Eyeless Jack

*"Burn in Hell, all of you."*
―Eyeless Jack to Jenny Smith
**Eyeless Jack**, born **Jack Nichols**, is a former serial killer and cannibal who was affiliated with the Creeps, and was the former partner-in-crime of Jeff the Killer.

## Biography

### Early Life

Not much is currently known about Jack's past. At some point during high school, he befriended Skye Martin, Lyra and Toby Rogers. After graduating high school, he enrolled in West Point College.

### Becoming Eyeless Jack

At college, he befriended a girl named Jenny Smith, who invited him over to hang out with her friends in a cave deep in the wooded area outside campus grounds. The night following the meeting, Jack went to investigate a possible fire coming from the direction of the cave, against his roommate Greg's warnings. He instead stumbled upon a ritual conducted by a cult that worshipped the Slavic deity Chernobog, and was inadvertently captured and forced to become the cult's human sacrifice. Jenny, revealed to be a cult member herself, gouged out his eyes, while another member poured an unknown black substance into his hollow eye-sockets, to the cult's ritualistic chanting, triggering his transformation into a "son of Chernobog". Upon regaining consciousness, he massacred the entire cult, including Jenny, before fleeing the scene.

Without a body to confirm his death, he became the prime suspect of the subsequent investigation into the murders, though it went cold and he was presumed dead nevertheless.

### On the Run

Soon after the incident at the cave, he killed a group of hikers from a neighboring town, enucleating and disemboweling them as he did with the cult, though their kidneys were notably missing when the bodies were recovered afterwards. His modus operandi notably evolved over time, from savage killings to merely organ harvesting, especially kidneys, which left many of his victims alive after their encounters with him.

Sometime in 2013, Jack witnessed Skye being abducted by the Operator but was unable to stop them before they disappeared. He mentioned encountering Siren, the Operator's proxy who had since taken over Skye's body, but claimed he could not bring himself to harm her. At some point, Jack also encountered Toby, who had also become one of the Operator's proxies and no longer recognized him, culminating in a brief fight which reached a stalemate.

From 2014 to 2015, Jack worked alongside fellow serial killer Jeff the Killer, during which they had similar killing patterns. By the next spring, the two parted ways on bitter terms, at least according to Jack's perspective, and have not spoken since.

In mid-2015, Jack reunited with Toby and Skye, both now freed from the Operator's influence. After the SCP Foundation found and contained them, Jack went to break them out but was captured as well. When a containment breach occurred at the site they were in, Jack took the opportunity to escape alongside Skye and Toby, as well as former Operator victim Tim Wright, and subsequently went on the run with them, following them as they headed for Alabama.

Near the end of 2016, he came to Toby's rescue after he sensed the entities HABIT and the Rake by the house the rest of the group had been staying at, and though he was able to fend off the Rake, he was outmatched and severely injured by HABIT. The entity then went on to kill Tim, before eventually being driven away by the re-awakened Siren. As the group recovered, Jack and Siren made amends as the latter convinced him to stay and comfort Skye, who was still in shock from Tim's death; his presence allowed her to safely switch back into the body, allowing them to properly grieve their fallen ally.

In fear of being tracked down by the Foundation and for their involvement in Tim's death, the remaining trio then left Alabama, eventually stopping at New Haven, where Skye and Toby decided to settle for the time being; Jack, unwilling to linger too long near civilizations whilst avoiding Skye due to Siren's presence in her body, would roam the surrounding areas, but remained in close contact with his friends and visited them fairly frequently.

### Framed for Murder

In the summer of 2017, police detective Abigail Bishop and FBI Special Agent Joel Gilliam began investigating a mass homicide in the suburbs which bore striking resemblance to the modus operandi of both Jack and Jeff, making them both unwitting prime suspects.

## Personality

Initially, Jack appeared to be borderline arrogant and very confident in his own abilities, even taunting Gilliam for their shared history through the Foundation. However, he shows extreme care and concern for Skye and Toby, and was more than willing to turn himself in so they could be acquitted. He also appears to struggle greatly with his own cannibalism, showing great remorse and reluctance in having to kill others to sate his own hunger, and has been actively keeping his hunger in check and taking great care in harvesting organs for his consumption, to keep his body count as low as possible.

## Physical Appearance

As a human, Jack had fair skin, brown hair and blue eyes. After becoming Eyeless Jack, his eyes had been gouged out, leaving hollow eye sockets in their place, and his skin became an inhuman shade of grey. He often wore a dark blue featureless mask with two round eye-holes to hide his identity. He commonly wore a black hooded jacket, dark cargo pants and worn sneakers.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

**Enhanced Physiology**: After his transformation, Jack gained superior physical attributes that exceeds typical human capabilities. He also gained some supernatural attributes, including a healing factor and immunity to the Operator's influence.

