Jack Flynn

Jack Flynn (born 1894) is the last surviving member of the Flynn family and an artist who emigrated from Ireland to live in America, as well as a protagoinist of the Timekeeper Saga. He is the husband of Chloe Dixon and the father of Emma Flynn. Jack is the son of Andrew and Erin Flynn, as well as  the son-in-law of James McKay and Marie Dixon. He is the younger brother of Liam and Bridget Flynn and the older brother of Cassidy Flynn. After loosing his parents when he was five and both of his siblings by the time he was sixteen, Jack was determined to find a better life for himself, as his life in Ireland was filled with nothing but pain and suffering. When he was eighteen, he bought a third-class boarding ticket to travel on the RMS Titanic, an ocean liner that was bound for New York City in America.

Early Life
Jack was born in Belfast, Ireland, on March 21, 1894, as the third child of Andrew and Erin Flynn. Although his parents could not afford a formal education, they made a point of teaching him how to read, write, and do mathematics from home. His father remarked on his eager ability to learn new things merely from observing them in the real world, often praising him for being naturally curious. However, Jack's studies came to a halt when a chimney fire broke out in the kitchen inside his family home on the night of his fifth birthday. Although everyone in the house was sleeping at the time the fire started, they were all jolted awake by a loud roaring sound. Upon hearing it, Jack's father ordered his wife to grab the children and get out of the house before it was too late. Jack's mother managed to corral everyone towards the front door, but was unable to save herself as the fire quickly consumed her and Cassidy.

After watching their mother and sister die in front of them, Jack, Liam, and Bridget rushed into the kitchen when they heard their father screaming. Upon walking in, they found him completely engulfed in flames. They were unable to save him and were forced to watch him die shortly before making their escape. It is unclear how Jack and his older siblings got out, but Jack was certain that Liam must have kicked down the door, which saved their lives. The three of them slept in the alley near their home until morning, when a neighbor called the local authorities after seeing the remains of the house. After they were questioned by authorities, they were left alone to gather what few items survived the fire before they were forced to leave the neighborhood. Although he could not recall the memory, Jack followed his older brother and sister to a nearby Catholic church, claiming sanctuary.

For the next seven years, Jack and his siblings were under the care of Father Brian Murphy. The day after Jack's twelfth birthday in 1906, Liam and Bridget bought a ferry ticket after selling most of the belongings they brought with them when they moved into the church. Encouraged by Father Murphy, Jack and his siblings left for America, specifically setting their sights on New York City. Two years later, Jack had to endure another tragedy when Liam was killed in a factory accident shortly after Jack turned fourteen. Grief stricken and nearly homeless, Jack stayed with his older sister Bridget, who struggled to make ends meet and one point resorted to prostitution just to get by. Jack thought things were looking good until Bridget became ill in the summer of 1909. When Jack noticed she had not moved in a week, he discovered she had contracted tuberculosis, likely as a result of her work as a prostitute day in and day out. Fearing he would have to lose his sister, Jack devoted every waking moment to taking care of her; even going so far as to consult local doctors about treatment options that were available.

Unfortunately, Bridget was unable to recover from the disease and died three months after contracting the virus in August of 1909. After burying Bridget, Jack unknowingly contracted the virus after breathing in air molecules, which felt like heat exhaustion until he collapsed onto the pavement, barely breathing. He was found a couple hours later by one of Bridget's former customers and he and a friend both brought Jack to the nearest hospital. Upon being admitted, Jack was drifting in an out of consciousness and almost died from the virus strain as he had an extremely high fever that was over 100 degrees. From the time he was admitted, Jack was strictly monitored by doctors and nurses, who kept him hooked mostly on medicine and oxygen until he was well enough to eat food, which mostly consisted of soup. Luckily, Jack made a full recovery shortly before his sixteenth birthday; but soon discovered that he was on his own from now on. Completely destitute, Jack worked a variety of odd jobs to move away from New York and settle someplace else. Having no money to go back to Ireland, Jack could only afford to go to Boston, Massachusetts, as there was nothing left for him to go back to in Ireland. When he arrived, he settled in South Boston and largely kept to himself.

