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Player info:
Name: Tex
Pronoun: he/him/his
E-Mail: texside@gmail.com
Other Contact: The Tex Side on AIM, gchat
Character Basics
Name: Travis Handley/Tyrus Haverford
Class: Alchemist
Age: 20
Gender/Sex: Male
Birthdate: Unknown; the original Travis's was August 22
Birthplace: The Nenakret
PB: Firo Prochainezo from Baccano!
Appearance
Natural Hair/Eye Color: Blonde and red. He wears brown contacts.
Height: 5' 10"
Body Type: Slim
Appearance Misc: Tyrus is your typical slim, athletic rogue type (except that he's actually an alchemist). What's especially notable is that he looked identical to his former player, minus a couple of key points: Travis Handley had brown eyes, wore his hair longer, shaved less, and was fatter. His friends think he cleaned up a lot.
Background
Summary: Tyrus Haverford was born in the Nenakret, where he was a street orphan who only had his older brother Gaius to lean on. Tyrus and Gaius were inseparable; Gaius tried to shield his younger brother from the harder side of the criminal underworld, but as they grew older, it corrupted Gaius. Gaius fell in with a bad crowd. He stopped trying to get by and started trying to get rich. He met with a group of people called Bohun Upas, and one day, Tyrus found out about that connection. The Upas member that Gaius was meeting with told him to kill Tyrus; Tyrus went into a rage, managed to wrestle his brother's knife away, and cut his throat.
He joined Bohun Upas instead that day, when the impressed Third that his brother met with decided Tyrus was worth the chance. He became a criminal in his own right, then. He became an alchemist and carved a place out as a smuggler, making potions and weapons and equipment for other criminals. He also became a good shot with an alchemical pistol and participated in raids. He was young, but he learned fast. The problem, of course, was that he was living a lie.
Tyrus never wanted to be a criminal. He was wracked with guilt over murdering his brother; he internalized that blame, then he rationalized it at Bohun Upas. He may have wielded the knife, but they were why Gaius died. He decided the only way that he could make things right, make certain that no one else's big brother got twisted and died. The way to do this, he decided, was rise to the very top of the league. Then, once he was in charge, he would dismantle the whole thing and kill as many of their people as possible.
It worked out differently, of course. He committed crimes; he killed more people. Tyrus began to realize that he was going to hurt more people than he would ever save. He had too much blood on his hands. He started to despair. Then, he wound up on Earth, in Fall City. The world was suddenly real. He started piecing together what happened in Bastantown, coming to understand players and the like. He did some research -- he was technically minded, so he understood the internet quickly -- and tracked his player down to his apartment in Underwood. He met a young man who looked like him, named Travis Handley, and he got some answers.
Then Travis told him that Gaius dying was "compelling." Tyrus lost it. He killed him with his bare hands and, when he calmed down, realized he had a problem. He melted the body down with acid (having done it before) and started researching. He mail-ordered brown contacts; he fabricated a story about a near death experience while vacationing. He took over Travis's life and picked up where he left off. He's since come to love Earth. It's vibrant, he thinks, and bright. It's so different than his life in the Nenakret and those childhood memories of grimy alleys.
He tries to lie low in his new life as Travis Handley. He claims the near death experience changed things; it made him appreciate life, made him want to make his life move in a real direction. He attends FCU, still, but he has maintained Upas contacts on Earth. He isn't sure if his goal in life still counts... but it's not like you can stop being an Upas.
PC Information and Roleplay History: Travis played Tyrus forever. He was his main character and got him to level 92 before he turned real. He did a lot of RP with the Upas; he rose up to the rank of Third and there was a plot planned to make him a Second, but before it got rolling, he went to Earth. He did some lower level raids and some dungeon runs and the like. He made Tyrus especially good at combat; he is an excellent shot and he uses a lot of bombs.
Tyrus was portrayed as clever and good with machines. He specializes in bomb-making, but he also can do constructs and basic machines. He knows how to do potions, but it's not quite his specialty. He got a reputation in the Upas for disguising ordinary objects as bombs; Travis thought it was funny if Tyrus knew how to, say, make a matching knife and fork set a bomb, and when they both touch the plate, they explode.
Also, Travis made Tyrus say lots and lots and lots of movie quotes. Tyrus does it instinctively, but now he's seen the movies, and feels a fair amount of annoyance.
Personality
General Overview: Tyrus has a bad guilt complex. Displaced guilt over murdering his brother has come to define his life. He doesn't even consciously face this guilt a lot of the time; he tells himself that once he can be Bohun Upas's First, he can make everything right and make everything okay. That will absolve him of all of his sins. Except, deep down, Tyrus suspects it won't. He sometimes thinks he has gotten in too deep and nothing will, really, make it right. He still tries.
Tyrus doesn't let this show. He wanted to rise to the top in the Upas, which meant that he needed to learn to be sociable. He is excessively cheerful and a little sarcastic; he tries to be the sort of guy you can joke around with, who can poke fun at things but not get worked up when he does it, and the type of fellow you don't mind having a beer with. He religiously avoids serious conversation and deep topics. He doesn't want to let any of what he really thinks show and he tells himself that he doesn't really want to get to know people.
