goodolcapnjack

Player Information
Name: Liz/EC
Age: 35
Contact: email: madwomanwabox@gmail.com, plurk: madwomanwithabox
Characters already in Medietas: Rocky Devereaux (OC)
Reserve Link: medietas-mods.dreamwidth.org/1679.html

Character Basics
Character name: Jack Kelly
Character Journal: goodolcapnjack
Canon: NEWSIES (Musical)
Canon Point: end of act 1, just after the first major battle of the newsboy strike in Newsie Square
Age: about 17
Icon: https://v.dreamwidth.org/11767965/3292946

Canon Character Information
Appearance: Jack Kelly is a lean, but powerfully built kid, thanks to a life scraping by on the streets and working daily by hefting large stacks of newspapers around Manhattan. He has brown hair, a ready smile, and is rarely seen without his newsboy cap. Hailing from the turn of the century, he favors the style of the day, if threadbare: slacks, a vest, and a sleeveless undershirt usually in vibrant print. His hands are often stained and his nailbeds dirty--he claims from newsprint, but in truth from the paints, charcoal, and pencil he often uses in his art.
History: http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Jack_Kelly, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsies_(musical)#Plot

Beyond the plot of the musical, little is known about Jack's history. His parents are no longer living, but Jack did know his father before he passed, sufficiently enough to believe that the demands of city life had beaten his father down and killed his spirit--perhaps even killed him outright. This viewpoint is what inspires Jack to believe that, despite his gift for city living as a fast talking newsie, he will only ever be happy if he can fulfill his dream of living in a small town out west like Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Jack also maintains a very familial relationships with the rest of his newsies. The group is, for the most part, a bunch of street rats, as evidenced by the fact that Jack and Crutchie, his closest friend and surrogate little brother, sleep on the roof of a New York building, however a musical number depicting the other newsies washing up to greet the day indicates they have access to bathroom facilities. This alludes to the possibility that they seek shelter wherever they can, or pay for lodgings in one of the boarding houses of the period that gave homeless children, newsies in particular, a bed for a nickel a night.

Personality: Jack is the quintessential 'angry young man,' seventeen years old and wise beyond his years thanks to a life lived on the street. Having grown up fast in a harsh world that did not stop turning simply because he lost his own mother and father, Jack is relentless in his pursuit of survival, a better life, and the fulfillment of his dreams. He's seen the worst of New York in the form of the Refuge, a corrupt and abusive children's home, and the life of a newsie, where lying and cheating are the only ways to ensure that a boy with no home can live to see tomorrow.

Despite his tough upbringing, however, Jack has a gentler nature that he hides behind the guise of street tough, believing that his sensitivities are a weakness and that his creative gifts will take him nowhere but further into destitution if he pursues them. To that end, he shares his dreams and his talent with none but the people closest to him. For the maternal figure in his life, Medda Larkin, he paints stage backdrops: terrific landscapes of places he's never seen, even his beloved Santa Fe. With Crutchie, his adopted little brother, he shares the dream of New Mexico, even going so far as to promise him a place in the fantasy of small town life, where if fresh air can't cure Crutchie's namesake malady, he can give up the crutch in favor of stylish mobility on the back of a palomino.

There is truth in the facade, however, as it is these gentler impulses that make the disguise reality: his worst scrapes, fights, and troublemaking escapades come at the expense of helping others. At the top of the musical, we see Jack take on the strike breaking Delancey brothers single handedly after they bully Crutchie, and later we learn that Jack escaped from jail on the back of Teddy Roosevelt's carriage—after being incarcerated for stealing food and clothing to care for the mistreated children of the Refuge. During the raid on Newsie Square, we see Jack go to bat for his fellows with reckless abandon, taking care to protect nine year old Les from as much of the brutality as he can. The strike doesn't even start save for the fact that the livelihood of Jack's extended family is at risk, and when his people are threatened with incarceration in the Refuge—including right hand man Dave and his little brother Les—Jack turns his back on what he believes in to try and keep them safe.

He is not, however, a saint. Jack is a dreamer to a fault, with his grand aspirations of moving to Santa Fe making him seem a transient presence to his newsie comrades, especially when the chips are down. His fantasies of small town life prevent him from realizing that he's not only made for the city, but that he has a lot to lose by leaving it behind. Jack is also subject to very human fears, such as being imprisoned again: when Crutchie is taken in by Warden Snyder, Jack runs rather than chasing after him, terrified of being caught again. It's this fear that drives him into hiding the day after the raid on Newsie Square, where he readies to leave New York behind after finishing one last art project for Miss Medda in her theater.

Powers/Abilities/Talents: Jack is bog standard human. However, Jack is a skilled talker and a talented con man thanks to his life as a newsie, where selling papers is as much a con job as anything. Living on the streets and his time incarcerated have also made him adept at fighting, both fisticuffs and improvising weapons out of his surrounding environment. Being a newsie, Jack is also exceptionally strong, physically, from hauling around large stacks of newspapers all day long. Jack is also a self taught artist with a lot of natural talent.
AU/CR AU Addendum: (If your character is considered AU, please tell us what about them makes them AU and why you decided to make these changes.)

What 4 items would you like your character to have with them on the island during their stay? Teddy Roosevelt's carriage (sans horses, of course - if the carriage is too large to have, then Teddy Roosevelt's walking stick), a box of the painting supplies he used in Medda Larkin's theater, Crutchie's crutch with homemade STRIKE banner attached, a copy of the Sun featuring Katherine Plumber's front page story on the Newsie strike

Samples - Can be linked
First Person: https://goodolcapnjack.dreamwidth.org/508.html
Third Person: https://medietas-ooc.dreamwidth.org/122032.html?thread=6998704#cmt6998704

Finally, out of the 4 words, pick one: Chimes, lake, gravel, or sun? Lake