Dec 25, 2023
“‘Jack’ by itself is a popular name, but looking at his ears it’s easy to imagine a jackal. Howl means 遠吠え.”
- Twisted Wonderland FanBook vol.1 (2020)
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“‘Jack’ by itself is a popular name, but looking at his ears it’s easy to imagine a jackal. Howl means 遠吠え.”
- Twisted Wonderland FanBook vol.1 (2020)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JACK HOWL
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Holy shit i actually finish it! I rush it today and literary die- my hand is cramp 🗿but its all for Jack! Cuz he is a good boy! Get a friend like jack! 😔👌🏻
Jack: Is that for me?
Ryochi: Yes, who else? I found a stall that sells them. Are you happy?
Jack: Thank you..! No, im not that happy! I'm just...appreciating your kindness..
Ryochi: You're not that happy? Should i buy a different cactus...?
Jack: No! This is good!
Honorifics: Jack Howl
Jack refers to all the first-year students by their first names with no honorifics, no exceptions.
Jack usually refers to the second-year students as "first-name-senpai."
He once asked Ruggie for permission to refer to him as "aniki" (for older brother, the same word Leona and Ace use to refer to their own older brothers), but Ruggie turned him down.
Exceptions: Jack never refers to Azul as "Azul-senpai" in Book 3 (and neither do Ace or Deuce).
Jack will add "-senpai" to Azul's name in events and vignettes but usually after a long pause, as if he is simultaneously reluctant to be rude and reluctant to be polite (possibly lingering resentment from Book 3?).
He will generally refer to the twins with the "senpai" honorifics, but there is at least one instance of him dropping it from Floyd's name, and during the Stitch event he gives Floyd the Azul treatment of a belated "senpai" honorific.
Jack refers to all the third-year students as "first-name-senpai."
When Jack first reunites with Vil at his orientation he initially refers to him as "Vil-san," which is possibly what he called Vil back in his hometown.
He corrects himself, changing to "Vil-senpai," which is how he refers to Vil throughout the main story, events and vignettes.
Jack Info Compilation part 17: Exercise (pt2), Crowley and Romance
Jack says he has “done skiing, ice skating and a bunch of other winter sports,” but he is best at snowboarding, recently doing halfpipes and practicing grabs.
Jack says that he and Vil took skiing and snowboarding lessons together when they were children, and Vil explains that Jack was “already quite skilled at both” and gave him advice.
Jack has been into winter sports since he was a child, skiing down a large mountain in his hometown since he was ten years old.
Jack is so athletically gifted that he attracts attention from Idia, who starts stalking him in order to take notes on his build and capabilities in order to add similar upgrades to Ortho.
Vargas is not impressed.
There are repeated comments that Jack is extremely fast and nimble despite his size, with Cater describing his efforts during Beanfest as “ninja acrobatics.”
Unnamed students say that Jack is able to close a 500-meter gap in a matter of seconds, and Ruggie comments that Jack caught twenty members of the opposite team on his own during Beanfest.
Jack can run for 30 minutes straight without breathing heavily and says, “I thought that was normal. Even my younger siblings play tag from morning to afternoon. They go for like six hours at a time.”
We also see Jack give a powerful kick to a tree during Beanfest in an attempt to provoke Floyd.
He succeeds, getting attacked and dodging with what Azul describes as “a downright jaw-dropping display of reflexes.”
Azul calls Jack’s athleticism is “frankly absurd” and Jade concedes that his team lost the game because he failed to properly account for Jack’s abilities.
Like most of the students, Jack seems suspicious of Crowley. When Crowley announces that he “went to great lengths” to discover a way to send the tsums home during Tsumted Jack responds, “Yeah, whatever. I bet another hole just happened to open.”
Jack has very strict ideas about romance: he says that doesn’t “need lots of attention” because “wolf beast-people only have one special someone, ever. That’s how it was for my parents and grandparents. They’re never apart, from when they wake up to when they go to bed. They walk together, eat together…you name it. I’m sure I’ll be the same. When I fall in love with someone, I’ll want to be with them for life.”
Ace and Deuce say that he takes dating “WAY too seriously” and “You’re also assuming you’ll get married. You don’t even know what you’re gonna do for a living.”
When Grim announces he would never want to date Jack, Jack tells them that it is none of their business anyway.
Jack Info Compilation Master List
Jack 1 - Family and Hometown
Jack 2 - Jack and Leona (pt1)
Jack 3 - Jack and Leona (pt2)
Jack 4 - Jack and Leona (pt3)
Jack 5 - Jack and Leona (pt4)
Jack 6 - Jack's Principles (pt1)
Jack 7 - Jack's Principles (pt2)
Jack 8 - Competition, Cactus and More
Jack 9 - Jack and Crewel
Jack 10 - Teamwork, Spelldrive, Tail
Jack 11 - Embarrassed
Jack 12 - Jack and Epel
Jack 13 - Jack and Ruggie
Jack 14 - Port Fest (pt1)
Jack 15 - Port Fest (pt2)
Jack 16 - Exercise (pt1)
Jack 17 - Exercise (pt2), Crowley and Romance
Jack 18 - Jack and Ace, Deuce and Sebek
Jack 19 - Honorifics and Azul
Jack 20 - Beanfest
Jack 21 - Unique Magic and the Main Story
Jack 22 - Fairy Gala IF and Sense of Smell
Jack 23 - Jack and Riddle
Jack 24 - Jack and Vil
Jack Info Compilation part 2: Leona (pt1)
Leona’s dorm uniform vignette centers upon Jack struggling to get along with second-year students of Savanaclaw who “skirt the rules” of the Spelldrive in order to compensate for how he is better at the game than they are, despite being an underclassman.
