Jack Adata was born in 1975 back in Universe Prime. It comes as a surprise then that in this new history his consciousness is born into a body named Anna in a 1940s Great Britain. She grows up among a golden era where crime was at its lowest point in almost forty years. Her parents worked as spinsters in the lower boroughs of London. They first noticed their daughter was special when she was about three years old. Her talent for music was one of the first things that her parents recognized; she hummed tunes aloud around the house and would frequently be asked by her parents to teach them her songs. She remembers fondly the songs her mother would sing to herself when she thought nobody was listening.

Diagnosed with more modern technology and societal standards, she would have been placed on the spectrum, as those in your universe would have it be known as. She was always a bit quirky around other people, but always wanting to see new things, do new things.

Much to say, she has had her share of struggles. She understood that she was different from most others that she met. The hunger for adventure and new experiences was too much for her to take in her small town for any longer.. This is one of her strongest desires...and so when she’s twenty-one she works toward just that and moves out of her home to emigrate to America. She was initially opposed by her parents as such a decision seemed foolhardy and risky, but as they saw her take off on the boat toward New York they knew that it was the only path for her.

Now celebrating her freedom as an adult she takes to the city like a moth to the flame. She arrives at Ellis Island with nary a clue on how to make her own in this new foreign land, but Anna was resourceful, if not a little naive at times. She finds herself in a homeless shelter for the first few months of her stay, but she doesn’t let it stray herself from her optimism. Anna learned, adapted, and bounced right back after discovering that she was in fact really good at singing. It was already something she enjoyed doing in her spare time, but to find that she had some natural talent bubbling up inside her did wonders. She took the words from the songs that her mother would sing to herself and jumped up to a whole new beat. Eventually, she was confident enough to sing in front of others—especially at the local pub near the homeless shelter she was staying.

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It was here that she was noticed by some producers who worked for KWOR radio station. She’s approached and asked to sign up almost immediately for a deal with their station for a live performance. Anna agrees and performs her cover of her mother’s cadence live—the ratings on the show boost to their highest point in the past year and decide to offer a full deal for various live performances. By the age of twenty-three Anna is a hit across all of the northwest, and news would soon spread back home to her family—who in their own time moved out west to see their daughter’s success firsthand.

Like Friedrich, much of Jack’s personality was entangled deeply with conditions that he was born with in Universe Prime, being the exceptions to the previous rule. Jack in Universe Prime was born with Prosopagnosia, a condition where one person would not be able to distinguish the differences in human faces. Now, most that suffer from Prosopagnosia learn to differentiate their peers from one another using other notifiers such as clothing, hairstyle, voice, and even comparative heights to help them identify people that they are associating with. Jack suffered an additional handful of anxiety disorders on account of his personal feelings toward his condition and it caused him to not fully form the social skills necessary to be able to pick apart these notifiers at a glance—he typically needed an extended amount of time with someone new to be able to recognize them for their different traits as he often didn’t meet new people; he tried his best to avoid it. Jack’s Prosopagnosia became so intertwined with who he was as a person that the person inside never really broke out of his shell in Universe Prime. His mind was warped after the Radical-9 Incident and any traces of the insecure boy who wanted to make friends but couldn’t had disappeared. So the Jack we see in this new possibility, Anna Cline, is the kind of personality that Jack would have had were he not afflicted with the Prosopagnosia.

Now that that matter is settled, I’m sure that some of you out there are curious on the state of Jack’s children as he had quite a few during his time back in Universe Prime...four to be exact. Megan, Jen, Sam, and Sarah were all heavily involved with the Radical-9 incident back on Universe Prime. Since the both of their fates had wildly changed from Universe Prime, so would follow down the family tree. The four of these children would not be born under a sky in which their blood is tainted with Radical-9. Before we move onto their generation we have a few faces to meet before we can continue forward.