Travis now belongs to Dirty Vegas!
OOC
Name: Sam
Contact: AIM: satrugha
IC
Name: Touchdown, Travis
Fandom: No More Heroes
History link:
NMH: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_More_Heroes_%28video_game%29#Plot
NMH2: http://suda51.wikia.com/wiki/No_More_Heroes_2:_Desperate_Struggle#Plot
Basic Travis background: http://suda51.wikia.com/wiki/Travis_Touchdown#Story
Age: 30
Canon point: At the conclusion of the battle between Travis and Jasper Batt, Jr. when Travis falls from the building and Sylvia catches him then unceremoniously throws him into the parking lot in front of Hotel No More Heroes and steals his bike in NMH2 (played during the final credits)
Personality: At first glance, Travis Touchdown seems like a stereotypical male otaku. He’s 30, lives in a hotel with his kitty, Jeanne, and surrounds himself with anime toys (particularly toys of moe magical girl series), video games, and wrestling masks. He has no constant job and finds his funds for porn, anime, and games by working odd jobs around the rather trashy city of Santa Destroy, CA. Some jobs are pretty ordinary, like collecting coconuts at the beach, catching lost kittens, and cleaning up bug infestations. However the more enjoyable ones belong to the shady side of Santa Destroy. He enjoys killing people. No, he’s not some ruthless killer. Travis fights with honor and respects “true warriors”. He does it for the honor, the money, and the thrill and he does so often calmly, with a few exceptions when emotions and friendships came into play.
When fighting, Travis is rather crude, rude, immature, and often vulgar towards his male opponents. However, he does have a sympathetic sign, as his discomfort for killing Dr Peace when the man told Travis about his estranged daughter and tried to not kill Ryuji, as he believed the other was a true warrior. He also has trouble killing women. Most of them, at least. He allowed Shinobu to live and refused to kill Holly Summers (though she killed herself and he respectfully buried her). Bad Girl was an exception since she was beating the living daylights out of him and was a ruthless, heartless killing machine. And absolutely batshit insane.
Aside from his rather immature behavior, Travis is capable of being civilized. He holds a civil conversation with Holly about honor and fighting. He speaks very casually and friendly to his best friend Bishop. And he coddles his kitty Jeanne with affection and praise. To most, however, he comes across rather crude, making dirty jokes, crude gestures, and cursing like a sailor.
Travis is also a very proud person. He proclaims his name is awesome and is driven to prove his abilities against opponents to reach the top (often with the temptation of sex or touching from Sylvia or to get revenge). While it isn’t obvious at all, Travis is intelligent. He’s fast at learning new abilities from his various teachers. He is also rather witty at times, creating swift come-backs.
Underneath all this, Travis is extremely serious about his friendships. He sought revenge after the death of his master Thunder Ryu, seeking to kill the old witch Speed Buster, who turned out to respect Thunder Ryu and Travis. He also sought revenge on Jasper Batt, Jr. after he had Travis’s best friend Bishop killed mercilessly. He also reveals that he cares about Henry and Sylvia when Jasper taunted Travis with their heads (though they turned out to be fake, it was a huge emotional distraction).
Travis is also obsessed with anime and video games. His favorite anime is Pure White Lover Bizarre Jelly, which combines scantily-clad, large-breasted magical high school girls who save the world by piloting mecha. (This goes parallel to his love for hot women and involves trying to get into their pants.) He loves masked wrestling and often reads wrestling magazines and watches wrestling video tapes he gets from Beef Head Video (which is where he also gets his porn, which he sometimes forgets to return). He also has a soft spot for kitties.
Travis is also very aware he’s the lead character in a video game, though that will not come into play at Vegas as it violates one of the main rules.
Powers/Abilities: Travis is a very skilled assassin with some rather bizarre abilities. First is the beam katana. His first one is rather ghetto, looking like a florescent light on a stick, but it’s still pretty deadly. Travis is rather adept at wielding one, even two, beam katanas at a high level of skill and accuracy. It is unknown where he initially learned the skills, though presumably many were from Thunder Ryu. Additional skills came from Lokilov’s teachings.
Travis has incredibly quick reflexes as well. He’s capable of quick dodging attacks (which sometimes results in time slowing down for a brief second) as well as blocking bullets using his beam katana.
Travis is also capable of using a wide variety of wrestling grappling, which he uses to finish off some opponents. Due to the dangerous nature of his job, he haphazardly allows his beam katana(s) to simply finish off his opponents after he nonchalantly tosses them in the air.
