[ The truth is, Jack did come out like this. Exactly like this. He was born into an adult body and more formulated personality, but he knows that is a very strange thing to admit to people. There was no time between when he started breathing and when he was expected to be a part of the family business. It all came together. ]
I didn't really have a childhood. I didn't get to do what children do. But it's okay! I was born with a greater purpose. Sometimes people just have to live with what they're given.
[ For Jack that means three years of a difficult and swift life. He's never thought about it in a constructive or even critical eye. He accepted it was his responsibility to use his powers to help others and stop from becoming evil like his biological father. A normal life was never a possibility. His mother knew that he would never get to learn how to ride a bike or get read stories before bed, he didn't have playgrounds and learning how to socialized with other kids, or playdates or sleepovers. He went right into the brutal world with people who wanted him dead or under their control.
A whole life of something else sounds like it could be exciting, but Jack knows that he doesn't have that kind of freedom. Not with the power raging through his veins, simmering under the surface, able to blast out of him and level buildings. He always has to be careful. It's nice to think a complete stranger wants those things for someone else though. Amos seems like a good person. ]
We're hunters. We protect people from monsters and creatures. Demons, angels, vampires, werewolves, ghosts, anything else that wants to harm ordinary people.
[ Those may all seem like impossible things to exist, but there are people in this city who fall under some of those categories. Jack knows that, he can sense it, although he's not as bloodthirsty as his family. He's fine with letting other people exist as long as they're not intentionally trying to eat innocent people. He'd have to step in there, but he thinks monsters don't deserve to die for existing. He's a monster, after all. ]
It's a hard life but a fulfilling one. I do wish I got to talk to more people, but it's not our job to linger before the next case.
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I didn't really have a childhood. I didn't get to do what children do. But it's okay! I was born with a greater purpose. Sometimes people just have to live with what they're given.
[ For Jack that means three years of a difficult and swift life. He's never thought about it in a constructive or even critical eye. He accepted it was his responsibility to use his powers to help others and stop from becoming evil like his biological father. A normal life was never a possibility. His mother knew that he would never get to learn how to ride a bike or get read stories before bed, he didn't have playgrounds and learning how to socialized with other kids, or playdates or sleepovers. He went right into the brutal world with people who wanted him dead or under their control.
A whole life of something else sounds like it could be exciting, but Jack knows that he doesn't have that kind of freedom. Not with the power raging through his veins, simmering under the surface, able to blast out of him and level buildings. He always has to be careful. It's nice to think a complete stranger wants those things for someone else though. Amos seems like a good person. ]
We're hunters. We protect people from monsters and creatures. Demons, angels, vampires, werewolves, ghosts, anything else that wants to harm ordinary people.
[ Those may all seem like impossible things to exist, but there are people in this city who fall under some of those categories. Jack knows that, he can sense it, although he's not as bloodthirsty as his family. He's fine with letting other people exist as long as they're not intentionally trying to eat innocent people. He'd have to step in there, but he thinks monsters don't deserve to die for existing. He's a monster, after all. ]
It's a hard life but a fulfilling one. I do wish I got to talk to more people, but it's not our job to linger before the next case.