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Name: Inky
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Other Characters: none
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Timothy Lawrence
Age: early to mid-20ish
Canon: Borderlands
Canon Point: post-Claptastic Voyage DLC
Character Information:
Tim’s wiki page
Pre-Sequel wiki page
Tim’s wiki article is a bit sparse. Drawing from Borderlands writer interviews, in-game ECHO logs, and Timothy's dialogue, here’s what we know about Tim’s background:
Timothy Lawrence was previously a university student majoring in Creative Writing. He accrued a lot of debt from going to a major university instead of community college, however, and sought employment from Hyperion to try to pay it off. He ended up enrolled in Jack’s body double program, which was searching for appropriate candidates for some serious surgery to turn someone into a perfect physical double of Jack. Timothy was ultimately selected as the right candidate, though the specific selection criteria are unknown.
Timothy underwent multiple long, un-anaesthetized surgeries to physically transform into Jack’s double. His face and body were reconstructed, and a voice modulator was put into his throat to alter his voice. According to Jack, there is also a bomb inside Timothy’s face that could detonate if tampered with or jostled too much, or presumably if Jack just up and wants to kill him one day. There is no definitive proof as to whether the bomb is real or just something Jack told Tim to keep him in line, but Tim definitely believes that it’s there.
He was also told by Dr. Autohn, the doctor performing the surgery, that it was reversible, and he would be returned to his original appearance after his contract was up. However, he was also told that his voice modulator would cause pain and irritation for decades, long after his contract is supposed to be finished, indicating that Autohn and Jack either lied about the reversibility of his alterations, the duration of his contract, or both.
Not long after he had fully recovered from his surgeries and was fit for duty, Timothy was summoned to the Helios space station by Jack to repel the Dahl invasion force and find the Elpis vault.
Personality:
Once upon a time, Timothy Lawrence was a college student, majoring in Creative Writing. Like most college students with useless degrees, his main concerns were graduating, getting a job, and making enough at that job to pay back his ridiculously large student loan debt. It was this desperate need to not be horrifically in debt that drove Tim to the Hyperion Corporation and the body-double program.
Now, Tim is stuck with the face of an asshole for the rest of his life, forced to run around on a moon and shoot people. His life is hard.
ZERO
Tim is, to be completely frank, a dweeb. Before he was Jackified, he was nervous and had a somewhat high-pitched voice, hemming and hawing his way through conversations when he was uncomfortable. He wasn’t charming or smooth or confident. He was easily cowed when other, more confident people tried to persuade him or stonewall him into doing something, even if he wasn’t sure about it. He was a nerdy, freckly, gangly little doormat who didn’t have very many friends or prospects and who mostly went through life trying to be as unobtrusive as possible. Even his own mother didn’t like him very much, considering that she laughed whenever she was told that he had died. That’s what he was going into his adventure on Elpis—a nobody shoved into the role of a hero and expected to emulate a man who was supposed to be his better.
HERO
Getting life-altering plastic surgery didn’t completely change Tim, though. He’s still awkward in many ways, especially when it comes to talking to women. Particularly women that he finds attractive; he can barely string together a coherent sentence when he talks to Moxxi, for instance, and mostly just seems to babble out whatever happens to be in his head at that moment. He’s still cripplingly afraid of heights, even though he spends most of his time running around a moon with gravity so low that falling basically has no consequences, unless you fall into lava or something.
Running and gunning on Elpis has, however, had some impact on his character. He’s become a little less nervous and less of a doormat, because there’s probably a threshold of how many bandits you have to shoot in the face before answering the phone stops being so anxiety-inducing. He’s still not completely unfazed by all the tentacled crazy that goes on around him, but he does become more sarcastic about it as the story progresses. Tim does not want to be doing this shit, he doesn’t want to be on this weird, horrible moon, and he will let you know how he feels. Tim’s coping mechanism is passive aggressive sarcasm towards his situation at large.
But there is also a part of him that’s not as tiny as he would admit that kind of likes what he’s doing, too.
