JACK is loads of fun to play because he's an action hero. I AM SECRETLY A CHILD WHO STILL ENJOYS SHOOTING THINGS and I'm never happier with Jack than when I can throw him into some big fight that will let him add to his kill list. Jack is an unstoppable badass but he's also on the lower end of the power scale in this setting, so that's interesting to work with as well. I also love that he's part of copcast and has access to these interactions and organizations, both for fun times and for going 'YUSUKE TAKE SERAS AND INSERT FROM THE ROOF GEDDOE AND I WILL COVER YOU.' Jack is very cunning and he's a leader; it's lots of fun to have him try to puzzle things out and plan responses to various crises.
I also enjoy playing with his angst and his morality- he is always carrying around a metric shitton of hidden pain that he hides for the sake of doing his job. He is also capable of terrible terrible things but he doesn't usually do them in game because his top priority is always saving innocent lives however possible, and in the City Jack has a lot more options for doing that than he does in a contrived Fox TV show. Finally, I can get a lot more humourous mileage out of Jack than one would expect- his canon and character are so serious that he makes a great straight man for the City's shenanigans, especially when played off copcast.
In terms of what's hard about him: EMOTIONS HOW DO THEY WORK. I'm very comfortable having him be all intense when things are exploding, but casual talking and managing close relationships is still hard for me to do convincingly even after playing him this long. The thing is, '24' was a drama series as much as it was an action show, and I think Kiefer Sutherland did an amazing job expressing Jack's pain and passion in its emotional moments. I was mainly watching it for the shooting though, and it can be hard for me to live up to the example of Sutherland's portrayal, especially working through text.
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JACK is loads of fun to play because he's an action hero. I AM SECRETLY A CHILD WHO STILL ENJOYS SHOOTING THINGS and I'm never happier with Jack than when I can throw him into some big fight that will let him add to his kill list. Jack is an unstoppable badass but he's also on the lower end of the power scale in this setting, so that's interesting to work with as well. I also love that he's part of copcast and has access to these interactions and organizations, both for fun times and for going 'YUSUKE TAKE SERAS AND INSERT FROM THE ROOF GEDDOE AND I WILL COVER YOU.' Jack is very cunning and he's a leader; it's lots of fun to have him try to puzzle things out and plan responses to various crises.
I also enjoy playing with his angst and his morality- he is always carrying around a metric shitton of hidden pain that he hides for the sake of doing his job. He is also capable of terrible terrible things but he doesn't usually do them in game because his top priority is always saving innocent lives however possible, and in the City Jack has a lot more options for doing that than he does in a contrived Fox TV show. Finally, I can get a lot more humourous mileage out of Jack than one would expect- his canon and character are so serious that he makes a great straight man for the City's shenanigans, especially when played off copcast.
In terms of what's hard about him: EMOTIONS HOW DO THEY WORK. I'm very comfortable having him be all intense when things are exploding, but casual talking and managing close relationships is still hard for me to do convincingly even after playing him this long. The thing is, '24' was a drama series as much as it was an action show, and I think Kiefer Sutherland did an amazing job expressing Jack's pain and passion in its emotional moments. I was mainly watching it for the shooting though, and it can be hard for me to live up to the example of Sutherland's portrayal, especially working through text.