Jack of Harts

The primary concept of Captain William Carter’s entrance into the weird world was when he was touched by the otherworld after crossing the Delaware in 1776. He got bit by a Hessian vampire and doesn’t age any more. He doesn’t know why. All he knows is that he doesn’t age, and he’s a fair bit tougher than the average human. Not invulnerable. Just hardier and quicker to heal. Pretty much the same as Jack Hart some centuries later. There’s got to be a reason why your action heroes take wounds that would cripple or hobble a real living man and just walk them off, right? Your typical action hero from movies would spend weeks or months recovering. I want to write another story for the next day. So I write characters that can do that. And then I shoot them. Or stab them. Or get them into crashes that fracture every bone in their body. Sometimes a lot.

That is where Captain William Carter comes from. I wanted someone better than human but still realistic. Still human, but better than most, a hero I could write, without having him age out or get crippled. I was going to put him through a lot of hells and he needed to be able to survive them. That is where William Carter comes from.