That changed when he met a beautiful young Irish girl named Makenna O'Shea while working at a pub. From that point on, Jack fell hard for Makenna and soon began to view her as his most prized possession. Within two months of seeing each other, they moved in together. However, this decision turned out to be a bad one as Jack's relationship with Makenna was ugly when behind closed doors. Not only were rumors going around their neighborhood that they were constantly fighting, but they would often take up different hobbies to blow off steam. While Makenna found a calling in prostitution after being fired from her job as a cook, Jack resorted to drinking and smoking after mucking out horse stables. Two weeks after Jack's seventeenth birthday, Makenna revealed to him that she was already four months' pregnant with his child. Furious, Jack flew into a jealous rage and stormed out of the house, intent on going for a walk to clear his head. Though Makenna did apologize for the news, Jack never trusted her ever again. Three months later, Makenna gave birth to a boy, though the baby was a still born. Devastated, she found no reason to live and committed suicide by jumping off of e committed suicide by jumping off of a building, landing in the street during the height of morning rush hour. Upon hearing news of her death, Jack found no reason to stay in Boston anymore and decided to leave. He saved up enough money and took a small boat to England.

In the spring of 1912, Jack was in town when he saw a flier advertising that the the RMS Titanic was taking a voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City. On the day Titanic left port, Jack boarded the ship with his best friend, Tommy O'Hara. After exploring for a few hours, they were in a brief confrontation with Allan Dixon. Soon after, Jack heard a young woman named Chloe Dixon crying hysterically. Deciding to help her, Jack persuaded her not to take her own life. After that, he ended up sparking a romance with Chloe that would last him the rest of the series.

Haunted
At the beginning of Haunted, Jack was depressed and longed for companionship. During the second night of Titanic's voyage, he saw a hysterical Chloe Dixon race past him. Once it became clear that she was determined to commit suicide, Jack talked to her for several minutes. At one point, Chloe slipped on the railing and nearly fell overboard; but Jack caught her and pulled her to safety, thus saving her life.

The next day, Chloe went to go look for Jack and found him on the boat deck. While there, the two of them talked for hours about their personal lives, as well as Chloe's ambitions and dreams. Jack shared his ambitions and even gave her his sketchbook to flip through. After seeing it, she made Jack a promise that they would spend more and more time together. Chloe goes on to later confirm that this was actually the moment she realized she was in love with Jack.

From that point on, Chloe continued to see Jack for the next two days, sneaking in visits whenever she strayed away from her group. At one point, Jack arranged to have a photo of them taken together on the ship's promenade deck.

After the photo was taken, Jack said goodbye to Chloe and Louise and he turned to go have dinner down in third class. Before dinner was over, though, Jack had snuck by her stateroom in first class, explaining he had a surprise for her. Jack revealed the surprise was a party down in third-class. After enjoying each other's company, Jack forgot to take Chloe back to her stateroom. Unbeknownst to Jack, Edward had come back to the stateroom he shared with Chloe and was furious she had not returned from dinner.

After an her incident at breakfast with Edward on the morning of April 13, Jack and Chloe made plans to spend the rest of the day together. While eating lunch, Jack saw that Edward was spying on them, but opted to not say anything as he knew it would upset Chloe. Seeing that it was getting late, Jack walked Chloe back to her stateroom and went off to go read a book in the ship's reading room. Later that afternoon, Jack went to go see Chloe, but was unable to find her until he nearly crashed a church service. Jack was forced to wait outside for her and they went to go have dinner together. Afterwards, Jack followed Chloe back to her stateroom, asking him if he would like to dance with her. Once they finish, Jack kisses Chloe for the first time.

