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Player
Name: Fedora
Livejournal Username: lovesnotwisely
E-mail: lovesnotwisely@gmail.com
AIM/MSN: AIM ; BattleToasters
Timezone: EST
Current Characters in Route: usedrage and phoenix_temple
Character
Name: Travis Touchdown
Series: No More Heroes
Timeline: First game, Rank 2, just after beating Bad Girl.
Canon Resource Links: Suda Wiki for him; Suda Wiki for NMH
Personality: So Travis Touchdown, first and foremost, is a giant fucking douchebag. You will never meet someone so crude, violent, nasty, immature or sexist in your entire life. He spends a major portion of his time drinking and getting off to anime characters. And the rest? He spends murdering people (and mowing people's lawns--). Travis is a hitman, or at least what his universe passes off as a hitman, and a damn good one, leaving a trail of blood in his wake. He seems cold-hearted because of this, but the truth is, there's a lot more to Travis than is on the surface. Sure he's crude, makes passes at women and doesn’t give one shit about them. Sure he's nasty, and will kill without bias to get the cash for the next ranked fight. Sure, he's got the emotional maturity of a thumb tack, but there are some things you need to know about him:
Travis strongly believes in Honor and the Warrior's Spirit. He respects those who fight clean and fights clean himself. He even considers death in battle honorable, like most of his foes. Therefore, when he kills his opponents? It's honorable. This is made a more solid idea for him after his fight against Holly Summers. Travis refuses to kill her, despite killing every other assassin on his way, because she’s a woman. She explains to Travis that when an assassin loses, they must die. That’s what’s honorable, that’s how it works. From that point on, Travis is even more aware of the honor in the system on the side of the assassins.
Travis' sense of honor is actually his only redeeming point. Because it's from that that all his "good" stems. His sparing Shinobu’s life (which is a huge plot point), his fighting fair, his fighting to the best of his ability all the time, every time--they all stem from his honor.
Outside of battle, Travis isn't so bad. He wouldn't kill someone without reason, and he gets along well with a few people who've learned to take his jokes and fail!humor in stride. He's not popular with girls (until he makes rank 1 and walks away, when they positively fawn over him), but he does well with the nightlife in Santa Destroy. He’s a regular student of his late physical trainer, a good friend of Bishop at the video store, and when he’s not running people over on the streets, pretty easy to get along with.
Travis doesn't seem to go very deep, and really, even though he does, his depth comes from basic, basic concepts that anyone could understand. In the second game, he's referred to as "the Crownless King, the one who got out." No one can understand how he managed to escape the system. In reality, he only did because he no longer desired to be a slave to the system that is the UAA. He desires to be a hero of his own accord, in his own way, UAA be damned. Travis' depth, what no one can understand, is really and truly, him doing what the fuck he wants to do. He wants to be honorable, he wants to be a hero, he wants to be an assassin, he wants to kill, he wants to be the best--Travis Touchdown, in all his depth and confusion, just does what he wants... and maybe that's why no one can understand him.
Travis has the potential for a strange, strange growth. By the end of the second game he comes to not only respect life, but value it. Though he knows he's fiction, he knows that his life is still life. And he realizes that every NPC he slashed through on the way to the top was a life, as well.
... But that's not until the future.
Strengths/Weaknesses: I'm just gonna put it out there that most of Travis' strengths are physical strengths, and most of his weaknesses are personality weaknesses.
+Massive Invulnerability-I'd normally just chalk it up to the fact he's a video game protagonist, but it's mentioned several times in game how indestructible this guy is. It's not magic. He's been shot with bullets, slammed with freaking death rays, stabbed, slashed, and physically battered. And until his fight with Bad Girl, he's never broken a sweat.
+Physical Strength-Travis trains. All the goddamn time. Thanks to Thunder Ryu, Travis has no problem slicing through metal (though that's mostly due to his unique weapon), parrying blows from ridiculously strong, buff enemies and all that general stuff.
+Sword and Hand to Hand Combat Experience and Training
+The Ability to Kill Without Flinching
+Able to Mask Emotion-He's able to discuss his parent's death, and later his own with nothing but a smile. He can kill his sister with a laugh. He can laugh anything off.