Rising in the ranks also meant that he had to be ruthless. Tyrus can turn off the cheerful side and be pleasant but cold. He learned to put a smile on his face when slitting someone's throat or beating the shit out of them for not paying on time. It's a defense mechanism: he learns to turn his emotions off to not show his distaste.
Tyrus also puts on an ambitious face. As Travis, this is the biggest change; he had a lot in common with his player's personality, but Travis was a C-student. Tyrus wants to look like a good criminal: greedy and driven. He is, as it happens, driven, though more to destroying the Upas from within. He applies this act with his identity as Travis; he pretends to be a driven student, wanting to succeed in life. He doesn't really know how to act like a lazy layabout and didn't try.
Altogether, Tyrus has become a very good liar. He puts this to use on Earth. A lot of his lies work because they're half-truths; he doesn't pretend to be someone else entirely, he just hides a lot of who he is and behaves like a caricature. The part he covers up is the sense of morality and the drive to fix the world. He wants to look amoral and disinterested, but the truth is anything but. On Earth, he is lucky that he is not so different than Travis. He has only faced people at FCU that knew Travis for a year or so, so far. He claims the near death experience changed his outlook to explain the changes.
He is, despite the troubles in his life, an optimist at heart. He wants the world to be a better place; he doesn't hate Earth, even if it caused him troubles, because the culture and the lifestyle there seemed nice and vibrant. He likes Zenderael, too, if with more reservations (because he saw ugly parts of it -- or his player wrote him as seeing ugly parts of it). He thinks things can be fixed when they're bad and that they should be fixed if they're bad.
This makes Tyrus have a problem: once he gets to know someone, he is more open than he should. He really is cheerful and really does want people to like him. He wants to be a better person than he is and sometimes lets himself think he is a good man. He buddies up to someone, without thinking things through. He wants friends and he makes them, then he remembers how bad of an idea that is.
Finally, Tyrus has a well-hidden anger streak. When bad things happen too often, or especially on the topic of his brother (or if someone he really cares about is hurt), he explodes. His anger is a rare thing, usually inspired by violence or serious betrayal (which is how he viewed his player dismissing his brother's death, and he later grew very guilty over that). When it comes out, it's physically violent. He tries to kill people.
Keywords: cheerful, sarcastic, dishonest, detached, cruel, optimistic, ambitious, self-delusional
Name: Tex
Pronoun: he/him/his
E-Mail: texside@gmail.com
Other Contact: The Tex Side on AIM, gchat
Character Basics
Name: Travis Handley/Tyrus Haverford
Class: Alchemist
Age: 20
Gender/Sex: Male
Birthdate: Unknown; the original Travis's was August 22
Birthplace: The Nenakret
PB: Firo Prochainezo from Baccano!
Appearance
Natural Hair/Eye Color: Blonde and red. He wears brown contacts.
Height: 5' 10"
Body Type: Slim
Appearance Misc: Tyrus is your typical slim, athletic rogue type (except that he's actually an alchemist). What's especially notable is that he looked identical to his former player, minus a couple of key points: Travis Handley had brown eyes, wore his hair longer, shaved less, and was fatter. His friends think he cleaned up a lot.
Background
Summary: Tyrus Haverford was born in the Nenakret, where he was a street orphan who only had his older brother Gaius to lean on. Tyrus and Gaius were inseparable; Gaius tried to shield his younger brother from the harder side of the criminal underworld, but as they grew older, it corrupted Gaius. Gaius fell in with a bad crowd. He stopped trying to get by and started trying to get rich. He met with a group of people called Bohun Upas, and one day, Tyrus found out about that connection. The Upas member that Gaius was meeting with told him to kill Tyrus; Tyrus went into a rage, managed to wrestle his brother's knife away, and cut his throat.
He joined Bohun Upas instead that day, when the impressed Third that his brother met with decided Tyrus was worth the chance. He became a criminal in his own right, then. He became an alchemist and carved a place out as a smuggler, making potions and weapons and equipment for other criminals. He also became a good shot with an alchemical pistol and participated in raids. He was young, but he learned fast. The problem, of course, was that he was living a lie.
Tyrus never wanted to be a criminal. He was wracked with guilt over murdering his brother; he internalized that blame, then he rationalized it at Bohun Upas. He may have wielded the knife, but they were why Gaius died. He decided the only way that he could make things right, make certain that no one else's big brother got twisted and died. The way to do this, he decided, was rise to the very top of the league. Then, once he was in charge, he would dismantle the whole thing and kill as many of their people as possible.
It worked out differently, of course. He committed crimes; he killed more people. Tyrus began to realize that he was going to hurt more people than he would ever save. He had too much blood on his hands. He started to despair. Then, he wound up on Earth, in Fall City. The world was suddenly real. He started piecing together what happened in Bastantown, coming to understand players and the like. He did some research -- he was technically minded, so he understood the internet quickly -- and tracked his player down to his apartment in Underwood. He met a young man who looked like him, named Travis Handley, and he got some answers.
