Editing (section) Jack Harkness 0 You are not logged in. == Personality == [[File:Jack flirts with Chantho.jpg|thumb|Jack "says hello" to [[Chantho]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'')]] Jack Harkness' personality was wilfully enigmatic. He enjoyed his persona of "mysterious time traveller", much of which remained constant in his experiences with Torchwood and the Doctor. Before being cursed with immortality, he was a flippant former con man who loved adventuring with the Doctor and seducing beings throughout the universe. Jack automatically flirted with most people he met, not caring about their gender or if they were human, alien or even robots. The Doctor often told him to stop and Jack would often reply, "I'm just saying hello". But as the Doctor pointed out, "For you, that's flirting". ([[TV]]: ''[[Bad Wolf (TV story)|Bad Wolf]]'', ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'', ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'', ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') Besides being a flirt, Jack was a drinker. He once remarked that on one occasion when he was sentenced to death, he got drunk and ended up in bed with both his executioners. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Dances (TV story)|The Doctor Dances]]'') He told Rose that he preferred to discuss business while he was drinking. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Empty Child (TV story)|The Empty Child]]'') He smoked but gave up in the [[1980s]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Mother's Son (audio story)|A Mother's Son]]'') Jack claimed to the [[Ninth Doctor]] that before he met him he had been a coward and said that he might have been better off that way. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|The Parting of the Ways]]'') Despite the fact that he was incapable of dying even if he wanted to, Jack retained a sense of humour, frequently telling jokes and being lively and cheerful. However, underneath his cheerful demeanour, Jack was unsure if he wanted to die or not. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'') Living forever (or at least as near to forever as a human could live) brought him to an existential viewpoint. While he joked about grey hairs and remained silent about mortality, Jack saw death as the ultimate end of being; there was no afterlife and no one waiting for him from his past lives. Jack expressed annoyance at people in the 21st century being unable to figure out that aliens exist, believing the [[Sycorax]] invasion on the Christmas of 2005 and the [[Battle of Canary Wharf]] were more than enough proof that they did. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|The Christmas Invasion]]'', ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'', ''[[Everything Changes (TV story)|Everything Changes]]'') Although friendly and flirtatious, Jack could also be ruthless at times and did not hesitate to kill anyone or anything that he felt was a threat. He was also equally unwilling to do anything that could endanger the [[Torchwood]] facility. This sometimes got him into trouble with his allies who disapproved of his lack of compassion. An example of this was when he tried to force [[Ianto Jones]] to execute his girlfriend [[Lisa Hallett]], who had been turned into a [[Cyberman]], instead of letting someone else do it. He reasoned that the entire thing was Ianto's responsibility and even threatened to kill them both if he didn't do it, causing Ianto to say "You like to think you're a hero, but you're the biggest monster of all". ([[TV]]: ''[[Cyberwoman (TV story)|Cyberwoman]]'') Another example of his ruthlessness was when he refused to open the Rift despite it being their best chance to change everything back to normal, even insulting the rest of the team when they attempted it. This caused [[Owen Harper]] to shoot him because he felt that Jack didn't care about what they had lost. ([[TV]]: ''[[End of Days (TV story)|End of Days]]'') Because of these incidents, the entire team was surprised by Jack's desire to save the [[Cash Cow]], with [[Gwen Cooper]] going so far as to imply she thought he didn't have a heart. ([[TV]]: ''[[Meat (TV story)|Meat]]'') Indeed, although he could be aggressive, Jack still cared deeply about his allies and was devastated when any of them were killed. ([[TV]]: ''[[Exit Wounds (TV story)|Exit Wounds]]'', ''[[Children of Earth: Day Five (TV story)|Children of Earth: Day Five]]'') Always a vocal, unreliable narrator of his own adventures, Jack was as much of a mystery to the people he met as the countless lives he claimed to have led. Jack continued to protect himself with an air of mystery. No one he encountered knew his real name or many details about his career or life. He often told anecdotes about his sex life, but no one knew how many were real, however since he was a successful flirt, it is likely a lot of his tales were true. He rarely told his teammates anything about himself or his past unless the situation demanded it; Gwen even once lamented the fact that they knew almost nothing about him and that he just came and went whenever he felt like it. This was because Jack believed that his past didn't matter and that who he was now was important. He was shown to greatly dislike being reminded of his past, such as his desperation to remove [[Captain]] [[John Hart (Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang)|John Hart]] from his life as he was a reminder of his past. In contrast to this mysterious nature, Jack could also be brutally honest at times, such as when he bluntly told [[Beth Halloran]] that she was a ruthless killing machine and that there was nothing they could do to change that. ([[TV]]: ''[[Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (TV story)|Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang]]'', ''[[Sleeper (TV story)|Sleeper]]'') Despite being [[immortal]], and so coming back after being [[kill]]ed numerous times, Jack continued to have a [[fear]] of [[death]], which he acknowledged during the [[Gallipoli campaign]] of [[World War I]]. He remained ever uncertain whether his next death would be his last. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[What Have I Done? (audio story)|What Have I Done?]]'') Though he professed "responsibility" as his motto after [[the Year That Never Was]], the utter devastation Jack experienced in the space of five days over the course of the 456 incident and the deaths of his grandson and Ianto Jones left him wrecked with guilt and grief, unable to remain on Earth. When he returned to Earth, Jack seemed to be a shadow of his old self because he had lost so many people he cared about, although he had recovered enough to stay on Earth in order to defend it. ([[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day Five (TV story)|Children of Earth: Day Five]]'', ''[[Miracle Day]]'') Jack was haunted by the loss of his younger brother Gray and spent many decades searching for him. He blamed himself for Gray's disappearance because he'd let go of his hand when they were fleeing from aliens during their childhood, describing it as the worst day of his life. Jack loved his brother deeply and, even after Gray turned against him, Jack told him that he forgave him. However, Gray refused to give him absolution and Jack had no choice but to chloroform him and seal him in the cryo-chambers. [[John Hart (Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang)|John Hart]] insisted that killing him was the only option, believing that Gray would never recover from the trauma, but Jack refused, believing that there had been enough death. 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