Editing Jack the Ripper

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{{Quote|Grand work the last job was. I gave the lady no time to squeal. How can they catch me now... I love my work and want to start again.|Jack, regarding his work, 1888.|Jack the Ripper (DLC)|Database: "Dear Boss" Letter}}
{{Character Infobox
| image = ACS - Jack the Ripper render.png
| birth = c. 1860<br>[[Whitechapel]], [[United Kingdom]]
| death = November 1888 {{c|aged c. 28}}<br>[[Lambeth Asylum]], [[Lambeth]], United Kingdom<ref name="Live by the Creed, Die by the Creed"/>
| database = [[Database: Jack the Ripper|Jack The Ripper]]
| species = [[Human]]
| affiliates = [[Assassins]]
*[[British Brotherhood of Assassins|British Brotherhood]]
[[Rooks]]
}}
'''Jack''' (c. 1860 – 1888), known as '''Jack the Lad''' during his youth and widely feared under the alias "'''Jack the Ripper'''", was a member of the [[British Brotherhood of Assassins|British Brotherhood]] of [[Assassins]], active in the [[Whitechapel]] district of [[London]] during the late 19th century.

An orphan taken in and trained by the [[Master Assassin]] [[Jacob Frye]], Jack eventually became disillusioned with his mentor's leadership and view of [[the Creed]] and decided to seize control of the Brotherhood from him. During the 1880s, he successfully usurped control of the [[Rooks]] from Jacob and began to recruit new followers to help him enforce his own ruthless outlook of the Creed.

In 1888, Jack became infamous for a series of gruesome murders of women through Whitechapel; in reality, these women were fellow Assassins disguised as prostitutes who had been attempting to stop his spiral of madness. These murders, in conjunction with Jack's control over London's criminal enterprise, threatened the discreet reputation and very existence of the Assassins in London. His reign of terror eventually came to an end when he was killed by Jacob's sister, [[Evie Frye|Evie]], upon her return from [[India]].

==Biography==
===Early life===
{{Quote|Where was Jacob when Starrick's men gutted my mother? Where was he when they dragged me to the madhouse?|Jack to Evie Frye, regarding his childhood trauma, 1888.|Assassin's Creed: Syndicate|The Mother of All Crimes}}
Jack was born and raised in the Whitechapel district of London, where he lived alongside his mother until she was murdered by [[Crawford Starrick]]'s [[Templars|Templar]] lackies.<ref name="The Mother of All Crimes"/> Traumatized by her death, Jack was placed in [[Lambeth Asylum]], where poor treatment and negligence only further aggravated his mental instability.<ref name="Family Reunion">''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]] – [[Jack the Ripper (DLC)|Jack the Ripper]]'' – [[Family Reunion]]</ref> Following the death of Starrick in 1868, he was liberated from the asylum and brought into the fold of the Assassin Order by Jacob Frye to be trained among a selection of new [[Assassin apprentice|initiates]].<ref name="The Unfortunates"/>

[[File:ACS JR 1870 India.png|thumb|200px|A young Jack with Jacob, Evie and Henry before the Temple of Kali in India]]
Around 1873, he traveled with Jacob and the other initiates to India in order to learn the fear tactics of the [[Indian Brotherhood of Assassins|Indian Brotherhood]], a group that Jacob's sister, Evie Frye, had joined following her marriage to [[Jayadeep Mir|Henry Green]] and subsequent relocation.<ref name="The Unfortunates">''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]] – [[Jack the Ripper (DLC)|Jack the Ripper]]'' – [[The Unfortunates]]</ref> Upon returning to London, Jack began to develop an extremist view of the Assassins' mission, believing that the Assassins must be feared by the citizens, killing innocents if necessary. Eventually in 1888, with the help of several dangerous criminals, Jack usurped control of the Rooks from Jacob, recruiting or killing anyone sent to deter him.<ref name="Database: Jack's gang">''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]] – [[Jack the Ripper (DLC)|Jack the Ripper]]'' – [[Database: Jack's Gang: The Rooks]]</ref>

Radicalizing his followers, Whitechapel–the center of Jack's operations–descended into a cesspool of crime and depravity. Through his [[Jack's lieutenants|lieutenants]], Jack dominated the criminal underworld in Whitechapel and the [[City of London]]. One of Jack's allies, [[Olwyn Owers]], was a known philantropist who acted as procurer for the high society; with the threat that Jack could kill them, the [[Courtesan|prostitutes]] of London chose to work under Owens' protection.<ref name="Database: Jack's gang"/> Jack also established his private [[Prison hulk|prison]] at [[Deptford]]. Taking hostages, Jack blackmailed their family in exchange to keep them alive. The Chief Warder was [[John Billingsworth]], a sadistic man chosen by Jack to organize the executions of the prisonners.<ref name="Prisoners">''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]] – [[Jack the Ripper (DLC)|Jack the Ripper]]'' – [[Prisoners]]</ref>

