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| This article is about the son of Mother Timothy Goose and Henry Hubbard from Neverafter, Jack Hubbard-Goose. |
| For the article about the person who climbed the beanstalk and killed the giant there from Neverafter, see Jack, the Giant-Killer. For the article about Matt Mercer's character from Pirates of Leviathan, see Jack Brakkow. |
Jack Hubbard-Goose is the son of Mother Timothy Goose and Henry Hubbard.
Featured Episodes[]
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Neverafter
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Background[]
Jack was raised by Tim and Henry in Pottingham. Once, when he was young, he burned a wax stain into their floor by accident while jumping over a candlestick, leading to Timothy writing the nursery rhyme Jack Be Nimble. As he got older, Jack increasingly became obsessed with getting golden eggs, which would ultimately lead to his bad dealings with the Gander.
History[]
The Times of Shadow[]
At some point, Jack acquires a golden goose egg, which he claimed to simply have found. Shortly after, he acquires a large amount of money, which the two husbands assume he had gotten from selling powders, tinctures, or elixirs.
One day, Timothy comes home, clutching a small pile of bones and proclaiming, "This is Jack." He tells his husband that he had seen Jack die after Jack told a goose, "I need my third wish," the goose then laughing and rapidly decomposed Jack into the pile of bones. The goose then asks Timothy, "Do you wish to know what just happened?" When Timothy agrees, he gets stuck in the same cycle that Jack was in, with the promise of the third wish leading to death.
For his second wish, he says, "I wish for something to bring my son back," and is then gifted his book, in which any words that hold meaning are written, while the rest disappear. When Timothy writes the nursery rhyme he wrote about Jack in it, the room fills with light, the letters become illuminated in multicolour, and he sees an idealised version of Jack, looking healthy and well, running faster than he ever had towards a non-flooded version of Pottingham. This version of Jack tells Timothy that he can use the book to bring him back, but also can do so much more. Jack then tells him, "You'll find them. I know you will," before the bones disappear in golden light.
Mirror, Mirror[]
Jack is seen happily dancing with Old King Cole when the man is sucked into the book.
The Last Wish[]
Jack is seen along with Old King Cole, Little Miss Muffet, the Itsy Bitsy Spider, and the Golden Goose in Timothy's book. While they previously have been seen to be happy, here it looks as though they are preparing for war.
The Trials of Baba Yaga[]
While Puss in Boots is carrying out his chore for Baba Yaga, he comes upon a group of giants, angry at the cat for having defeated their brother in his original story. While confronting them, PiB sees Jack hanging from a cage in a tree on the path ahead, which the cat ultimately recognizes from a picture in the book. Jack is cold and shivering, in a bad way, to which PiB offers to get him down and help him out, similarly to the way he did Tomas in his original story. He is then able to bring him back to Baba Yaga's hut, and to his elated parents. Timothy, Henry, and Jack are then able to have a heart to heart, Jack apologizing for his actions, and Tim and Henry telling him how proud they are of him, and that there's nothing he can do to make them not love him.
Relationships[]
Henry Hubbard[]
Henry and Timothy both care very deeply for their son. Henry did as much as he could to help Timothy work out the book to save Jack when he was killed.
The Gander[]
At some point, Jack acquired a goose egg, which he claimed to have found, and shortly after acquired a large amount of money, which the two husbands assumed he had gotten from selling powders, tinctures, or elixirs, but instead was presumably a wish he had made of the Gander.
One day, Timothy came home, clutching a small pile of bones and proclaiming "This is Jack." He told Henry that he had seen Jack die after Jack told the Gander "I need my third wish," whereupon the goose laughed and rapidly decomposed Jack into the pile of bones.
Mother Timothy Goose[]
Timothy is one of Jack's two fathers, and he loves Jack very much. From a young age, Timothy would write nursery rhymes about Jack, and even when he began to gain illicit money and hang out with the wrong crowd, Timothy always thought of his son as a good boy. One day, Timothy saw the Gander turn Jack into only bones, and came home to his husband, terrified. He had entered himself in the same deal as Jack was in with the Gander in order to save his son, and he is currently still searching for him.
Trivia[]
- There are a lot of stories that feature different stories of Jack's life. The original is Jack, Be Nimble, and others include Jack, the Giant-Killer (Jack and the Beanstalk) and Jack from Jack & Jill.