Chloe informed Jack he could go with him after the ship docked, just before feeling the ship lurch. It had hit an iceberg and was slowly going to sink. Chloe and Jack raced to Louise’s stateroom to warm everyone else, although they ran into Mr. McFadden before finding Louise’s room. While walking there, Mr. McFadden stole Chloe’s necklace and placed it in Jack’s coat pocket. Although he didn’t know it, it was a way for Edward to come up with a plan to have Jack arrested. After being escorted out of the first-class hallways, Chloe is so upset with Edward that not only did she break off her engagement with Jack, but she revealed to Edward that she had romantic feelings for him.

Soon after, Chloe found him in a rapidly flooding room. He was handcuffed to a pole, but she used a hairpin to unlock his handcuffs since she couldn't find a spare key. Afterward, Jack met Tommy and Cosette near a locked gate. Before Jack could do anything, Chloe found an unlocked gate and helped release all the passengers. When they got to the boat deck, Jack tried to find a lifeboat for them to escape, upon failing to do so he told Tommy to take Cosette to the nearest boat he can find, but they end up dying anyway.

In the ensuing chaos, Chloe is forced to board Lifeboat 2 to escape the sinking ship, but can not fathom leaving Jack. Edward races up to where they are and convinces her that he and Jack will find a lifeboat and will get off the ship soon after. This was a lie Edward created to keep Chloe and Jack separate. But when the lifeboat was halfway to the water, Chloe jumped back onto the ship and reunited with Jack. Edward followed after Jack and when he found them embracing each other, he became angry and chased them through the ship with a pistol, intending to kill them.

Jack and Chloe escaped when Edward got lost and could not keep up with them. The pair thought they were safe in the first-class dining to discover the door was locked. only for the door in the dining hall to be locked. In minutes, Edward showed up having figured out how to find them again. Chloe hid behind a table as the room began to fill with water. Edward searched for her while Jack managed to keep him distracted long enough to get beh him.

Just as Edward found Chloe, Jack attacked him from behind, smashing his head into a glass frame. The two fought and ended up on the floor, only for Edward to kick Jack off. As Edward went for his gun, Jack hit him again and pinned him against a pillar and struck him in the stomach. He then charged at the wooden door and managed to force it open. The pair ran up a set of stairs, having escaped from Edward, who likely drowned when the dining room became submerged with water.

Soon afterwards, all of the passengers were forced to grab onto something, in an effort to avoid falling off of the ship, which had cracked into two huge pieces. The ship sunk soon afterwards. Jack was able to find a door that had come from the ship floating in the water, and climbed on top of the door first before lifting Chloe up to lie next to him.

Jack told Chloe that no matter what happened, he didn't want her to give up hope that they would see each other again in the near future. He was rescued along with Chloe by Officer Lowe, who had been scouting for survivors in Lifeboat #14 and brought them onto the SS Carpathia, where they arrived in New York. After they arrived, Jack said goodbye to her and they kissed one last time before Chloe returned to the present, where she finds out that she has a lot of explaining to do when she runs into Ms. King.

Golden Girl
The story of Golden Girl begins with Chloe having a nightmare about her grandparents being brutally murdered by a woman named Marjorie Dixon, and has a sinking feeling that something bad will happen to them. During her birthday party, Chloe hears news from her father that about a stranger roaming the grounds and goes out to investigate, although the only thing Chloe manages to find is the locket Jack gave her along with an anonymous note with a cryptic message regarding a deal made by her grandparents. Chloe goes back inside to continue on with her birthday party, but worries about her family being threatened. After everyone goes to bed, an intruder shows up at Dixon Mansion.

