Jack

Jack is an antagonist/protagonist in Brambly Boundaries (Monument 14) who veers on the side of caution and acts against the Black Knights. Jack is given a "second chance" in the Sathariel Penal Legion after working with Sathariel initially on the Torii investigations and learning too much.

Sathariel believe that she has lost her memory and are using the Penal Legion as a way to get others to kill her without having to deal with her troublesome Contract, however, Jack has retained her memory completely and is using the Penal Legion as a means to get closer to Sathariel.

## Appearance

Jack is a woman of regular height, pale complexion and bleach white hair. Her hair and eyes are likely the result of her physically being present for the birth of the Proto-Monument after the Torii investigations.

Jack wears bell-bottom white jeans, white boots, and a white leather jacket of a militaristic appearance. Her attire is described as being reminiscent of both old Military uniforms and Scientist PPE, both of which might have been a fusion during the birth of the Proto-Monument.

Jack's hair is worn long and straight, with two long sections coming down either side of her face, however the colour can alter depending on circumstance, particularly when Ordinary Days has to be used on her.

## Personality

Jack is dead-set in her goals but doesn't sweat the small stuff. She has little interest in things outside of returning to the Sathariel labs however she is not socially inept, able to carry on conversations pleasantly outside of work in a friendly yet direct manner, though often electing to remain silent. She can often be seen helping people but only in the most immediate way so as to not interfere with her goals, often apologizing if she doesn't have enough time to help people fully.

Jack has, at multiple occasions, went out of her way to safely pacify a target when killing them would be easier, remarking that a sense of morals keeps her from causing wanton suffering. She doesn't seem to be phased emotionally by threats or kindness, often reacting in the same way to either though slightly more positively towards kindness.

Unlike the others in the Penal Legion, Jack has committed no crimes but unlike Raphael, she is shown to be unfazed by the others' attempts at intimidation or criminal pasts. She actively seeks out the reliable and 'good' people in the Penal Legion to form the Archangels, acting as their leader but often beseeching the other members for input even on trivial things such as going through a door, in a re-assuring manner.

## Plot

Jack is introduced in Chapter 5 alongside the rest of the Penal Legion but speaks very little, calling her convicted crime a "sentence I do not understand because I haven't committed it." which the others accept as par for the course. The others find it more suspicious when she isn't listed on the crime's committed document that the Sathariel agent passes around.

Jack isn't seen again until Chapter 7 wherein she meets Raegen on the track and field track. Jack commends her on her running ability before asking her if she has a Contract. Raegen prepares for a fight but Jack merely muses that "They don't really call them Contracts anymore do they? It's been some time since then." Raegen attacks her but Jack assures her that she means her no harm. She warns Raegen about Janine and Daryll stating that they are unhinged and that it would be a better idea to look to the Brien Nautical Museum that night, before leaving. This advice likely spared both Raegen and Lina a grisly fate at Green's Bank.

Jack then takes her choice members of the Penal Legion, including Raphael and Hato to her new organization, the 'Archangels', breaking away from the Penal Legion.

In Chapter 8 an encounter from after the initial meeting in Chapter 5 is revealed. Jack is confronted by Janine after the Penal Legion's crimes are handed out, alone, where she remarks that Jack never agreed to follow Janine's lead to which she confirms stating "I don't follow, especially not those weaker than me." which leads to a confrontation in which the two use their Contracts fully. Citizen Erased destroys some propelled body parts but fails to notice a finger that rolls underneath Janine before being propelled upwards by Ordinary Days, ripping her arm off. Janine gives in after the shock of a lost limb alongside the revalation that the body Jack was using to fight with was the Sathariel agent that Janine had paid to subdue Jack minutes ago. Jack fixes her arm re-affirming that she will not follow Janine, to which Janine reluctantly accepts.

Chapter 8 also reveals Jack planting the seeds of the Archangel breakaway plot to Hato after Daryll forces the Penal Legion base to be moved in Chapter 6.

