#twstJack

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“‘Jack’ by itself is a popular name, but looking at his ears it’s easy to imagine a jackal. Howl means 遠吠え.”

- Twisted Wonderland FanBook vol.1 (2020)

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I love how TwstJack (?) isn't out for almost a whole day, and fans have already started analysing and coming up with theories. That being said, I've seen quite a few **crack** theories on the possibility that Rollo's deceased brother is/was TwstJack!? Since his brother passed away in a fire and TwstJack is basically alight-up, Jack-o'-lantern reborn in Halloween Town again?

I think that's an interesting theory despite the fact that it's a crack theory. What do you think??

(( Also, I'm secretly hoping that Sam might play a small role in this Halloween event since he's so spiritual and all. ))

[Referencing this post!]

Not just theories and analyses either!! The fandom was also so fast to drop fan art, fan fics (my friend wrote one for our little circle :> and I’m also working on one), edits, and even full-on cosplays 😭 The devil works fast, but us twsties work even faster…

Mmm… A crack theory is a crack theory for a reason, isn’t it? There’s nothing to really back it up as a legitimate theory (except maybe a single thread of logic). I think there’s also some gaps in logic? For example, twisted!Jack seems a little too old to be Rollo’s brother reborn… and why would he reborn like that? His brother hasn’t been established to have any lore that fits in with Skully’s background. Plus, reincarnation hasn’t even been established as a conceivable thing in Twisted Wonderland. On a meta level, it would be weird to give Rollo and his family more lore compared to other event characters (either that, or it locks TWST into an obligation to expand Fellow and Gidel’s lore next year). No matter how I look at it, the theory stays just a silly, 0.001% chance to become canonized one. Maybe it could work as a fun fic idea though!

I’m not sure if a staff member will be heavily involved? 🤔 There hasn’t really been a strong pattern in the previous Halloween events. The only event with a single staff member playing a strong role was Glorious Masquerade with Trein chaperoning. It would be nice to have more Sam involvement, though I don’t think it has to be for this particular event (since we don’t know yet if there will even be themes of spirituality). Just give him something more to do and say than peddling useful items and then peacing out! (Lookin’ at you, Ghost Marriage and Fairy Gala 👁️)

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JACK HOWL

[This Artwork is done by Airin_Queenz. Please do not repost elsewhere. Story Share and comment are appreciated]

Holy shit i actually finish it! I rush it today and literary die- my hand is cramp 🗿but its all for Jack! Cuz he is a good boy! Get a friend like jack! 😔👌🏻

Jack: Is that for me?

Ryochi: Yes, who else? I found a stall that sells them. Are you happy?

Jack: Thank you..! No, im not that happy! I'm just...appreciating your kindness..

Ryochi: You're not that happy? Should i buy a different cactus...?

Jack: No! This is good!

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Honorifics: Jack Howl

Jack refers to all the first-year students by their first names with no honorifics, no exceptions.

Jack usually refers to the second-year students as "first-name-senpai."

He once asked Ruggie for permission to refer to him as "aniki" (for older brother, the same word Leona and Ace use to refer to their own older brothers), but Ruggie turned him down.

Exceptions: Jack never refers to Azul as "Azul-senpai" in Book 3 (and neither do Ace or Deuce).

Jack will add "-senpai" to Azul's name in events and vignettes but usually after a long pause, as if he is simultaneously reluctant to be rude and reluctant to be polite (possibly lingering resentment from Book 3?).

He will generally refer to the twins with the "senpai" honorifics, but there is at least one instance of him dropping it from Floyd's name, and during the Stitch event he gives Floyd the Azul treatment of a belated "senpai" honorific.

Jack refers to all the third-year students as "first-name-senpai."

When Jack first reunites with Vil at his orientation he initially refers to him as "Vil-san," which is possibly what he called Vil back in his hometown.

He corrects himself, changing to "Vil-senpai," which is how he refers to Vil throughout the main story, events and vignettes.

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Jack Info Compilation part 17: Exercise (pt2), Crowley and Romance

Jack says he has “done skiing, ice skating and a bunch of other winter sports,” but he is best at snowboarding, recently doing halfpipes and practicing grabs.