Leona tells Jack off for being disruptive to the team only to turn on the bullies themselves after Jack leaves, saying it is embarrassing to watch them “get all huffy” after losing to a first-year.
Jack continues to excel above the second-year students who continue to take offense and plot to jump him, with Ruggie pointing out, “The jealousy’s bad enough, but Jack’s attitude sure ain’t helping. The world’s not black and white. Not everything can be categorized as ‘right’ or ‘wrong.’”
Ruggie recommends that they let the second-year students “put a little fear into Jack and teach him to respect the rest of his dorm.”
The bullies demand that Jack never play Spelldrive for Savanaclaw again, approaching him in a group of thirty to intimidate him.
Jack defends himself physically during the ensuing brawl but either can’t or won’t use magic, even after the older students do.
Leona steps in and the bullies try to use Leona’s own words in their defense, saying that they were “Teachin’ him how to play ‘smart’,” but Leona is unimpressed and calls them out on using magic in a brawl which “is a foul, full stop.”
Presumably having never seen Leona fight, the thirty second-year students turn on him when he insists upon defending Jack (despite Jack’s protests), in a display of power that Jack describes as “in a league of its own.”
Jack asks why Leona came to his rescue and Leona says “Babysitting a pup that ain’t even opened its eyes yet is part of the housewarden job description.”
Jack thanks Leona for his help, saying that he has learned he is “still so green in so many ways…and that we have one incredible housewarden.”
Jack declares that Leona is “the real deal after all,” saying, “I knew he wouldn’t let me down. One day, I want to fight him at his strongest!”
Jack Info Compilation part 1: Family and Hometown
Jack Info Compilation part 9: Crewel
Jack says he has “a hard time dealin’ with” Crewel, who he describes as “intense.”
In Book 6 Crewel compliments him on a motivational speech he gives to Epel about focusing on the present.
Jack expresses doubt about Crewel’s ability to design a body for Ortho (Crewel: “A mere pup, concerned about ME?”) and compliments him in a conversation with Sebek about the depth of his knowledge of the fae, saying that he even impressed Vil. He also mentions needing to remember to thank Crewel during Port Fest.
As potionology teacher Crewel seems familiar with transformations: Deuce mentions a lesson they had with Crewel where he explained that transforming into another creature without the aid of a potion (like Jack can) requires “extremely high-level magic.”
The two overlap in a vignette where Jack is experiencing difficulty sprinting as fast as he feels he ought to be able to.
Jack is training for an interschool competition and says that while he knows he’ll get picked to represent NRC, it “feels like my body just isn’t functioning as well as it should be…I just hate that I can’t figure out what’s holding me back. I’m not overdoing it, I’m not neglecting my health…so why?”
Crewel calls the students over, saying that Jack is in need of correction. Jack is resistant, saying that “track’s nowhere near your territory.” (Crewel: “This is precisely why I cannot stand puppies.”)
Crewel reveals that he has deduced the reason why Jack has been failing to perform his best: “You’ve been focusing on building your pectoral and brachia muscles, and now your upper half is bursting at the seams…a poor fit in any one spot changes the feel of the whole outfit.”
Crewel adjusts Jack's uniform (“I will warn you, however, not to open the zipper at your tail too widely. It’s not a very becoming look.”) and reminds them that they will be barred from all track meet competitions if they fail their final exams.
(In a different vignette both Deuce and Jack win an award for their accomplishments at the track meet, implying that Crewel’s advice was a success.)
Jack’s clothes being ill-fitting seems to be a theme: he says that his school uniform is “tight around (his) abs,” possibly because of all the weight training that he does.
Vil also lectures him for wearing his ceremonial robes incorrectly.
Jack Info Compilation part 18: Ace, Deuce and Sebek
Ace describes Jack as “the kind of guy who plays it too cool for school, but is still the first to step up and do work no one else wants to. His whole above-it-all schtick can get obnoxious. But he turns into a puppy dog around stronger guys, so he’s pretty easy to deal with. All in all, he’s a decent guy.”
Ace once cheats at a card game in an attempt to trick Jack into washing his ceremonial robes.
Jack catches him in the act, and Ace is unapologetic.
Jack and Deuce are on the track team together. Much like Ace, Jack has no reservations about insulting Deuce’s intelligence.
During Vargas Camp Jack makes the rare decision to put forth a “team effort” with Deuce, despite his usual lack of patience with teamwork.
Deuce compliments Jack’s cooking and while Jack tries to downplay it, he also says, “…I’m sure eating it with friends around the campfire makes it taste all the better.”
But Jack refuses to believe Deuce when he talks about the mine monster from the Prologue, saying that his story sounds like a hallucination.
Jack offers to complete their task alone (Jack insulting Deuce for being “too chicken” was added to his EN dialogue), but Deuce insists on going with him, despite his fears.
It is Jack who first notices when Deuce isn’t back at camp that night, and when other students tell him that Deuce is probably slacking off like Ace, Jack insists, “I can tell you, without a doubt, that he’s no slacker.”
Jack does not seem overly fond of Sebek, asking “Why’s Sebek always gotta be such a pain?” in a vignette and saying that he doesn’t care if Sebek respects his upperclassmen, he just wants him to stop trying to force others to do the same.
Jack is Sebek’s judge for the Culinary Crucible, and Sebek takes great offense at Jack calling his chicken noodle soup “normal.”
Jack is also Sebek’s interviewer in his second birthday vignette and gifts him with book about physical training, asking him to share any insights he may learn after he reads it. Sebek says he would like to hear Jack’s opinions as well.