Tidewoven Inc | Jack Brenner (yes, THAT Jack) Character Profile
Reader Warning:
This character uses manipulation, emotional pressure, and false mentorship. He frames control as care and proximity as inevitability. Read with awareness.
Jack Brenner is the kind of man who makes a room feel smaller without moving. He smiles at the wrong moments. He listens too closely. He remembers things you did not realize you revealed.
His intelligence is real. That is what makes him dangerous. He understands systems, hierarchies, and leverage, but what excites him most is control disguised as concern. He does not push. He nudges. He waits. He lets people walk themselves into positions they cannot escape.
Jack believes he sees people more clearly than they see themselves. This is not entirely untrue. The problem is what he does with that knowledge.
Where Micah withdraws under pressure, Jack advances. Where Micah doubts himself, Jack sharpens his certainty. He frames manipulation as mentorship, intrusion as insight, and proximity as inevitability.
Jack does not need to be liked. He prefers to be indispensable.
There is something unfinished in him. Something that never learned how to connect without conquest. He wants proximity to Micah, not out of affection, but fascination. Micah represents something Jack cannot replicate, only study, distort, or break.
Jack does not believe he is the villain. He believes he is the only one willing to do what is necessary.
That belief is the problem.
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Scary! If only because his self-perception is so distorted. Lair-dwelling, moustache-twirling, evil-monologuing villains are great but probably too easy to spot in real life (LOL) Jack would definitely slip under the radar. A real wolf in sheep’s clothing.