Because I don't still have writer's block or anything

[arachnekallisti]

A new meme (ganked from daphnie_1): name any character you know (or think) I might be familiar with, and I will tell you 10 things that are my own personal canon about them.

It will, at least, make my lunch hour a bit more exciting.

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[gin-gerkitten.livejournal.com]

Predictibly, I have to shout out for Captain Jack.

[arachnekallisti.livejournal.com]

I have many Thoughts on Jack! Quite a lot of these are influenced by discussions with prochytes, to give credit where credit's due.

1. As a very young Time Agent, Jack learnt the hard way about the importance of paying attention in xenobiology lectures after a fling with a Vriath prince. It's a well known fact that the Vriath are genetically compatible with a wide range of humanoid species across the galaxy, and that sampling a new species' DNA allows them to emit pheromones which induce their partner's physiology to start modifying itself to gestate Vriath offspring. Jack knew this. He'd just missed the point where the pheromones work on all the target species' sexes, not just the ones that usually bear children.
2. After the above incident, Jack managed to get back to base in time to have the hybrid foetus decanted into a uterine replicator and sent to its other father's people. The Vriath royal family sent it straight back with a note to the effect that they didn't want half-human hybrids cluttering up the succession. Jack's daughter spent an extended amount of time in stasis before finally being adopted and living a quiet life as a librarian. She never managed to land her dream job at the Lux's Library, which is probably for the best.
3. Jack is quite capable of monogamy when he puts his mind to it. From a 51st century perspective, it's quite exotic; it comes over as a kind of D/s kink to put restrictions on what your partner can and can't do with their other friends.
4. Jack and Ianto had an open relationship, although Ianto was a touch insecure about it sometimes. The main reason Ianto was so miffed to discover Jack had been hobnobbing with random soldiers was that he hadn't heard about it closer to the time.
5. Jack had a bit of trouble at first adjusting to a relationship with such an obvious and thoroughgoing sub. Especially considering that his sub had demonstrated his willingness to endanger the whole human race for the sake of his last Domme.
6. Rose had something of a knack for seeing the best in people, and that was exactly what Jack needed at the time. Unfortunately, post-resurrection Jack ended up pining for Rose as much as for the Doctor, and he's been drawn to a succession of young women who believe he's a hero ever since, hoping that being believed in will give him what he needs to fix his eternal life again. Gwen is the most recent example of this; but she isn't Rose, and not even Rose was what Jack thinks of as Rose.
7. To a certain degree, Torchwood Three was Jack's rather creepy shrine to his ex-boyfriend. There was the Hand, of course, and the TARDIS coral; there was also the technical genius who had met the Doctor once in Albion Hospital, and the survivor of the Doctor's battle at Canary Wharf.
8. Jack was pulling the Doctor's leg with that whole "Face of Boe" business. The Face of Boe has, indeed, been a friend of the Doctor's for a while, but Nine and Ten never got round to discussing their angst with another last survivor of a lost species. Twelve will, though.
9. As a young Time Agent, Jack slept with Dr River Song. He has always been puzzled, since then, by how well she seemed to know him.
10. At the end of the universe, a dark-haired girl and a man in a tattered greatcoat watch the last of the stars fail. The very last light in the universe glints off the silver of her ankh, and she reaches out her hand. And Captain Jack finally gets to walk away from it all.