nothing here. There was no Vault Hunter for him to torture and then slaughter. So in this void he saw all the children around him.
Cute, gross little fuckers.
Still, seeing kids running around with just their worlds in their own heads and smiles on their faces managed to bring something resembling one to his own. A little more than just resembling when they ran up asking for an autograph, or a hug. Fist bumps for the cool kids. Small tricks for those that were overeager.
He missed this. He wanted to have this with Angel (again?) - without all the complications they had before. Something simpler. Just their own happiness, like the parents and kids in this world...
FINAL NOTES: According to his AMA, he is actually a huge Taylor Swift fan. It's canon.
NAME: Kirk
AGE: 23
JOURNAL:
foolandsnakeIM / EMAIL: kirkduplicate@gmail.com
PLURK:
RETURNING: Nope, new.
〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Jack. Handsome Jack.
CHARACTER AGE: Early 40s
SERIES: Borderlands
CHRONOLOGY: Post-endgame of Borderlands 2
CLASS: Anti-Villian? Hero? By classical definition- the former, but by personal belief- the latter.
HOUSING: Randomly housed with others.
BACKGROUND: History page
Deuteragonist to Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, Jack hires the Vault Hunters to help him regain control of the Helios Space Station. He supports the Vault Hunters in the process in all sorts of ways, from intel to connections, and so on. The relationship is very much "you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours," but Jack's outward intentions to save the moon Elpis and its residents acquire him support from those around him- the Vault Hunters, Moxxi, Roland, Lilith, and Gladstone.
Things escalate for Jack throughout the story: constant berating, constant betrayal, and the more this goes on, the more he gains a taste for killing. This slow build reaches a climax that meets extreme trauma at having his face horrifically scarred, and he snaps. Jack goes from well-intentioned hero with occasionally questionable practices to full-on bad guy. He still craves to make the world a better place; now he also wants to kill everyone who gets in his way as he does it. He takes control of Hyperion, taking the Board of Directors out of the picture with money, and then settles his own personal issues with Mr. Tassiter, the former President of Hyperion.
As the antagonist of Borderlands 2, Handsome Jack lives to make the Vault Hunters' lives hard. Real hard. By trying to kill them. Having a wealth of resources at his disposal thanks to building Hyperion as a company, he makes his main mission the cleansing of Pandora-- unifying his own personal demons with a heroic objective of eliminating the criminals of the planet and creating peace. He even builds settlements on Pandora where people can live safely and be well provided for, thanks to Hyperion.
The Vault Hunters' mission becomes one single point: Stop Handsome Jack from destroying Pandora. He is pursued relentlessly, and in this pursuit, the Vault Hunters kill his only daughter: Angel. Angel was one of six sirens in the universe, and while Jack did use his daughter to further his goals, it is unquestionable that he loved her deeply, compassion buried underneath his mania and lust for revenge. The loss of her increases his madness exponentially, blinds him of anything except for his final goal. It was the scum of Pandora that took everything away from him, and he would rid the world of them FOREVER.
Things reach the end at the Vault of the Warrior, where Jack summons the Warrior, only to lose to the Vault Hunters. Even in his dying breath, he believes that his passions were right, that his desire to bring order to the destructive society that was Pandora was justly founded. And then, at either the hands of the Vault Hunters or Lilith, he perishes.
PERSONALITY:
Jack is the guy who, upon first meeting you love to hate and hate to love. Either/or. Or both. Usually both, because he's just that great. He's loud, opinionated, with way too much swagger- and while it should be excessive it works. This is a man who knows how to own a space, and knows when he owns a space. He's not afraid of challenging others for the territory either. Jack is so confident that you love him (or just doesn't care if you hate him) that he's not afraid to get friendly, and that means invading your personal bubble or giving you that embarrassing petname that you have always hated. Deeper within all the outward bravado, it can be said that the core of his charisma was forged in the face of his adversities growing up, and even into adulthood throughout his career. When you see the darkness of a person's heart, you also see all the light that people cherish and often take for granted, and this is Jack: taking advantage of what people take for granted.
In the beginning, there was Jack, often mistakenly called "John" but never argued that his name was otherwise...
Heroes get their drive from so many different places-- positives and negatives--, and Jack is no different from this. Jack acts as the change he wants to see in the world. It's not hard to want that when you're surrounded by all manner of crime and savagery like the kind that runs rampant on Pandora. While it is sometimes hard to see because Jack is very "any means necessary", his one true goal was to protect and improve the lives of the innocent. To help should be the only necessary reward, but deeply webbed in his life is also a complicated system of neuroses that make him a barely pieced together semblance of what is considered mentally stable. Amidst these is an extremely deep narcissism, so while at this point in his life he tells himself that helping people and saving lives is more than enough, a part of him knows it isn't. A part of him craves more. A deeper recognition; the kind that people write epics about.
