They Call Them the Diamond Dogs

Jack had immunized quite a number of people in the past few weeks for safety's sake. The virus in their water worked fast on those without immunity. It was one of the things the founding members of the Diamond Dogs all had in common, a natural immunity to the virus. However, as more sought asylum they had to develop a vaccine. That was neither here nor there at this point.

Jack was waiting not far from his doorway for those who wanted to come. He knew the twins at the very least would arrive soon. Minoru had insisted on gifts for the kids. He had managed to scrape up some gifts for the twins as well. He wasn't sure if Balthazar would be there when he got to his high rise space. The angel was welcome when they got there but he thought maybe he would prefer something more private now that they were living more and more like a family.

Halloween Jack is from the David Bowie Diamond Dogs material with filler from 1984 and some other referenced materials in the music.

NOTE: Some of this profile contains violence and sexually questionable content.

Bowie's Description of the Diamond dogs:
"They were all little Johnny Rottens and Sid Viciouses really. And, in my mind there was no means of transport.. So there were these gangs of squeaking, roller-skating, vicious hoods with Bowie knives and furs on and they were all skinny because they hadn't eaten enough, and they all had funny colored- hair. In a way, it was a precursor to the punk thing."

"He rules the Diamond Dogs that are packs of feral kids camped on high-rise roofs, tearing around on roller skates, terrorizing the corpse-strewn streets they live above."


Halloween Jack lives in a post apocalyptic New York City loosely based in the book 1984. (Some speculate that Jack is what happens to Ziggy Stardust if he fails his mission of saving the Earth.)

Jack is leader of the gang called the Diamond Dogs which deals in drugs and prostitution. Jack lives more as a brothel madame with a mean streak. Living on top of Manhattan Chase building he has maintained Manhattan as his turf.

The Diamond Dogs consists mostly of freaks and social outcasts who flock to serve Jack in a political climate that either brainwashes deviants into "good citizens" or outright kills them. Deviants include many things: artists, musicians, writers, scientists, and other free thinkers

Name: Halloween Jack
Age: Unknown (Appears early 20s)
Eyes: Blue (Right is red)
Hair: Naturally bright red
Height: 6'4" (usually taller because heels or platforms --- or his ever present roller skates)
Weight: 90lbs
Race: half alien (Anthean/Human) but believes he is full human
Gender: Non-Binary/Genderfluid
Sexuality: Omnisexual

Distinguishing marks: Scars on left hand and wrist from reconstructive surgery, two bullets scars; left shoulder and just left of center in the chest. He has a number of other scars across his abdomen, thighs and back both from the vaporization process and rough treatment from past Johns. Jack doesn't remember where most of these scars came from. Jack also has a nervous twitch down the right side of his body, especially the hand, when he runs into reminders of his torture/vaporization or the Big Brother.

Skills: Sleight of hand, theft, seduction, sensual/sexual arts, fire arms, triage and first aid, child care, cooking, expert on roller skates, free climbing, play guitar, singing, gardening, instinctive ability to read people in social situations, hypnotic voice, Like most Antheans has a high IQ (near 190-200)

Skills and knowledge that he has but doesn't know: Telepathy, empathy, engineering, robotics, song writing, Anthean cultures, Accomplished and well-known musician/songwriter, stage make up, costume design, sewing, accomplished guitar and bass player, also saxophone, piano, violin, standing bass, harmonica, tambourine, and other instruments. Languages spoken: English, Japanese, some French, German, Spanish, and Russian.

Personality: charismatic and charming, witty, stubborn, hopeful, worried, naturally poised and confident, easy going, gentle and passive, indulgent, soft spoken, generally kind but blunt and brash, cynical but hopeless romantic, addictive personality (Addicted to cocaine, booze, and attention), open and accepting (except for deceit), sexually accepting and promiscuous with the right people.

Jack's history.

