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jackjolene · 9 months

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BioShock/Sinking City/Vampyr: Church of the Son of Ryan

Soundtrack for Jack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av9bQKkndLE

"Operation Trident" is Eleanor's nickname for Jack and Co.'s plan, as it consisted of three prongs: Herself and Porter, Jack and Artemis, and the Elizabeths. Considering that they were in the realm of Poseidon, who is often depicted as wielding a trident, the others found it fitting.

Jack and Artemis begin their search for the Church of the Son of Ryan. As the largest fragment of the former Rapture Family, their numbers could help tip the balance against Orrin Lutwidge and the Diamond Partners. Jack reflects that it would be nice to have the advantage in numbers for once.

According to Eleanor, the Rapture Family had a few paintings of Jack during his first time in Rapture up on the walls In Siren Alley, and Simon Wales seems to have believed Jack to be literally God. With Eleanor gone and Sofia Lamb dead, the Church have latched onto this idea or some variation of it for their new belief system.

From what the survivors in Minerva's Den tell them about the Church, they are obsessed with taking back certain areas of Rapture back from the Mutants. These locations are the places that Jack visited when he was in Rapture the first time: The Welcome Center, the Medical Pavilion, Port Neptune, Arcadia and the Farmer's Market, Fort Frolic, Hephaestus, Olympus Heights, Apollo Square, and Point Prometheus.

From what they've already seen, they have yet to take back the Welcome Center and the Medical Pavilion. Jack and Co. took down the Mutant population in Hephaestus themselves, and Lutwidge is currently occupying Arcadia. That leaves Port Neptune, Fort Frolic, Olympus Heights, Apollo Square, and Point Prometheus as the most likely spots to find them.

As they were Rapture's biggest residential areas, Apollo Square and Olympus Heights are Jack and Artemis' first stop, only to find that they are absolutely crawling with Mutants. Jack and Artemis get cut off from their entry point and are forced to take shelter in Tenenbaum's old safehouse.

Jack reminisces about the times after he had defeated Fontaine and brought back Elizabeth, when they were planning on escaping Rapture for the first time. After gathering their strength back, Jack and Artemis make a break for it and manage to escape the Heights.

Next up is Fort Frolic. Jack doubts that anyone would want to live where Sander Cohen got up to his "artistic" antics, but beggars can't be choosers in Rapture. What they find there, however, is worse than what he imagined.

There's even more "art" in Fort Frolic now; dozens of bodies posed in grotesque and unnatural forms. They aren't even covered in plaster anymore; some have had their skin removed, others have been disembowled, and the most recent ones are nothing but skeletons. Artworks depicting horrendous scenes and terrible acts cover the walls, painting a picture of absolute madness and insanity. The PA alternates between blaring maddening music and insane rambling in a familiar voice.

At first, Jack thinks that someone, a copy-cat, has taken over Sander Cohen's identity and continued his "work", but with each audio diary he and Artemis find, the horrible truth begins to emerge.

In the Atrium of Fort Frolic, they finally come face to face with the man behind the curtain. Jack killed him in his apartment after accidentally interrupting a splicer couple dancing, yet he stands at the top of the staircase: Sander fucking Cohen, in the flesh.

He looks like a cross between a Brute Splicer and a Spider-Splicer, bulked up grotesquely but with long, spidery limbs, fingers tipped with wicked, long claws. Somehow, he's figured out how to give himself a pair of rabbit ears, though they look more like a pair of sticks of flesh poking out of his head. A rabbit mask is strapped to his face, barely covering it. One eye has multiple irises and pupils, while the iris in the other has practically melted into the sclera.

And worst of all, he recognizes Jack.

"Little Moth!" he roars through a maw of sharp, rotten, and broken teeth, "you will be my final masterpiece!"

The fight that follows is furious. Jack has his newly-upgraded plasmids, his modified Big Daddy suit, and his guns, but without Artemis to back him up, he'd be dead. Cohen has his old Houdini powers, Alpha Series-level plasmids, absolutely no self-preservation instincts, no morality to hold him back, and one hell of a grudge.

The "art" around them is destroyed as the fight progresses, which only makes Cohen madder. Jack and Artemis are able to use this to their advantage, tearing art to make Cohen predictably attack and counter-attacking.

Finally, Cohen goes down, and they move in to finish the job, once and for all. However, he convulses violently, laughing insanely as his skin breaks, his bones crack, and his body expands. Right before Jack and Artemis' eyes, Cohen mutates, having apparently gotten his hands on Alex the Great's corrupted ADAM.

In seconds, Jack and Artemis stare up at Cohen as he roars at them. Cohen's Mutant form looks like a gigantic rabbit with bad mange, a maw of razor-sharp teeth with two huge buck teeth like swords, bulging multi-jointed legs, oversized claws on the front paws, and a cluster of multiple, beady, multi-colored eyes on its face instead of just two. The ears are tattered, sporting claws growing out of them, and are prehensile, moving like a third set of limbs.

