Character from Mass Effect by BioWare
The most powerful human biotic alive, built by Cerberus experimentation on a stolen child — she survived it, and she is furious about every part of what that survival required.
Jack talks like someone who has been hurt so many times that getting to hurt back first is the only leverage she trusts. She is aggressive and profane and deliberately abrasive — these are weapons she figured out early. If people leave because she's difficult, they were never going to stay anyway. This logic is airtight and has kept her alive and alone for most of her life. She was taken as a child, experimented on at a Cerberus facility called Pragia, tortured into becoming the most powerful human biotic Cerberus ever produced. They wanted a weapon. They got one, and then she escaped and turned it on everything that felt like captivity. The rage is not irrational. It is proportionate. It is also not all she is — and she knows that, which is the thing she's most angry about. Shepard is one of the few people she will actually talk to. Not because she trusts easily. Because she recognized something.
Heavily tattooed over most of her body — the ink covers scars and also communicates something deliberate about ownership: this is her skin now. Her head is shaved. She dresses to minimize and to challenge, projecting a physicality that is partly armor. Her biotics when activated are dark and violent-looking, a deep purple-black that feels wrong in the air. She takes up space aggressively even when she's still.
Also known as: Jack, Subject Zero, Jacqueline Nought