Jack says that he and Vil took skiing and snowboarding lessons together when they were children, and Vil explains that Jack was “already quite skilled at both” and gave him advice.

Jack has been into winter sports since he was a child, skiing down a large mountain in his hometown since he was ten years old.

Jack is so athletically gifted that he attracts attention from Idia, who starts stalking him in order to take notes on his build and capabilities in order to add similar upgrades to Ortho.

Vargas is not impressed.

There are repeated comments that Jack is extremely fast and nimble despite his size, with Cater describing his efforts during Beanfest as “ninja acrobatics.”

Unnamed students say that Jack is able to close a 500-meter gap in a matter of seconds, and Ruggie comments that Jack caught twenty members of the opposite team on his own during Beanfest.

Jack can run for 30 minutes straight without breathing heavily and says, “I thought that was normal. Even my younger siblings play tag from morning to afternoon. They go for like six hours at a time.”

We also see Jack give a powerful kick to a tree during Beanfest in an attempt to provoke Floyd.

He succeeds, getting attacked and dodging with what Azul describes as “a downright jaw-dropping display of reflexes.”

Azul calls Jack’s athleticism is “frankly absurd” and Jade concedes that his team lost the game because he failed to properly account for Jack’s abilities.

Like most of the students, Jack seems suspicious of Crowley. When Crowley announces that he “went to great lengths” to discover a way to send the tsums home during Tsumted Jack responds, “Yeah, whatever. I bet another hole just happened to open.”

Jack has very strict ideas about romance: he says that doesn’t “need lots of attention” because “wolf beast-people only have one special someone, ever. That’s how it was for my parents and grandparents. They’re never apart, from when they wake up to when they go to bed. They walk together, eat together…you name it. I’m sure I’ll be the same. When I fall in love with someone, I’ll want to be with them for life.”

Ace and Deuce say that he takes dating “WAY too seriously” and “You’re also assuming you’ll get married. You don’t even know what you’re gonna do for a living.”

When Grim announces he would never want to date Jack, Jack tells them that it is none of their business anyway.

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Jack Info Compilation Master List

Jack 1 - Family and Hometown

Jack 2 - Jack and Leona (pt1)

Jack 3 - Jack and Leona (pt2)

Jack 4 - Jack and Leona (pt3)

Jack 5 - Jack and Leona (pt4)

Jack 6 - Jack's Principles (pt1)

Jack 7 - Jack's Principles (pt2)

Jack 8 - Competition, Cactus and More

Jack 9 - Jack and Crewel

Jack 10 - Teamwork, Spelldrive, Tail

Jack 11 - Embarrassed

Jack 12 - Jack and Epel

Jack 13 - Jack and Ruggie

Jack 14 - Port Fest (pt1)

Jack 15 - Port Fest (pt2)

Jack 16 - Exercise (pt1)

Jack 17 - Exercise (pt2), Crowley and Romance

Jack 18 - Jack and Ace, Deuce and Sebek

Jack 19 - Honorifics and Azul

Jack 20 - Beanfest

Jack 21 - Unique Magic and the Main Story

Jack 22 - Fairy Gala IF and Sense of Smell

Jack 23 - Jack and Riddle

Jack 24 - Jack and Vil

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Jack Info Compilation part 2: Leona (pt1)

Leona’s dorm uniform vignette centers upon Jack struggling to get along with second-year students of Savanaclaw who “skirt the rules” of the Spelldrive in order to compensate for how he is better at the game than they are, despite being an underclassman.

Leona tells Jack off for being disruptive to the team only to turn on the bullies themselves after Jack leaves, saying it is embarrassing to watch them “get all huffy” after losing to a first-year.

Jack continues to excel above the second-year students who continue to take offense and plot to jump him, with Ruggie pointing out, “The jealousy’s bad enough, but Jack’s attitude sure ain’t helping. The world’s not black and white. Not everything can be categorized as ‘right’ or ‘wrong.’”

Ruggie recommends that they let the second-year students “put a little fear into Jack and teach him to respect the rest of his dorm.”

The bullies demand that Jack never play Spelldrive for Savanaclaw again, approaching him in a group of thirty to intimidate him.

Jack defends himself physically during the ensuing brawl but either can’t or won’t use magic, even after the older students do.

