Jack Walten

Appearance: Jack is usually seen wearing a black-striped suit with a white tie and is often seen smiling. He has a tall figure (6’2”) that often felt intimidating to others, even to his closest friends. He has fair, tan skin, thick eyebrows, thin facial hair, maroon eyes, broad shoulders, and shoulder-length, dark brown, curly hair.

Personality: Jack is described by others as hard-working workaholic and happy father. He is a good husband and father, being quite protective of his children. Jack tried his best as a parent; he was strict, unintentionally pushy, and very exigent, but still was a good father regardless. Jack doesn't want to feel weak and hates not being able to control his future (a trait he passed down to his oldest daughter, Sophie.) Jack is a control freak and doesn't like not being in control, feeling weak when he isn't. To Jack, everything is appearances. He cares about looking like the perfect role model with a perfect family and nothing can ever go wrong. Jack stems from the toxic masculinity mentality. The only person he was vulnerable to was Rosemary though he was even somewhat closed off even with her. Jack has a problem communicating stuff, he can’t for the life of him let out a vulnerable side. He’s always shown smiling in photos, he tries to never show any side of him other than being okay and happy. He wants to be perceived as a perfect person and father even if he has bad ways of expressing emotion/doesn’t know how to deal with emotion. Even though Jack was a co-founder of BSI, he voluntarily chose to work behind the scenes of the company, focusing on logistics and financials, leaving Felix to take on the actual role of the CEO/Manager. This may imply that Jack is humble about his work and did not want to be in the spotlight or that he is not good at actual company management but still wanted to contribute to BSI in some way. Perhaps the most recognizable parts of his personality are his extreme anger issues, and he will get so angry that the ONLY person who can calm him down is Rosemary.

History: Jack Walten was born in Chile on September 23, 1932. By his teenage years, he had moved to the United States, in Brighton, MI. In his young teens, Jack met Rosemary Walten and later began dating her. During the summer, Jack would steal posters that Rosemary made for their local movie theater, unaware that she got in trouble for the posters going missing. Also during his teens, Jack started smoking cigarettes, a habit he would keep all the way to his adult years. Jack studied business management at Cleary University in Howell, Livingston County; It's unknown exactly when they met/became friends, though in 1958, Jack shared the idea of "animated performers" with a fellow college student, Felix Kranken. A year later, Jack graduated university in 1959. That same year, he married Rosemary with whom he started a loving family with. Also in 1959, Jack, Rose, and Felix met Susan Woodings and Charles Brook who were both mechanics. All five of them came together to bring the dream of animatronic children entertainment to life. At age 28 (Jack) and 26 (Rose) respectively in 1960, Jack and Rose's first child, Sophie Walten was born. In 1962 and 1965, Edd Walten and Molly Walten were born respectively. Initially, Jack was anxious to for parenthood. In 1962, Jack and Felix founded the Bunny Smiles Company. By August 1965, the two pitched "the restaurant idea" to an iconic technology company, CyberFun Tech in hopes of them creating the blueprints of the animatronics though both parties got so invested in the concept, the two companies joined for a full partnership, possibly in 1967 when Bunny Smiles Incorporated was established. Jack, as an accountant, likely handled the financial side of Bunny Smiles Incorporated while his wife Rosemary began designing The Showstoppers. For Christmas 1970, Jack and Felix would create an animatronic doll for Molly Walten, named Rocket that Jack and Rose would even record voices for that Rocket could play, similar to a Build-A-Bear plushie. Jack was a very well-known and popular man in the Brighton community, often attending or hosting charity events in Brighton.

———— Relationships: Felix Kranken—Felix and Jack are business friends who met at Cleary University. They bonded over wanting to start an animatronic-themed restaurant, and eventually, their shared dream became a reality. They were the owners and founders of Bon’s Burgers. Though he cares about Felix, he is often the one to cause him to lose his temper. Him and Felix's friendship wasn't an overly strong one, it was more so just business partners who are cool (or assumingly were) with each other. If Felix and Jack were to go for a "guys night out," it would likely be to a bar. He would also win in a fight against Felix.

