Jackie

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## Character Summary

### Calls Stella

Stellers
Smellers

## Mood Perks

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Harvests honey

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Helps around the boat

**Jackie** is a Spirit character released on December 13th in the Fall 2021 update.

He is a large, jovial, mixed-race caretaker at an old run-down hospital in Overbrook. His main patient is Daria. He worked with Stella when she was a nurse and he was an orderly, and envied her constant positivity and ability to deal with tough patients. Jackie, while personable and outgoing, neglected many of his orderly duties, leading to an accident with Daria and his eventual firing.

Jackie stands in as a foil to Stella's above-and-beyond nursing, in which she takes small requests from patients (and as the Spiritfarer) and performs them to the best of her abilities, ensuring the comfort and peace of all her patients, regardless if they are rude to her. While Stella is dedicated if overwhelmed (especially by younger patients such as Stanley), Jackie is burned out and lackluster about his job commitment, even going so far as to say "Why do I even do this?" followed by "everybody keeps thanking me" and "what else would I do?" While Stella treats her nursing as a vocation, Jackie treats his work as an orderly as an imposition.

Jackie has a lot of trauma and mental health struggles that are alluded to ("murky memories of childhood" and the dahlia flower for instability). He struggles with self-confidence, contentment, and motivation. He is heavily codependent on Stella to help him accomplish difficult tasks, conveyed through multiple text messages on the hospital pager. Jackie often shirks work under the guise of 'caring for Daria' but tells Stella that it's better Daria be left comatose rather than talked to or interacted with, as she becomes more difficult when awake. Jackie carries a lot of resentment towards Daria, who becomes a symbol with everything he disliked in the medical profession, and the mental health toll the world demands of healthcare workers.

After he was fired, Jackie then lived with Stella briefly on her couch, but "died in a traffic accident" shortly thereafter. His cause of death is unknown, though his self-loathing and guilt allude to his death being self-inflicted, and likely as a pedestrian, and not a driver (note: not "car accident" or "car crash").

## Filing Cabinet Facts

* Likes to boast about his foreign origins, but doesn't know much about his father's country.
* Often in his underwear, because he "runs hot."
* Has murky memories of his childhood.