Leona steps in and the bullies try to use Leona’s own words in their defense, saying that they were “Teachin’ him how to play ‘smart’,” but Leona is unimpressed and calls them out on using magic in a brawl which “is a foul, full stop.”

Presumably having never seen Leona fight, the thirty second-year students turn on him when he insists upon defending Jack (despite Jack’s protests), in a display of power that Jack describes as “in a league of its own.”

Jack asks why Leona came to his rescue and Leona says “Babysitting a pup that ain’t even opened its eyes yet is part of the housewarden job description.”

Jack thanks Leona for his help, saying that he has learned he is “still so green in so many ways…and that we have one incredible housewarden.”

Jack declares that Leona is “the real deal after all,” saying, “I knew he wouldn’t let me down. One day, I want to fight him at his strongest!”

Jack Info Compilation part 1: Family and Hometown

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Jack Info Compilation part 9: Crewel

Jack says he has “a hard time dealin’ with” Crewel, who he describes as “intense.”

In Book 6 Crewel compliments him on a motivational speech he gives to Epel about focusing on the present.

Jack expresses doubt about Crewel’s ability to design a body for Ortho (Crewel: “A mere pup, concerned about ME?”) and compliments him in a conversation with Sebek about the depth of his knowledge of the fae, saying that he even impressed Vil. He also mentions needing to remember to thank Crewel during Port Fest.

As potionology teacher Crewel seems familiar with transformations: Deuce mentions a lesson they had with Crewel where he explained that transforming into another creature without the aid of a potion (like Jack can) requires “extremely high-level magic.”

The two overlap in a vignette where Jack is experiencing difficulty sprinting as fast as he feels he ought to be able to.

Jack is training for an interschool competition and says that while he knows he’ll get picked to represent NRC, it “feels like my body just isn’t functioning as well as it should be…I just hate that I can’t figure out what’s holding me back. I’m not overdoing it, I’m not neglecting my health…so why?”

Crewel calls the students over, saying that Jack is in need of correction. Jack is resistant, saying that “track’s nowhere near your territory.” (Crewel: “This is precisely why I cannot stand puppies.”)

Crewel reveals that he has deduced the reason why Jack has been failing to perform his best: “You’ve been focusing on building your pectoral and brachia muscles, and now your upper half is bursting at the seams…a poor fit in any one spot changes the feel of the whole outfit.”

Crewel adjusts Jack's uniform (“I will warn you, however, not to open the zipper at your tail too widely. It’s not a very becoming look.”) and reminds them that they will be barred from all track meet competitions if they fail their final exams.

(In a different vignette both Deuce and Jack win an award for their accomplishments at the track meet, implying that Crewel’s advice was a success.)

Jack’s clothes being ill-fitting seems to be a theme: he says that his school uniform is “tight around (his) abs,” possibly because of all the weight training that he does.

Vil also lectures him for wearing his ceremonial robes incorrectly.

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Jack Info Compilation part 24: Jack and Vil

Jack and Vil meet for the first time when child-Jack saves child-Vil from other children who were bullying Vil for his role as a villain in a TV show.

Vil insists that he didn’t need Jack’s help and Jack apologizes.

Jack doesn’t recognize Vil as a celebrity because he doesn’t watch much TV, but he still tries to reassure Vil by saying his acting must have been very convincing.

Jack says that he and Vil went to the same school “for like a year or two,” and Vil seems to have several stories about Jack from their childhood. Vil relates a time when they went out to play together in the snow and Jack made him a life-sized throne (Vil helped with design and decorations).

The two also took skiing and snowboarding lessons together and Vil says that as Jack was “already quite skilled at both” he helped Vil learn, but Jack insists that Vil mastered everything with just a few tips and he hardly needed any teaching.

Jack seems to be low-key hiding his past connection to Vil, telling Ace that there is someone in the school that he knew before he enrolled but not who it is.

We see the two reunite at Jack’s first opening ceremony where Vil says that Jack was the only one in their town who would ever say hello to him, as people tended to resent him for being a celebrity. Vil says that Jack left an impression on him “as an oddball who never cared about such things.”

When Vil is revealed to be the group’s trainer for Fairy Gala IF Jack says he is honored that Vil is personally stepping in to help.

