Tyler Durden/Jack Moore

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1 Basic facts
2 Background
3 Where Canon and Tyler go separate ways (or, what's up with the multiple personalities?)
4 In Fandom
5 Links

Basic facts

Journal Name: tyler_gone
Full name of Character: Tyler Durden (Birth name, Jack Moore)
Age: 15
Birthday: November 1, 1990
Year of Origin: 2006
Fandom of Character: Fight Club
Room: 311 with Alec/X5-494
Cabin: Stickbug B with Cameron Mitchell, Jamie Madrox and Peter Pevensie
Other:

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Background

...or, what did the player make up to make putting him in high school make sense?

Jack was born in Wilmington, Del. His parents, unnamed in canon, are Gary and Denise Moore. They divorced circa 1996, and Gary moved several hundred miles away and remarried, having two more children. In 2004, he divorced his second wife and remarried again, and now has an infant daughter, Addison, with his third wife. Jack was mostly raised by his mother.

Also in 2004, Denise Moore developed breast cancer and eventually died. Jack went to live with an aunt, who he never got along with.

Most of canon -- Jack's insomnia, support groups, Marla, Tyler, condo explosion (though it was his aunt's condo, not his own), Fight Club, and Project Mayhem -- follows from this point. It's largely movieverse canon with one key exception; as in the book, the bombs planted in the credit card headquarters failed, and Tyler was sent to a mental institution. This happened in November, 2005.

Tyler faked the needed paperwork to get out of the institution and arrived in Fandom just in time for the summer 2006 session.

As far as Fandom is concerned, his name is Tyler Durden. A few people know that's not his legal name; even fewer could call him Jack and get away with it. As far as he's concerned, that's simply not who he is anymore.

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Where Canon and Tyler go separate ways (or, what's up with the multiple personalities?)

The big reveal of Fight Club, either the movie or the book, is that Tyler Durden and the narrator are the same person, which the narrator has not known. (If I had to try to diagnose him, I would say he has Dissociative Identity Disorder.) This is bad, as Tyler is (not to put too fine a point on it) a terrorist who is plotting, along with an army he has assembled, to blow up several buildings. In the movie, this is to eliminate credit cards; in the book, it's simply as an act of chaos. Eventually, the narrator shoots himself to kill off Tyler. End of story, more or less.

In canon, the narrator doesn't remember what Tyler does. Because Fandom!Tyler now knows Tyler is a part of himself, he does have those memories, though they may be blurry.

People talking to Tyler ALWAYS see Edward Norton, always. And he's receiving treatment, which means he's more or less "integrated." Which means there's basically one, albeit disturbed, person.

Under certain circumstances, usually involving highly emotional moments, he'll split again, and that's when the player will start doing the dichotomy with the icons and the Tyler/Jack thing in the posts.

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In Fandom

The first thing he did that people noticed was to almost blow himself up in the common room using a bad explosive recipe. Strangely, this somehow did not win him a great many friends, and sent him to the clinic for a week.

He let Buffy Summers (II) talk him into leading the basketball team, which he did all summer. In late June, Veronica Mars investigated and exposed his past and got it on radio.

He has also had an encounter with the ghost of Robert Paulson, which lead Tyler to kind of (but not exactly) forgive himself for much of what his other self had done.

In April of 2007, Brad Pitt!Tyler took over and planted bombs throughout the school. As a result of this, he was expelled.

Some principals just don't appreciate true vision.

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