One of the most controversial and mysterious characters of the anime and manga "Pandora's Heart" is Jack Bezarius. Having a beautiful appearance, sociable and bright, this character more than once comes to the aid of the main characters of anime and manga. However, his personality is very mysterious. He bears the title of hero, but were his thoughts so pure? And what price did the world have to pay to fulfill his desire?
Appearance
Jack Bezarius is the owner of chic blond hair braided in a braid. He has bright green eyes. In most cases, Jack appears in the image of a twenty-five-year-old boy. However, in the manga we can see him as a child when he appears in his memories. Judging by the words of his mother, Jack looks very much like his father.
Jack is dressed in a green camisole, has a long white frill on his collar, and has white breeches on his feet. Shod Jack in boots with a white top and a black bottom. White gloves are on hand. In his ears, he wears earrings in the form of blue droplets.
Character
Jack Bezarius seems a frivolous and good-natured youth. He is cheerful, bright, likes to flirt with ladies. Jack easily makes useful contacts and friends. Without any effort, he is rubbed into confidence in those who are beneficial to him. Among the people, Jack is considered a hero who did not allow the world to fall into the Abyss. He several times comes to the rescue of Oz Bezarius and the dark Alice.
However, in fact, Jack is a very deep man, carrying great pain inside himself. This character is extremely purposeful. He does not disdain even to trade his own body, in order to achieve the goal. The only goal in his life is to be with Lacy, the girl who literally gave him the meaning of life. After the death of Lacey, Jack goes crazy.
Osvold compares Jack with water: "You cannot know what is hidden under the water surface, perhaps there is nothing there." Jack says he can see a lie. This skill is necessary to survive. Jack saw all of Lacy's lies, but pretended to believe her. Jack is neat with his girlfriend. He is persistent and pestering, but does not cross the line.
Childhood
Jack is the illegitimate offspring of Lord Bezarius. His mother was a nobleman's mistress. At first, she was glad to have a son, many times pointed to the similarity of the child with his father. However, the Lord did not recognize the child and refused to communicate with his mistress. After which, Jack's mother began to go crazy. The rejected woman beat her son many times. After the death of his mother, Jack is on the street. Nobody needs him, nobody loves him, he has no goals in life. In the cold without food and money, the child is doomed to death. However, Jack meets an unusual girl who changes his whole life
Jack Bezarius and Lacey
One day, when Jack had already given up and was just waiting for death, a dark-haired girl with red eyes approached him. She lights up with interest in the boy. Lacy talks to Jack, steals food for him, takes care of him. Jack admits that he hates everyone around him: mother, father, those who hung the stigma of an illegitimate child on him and laughed about it.
Lacey tells Jack that he must live. Do not sit, waiting for death, but move forward, no matter what: find food, if you want to eat, steal if you need money, sell yourself in order to get profit. These words hurt Jack.
Jack and Lacy are attacked by bandits who want to sell the girl, but she is using the chain from the Abyss to kill them. Because of this incident, the girl is being tracked by the Baskervilles. She returns home, but goodbye gives Jack an earring and says that he can find her at the Baskerville estate.
The Search and Death of Lacy
Jack Byzarus realizes that now Lacey is the meaning of his life. He wants to meet her again. But for this he needs to break out of the very bottom of society. He begins to steal, kill people, sells his body. Jack lies, manipulates, fascinates everyone around. As a result, he becomes quite famous in high society. He is taken to the house of the Bezarius as one of the heirs.
Jack finds Lacy only eight years later. He makes his way to the reception, pretending to be a musician. Seeing the girl, Bezarius immediately rushes to her and squeezes her in his arms, but one of the Baskervilles wounds him with a knife.
In the house of the Baskervilles, he meets the head of the clan Glen and brother Lacy Oswald. The head of the Baskervilles gives Jack a map to the tower where Lacy lives. The guy is desperate to once again see Lacey, but she is hiding.
Lacy is last seen with Jack, promises him an early meeting. But at the appointed time, Oswald comes instead. He tells Jack that Lacy is dead, and gives him the second earring.
Jack again loses the meaning of life. He loses the feeling of time, all day lying limp in his bed. However, one day Levy (now formerly Glen) comes to visit him. He takes Jack to the Baskervilles estate, where he introduces him to Alice - the daughter of Lacy. During the overthrow of the Abyss, Lacy was pregnant. The abyss saved the girl. Since time in the Abyss moves differently, Alice, although she came to earth a few days after her mother’s death, has already become a teenager. After learning the truth about the Abyss, Jack decides to do everything to return Lacy. For this, he wants to use the girl and all the power of the Abyss.
Destroying the world for Lacy
Jack wants to bring Lacy back with the help of the Abyss. The Black Rabbit brings him the last memory of the girl in which she says goodbye to Jack. Then the guy finally realizes that Lacy is completely lost and cannot be returned. He decides to overthrow the whole world into the Abyss.
To do this, Jack asks the Will of the Abyss to create a force that can destroy the chains that hold the world. He signs a contract with the Black Rabbit. In order for the Rabbit to come into this world, Jack needs to open the gate to the Abyss. Through an accomplice, he forces Vincent, who is a child suffering misfortunes, and therefore connected with the Abyss, to open the gate and release into the world of the Black Rabbit.
Jack manages to damage the chains, as a result of which the whole city disappears from the face of the earth. Glen stops the destruction, causing Jack to head for Alice. He asks to overcome Glen and break the chains. But Alice refuses. She is sorry for the Black Rabbit, who, by order of Jack, became a killer. The girl, fearing that her body will be captured by the Will of the Abyss and fulfill Jack's desire, commits suicide.
Jack Bezarius's plan failed, but he still gives up hope of overthrowing the world into the Abyss. By threats, he made the chronicler write down the whole story from his own words, posing as a hero, and the Baskervilles as criminals. Due to the crime committed, Jack Bezarius was rejected by the Abyss. He lived for more than a hundred years, moving from one body to another.
Many years later, he came to Lord Zay Bezarius. Jack predicted that the Lord’s baby, who was about to be born, would die. Jack himself will soon take the form of a small child, and Zai must accept him as his son. Indeed, Zaya’s baby dies during childbirth. In order not to injure his wife and mindful of the glory of the hero of Jack Bezarius, Zai adopted the baby as his son.
Jack's soul dies, but the fragments of his memories are still trying to cast the world into the Abyss, using the body of Oz Bezarius and the soul of the Black Rabbit.
Quotes
Character change can be traced by Jack Bezarius quotes.
During his first meeting with Lucy, Jack says: “Not just my father. And mom, everyone, hated them all. But now I don’t care. Because I have nothing else. ”
After meeting with Lacey:
- “To live or die was not important. Until I met you, Lacey. ”
- “I want to see you. For this, I will do anything. ”
After Lacy's death:
- “Lacey, you left me again. And this time forever. "
- “If hope is lost, then even despair is gone. So I want to get her back. Bring back hope. ”
- “I will cast down into the Abyss the world that Lacy loved so much. So that she, who has become one with the Abyss, never suffers from loneliness. ”
Jack Bezarius is a multi-faceted and intriguing character. If at first he appears as a hero, then the more his story and motives are revealed, the more it becomes clear that it is Jack who is the true antagonist of Pandora’s Hearts. In the anime, Jack Bezarius is not sufficiently disclosed due to the fact that much of the anime was different from the original source, and the second season was not released, which would give answers to all questions. However, in the manga, Jack, as a character, is fully revealed.