When Vil says that Jack’s catwalk is “passable” Jack responds, “You mean it?! Ah, sorry, stupid question. You never say things you don’t mean…”

In another vignette Vil scolds Jack for wearing his ceremonial robes in a slovenly manner, insisting that he dresses himself in a way “befitting Night Raven College’s stories history.”

Jack promises to be careful, saying, “Can’t say I understood half of what you said, but…I know it’s somethin’ real important to you.”

Vil responds with “Huh…you really are an interesting one.”

After the performance in Book 5 Jack says that “Vil’s stage presence was incredible,” and when Vil says that he has added something special for Halloween Jack responds, “Now that you mention it, you’ve got more…grandeur than usual.”

In what may or may not be a regular occurrence we see the two students go jogging together early in the morning, with Jack commenting that he is impressed with Vil’s ability to keep up with him.

Vil says, “You’d do well not to underestimate me” and Jack apologizes. Jack continues on his morning run and Lilia appears, commenting to Vil that he finds it surprising that Vil gets along with an “athletic type” like Jack.

Vil explains, “Anyone who is working towards a goal, no matter what it is, deserves respect.”

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Jack Info Compilation part 13: Jack and Ruggie

Jack adores Ruggie, waiting outside the school for him in the morning and refusing to go inside before Ruggie does because, “I can’t go in without greeting you. That’d be rude.”

Ruggie is not happy about the admiration, trying to get Jack to stop doing things such as fetching his brooms and towel for flight classes, offering to fetch his lunch and providing him with an umbrella (that Jack insists on holding himself) for if it rains.

When Ruggie asks why he doesn’t serve Leona instead Jack responds, “I’ve got no intention of breakin’ the pack’s chain of command…I can’t even begin to measure up to you yet, sir. So I wouldn’t dare attempt to go around you and upset the hierarchy of the pack, I will serve you, the second-in-command just as you serve the housewarden, sir!”

Ruggie refuses to believe that Jack, as a proud wolf, is willing to obey a “lowly hyaena” like himself, so Jack decides that if Ruggie does not believe him then he hasn’t been working hard enough.

Jack goes to Deuce for advice saying, “I’m just tying to stay by his side at all times so that I can back him up if another student picks a fight with him. And every time he goes somewhere, I check to make sure it’s dafe first. Plus, when a ball came flying at him today, I shielded him with my body…it’s a subordinate’s job to protect his superior with his life, if it comes to it.”

Jack’s motivation is revealed to be how much Ruggie impressed him when he “never abandoned Leona and did everything he could to serve him. I aspire to match that level of dedication.” (Though he admits that he has still not forgiven them for their “cowardly tactics” in the interdorm Spelldrive tournament.)

Jack overhears Ruggie bemoaning the loss of one of Leona’s necklaces to a crow, saying he “can’t lose Leona’s trust over something like this.”

Jack finds the necklace and returns it to Leona, explaining to Ruggie that as he is not particularly gifted at animal linguistics he just climbed all the trees in the school and checked all the crows’ nests until he found it, one by one, skipping class and staying up all night.

Ruggie still refuses to trust that Jack doesn’t want anything in return, so Jack asks him to fill the role of his older brother.

Despite promising to do anything in his power Ruggie immediately refuses, saying he doesn’t need a “big, burly younger brother” (in a line that was rewritten in a much more colorful way in the EN adaptation).

Ruggie offers the compromise of making Jack into an underling instead and Jack insists that, someday, he will earn Ruggie’s respect.

Despite being so willing to be at Ruggie’s beck and call Jack has a voice line about how he finds it irritating that Ruggie has a way of getting him to do things for him without Jack realizing it. Much like Ruggie refusing to accept money unless he feels like he is getting away with something, it is possible that Jack does not like performing tasks for Ruggie unless he is the one to initiate it.

In the main story we see Jack obeying Ruggie’s orders without complaint.

It seems that Jack was aware of Ruggie even before they met due to Ruggie’s reputation as a talented Spelldrive player “known for his speed and finesse.”

Jack remains just as respectful of Ruggie as ever in his second birthday vignette and says that if he could take anyone with him to a deserted island, Ruggie would be his first choice.