The Walten Family—Jack has been stated to be a loving father and caring husband. Rosemary Walten is Jack’s wife. She and Jack show no signs of having a struggling marriage. It is stated that their relationship is healthy. He and Rosemary enjoy slow-dancing together. He considers her to be his favorite artist, because she is the one who created designs for the Bon’s Burgers characters: Bon the blue Rabbit, Banny the purple Hare, Sha the Sheep (her favorite), Boozoo the Ringmaster, and Billy the Clown. Their favorite holiday is Christmas. Going out for a night with Rosemary, they would likely go to the theatre often, but spend time lightheartedly arguing over which movie to watch. Jack's relationship with his three children (Sophie, Edward/Edd, and Molly) is somewhat unknown. According to Sophie, he worked a lot, meaning he was a workaholic, and that Sophie couldn't spend much time with him. She also stated that Jack had a deep intimidating voice and that he had anger issues, though he was never abusive or mean towards them and loved them. He’s even willing to hide his own feelings and pain if it meant making it less hard on his loved ones. He also seemed to have a nickname for Sophie: “cricket”.

Fun Facts: -He is a very bad cook. -He is a clumsy dancer. -In college, Jack enjoyed planning pranks. -His favorite color is red. -He would likely hate history as a school subject. -Jack is Latino (Chilean), and has a Chilean accent. Jack is the only Walten to fluently know Spanish. He never bothered teaching his children Spanish due to them living in America. He believes that if you don't know how to speak Spanish, don't try to speak it. -He would lose his mind knowing about Chuck-E-Cheese. -He keeps his look fancy and old-timey, almost as if he were straight from the 1930s. -He really hates anything with funky patterns (although, he said he likes Bon’s bow-tie despite it having a leopard print on it). -His major in college was business. -His favorite song is Fool For a Blonde. -He would have despised YouTube. -He would type like an old man on a computer. -Garfield would have been the only cartoon Jack would not have hated. -He likes songs from the 20s-40s/classical music. -He is more of an extrovert. -He and Susan would try and scare the rest of the Bon's Burgers crew, as they are the tallest and most intimidating. -He drives a red 1974 Buick Apollo. -His favorite food is spaghetti. -He would smoke Marlboro cigarettes. -He would always bring sandwiches for the BSI employees, but if you did a bad job that day, you wouldn't get one. -Jack would be a very popular person in Brighton, attending charity events and other public events. -He's an accountant. -Before the company creation, he had many different office jobs. -When Sophie was born, Jack was scared/anxious for parenthood. -He and Rosemary first “met” each other in high-school (not really “met” cuz they mostly just saw each other around and didn’t really talk). They did eventually start talking in college and started dating. -Jack took Rose to a sheep farm (her favorite animal) with many rose bushes in it the day he proposed to her. -Jack's hair grows really fast. He doesn't grow it out, it'd be way longer if he did. -He wouldn't like his kids calling him by his first name. -He owns a gun, seemingly a shotgun or rifle, and is a good shooter. -He would shoot after Brian if he ever showed up at the Walten household to hit on Rosemary. -Jack enjoys hunting, with him having framed photos in the Walten Family Residence of him hunting. -His favorite alcoholic drink is Ramazzotti or wine. -Jack has the worst road rage out of everyone. -Jack can play the piano. -His favorite film is “Modern Times”. -Jack smokes because he thinks smoking is cool. -Jack would be pranked by Edd and Molly by having his and Rosemary's socks swapped by the two. -He would've seen the Godfather. -Jack is a heavy smoker. -Jack likes cheesecake. -He rarely ever raises his voice. His normal voice is already intimidating enough. -He is Heteroflexible (meaning he is straight most of the time, but occasionally has homosexual moments) and cis-male, using He/Him pronouns. -His birthday is September 23. -He is a Devout Christian.