This intruder is later revealed to be Marjorie Dixon, who shows up to have a discussion with Chloe's grandparents. During this, Jack overheard the entire conversation and saw Marjorie murder Walter and Emily. Fearful of his own life, Jack raced upstairs before Marjorie could discover him hiding outside the library and urged Chloe to come downstairs with him. When they both get to the library, Chloe is horrified to find her grandparents brutally murdered and collapses into a state of inconsolable grief. A week later, Jack found Chloe in the attic looking for clues that might help solve the murders. Worried about her well being, Jack warns her that looking through heirlooms will not bring them back. Ignoring this, she continues searching, passing a box of photo albums and suggests they should go back in time to kill Marjorie in order to avenge her grandparents' deaths. However, before Jack can give Chloe an answer, Chloe's father comes up and finds her clutching a photo album in her hands. Although Chloe ignores her father's and Jack's concerns for her safety, they are forced to go after her when she uses the album as a portal. The three end up in New York City in 1924, landing in the middle of Times Square during rush hour. After saving her life from an oncoming taxi cab, they walk until they find a hotel and crash there for the night. The next morning, they realize that they have to blend in with the people around them. They all go shopping for new clothes and get haircuts, with Chloe opting to cut most of her hair off to complete her new look. Over the next few days, James teaches Chloe and Jack basic detective skills, which includes jotting jot down field notes. After attending several parties, Chloe and Jack come to the conclusion that Marjorie never stays in the same place twice and does not linger in areas long enough to draw attention to herself.

As they begin to dig deeper in solving the murder, both of their time is filled with expanding field notes and retracing their steps. They are invited to the Four Queens Club and both of them agree to look for Marjorie and Al Capone, with the latter being one of Marjorie's closest acquaintances. Taking a back table, Jack spends most of his time observing his surroundings while Chloe takes detailed notes on the opposite side of the restaurant. She later tells Jack that she's going back to the apartment to get ready for a party that night and that she'll see him after the it’s over.

After a police raid nearly blows her cover, Chloe takes a cab to the apartment only to find that Jack isn't there and walks to a nearby hotel. To her surprise, she finds him half-naked in bed kissing Mary Pickford. Shocked and angry, she stormed out of the hotel and goes to Central Park. Fortunately, Jack meets up with her and explains that what she saw was inexcusable, but that Pickford courted him at a restaurant nearby and extorted him for money for a intimate affair that had been going on for about a month. After hearing the entire story, Chloe realizes she overreacted to the situation and says she'll forgive him if he ends his affair with Mary Pickford.

After the events of last night have blown over, Jack tells Chloe he has ended his affair with Mary Pickford and all is forgiven between them. That afternoon, Jack asks if she has the time to go over her field notes, which she spent hours pouring over pages of information. After putting almost all of the pieces together, Chloe maps out a sequence of events of what happened on the night of the murders while Jack rules out different scenarios until he accidentally reveals he overheard a conversation in the library between Marjorie and Chloe's grandparents regarding a deal involving Marjorie trading Chloe's life for Marie's. Thinking she can figure out the rest at the party that night, she has every intention on going to find the answers; but Jack thinks going to a party is not going to get her anywhere and she might jeopardize everything they've found so far. Chloe ignores Jack's cautionary advice and attends the party anyway. While there, she becomes distracted by not only the atmosphere but also the never ending flow of alcohol and gets drunk on several cocktails until she unknowingly goes home with George Gershwin and they end up sleeping together. Thinking Gershwin might be a useful informant, Chloe uses pillow talk to get the missing pieces she needs from him to make Marjorie the main suspect in her grandparent's murders.

Jack spends the rest of the following day back at the apartment working on a possible motive while Chloe waits to conduct an interview at the Four Queens Club with Marjorie, nursing a hangover at the same time. Unfortunately, Marjorie never shows up and she harasses Al Capone, demanding to see Marjorie after waiting several hours to see her. Throwing him into a nearby table, Capone has his henchmen drag Chloe out of the restaurant to a back alley. After sustaining multiple injuries in a brutal fistfight with Marjorie Jack and James find Chloe lying in a gutter and take her to Bellevue Hospital, where she is rushed into surgery. Although it takes Chloe a few days to recover, she agrees to go with them to meet Cole and George in Central Park. From there, they take Cole's car into Brooklyn, where they hope to settle the dispute with Marjorie once and for all.