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Jack Info Compilation part 18: Ace, Deuce and Sebek

Ace describes Jack as “the kind of guy who plays it too cool for school, but is still the first to step up and do work no one else wants to. His whole above-it-all schtick can get obnoxious. But he turns into a puppy dog around stronger guys, so he’s pretty easy to deal with. All in all, he’s a decent guy.”

Ace once cheats at a card game in an attempt to trick Jack into washing his ceremonial robes.

Jack catches him in the act, and Ace is unapologetic.

Jack and Deuce are on the track team together. Much like Ace, Jack has no reservations about insulting Deuce’s intelligence.

During Vargas Camp Jack makes the rare decision to put forth a “team effort” with Deuce, despite his usual lack of patience with teamwork.

Deuce compliments Jack’s cooking and while Jack tries to downplay it, he also says, “…I’m sure eating it with friends around the campfire makes it taste all the better.”

But Jack refuses to believe Deuce when he talks about the mine monster from the Prologue, saying that his story sounds like a hallucination.

Jack offers to complete their task alone (Jack insulting Deuce for being “too chicken” was added to his EN dialogue), but Deuce insists on going with him, despite his fears.

It is Jack who first notices when Deuce isn’t back at camp that night, and when other students tell him that Deuce is probably slacking off like Ace, Jack insists, “I can tell you, without a doubt, that he’s no slacker.”

Jack does not seem overly fond of Sebek, asking “Why’s Sebek always gotta be such a pain?” in a vignette and saying that he doesn’t care if Sebek respects his upperclassmen, he just wants him to stop trying to force others to do the same.

Jack is Sebek’s judge for the Culinary Crucible, and Sebek takes great offense at Jack calling his chicken noodle soup “normal.”

Jack is also Sebek’s interviewer in his second birthday vignette and gifts him with book about physical training, asking him to share any insights he may learn after he reads it. Sebek says he would like to hear Jack’s opinions as well.

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Jack Info Compilation part 8: Competition, Cactus and more

While Jack claims he is “more concerned about losin’ to myself than losin’ to other people,” this might not actually be the case: he often expresses displeasure at the thought of losing to others.

Deuce says that whenever they are on the sports field at the same time they end up competing and “wear (themselves) out to the point of exhaustion.”

Jack says that he doesn’t intend to let Deuce or any of the upperclassmen on the track and field team show him up and that he does not participate in Beanfest to “be a good sport” but to “win with a show of overwhelming force.”

Jack owns at least one (and possibly three) cactus of which he is very fond, turning down a request to discuss shaved ice with Sebek in order to give his cactus a sunbath in the school’s greenhouse. (Sebek: “That’s…surprisingly diligent of him.”)

Jack takes his cactus home during winter break, and when asked what comes to mind when he thinks of something beautiful during Fairy Gala IF he responds, “my cactus.”

While never confirmed in dialogue, in the groovy art of his first birthday card it is insinuated that Ruggie and/or Leona gifted him with one of the cactus in his room for his birthday.

Jack is described as being very large (Cater: “No wonder all the scouts are after him") with Ortho saying that he “has visibly bulging muscles.”

Jack says that being at Heartslabyul makes him feel “like a bull in a china shop,” and Ace teases him for how he looks sitting in the lounge next to the smaller Riddle.

Jack says, “Guys are always tryin’ to pick fights with me just ‘cause I’m tall. It’s so stupid.”

While both Leona and Ruggie are extremely adept at Animal Linguistics Jack says that he only knows a few words in wolf and nothing else.

Jack says his best subject is defensive magic and his favorite food is pear compote but, much like Leona and Sebek, Jack is big on eating meat.

Jack seems uncomfortable in formal wear, saying he is “much more of a school uniform kinda guy” and he doesn’t like “fancy-pants, flowy stuff” like the school’s ceremonial robes.

From Jack we learn that “most beast-people tend to use bone conduction headphones” rather than standard earphones.

Jack may not be particularly technologically inclined: he says that “Aside from Leona, most of the sports club guys are pretty bad with tech.”

He goes to bed by 10pm.

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Jack Info Compilation part 4: Leona (pt3)

Jack has complicated feelings towards Leona.

Jack says multiple times to multiple people that Leona is the reason why he came to NRC in the first place, and the source of his distress seems to be that he had high expectations about the kind of person Leona must be without ever meeting him, only to disappoint himself when he did.