===Autumn of Terror===
{{Quote|The world will know of my terror!|Jack declaring his ill intentions, 1888.|Assassin's Creed: Syndicate|The Mother of All Crimes}}
On 31 August 1888, Jack was ambushed by one of Jacob's [[Mary Ann Nichols (Assassin)|initiates]], who had been posing as the prostitute [[Mary Ann Nichols]]. Jack gruesomely killed her and staged her dead body, beginning the [[Whitechapel murders|Autumn of Terror]]. He also took her [[Assassin ring]] to not compromise the brotherhood.<ref name="Autumn of Terror">''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]] – [[Jack the Ripper (DLC)|Jack the Ripper]]'' – [[Autumn of Terror]]</ref>

On the 8 September, an [[Annie Chapman (Assassin)|initiate]] posing as [[Annie Chapman]] was also killed by Jack. He cut off her ring finger to take her Assassin ring. Jack also left a invisible message for Jacob, asking "What kind of creed cannot protect his own?".<ref name="The Mother of All Crimes">''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]] – [[Jack the Ripper (DLC)|Jack the Ripper]]'' – [[The Mother of All Crimes]]</ref> With these murders, Jack sent letters under the pseudonym of "Jack the Ripper". This attracted media attention; [[Arthur Weaversbrook]] in particular – under duress of Jack having kidnapped his son – began to publish Jack's letters for the public to inquire.<ref name="Letters of Intent">''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]] – [[Jack the Ripper (DLC)|Jack the Ripper]]'' – [[Letters of Intent]]</ref>

[[File:ACS Prologue 10.png|thumb|left|250px|Jack defeating Jacob]]
On the night of 30 September, Jack killed the [[Elizabeth Stride (Assassin)|two]] [[Catherine Eddowes (Assassin)|Assassins]] posing as [[Elizabeth Stride]] and [[Catherine Eddowes]] and took their rings. Leaving a message for Jacob on the crime scene, Jack trailed his former mentor. During the track, the Ripper killed policemen to oblige Jacob to confront him. After a fight, Jack wound Jacob but the Assassin escaped from the serial killer. Later that night, Jack entered in Jacob's hideout, defeated him in combat and imprisoned him beneath Lambeth Asylum.<ref name="Prologue">''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]] – [[Jack the Ripper (DLC)|Jack the Ripper]]'' – [[Prologue (Syndicate)|Prologue]]</ref>

Prior to his kidnapping, Jacob had requested by letter that Evie return to London. Evie arrived in October in London and began to investigate on her brother's disappearance.<ref name="Autumn of Terror"/> Spying her through the window of Jacob's apartment, Jack saw an opportunity to finalize his revenge.<ref name="The Unfortunates"/> The 2nd November, he followed her to [[Owers Manor]] and was in time to witness her assassination of Owers. Sitting atop the roof, Jack watched as Evie escaped aboard a coach, following which he killed all of the occupants at the manor with the intention of framing Evie for the massacre.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]] – [[Jack the Ripper (DLC)|Jack the Ripper]]'' – [[The Lady Talks]]</ref>

On 9 November, while Evie was at Deptford, Jack added another victim to his list. He mutilated the prostitute [[Mary Kelly]] in the most horrific way imaginable, leaving a message on the walls of her apartment room for Evie. He would be waiting by the time she had discovered his "masterpiece," one that he felt he owed entirely to her interference. He also added a postscript to his message taunting Evie on Eddowes's murder scene.<ref name="The Mother of All Crimes"/>

Jack went to Deptford where he saw Evie's departure after dismantling the prison, killing Billingsworth and informed the police about the abducted hostages.<ref name="Prisoners"/> Consequently, Jack resolved to eliminate any witnesses at Deptford that knew of his actions as well as any evidence linking him to the Assassins, in an effort to protect the Brotherhood and his own distorted version of the Creed.<ref name="Loose Ends">''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]] – [[Jack the Ripper (DLC)|Jack the Ripper]]'' – [[Loose Ends]]</ref>

===Death===
{{Dialogue|Jack|We are the same you and I...|Evie|Oh, Jack... You were an Assassin, yes, but we are not the same. And that is why your memory must be erased for all time. Rest in peace now, Jack, you and your twisted acolytes.|The last exchange of words between Evie Frye and Jack the Ripper.|Assassin's Creed: Syndicate|Live by the Creed, Die by the Creed}}
[[File:ACS Live by the Creed, Die by the Creed 9.png|thumb|250px|Jack's final moments]]
Jack staged a reunion between the Frye twins at Lambeth Asylum, with the intention of either having Evie join him or killing her. He lured Evie to the site of his mother's murder, threw a bomb in her direction and left her with clues and cues indicating his true hideout.<ref name="The Mother of All Crimes"/> In preparation for her arrival, he killed prominent Lambeth Asylum staff who knew of his childhood confinement there, including his abusive nurse, a doctor and the asylum's director, and destroyed all records of his stay.<ref name="Family Reunion"/>