Jack has some memories of the last few days he was imprisoned during the vaporization process. He escaped into the streets with no idea who he was or what skills he possessed. He did know he needed to go into hiding and get away. He freaked a lot of people out; pale skinned emaciated and his right eye glowing oddly red. The second day on the streets he was attacked and violently abused, including a potential gang rape. When he woke in his battered condition a small, white, stray greyhound had curled up to him. He quickly got changed and an eyepatch before escaping into Manhattan Island with his new companion who he called Diamond. This area had experienced high levels of death which left the streets littered with corpses. Jack ran into an older individual who taught him to be a prostitute and who he eventually ran from when the person auctioned off his perceived virginity.

There he found several groups of kids found rollerskating through the streets. He had no idea who he was but they started calling him Halloween Jack since he showed up with an eye patch near the end of October. Jack became sort of a Peter Pan among the Lost Boys on Manhattan in Hunger City, how New York City was renamed because of the starvation that plagued it.

Over time freaks and people fleeing vaporization came to the city to seek his presence because he defied the very government by escaping complete vaporization. The gang of kids he had collected became known as the Diamond Dogs due to the dog that was always at Jack's side. The mark of the gang became chokers or wide wrist cuffs of diamonds (or something of similar qualities; rhinestones, zirconium, etc) They became known quickly as thieves, prostitutes, and drug dealers. Sex is considered a drug-like commodity and worth more than other commodities. It wasn't their favored choices of employment but those who complied to the harsh rules of conformity indulged in their rebellious behaviors of sex for enjoyment, drugs, drinking, music, writing, etc.

After a year of repelling the Ministry troops from the island they blew most of the bridges to keep them out. This triggered people to send their children and parents to the island to protect them from vaporization. Though the gang totes itself as deadly and aggressive at least 50% of the members of the Diamond Dogs are children under 18 or people over 50.

Jack has take control of the top of Manhattan Chase as his own place. Here he has a roof top lounge where he shoots down Ministry choppers. Being injured and disabled himself, Jack has taken in several children that were brought to the island to save them from being killed as anomalous. Several are blind and one girl who was born with MS that Jack built a wheel chair for. They live with him in the Chase building. He also has a 'girlfriend' who is vacant from being vaporized more than once.

Jack himself suffers extreme depression and isolation, especially because he doesn't know who he was or even who he is outside the personality that Jack has created for himself. He is very good at hiding it under debauchery, violence, and drugs. Jack occasionally falls to cries for attention and company. A lot of people spread rumors about Jack and he has no idea if most of them are true or false because he doesn't remember. He feels hopeless a lot of the time. Some times he is so hopeless he wants to run from the life he has but has nowhere to go.


*****Information below this line, Jack does not know this information.*****

Jack was born Ziggy Stardust to Major Tom Jones and an Anthean. He was half alien and came to Earth in order to try and prevent its destruction through war and resource overuse. Ziggy tried but he failed. The governments started failing and wars broke out as food and other resources started becoming scarce. Governments started coming together to try and curb war and eventually settled on a sort of enforced uniformity. Big Brother was established through networks of cameras and eventually microphones. Big Brother is the dangerous charisma of absolute power and the facility with which societies become and succumb to the totalitarianism's final solution to the problem of disagreement. Ziggy and his father, along with many other people went into hiding. Eventually, Ziggy was cornered and the Ministry of Truth, in their attempt to apprehend them Major Tom was killed. Most of the fans of his form of art were vaporized or killed. No one remembers who he was.

Ziggy was taken to be vaporized, this would erase his personality and memories in order to make him a productive and uniform member of society. The torture included things geared toward causing pain to Antheans as one of the doctors present was also present during the experimentation on Thomas Jerome Newton. He was exposed to radiation that caused eye damage and severe physical trauma that left him with shakes through his right side and a sensitivity to light. Almost all of Ziggy's memories were erased. Some of his personality and all of his skills remained intact when he managed to escape the ministry.

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