Jack Garland

Jack is the main protagonist of Stranger of Paradise Final Fantasy Origin and wrestler in The Final Rumble.

I'm here to kill chaos.
Jack is the hired manager of the ramen chain restaurant "Cosmos". One day, a new ramen store called "Chaos" opens next to their store, stealing their customers and closing Jack's store. During the cleanup process, a gas pipe suddenly explodes, and Jack collapses into a coma. When he woke up, he saw a strange world in front of him. Jack had forgotten everything but his name and the word "Chaos"...

Season 0
Jack is a man with one simple goal: kill Chaos. He has trained for it and nothing will stop him from accomplishing his goal.

Episode 2

Fights Chaos.

Episode 4

During his quest to kill Chaos, he decides to try out the White Mage class, and tries to look for equipment of the class in a dumpster, finding instead Kasuga Ichiban. He notices he must have been wounded by Chaos, and heals him, curing his Sleep status in the process. He is also a man who was wronged by Chaos, and a group of agents of Chaos shows up, who prove too much for him in his White Mage job, and they are put back in the dumpster by Chaos.

Episode 5
The two dumpster heroes awaken once again after being put out another week by Chaos, but now they will be wise and pack some sleep immunity to fight Chaos. When making their way out, they have an encounter with The Police of Chaos, who have tightened the security since Coolsville Hills' grand opening by Chaos and decide to check on any suspicious individuals. Despite Ichiban's confidence on being empty, Officer Chaos finds a strange bill in his pocket with a chaotic stain that Ichiban doesn't remember having, which Ooishi explains can only come from a very chaos place. Asking for further questioning in his AC cooled car, Ichiban and Jack have to kindly reject his chaotic offer, but Ooishi has to call backup from Chaos to serve justice.

Being mentally unsound as well, Jack shares Ichiban's Ichivision™ for the fight and sees his enemies as Onishi and Helios too.

The might of Chaos proves too much and the heroes have to take a stroll to the nearby police station.

Episode 6

Jack's first time at the prison of Chaos, but he will not be stopped.

The cop that brought them here has a short conversation with a shady guy, but luckily Jack can read lips to ascertain that he is briefing him on the status of Chaos. Ichiban admires that he must've learned at the school in Oubanara and his stat gains, when suddenly the cop turns on a devilish smile, which must be Chaos making fun of them! Then, Sinbad enters and starts talking with the cop, certainly explaining where the root of Chaos comes from, Jack states it comes from Chaos (Ichiban doesn't quite get it and asks him to explain it to him later with a blackboard). The cop turns on a pissed expression, then smiles again and then Sinbad walks in their direction; Ichiban asks him how they plan to escape, but apparently it was all a misunderstanding and they are all cleared to leave. It's a good thing to have the king's charisma on their side!

Episode 7

Ichiban is grateful for having Sinbad pay their meal at McDonalds, which is the least he could do since he accepted his request, and Jack finally confirms his sandwich was NOT poisoned by Chaos. The three have a good time together (save for Sinbad's hamburger having pickles, in contradiction to his preference stated in his 3rd book). Eventually, Ichiban needs to take a leak, and on the bathroom spots the shady figure that was talking with the cop in the station, and remembers Jack's words: Be aware of Chaos lurking in the bathroom", and follows him through the back door.

Sinbad and Jack arrive just as the fight ends, and Chaos decides to flee from the unfair situation. Moreso, Sinbad advises Ichiban and Jack not to pursue without planning, because that man is the right-hand man of Chaos, Seeker, a dynamic and magnificent enemy. Moreover, they'll need to be careful around the city of Chaos now that they are known, especially with a face like Sinbad's.

Once they leave, a dimes figure silently approaches at a distance to them...

Episode 8

Before heading to their next objective, Ichiban, Jack and Sinbad plan their strategy at the Survive Bar as The Bartender provides them with some assistance. As I was saying... It starts with Chaos.

And then, once Chaos takes roots...

It spreads Chaos!

When Chaos is spread, it leads to Cha- Before Jack can finish explaining the deep relations of Chaos, Sinbad says it's time to leave, Ichiban making sure he worked his 5 minutes at Ichiban Holdings for the day. Suddenly, the ground starts rumbling like someone used an earth skill, and Jack is sure it must be Chaos' Final Rumble... but when they go outside, they realize it's something much, much worse: HEAVY MACHINERY.

Despite all of them against him, the towering Chaos machine was unmovable. Just then, a hero named Serge appears, and through his extremely long intro, HEAVY MACHINERY was put to sleep and then woke to go take a piss. Ichiban is ecstatic at meeting a silent JRPG hero that could so easily inflict sleep and begs him to go with them, and Sinbad says that he wanted to join the party!

When they head beyond the distraction, a dimes figure comments that with four of them, things are getting real interesting...

Episode 9

After an excellent karaoke performance by Serge, a mechanical roar resonates and Chaos' servants arrive. His right-hand man Seeker will not have them escape again and has brought Chaos' left-hand man, Jason, along with a prototype weapon of mass chaos to drive chaos into their heart. The mere sight of him makes Ichiban tremble, but Serge's fearless expression invigorates him with confidence to face a fraction of Chaos' full power.

Episode 10

After such a difficult battle, Ichiban & friends rest in a bowling bar (where Sinbad is adept at breaking pins too) when Ichiban witnesses an incredible display of skill, and the person responsible for it introduces himself as Okada Kazuchika "The Rainmaker". Okada has been scouting Ichiban and asks him to join his cause, but Hayashi Hiroshi comments on Okada's choice since he seems "far below The Dragon's level", when Jack calls them CHAOS and lunges at Okada only to be blocked by Heat O'Brien and Bob Utsunomiya. Ichiban is surprised Chaos is actually real and rejects their offer because he hates when party members leave, but Sinbad tells him to be careful since they are as formidable as KaibaCorp, and since he won't join them the easy way, Okada decides it's time to test Ichiban.

