John Camden

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1 Out of Character
2 In Character
- 2.1 Specifics
- 2.2 Detailed Information
3 External Links

Out of Character

John Camden exists only to be Claire's perfect man. He evolved from a Clack AU and was actually Jack Dickon before we turned it into canon and changed his name to John Camden. Any and all similarities to Jack are for that reason (ie, bad mother, missing father, the name Jack, etc.).

Johnny and Jack are both legit nicknames to use. Claire refers to him only as Jack. Try not to confuse him with our other Jack, Jack Dickon. Both are played by Juliette.

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In Character

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Specifics

Full Name: John Wolfgang Camden
Nickname(s): Jack, Johnny (never John)
Birthdate: 19 November, 1965
Species: Human (immortal)
Birthplace: Edinburgh, Scotland
Hometown: Spitalfields, London, England/Ludlow, Shropshire, England
Currently Resides: Cape Town, South Africa
Family: Mother, Lindsay Camden (married at some point), father, Thomas (Tam) Oliver (unknown to everyone, though, even Tam). Wife, Claire Camden. Adoptive father of Annabelle Dickon, new papa to Charlie and Adelaine, and step-father to Avery Driscoll, James Driscoll and Bess Driscoll.
Sexuality: Straight
Relationship Status: Married to Claire Camden.
Schooling: some primary school in Scotland, Millwall Primary School, St Mary Spital Secondary School
Occupation: Mechanic his whole damn life, damn it. Once, he was in a punk band. Mostly, he is Mechanic Man.

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Detailed Information

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Physical Description

Johnny is 5'10" and mostly solid muscle. He is big. He is burly. Perhaps this is to make up for being on the shorter side as a kid. He has dark brown hair and gold/brown eyes and stubble that sometimes manifests itself in beards (he currently has a short beard). He also has, amazingly, body hair. A fuzzy belly and chest. His precious cock is famed for being rather large.

He's not your clean cut working man. He's a man's man, baby. His skin is scarred and uneven, especially his hands and shoulders (he has spent well over half of his life working as a mechanic and several years of his life lurking on the streets of London as a short-tempered punk). He has five tattoos, will probably acquire more. Two were obtained before he met Claire in 1982--a hollow heart on his chest (which he later filled in with Claire's name) and a skull surrounded by barbed wire and thorny roses on his right shoulder blade. He also has a newer tattoo on his wrist, which says, simply, Claire (as of 3 December, 2006, it reads Claire's). He also has a large, colorful Japanese tiger crawling down his side/back and a simple pin-up style tattoo of pregnant Claire above it. He won't stop getting tattoos.

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Personal Information

John Camden has two nicknames, both equally used: Jack and Johnny. Jack was used when he was young, before serving time in prison, and now Claire and her parents and siblings, or anyone else who knew him then, are really the only people who actively use it. The rest established Johnny as his nickname because he would only call himself John.

Unlike many people in the world, Johnny is not a socializer. As a teenager, he had billions of 'friends', but he rarely spoke more than a few words at a time, usually without any articles or pronouns. One word answers were his favorite method of speaking.

Now, however, he will talk in complete sentences, even if it's wasted at times. He's not a people person and doesn't really get along with anyone other than his family, which is Claire's family. He has one genuine, non-Fitzwilliam friend, Tony, and is very close to him and his family. Tony is also his tattoo artist and he's godfather to his daughter, Gloria.

He's the strong silent type with a bit of babysoft edge who hates social functions.

An expert at fixing most mechanical things, his specialty is, of course, motor vehicles. He worked at a mechanic shop as a teenager and spent the eighteen or so years after his release from prison working at his own shop. You can't compete with such skills. And he loves cars, as well. And motorbikes. And beer and steak and sport and sex and Claire has to dress him to get him out of flannel and t-shirts.

He truly is the game's straightest man.

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Backstory

Little Jack Camden grew up with his mother, Lindsay, and never knew his father. He spent the first six or so years of his life in Scotland, where his mother was taking a very long holiday (or a very long bender). Lindsay liked to remind him what a failure his father was and that Johnny would probably end up just like him, despite the fact that his father was a one night stand and an otherwise upstanding sailor. Johnny was slapped for the first time as a six year old. Some elements of what she did to him aren't going to be mentioned here, but they left a lasting and twisted impression. The "games" she played with him were ones he attempted to copy during playtime at school, picking on one girl in particular before the teacher put a horrified stop to it. She reprimanded Jack and told him not to play those kinds of games, as they aren't games at all. But even after the young boy stopped, the woman worried about their origin and pursued the issue all the way back to Lindsay, who became enraged and moved back to London before the woman could get the police involved.

