ꀭꍏꉓꀘ ꌗꀘꍟ꒒꒒ꀤꈤꁅ꓄ꂦꈤ ;; 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖕𝖚𝖒𝖕𝖐𝖎𝖓 𝖐𝖎𝖓𝖌
Pansexual ⋆ He/Him ⋆ Thirty-Two (Immortal) ⋆ Undead Entity
Powers ;; Mediumship, Black Magic, Pyrokinesis
Occupation ;; Funeral Director
♫ Currently Playing ♫ ;; whatthehellishappening? by Glass Animals
☀ Aries ☾ Leo ↑ Scorpio
Jack doesn't remember too much from his life before death, most of it becoming a blur the longer he's been six feet under. He believes he once had a family and has invented a backstory for himself without knowing just how far from the truth it is. To Jack, he had a loving family, even a brother and sister, and they knew him until his very last breath. In reality, he was born to a single mother and an absent father. While the woman loved her son with all of her heart it wasn't enough to heal the sickness that had come from years of slaving away at the factory to provide for her family. The toxins finally took her life when he was only sixteen years old but he kept it a secret so that no one would steal him from his home before he came of age. That was when Jack played with necromancy for the first time, trying to find a way to animate his mother under necessary circumstances so the secret never got out. In doing so he started to fly a little too close to the sun, believing he could find a way to bring her back and in turn, unknowingly ended damning himself forever.
It was around that time when he first met Oryan, having connected quickly after seeing similarities in their past. He even helped Jack get a real job after school and start working for the people that his friend spoke so highly of. Ezekiel was a quick addition to the blonde's inner circle, meeting by chance but knowing they were destined to be friends forever. They were a band of misfit toys that everyone had thrown away but found one another or at least that's how Jack saw things. Every year he would look forward to when the temperatures would drop and the best time of year would come. He'd always loved Halloween, dressing up, scaring people, but when his mother passed it was Christmastime that became sacred. It was her favorite season and the time when he felt the most at home with everyone he loved, a feeling he's been searching for since death. Speaking of which finally came on Halloween night when he discovered the dark truth of what Oryan and his employer were up to. That was when Jack had to be silenced, the man he believed to be his friend killed him to make sure he stayed quiet.
That was when Jack's life really started, finding a new purpose in the afterlife. He had been chosen as the Pumpkin King after his failed attempts to bring back his mother, instead giving up his own soul. By chance, he had in death been given another chance. Halloweentown was static most of the time but once every year it became the most exciting place on earth. All of the creatures, critters, and monsters would be able to seep out into the moral world where for one night they could cause chaos. Jack enjoyed watching the shenanigans from the comfort of his own home or at least he did until something called him to the very place where he lost his life. Once the now-vampiric Oryan crossed the border into Echo, Jack was able to feel his how immortal presence and knew he must return to the surface for their unfinished business. He has made his grand return to Echo with all the desires that he once had while also finding reminders of a life once lived left behind. Of his past memories, he recalls those with Oryan the most clearly which is why Jack knew exactly what had brought him back to the world of the living.
He is able to go back to Halloweentown through a passage in the woods found on a specific tree, only a certain few knowing the way to get in.
The funeral is the perfect guise. It keeps him close to Halloweentown while also giving him something believable to spend his time doing while he's back in Echo. Not to mention he's quite good at it, having gotten very comfortable with death.
Jack has a pet dog that was his best friend in life as well, having come back to life with his owner when he did.
While many years have passed, as has the body Jack once knew. To make sure he blends in he looks now how he would've if he had never died at all.
What he is most excited about being back is celebrating Christmas, already fascinated with the decor he has seen and feeling some sort of unknown connection to it.
He is looking for answers but Jack has become content with his afterlife to where a part of him doesn't want to know where he's come from. Once he knows that then he knows what all he left behind.
tbd.
