"And finally, everything turned out just fine. Christmas was saved, though, there wasn't much time. But after that night, things were never the same. Each holiday now knew the other one's name. And, though, that one Chrismtas got out of hand, I'm still rather fond of that skeleton man. So many years later I thought I'd drop in, and there was old Jack still looking quite thing, with four or five skeleton children at hand, playing strange little tunes in their xylophone band ..."

- Santa Nightmare Before Christmas Special Edition Soundtrack.

So, from that, created Jane and Brendon and I created Jack Jr. and Nelly. XD

I've played around with Jack Jr.'s a lot. XD There will probably be a lot of sibling rivalry between Jack Jr. and Brendon. I only just now read their profiles. Jack Jr. wants to be the scariest thing in Halloween too, but he's taken a completely different approach, as you see. XD

Jack Jr. seemed innocent enough and pretty much started that way. However, his best friends are Lock, Shock and Barrel and they're practically insperable. So naturally, they had a bad influence, especially when Oogie started to play his hand in everything.

He found his father scary for a while, but when Oogie Boogie finally revealed hiself to Jack Jr., he found him much more terrifying. His ability to manipulate bugs and the fact he doesn't have a problem with actually killing people were big factors in that. He could also really create a presence when he wanted to, such as 'the shadow on the moon at night, filling your dreams to the brim with fright.'

So he's got an Oogie-esque look, he practically apprenticing under him, becoming rather rebellious. He also has characteristics of scarecrows, voodoo dolls, and, of course, a gambler. He has a double-sided coin, four aces hidden up his sleeve, trick dice (one's all two's and the other's all fives, seven being the number you want in craps), four variations of his head/hood/hat/mask, those bones southern and Cuban etc. witches use to read fortunes, a voodoo doll, and a sort of quasi-shaman cane.

I can't decide if I want his hair to be dark red like his mother's, which would look scarier when he's not wearing a mask, hood, or hat, or if he should have straw-colored hair which would look better in the Jack-o-lantern, scarecrow look. What do you think?

Sorry about the quality of the picture though. I was bored at a Steak and Shake, and I didn't expect to be making anything I would want to keep, so there wasn't a scanner big enough for it.



Nightmare Before Christmas, Jack Skellington, Oogie Boogie (c) Tim Burton