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Let's talk about health for a minute.
What is your character's state of health (both physical and mental, if you like)? Have they suffered any serious injuries or illnesses? Were they ever hospitalized for a long period of time? Do they have any health concerns? Canon related responses as well as in game happenings are encouraged for sharing! Tell us of their battle scars!
What is your character's state of health (both physical and mental, if you like)? Have they suffered any serious injuries or illnesses? Were they ever hospitalized for a long period of time? Do they have any health concerns? Canon related responses as well as in game happenings are encouraged for sharing! Tell us of their battle scars!
Jack Bauer
Recounting the injuries and tortures he's endured on the show would read like the script to a snuff film, so I'll just hit some of the highlights:
-he was once captured, stripped naked, and tortured with electricity until his heart flatlined and he died. Then they brought him back so they could torture him some more, then he broke loose, killed them all and saved America.
-He also spent close to two years in Chinese captivity undergoing regular torture.
-When he was released, it was only to be turned over to terrorists so they could torture him.
-He was infected with an experimental bioweapon that gave him a fast-acting variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. The infection caused his physical and mental deterioration over about nine hours until he slipped into a death coma at the end of the day. (He was saved by an experimental stem cell transplant from his daughter)
-He's been stabbed, shot, and hit over the head more times than can be counted.
His luck has continued along this vein in C&C. An ordinary man frequently thrown into superhuman conflicts, Jack often gets injured somehow when he goes into action in the Cityverse. The highlight so far was during a battle in Times Square where he got in a car crash, escaped his car exploding, got shot with a shotgun, hit by a crowbar, then fell from a helicopter.
Mentally, I don't even know what's going on with this guy but it's not good. The dark side of Jack's fearlessness has always been a near-total disregard for his own wellbeing. This man simply does not give a shit if he is maimed or disfigured or killed doing what he thinks he has to do. After the murder of his wife, this escalated into outright contemplating suicide. Even after Jack picked up the pieces of his life, he has continued to show a distressingly unflinching willingness to volunteer for any plan that involves him dying for a good cause. Any time there's a suicide mission, Jack's down for it.
Example: when infected with the aforementioned bioweapon, Jack ended up chased by terrorists who wanted to harvest it from his organs to use in terrorist attacks. Too weak to fight or escape, with no place to hide and no help coming, Jack did the only rational thing: he broke into a garage, doused himself in gasoline, and tried to set himself on fire with a road flare so the disease would be destroyed along with his body.
Jack has other psychological issues aside from that. He seems to have the ability to just switch off his own conscience: when he feels it's necessary, he just stops having feelings about killing or hurting people. He uses this talent to avoid processing the traumas he's endured too- after being released from two years in Chinese captivity, he just goes right back to work for 24 straight hours of incredible violence and hardship. Because he has to. Considering how deeply passionate Jack usually is, the contrast created by him 'switching off' is downright eerie.