Abraxas Application [CONTAINS SPOILERS THRU BOOK 4]

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OOC INFORMATION

Player Name: Heather
Are you over 18?: Yes
Contact: ShadowSpirits
Other Characters in Game: Lucifer

IC INFORMATION

Character Name: Travis Guidry
Canon: Tales From the Gas Station
Canon Point: Book 4, Chp. 29 end
Age: 29-30 (looks older than he is)

Background:

Travis comes from a small backwater southern town that just so happens to house their universe's cosmic dumpster.

But he doesn't know any of that.

He spends his days hunting and drinking and hanging with the rest of the 'boys', except they all were brutally killed.

Him, too.

The Travis of Abraxas is what's known as a mimic. A being that takes on all the memories of another person and believes themselves to be fundamentally that person (he can't change out to a different person, this is solely who he is). The old him was torn apart by gunfire. He does not remember that (though Jerry made a passing comment about thinking he was dead again).

Because of what he is, he's being hunted, though he comes to a far-different conclusion than the actual reason -- which is that a crazy puppet god needs the black blood inside of him as resurrection material.

He believes a bunch of them were granted superpowers by the government as part of an experiment to alter their genes, and that now they're mutants. They were never supposes to 'realize it.' They had gotten too strong and the government sent supersoldier assassins to try and kill them before they went to the public.

He also is dead-set that the French are involved.

None of this is true.

Last thing he knew he was torn apart by dogmimic that turned into some crazy protruding-bone scorpion-dog that sucked out all his black blood, and he died clutching the hand of Jack Townsend, but he'd long-since made peace with dying.

He's not the most intelligent person (he'd cheat off Jack in school and pay Jack to do his homework), but he's surprisingly empathetic and picks up when others are struggling. He also has a high threshold for the more aggressive, dangerous personality types, given that many people from their graduating class were terrified of Jack growing up and still in the present-day and Travis is just. Chill.

Arrival Scenario: Solvunn


Suitability:

Travis in no-nonsense, accustomed to being in a town where wild, supernatural things continue to happen and he's just a Normie. Except for the being a mimic part.

He'll just roll with about anything and enjoy hunting new game and new trophies, and the benefit of Travis is that while he'll go with whatever flow of the gods, he won't process any of the in-depth details. Which makes my life easier to keep from accidentally crossing meta levels for Lucifer, which I try very hard to avoid.

The town's local 'murder cult' never phased him and when him and the others temporarily ducked down in the compound to lay low, he took it in stride and seemed willing to help out within his capabilities for the time being without much fuss (though he went with Jack quickly after, to what would end up being his death).

I think he'd fit in strangely well with the Solvunn crew. His future goal aside from living this new life is setting up a basement survival doomsday bunker room in Solvunn, training some new dogs. And maybe getting invested in Vagn, as a guy who has experienced death and had so many friends recently die.

Powers:

Mild Regenerative Properties part of being a mimic means his body will sew itself back together with black goop for minor injuries. He will die from fatal injuries but it will be slow and gross and his body will try to reach out to its other pieces even when severed to repair itself and people will WISH he died faster, but he will NOT be able to successfully regenerate from what would kill normal people. He's Really Dead and withered quickly if someone somehow manages to slurpy out all his black blood.

Hunting expert hunter with firearms, likely to adapt easily to other styles

Tracking moderate tracking capabilities



Hulking Out
Note: Before the event drop information I would've said the Singularity was blocking his use of this ability because there's no way he'd know how to access them and canonically without some experimentation he wouldn't be able to keep 'himself' he'd just kinda be a monster. Because of the event (****if new characters are experiencing the same god-change as those in-game that is, or even a similar watered-down version) I think it would just be his god form and because of that after maybe he'd be able to unlock some of it via event gains, with restrictions using something similar to Vampire: the Masquerade v5's Vicissitude rules considering canon didn't exactly give me an actual ruleset.

It would look loosely something like this:

Like the cutest little abomination dog, Travis can 'hulk out.' This is a grotesque transformation, flesh and muscle reshaping the body to strengthen it and bones protruding out like spider-limb weapons. The transformation takes a few minutes and he can only defend during this time, his lucidity can be improved over time, and how exhausted he is after forming back to normal can improve over time. Maybe change out additional creepy limb features via gains.

PERSONALITY QUESTIONS

Describe an important event in your character's life and how it impacted them.

The death of his best bud Brylock ("Brian Locke"), one of twelve people who died tragically to a 'plant explosion.' Though he doesn't know the extent of the details that the plant explosion was a coverup, it's his first tip-off that something is off. Not enough yet for him to go into 'hiding' (he wasn't hiding, he was just preparing), but just enough to raise his awareness that he had to start being more cautious.

This caution might be the only thing that got him out of the first time someone tried to kill him. He wishes he had been smart enough at the time to be able to save Brylock and the others.


Does your character have a moral code, or other set of standards they try to live by?

He believes that sometimes you need to take the law into your own hands, that you can't just sit back and wait for something to happen, or rely on others to handle things.

It might be something no one else understands, and he might not be able to ever convince anyone else, but that's okay. They don't have to understand. They just have to let him and his people do their thing.

For better or for worse.


What quality or qualities do they admire most?

Fighters. Leaders. Those who stick to their guns even though it'll get them killed. But you gotta go down fighting, you gotta take that 'final stand.' He hates cowards. He hates even the idea of being called a coward, or his friends being labeled it. They're better than that.

It gets into a little bit of a gray space when that sticking-to-their-guns isn't in the right. When their moral code above is wrong and leans into what he dislikes about himself below.


Do they have a part of themselves they dislike?

His tunnel-vision, I think. He tells Jack as he's dying that he was fired up to kill Jack the night they went for Jerry. He was so set into that level of determination and fueled by the others that he couldn't see straight. It was a black and white situation, no grays.

And he regretted it. I think his empathy did kick in, just much later, and he didn't understand yet why it kept hounding him that he wanted Jack to forgive him.

Surrounded by the right people helps, otherwise being surrounded by a dangerous echo chamber gets him stuck in a place he can't see himself out of.


What is their sign, and why?

The Chariot

"You can’t tame water. We’re full of passion, ya see? But you know what? Water only ever comes with a storm."

Travis is full of spirit, dangerously so. When he's set on a path he will go all-in, to the point where he aided in nearly killing Jack and Jerry because he believed like the others in the group that Jerry killed Brylock's ex-girlfriend Vanessa.

He spent several years (two, maybe, passage of time is hard to tell in this series) after trying to get Jack to forgive him (Jerry already had) and to lift the ban off him that was supposed to prevent him from going into the gas station. He never obeyed it..... but at least eventually made minimal effort.

He was adamant to hunt the elusive 'bat dog' (neither a bat nor a dog and in fact with the butterfly'ed Rita-the-Raccoon) for the safety of the town, the thrill of the hunt, and the glory.

He's loud, determined, he will be heard, and he will not back down from a challenge, though knows some moments that he has to duck down in order to rally and stand to fight the final fight.

This is likely what got him killed, twice.

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