01 Automatic Jack

He is "the mean-looking guy" of the pair. Like Bobby Quine, he is frugal and is happy to have the rent covered and a clean shirt to wear. He doesn't think highly of the youths who are fascinated with sim stim stars and surgical boutiques.
Out of his amputated arm carbon studs stick out, onto which he jacks his myoelectric arm, sheathed by a carbon-fiber laminate. The elbow joint is black and anodized and it ends to perforated Duraluminium fingers. It also has feedback pads, obviously for sensing. The studs also receive lead clips that are connected to a waldo. He feels a little funny when a stranger sees him working that way.
When he drums his fingers, the servos in the hand whine like insects, a sound that the Finn hates. When he feels fear, the arm convulses and clicks.
It is suggested that Jack participated in the War; he was in Kiev, hang-gliding over a wheatfield at nighttime, under a Nightwing parafoil, with 50 kgs of radar jammed between his legs. Then a Russian accidentally burned his arm off with a laser, amputating him.
Jack met Bobby around the end of The War. They partnered as freelance hackers, living in a loft but they never messed with "the Boys". He had rebuilt Bobby's Ono-Sendai VII almost from scratch. Together they hang out in the Gentleman Loser. It seems that he was also old friends with the Finn who would make him bargains in sake of this.
One time Bobby was hired to open a 3" window in someone's ICE and was paid well. After his love interest abandoned him, he afforded to visit the House of the Blue Lights one night, although the bouncers didn't like him; he got drunk and started Vasopressin inhalers. He started joking to the barman, calling the customers "closet necrophiliacs". The large character calling him "War Hero" which he didn't like. He showed him some tricks with the mechanical arm until early in the morning. He woke up 2 days later on a narrow foam slab in a cheap, basic sleeping module somewhere else. He sat there and cried.
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