## Quests

* **Snack Attack**: "I've met my old colleague Jackie at Overbrook. He asked me to get him a snack from the hospital's vending machine."
	+ Use an Obol to buy a Chocoblasterz from the Vending Machine
	+ Talk to Jackie & give him the Chocoblasterz
* **Onboarding**: "Jackie invited me for a tour of his workplace, Overbrook. I should follow him around."
	+ Follow Jackie around Overbrook
	+ Talk to him when he stops
	+ Talk to Jackie at the balcony of the hospital to finish the quest.
* **The Slop Shop**: "The cafeteria at Overbrook has run out of supplies. Jackie has asked me for some."
	+ Give Jackie 5 Bags of Rice
* **Wells Fartgo & CO**: "I've received a letter from Jackie. I should read it!"
* **Advanced Snackology**: "Jackie has informed me that the vending machine at Overbrook has been restocked. I should go back and take a look!"
	+ Purchase a Crispy Burlap Men from the Vending Machine using an Obol
	+ Give Jackie the Crispy Burlap Men
* **Slop 'N Slide**: "Jackie has sent me a message through the pager. It sounds like there's a kitchen emergency over at Overbrook."
	+ Talk to Jackie
	+ Claim the "Nutritious" Slop from the cafeteria at the top of the hospital
	+ Give any 3 spirits in Overbrook the "Nutritious" Slop
	+ Talk to Jackie again
* **Hide and Seek**: "Jackie has sent me a message through the pager. It sounds like he has "lost some people" and is "freaking out" over at Overbrook."
	+ Talk to Jackie
	+ Find the first patient above Jackie
	+ Find the second patient in the ruins to the left of the tower
	+ Find the third patient behind a bush by the vending machine
	+ Talk to Jackie again
* **House Call**: "Jackie has sent me a series of strange messages through the pager. I'm not sure what is going on, but I should be checking on him, over at Overbrook."
	+ Go through the door in Overbrook where Jackie usually stands and climb up the tower
	+ Go through the yellow door at the top of the tower
	+ Pick up the sheet music in the room and pull out your guitar
* **Engineering 101**: "Jackie has sent me a message through the pager. It sounds like there are some power issues over at Overbrook."
	+ Talk to Jackie & obtain an Elevator Key
	+ Go over to the right of Overbrook and activate the elevator
	+ Once on top, interact with the fuse box on the right
	+ Talk to Jackie again
* **The Incident**: "Jackie has sent me a message through the pager. He sounded very, very mad. I should probably head to Overbrook right away."
	+ Complete the "Hot Still-Scape for Six Colors" request given to you by Daria
	+ Talk to Jackie
	+ Complete the "Three's Company" shenanigan given to you by one of the spirits at Overbrook
	+ Complete the rest of Daria's quest-line, as well as the "Helpful Spending Spree" shenanigan
	+ Bring her to the everdoor
	+ Collect her flower from her room at Overbrook (must be done before perimeter sweep will take place)
* **Perimeter Sweep**: "A passenger has complained about late night noise, but I'm not sure what this could be about. I should look around the boat."
	+ Talk to one of your passengers
	+ Find Jackie in Gwen's Lodge (or the Quest Room if you somehow still have Gwen)
	+ Talk to Jackie
* **Feelin' the Buzz**: "Jackie has something to show me in the field. He seems pretty excited about it!"
	+ Talk to Jackie
	+ Follow him into your Field
	+ Talk to Jackie again
	+ Improve your Field
	+ Talk to Jackie again
* **Hello, my Name is Jackie**: "Jackie would like his own room, so he could assist me better with my tasks on the boat."
	+ Build Jackie's On-Call Room
	+ Talk to Jackie
* **Hang in There, Skeleton!**: "Jackie has told me that he finds the bare walls of his room a bit depressing, and has asked me to get him some posters."
	+ Plant flowers in the Field
	+ Talk to Jackie in the Field
	+ Wait a bit & talk to him again in his room
	+ Improve his House and add the Motivational Posters
	+ Talk to Jackie
* **A Heart-Sized Desert**: "Jackie did not react very well to the motivational posters. He thinks that a sand garden would help him be more at peace."
	+ Get the blueprint for the Zen Garden from Jackie
	+ Improve Jackie's House and add the Zen Garden
	+ Talk to Jackie again
* **Letting It Go for Dummies**: "With everything else failing, Jackie has shifted the blame of his problems on his poor education. He's motivated to better himself through reading."
	+ Get the blueprint for the Self-Help Books from Jackie
	+ Improve Jackie's House and add the Self-Help Books
	+ Talk to Jackie again
	+ Exit the boat (must be done before The Depths of the Pit will take place)
* **The Depths of the Pit**: "Jackie does not wish to stay on the boat anymore. I should respect his wishes, and lead him away with dignity."
	+ Take Jackie to the EVERDOOR

## Dialogue

### Food

* **Favorite dish**: Chilaquiles
	+ "Are those...Chilaquiles? Shit, Stellers, for me? You're such a pal! You remembered my favourite dish! Steaming hot, crispy, and so spicy it burns twice! Thanks, Stella, you're the best!"

* **Likes**:
	+ "Damn right! A MEATY dish! Y'know, Stellars, I'm a big boy. Only MEAT can give me the protein to sustain my body! It ain't rocket science!"
	+ "You know what they say! Ain't a meal if it ain't got MEAT!"
	+ "More FRIED FOOD? You really get me, Stella! I've been feeling down, but with this, I'll be doing so much better."