In addition, to slow Evie's approach, Jack released all of the asylum's inmates. While he held an advantage over Evie with his superior strength and aid from the inmates, Evie was able to catch Jack off-guard, and fatally wounded him with his own trademark dagger. Jack told Evie that she was no different than him before succumbing to his wounds, ending his reign of terror.<ref name="Live by the Creed, Die by the Creed">''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]] – [[Jack the Ripper (DLC)|Jack the Ripper]]'' – [[Live by the Creed, Die by the Creed]]</ref>

===Legacy===
{{Quote|You've turned an unknown miscreant into a legend—and that's exactly what he wants.|Jacob Frye, regarding Jack's status as a legend, 1888.|Assassin's Creed: Syndicate|Prologue (Syndicate)}}
Following his defeat in late 1888, Jack's true identity, or even the fact that he had been killed, was never revealed by Inspector [[Frederick Abberline]] of the [[Metropolitan Police Service]]. This was done at the behest of Evie Frye in order to protect the Assassins from discovery and public backlash, due to Jack having been an Assassin himself.<ref name="Live by the Creed, Die by the Creed"/> In a way, Jack obtained what he wanted; though he died without achieving his goal or truly establishing his own creed, his name continues to strike fear after his death.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]] – [[Jack the Ripper (DLC)|Jack the Ripper]]'' – [[Database: Jack the Ripper]]</ref>

By 2015, Jack's DNA had somehow been recovered by the Assassins, who tasked an [[Helix Initiate|Initiate]] to review his [[Genetic memory|memories]] during the Autumn of Terror.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]] – [[Jack the Ripper (DLC)|Jack the Ripper]]'' – [[Database: Assassin Intel 1]]</ref> After reviewing the data however, the Assassins issued a [[Rooftop Garden Protocol]], and contact with the Initiate was cut for their own safety.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]] – [[Jack the Ripper (DLC)|Jack the Ripper]]'' – [[Database: Assassin Intel 6]]</ref>

In October 2016,<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Heresy]]'' – Chapter 2</ref> while attempting to discuss the ironies of the Assassin Brotherhood, [[Sebastian Monroe]] brought up the subject of Jack being an Assassin to [[Griffin (Assassin)|Griffin]], which infuriated the latter. Following additional comments from the teenager [[Natalya Aliyev]], Griffin furiously claimed that Jack was not a true Assassin and that it was the Brotherhood that had stopped him before storming off.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants – Fate of the Gods]]'' – Chapter 23</ref>

==Personality and traits==
{{Quote|The killer is selective and dispassionate, and has left not a single trace of his passage.|Frederick Abberline, on Jack the Ripper, 1888.|Assassin's Creed: Syndicate|Autumn of Terror}}
While not pure evil and desiring his own warped sense of good, the trauma of losing his mother and his subsequent incarceration at Lambeth Asylum had a lasting effect on Jack's mental stability. Jack's views on the Assassin Order quickly developed; he came to the conclusion that Jacob was responsible, however indirectly, for the death of his mother and the abuse he faced at Lambeth Asylum. He also began to develop a strong disdain for [[the Creed]], considering a creed that could not protect its own to be a dead one.<ref name="Live by the Creed, Die by the Creed"/>

He brutally murdered all opposition sent against him – Assassins commonly under the guise of local prostitutes – in order to send a message to the Frye twins. He was also meticulous in his plan to destroy all evidence of his existence and prior life, going so far as to do away with a number of Lambeth Asylum staff who might have had any living memory of him as well as documents pertaining to his incarceration at the asylum.<ref name="Family Reunion"/>

In spite of his actions against the London Assassins, Jack was careful not to compromise the Brotherhood; despite his lack of respect for the contemporary Creed, he did come to believe in his own idealized version of the philosophy and still saw the Order as a means to an end. While most of his victims managed to hide their Assassin rings before death, at least one had their finger forcibly removed postmortem in order to hide their connection to the Order.<ref name="The Mother of All Crimes"/> He also destroyed any evidence of his connection to the Assassins at Deptford after his plans there were foiled by Evie Frye.<ref name="Loose Ends"/>

Jack was also highly vindictive and held deep, bitter grudges against those who he believed had wronged him. This was displayed when he brutally massacred the Lambeth Asylum staff as revenge for the torment he underwent there in his youth, as well as those in attendance at Owens Manor as a reprisal towards Evie's investigations. Accompanying this, Jack had developed a habit of killing those who wronged him and those who had not, merely because they served as an obstacle to his objective, presenting an apathetic, impulsive side in him.<ref name="Family Reunion"/>