* **Superhuman Senses**: Despite lacking eyes, Jack's remaining senses were enhanced to superhuman levels, which he relies on in order to navigate around safely and easily. His keen sense of smell allows him to detect the scent of blood even over long distances, which often rouses his hunger when he gets too close to humans without feeding for a while, though he noted his sense is weaker than that of Smile Dog. He can also detect the presence of the Operator and his proxies within a certain radius, as well as their distinct smell of rust due to the radiation they generate; he claimed Siren's radiation was strong enough that he would be repulsed to even be in the same room as either her or Skye for long periods of time. He is also able to sense the presence of other supernatural creatures such as Jeff the Killer and Smile Dog within a vicinity.
* **Superhuman Strength**: Jack displays a considerable amount of strength compared to the average human. He is able to easily overpower other humans, even trained Foundation agents with little difficulty despite his relative lack of combat training, by using his sheer strength alone.
* **Superhuman Speed**: Jack can run and move at speeds faster than the typical human.
* **Superhuman Stamina**: Jack was able to fight Jeff the Killer without showing any signs of fatigue.
* **Regenerative Healing Factor**: Jack is able to quickly heal and recover from wounds, regardless of severity, without any apparent lasting consequences. During his confrontation with the New Haven Police Department, he suffered a gunshot wound to his shoulder that quickly healed after he removed the bullet with a pair of tweezers.
* **Immunity to the Sickness**: Jack seems to be immune to the Operator's influence, showing none of the typical symptoms associated with the Sickness despite being in close proximity and frequently exposed to the entity.

### Abilities

* **Expert Combatant**: Jack is fairly proficient in fighting and combat, having picked up some proper hand-to-hand combat skills in order to fight and better defend himself since going on the run. He was able to fight against and neutralize an armed Jeff the Killer while he himself was unarmed.
	+ **Knife Mastery**: Jack is very proficient in using blades, notably his signature scalpel, turning it into a deadly weapon despite its small size.

* **Gifted Intellect**: Jack was a straight-A student in high school and college. He also possesses a fair deal of medical and anatomical knowledge.
	+ **Expert Surgeon**: Despite his lack of vision and never receiving much formal training, Jack was able to perform successful surgical procedures on unaware victims, and was skilled enough that he had a low body count while still active. He claimed to have practiced by treating Toby's wounds multiple times in the past, most notably the large gash across the latter's cheek.

## Possessions

* **Scalpel**: Jack's main weapon of choice is a scalpel, specifically a modified #20 scalpel. He often used it to harvest kidneys from his victims, replacing the blade regularly whenever it wore out. He also had at least one other scalpel, presumably of the same type, as backup.
* **Mask**: Jack often wore a blue featureless mask with two round holes for eyes to hide his identity as a serial killer. The mask's eye-holes were often stained by the black blood leaking from his eyes. He obtained this mask from one of the cultists responsible for his transformation.
* **White Cane**: In more recent years, Jack carried a white cane with him while in public, which he claimed averted people's attention and questions from him, but also to assist him in walking around when he could not completely rely on his other senses to navigate.

## Relationships

### Jeff the Killer

Jeff the Killer is Jack's former partner-in-crime. The two worked together in the past for a little over a year, but eventually parted ways on bitter terms. In 2017, they both unknowingly became the prime suspects to a mass murder case in New Haven due to its modus operandi, which bore striking resemblance to the pair's own similar killing patterns during their time working together.

### Skye Martin

Skye is Jack's close friend. The two have been friends since high school, though were temporarily separated after Jack left for college. They presumably reunited sometime after Toby's disappearance, as Jack claimed to be present when the Operator abducted her. He eventually found her again after she and Toby escaped the Operator, and tried to free them from SCP containment but was captured himself. The two continued to maintain a close relationship after escaping containment, but because of Siren's presence within Skye's body, Jack began avoiding being in close proximity with her, instead maintaining frequent communication with her through phone calls.

### Toby Rogers

Toby is Jack's friend. Jack mentioned he once encountered Toby after the latter had been turned into a proxy, and reluctantly fought him when the latter attempted to kill him, presumably under the Operator's orders. However, the two appeared to hold no grudges against each other after Toby was freed from the Operator's control, as Jack later attempted to free Toby from SCP containment, but failed and was caught himself. After escaping the Foundation, Jack often treated Toby's wounds, most notably the gash in the latter's cheek.

### Tim Wright

Tim Wright was Jack's acquaintance. The true nature of their relationship is currently unknown.

## Trivia

* Eyeless Jack is based on the creepypasta of the same name.
	+ However, due to the ambiguous nature and background of the character in the original creepypasta, the fan-made origin by La-Mishi-Mish was used as the basis of the character's background in the series instead, which establishes Jack's former name, appearance, human origins and subsequent transformation into Eyeless Jack.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 *Facilis Descensus Averno*
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 *Origin of Eyeless Jack*
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 *The SCP Files*