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piningpebbles · 3 years
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the tragic case of Jack Manifold
Jack has continuously lost everything for people who couldn’t care less. 
1) Left behind when everyone else fled for Pogtopia, he still decides to fight for them in the war. He scrounges up what supplies he can to help, but where Pogtopia reaps the benefits of Techno’s work and has netherite, he only has iron. 
Jack only has iron to his name when there is a full set of enchanted netherite left at the vault when they head off to the war. His absence shows.
Yet, he still he choses to fight for them.
And Wilbur kills him.
2) Later on, he gets himself enchanted diamond armor, it’s not great, and most people have netherite at this point, but its his. 
He’s been busy, but nonetheless he finally finds the time and decides to go visit Tommy in exile, being one of the only people to do so. He still cares, even if he hasn’t been around much. 
He startles Tommy, and in turn Tommy digs out the floor underneath him. 
Still trying to go along with the joke, he tries to swim up the lava to get back to Tommy.
And his helmet breaks. 
And Tommy shoots him, blocks the lava up, and Jack loses everything on him.
Forced to start from scratch again. 
3) Tired, tired of it all, he fights for L’manburg even if they didn’t do shit for him. He fights for what he used to know, and his land, and to for once be taken seriously. 
He finally has full, enchanted netherite. 
They lose, because of course they do, but Jack still challenges Techno to a fight. 
Caught in the heat of the moment and tied to complicated feelings about a country that didn’t seem to care about him, even if he cared about it.
His chestplate breaks, and Techno kills him. 
He tries to get those things back, but it all turns to dust in an explosion caused by a wither Technoblade placed.
.
He has nothing.
Nothing other than Manifoldland.
And he just sets that aflame himself.
Because no one really gave a shit what he had anyways. 
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