+Determination-He just wants to fight someone better than himself, and if it means he'll have to fight his way tooth and nail through eleven ranked assassins, he'll do it.
+Honor-While this is often a weakness of his, it does show moral strength that even if he kills, he does it on his terms, fighting fair. (I turned my back and you didn't strike--You are fucking with me!)
+GenreFuckingSavvy-He fourthwalls the shit out of himself, and is big on video games.
-"So Travis Touchdown, first and foremost, is a giant fucking douchebag. You will never meet someone so crude, violent, nasty, immature or sexist in your entire life." Bam, there's six.
-Giant Douchebag
-Crude
-Violent
-Nasty
-Immature
-Sexist
-Honor-Travis will turn his back if you tell him you won't strike. He believes in honor, and he believes that other hitmen have the same honor as him. This fails him
-His many, many vices. Sex and Alcohol being among the top two. He can get so drunk he forgets what happens to him. This is a regular occurrence.
-Lack of Foresight-Travis doesn't think about who he's killing, who's around them. Just that he's killing that person. This leads to Desperate Struggle, where the family of someone he killed in the first game seeks revenge on him.
-Giant Otakuness-This just makes him really fucking creepy.
-Oh, and he has no respect for personal space.
-And he's emotionally closed off, so no one really sees the good inside him :|b
-Did I mention he was a killer?
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Trainer
Starter: Cleffa
Password: Taco Bell--
Samples
First Person Sample: (I’m recycling this from my old app because first person samples are the devil)
All right Johto, it's time you and I had a serious discussion. [Travis looks pretty goddamn pissed. The camera pans over to his Cleffa, contently building a snow... cleffa. maybe] What the fuck is this? What the fuck is this? I am supposed to use that to fight?! I mean, sure. It's cute enough. But I'm not aiming to "moe" my enemies to death, here. It looks like a goddamn pillow.
You can't fight with a goddamn pillow. Last time I saw people fighting with pillows, they were in panties and you couldn't watch it unless you were eighteen. I don't know what the people around here were smoking when they came up with this shit, and I swear to fucking god, I'm not sure I'm not just high, but if I'm not I can't fight with a fucking pillow.
So, I'm on the market for something fucking useful. Give me something... I don't know something badass. Recommendations, guys!
[text]
POLL: WHAT IS THE BEST FUCKING POKEMON OUT THERE?
Third Person Sample: If there was one thing Travis Touchdown missed, it was the feel of a beam katana in his hands. Blood Berry, Tsubaki, MK-II, MK-III, it didn't fucking matter, he missed the feel of the sword in his hands. And if nothing else it pissed him off that he lost it. He paid a good penny for his current model--not that Naomi was ripping him off, no that wasn't true, it was a fair price. It was the highest quality available right now. And hot damn did he miss it.
He'd gotten used to it, and it's protection--he had the Tsubaki MK-III with him at all times, these days. Second Rank, as Sylvia explained it, was dangerous. There were more people scrambling for the top than there are people pushing down from it at this point. Not that he minded the danger. He thrived on it.
Assassination was a good gig. Lots of fights, lots of blood, lots of cash--and lots. And lots. Of women. Sure one was batshit insane, one was an old witch, one blew her own head off with a grenade and one was still calling for his blood, even after he cut off her arm, but most of them were pretty hot.
This Pokemon training thing probably wasn't going to bring as many hot chicks, was it? This was the kind of shit he and Bishop would play when they were really fucking bored as kids--monster fighting games. And even then that shit wasn't cool.
He stared at the pink... thing, which was swaying contentedly. This bitch? Was not manly. When you fought, you had to fight with something manly. It wouldn't just go away, either. Travis had to figure out something to do with it. Despite looking like a marshmallow of some kind, he was pretty sure he couldn't eat it. It couldn't fight, he couldn't eat it--it really didn't have much of a purpose.
So as it smiled up at him, stupidly, he glared down at it. "You're going to have to find a way to pull your own weight."
And he set off.