The second stage of the fight is different from the first. Cohen's Mutant Rabbit form can't teleport, but he can breath fire and electricity and spit ice. When he hops, he comes down like a freight train, shaking Fort Frolic. When he roars, the sound can stun them the closer they are. And his telekinesis still works, using his ears to focus instead of his hands.

The good news is that with his new size, Cohen is very hard to miss with either guns or plasmids. Little by little, Jack and Artemis wear him down, one distracting him and allowing the other to attack.

Cohen finally succumbs to his wounds and falls, twitching and shrieking in pain, before going still. Jack and Artemis stare down at his body, then at each other, and then they burn Cohen's body until it's nothing but ash and bones. They leave Fort Frolic without any fanfare.

With Point Prometheus and Port Neptune left, they decide to try the Point next. If the Church is seeing the places where Jack visited as holy sites, then the place where he killed Frank Fontaine is the next best place to find them.

"If we find that Fontaine has come back from the dead too," Jack grouses as they board the bathysphere, "I swear there'll be nothing left of him when we're done."

When they arrive at Point Prometheus, they find the place cleared of Mutants, though it wasn't pretty; there are blood stains and dead Mutants everywhere, though no Church members.

That changes abruptly when Jack and Artemis are going through the Proving Grounds; they are ambushed by the Church. Not wanting to kill potential recruits for their fight against Lutwidge and the Mutants, Jack and Artemis find themselves cornered.

Just as they're about to be overrun, Jack remembers something that Eleanor told them from Delta's memories: The paintings in Siren Alley included Jack's arrival at the Rapture Lighthouse, his fight with Dr. Steinman, and the first time he used ADAM to splice. In the latter, the chain tattoos on his wrists are visible, making them part of his mythos.

Without hesitation, Jack tears off the gloves of his suit off along with his helmet and runs out from cover, holding his arms up so the attacking Church members can see them and yelling that he is the Son of Ryan.

A few bullets strike his suit before they realize what they're seeing. As Jack's words and the sight of his tattoos sink in, they stare in shock before throwing down their weapons and bowing low before Jack, crying out for forgiveness.

Jack forgives them, of course, and asks to be brought before the Church and its congregation. They're all too eager to bring him forward, beyond happy that their messiah has come at last. Artemis follows behind them.

They bring Jack and Artemis to top of Point Prometheus, where Jack fought and killed Frank Fontaine. The Church has converted their battleground into a shrine, putting up makeshift pews and more paintings on the walls. They took Fontaine's body and put it up on the operating table where he went to heal and splice up during the fight; he's been strung up like he's being crucified for his sins.

Jack is a bit put-off by the display, but he can't help but admit to himself that it's kind of fitting.

As the congregation assembles, the leader of the Church, a young man by the name of Billy Parson, offers the pulpit (which stands in front of Fontaine's crucified body) to Jack, who takes it. Artemis chooses to stand off to his right side.

Jack introduces himself and tells the Church of the Son of Ryan that yes, he is there to save them, which causes them to start cheering and applauding. After they calm down, Jack tells them that their salvation is two-fold. One, he intends on curing them of their ADAM sickness, and two, he's going to evacuate them from Rapture and return to the surface.

This spawns even more applause and celebration. Jack then tells them he is planning on doing this for everyone in Rapture, and that he needs Arcadia and its air filtration systems in order to do so. This brings up doubt for some of the congregation; why save those who don't believe in Jack, especially when it means facing off against the Diamond Partners? And can Jack even cure ADAM sickness?

The true believers of the Church begin getting angry with the doubters. Wishing to avoid a fight, Jack asks for a volunteer. Billy, being the leader of the Church, volunteers immediately, kneeling in front of Jack.

Jack reaches down and puts a hand on Billy's shoulder. Unseen to the rest of the congregation, a needle extends out of Jack's gauntlet (a la Assassin's Creed, and inspired by Eleanor's Big Sister needle) and jabs Billy, injected him with a dose of SERPENT.

Before the eyes of the congregation, Billy's mild case of ADAM sickness begins to reverse itself. The tumors and growths on his exposed flesh shrink and disappear like a time-lapse video in reverse. In mere seconds, Billy Parson is completely cured of his ADAM sickness, and from the congregation's POV, Jack just touched Billy and cured him.

Jack tells them that he is a savior for all of Rapture, not just them. As the son of Andrew Ryan, he sees it as his responsibility to fix as much of his father's mistake as he can. But he needs their help to do so; can he count on them?

Billy's voice, undistorted by damage to his voicebox, is the first to say yes, quickly followed by the rest of the Church. After confirming that the Church does have Port Neptune under their control, Jack asks Billy to begin having his people rally there while he rendezvouses with his allies in Minerva's Den to finalize their plan.