Laying the groundwork for all these neuroses is the affect of his unstable family situation growing up. He lost his father at a young age and was left in the care of his grandmother. While the events of his upbringing with his grandmother are not explained in detail, the later known as Handsome Jack has his own grandmother murdered by men he hired. It can be guessed that these events were equal parts damaging to his own self-worth and inspired him to become greater than just being a man. To become an ideology. Then there is his wife and daughter, the former of them we know little about other than that their daughter, Angel, was directly responsible for some sort of accident that endangered his wife. Despite this, we know that Jack loves Angel deeply and would do anything for her, keeping a photo of her on his desk in his Helios office that we see in the Pre-Sequel.
And then there was Handsome Jack, unafraid of reaching up to those who kept him underfoot, breaking their ankles, then their legs, then their fingers, then their wrists, then their arms, then all the other bones in their body before strangling them with the chain of his pocket watch after drawing out their suffering for far too long.
Jack is a Class AAA Narcissist, and the breaking point for him is tail end of the Pre-Sequel when Lilith says "Yo Bro, you're crazy so we don't trust you not to fuck up the world. Ergo, we fuck you up instead." Not literally, of course. But as Jack synchronizes (for lack of a better term) with an ancient alien technology that shows him not only the location of another vault but the exact events of his own future while babbling about how he can understand everything that exists in the universe, she essentially punches this alien technology into his face, which irreparably damages him physically, emotionally, and mentally. This is Jack's point of no return. His world becomes about eliminating every trace of anything and/or anyone he hates. Lilith, and by extension also Sirens (except for his daughter Angel, but this is a complicated relationship here). Tassiter and every shitbag at Hyperion that ever looked down on him. Blatant scum and villainy, and thus the bandits of Pandora, himself excluded because he is the Hero. Every negative trait he has seems to amplify in the wake of this, like all of his restraints were not only loosened, but burned down into a fine dust easily scattered by one breath.
Beginning of Jack's misadventure with the Vault Hunters of Pre-Sequel, he's shot and asks for help, managing to make jokes about it in the process. It's not a first or he's just that unafraid of the consequences, but this is the first incident of stress because it opens a chapter of his life where things were taken out of his control and he has to fight to get things back. He reaches out to fix this, unafraid of asking for help when he needs it, only to be met with conflict after conflict. During an interrogation, he threatens a man just enough to get what he needs. Contented, he begins to walk out, and then aforementioned man pulls out a gun and threatens Jack. Things are caving down on him and for the first time, Jack snaps past the point of holding himself back, shooting the guy, though he has mentioned that he doesn't like killing people. As this sinks in, that he had the power in that moment to take someone's life away... He realizes that he likes that feeling. The more he kills, the more he gains a passion for it. His superego begins to devolve, leaving his ego to retain his perception of how society works, only to manipulate it to his maximum gain. The satisfaction of his id becomes the driving principle in his life.
Very literally throttling his way up the corporate ladder, Money is a big player in Jack after his collapse in sanity. With it, he can use absolutely any means necessary to get what he wants: the contents of a Vault (specifically the Vault of the Warrior, but any Vault is a good one). Vaults become his endgame because the contents can change the fate of an entire world depending on how you wield what lies within. Power is all that Jack wants to feel writhing underneath his hands as he sucks the life out of all the trash that he wants to purge from his world. To see something perish brings him joy; to take the life himself brings him pleasure and satisfaction.
When he loses his daughter Angel, whatever small trace of his superego that may have remained crumbles completely. A beast is liberated in the clichéd man with nothing left to lose. There is no reason for him to resemble decent anymore. Bandits and Vault Hunters were to blame one hundred percent for the destruction of everything in his life that was important to him: his pride, his face: icon of his pride, and his family. This loss consumes him. It colors every wave of his hand, every twitch of his brow. To see children after this point will bring Jack every bit of sorrow, rage, and envy he can feel in equal measure.
And yet in the face of so much tragedy in his life, he has learned to meet it with a shit-eating grin and laughter. Sure, his sense of humor is absolutely vulgar and quite sarcastic, but this is what gives the man life. This is what holds his carefully strung together being together after cracking so much. His jokes are terrible but also tend to be heavily relatable, which makes it hard to really judge him for it so much as squirm uncomfortably at the lack of filter. The timing could be better, the color of his humor could be less dark, but his tone of voice is always so damn cheerful about it. To carry anger and laughter in that way that is both overtly and passively aggressive is quite a skill, and one that he has in spades.
But of course, no human being is complete without the biggest motivating power of all: fear, and Jack's really do bring clarity to why he is a terrible person underneath all of the games that he plays. He is a man that has been in so many dark places in his own life that the loss of control of even the smallest thing would lead Jack to believe that his entire house of cards is falling apart. Married to this is also an underlying current that he has failed completely if people can't recognize him and the work that he does. He feels and believes so strongly that his cause, while almost entirely self-serving, is noble. And it pains him to see people that don't believe in the same thing and recognize his efforts. Jack is incapable of rationally handling his fears and thus these things fuel the irrational behavior of his id. This is why most people believe Jack to be a psychopath.