Name: Fedora
Livejournal Username: lovesnotwisely
E-mail: lovesnotwisely@gmail.com
AIM/MSN: AIM ; BattleToasters
Timezone: EST
Current Characters in Route: usedrage and phoenix_temple
Character
Name: Travis Touchdown
Series: No More Heroes
Timeline: First game, Rank 2, just after beating Bad Girl.
Canon Resource Links: Suda Wiki for him; Suda Wiki for NMH
Personality: So Travis Touchdown, first and foremost, is a giant fucking douchebag. You will never meet someone so crude, violent, nasty, immature or sexist in your entire life. He spends a major portion of his time drinking and getting off to anime characters. And the rest? He spends murdering people (and mowing people's lawns--). Travis is a hitman, or at least what his universe passes off as a hitman, and a damn good one, leaving a trail of blood in his wake. He seems cold-hearted because of this, but the truth is, there's a lot more to Travis than is on the surface. Sure he's crude, makes passes at women and doesn’t give one shit about them. Sure he's nasty, and will kill without bias to get the cash for the next ranked fight. Sure, he's got the emotional maturity of a thumb tack, but there are some things you need to know about him:
Travis strongly believes in Honor and the Warrior's Spirit. He respects those who fight clean and fights clean himself. He even considers death in battle honorable, like most of his foes. Therefore, when he kills his opponents? It's honorable. This is made a more solid idea for him after his fight against Holly Summers. Travis refuses to kill her, despite killing every other assassin on his way, because she’s a woman. She explains to Travis that when an assassin loses, they must die. That’s what’s honorable, that’s how it works. From that point on, Travis is even more aware of the honor in the system on the side of the assassins.
Travis' sense of honor is actually his only redeeming point. Because it's from that that all his "good" stems. His sparing Shinobu’s life (which is a huge plot point), his fighting fair, his fighting to the best of his ability all the time, every time--they all stem from his honor.
Outside of battle, Travis isn't so bad. He wouldn't kill someone without reason, and he gets along well with a few people who've learned to take his jokes and fail!humor in stride. He's not popular with girls (until he makes rank 1 and walks away, when they positively fawn over him), but he does well with the nightlife in Santa Destroy. He’s a regular student of his late physical trainer, a good friend of Bishop at the video store, and when he’s not running people over on the streets, pretty easy to get along with.
Travis doesn't seem to go very deep, and really, even though he does, his depth comes from basic, basic concepts that anyone could understand. In the second game, he's referred to as "the Crownless King, the one who got out." No one can understand how he managed to escape the system. In reality, he only did because he no longer desired to be a slave to the system that is the UAA. He desires to be a hero of his own accord, in his own way, UAA be damned. Travis' depth, what no one can understand, is really and truly, him doing what the fuck he wants to do. He wants to be honorable, he wants to be a hero, he wants to be an assassin, he wants to kill, he wants to be the best--Travis Touchdown, in all his depth and confusion, just does what he wants... and maybe that's why no one can understand him.
Travis has the potential for a strange, strange growth. By the end of the second game he comes to not only respect life, but value it. Though he knows he's fiction, he knows that his life is still life. And he realizes that every NPC he slashed through on the way to the top was a life, as well.
... But that's not until the future.
Strengths/Weaknesses: I'm just gonna put it out there that most of Travis' strengths are physical strengths, and most of his weaknesses are personality weaknesses.
+Massive Invulnerability-I'd normally just chalk it up to the fact he's a video game protagonist, but it's mentioned several times in game how indestructible this guy is. It's not magic. He's been shot with bullets, slammed with freaking death rays, stabbed, slashed, and physically battered. And until his fight with Bad Girl, he's never broken a sweat.
+Physical Strength-Travis trains. All the goddamn time. Thanks to Thunder Ryu, Travis has no problem slicing through metal (though that's mostly due to his unique weapon), parrying blows from ridiculously strong, buff enemies and all that general stuff.
+Sword and Hand to Hand Combat Experience and Training
+The Ability to Kill Without Flinching
+Able to Mask Emotion-He's able to discuss his parent's death, and later his own with nothing but a smile. He can kill his sister with a laugh. He can laugh anything off.
