Description

Personality

Theme Song: The Killers- "Spaceman" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnA4r4ocDII
Occupation: Lecturer, philosophy, New York University
Hobbies: Thinking, running, writing, and occasionally going out with friends.

Jack has a soft heart, and it's pretty obvious from his general treatment of others that he's an altruist, believing firmly that's it's best to put others first. That said, he's a lonely soul, with only a few close friends, a cat, and his mom back home in Montana. He calls her at least once a week, but other than that and the occasional get-together with his NY friends, he virtually never gets out. The young man is an academic through and through, and spends a lot of time reading and working on his grading, having just received his PhD and a teaching position at his Alma Mater.

In social situations, he's a bit awkward, having never really developed or needed too many social skills. He's brilliant, but this rarely comes across in day-to-day conversation, wherein he comes off a bit distracted and weird. Known (and ridiculed) by his friends for his belief in various conspiracy theories, he's clearly not the sort to go to a bar and pick up a girl. He was engaged once, but it ended badly, throwing Jack into a melancholy for quite some time. He's talkative enough, but sometimes lapses into silences for seemingly no reason at all. Jack has a romantic soul, but thinks of love as something meant for other people rather than himself.

History

Jackson grew up in Bridgeport, Montana, child of a single mother who struggled to make ends meet. From an early age, he was a brilliant student, and this capacity was encouraged in him to the exclusion of almost everything else. Florence saw this as the best way to get her son out of the world she was a part of, and toward making something of himself.

To that effect, Jack always worked hard, and was eventually accepted to the PhD. program at NYU, the best in the world. When living in New York, he met Estelle, an aspiring Broadway actress. The inexperienced small-town boy was swept away by the allure of the worldly city girl, and he was hooked. Estelle herself was taken with his honesty and kindness, traits she was not used to seeing. His overly-academic nature she could have done without, but they told themselves they could make it work.

Convinced that he wanted to marry the first and only girlfriend he'd ever had, Jackson proposed, and for a while the engaged couple was happy as could be. His dissertation was meeting with much success, and she had been cast in an off-Broadway show that might gain her some positive attention.

But some things are never meant to last, and Jack was devastated when Estelle fell quite irreversibly in love with her costar, an older man who had all the wealth and sophistication that Jack lacked. It was obvious enough that even the naive country boy from Montana could see it, and though Estelle tried to deny it, promising she would marry him, Jack declined, believing that to release her and step away gracefully was the best thing he could do. His former fiancee is now one of the biggest rising stars on the stage, and married to Robert Lange, her once-costar.