hi, hello, huzzah ! it’s nora, back on my bullshit, installment 3. i promise this is the last of my children by now, and we’ve saved ourselves an eerie conclusion. proceed with caution, this is JACK WILLIAM FRANCIS, and he’s fucked up enough to be straight out of the addams family. this boy loves classical literature and the freudian death drive. here’s a humble pinterest board attempting to explain him.
J A C K W I L L I A M F R A N C I S.
( bill skarsgard | he / him | cismale ) hey, you hear iron by woodkid playing over on the 3rd floor? that’s where jack william francis lives! i heard they moved in from oxford, england exactly four months ago. they’re very charming but also pretty cataclysmic. maybe that’s why davie keeps calling them the chessmaster. starlit is full of people, but this 24 year old is really going to liven things up around here!
WALKING GOD COMPLEX WITH HOLLOW EYES AND CHEEKBONES SHARP ENOUGH TO CUT GLASS.
a god among men. dead-eyed sociopathic devil incarnate dream boy.
the rage of a thousand suns carefully hidden behind a facade calmer than a silent sea. he’s volcanic. when dormant, he’s no trouble at all -- perhaps a little cutting or rude, but unthreatening. when his emotions get the better of him, however, he becames a raging beast of anger. he’ll chew you up and spit you out. like hades in hercules.
his zodiac sign is scorpio. his tarrot cards are the magician and the hanged man.
jack is a slave to instinct, almost animal, but charming when he wants to be.
in love with the moon and the call of the void, the woods became his saviour.
incredibly well-read. spends a good deal of his free time digesting paperbacks. his room is mostly bookshelves and anthologies. a lover of shelley, keats, byron, shakespeare’s sonnets and a library of nabokov. he’s always composed, cocksure, as if his opinion is the only valid one. in his head, it is.
tw drugs high-key a coke-head. he got into coke because he has a high-paid job, and little to do with his money, considering his parents funded his college education and provided him with a trust fund. he starts to get drug withdrawal if he goes more than a few days without having a bump. he’s also partial to ecstasy.
before jack came to vegas, he was a dentist. he secretly loves the biters. when he takes people’s teeth out he often keeps them. especially the ones with fillings or impurities.
tw death / this is where it gets fucked up :)
before coming to vegas, jack fell in love with a woman because she had the most incredible teeth he’d ever seen. these teeth were so beautiful that he couldn’t rid himself of the feeling that he had to have them. one night he broke into her home, sedated the sleeping woman, and began to extract of her teeth so he could keep them. her elderly mother, a night owl, heard movement in her daughters room, and finding a young man removing her daughter’s teeth, screamed the house down. in an effort to keep her quiet jack tried to sedate her, however the mother grasped his forceps as a weapon, the two began a scuffle, and during the process the woman hit her head on the dresser and began to bleed profusely. in blind panic, he grabbed the teeth and made a run for it, leaving both the sedated woman and her bleeding mother. the woman woke up to find she was toothless, and her mother was dead on the floor.
he’s been on the run for several months now, travelling place to place with his life (and teeth) in a suitcase. as a reason for his travels, he always states that he’s a writer, and he’s travelling for the purposes of research for his novel.
background ;
jack grew up in oxford, in a middle-class family, surrounded by the classical architecture of the university buildings. this first provoked in jack a love of ancient civilisation, art and sculpture. he sees himself as someone very well-bred.
second-born son. hector was the perfect son, charming, athletic, intelligent, attractive, head boy and twice winner of the foyle young poets award, and jack was merely the other one. growing up, he felt he was constantly living in hector’s shadow, and grew to be a bitter and resentful boy. one day, during a particularly heated row, jack threw drain cleaner in his brother’s face, leaving him with acid burn and scarring, which led to him being disowned by his family, but jack hardly cared -- he was just smitten with the fact that he was now the most attractive sibling. a few years later, they forgave him, and paid his way through college.
he first developed an affliction for fire when he started smoking. for his eleventh birthday his dad gave him a lighter with the ace of spades on and a packet of cigs. since getting that lighter, he’s been something of a pyromaniac. he liked -- more than smoking itself -- to fiddle with his lighter, swipe his fingers through the flame, tempt god. he’s something of a pyromaniac, and was convicted of several arson offences in his teenage years.
he had a criminal record before he was 15 and spent some time in juvie, so he’s already got a mugshot for when they inevitably bang him in the slammer again. hated school and formalised education but ? loved learning? despite the fact that he was an absolute entitled bastard at school, he was actually intelligent and always completed his work, and so his teachers couldn’t find a reason to suspend him. he read so much socrates and freud and he’s literally obsessed with dickens and shakespeare. will quote monologues at you with no shame.
growing up, he was always very image-conscious, always concerned with fashion and his appearance. this is one of the factors that led him into dentistry. he wanted to study medicine at oxford university and train as a surgeon, but lacked the grades, and so went to exeter and studied dentistry.
there’s definitely a discrepancy in the way he behaved as a child and the way he holds himself now. growing up, he didn’t know how to channel his feelings, and now he can basically shut them off. whereas growing up he was often ruled by his anger, now he comes across as incredibly stoic and collected, while he bubbles away beneath. when this becomes too much to hold in, jack becomes explosive. he’s a very hot-and-cold person, he’s either callous and indifferent or fiercely defensive and ruled by his emotions.
some trivia ;
positive traits: self assured, ambitious, well-bred, charming, devoted, silver-tongued.
negative traits: manipulative, selfish, plays the martyr, primadona, egotistical, callous.
big fan of documentaries and 1920s film.
an excellent painter and exceptional cellist.
a lover of art, money, and beautiful, fragile things.
turned on by danger with an appetite for destruction.
would sell you to satan for one corn chip
wanted plots
enemies.
people who straight up think he’s a weird guy and won’t deal with him.
someone who he can really manipulate? because he’d use that to his advantage.
former flings ; he doesn’t really do relationships, but is very impulsive, so ends up having multiple one night stands and flings. this could either evolve into friendship, ignoring each other, or straight up hatred depending on how ur character would react to jack’s unwillingness to become attached to anything.
patients?? honestly that would be funny. just people who’s teeth he checks like hi ronald how are your molars doing.
friends but theyd have to be pretty weird to want jack as a friend or maybe he even has a lad! group who knows.