Travis is a rather durable guy. He’s survived several rounds of bullets and a few rockets from Helter-Skelter and he came out unscathed, shrugging it off as if he were bored. (He is also capable of blocking bullets with his beam katana). He shows resistance to poison in his fight with Chloe. He also takes a gut buster from Jeanne, a bat repeatedly to the head courtesy of Bad Girl, and a beam katana through the chest courtesy of Alice, and still was able to continue on. Aside from those, he’s survived chain saws, fire, laser beams courtesy of Destroy Man, electrocution several times, beam katana strikes, laser beams from a crazy Russian astronaut, and several grenades courtesy of Holly.
Travis is also an incredibly lucky guy. When he’s in deep trouble, he’s always saved from an untimely death. Shinobu saves him from Jeanne. Bad Girl succumbs to her wounds before she can beat him to death. Henry jumps in to save Travis’s hide when Jasper had Travis’s life in his hands.
Travis has an unusual trance mode called Dark Side. The origins of this ability are unknown, but it gives Travis an extreme advantage in combat. Dark Side is activated by chance (in NMH1) and by filling up his excitement meter (in NMH2). For a short period of time, Travis’s abilities are amplified or even changed completely. He’s named each Dark Side mode after the signature attack of most of the characters in Bizarre Jelly.
Strawberry on the Shortcake is like a Super Saiyan mode where Travis’s hair goes blond and his beam katana becomes charged. Time slows down immensely so Travis can quickly rid himself of the opposition.
Blueberry Cheesecake Brownie turns the beam katana into a weapon capable of firing waves of energy
Cranberry Chocolate Sundae is another Super Saiyan mode. His hair turns bright blond, his beam katana red. Everything slows down and all the enemies are paralyzed with fear, leaving Travis to one-shot everyone. (In NMH2, Travis turns into a ferocious TIGER!!!!)
Cranberry Sugar Donut releases a huge explosive attack.
Anarchy in the Galaxy stops time and summons hot pink rain to vaporize everyone in the vicinity.
Cherry slows down time.
Prose sample: Travis slowly opened his eyes. A lighted sign stared back at him. Last thing he remembered was fighting that lunatic douchebag Jasper Batt, Jr., throwing himself out the top floor of an office building to take out his psychotic creation thing. Whatever it was. But that wasn’t really the point. Sylvia had caught him on the fall down and took him home. Well it wasn’t quite romantic like that when she took him home, chucked him into the parking lot of the hotel, and drove off with his bike.
Travis stared up at the sign then pulled himself off the asphalt to his feet. He’d done it. He’d killed that fucker who’d killed his best friend and was number one again. Top assassin. But he had no one to really celebrate it with. Bishop was still dead. Avenging him didn’t really change that. Shinobu was somewhere, but celebrating with her was creepy. Henry was nowhere to be found, not that he’d celebrate with him anyway. Sylvia’d just stolen his bike. That bitch. She was probably long gone by now.
Travis pulled his cell phone from his pocket, a charm of Strawberry from Bizarre Jelly dangling from a cell phone strap. He dialed Sylvia’s number, carefully feeling his pockets to see if she’d run off with his wallet too. She’d done this before, running off without a word only to show up three years later hotter than he remembered. But this time, he missed her. Somewhat.
“Well fuck you too,” he frowned at the phone when the voice mail message began to play. Yet he listened to her voice then hung up the phone without leaving a message. Damn that accent was hot.
He shoved the phone back into his pocket, careful to tuck Strawberry back into his pocket. His beam katana hooked to his loose belt clinked together as he climbed the stairs back to the only place he’d ever really called home, a small hole in the wall in the only hotel for miles. Pushing open the door, he was greeted by a familiar meow. “There’s my girl.” He knelt down and scratched the gray cat on the ears. She purred back lovingly. “Be right back, Jeanne. Gotta wash all this blood off.”
She meowed in response, as if to say, “Okay, I’ll be right here waiting!”
He stood up, closing the door, then dumped his jacket onto the couch and retreated to the bathroom to drop a rather large save and wash off his face. He stared at himself in the mirror. He’d avenged his best friend’s death and was number one again. “Sweet.” He grinned smugly at himself in the mirror then returned to the living room, where Jeanne was waiting, sitting next to his favorite red chair. Travis snagged a beer from the mini-fridge, grabbed a tape off the shelf, popped it into the VCR, and flopped down in the chair, slouching, beer in hand.
Jeanne hopped up and lazily sprawled herself across one leg, purring like a motor. Travis scratched her ears affectionately. If there was one thing he could always count on, it was Jeanne there to greet him after all of his jobs. No matter how many people he killed, Jeanne was always there.
He took a swig of beer and hit play on the remote. Sounds of a cheesy theme song filled the hotel room, along with the sights and colors of a magical girl anime. Bizarre Jelly 5. Best season so far, in his opinion. Super moe. Super sweet.