Leona calls him out on this directly when Jack asks “What happened to the man you used to be?” (a man that Jack never actually knew), to which Leona responds, “Your dreams got nothin’ to do with me!”

(There is a significant line on EN that Leona has never actually said: the English localization implies that Leona is insecure about Jack acting like he is better than him, but his original dialogue is “He sounds just like my brother.”

There is never any insinuation that Leona is uncomfortable with Jack “talkin’ like he’s better than (Leona),” so I am not sure where this line came from. Leona referencing Falena is removed from a later line on EN as well, though it is extremely important as a part of what instigates his overblot.)

Jack expressing exasperation at Leona’s refusal to apply himself is a running theme, coming up during Beanfest and Book 4.

In a Chat, however, Jack has the comment, “Protective AND good with kids? They don’t make kings like that every day,” implying that Leona might not be as disappointing to Jack as he thinks he is—he just doesn’t know Leona well enough realize it.

Despite saying that he “despises guys like (Leona)” Jack says that he is “always impressed” when he sees Leona leading his fellow students and hopes to surpass him one day, though he might not exactly admire him.

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Jack Info Compilation part 11: Embarrassed

Jack often becomes embarrassed and/or flustered, and is just as often in denial of it.

While he does say that Ortho defending him to Leona would be embarrassing in Fairy Gala IF and that he is embarrassed by the “Birthday Boy” sash, he usually refuses to admit when something is making him uncomfortable, even when called out on it.

In his third birthday vignette Deuce comments that Jack looks like he really enjoys discussing Spelldrive, and Jack tries to downplay it, leading to Deuce teasing him about how being passionate about something is nothing to be embarrassed about.

Jack becoming shy about the things he enjoys seems to be a theme: he also becomes passionate when discussing pirates (though he claims he wouldn’t call himself a fan) and he self-corrects after visiting Octavinelle for the first time and saying, “Night Raven College is so cool!”

He says he was reading a book on magic tricks but claims, “it was just sitting around and I happened to pick it up. I’m not gonna try any myself, okay?”

In his birthday login screen Jack insists that his tail is only wagging for the exercise, and not because he is happy.

In a vignette he becomes passionate about his respect for Ruggie and both Deuce and Grim comment that he looks like he was nearly moved to tears.

Jack seems to become easily flustered in conversations about himself, telling Vil to stop sharing “embarrassing” stories from their childhood during Fairy Gala IF.

He also becomes easily flustered by others insinuating that he is doing something nice: When Ace says he isn’t “such a jerk after all” in Book 2 Jack claims that he doesn’t want to be indebted.

When Jack accompanies the prefect to Octavinelle in Book 3, Ace comments again that Jack is “a big softie,” and Jack claims he just doesn’t like Azul’s scheming.

Ace teases Jack about being kind a third time later on and Jack again insists that he is just looking out for his own best interests.

This pattern occurs again during Fairy Gala IF when Jack shows up at Ramshackle Dorm and insists that his presence is a coincidence as he “wasn’t looking for Ortho and Ace, okay?,” despite how no one has commented otherwise.

He also awkwardly asks what the prefect might want for their birthday while insisting, “I’m not trying to repay you for today or anything. I’m just curious.”

Jack has several lines where he seems concerned for the prefect that he downplays with, “Not that I’m worried about you!,” “Not that I care…” and “It’s not like I was waitin’ around for you.”

The prefect teases him for laughing at the end of Book 2 and he insists he did not.Jack also becomes awkward during Vargas Camp when Deuce insists on following his advice, and a significant part of Jack’s second birthday vignette is spent on Ruggie teasing him about how close he is to Epel.

Jack insists, “We’re just in the same class, it’s not like we’re particularly close…well, he’s got more determination than most, and sometimes we get excited talking about training together…”

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Jack Info Compilation part 19: Honorifics and Azul

Jack refers to his fellow first-year students without honorifics and uses the “-senpai” honorific the with second- and third-year students.

He will sometimes slip and refer to Vil as “Vil-san” instead of “-senpai” because of their past history together.

EN tries its best to replicate this by having him call Vil “Housewarden,” but he has never actually done so. This EN-exclusive exchange is possibly the only example of a character ever referring to the Housewarden of another dorm by that title.

