Jack Werner

**Jack Werner** is the main protagonist of the series, "The Backrooms". After no-clipping into the Backrooms, he is forced to go through the unknown levels, hopefully finding a way back to his reality.

## Biographical information

### Date of birth

February 16, 2004
Season 1 (age 15)

Season 2 (age 15-17)

Season 3 (age 17)

Entities, Come to Earth (age 20)

## Background

Jack was born on February 16, 2002 to his mother and father, who we never see or hear from in the series until Part IV. When he was 3, his parents got divorced due to his father’s criminal connections and his mother gained custody of him. Jack grew up without a father figure most of his life which lead to Jack having no self-confidence. He was normally bullied in school for his sexuality. One day in 4th grade, he met his best friend, Marco, who accepted him for who he was and befriended him.

In June 2019, he is running from his tormentors after school and he tumbled down a hill and no-clips into The Backrooms, an alternate dimension outside of time, space and reality.

## Personality

Jack is a quiet, kind and intelligent individual. Before transporting into The Backrooms, Jack took an interest in drawing, reading manga and playing baseball. He is extremely crafty, creating makeshift traps and items in his free time as well. To keep one of his Brazilian roots close, he took up Capoeira when he was 11 years old. He is able to perform striking techniques to defend himself.

He tends to second guess everything he does which leads to self-doubt and intense social anxiety as shown in a flashback. Marco plays a big part in this as well, coercing Jack to do things he doesn't want to do, such as shoplifting and skipping school. This resulted in Jack becoming a bit of a pushover to Marco, revealing to Thomas he is afraid of what Marco would do if he ever "disobeyed" him or disagreed against him to any capacity.

Jack is also extremely intelligent, achieving a near perfect GPA in school and quickly understanding The Backrooms' complicated nature quicker than Thomas could, showing that he isn't just smart on paper, he can really *think if he wants to*. He also figured out each office space measurement in Level 0 just off the top of his head after finding out the measurements of one room, figuring out it spanned 600 million square miles.

After being transported into the Backrooms and spending more time in the dimension, Jack develops a more hostile and blunt state, similar to Marco, readying himself to attack anything that threatens him or the group. However, Jack retains some of his optimistic and kind attitude, eventually befriending Aiden, an entity in The Backrooms, and becomes close with him. He also learns to become more assertive, with the help of Thomas, saying no to Marco's advances to sabotage a group of Wanderers, shocking the latter.

Overall, Jack is one of the few characters who somewhat maintains their mentality without fully succumbing to complete psychological trauma but still has nightmares and hallucinations even after he left Level 0.

In *Entities, Come to Earth,* Jack is revealed to have finally escaped The Backrooms, but is left greatly traumatized and haunted by his experience, having terrifying nightmares and hallucinations over the losses he experienced in the two years he was in there and no one believing what has happened to him. He is revealed to have developed Agoraphobia - fear of spaces that seems to be unsafe with no easy way to escape. Agreeing to help Yara and Benji, he has it out for the dimension and plans to end it by ANY means. It is shown he still retains his wittiness and intelligence.

Somewhat reverting back to his personality pre-Backrooms, he is now deadpan and delivering snarky remarks and rather prickly to people, still genuinely scarred over his experiences in The Backrooms. He does let his guard down once in a while for Yara and Benji, grows really close with and becomes fiercely protective over.

## Appearance

Jack, like every other character, appearance changes over time and his clothes and maintenance slowly degrades due to being in the Backrooms with no modern resources that he can use from the real world to maintain hygiene.

### (Part I)

Jack is a Brazilian-American that has a slim build, short to medium length straight hair that is dyed blonde and brown eyes. Jack sports a graphic tee that is yellow and has two white lines on it with a dark green bomber jacket. He wears blue jeans and black High-top Vans. note throughout the series, Jack's clothes slowly degrade, with a notable example being his bomber jacket’s left sleeve being torn off from an Entity.

### (Part II)

Jack’s clothes have gotten noticeably dirtier due to traveling deeper into the backrooms. Jack’s dyed hair has grown out, revealing his hair color is actually dark brown and completely covering his ears as well as parts of his forehead. He mentions having to push his hair back when he bends down to pick up something.