Okada gives credit to Ichiban for his potential as leader, and their team escapes. Sinbad tells Ichiban to calm down since pursuing them any further would be pushing their luck, but the remark makes Jack exclaim that they aren't taking Chaos as serious a threat as they are, and runs off to purse Chaos by himself. Ichiban tries to tell him to come back, but it's not use, and hopes he'll be back for the next boss battle...

Episode 11

When the meeting of Ichiban's Party and CHAOS with KaibaCorp goes sour after Ichiban and Okada reject to sign Seeker's deal, he calls forth Jack who he has contracted and he arrives at the restaurant with his full mercenary squad, pissed off at Chaos rejecting a deal to protect peace. Sinbad signals Ichiban from the door, and Okada also follows, managing to escape the ambush.

Episode 12

The commotion caused outside of KaibaCorp HQ by Chaos and Other Chaos draws their attention and they send Jack and his squad to block the entrance.

Episode 13

Chaos makes their move, and Jack reveals his squad members: Depp, Bathhouse Owner and Hopper. Chaos is easily wiped out by such legendary mercenaries, and Jack is left but no choice but reveal why he left Ichiban; he's not only sided himself with Chaos, but with a mass murderer who enacted a death game and led the world to ruin along with anyone who rejected his lead. These memories within him are what are telling him he must stop Chaos, no, KILL Chaos. Neither Sinbad nor Ichiban have heard of anything like it, and the only thing Okada can muster is that... he got it all wrong, his group is CHAOS, not Chaos. Upon learning of such revelations, he apologizes to Ichiban for the misunderstanding, and him and his squad leave.

Episode 14
Remembering to equip his substory-obtained armor, Ichiban's group charges on into KaibaCorp HQ. Seeker warns them that he was lucky to escape alive the first time, but Ichiban then notices the place looks exactly the same, which Seeker admits is because their chief engineer is gone, but they still managed to produce enough models to take over the world. Jason ambushes the party with two brand new Robo-Kiryu models, but before the situation turns hopeless, Jack make his return; while he was gone, he came to understand what Chaos' nature truly was, something that destroys friendships, and because of that they need to take down Chaos together... even Okada too.

As Ichiban has something to settle with the Dragonlord, his party takes on the threat while he stays in the backguard in a support role. After (half of) the group beats their asses, Ichiban finds the key to the main office, but they feel the entire rest of the production line coming for them. Before they have a chance to stop them, Okada's CHAOS' allies show up to back him up, and Evil Itself admits that even if he may not be as powerful as Kiryu, Ichiban really can be a Dragon too after all. However, the robot army arrives and still far outnumbers them... but the person who has witnessed Ichiban's adventure from the start arrives: The Bartender, who brings along three mercenaries who were having a drink at his bar: Depp, Hopper and Bathhouse Owner. With so many people helping them, the party ventures further into the Dragonlord's lair.

What they find, instead, is an empty office. Sinbad moves away from the party and congratulates Ichiban, because the Dragonlord has been slain... many weeks ago, in fact, all thanks to Ichiban drawing his attention, as Sinbad infiltrated while they were disposing of his body and headcranked his neck. Sinbad became CEO of KaibaCorp which is now part of Sindria Trading Company, and Ichiban getting thrown into a dumpster instead of a hospital was also all arranged by him. But why would someone do that to the very knight he hired, asked Ichiban, and the answer is... he's not even really sure himself. Kasuga can't take the betrayal trope anymore, and even if Sinbad tells him to control his emotions, he can't take someone betraying his quest like that, so Sinbad arranges a deal: defeat him and he'll get his quest reward, lose and... he'll see.

But a hero never stops fighting, even if he has to overcome the unexpected. So even if he's not good enough to defeat the legendary ruler of the seven seas, he can give his all in one last attack in his final turn, leaving both on their knees. Suddenly an opportunistic old man enters and shoots at one of them, but Serge takes the blow as he says "I've been waiting for this" and Sinbad tries to congratulate him, but another blast was more than he expected and blows him away. This man, Tengan Kazuo, was the reason Sinbad put on such a show on the first place and attacked Ichiban to lure out; this man was the person pushing KaibaCorp as its real chairman towards the path of world domination, his goal to make KaibaCorp so abominable to create the greatest despair, which would birth the greatest hope.

However, what he hadn't realized is that he lost the moment Serge drew him out from the shadows and made him visible on-screen; Sinbad's plan B activates and Sakakura Juzo lands over the chairman while on top of 20 or so piles of ladders. Sinbad thanks him for accomplishing the favor he owed him, and Juzo leaves thanking Sinbad instead for welcoming Yu into their country now that Chuck's closed. Ichiban is still confused, but now that its all over Jack and the rest go give the Karaoke machine a rematch, leaving Ichiban behind as he keeps asking questions...

Now that it's in postgame, the party relaxes at the Survive Bar. Ichiban plays modern FF games with Jack, who explains the action gameplay makes it faster to kill Chaos. Serge puts his great voice to work on the karaoke, and Sinbad has gathered new stories from this adventure. Okada smirks at Ichiban being the same, and hopes he can spar with CHAOS in the future as well, but Ichiban remembers he can't... because he has to defeat that fat plumber in Dragon Kart!