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Character Info / Headcanon
Jan. 25th, 2015 01:33 amName: Jack
Age: 12
Gender: Male
Physical description: Jack's a lanky boy dressed in a homemade sweater with stripes of grays, peasant pants, and peasant shoes. Don't mind the icons--he's actually rather more wellkempt than Gavroche, and a few years older. His accent is the same though, if that helps.
Mental shit/PSYCHICS: Jack's an idiot. He's Jack of Jack and the Beanstalk. He accepted five magic beans for his cow and beloved friend, Milky White. (He wouldn't have sold her if his mother hadn't made him; they were starving, y'see.) He continually got the sex of his dairy cow wrong. The only time he shows higher intelligence . . . it's actually brilliant. But it's a rare thing. Therefore, he's not really used to praise.
SPOILERS FOR THE SECOND AND THIRD ACT OF INTO THE WOODS
He's thinking of his mother, recently dead. He's thinking of his precious and only friend, Milky White. He's thinking of giants, and adventures, and stories, and never ever never seeing another Witch ever again. Mostly, he's thinking about how best to have fun in the very next moment. This moment. Any moment. And he's usually missing his mom.
HEADCANON
WHERE DO WE LIVE? After the Baker finishes telling his story--their story--they all go to live in the Witch's cottage. Red helps with the garden, and she's actually rather good, once she picks up the details. Cinderella tends to the house and helps with the baby. The Baker bakes, cooks, and is a father to them all, however he can. It doesn't replace anyone's parents, however. Jack cares for Milky White (if she survived--I don't recall) and generally just gets up to trouble.
HIS FATHER? Jack's dad never married his mother. He's a bastard's son. When the Baker leaves Cinderella, Jack, and Red alone with the baby after he said that the baby would be better off without him, Jack didn't believe him. He stalwartly believed that the Baker would come back. "He won't leave his son." A child who had a dead-beat father would never say that. So why isn't it just that his dad died when he was young? Well, the introduction to his family is what gets me. "He had no father, and his mother..." Yes, that can refer to someone who's father died, but. I rather like this one better. Single mothers are superheroes.
Age: 12
Gender: Male
Physical description: Jack's a lanky boy dressed in a homemade sweater with stripes of grays, peasant pants, and peasant shoes. Don't mind the icons--he's actually rather more wellkempt than Gavroche, and a few years older. His accent is the same though, if that helps.
Mental shit/PSYCHICS: Jack's an idiot. He's Jack of Jack and the Beanstalk. He accepted five magic beans for his cow and beloved friend, Milky White. (He wouldn't have sold her if his mother hadn't made him; they were starving, y'see.) He continually got the sex of his dairy cow wrong. The only time he shows higher intelligence . . . it's actually brilliant. But it's a rare thing. Therefore, he's not really used to praise.
SPOILERS FOR THE SECOND AND THIRD ACT OF INTO THE WOODS
He's thinking of his mother, recently dead. He's thinking of his precious and only friend, Milky White. He's thinking of giants, and adventures, and stories, and never ever never seeing another Witch ever again. Mostly, he's thinking about how best to have fun in the very next moment. This moment. Any moment. And he's usually missing his mom.
WHERE DO WE LIVE? After the Baker finishes telling his story--their story--they all go to live in the Witch's cottage. Red helps with the garden, and she's actually rather good, once she picks up the details. Cinderella tends to the house and helps with the baby. The Baker bakes, cooks, and is a father to them all, however he can. It doesn't replace anyone's parents, however. Jack cares for Milky White (if she survived--I don't recall) and generally just gets up to trouble.
HIS FATHER? Jack's dad never married his mother. He's a bastard's son. When the Baker leaves Cinderella, Jack, and Red alone with the baby after he said that the baby would be better off without him, Jack didn't believe him. He stalwartly believed that the Baker would come back. "He won't leave his son." A child who had a dead-beat father would never say that. So why isn't it just that his dad died when he was young? Well, the introduction to his family is what gets me. "He had no father, and his mother..." Yes, that can refer to someone who's father died, but. I rather like this one better. Single mothers are superheroes.
