Jack Spade

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Jack Spade (in center, seated, with cane), his sire X (in front, seated, wearing jacket with pins) and his uncle Princeton (right, seated, looking to the left).

Sire: Xeneia (X)

Bloodline: None

Notable Traits: Caucasian. About six feet tall. Shoulder-length curly brown hair. Hazel eyes. Moustache and goatee. Small scar on face below right eye. Walks with a limp in his right leg, and sometimes uses a cane. Speaks with a Louisiana/Creole accent (made slightly odd from years of travelling all over the United States).

Titles: Legate (as a mortal, Captain of the 2nd Florida Infantry Reserve, Confederate Army of the United States)

Coteries/Societies: Mendicant, Westminster Creed

Character Livejournal: http://wod-fate.livejournal.com/

Information Known By Kindred Society

Captain Jack Spade is a contradiction in terms. On the surface he's a wandering, loud-mouthed, crippled hick with more balls than a pool table. Underneath, he's a researcher of Theban Sorcery, a hardy survivor of the wild, but a religious man moderated by the realities of Kindred society. Formerly he had a very simple, Biblical sense of morality and justice, but now he believes in a balance between Man and Beast. This balance he struggles with himself, both as a Gangrel and as a member of the Lance. He also believes that Kindred need to be continually tested, and has no problem openly challenging vampires of all stripes to see if their beliefs and ideologies are true.

The most current version of Jack Spade's background will always be here. Do not assume that this information is available in character. I am usually up for background ties with my PC, but I am not interested in childer (PC or NPC). Jack might embrace in gameplay, but part of the story I want to tell with him requires him to have not embraced childer. Jack also already has a PC sire and grandsire.

Character Inspirations

• Shepard Book (Firefly/Serenity)
• Dr. Gregory House (House)
• Doc Holliday (Tombstone)
• Gambit (X-Men)
• Captain Jack Harkness (Doctor Who)

Inspirational Quotes

"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you." (Don Marquis)

Soundtrack

• The Wanderer, U2 and Johnny Cash

Characters That Know Jack

(in alphabetical order -- deceased characters removed from list)

• Aspasia, rumored to be a current lover of Jack's
• Exodus Celestine
• Charli
• Inali
• Father General Aroex de la Cruz, one of many Cardinals that seems to hold Jack's respect, and vice versa
• Cardinal Vicar Mackenzie DuMont, one of many Cardinals that seems to hold Jack's respect, and vice versa
• Francis Drake
• Thomas Knowlton, fellow Mendicant that has good relations with Jack
• Lockwood
• Cardinal Magdalena du Lys
• Princeton, Jack's "uncle"
• Regina Rorke (aka Serendipity)
• Shir, a long-time traveling companion.
• Sidney Violet Sullivan
• Bartholomew "Bat" Reynolds, some sort of mortal friend from the Confederate army
• Wilkins

Things Overheard About Jack

Feel free to add your own!

• "Jack Spade would be one of my best bishops, if he wasn't such an asshole." (Cardinal Callaghan to Elizabeth Stewart, St. Louis, Sept. 16, 2006)
• "Oh shit, there he goes again." (Douglas Lawson to no one in particular, Milwaukee, Oct. 28, 2006)
• "Not everyone treats him like a savior. And if they do, I will have words with them. Jack is many things, but most decidedly not that." (X to Totila who claimed people treated Jack "like a savior," Gangrel email list, Nov. 8, 2006)
• "I believe he is treated as a calm and often profound voice among the Clan. He displays great maturity which I cannot say I have seen much of in the short few weeks I have been a member of this electronic medium." (Shir to Totila, Gangrel email list, Nov. 8, 2006)
• "He is a son of a bitch. I reckon he don't mind that much." Molly Maye Maxwell

Rumors About Jack

Feel free to add your own!

• He is a former lover of Aspasia - and more than one of her Daughters...
• He is a rabid diablerie hunter acting at the beck and call of Father General Aroex de la Cruz.
• He has been having a running argument with Douglas Lawson for nearly a century.
• His hat has magical powers.
• He isn't nearly as young as he claims, but is actually a pirate masquerading as a Confederate captain.
• Exodus Celestine views Jack as the conscience of the Gangrel and goes to him for council.
• He slept with Inali before she was in her current feral state.
• His connection to Magdalena is unknown but she holds him in high regard.
• Inali considers Jack to be "Pack". It really has little to do with Jack and everything to do with the hat.
• It was Jack who (there are many rumors on just how he did this) convinced Regina Rorke not to dishonor Dallas' decision, by leading The Pack in an offensive strike to prevent the submission of Dallas in Indianapolis. Further, unknown to many, he's been slowly converting Regina Rorke from the Ordo over to the Lance since the disappearance of her former Alpha.
• Because of her extremely high regard for him, Jack is the only one Charli will go to for Confession.
• Knows complete details of the magic properties of chalices and the power of wooden tables and chairs.
• He is Lockwood's sire.