And so with this in mind, it's easy to understand why Jack has such a strong sense of entitlement. If people can't meet that step for step, it feeds into his insecurities that he so carefully hides, and things crumble. The entitlement can also feed into jealousy should someone step into his territory or mess with something/someone that he perceives so greatly to be his. Don't play with his toys, even if he offers to share with you. Especially, because it's probably a trap: Jack is manipulative and unafraid of toying with things (things including people) to get what he wants and/or reach his endgame. Whatever his endgame is that the time, he becomes so focused on that one thing that it consumes him. The level of obsession that moves him is ridiculous beyond compare. But this is Handsome Jack, and this is what has kept him moving through his life with strength, dignity, and success. Regardless of how corrupted the path he took was, it's hard to say that it's not amazing the determination he displayed as he moved his way to the top.
Handsome Jack is a star. The Star. The very apex of the pyramid. He's on top of the world, baby, and he's not going anywhere else.
POWER:
➡ 1.) Need More Guns: As long as there is a conscious intent/desire, any inanimate object he touches turns into a gun. The complexity and size of the gun is proportional to the complexity and size of the object-- but the weapon also cannot exceed the size/weight of something that he could carry. He also cannot manifest additional magazines, but the gun comes with a full chamber when materialized. The item also only remains as a gun so long as he is holding it, as a safety feature, thus disallowing him from handing out guns like wildfire to kids on the street. The guns are also always in Hyperion Yellow, and have the Hyperion logo on them. Ex: A pen with a clicking mechanism could become a dart gun with a trigger mechanism vs a pencil that would be a blow-dart gun. A fully-loaded cake mixer with beaters attached might become an uzi with a small bayonet attached, and without beaters would be sans bayonet. A car could theoretically become a gatling gun, with at most a wheeled cart to sit upon.
➡ 2.) Technopathy: The rationalization for this being that there is a lot of context that shows or says that Jack is quite experienced with coding and hardware.
➡ 3.) The « blank » is now diamonds: Jack can turn inanimate objects into diamonds. Specifically diamonds. They can be the same item but composed of diamond material or into pre-cut diamonds of varying cut style, quality, and clarity. These items remain as diamonds permanently, unlike with his gun power which requires a continuous contact with his hands to retain their shape.
〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE: audio
Handsome Jack here, interrupting your usually scheduled radio broadcast! Sorry, I know, I love Taylor Swift as much as the next guy, but come on, I gotta do me guys. And it's been real fun to play along all cute with all the other kids at the sandbox, see who has the cooler toys, allllll that good stuff, [the wolfiest of whistles] but there comes a time when you have to stand up and let everyone know that playtime is over.
[There's some shuffling noises and then his breath on the microphone, voice a telling whisper and you can hear the grin in his voice.] Guess what, kiddos?
That moment has arrived! [His voice is boisterously loud now, and it's clear he had enough care to pull back for this because there's no audible crunch in the sound.] Now, I can hear you all asking yourselves, "Oh, Jack, but how? What is it? This amazing moment that you, Handsome Jack, have brought us to?" Well, [hehe] alright, I'll give you a hint.
In the time I've been here, I've observed. So much. Learned how things work here. Gotten to know the people. The Good Guys. The Bad Guys. I've seen the scum and villainy here. I've reached deep into the shadows of it and found the gritty corners hidden underneath. And you know, you can try to treat a sickness, but the symptoms disappearing doesn't mean that the illness is gone. You've GOT - TO - TREAT - the illness.
And sometimes that means purging things from the world. Now, it's no surprise to anyone what I can do. For those of you that are going to fight me - [HA.] You can try! For those of you that can see things from my point of view - I take care of my own.
I'll be keeping in touch! Handsome Jack signing out!
--Oh, I almost forgot-- I may have fibbed, I'm not actually sorry! Later kiddos!
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
The hardest part of playing along with the image of a hero here was dealing with the kids.
Okay, he had a complicated relationship with kids. Most of the time he hated the little shits. They were loud, they were needy, they couldn't take care of themselves, they were almost always crying... Ugh. Just. And they were gross. Don't know how to clean up after themselves half the time.
But then it's different when it's your own kid. You move past all that petty stuff, and he'd done that with Angel-- and then some, since she'd also been a Siren. THAT was a complicated parent/child relationship, and didn't he know it. So he wasn't Dad of the Year, but he'd loved her so damn much. And then he'd lost her and that drove him insane. It still did, but he knew that letting the anger rule him did nothing here. There was no Vault Hunter for him to torture and then slaughter. So in this void he saw all the children around him.
Cute, gross little fuckers.
Still, seeing kids running around with just their worlds in their own heads and smiles on their faces managed to bring something resembling one to his own. A little more than just resembling when they ran up asking for an autograph, or a hug. Fist bumps for the cool kids. Small tricks for those that were overeager.
He missed this. He wanted to have this with Angel (again?) - without all the complications they had before. Something simpler. Just their own happiness, like the parents and kids in this world...
FINAL NOTES: According to his AMA, he is actually a huge Taylor Swift fan. It's canon.