Jack Dunckel

Jonathan Martin Dunckel (born 1994 in Burnsville, Minnesota, USA, Universe ZZ09ZSA) is an unemployed former bartender currently living in Prior Lake, Minnesota, in Universe ZZ09ZSA.

Jack grew up in Apple Valley, Minnesota, and attended St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. He has no close living relatives; he was an only child, and his parents died in a car accident in 2016, four years before the start of his story. He had been working as a bartender, but was laid off due to COVID-19, and when his employer opened back up, he chose to resign, as he had enough savings from his inheritance to live on, and he did not want to take a job away from someone who needed it. In his personal life, Jack is a macrophile, someone with a fetish for size changing fantasies, specifically those where he would be the smaller partner. He lives in the suburbs of Minneapolis.

In 2020, Jack accidentally fell through a portal that manifested in his apartment. The portal had an exit in Universe ZZ02ZSQ, in the dorm room of Angie Norris and Mindy St. Claire. Jack briefly explored the room, and saw Mindy, before falling back through the portal into his own apartment.

Once in his apartment, Jack was rather surprised to see himself; his doppelgänger told him that it was 2022, and that he had done something that was going to make Jack's timeline collapse. The doppelgänger appeared quite pleased with his actions, something that Jack found to be horrific. His future self explained some of the mechanism to Jack, and indicated that the change was due to their altering history to save their parents. Jack remained uncertain about this decision, but could understand it somewhat more; he is still unsure he will make the same decision.

Jack is apparently already in a relationship with Angie Norris; because the links between the portals are not temporally connected, he first met Angie in March of 2019 by her universe's timeline, whereas from Angie's perspective, she first met Jack in October of 2018. While confusing, Jack has tried to roll with it, not least because it has led to him dropping into a world where a giant goth woman is telling him she already loves him.