When a casual meeting with Marjorie turns deadly, the group has no choice but to split up. In the chaos, Jack is almost killed by Capone and Chloe begs him not to pull the trigger. Realizing that she is out of options, Chloe decides the only way to settle the score is to confront Marjorie at Dixon Mansion and it soon becomes a frantic race to get there before morning.

Once they arrive in the twenty-first century, Jack is confronted by Ms. King, who demands to know what are they doing running up the driveway in period clothing. Pressed for time, Chloe tells Ms. King she'll explain everything later before following Jack and her father onto the mansion's roof. While Jack and Chloe hide, Jack watches James try to handle the situation with Marjorie. Unfortunately, nothing goes according to plan and a final confrontation takes place between Chloe and Marjorie. After Marjorie confesses to killing both Chloe's mother and grandparents, she tries attacking Chloe from behind only to be killed by a bullet wound to the heart, which makes Marjorie fall to her death.

In the wake of the events that happened at Dixon Mansion, Chloe ends up graduating at Bridgeton Preparatory School with top honors and Jack surprises her with a bouquet of flowers and a letter from Juilliard, which he encourages her to apply as soon as she gets home.

Angel Wings
In the third and final book, Angel Wings, Jack is wanting Chloe to move into an apartment with him and thinks that Chloe’s father is being hesitant. While the servants prepare for Thanksgiving dinner, Jack wants to spend some quality time with Chloe before she goes back to school. He asks her to make up an excuse to let her father clean the attic and agrees to let them do it as long as they don't touch anything that could send them back in time again.

The following morning, Chloe and Jack go up to the attic to start cleaning. They begin with finding all of the Dixon family records and consolidate them accordingly. When Jack comes across the picture of a woman wearing a nurse's uniform, he starts having a mild panic attack only to realize that it's not Marjorie but it's someone else that he's never even met, so he calms down. After consolidating more items, they realize they’re going to start on more cleaning the next morning. They go to bed exhausted, but it isn’t until they go to bed that they are whisked back in time to the last four months before the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. When Jack wakes up on a beach next to Chloe, he immediately thinks he is in the middle of a nightmare, only to realize that neither have them have any idea where they are or what time period they’re in.

After walking around for an hour, they make their way to the city of Oahu, where they eventually meet Evelyn Dixon, a young nurse who has been staying at Pearl Harbor two months beforehand and who also happens to be Chloe’s great grandmother. Only after meeting her do they agree to take up jobs to blend in with locals--where Chloe becomes a nurse and Jack becomes a pilot. Within a month, Chloe becomes a brilliant nurse working alongside Evelyn and Jack excels at training to be a pilot. Unfortunately, Chloe finds it difficult to keep her relationship with Jack going as she is forced to keep it a secret with them being in the military. She begs to spend time with Jack later that evening. They take a walk along the beach together after dark, revealing her discomfort for keeping their relationship a secret from their superior officers. Only after Chloe says this that Jack realizes that she might actually be good at her new job. In a state of confusion, he kisses her passionately. When Admiral Kimmel receives word of Chloe and Jack's relationship, he puts in the order to have them discharged from the Navy, but Evelyn refuses to pass the messages along to Jack and Chloe.

However, that changes when the attack of Pearl Harbor begins on the morning of December 7, 1941. Within minutes of the first attack wave, the naval hospital is quickly overwhelmed and quickly runs out of supplies. Jack is forced to suit up and engage with an aerial dogfight, only to get shot down and end up on the USS Missouri. Within minutes, the ship starts to sink and Jack jumps into the water and swims to shore and is rescued by Chloe before she is shot in the leg. Jack carries Chloe and carries her all the way to the naval hospital where he is forced to take the bullet out of her leg before it travels any farther. Chloe nearly dies on the operating table, but Jack successfully removes the bullet with Margaret's help. She kisses Jack one last time before her heart suddenly stops beating. Evelyn then injects a mixture of atropine and adrenaline into her heart, thus bringing her back from the brink of death. During Chloe's time unresponsive, Jack goes crazy when he thinks she is dead. Irrationally blaming Evelyn for not saving her in time, Jack storms out of the hospital when he receives word of another attack.

