Meet Jack – The Psycopath
(Light Spoilers)

Stolen as a child, molested, tortured and injected with all types of experimental enhancements, Jack’s life has been one tragedy after another. As a little girl she was the focus subject of an illegal human experiment to create the ultimate biotic machine. Her enhancements came at the sacrifice of many young victims, her procedures were painfully inhumane and her mind was brought to the brink of insanity as she suffered the rigors of being a lab rat. It all ended when she saw a break and used her biotic powers to massacre her torturers and fellow inmates alike on her way out of the lab.

Jack’s escape left her at the mercy of pirates, who gladly raped and used her young body in exchange for passage to Omega, where she enlisted with extremely violent street gangs before joining a cult (as you can see she kept the haircut). After the cult Jack took part in mercenary work, illegal enterprises and mass murder which landed her on a prison ship where she was cryogenically frozen to save the guards from her biotic wrath. When she meets Shepard, he is rescuing her from the prison in order to have her join his suicide mission. She is a raving lunatic, angrier than a pissed off scorpion, and deadlier than a ticking time bomb. But Shepard calms her, and she joins his team, with one price – Shepard has to take her to the old lab in which she was tortured, in order for her to blow it to pieces.

Relationship and First Impressions

To say Jack is complicated is so much of an understatement that it doesn’t warrant an answer. Jack is dangerous, she hates people, hates Cerberus and of all people on the ship she hates Miranda who she refers to as a “Cerberus Bitch”. Placing the two in the same room would yield deadly results as Jack’s mouth combined with Miranda’s ego would guarantee an event. Both being godly Biotics in their own right, you would find yourself floating and crashing into walls as these two go for each other’s throats. Jack hates everything about Cerberus, and for good reason since it was Cerberus that was behind the lab that made her childhood hell.

Romantically Jack is a hard nut to crack (no pun intended), years of betrayal combined with survivor’s guilt from a past lover’s sacrifice makes her keep Shepard at arm’s length. She does appreciate him coming all the way down to engineering to chat her up however, and though she shuns human contact, his forced niceness makes her suspicious at first asking “what do you want, sex?” To which answering positively could lead to her giving you a quickie in order to get you out of her face and out of her life. Refusing the quickie confuses her and she begins to wonder why it is that you like her and she calls you a weirdo for it. After some time Jack drops the defenses a tad and tells Shepard that his weird persistence actually turns her on. She wants him but doesn’t know how to go about it out of fear of having her heart broken again.

After telling Shepard that she needs some time to think it over, Jack visits him in his quarters with tear-stricken face, unsure on how to surrender her feelings to him. Of all the women in Mass Effect 2, Jack turned out to be quite rewarding as a love interest being that Shepard literally takes her from unstable to a passionately loyal and powerful, biotic girlfriend.

Hot or Not? What About The Looks?

If you want a banging body then you need to holler at Miranda, her body is perfect and if she had a different face she would be unavoidable by any hot-blooded male. Jack is the beauty in the game, as in take her face off and put it on Miranda’s body and you would have what I just described in the first sentence. She is also a weird juxtaposition of psycho killer and angry girl who likes to look pretty through make-up. Jack’s body is 90% covered in tattoos and she has a shaved head – yet she takes time to slap on mascara, eyeliner and sexy red lipstick.

Were I to pick an actress to play Jack I would go with Keira Knightley from Pirates of The Carribean and King Arthur, the character’s face and expressions reminded me very much of her and just like Jack she’s a facially striking woman with a slight little body.