Just as a note: if I ever write or reference an immortal arc for Jack, I will be referencing this verse, and it is heavily affiliated with both WWDITS canon and musecraft & shadowcovcn. Jack’s primary ship is with Laszlo & Nadja in this arc, but like them he is also polyamorous and has taken plenty of other lovers during his immortal life.
This verse diverges from POTC canon after the events of On Stranger Tides: Jack encounters Laszlo and Nadja while on their golden age of piracy Caribbean honeymoon. The three quickly hit it off and, after having the prospect of immortality dangled in front of him mere hours after meeting, Jack jumps at the prospect of vampiric transformation. At this point, the Black Pearl is safe ( and stuck ) in a bottle, and will remain that way for the next 250 years.
Temperance isn’t easy for him as a newborn vampire and he struggles for the first six months between his aversion to killing and the hunger that has taken hold of his rational mind, beginning a nomadic lifestyle with Nadja and Laszlo as they travel from port to port. It isn’t long before the age of piracy itself starts to fade: Shipwreck Cove and Tortuga soon fall to the English and Spanish, leaving the number of safe ports available to the trio of vampires dwindling by the year. It is at this moment that Jack must finally shed the legend that he has spent his entire mortal life creating: Captain Jack Sparrow becomes a name committed to legend, a pirate who disappeared at sea, with no records of ever being apprehended or hanged for his crimes. Jack, meanwhile, leaves the Caribbean with Laszlo and Nadja to join the vampire cult led by Baron Afanas.
This verse encompasses the next two hundred and fifty years of Jack’s immortal life, from a failed stint at Baron’s court to his hijinks in pre-revolutionary France, his escape from the guillotine to his adventurer era as the Industrial Revolution takes hold, to languishing on a yacht in the Caribbean during the Great War, before finally settling in London in the mid 20th century. To humans at least, Jack runs a Soho club that becomes an integral part of the emerging rock ‘n’ roll scene of the 1960s and 1970s. To his fellow vampires and other supernatural creatures, Jack becomes part swindler, part expert in magical and occult artefacts. Disliking or indeed making enemies of most other vampires, Jack prefers to exist in both the human and vampire worlds, never quite belonging to either.
Jack is reunited with Nadja when she travels to London with Guillermo to take up a place at the Supreme Vampiric Council, and after she ditches the council to return to Staten Island at the start of season 4, Jack returns there with her.
Resident Evil: Sally's mom was, when pregnant with Sal, tricked into medical experimentation. While The Connections were developing the mold, they were also trying to develop an antibody to the mold so if it were to fall into the wrong hands, it couldn't be used against them. She was told it was completely safe and it would help come up with a major breakthrough on curing cancer. But she started to grow suspicious over time that there was something sketchy about what they were doing and it wasn't for what they said. The lack of information they were willing to share, the lack of records, the lack of documents she was expecting to have to read over and sign. Eventually, through some means that I’ll come up with later, she escapes. And goes into witness protection, and is wanting to just raise her kid normally. But the antibodies are already in Sal's bloodstream. Some years later, there is an attempt on his life - Cue his mom getting shot through the stomach and, the assumption that Sally was dead. But he wasn't, like in canon, he manages to pull through but it severely damaged his face. Time goes on again, and eventually files are... I don't know, leaked, stolen, something. Once again, I’ll come back and do some tweaking later. But eventually the BSAA discover that Sal could hold the key to making a cure or even a preventative against the mold. But with that, obviously crime syndicates like Connections want to kill/kidnap Sally for their own gain.
All of this is completely adaptable to earlier games and storylines, just replace the mold with any of the past weaponized viruses & the crime syndicates and government agencies with the appropriate ones for the setting.)
This verse is primarily tied to the Mass Effect universe, although I can generalise and tweak it for any other outer space based universes. Jack is a former Cerberus operative turned con artist and space pirate who operates in Terminus and primarily out of Omega. He's an experienced pilot and tech expert, having grown up as a scavenger on the planet Korlus, and is the closest to the infiltrator class in terms of his skillset ( he's good with firearms, but primarily sniper rifles, pistols and grenades ). While he would never join the crew of the Normandy as he's already a ship captain, he can be helped out and convinced to help out in return, even though he is sceptical of the Alliance and authority in general.
FULL BIO UNDER THE CUT.
Born 2150 in London, England. Aged seven when the First Contact War with the turians broke out and humanity first encountered sentient alien life for the first time. Teague joined up and served in the Alliance Navy purely for a means to explore the stars, but when the First Contact War broke out, it seemed clear that he'd be forced to fight in the show of force against the turians when they took Shanxi.