After waking up to see that Jack is nowhere to be found, Evelyn takes Chloe to a room to receive messages to give her something to do while Jack is in the middle of a dogfight. She has been answering calls for fifteen minutes when Evelyn cuts through and tells her that Jack has been taken to the naval hospital with multiple injures along with burns on his skin. Chloe rushes over to the hospital and upon seeing him, she has a nervous breakdown before being escorted out of the room while the staff attends to Jack. He is expected to survive the ordeal, only to find out that Admiral Short directly put him in danger rather than considering safety factors. As the day drags on, Evelyn comes up with a plan to speed up Jack's recovery and manages to do it without anyone knowing. When Kimmel and Short discover that Jack is on his feet roughly an hour later, they demand Evelyn explain herself. She does explain that she treated the burns and healed the injuries and had to give Jack aspirin as they had run out of morphine at the naval hospital. After Kimmel and Short leave the room, she returns to one of the wards and is relieved to have them off her back.

When Evelyn sees Chloe sitting next to Jack, she is honored when they thank her for saving their lives. Jack mentions that they need to go home and they return to the present shortly before Christmas. When she arrives in the attic, she decides to tell her father about her decision to move into Jack's apartment, which he says he is happy as long as she's with the person that she loves and Jack takes Chloe to his apartment in Greenwich Village that night. Several months later, Jack takes Chloe to Dixon Mansion, where she tells her father that she and Jack are engaged. Feeling the need to impart some parenting advice on Jack, he explains that being present in a child's life is very important and if you miss the opportunity, it is hard to make up for lost time.

In the epilogue, Jack is happily married to Chloe and watches his daughter, Emma, play with Lily Dodds's son, Phillip, in the neighborhood and is seen pondering on how much his life has changed since he met Chloe and thinks that he would never be happy if she had not come into his life. Jack knows that it will be hard to tell Emma of the adventures he had with Chloe and that she will never understand, but he takes this as a moment to focus on the present without worrying about the past.

Physical Appearance
Jack is described as having pale skin with wavy chestnut-brown hair and deep, emerald green eyes. Despite him being 6'2", Jack has a lanky build similar to a swimmer or a ballet dancer with lean muscles in his arms and legs. His face is very angular with a straight nose, high cheekbones, and a strong jawline. His eyebrows are more straight, only because they sit lower to his face.

Jack mostly prefers to wear dark-colored clothes, usually accompanied by a jacket and his famous newsboy cap.

Personality and Traits
Jack can be seen as jaded and cynical, but he is very nice once he gets to know people. When Chloe met him, she noticed that he was charming, polite, and had a tendency to express extreme passion over certain issues. When it came to protecting others, Jack always put other's safety before his own, which is partially why he protected Chloe to such great lengths. Whenever becoming frustrated with himself, Jack over-analyzes situations and often overreacts, especially when it is something beyond his control.

Skills and Abilities
Jack is seen to be a very talented individual. From a young age, he learned how to dance a style of traditional Irish solo dancing called Sean-nós, which is a more casual dance form. By the time he started his adolescent years, he was able to dance without musical accompaniment, using percussion to create beats.

Jack also displays amazing drawing skills, too. Since he lacked the funds to attend art school, Jack made it a priority to teach himself how to draw. He used drawing as a form of therapy while recovering in a sanitarium after contracting tuberculosis. He also made sure to ask for time outside whenever he wanted to draw as it was a good excuse for the staff to wash his sheets and clean his room. By the time he made a full recovery, his drawing abilities had improved to where he could sketch something only after seeing it once.