+Determination-He just wants to fight someone better than himself, and if it means he'll have to fight his way tooth and nail through eleven ranked assassins, he'll do it.
+Honor-While this is often a weakness of his, it does show moral strength that even if he kills, he does it on his terms, fighting fair. (I turned my back and you didn't strike--You are fucking with me!)
+GenreFuckingSavvy-He fourthwalls the shit out of himself, and is big on video games.
-"So Travis Touchdown, first and foremost, is a giant fucking douchebag. You will never meet someone so crude, violent, nasty, immature or sexist in your entire life." Bam, there's six.
-Giant Douchebag
-Crude
-Violent
-Nasty
-Immature
-Sexist
-Honor-Travis will turn his back if you tell him you won't strike. He believes in honor, and he believes that other hitmen have the same honor as him. This fails him
-His many, many vices. Sex and Alcohol being among the top two. He can get so drunk he forgets what happens to him. This is a regular occurrence.
-Lack of Foresight-Travis doesn't think about who he's killing, who's around them. Just that he's killing that person. This leads to Desperate Struggle, where the family of someone he killed in the first game seeks revenge on him.
-Giant Otakuness-This just makes him really fucking creepy.
-Oh, and he has no respect for personal space.
-And he's emotionally closed off, so no one really sees the good inside him :|b
-Did I mention he was a killer?
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Trainer
Starter: Cleffa
Password: Taco Bell--
Samples
First Person Sample: (I’m recycling this from my old app because first person samples are the devil)
All right Johto, it's time you and I had a serious discussion. [Travis looks pretty goddamn pissed. The camera pans over to his Cleffa, contently building a snow... cleffa. maybe] What the fuck is this? What the fuck is this? I am supposed to use that to fight?! I mean, sure. It's cute enough. But I'm not aiming to "moe" my enemies to death, here. It looks like a goddamn pillow.
You can't fight with a goddamn pillow. Last time I saw people fighting with pillows, they were in panties and you couldn't watch it unless you were eighteen. I don't know what the people around here were smoking when they came up with this shit, and I swear to fucking god, I'm not sure I'm not just high, but if I'm not I can't fight with a fucking pillow.
So, I'm on the market for something fucking useful. Give me something... I don't know something badass. Recommendations, guys!
[text]
POLL: WHAT IS THE BEST FUCKING POKEMON OUT THERE?
Third Person Sample: If there was one thing Travis Touchdown missed, it was the feel of a beam katana in his hands. Blood Berry, Tsubaki, MK-II, MK-III, it didn't fucking matter, he missed the feel of the sword in his hands. And if nothing else it pissed him off that he lost it. He paid a good penny for his current model--not that Naomi was ripping him off, no that wasn't true, it was a fair price. It was the highest quality available right now. And hot damn did he miss it.
He'd gotten used to it, and it's protection--he had the Tsubaki MK-III with him at all times, these days. Second Rank, as Sylvia explained it, was dangerous. There were more people scrambling for the top than there are people pushing down from it at this point. Not that he minded the danger. He thrived on it.
Assassination was a good gig. Lots of fights, lots of blood, lots of cash--and lots. And lots. Of women. Sure one was batshit insane, one was an old witch, one blew her own head off with a grenade and one was still calling for his blood, even after he cut off her arm, but most of them were pretty hot.
This Pokemon training thing probably wasn't going to bring as many hot chicks, was it? This was the kind of shit he and Bishop would play when they were really fucking bored as kids--monster fighting games. And even then that shit wasn't cool.
He stared at the pink... thing, which was swaying contentedly. This bitch? Was not manly. When you fought, you had to fight with something manly. It wouldn't just go away, either. Travis had to figure out something to do with it. Despite looking like a marshmallow of some kind, he was pretty sure he couldn't eat it. It couldn't fight, he couldn't eat it--it really didn't have much of a purpose.
So as it smiled up at him, stupidly, he glared down at it. "You're going to have to find a way to pull your own weight."
And he set off.