There’s a part of Tim that likes the powerful feeling of a well-aimed sniper round busting open a bandit’s skull. There’s a part of him that likes the adrenaline rush, the kick that he gets from kicking ass. Tim had been the little nerd that no one paid attention to for a long time, and he does get a vicious, vindictive satisfaction out of being the big man, the badass, the hero. Then something with tentacles shows up and he remembers that everything sucks, too. Sometimes, in the middle of firefights, he has moments of quiet revulsion when he realizes what he’s doing.
Tim is also probably the least jaded of all the vault hunters, though that’s probably not a high bar to pass. He retains a certain sentimentality-- he apologizes to books in an undertone when he makes fun of them while pretending to be Jack. He loves cats and makes stupid faces and baby-talks at pictures of them. When Jack sends Gladstone and the other scientists out an airlock because one of them might be a mole, Tim is horrified, while the other vault hunters are far less affected. Tim is the soft touch of the party, for what that’s worth on a murdermoon like Elpis, even though he really can’t do much to stop all the violence around him. He is the reluctant participant in Jack’s vicious scheme, going along for the ride because he doesn’t have much of a choice and knows it. The most he can do is make passive aggressive little jabs at Jack when his boss isn’t listening to him, because he knows that Jack is a psychopath but he also knows that his boss is holding the detonator to his face bomb. Tim’s not a genius, but he knows a threat when one’s literally inside his own head.
By the time Jack has Tim and the other vault hunters dive into Claptrap’s horrible little mind to retrieve corporate secrets, the weight of everything that he’s done is starting to show on him. Tim’s got a temper, and in between the passive aggressive sarcasm and attempts at pretending that he’s disaffected, he gets mad. And when Tim loses it, he sounds very much like Jack.
After the events of the Pre-Sequel and DLCs, Tim eventually abandons Jack—once his fear of what Jack will do if he leaves is eclipsed by his fear of what he’ll do if he stays.
5-10 Key Character Traits:
Sarcastic, passive-aggressive, nervous, sentimental, angry, nerdy, kind
Would you prefer a monster that FITS your character’s personality, CONFLICTS with it, EITHER, or opt for 100% RANDOMIZATION?
I think I would prefer one that fits.
Opt-Outs:
Pooka, slime, and faerie
Roleplay Sample:
TDM top level
Name: Inky
Contact:
Other Characters: none
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Timothy Lawrence
Age: early to mid-20ish
Canon: Borderlands
Canon Point: post-Claptastic Voyage DLC
Character Information:
Tim’s wiki page
Pre-Sequel wiki page
Tim’s wiki article is a bit sparse. Drawing from Borderlands writer interviews, in-game ECHO logs, and Timothy's dialogue, here’s what we know about Tim’s background:
Timothy Lawrence was previously a university student majoring in Creative Writing. He accrued a lot of debt from going to a major university instead of community college, however, and sought employment from Hyperion to try to pay it off. He ended up enrolled in Jack’s body double program, which was searching for appropriate candidates for some serious surgery to turn someone into a perfect physical double of Jack. Timothy was ultimately selected as the right candidate, though the specific selection criteria are unknown.
Timothy underwent multiple long, un-anaesthetized surgeries to physically transform into Jack’s double. His face and body were reconstructed, and a voice modulator was put into his throat to alter his voice. According to Jack, there is also a bomb inside Timothy’s face that could detonate if tampered with or jostled too much, or presumably if Jack just up and wants to kill him one day. There is no definitive proof as to whether the bomb is real or just something Jack told Tim to keep him in line, but Tim definitely believes that it’s there.
He was also told by Dr. Autohn, the doctor performing the surgery, that it was reversible, and he would be returned to his original appearance after his contract was up. However, he was also told that his voice modulator would cause pain and irritation for decades, long after his contract is supposed to be finished, indicating that Autohn and Jack either lied about the reversibility of his alterations, the duration of his contract, or both.
Not long after he had fully recovered from his surgeries and was fit for duty, Timothy was summoned to the Helios space station by Jack to repel the Dahl invasion force and find the Elpis vault.
Personality:
Once upon a time, Timothy Lawrence was a college student, majoring in Creative Writing. Like most college students with useless degrees, his main concerns were graduating, getting a job, and making enough at that job to pay back his ridiculously large student loan debt. It was this desperate need to not be horrifically in debt that drove Tim to the Hyperion Corporation and the body-double program.