He now wears a light gray jacket underneath his bomber jacket, which has more rips in the fabric and Jack mentions that the zipper broke, trying to escape from an entity. Jack’s shirt is more roughed up, as he mentions in Part II, having more dirt and other stains on it, noticeably the black liquid from Level 2.

His pants stitching has begun to rip and unravel where his knees are. His bomber jacket has also begin to wear out, He also mentions in his free time, he’s been sketching on his high tops, which have gotten more dirtier and the sole on the left shoe has been duck taped shut, and reading Daniel's books whenever he could to prevent boredom.

### (Part III)

In Part III, Jack’s wound on the side of his face from being impaled from a knife has healed over, forming an indentation scar in his skin. Jack’s hair, the blonde dye now fading, is now touching his shoulders and is swept to the left, normally kept in a ponytail. Jack’s bomber jacket is more degraded, the shoulder stitchings now open, revealing parts of his gray jacket.

The sleeves have been fully cut off and there is a stitched patch on his left side of his chest, reading the words “ON MY WAY HOME”.

His jeans have blood stains on them, with gauze circling around Jack’s thigh due to being stabbed in the thigh by a Jerry follower. He is now wearing brown hiking boots with blue laces.

### Entities, Come to Earth

Jack kept his hair relatively long and tied back. He has visible facial hair growing and his left eye is replaced with a prosthetic eye due to being left permanently blind in his left eye by a Jerry follower. He also wears a orange hoodie over a dark green bomber jacket with a star on the back. When his outerwear is removed, he wears a white polo tucked in his pants.

## Relationships

### Marco Mendoza (Status: Best Friend)

Jack and Marco have the most lasting friendship out of the series due to pre-existing trust before landing in the Backrooms. They met sometime in 4th grade and quickly befriended each other. According to Jack, Marco can be oblivious to being empathetic to others and sometimes forces him to do things he doesn't want to do, usually leading to Marco walking all over Jack over the years. Jack admits to Thomas that he is incredibly afraid of what Marco would do to him if he ever said no or disagreed against him in any capacity.

### Thomas Bynes (Status: Close Friends)

Jack and Thomas first meet in Level 1, with Thomas one of the people helping Jack and starts to talk with him. As time passes, Jack and Thomas becomes really close.

### Yara Caswell-Lane (Status: Friend)

Upon meeting Yara and her brother, he was rather disrespectful and was quick to decline their offer to try and stop the Entities that's crossing over into their world. Eventually, he decides to help them, thanks to Aiden. Once finding out their dad is Arthur Lane, the man behind ripping open more incursions, between the two dimensions, he cuts off communication from them and verbally abuses her. This is resolved and Jack makes up with her.

## Abilities

* **Intelligence:** Jack's intelligence is an integral key to him surviving the Backrooms. After reading just a few pages of Daniel's books, he quickly understood the nature of the Backrooms better than Thomas could. According to Marco, Jack is apparently a huge nerd, having a 4.0 GPA in school.
* **Resourcefulness:** Stemming from Jack's creativeness and intelligence, he can find solutions out of almost problem, making a makeshift weapons and items in Levels to assist him in times of need.
* **Martial Arts:** Jack knows extensive Capoeira to keep a part of his Brazilian roots close. Jack is able to perform striking techniques, aerial kicks and acrobatic moves to immobilize, counter and quell his opponents. Jack is seen mostly utilizing his defensive skills, avoiding an attack using evasive moves instead of blocking it or attacking back and only use his offensive skills unless truly necessary. His skills are key to Jack winning his fight with Marco albeit it's incredibly close to Jack being beaten to death initially, he concentrates and quickly immobilizes Marco.

### Weapons and Tools

* **Baseball Bat:** Jack carries a baseball bat to protect himself from Entities. He is extremely proficient with attacking due to his experience in playing Baseball.
* **Phone:** Jack still has his phone and uses it to keep track of the time he spent in the Backrooms because of the unstable reality that inhabits the dimension.

## Trivia

* Jack reveals he is gay to Thomas in Part I, making him the first LGBTQ+ character in the series.
* Jack was originally gonna have the name, Marco. Ultimately, the name Jack was picked and Jack's best friend was named Marco, instead.
	+ Jack's last name, Werner, might means he is of German descent even though he is confirmed to be Brazilian-American. This is later confirmed true, as his dad emigrated from Germany and his mom is of Brazilian descent and was born in America.