In addition to dancing and drawing, Jack is also a pretty good singer. He can sing in perfect pitch, a rare ability where he was able to produce a sound without an outside reference. Much like drawing, Jack practiced his singing over time until he became a natural.

Possessions

 * Sketchbook: A present given to him by one of the nurses at the sanitarium he was admitted into in 1909. It was a hardbound sketchbook that contained warm-toned paper. Unfortunately, it was destroyed when the Titanic sank. Fortunately, Jack bought a new one shortly in 1913.
 * Leather Jacket: Jack bought this on his arrival to New York at the start of Golden Girl. It's a chocolate brown jacket that has a flat notched collar and simple pockets.
 * Chloe's Picture: Jack kept a photograph of Chloe with her arms crossed in an "X" formation while holding a bundle of fresh roses in her arms. The part that Jack likes about the picture is that Chloe's head is tilted and her eyes are looking at the roses while smelling one in her left hand. Chloe did this as a proof for her senior pictures and did it in a way where Jack could look at her picture whenever he felt lonely.
 * Newsboy Cap: This was a gift he bought himself on leave during World War 1. Though the hat is worn out and faded, Jack refuses to get rid of it and takes it everywhere he goes.
 * Record player: For his birthday, Chloe gave Jack a record player that could play both vinyl records and digital CDs.

Relationships
Jack is married to Chloe Dixon and he has a daughter, Emma Flynn. He is the son of Andrew and Erin Flynn and is the third oldest child among his four siblings. He is also the "adopted" grandson of the late Walter and Emily Dixon.

As for in-laws, he is the son in law to James McKay and the late Marie Dixon, Chloe's mother.

Appearances

 * Haunted
 * Golden Girl
 * Angel Wings 
 * The Girl Who Came Home
 * The Timekeeper's Saga Companion

Etymology

 * James: is the English form of the Late Latin name Iacomus which was derived from Ιακωβος (Iakobos), the New Testament Greek form of the Hebrew name Ya'aqov (Jacob). Thus, the names James and Jacob derive from the same source. Possible meanings of the name Jacob include "holder of the heel", "supplanter", or "may God protect".
 * Patrick: is the anglicized version from the Latin name Patricius, which meant "nobleman".
 * Flynn: an Irish name that is the anglicized form of the Irish name Ó Floinn which means ‘descendant of Flann’. It may be derived from a by-name meaning ‘red(dish)’, or ‘ruddy’

Trivia

 * Jack is left-handed.
 * He speaks three languages in addition to English, Jack speaks Gaelic, French, and German.
 * His favorite colors are dark blues, greens, red, and purples.
 * Although Jack's eyes are a dark shade of green, they change to lighter shades of green when he's tired or upset.
 * The smell of peanut butter makes Jack nauseous.
 * Whenever he's doing something, Jack is often described as being a perfectionist.
 * His favorite author is Jules Verne.
 * He likes to eat beef stew.
 * Being an insomniac, Jack turns into a productive person whenever he can't sleep.
 * He hallucinated after getting shot in the leg during WW1.
 * Unlike Chloe, Jack wears more layered clothing to protect himself from cold weather.
 * His favorite candy are peppermint rounds.
 * Although not a big TV watcher himself, Jack will often watch whatever Chloe is in the mood for.
 * Jack often speaks his mind on a lot of things, but he's always honest whenever he speaks.
 * The only times Jack has ever lied is when he's been forced to protect the people he loves.
 * Jack turns into a ball of nerves when he's stressed out.
 * When someone makes him angry, Jack becomes verbally abusive before getting physical.
 * Despite his impoverished looks when Chloe first meets him in the novel, Jack is extremely well-read.
 * He stopped smoking after Chloe recovered from her injuries in Golden Girl.
 * Jack has had brushes with death more than any other character in the entire series. Most of his near-death experiences have been related to illness, surviving harsh weather, or getting hurt.