Lindsay was a horrible, disgusting, nightmarish mother who only got worse as Johnny got older. She slept with people out in the open at home and often came home drunk. She would allow the men with her to also have their fun with her young son. Johnny even stopped calling her 'mum' and began referring to her by her first name.

The relationship, or non-relationship, with his mother was a huge factor and influence on the Johnny we see today. Going home when she was there (which was less often than one might imagine) was not going home at all. By the time he reached fourteen, he had to know exactly how to make his own way in the world, on the streets of the East End of London.

As a teenager, Johnny became heavily influenced by the London punk scene. He was in it for the music and was not, we repeat, was not a Nazi punk. However, he still drank heavily and did a lot of hard drugs. Sex was also a heavy habit. He was known for having sex with multiple girls in one night and had walls covered in phone numbers. Any time he dated, it wasn't serious. He was a very popular boy at St. Mary's, even if he never actually stepped inside the building.

He worked at a local mechanic shop (Third Street Garage) and found mentors and father figures in the three older men running the place, Bob Stanwood, Arthur Bowne and (especially) Walter Dering. For a boy of his age, he was quite dedicated and also quite good--but it may have had something to do with the fact that he had such a miserable to non-existent homelife and friends who weren't.

In 1982, before officially dumping his girlfriend, Melanie, he saw Claire Fitzwilliam get up and walk into the restrooms. Enamored by her, he waited for her to walk out again and immediately asked her out. He never said as many words at once as at that moment.

To read more about the relationship specifically, see here.

The two became virtually inseparable and loved each other so strongly that at seventeen and eighteen, they spoke of moving back to Claire's Cape Town estate and forming a family together. Marriage. It didn't scare him. Johnny often thought of having children with his then-virginal girlfriend. She was the first and only person he had ever truly loved in his life.

Lindsay became oddly jealous, lashing out at her son on many occasions, often forcing him to take refuge at Claire's house. She was vaguely intent on having Claire turn away from Jack.

In 1983, he formed a band with some of his partners in crime, much to Claire's dismay. Though the group was relatively short-lived, they did perform on a few occasions and were probably not all that bad. Still, conflict within the group, specifically with Johnny's core group of friends, Thom, George and Roman, about Claire's involvement in Johnny's life prompted far too much animosity and the band went cold.

But Jack was still a punk with a volatile temper that Claire often saw manifested in bruises and dried blood after he was out fighting. She had once made him promise never to fight again, but he broke it to defend her (in a twisted sort of way) and landed himself with a three year prison term.

Prison was where he always expected to end up. He had failed his love and in failing her, lost her. After an incident involving a telephone call, they never spoke again. Jack attempted suicide by hanging himself, but Claire had made him immortal after a car accident and his snapped neck healed instantly.

Three years in jail saw him grow taller and bulk up. When he was released, Claire was gone. His mother had got rid of his things and his new motorbike, which he bought shortly before his sentence began. He had nowhere to go and was too nervous to ask Ruth and Charlie where Claire was. He ended up buying the hotel he and Claire had stayed in with what savings he had accumulated while working at the mechanic shop sometime in 1987 or 1988.

After converting it into a new mechanic shop and calling it Claire's, he spent the next eighteen years thinking only about the love he lost. He had no relationships and his only real friendship, aside from the employees, was with his tattoo artist, Tony, and Tony's family.

In July 2006, he sold the shop and went to Kensington to finally ask after Claire. Following their information, he went to Cape Town immediately and hasn't left without her since.

They are now married, with a baby on the way. Okay, twins, born 13th July.

In November of 2007, Claire was kidnapped by Michael Warren, an escaped convict who murdered Avery Murdoch in 1987. Claire held her own and beat Warren more than he ever got a chance to touch her, but when Jack found them, he shot Warren at point blank range (gun in the mouth), and killed him.

Represented by Bianca Wernher, he got off with lots of community service and is forming a camp for abused boys, to offer them a place of refuge and hope, things he only got when he met Claire.

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Backstory: Simplified

Johnny, also called Jack, a former London punk, was Claire's first serious boyfriend. They dated in the 1980's before he was arrested for assaulting a man who had caused a car accident that would have killed Claire. He spent twenty two years thinking about his former girlfriend, whom he was planning on marrying, and working in his own mechanic shop, Claire's. In 2006, he finally went to find his Claire and asked her to marry him in September 2006. They are now married and have newborn twins, Charlie and Addy.

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