Jack Henson

## Biography

Born in the year 1962 in Cleveland Ohio, Jack Henson is the son of Mariah Wilson and Anthony Henson, as the first child the pressure of expectation came, with his father working as a construction worker at the newly built facility by aperture in Cleveland, he had way less interactions with him, Mariah the wife of Anthony, felt left out and usually spent her time alone on a daily basis, giving care and attention to jack from time to time, most of the time jack would wonder into the local forest as the Henson's lived close to the city edge, he'd wonder off to collect scrap and all sorts of junk and would make some small weird contraptions out of said scrap, his mother was impressed while his father never even acknowledging the fact he was making such contraptions, jack Henson started to attend high school by the time he turned 14, being the child of a aperture employee everyone in school asked him about his father, while jack always responded with *"i don't know what he's mostly working on",*

1982: Jack failed a few grades, yet pushed his way through high school, late into 1982 he turned 20 years old and graduated high school, with a diploma he went to get a job at aperture as a intern, he worked for aperture as intern for 4 years.

1985: AUGUST 7th — Jack Henson finished his shift at 11:40 PM, midway home at 11:45 PM, jack stopped dead in his tracks, at 11:47 PM he rushed home only to see his mother stare up with a worried look on her face, jack knew something was wrong his mother explained what happened, Mariah received a call from aperture at 11:47 PM regarding her husband Anthony, they told her he was involved in a accident at aperture, a construction project went wrong and a entire shaft in their facility collapsed with construction workers having been in said shaft, Anthony Henson did not come out according to the caller from aperture, Mariah tried calling back but aperture wouldn't pick up until 5 hours later, meanwhile Jack rushed back to aperture only to see paramedics and firetrucks at the topside parking lot, and smoke in the distant hill, He scrambled to get a answer by the paramedics until a co-worker of his father came out of the building, he confirmed jack's worst fears that day.

1985 December 5th, jack resigned from aperture, stating ***"i cannot work here mr cave sir, i constantly am reminded of my father in the corridors i walk everyday, i see his co-workers and friends that work here looking at me, this is a pain i cannot endure anymore, im sorry to disappoint"*** in response Cave Johnson told Jack Henson this ***"you ungrateful brat!, don't you think i didn't care about Anthony?, well he is dead but lets forget that, i was his friend, when he applied for the job here, he knew the risks, he wasn't afraid to work here, unlike you!, if you want to achieve something in life young boy then you stay right here!"*** Jack responded with ***"sorry to disappoint, but im leaving"*** Cave Johnson responded with ***"WELL FINE, BECAUSE YOU'RE FIRED ANYWAYS, PACK YOUR DAMN THINGS AND GET OUT!"*** Jack did not walk out, instead he responded with ***"Cave Johnson, you are blind, you don't even see what you've dug, your own grave, the past year aperture lost so much and you've lost even more now, you're a blind arrogant fool who is driven by his own ego, all the times you screamed at people, the times you fired someone, those were the fatal mistakes you made, YOU have blood on your hands, have a nice day SIR!."***

1986: with 24 years old, Jack Henson left his hometown to work on the construction on CERN's extended facilities for their Large Hadron Collider, there he quickly befriended a man named "Drake Church" he worked at CERN for over 3+ years

## Working at Black Mesa

1989: when "Drake Church" brought up a private company needing some people with general repair and maintenance experience, drake said ***"they have this great civilian recruitment program, you'll be a employee in no time, and they give you free housing they even pay you for living there!"*** Jack was reluctant at first but came down to the offer eventually approached black mesa via the civilian recruitment program and asked for a tour, the current Administrator "Awsium" came to give a tour to Jack Henson, the tour ended with Awsium asking if Jack Henson were to apply to the black mesa research facility, Jack Henson applied for security but failed the application, his usual response to this is "I think i wouldn't have been fitting in security anyways, i know how machines works, not weapons heh." he proceeded to apply to the Service Department the same day.

within a week Jack jumped ranks from Apprentice Technician to Technician, he volunteered for the private fire department of black mesa as well

within 2 weeks he climbed ranks and clearance.

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##### Personality

Jack Henson usually shows self-initiative and has previously always handled teams in his previous jobs pretty well, his care for others sometimes exceed the needs of himself, often it leads to a more negative effect of him not giving a "damn" about himself, his optimism can sometimes be awfully contagious, especially after his fathers death he swore to go happy in life and make the most for everyone around him.