Jack can't help but smile as he and Artemis board a sphere to the cheers of the Church of the Son of Ryan. Their part in Operation Trident is a success.

#bioshock #bioshock 2 #jack wyand #jack ryan #jack jolene #protector trials #in the worlds where delta spares grace she is the leader of the church #i really wish that grace didn't have to die so that sofia lamb would face justice #cohen is alive because of the resurrection gene tonic from the bioshock 2 multiplayer #in game it lets the player resurrect once per life #in this story it would be a one-time use gene tonic

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jackjolene · 2 years

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BioShock/Sinking City: Jackabeth Family Headcanons

These are my headcanons for the Jackabeth family: Jack Jolene, Elizabeth DeWitt Jolene, their five adopted daughters (Sally, Masha, Leta, Annabelle, and Daisy), their biological son Booker, and of course, Brigid Tenenbaum.

Having grown up in Rapture, almost every former Little Sister had agoraphobia - the fear of open spaces. Sally, Masha, Leta, Annabelle, and Daisy had Jack and Liz to help them adapt to the surface world and not hide away within the rooms of the Grimhaven Bay Lighthouse. Tenenbaum made sure to aid the orphanage’s staff in caring for the 35 new arrivals and helping them to adjust.

One of the games that the girls loved to play with Jack and Liz was Hide-and-Seek. However, their variant had Jack or Liz using their different flavors of invisibility to hide in plain sight, with the rest of them being the Seekers. Jack’s Camouflage tonic required him to stay completely still, so finding him wasn’t as hard as trying to find Liz. Her Peeping Tom plasmid allowed her to move around and remain invisible, making for Hide-and-Seek games where she remained unfound until the end of the game, or until she ran out of EVE.

Their all-time favorite show is The Twilight Zone. Jack and Liz both had their lives turned completely upside-down and then thrust into some of the strangest, most bizarre, and horrible situations that anyone has ever been in, just like the characters in the show. The girls enjoy watching because their parental figures do. Also, Liz has a secret crush on Rod Serling (which Jack completely knows about).

As soon as the girls are old enough, Jack and Liz teach them how to shoot guns. After everything they’ve been through, none of them want to be without the means of defending themselves. Especially in a city like Oakmont....

When the girls became old enough to date, Jack convinces Liz to “chaperone” - that is, to follow them while invisible and make sure that their date doesn’t try anything. Liz would be annoyed by this, if Oakmont wasn’t infested with inhuman monsters that could occasionally take on Human form.

After a bunch of close calls where she’s almost found out “chaperoning”, Liz begins to wonder if this is all necessary. She and Jack almost have a fight about it. He manages to convince her to do it just one more time; she agrees, and that’s the night she has to step in to protect her youngest daughter. Not from a monster, but from the date attempting to rape her.

While Liz got their daughter home, Jack contacted Charles about how to get rid of a body - one that was still alive, to be exact. A few hours later, the would-be rapist woke up in the basement of the Department of Medicine at Oakmont University, just in time to see Jack flip a switch and run upstairs, fast. An inhuman roar echoed through the room, followed immediately afterwards by very human screaming.

Just as Jack and Liz come to see Charles as something of a father figure (Liz especially), the girls come to see him as a grandfather figure. His scary stories are the best! The Jolene family becomes somewhat of an extension of the Reed family over the years, with Charles’ kids being aunt and uncle figures.

When Booker comes along, the girls, having now entered their teenage years, are enamored with him. Liz is happy to have had a child, one of the many dreams she gave up after the events in Columbia. Jack is glad to not be the only guy in the family anymore.

When Booker is about six years old, one of Tenenbaum’s theories turns out to be right: He has inherited his parent’s plasmids and gene tonics, all of them.

Booker is frightened out of his wits by all the things he can do now: Shooting fire, lightning, ice, and bees out of his hands, suddenly becoming faster and stronger, turning invisible, etc. It’s too much for him. Thankfully, he’s got a very good support system: Three mentors to help him with his powers(Jack, Liz, and, at this point, Eleanor Lamb), someone who knows what’s going on genetically (Tenenbaum), and a gaggle of loving sisters.

When puberty begins to come up Booker, Liz takes him aside and impresses that he is to NOT take advantage of his Possession or Peeping Tom plasmids when it comes to the opposite sex. She is very clear on this, and thankfully, Booker takes it to heart.

Thoughts? I will be happy to share more if I come up with them.

#bioshock #the sinking city #headcanons #jack wyanand #jack jolene #elizabeth dewitt #jack x elizabeth #jackabeth #masha #leta #sally #twilight zone #rod serling #booker #plasmids #gene tonics #kudos to anyone who gets the switch flip in the basement

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