* **Neutral**:
	+ "Right on! Thanks for the meal. I was starving."
* **Dislikes**:
	+ Healthy Food
		- "Do I look like a cow? Bring me something a bit less HEALTHY, please."
		- You know I don't eat HEALTHY food. Green is bad. Brown is good."
* **Same item**:
* **Inedible**:
	+ "Ew. That's... *Ew.*"
* **Not Hungry:**
	+ "I'm not hungry."

* **Hungry**:

* **Starving**:

### Favours

* Honey: "I harvested some honey. Take it!"

### Hugs

* **Hugging**:
	+ "HR told us about PDA. Glad to see you're not a square."
	+ "Oh, yeah. That's the stuff. Thanks."
	+ "Oof, yeah. Needed that. I don't get nearly enough hugs.
* **Second hug**:
	+ "Yeah, gonna pass. Thanks."
	+ "Sure. Let's spend the whole day hugging. Like hippies."
	+ "Heard the local college offered a great new class. It's called 'Personal Space 101.' You should enroll."

### At The Everdoor

* **Just before the Everdoor**: "Can you imagine that, Stella? Dust and forgetfulness... What a thought..."
* **At the Everdoor**: "Yeah, okay. We're there. I, huh... Just... Yeah, just bring it in." ... "See ya on the other side, Stellers. Or not."

## Game Notes

* In the Slop n' Slide achievement you can actually give spirits your food from the boat after receiving the slop from the Cafeteria. It does not impact your game but leaves you with the slop. (You can however feed it to your sheep or cows)

## Trivia

* Normally, Jackie is found on Gwen's Lodge in the "Perimiter Sweep". However, if assuming Gwen is still on the boat, up to this quest he will automatically be transferred to the Guest House, however with the dialogue of catching him still goes on
* When taking Jackie to the Everdoor he makes mention of ‘Sheol’ (mispelled as ‘Shole’ when recounting this to Stella) a place of still darkness which lies after death. This idea seems to bring Jackie a sense of comfort.
* Jackie is one of the only spirit characters (besides Daria) to reveal their form before coming onto Stella's boat.
* With his (along with Beverly's and Daria's introduction, his spirit flower can now be used to upgrade the boat.
	+ Theoretically, any spirit after Gwen, Summer and Alice has been released, can a passenger up to the Misty Areas

### Artbook Entry

As a requirement for completing her nursing education, Stella had to complete a mandatory internship. She was sent to a very remote and frankly destitute hospital, to assist in the severely understaffed psychiatric ward it housed. The internship, although very short, left a lasting impression on the young nurse-to-be. There, she shared the night shift with Jackie, a large, jovial orderly, whose sanguine personality she immediately bonded with. He felt like a breath of fresh air in the neon-lit atmosphere of the decrepit ward. Most of all, she liked his unconventional methods, which contrasted with the dull procedurality of the day staff . He was very close to some of the most troubled and difficult patients, and seemed always capable of calming them. Stella was relieved by this attitude of his, as it gave her some breathing room to perform the duties for which she was woefully unprepared.

As Stella became more comfortable with her job, she started to notice irregularities in Jackie’s work. A patient’s bath would have been skipped, or their sheets would not have been changed. Stella, while uneasy, did her best to pick up the slack, and didn’t bring up the matter to Jackie or his superiors, blaming the overwhelming amount of work that was thrusted upon them for these mistakes. Then, one day, an incident involving Jackie and one of the most unstable patients of the ward, Daria, left Jackie seriously wounded. An internal investigation revealed that Jackie had been neglectful in his duties, and he was promptly fired.

After his dismissal, Stella uneasily took Jackie in for a while, letting him sleep on her couch. There, his neglect and self-loathing became obvious, getting Stella to wonder how she could have been so obviously fooled before. Jackie died soon after in a traffic accident.

Jackie’s flower, the red dahlia, is a symbol of power, sanguinity, and inner strength, It is also, however, a symbol of dishonesty, betrayal and instability.

1. ↑ Spiritfarer - The Artbook