===Equipment and skills===
{{Quote|I have seen such talent for assassination and avoiding detection only once before... When I worked with the two of you.|Frederick Abberline, on Jack's skills, 1888.|Assassin's Creed: Syndicate|Autumn of Terror}}
Dressed in a menacing greatcoat with a double cape, Jack was a highly skilled Assassin, having been well trained by his mentor, Jacob Frye, while still in his formative years. He possessed a vast skill-set, including armed and [[Fist|unarmed combat]], stealth, public assassination techniques, proficiency in [[firearm]]s and [[freerunning]]. By the time of the Whitechapel murders, he was capable of holding his own against and even overpowering the Frye twins, being well-nigh impervious to frontal attacks in the heat of battle. He also possessed an indomitable will, never giving up on the task at hand and approaching situations with utmost focus and care.<ref name="Live by the Creed, Die by the Creed"/>

His repertoire also consisted of equipment and skills typically exclusive to the Assassins, such as the [[Hidden Blade]], [[Throwing knife|throwing knives]], [[Poison dart|hallucinogenic darts]], [[Bomb|smoke bombs]] and the [[Victorian era]] [[Zipline|rope launcher]]. He also possessed the rare ability of [[Eagle Vision]] which allowed him to track down recently lost individuals or identify key targets.<ref name="Prologue"/>

Most notable of Jack's skills was his extremist use of the Indian Brotherhood's fear tactics. Rather than discretely dealing with targets, he would use excess brutality in public assassinations to instill fear in the hearts of London's populace. In combat, he would use [[fear bombs]], [[spikes]] and jarring, psychotic screams to frighten and disrupt the composure of his opponents.<ref name="Prologue"/>

As an extension of his prowess for fear and intimidation, Jack also had a penchant for manipulation. Due to his collusion with Olwyn Owers, Jack's eyes and ears within London, his machinations and influence spread rapidly across the city. His operations gradually began to reach well beyond the scope of prostitution, to kidnapping, extortion, and murder of the London elite.<ref name="Database: Jack's gang"/>

==Behind the scenes==
Jack the Ripper is the eponymous antagonist of ''[[Jack the Ripper (DLC)|Jack the Ripper]]'', a [[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate downloadable content|downloadable expansion]] to the 2015 video game ''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]''. He is playable in several story segments and is voiced by the [[Scotland|Scottish]] actor [[Alec Newman]]. The burlap sack that Jack wears symbolizes his real-life anonymity; although his face is never revealed, even when Evie Frye kills him in the final memory "[[Live by the Creed, Die by the Creed]]", his character model reused [[Philip Twopenny]]'s face.<ref name="YouTube">{{Youtube|video=Gh7HEbQRAec|text=Jack the Ripper Unmasked [AC Syndicate: Mods<nowiki>]</nowiki>|channel=channel/UCeXuYc2CMMc66gKT-cuAYpQ|channelname=Sliderv2}}</ref>

In-game files contain an unused [[database]] entry that gives Jack's backstory:
<blockquote>'''A MOTHER'S MURDER'''<br><br>''18 August 1870. At 3:40 AM an unidentified woman whom Jacob Frye sometimes visited to procure information about local gangs, was brutally murdered in her Whitechapel lodgings.<br><br>Her young son Jack was awakened by his mother's screams as three men burst into their shared room and proceeded to stab her to death before the eyes of her ten year old son.<br><br>After the murderers unceremoniously dumped the woman's body in the Thames River, they dragged Jack, covered in his mother's blood and babbling incoherently about '[[pig]]s' and 'templars', to Lambeth Asylum, where he was interned in the wing for the violent criminals. Doctor Archer and Nurse Whitney signed the admission papers.<br><br>Jack is said to have cried inconsolably and screamed aloud for a certain 'Jacob' over and over for days, until he was gagged and silenced.<br><br>Nearly a year later, Jack appears to have escaped from the asylum with outside assistance and vanished from official records.''</blockquote>

The knife Jack wields appears to be modeled after an {{Wiki|Indo-Persian culture|Indo-Persian}} blade called a {{Wiki|pesh-kabz}}.

==Gallery==
<gallery captionalign="center" position="center" widths="180">
ACS Jack the Ripper Mask - Concept Art.jpg|Concept art of Jack the Ripper's mask
ACS Jack the Ripper - Concept Art.jpg|Concept art
ACS Jack the Ripper Promo.jpg|Promotional art
ACS Jack the Ripper DLC.jpg|Promotional art
ACS Prologue 7.png|Jack confronting Jacob
ACS The Unfortunates 3.png|Jack looming over London
</gallery>

==Appearances== 
*''[[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag]]'' {{1stm}}
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]] – [[Jack the Ripper (DLC)|Jack the Ripper]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants – Fate of the Gods]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Echoes of History]]'' {{Mo}}

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