Now, Tim is stuck with the face of an asshole for the rest of his life, forced to run around on a moon and shoot people. His life is hard.
ZERO
Tim is, to be completely frank, a dweeb. Before he was Jackified, he was nervous and had a somewhat high-pitched voice, hemming and hawing his way through conversations when he was uncomfortable. He wasn’t charming or smooth or confident. He was easily cowed when other, more confident people tried to persuade him or stonewall him into doing something, even if he wasn’t sure about it. He was a nerdy, freckly, gangly little doormat who didn’t have very many friends or prospects and who mostly went through life trying to be as unobtrusive as possible. Even his own mother didn’t like him very much, considering that she laughed whenever she was told that he had died. That’s what he was going into his adventure on Elpis—a nobody shoved into the role of a hero and expected to emulate a man who was supposed to be his better.
HERO
Getting life-altering plastic surgery didn’t completely change Tim, though. He’s still awkward in many ways, especially when it comes to talking to women. Particularly women that he finds attractive; he can barely string together a coherent sentence when he talks to Moxxi, for instance, and mostly just seems to babble out whatever happens to be in his head at that moment. He’s still cripplingly afraid of heights, even though he spends most of his time running around a moon with gravity so low that falling basically has no consequences, unless you fall into lava or something.
Running and gunning on Elpis has, however, had some impact on his character. He’s become a little less nervous and less of a doormat, because there’s probably a threshold of how many bandits you have to shoot in the face before answering the phone stops being so anxiety-inducing. He’s still not completely unfazed by all the tentacled crazy that goes on around him, but he does become more sarcastic about it as the story progresses. Tim does not want to be doing this shit, he doesn’t want to be on this weird, horrible moon, and he will let you know how he feels. Tim’s coping mechanism is passive aggressive sarcasm towards his situation at large.
But there is also a part of him that’s not as tiny as he would admit that kind of likes what he’s doing, too.
There’s a part of Tim that likes the powerful feeling of a well-aimed sniper round busting open a bandit’s skull. There’s a part of him that likes the adrenaline rush, the kick that he gets from kicking ass. Tim had been the little nerd that no one paid attention to for a long time, and he does get a vicious, vindictive satisfaction out of being the big man, the badass, the hero. Then something with tentacles shows up and he remembers that everything sucks, too. Sometimes, in the middle of firefights, he has moments of quiet revulsion when he realizes what he’s doing.
Tim is also probably the least jaded of all the vault hunters, though that’s probably not a high bar to pass. He retains a certain sentimentality-- he apologizes to books in an undertone when he makes fun of them while pretending to be Jack. He loves cats and makes stupid faces and baby-talks at pictures of them. When Jack sends Gladstone and the other scientists out an airlock because one of them might be a mole, Tim is horrified, while the other vault hunters are far less affected. Tim is the soft touch of the party, for what that’s worth on a murdermoon like Elpis, even though he really can’t do much to stop all the violence around him. He is the reluctant participant in Jack’s vicious scheme, going along for the ride because he doesn’t have much of a choice and knows it. The most he can do is make passive aggressive little jabs at Jack when his boss isn’t listening to him, because he knows that Jack is a psychopath but he also knows that his boss is holding the detonator to his face bomb. Tim’s not a genius, but he knows a threat when one’s literally inside his own head.
By the time Jack has Tim and the other vault hunters dive into Claptrap’s horrible little mind to retrieve corporate secrets, the weight of everything that he’s done is starting to show on him. Tim’s got a temper, and in between the passive aggressive sarcasm and attempts at pretending that he’s disaffected, he gets mad. And when Tim loses it, he sounds very much like Jack.
After the events of the Pre-Sequel and DLCs, Tim eventually abandons Jack—once his fear of what Jack will do if he leaves is eclipsed by his fear of what he’ll do if he stays.
5-10 Key Character Traits:
Sarcastic, passive-aggressive, nervous, sentimental, angry, nerdy, kind
Would you prefer a monster that FITS your character’s personality, CONFLICTS with it, EITHER, or opt for 100% RANDOMIZATION?
I think I would prefer one that fits.
Opt-Outs:
Pooka, slime, and faerie
Roleplay Sample:
TDM top level
