Jack Concept

JACK CONCEPT

The main character from the second book I'm writing. It's interesting reading back as how much the character has and hasn't changed. Jack is a jaded and solitary person who both resents people and their presence, and his disdain for human life makes him the perfect killer. He works as a hitman for Arthur, but doesn't like taking jobs against civilians, instead opting to go after other organisations, criminals and anyone else he takes a disliking to. While he technically works for Arthur, he usually does as he pleases, mostly because no-one has the guts to tell him otherwise. Despite being the one to bring him in and train him, even Arthur is wary of Jack's famous temper.
Unfortunately for Jack, Arthur knows him well, and there are times when he makes it clear that Jack has no choice in the matter. Jack is forced to look after Arthur's teenage daughter, plan being that people will be too scared to go near her with the Devil by her side. Problem is, having to share his house with another person is his idea of hell, and doubly so when that person doesn't want to be there either.

Jack's Red suit and violent outbursts have earned him the nickname of "The London Devil", but Jack is reluctant to take all the credit for that.
He hides it well, but Jack shares his head-space with a psychotic voice he refers to as "Red". It is Jack's anger and bloodlust that he has personified and separated from himself. Red is not bound by Jack's moral code, and will happily destroy anyone or anything it see's if Jack doesn't constantly rein him in. Despite their power struggle, Jack and Red live in an otherwise symbiotic relationship, and as such Jack has never actually tried to get rid of Red, instead letting him take the wheel whenever Jack gets in too deep.

Jack doesn't care much for the nickname, but uses his infamy to his own advantage, playing into his own legend to invoke fear in others. Even his own allies are afraid of Jack, more so than of Arthur even, but then again, maybe that was Arthur's plan all along. After all, what good is a dog that can't bark?

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