"this time when she fished the object out of her large basket, it had nothing fancy on the top of it - but that didn't mean it was anything less than [the other tribe member's]. no, the dark brown wood had been carefully carved to be longer and thicker [...]. intricate designs decorated the surface; stars within circles, triangles creating patterns, circles falling over the edges of stars. many more small designs spotted across the wood but the largest one was the star that covered the flat bottom and top of the totem. they were carved loud, deep, and proud. she had made this to symbolise the leadership and calm knowledge she saw in him."
- imagination

notes: jack had found an irony in this as he would never see himself as a leader. despite that, he still kept the toem as a piece of memory.

"so then, this was crackerjacker's desire. to wax and wane blood and battle cries upon cutting room floors, scathing towards the too pale king which [he] held no doubt in his mind the other held grave distaste for upon curve of gore strung stung. nearly out of no where was this new development, peculiar in it's showing and wretched in its fact. [he] recognized a long gone drunkard's toxicity amongst garlic and rose spilled words. and for that, he is weary. for before him there is no wish for betterance, tinge of repentance, or explanation for true actions. but if he'd known it, [he] would have found it odd. crackerjacker wished to purge [...] to stop other from become the symbol of cruelty and fear just as his father once dwelled upon throne of spite and splintered bone. and yet scoffed at promises to not harm children. it was, for every sake and idea, an oddity of complication. complex in every idea, was the creature known as crackerjacker."
-fourteenth

"straightforward in all his dictation, unyielding, wearing blank stare on cutting room and not much more. crackerjacker steps forth from darkness, lacking guilt nor wish for solace or regret. for that, [the king] felt feelings deepen. an unknown despair now recognized as someone fond came cold, disconnected. a shallow knife of betrayal."
-fourteenth

"and for the moment, [crackerjacker] seems to betray a sense of coldness and glee to see what the leader would propose based on his actions. it was almost as if one was looking at the old crackerjacker, the one who murdered his wife without a question."
- karey

notes: since this event, jack's humorous facade has since slipped. he still upholds his dark humor and grumpiness, but the darkness that shrouds him is more apparent than before.