Chapter 9 has the Archangels cornered by 8 Sathariel agents, two of which only called "Drei" and "Ein" wielding unnamed fire manipulation and ice manipulation Contracts confront Jack personally. The Archangels are left to fight 5 agents alongside Ein whilst Jack fights Drei and two other armed agents. The outcome is victory without casualty for the Archangels but the details of Jack's fight isn't gone over until Chapter 14.

In Chapter 14, a full look at Ordinary Days is shown in a flashback to the showdown in Chapter 9 wherein Jack very easily disposes of the two agents by causing the flow of life-force in the first agent to sever his own spinal chord before puppetteering him to kill the second agent with machine gun fire. Drei tries to burn them but Jack re-forms both of their bodies into a bridge-like arch over Drei before making them crash down onto Drei. Drei escapes but is quickly yanked back by a literal-finger gun that harpoons her, dragging her close enough to Jack in order for Ordinary Days to cause her to violently headbutt the concrete.

In Chapter 15, Jack is fired upon by Nibbles but manages to undo the effects of Stay on the Outside due to Ordinary Days being able to affect life-force within her body. She fires back a few life-force projectiles at Nibbles scaring them off. Nibbles relays this to the other Black Knights and Himawari vows to investigate the 'Archangels' but calls them 'troublesome'.

In Chapter 16, the Archangels have a run-in with the Black Knights as well as Raegen near Tsumusaki pond. Jack manages to propel Callum and Selene away from her with Ordinary Days, fending them off and countering them to the point where Himawari saw it fit to step in. Jack seems saddened and states that Himawari will 'Likely act in a selfish manner that opposes my goals' to which Himawari growls 'You sound just like them [Sathariel].' before uncharacteristically attacking Jack. Jack attempts a pacifistic approach by restraining Himawari whereas Himawari attempts to use Castle of Roses and Thorns to kill Jack. Himawari finds little result as her Castle of Roses and Thorns utilizes plants which are full of the life energy that Ordinary Days manipulates. She concedes stating that she can't defeat Jack but refuses her offer of an alliance, compromising only on the basis that they won't actively seek one another's destruction.

## Ordinary Days

Ordinary days is a Contract formed with Jack after she was witness to the Proto-Monument Birth. Ordinary Days may in fact be the Void reincarnation of a dead Jack with most of her thoughts and memories being the same, which would be to say that the power of Ordinary Days emanates from Jack rather than a separate contract. Jack claims that Ordinary Days takes on the appearance of a black mask with a laughing mouth and two upturned crescent eyes that glow yellow. This mask appears over Jack's face and can seemingly protect her from damage to the face.

Ordinary Days has the power to alter and manipulate an entity known as 'Life Force'.

Life Force is described by Jack as being 'the energy that flows through every living thing, it lingers even after death.' with musings over whether or not it represents a soul or not. Life Force, when controlled by Ordinary Days can do a number of things'

* Life Force can be converted into a type of thermal or kinetic energy.
* Life Force can control the bodies of living things.
* Life Force can take on other shapes and forms of living creatures or parts, even entire homunculi.
* Life Force can heal or 'give life', converting itself into appropriate structures and functions to sustain life, for example when giving life to a person with a destroyed heart, the Life Force will both jumpstart the heart again as well as become the muscle necessary to form the missing heart chambers.
* Life Force when 'giving life' by Ordinary Days has a kind of architectural blueprint, able to reform missing organs without knowledge or input from its user.
* The flow of Life Force in a person can be redirected (usually circulating through an entire body like blood) into split or singular directions.

Ordinary Days has seemingly no limit on how much life force it can manipulate but the radius of 30ft. from Jack seems to be its effective radius in terms of initiating control. Jack doesn't need to see life force in her radius to control it though states that it's rarely useful to do so. Things propelled or exploded using Ordinary Days must begin propulsion or ignition within the 30ft. radius but can easily exceed it.

Using surrounding life force, Jack can heal most any injury with Ordinary Days, even undoing Stay on the Outside's effect by essentially replacing all of the affected tissue with new tissue.