Teague and a group of fellow-minded rebel soldiers decided that, rather than involve themselves in an inter-galactic war with an alien race, they would defect and seek out greener pastures further away from Alliance-controlled colonies. Stealing an Alliance vessel, the group departed with their families from Earth in tow. News reached them halfway through the journey of the Citadel and Council's intervention to establish peace between humans and turians, but illness had also taken hold of several of the ship's passengers, Jack's mother included. She and several others passed away on the trip, sending Teague on a darker, more reckless path.
Turning to piracy, Teague and his crew had several successful raids of batarian colonies in Kite's Nest before finding themselves in the Terminus Systems. They then finally settled on the planet of Korlus in the Eagle Nebula, mixing with the krogan and other pirate colonies that were growing in size. Teague became instrumental in establishing law and order --- by criminal standards --- in their region of the planet, and Jack spent the rest of his childhood and adolescence caught between space-faring on Teague's ship and the salvaged starcraft and political machinations of what became colloquially known as the Brethren Court.
By the age of twenty, Jack was a skilled scavenger, able to rival any quarian in his ability to turn disused and salvaged parts into workable machinery, and had taught himself to pilot light spacecraft. He had also collected many 'useless' parts of abandoned spacecraft, such as datapads and other collectibles which, along with his omni-tool and the extranet, helped his informal education.
An unfortunate incident with a rival gang of pirates, led by a former friend, caused Jack to have to flee Korlus entirely for several years. With his skills not formally recognised by certification, Jack was unable to find work on any Alliance vessel, so he served on a few haulers in and out of Omega before his talents were identified by a Cerberus operative cell and he was referred directly to the Illusive Man for training to become an operative himself. Lacking any other financially viable options, and knowing he was vulnerable to retribution from both Korlus and the rival gang he'd left behind, Jack accepted the offer.
Jack developed his sharp-shooting and infiltration skills in this time and was granted more sophisticated equipment: light bending technology that gave him a tactical cloak, better armour and weapons (including his treasured M-6 Carnifex) and a frigate of his own.
He became an infiltrator for Cerberus, his directives primarily to intercept intel and artefacts ( many of Prothean origin ) to then be used and studied by scientists working for the organisation. Given his scavenger's upbringing, Jack was assumed to be a young man capable of being moulded to take on a prominent place within the organisation; they didn't account for Jack's strong-willed nature.
Becoming more and more suspicious to Cerberus' true, terrorist intentions, tensions between Jack and the organisation finally came to a head in 2175 over a classified incident. Jack stole the frigate he was given, christening it the Black Pearl, and headed back to Terminus space to take up piracy.
In terms of the ME timeline, Jack is most likely to be encountered during ME2 in Omega, where he can be helped to recover his ship from a rival pirate, and then again in ME3, where he can be linked to the Leviathan quest line:
Following Jack's time working for Cerberus and an assassination attempt by the Illusive Man to rid himself of a loose end, Jack is saved from near death by one of the last remaining Leviathans. This is not an act of mercy, however: unbeknownst to Jack, the experience makes him more susceptible to being enthralled by the Leviathans power of indoctrination, and ends up having no memory of the entire interaction ( how did he survive an attempt on his life by Cerberus? he lets the rumours fly, but in truth he has no idea and only remembers waking up on an unknown planet after a frighteningly huge fall from the spacecraft he'd been piloting ).
All those years later, following the start of Task Force Aurora by Admiral Hackett of the Alliance Navy, a group investigating the origins of the Reapers and links to the Leviathans, Jack unintentionally comes into contact with one of their many artefacts scattered around the Milky Way, and unconsciously becomes enthralled and tasked with finding the one in Dr Bryson's possession and stealing it.
Sneaking into the research lab, Jack takes the artefact and in doing so becomes embroiled in a conflict between the Alliance ( and potentially Shepard ), who need to annex the artefact's power and use it to locate the Leviathans, and Cerberus, who broker a deal with Jack to hand over the artefact and save his own skin.
If helped in ME2, the indoctrination can be broken and Jack can be convinced to turn the artefact back over to the Alliance, with his help also enlisted as a war asset.
(I’m writing these two verses together because they’re very similar at their core. It actually is sort of funny how similar these two completely different fandoms are at base level.
Stranger Things: MKUltra abducted Sal from the hospital after his near death experience, and his dad was informed that he hadn’t survived his injuries. After subsequent experimentations, it’s discovered he has the ability of DIMENSION HOPPING. He’s able to project his subconscious into alter dimensions (The Upside Down and all others that are in existence) although his powers are still shaky at best. And there has been times where he can drag other beings and objects to and from alter dimensions. It mostly happens involuntarily at random moments, for an undetermined amount of time. This leaves his physical body in a comatose like state. He’s also able to communicate with interdimensional beings if they have the ability of coherent thought and language. He’s now escaped MKUltra.
