LUCAS HOOD.

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biography.

jack had an abusive father whose beatings sent him to the hospital several times. the only thing known about his mother is that she was a good mom. jack remembers killing his father at some point when he was younger, although exactly when is uncertain. he was in the army, specifically as a marine, and attacked his instructor. instead of being sent to stockade at fort benning, he was moved by a man named dalton who recruited him for black ops saving him from being court-martialed. sometime in 1994, his last mission was to kill the hacker we know as job, but instead he and job began working together. some point after this, he met rabbit.

as a thief, jack was tasked with jobs that everyone else called ´impossible.´ he was an infiltration specialist who was able to go deeper than anyone else. one time, he stole a chess set from a man called drexel as a gift to mr. rabbit and managed to bypass all the security systems including guard dogs. he eventually fell in love with rabbit´s daughter, anastasia, and they started to plan a life together away from her father. on april 17th 1997, his last job with anastasia was a $10 million diamond heist from a company called capitol diamond. the job failed because rabbit found out about their plan and his right-hand man, olek, called the police on them. jack told ana to go without him and he was caught and arrested. jack was then sentenced to 15 years in roscoe prison while ana disappeared with job´s help. while in prison, jack was tortured on the daily by another man working for rabbit, often so bad that he would end up in the hospital wing for weeks, if not months. this led to him purposefully getting himself in trouble while in prison to be thrown into isolation, so as to avoid having to get tortured further, until he finally decided he'd had enough, and found a way to kill the man, but only after a brutal fight ensued, nearly getting himself killed in the process.

after getting released from prison, jack tracked down ana to a town called banshee. stopping by a bar owned by an old mma fighter called sugar, jack tried to enjoy a drink there when the new to-be sheriff of banshee, lucas hood, walked in and bought some dinner. not long after being served, two other men walked in and tried to rob sugar, in which hood intervened. jack, realizing that a fight was about to ensue and that hood, being outnumbered, would likely get shot, got up and tried to talk everyone out of fighting, suggesting that they allow the two robbers to take the money, and he would buy enough food and drinks to make up for it. however, hood pushed jack out of the way, and a fight ensued, ending up with both hood as well as the two robbers dead. sugar, appreciating jack's help, told jack to leave while he dealt with the dead bodies, and so jack left to go find ana. however, finding out that she had moved on, and no longer having the diamonds they stole, jack headed back to sugar's bar just in time to help him bury the bodies in the forest.

hearing hood's phone ringing while finishing digging the graves, jack picked it up, only to find that it was hood's new boss calling, and that they hadn't met face to face yet. instinctively, he pretended to be lucas hood, and decided from that moment on that he would use the dead sheriff's identity as his own, so that he had an excuse to stay in banshee. since then, jack now goes by the name lucas hood, being banshee county's new sheriff, practically winging it as he goes.

being a former thief and having spent years in prison, jack has no problem breaking the law. though despite being a criminal, he seems to take his job as a sheriff seriously and does his best to help and protect the innocent. in fact, he happens to be the first sheriff of banshee who isn't taking bribes or is intimidated by kai proctor, despite the fact that he's not actually a cop. jack handles situations with a recklessness that seems to border on suicidal. on multiple occasions, he goes alone, or heavily outnumbered, into a hostile situation. he has fought a professional mma fighter, and also went to get a sandwich at the café while there was a memorial of a man he himself had killed while on duty to save kai's life. his experience as a criminal allows him to solve crimes in an unorthodox, but also practical manner.

he initially had feelings for ana, as he went all the way to banshee just for her, though after meeting her again, his love for her has faded into something platonic. he feels a responsibility for their daughter, which keeps him staying in banshee. he's still traumatized from the suffering he endured in prison, and often has flashbacks of it. after spending years in prison, he's become much more distant and violent than before. yet he is a sensitive and caring man with a charming attitude.

abilities.

jack is in excellent physical condition and works out regularly to stay in great shape. he moves quickly and displays great agility when jumping over cars, jumping/smashing through windows while escaping situations or chasing people. he is an exceptional fighter, relying on techniques such as headbutts, throat strikes, and joint locks as well as occasionally dirty moves like biting and groin strikes. he has received combat training when he was in the army and additional training under robert dalton, colonel douglas stowe describing him as being "well-trained" and "lethal". in his career as a mobster, jack proved an excellent boxer, besting rabbit's right-hand man olek in a sparring match. during his time in prison, he defeated a much larger and stronger man, combining regular strikes with tactics like eye-gouging and surprise attacks. arriving in banshee, he proves capable of taking on multiple opponents, defeating charles randall and delmont munson, who killed the real sheriff lucas hood, and easily besting all four moody brothers (and later three of them in a ravine despite being injured), brock lotus describing it as "going through them like they were cardboard". he has also beaten damien sanchez, an extremely formidable mma fighter, and defeated kai proctor, a skilled combatant himself, twice. he has even gotten the better of the likes of quentin and clay burton, both terrifyingly ruthless fighters in their own right. indeed, his fighting style has been described by quentin as a skill that cannot be learned but only obtained by experience

he is also highly skilled in using improvised weapons such as knives, batons, bottles and anything else he can get his hands on during fights, and is an excellent marksman and has had military training (exemplified by his use of the harries technique for simultaneous handgun/ torch usage). because of his vast skill set, he survives the toughest situations and he has been described as an ´army of one´.

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