Then Travis told him that Gaius dying was "compelling." Tyrus lost it. He killed him with his bare hands and, when he calmed down, realized he had a problem. He melted the body down with acid (having done it before) and started researching. He mail-ordered brown contacts; he fabricated a story about a near death experience while vacationing. He took over Travis's life and picked up where he left off. He's since come to love Earth. It's vibrant, he thinks, and bright. It's so different than his life in the Nenakret and those childhood memories of grimy alleys.
He tries to lie low in his new life as Travis Handley. He claims the near death experience changed things; it made him appreciate life, made him want to make his life move in a real direction. He attends FCU, still, but he has maintained Upas contacts on Earth. He isn't sure if his goal in life still counts... but it's not like you can stop being an Upas.
PC Information and Roleplay History: Travis played Tyrus forever. He was his main character and got him to level 92 before he turned real. He did a lot of RP with the Upas; he rose up to the rank of Third and there was a plot planned to make him a Second, but before it got rolling, he went to Earth. He did some lower level raids and some dungeon runs and the like. He made Tyrus especially good at combat; he is an excellent shot and he uses a lot of bombs.
Tyrus was portrayed as clever and good with machines. He specializes in bomb-making, but he also can do constructs and basic machines. He knows how to do potions, but it's not quite his specialty. He got a reputation in the Upas for disguising ordinary objects as bombs; Travis thought it was funny if Tyrus knew how to, say, make a matching knife and fork set a bomb, and when they both touch the plate, they explode.
Also, Travis made Tyrus say lots and lots and lots of movie quotes. Tyrus does it instinctively, but now he's seen the movies, and feels a fair amount of annoyance.
Personality
General Overview: Tyrus has a bad guilt complex. Displaced guilt over murdering his brother has come to define his life. He doesn't even consciously face this guilt a lot of the time; he tells himself that once he can be Bohun Upas's First, he can make everything right and make everything okay. That will absolve him of all of his sins. Except, deep down, Tyrus suspects it won't. He sometimes thinks he has gotten in too deep and nothing will, really, make it right. He still tries.
Tyrus doesn't let this show. He wanted to rise to the top in the Upas, which meant that he needed to learn to be sociable. He is excessively cheerful and a little sarcastic; he tries to be the sort of guy you can joke around with, who can poke fun at things but not get worked up when he does it, and the type of fellow you don't mind having a beer with. He religiously avoids serious conversation and deep topics. He doesn't want to let any of what he really thinks show and he tells himself that he doesn't really want to get to know people.
Rising in the ranks also meant that he had to be ruthless. Tyrus can turn off the cheerful side and be pleasant but cold. He learned to put a smile on his face when slitting someone's throat or beating the shit out of them for not paying on time. It's a defense mechanism: he learns to turn his emotions off to not show his distaste.
Tyrus also puts on an ambitious face. As Travis, this is the biggest change; he had a lot in common with his player's personality, but Travis was a C-student. Tyrus wants to look like a good criminal: greedy and driven. He is, as it happens, driven, though more to destroying the Upas from within. He applies this act with his identity as Travis; he pretends to be a driven student, wanting to succeed in life. He doesn't really know how to act like a lazy layabout and didn't try.
Altogether, Tyrus has become a very good liar. He puts this to use on Earth. A lot of his lies work because they're half-truths; he doesn't pretend to be someone else entirely, he just hides a lot of who he is and behaves like a caricature. The part he covers up is the sense of morality and the drive to fix the world. He wants to look amoral and disinterested, but the truth is anything but. On Earth, he is lucky that he is not so different than Travis. He has only faced people at FCU that knew Travis for a year or so, so far. He claims the near death experience changed his outlook to explain the changes.
He is, despite the troubles in his life, an optimist at heart. He wants the world to be a better place; he doesn't hate Earth, even if it caused him troubles, because the culture and the lifestyle there seemed nice and vibrant. He likes Zenderael, too, if with more reservations (because he saw ugly parts of it -- or his player wrote him as seeing ugly parts of it). He thinks things can be fixed when they're bad and that they should be fixed if they're bad.
This makes Tyrus have a problem: once he gets to know someone, he is more open than he should. He really is cheerful and really does want people to like him. He wants to be a better person than he is and sometimes lets himself think he is a good man. He buddies up to someone, without thinking things through. He wants friends and he makes them, then he remembers how bad of an idea that is.
Finally, Tyrus has a well-hidden anger streak. When bad things happen too often, or especially on the topic of his brother (or if someone he really cares about is hurt), he explodes. His anger is a rare thing, usually inspired by violence or serious betrayal (which is how he viewed his player dismissing his brother's death, and he later grew very guilty over that). When it comes out, it's physically violent. He tries to kill people.
Keywords: cheerful, sarcastic, dishonest, detached, cruel, optimistic, ambitious, self-delusional