Jack Holiday

## Personality

Shy, yet charming, Jack Holiday loves poetry and literature. Jack enjoys sharing his work with others as a traveling poet...a bard of sorts...a balladeer.

Jack carries a constant sadness with him and palpable sense of longing. He's often disconnected with his emotions.

Jack is a diagnosed schizophrenic.

## Abilities

Mandolin is Jack's instrument of choice. His mysterious tunes are able to alter sound - and maybe something more - around him.

Jack is skilled in the way of the blade...kinda.

Jack is incredibly skilled in failing to acquire alcohol.

## Relations

Jack is of of the babies of the group (along with Benny).

Jack Holiday lives with Moss and Cindy in The Open Book.

Jack gets along with TJ and Laughlin fairly well.

Jack and Riddle are buddies.

When Babs found a Wolpertinger outside, Biscuits, Jack began hearing its voice inside his head and took in the small cryptid.

## History

#### EARLY LIFE

Jack Holiday was born with his twin, Jane, 17 April 1989 in Cleveland, Ohio. Their births took place in the hospital while the Avery family, close friends of the Holidays, were murdered by Jeffrey Lundgren and his cult followers for disloyalty. Father Holiday blamed Jane and Jack for keeping them from helping the Averys during their murders and grew resentful towards his children. Wishing to hide this, he became the most distanced of fathers. Their mother grew terrified of anything remotely religous.

Jack proposed to his best friend, Mary, when he turned 18 in 2007. During this time, his sister Jane began working in the Cleveland Police Division. Remnants of Lundgren's cult calling themselves "the Call" were being observed by police for suspicious behavior. The Call was constantly looking for young couples to join them.

#### THE CALL OF CLEVELAND

Jane came to Jack and Mary with an offer: join the Call and find information on happenings within. Hoping to make up to his father, Jack eagerly agreed. After discovering more families were going to be murdered, Jack was unable to present sufficient evidence to Jane and the police denied requests for action in early November. The Call grew suspicious of Jack and his fiancé early in December, assigning Jack to kill the Williams family as a blood sacrifice (for what he calls "the Evil One") to show his loyalty. One night, Jack's mother saw him and Mary interacting with the Call and fell into cardiac arrest, promptly dying. Unable to deny being involved with the cult to his father for fear of losing Mary, Jack is banished from his home.

Jack tipped off Jane to the planned murder date of the Williams of 25 December. Unable to gain approval from higher-ups to act on this, she called an old friend: Waylin Finch. However, the Call found out about Jack's disobedience and brought Mary and he to the Williams' home early Christmas morning. They proceeded to shoot each of the Williams and stab Mary in the abdomen 27 times. They used the blood of the victims to draw strange shapes on the floor and walls to begin a summoning ritual. Jack hopelessly held his dying fiancé when Jane and Waylin Finch arrived. A shootout occured. In the altercation, Jane was shot in the head. When the Call members were each eliminated, Waylin frantically began reversing the effects of the ritual. Mary and her unborn child perished.

#### MOVING ON (FROM SANITY)

Jane survived the gunshot wound, yet she fell into a coma. In the hospital, Waylin revealed that he gave Jane her signature mandolin years prior. He told Jack he should take it and learn to play, and to seek out Waylin if he ever ran into trouble again. Waylin returned to Alaska, Michigan. Feeling as if there was no one else to live for, and with Jane looking to wake no time soon, Jack left Cleveland, Ohio to travel the States, gathering material for his novel and various poems. Symptoms of schizophrenia surfaced for Jack during his travels, and he grew lonely and paranoid. He decided to heed Waylin's words.

#### GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY

Playing his new mandolin on the roadside, Jack Holiday first makes acquaintance with the Golden Stag Society 11 November 2008 in an encounter with chupacabras. Jack's wired sounds were able to ward off the beast and allow it to be defeated. Jack, seeming useful and helpless, was taken in by the GSS. Maybe he's found someone worth living for after all.

## Fun Facts

* Jack's mandolin truly belongs to his coma-bound twin Jane Holiday.
* Jack can sometimes be heard quietly mumbling to seemingly noone at all.
* Jack drives a 1974 Super Beetle named Odyssey.