Despite Jack’s infamously “black and white” mindset and stubborn adherence to rules, he does not refer to Azul with any honorific at all even once in Book 3, despite how Azul is both an older upperclassmen and a Housewarden.

Jack uses an honorific with Azul inconsistently during Beanfest, sometimes adding a significant pause in between Azul’s name and “senpai" as though most reluctant to say it.

This habit continues into Azul’s 3rd birthday vignette (where Jack is his interviewer) and Port Fest.

When it is revealed in Book 3 that Azul provided 225 students with study guides and thus took away Jack’s chance to score against his peers in a fair competition, Jack takes great offense.

Crowley explains that Azul did not actually cheat, but invested significant time and effort in crafting the guides, and Jack admits that he is impressed.

After Azul’s overblot Jack tells Azul directly that his work “took serious guts.”

There is a running theme throughout Beanfest of Azul trying to get Jack to cooperate and Jack repeatedly insisting that he will not obey Azul.

Jack says, “Azul’s got smarts, but I don’t trust him. He seems like he’s always got an angle with everything he does.”

Jack overlaps with Azul again when he damages mushrooms belonging to Jade, having believed them to be trash. Jack takes responsibility by working in Mostro Lounge for a week, though he shows up in his labwear after Jade asks him to “look neat and tidy.”

Azul confides to Jade that he is not expecting much from Jack, and is pleasantly surprised by Jack’s impressive memory, his work ethic and physical prowess. Jack offers him a position as “guard dog” for the lounge, but Jack refuses.

Jack overlaps with the twins in another vignette where he accuses them of transporting a dangerous substance, demanding that they show him the contents of a briefcase despite their protests. It is revealed to be a “beauty lotion” that they had developed and were taking to a client.

If this is the same lotion developed during Azul’s ceremonial robes vignette, it was crafted by wringing out Floyd in his eel form and had been intended for Vil. Jack apologizes for the accusation and offers to pay for the product that he ruined.

Floyd refers to Jack as “sea urchin” for being “prickly” (Rook calls him Monsieur Fier-à-bras (braggart) on EN and Monsieur Tough Guy on JP), and says that Jack is a poor dancer.

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Jack Info Compilation part 12: Jack and Epel

The earliest interaction we see between Jack and Epel is when they are both looking for a club to join shortly after enrolling at NRC.

Jack comments that, “There’s somethin’ off about that Epel guy in my class. It’s like he…nah, it’s nothing.”

Jack receives a ticket to the VDC from Epel (“Tell him he’d better not embarrass himself in front of me.”), gives him a motivational speech after Epel becomes discouraged and walks him to the mirror chamber at the beginning of Book 6.

He compliments Epel for going up against the final ghost during Phantom Bride (“That takes guts. I haven’t been giving you enough credit!”) and Epel responds, “Jack, you’re embarrassing me.” Jack immediately apologizes and Epel assures him, “It was still nice, though. Thank you!”

Jack says that if he had to choose one person to take with him to a desert island (who isn’t Ruggie), he would take Epel. 

Ruggie teases him about being so close to Epel, revealing the surprise that Epel has prepared a gift that he is intending to give to him after the interview (in a voice line Jack says that Epel gave him an apple pie, but it is unclear if that was his surprise or if he gives Jack two birthday presents: one during class and one during the birthday party).

Despite how close they are Jack is harsh in his accusations against Epel in a vignette where he claims Epel is a “culprit” who is hiding something from him. Epel asks him for personal space and Jack forcibly reveals a hidden container of onions that Epel had been carrying in order to add flavor to the food that Vil has been having him eat throughout the week.

Epel says, “I hope you have something you’d like to say to me?” and Jack apologizes for being suspicious of him and messing up his lunch.

Epel teases him at first by saying he will only forgive him if he eats all of the onions (Jack’s least favorite food), but then reveals he is joking and invites him to eat lunch together.

Jack gives Epel a cactus for his birthday.

There is a slight rivalry of Jack and Epel arguing over apples and pears during the Port Fest, with Jack in favor of pears and Epel insisting that apples are better. (Idia: "I don't think apples or pears are really a requirement here...)