The Evil Within: During the early and highly experimental stages STEM, Sal was a test subject. Sal isn’t what triggered it, but he starts to suddenly and involuntarily enter STEM; His childhood had always been a bit of a blur and he easily blamed his near death experience for it, but from what he can remember, he’s started to suspect were false memories in order to cover something up. He knows nothing about the world that he keeps entering but is attempting to figure it out, in fears of getting stuck there.)
This verse is heavily affiliated with hargrovetm / reddhaed.
Swashbuckler Rogue / Archfey Warlock. Jack is more of a companion character than a Tav/leader of the group; he can be recruited at Waukeen's Rest, where he winds up after the nautiloid crash, attempting to help with the Flaming Fists' efforts to rescue Counsellor Florrick — despite the price on his head and warrant out for his arrest. If Florrick is rescued, she and the other Flaming Fists will attempt to arrest Jack on the spot, but she can of course be talked out of this and Jack will join the party instead.
FULL BIO UNDER THE CUT.
In this universe, Jack grows up in Immurk's Hold, the pirate-led stronghold of the Sea of Fallen Stars. Much of his childhood is feral and dangerous and unhappy, as in canon, until an alliance is struck between Teague and his Brethren of pirate captains and a wandering barbarian clan, which brings Billy Hargrove to the island. The two strike up a close friendship and soon become even closer than that — and before Christophe can fully sink his claws into Jack, he agrees to run away from Immurk's Hold with Billy and finally forge his own path away from Teague. The pair head for the Sword Coast and, on the way, run into a runaway Feywild princess, Sera, and they become an adventuring trio in Baldur's Gate. Their hijinks include, but are not limited to, a plot by Jack and Sera to impersonate the Umberlee clerics at the Water Queen's Palace in the south of the Lower City.
However, unbeknownst to Jack, a dark Sharran power continues to grow within Billy and his struggle to control it culminates in an attempt on Jack's life in his possessed state. Horrified, Billy offers no explanation and simply disappears from Baldur's Gate; confused and heartbroken, Jack spends days and weeks searching for any lead he can find on his boyfriend's disappearance. Billy had in fact headed for a source of Sharran power, Moonrise Towers, to rid himself of his curse completely, but had found himself trapped by Shar in a hidden vault, suspended in perpetual slumber. He can be encountered again by Jack during Act 2 of the game.
Jack's determination to find Billy is only interrupted when Umberlee clerics track him and Sera down to enact revenge for their sacrilegious transgressions, and the pair are forced to flee the city themselves. Sera offers a solution that would avoid the pair becoming wanted fugitives: amnesty in the Feywild, on the condition that Sera marry the suitor her parents had originally picked out for her.
Given how the passage of time flows differently in the Feywild, it is hard to say exactly how long the pair spent there. Harbouring some fey ancestry of his own from his mother's side, Jack learns to adapt to the lifestyle, however miserable it makes the pair of them — but not without a test that leaves a mark. An oceanid archfey known as Calypso, cast out from the Seelie Court, tricks Jack into a warlock pact one day when he stumbles into her domain, and for all the fondness that later develops between the pair, uses him as a pawn to stir up trouble within Sera's home kingdom. The pair eventually decide to leave completely, freeing Sera of her loveless marriage in the process, and with years having passed in the meantime, head back to Baldur's Gate.
With their reputations tainted by the Umberlee Incident, Sera establishes herself at the Blushing Mermaid, and Jack starts working for black market weapons dealer Enver Gortash. The arrangement works: Gortash uses Jack's nautical prowess and experience to procure artifacts from afar while simultaneously smuggling weapons in and out of the city. Jack soon grows suspicious of his employer, particularly after the sudden disappearance of his tiefling bodyguard, Karlach, and their push and pull continues until Jack foils an operation to send yet more slaves to Avernus.
For his disobedience, Jack's ship is set on fire and he is branded with infernal script — enough, supposedly, to bind him to the hells and see him sent to Avernus like the others, but Gortash does not account for the claim of the Feywild on Jack's fate. Instead, the brand remains solely a brand on skin instead of an infernal contract, and Jack negotiates with Calypso to not only save his life from his fumbled attempt to save his burning ship, but shrink the newly rechristened Black Pearl to bottle size and use her as his warlock's pact boon.
The next ten years pass with Jack embracing his piratical reputation and bounty on his head, particularly as Gortash's influence in the city increases — until one day he is abducted by a freak mindflayer attack and winds up in the wilderness...
