Jackabeth

Jackabeth is the het ship between Jack and Elizabeth from the BioShock fandom.

Canon
Jack is the protagonist of the 2007 game BioShock, while Elizabeth is a character from the Burial at Sea episodes DLC in BioShock Infinite.

In Burial at Sea - Episode 2, whenever Elizabeth comes across specific items, visions of Jack's own journey through Rapture are triggered.

After Atlas strikes Elizabeth on the head with a wrench, she finds herself on the ill-fated Apollo Air Flight DF-0301. Walking down the aisle, Elizabeth's perspective alternates between the plane and Rapture. As Jack stands up to begin hijacking the plane, he somehow senses Elizabeth and begins to turn towards her.

As Elizabeth dies, she sees the future clearly, witnessing Jack helping the former Little Sisters Sally, Masha, and Leta to escape to the surface. Knowing that Jack will take care for the girl she came back to save brought Elizabeth some peace in her final moments.

Quotes
"I can see the doors, and what's behind all the doors. And behind one of them, incredibly, I see him."

- Elizabeth, Burial at Sea - Episode 2

Fanon
While Jack and Elizabeth never truly meet in canon, they are shipped by a small, but dedicated group within the BioShock fandom. The shipping of them is most likely due to their similarities.

The scenarios under which Jack and Elizabeth meet are usually AUs from BioShock canon, as Elizabeth dies at the end of Burial at Sea, roughly a year before Jack arrives in Rapture. The second part of Burial at Sea, however, does shows that there is evidence of Elizabeth's time in Rapture, in which could allow Jack to learn a few things about her from. Like the cover poster of her as Sander Cohen's Songbird, the notes that Dr. Yi Suchong had done on the tear in Silver Fin restaurant and the security Carma image of Elizabeth entering Rapture through the said tear. There is also a chance that Atlas and Cohen might had done made Audio Diaries that either mentions or references Elizabeth. Along with the ghostly memory vision side affect of Plasmid could allow Jack to see the memory visions that involve around her.

One version of their meeting, which is canon compliant, has Jack somehow learn of Elizabeth after his defeat of Atlas/Fontaine. He then finds her body in the secret area behind the repairs done in Suchong's Clinic. He then modifies the prototype Vita-Chamber in Suchong's secret lab with the sample of Elizabeth's hair to recognize and then resurrect her.

Because Elizabeth was the one who gave Atlas the key works to control Jack and had hurt Sally for the sake of her scheme to kill the last Comstock, however, could hinter Jack's trust in Elizabeth and would probably cause him to resent her. Until he gives Elizabeth the chance to explain the reason behind them and possibly her own past, as it allows Jack to see how similar they are. As the two were robbed of having a true childhood, so they could be molded into obedient assassins to kill their own fathers, until someone stepped in to help Jack and Elizabeth brake free that chain. Before helping them to exact their revenge.

This ship has 26 works on AO3, while FanFiction.net has 9. Along with the ship having a reasonable size fanbase on both Tumblr and DeviantArt.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * Elizabeth/Jack R. tag on FanFiction.net
 * Elizabeth/Jack R. tag on FanFiction.net

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