User Profile

The Person
Jack Driscoll is a 30 year old, Irish-American playwright based in New York City, 1933. He is employed by the Federal Theater and lives comfortably off his plays' profits and family allowance. He has a younger sister named Else, a pianist who performs on the radio. His father is a general and war hero; his mother a former Irish singer; his extended family heavily into the ship building business. Despite his family's wealth and his own considerable success as a writer, Jack has not been able to maintain a successful relationship. The reason why remains a mystery to him.

Apperance
Jack stands at a deceptively thin 6'1". He has a fairly toned body often hidden underneath a three-piece suit appropriate for his era. His hair is an extremely dark shade of brown, shaggy but well-combed. He has very thick eyebrows. His eyes are green, a key physical difference between himself and creator_raven (who has black eyes). Jack's most prominent physical feature is his long and beak-like nose. In spite of his odd features, he is considered to be handsome--though don't expect him to wax poetic about his nose.

Canon
In 1933, Jack was hired to write a screenplay for his friend, Carl Denham. Denham, a director of B-movies, had failed to create any bankable hits for Universal Pictures. His latest proposal failed to impress producers, thus leaving him without any financial backing for his new film. Denham was determined to shoot the film, regardless, and went on with his plans to sail off to an island in the Far East, where he was to shoot his picture.

Jack was summoned to see Carl off with the completed screenplay. Carl was stunned to discover that Jack had composed only fifteen pages of the screenplay and was in a rush to attend the rehearsal of his latest play, “Isolation.” Carl tricked Jack into staying on the Venture, the ship on which he was to film and sail to that mysterious island, thus forcing Jack to complete the screenplay. What else had he to do?

Fall in love, apparently.

Failing to procure an A-list actress for his film, Carl had resorted picking a woman, any woman, off the streets (as long as they were a size 4). An unemployed vaudeville comedienne named Ann Darrow, incidentally a huge fan of Jack, was selected to be the star of Carl’s new picture. After an embarrassing first encounter, Jack and Ann warmed up to each other as something more than a writer and his admirer. Jack began to write a stage comedy for her. They soon fell into a mutual trap known as love, and men, having fallen into this trap, are often inspired to do very great or very stupid things. Like trekking through an unknown island full of man-eating beasts to be a hero.

The Venture reached Carl’s mysterious island, a rocky and apparently abandoned land mass named Skull Island, actually populated by an enclave of natives not keen on intruders. A tremendous failure of an initial excursion left Carl without a sound editor, the Venture short one man, and Jack with a bloody headache. The ship’s captain, a rightly irritated man named Englehorn, was determined to leave the premises of Skull Island as soon as humanly possible, the rest of the Venture elated when they managed to free the ship from the rock it had crashed on earlier. Unfortunately for all of them, the island had a rather large and hungry resident and a population of natives all too eager to feed him the pretty blonde they had encountered before. A frantic search through the ship alerted Jack to Ann’s abduction; he ordered the crew to return to Skull Island in order to save Ann.

24 hours and 14 dead men later, Jack saved Ann from the seemingly harmful hands of Kong, a 25-foot-ape who had done nothing worse than scare Ann before forming a friendship with her. Unaware of this friendship, he witnessed Ann's (and everybody else's) odd behavior as Carl attempted to capture the ape for his own financial gain. On the way back to New York City, Jack and Ann grew distant and were no longer a couple by the time they returned to New York.

He has not yet experienced the end of his canon, of which there will be a summary as soon as the mun stops being lazy.

MilliCanon
Jack arrived at Milliways Bar on January 7, 2006, bar-time, just after he returned from the journey to Skull Island. He was Bound for two weeks. At present, he works for Today For You Productions, owned by bohemian_mark; keeps an apartment in New York City, 1999; owns a pet cat named Pinot; and is pining for diamndcourtesan romantically reconciled/involved with beautiful_ann.



Disclaimer
This is a role playing journal for the character Jack Driscoll, from Fran Wash, Philippa Boyens and Peter Jackson's adapation of King Kong, originally adapated for the screen in 1933 by James Ashmore Creelman and Ruth Rose and based on a story by Merian C. Cooper and Edgar Wallace. The player, buongiornodaisy, is not affiliated with the writers, nor Universal Studios.

Want to contact the mun?
If you need to contact me on urgent matters, or just to say you wish to thread with me, please send an e-mail to kleptomarnie @ gmail . com. I am not the best person to chat with as I'm shy, cautious, and dismal at small talk. Trust me, e-mailing me is as good as IMing because I always have a tab open for Gmail. :)