Player

Name: Xel
Age: 29
Contact: piasora
Preferred Pronouns: She/her

Character

Name: Timothy Lawrence

Age: 26

Memory Option: 1 — full AU / deterioration

Established Status: Y; two years.

Canon: Borderlands

Canon Point: Post-Claptastic Voyage

Citizenship: Complicated. As "Jack," Westerley (via Company). As Timothy, currently undocumented.

Job: Personal bodyguard/body double to Handsome Jack. Essentially an Enforcer in the field.


Abilities

Timothy was impressively average prior to the many procedures that turned him into Jack. Sure, he knew how to throw a punch, maybe, but he'd never been shot at or shot at anyone in return. That changed after entering Jack's employ. In a shockingly short amount of time, Tim picked up an impressive set of combat skills that includes but isn't limited to close-quarters (read: punch it until it dies), high-altitude/low-gravity (lots of jumping, screaming, and possible barfing), vehicle-mounted weapons, and basically every type of gun under the sun. He's a much better than average shot (better than Jack, but shhhh). All in all, if you want Tim's biggest strength, it's his insane adaptability to equally insane situations.

He also has Digi-Jacks. Yep, you heard that right. At the press of his wristwatch he can digistruct two copies of himself that deliver inspirational Jack quotes and shoot lasers at things. Think holograms that are actually capable of interacting with matter. Since digistructing is never explained super well side from being Mysterious Alien Technology, for the purposes of the game setting we're gonna say that these are some sort of programmable matter tech—claytronics or something similar to that. While the Digi-Jacks possess some rudimentary level of artificial intelligence and can act semi-autonomously once summoned, they are not actually sentient. Really good copies, but not sentient.

His second greatest power is his abysmal luck—an ability shared by countless others in the Borderlandsverse.

Personality:

For someone looking to create a convincing copy of himself, Jack really couldn't have picked a guy less like him than Timothy Lawrence. Tim may look, sound, and do his best to act like Jack, but enough time spent with him one on one will reveal that the person not far beneath the surface is very different. Where Jack is confident to a point of delusion, Timothy is painfully aware of himself and his mistakes. Where Jack is ruthless and his anger terrible, Tim's usually likelier to mourn his terrible lot in life than retaliate, which may partly be attributed to the fact that he actually has a bit of a conscience. While Jack may be significantly more charismatic and Tim is awkward, he's also shown to be genuinely kind.

However, note that this is not to say that he's a perfect pure cinnamon roll, despite, er, looking really good by comparison to most other people in the series. Firstly, he's a pretty excellent actor. This means all that Jack-brand douchery we know and love is present in full force; the lower the stakes, the happier Tim is to showcase his inner (well, outer) bastard. While he may lack the underlying venom of the real thing, this means he's still prone to being patronizing, irreverent, and egotistical. This is on top of his own major flaws, the most glaring of which is his ability to ignore his own conscience and/or decency out of self-interest. At one point in his canon, Tim phrases it thusly: "like it or not, I work for Jack." When Moxxi asks how he feels about Jack venting a bunch of innocent people into space, he responds, "I dunno. I just work here." Getting out of debt is so consuming an ambition for Tim that he's completely managed to overlook the fact that he's now considered legally dead, which probably implies his debt no longer exists. He also genuinely seems to believe that his surgery will be reversed at the end of his contract, which seems... unrealistic for a handful of canon reasons. Similarly, his Overjoyed backstory has him going along with Jack and his various shady endeavors because he's deluded himself into thinking Jack is his only remaining means of regaining his citizenship in time for Claimant Day. With all that said, we can also safely say that rational foresight isn't one of Tim's strengths when he's put in a desperate situation.

But along with all of this, he's just a genuinely decent sort of guy. He's a bit standoffish toward people he doesn't know well but he trusts friends easily and is generally trustworthy in return. He's effusively affectionate toward those he's romantically attracted to, and though he's far from a smooth operator he can be very charming in his own way. Maybe we can say he's jaded, but he's actually a pretty chill person for all that he's been through. A good ally to have overall—provided one understands that he'll almost always put himself (or worse, what Jack wants) first.

AU History:

Timothy Lawrence spent most of his life up to this point as your typical Westie just trying to eke out a living working, keeping his head down, and eagerly awaiting the day that his family's fortune would finally turn around. This brought him into the employ of the Company before too long; selected not for his skill or his pedigree but rather for his more than passing resemblance to one "Handsome" Jack Marten, Tim was told that for the low, low price of a couple "minor" cosmetic and hack-mod procedures (improvements, Jack would probably say), he'd be paid, er, handsomely and his poor single mother would be taken care of until the arrival of Claimant Day. Tim said yes without thinking too much about it.

Then, early in the process, a series of freak clerical errors erased Tim from the citizenship records of the Quad. Too many mods, they said. Stuck with someone else's face and effectively dead, Tim was in a tough spot. He could back out, dooming himself to a short life slaving away in the mines... or he could stick with Jack, who generously offered to work on getting this whole mess sorted out while Tim did his day to day job as Jack's body double. (Spoiler, Jack is not getting this whole mess sorted out. In fact, there's a good chance Jack caused it.)

Fast forward two years; Jack's exceptional rise in the Company and on Westerley has only been bolstered by his seeming ability to do the work of two men in one day, maintaining both administrative control in the Prisoner Intake Facility and a presence in the streets among the common people, and "Timothy Lawrence" is known only to an extremely scarce few. It's a desperately lonely existence, if Tim's honest, but as long as he sticks to the plan, everything's gonna turn out okay in the end. Jack's looking out for his best interests, after all. Right?

CRAU:

N/A!

Original History:

here!

Inventory:

One (1) digital watch thinger that summons his claytronic minions
One (1) stupid mask that looks just like his face
Two (2) wrist-mounted laser weapons for tasing the undesirables

Samples:

Both TDM threads here!

Miscellaneous Notes: