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Jun. 4th, 2015 01:29 pmWill pretty this up later, but the main thing is Rhys' ECHO eye allows him to scan most items/people as well as hack computerized tech. The scans don't reveal too much-- mostly age, name, height, weight, etc. etc. as well as a small blurb about the person in question. Please let me know if that'd be kosher or not. He isn't constantly scanning so it is definitely avoidable. The hacking even more so if you'd rather him not have access to your characters' items!
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Jun. 4th, 2015 01:38 pm〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Rhys
CHARACTER AGE: somewhere in his mid to late twenties
SERIES: Tales from the Borderlands
CHRONOLOGY: end of episode 2 (Atlas Mugged)
CLASS: Registered
HOUSING: anything’s fine
BACKGROUND: Rhys’ world is a red-hot mess, mostly because it isn’t one world so much as a lot of different worlds and space stations in a dystopian sci-fi nightmare. However, the main planet his story takes place on would be Pandora, which is a lot of desert, a lot of monsters that want to eat your face, and a lot of bandits. Unfortunately for Pandora, it also happens to have many geographical draws, including Eridium mines and Vaults (which I could go on about for a while but the Pandora wiki link does a better job). And whenever a place is rich in resources, you can bet your ass some corporation or other is going to try and take advantage. In Pandora’s case, several have, one of which is Hyperion. Rhys’ story begins shortly after the end of the Borderlands 2 game, wherein (SPOILER ALERT) Hyperion’s sociopathic CEO—Handsome Jack—dies.
Now, the relationship between those who live on Pandora and Hyperion employees is a soundly bad one, so it’s better for the latter to stay up on their moonbase Helios. That was Rhys’ plan, anyway. When we meet the man, he is a (kinda) humble corporate monkey who has been tirelessly working toward a promotion with the help of his two best friends, Yvette and Vaughn. With Handsome Jack out of the picture, Hyperion has gone to absolute shit, and the fact it’s a company that mostly hires assholes (Rhys’ words, not mine) doesn’t help. Despite that, Rhys is pretty sure he has a good chance at making the uproar work for him. Sadly, before the promotion can come about, Rhys’ work nemesis—Vasquez—is given the power to demote our hero to VP of janitorial duties. Big mistake, seeing as Rhys doesn’t take it lying down. After overhearing Vasquez has made a deal to purchase a Vault Key from a dude down on Pandora, the plot writes itself. Rhys and Vaughn plan to go down planetside with laundered money, obtain the Vault Key, and negotiate their way to a better positon in Hyperion’s hierarchy.
Great plan. Awesome plan. Plan does not go so hot. The deal for the Vault Key turns to shit when a bandit breaks in, a Vault Hunter shows up, and, cool story, the Key was a fake the whole time. That’s how Rhys meets the con artist sisters responsible, Fiona and Sasha. After that, a lot of things happen (linking ‘cause otherwise this is going to literally go on forever). As this is a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure kind of game, the important choices made were Rhys told the Loader Bot to evacuate (earning him a loyal robot son), Rhys chose Vaughn over Vasquez’s skeevy betray-your-bros deal (friends 4 lyfe), and Fiona warned her adopted father, Felix, about the bombs in the money briefcase so that he’d survive. At the end of episode one, Rhys realizes he accidentally injected an AI version of Handsome Jack into his head. That could have gone better.
Open episode two, which there is no good wiki article for so here goes. Now that their suitcase of money is nice and exploded, there is no Vault Key, and Hyperion has turned against them, Rhys and Vaughn are utterly fucked. They have, however, found an underground lab with connections to that mysterious Gortys Project everyone’s all hyped about. As the rest of the crew deals with that, Rhys deals with his new hologram buddy—Handsome Jack. Not only can nobody else see or hear the scoundrel, but all those rumors that he was murderous, manipulative, and childishly cruel turn out to be true! Joy to the world. When finally Jack fucks off to who-knows-where, Rhys and Fiona discover two parts of an odd tech relic that jolts anyone else who touches it after they do. They realize this is all pointing them toward an abandoned Atlas—yet another company—factory they can find in a location called Old Haven.
They hit the road when Hyperion starts firing moonshots (think lesser versions of a Death Star’s world eruption beams) at them. Big chase scene, lots of monsters show up, and in the end Vaughn and Rhys are separated from Sasha and Fiona. Rhys has the option of telling Vaughn about Handsome Jack hiding out in his headmeat, but chooses not to (because I figured he’d rather not come off as crazy). Loader Bot eventually finds them and becomes their new ride. They could go to Hollow Point, a slum town, to meet up with the con ladies, or they could go straight to the Atlas factory. Because I am playing Rhys as a good friend but a dick to those who have wronged him, he chooses the latter and heads to Old Haven.
Nothing good happens. Vasquez and August—the man who wanted to sell the Vault Key that turned out to be a fake—both turn up and put everyone in compromising positions. They capture all the protags, ultimately using Sasha and Vaughn to control Rhys and Fiona (since only they can touch the relic-key-maybe). Yadda yadda yadda, Fiona and Rhys ultimately end up in some kind of giant map room (COULD THIS CORE THINGY BE A VAULT KEY??? WHAT IS THE GORTYS PROJECT???). When core-key-relic-who-knows is accidentally dropped, killer bots show up and are about to shoot… you know. Literally everyone involved in this shitstorm. Rhys has the option to either trust Fiona or Handsome Jack to take care of the mess. My Rhys is stupid and lets the AI of a mass murderer take over his body. Cyborg nonsense. Episode 2 ends there.
PERSONALITY: Some men are built for the business world. They have charisma, they have ambition, and they feel right at home in a boardroom. Rhys is lucky enough to count himself among their number. See, he’s the shark that’s swimming in a too small tank, kowtowing to those higher on the corporate ladder that don’t yet know he wants to usurp their role. He’s a man who can work on the long con, buttering up his bosses for years at a time. That’s part of working at Hyperion, after all. Even if you hate the guy in the next office over, as it’s assumed you must, you have to play along. And Rhys has been doing it for a while, to the point he can seem more suit than man. When he’s faced with the struggles of the lower class on Pandora, his ability to empathize ranges from pathetic to a full-blown Does Not Compute. While Pandorans may argue that their world is as cutthroat as it comes, Rhys has grown used to brutality in the workplace. His old supervisor ended up jettisoned out an airlock and Rhys was less stressed out over the man’s murder than the waste of a good suit and the backtracking it put on his promotion. All the same, it would be wrong to say that Rhys is cold. Rather, he’s a product of his dubious career, and the unfortunate part is it’s one that has little value for human life.
That said, it’s not as if Rhys is a complete monster (though he idolizes Handsome Jack who may as well be one). He sometimes worries more about a dent in his car than the creature he hit with it, but he cares about his friends. Beneath the heavy layers of smarm and occupation preoccupation, Rhys isn’t solely planning for himself, nor is he ungrateful to those who help build him up. Yes, he’s the one that’s supposed to earn a promotion, but it’s obvious his friends will benefit from his soon-to-be glamorous lifestyle. Although there are options in the game for Rhys to point out he’s the figurehead of the trio, there are unavoidable moments that show he does care. When Vaughn is threatened by a man with a meat cleaver toward the beginning of the game, Rhys is swift to step between the two. He isn’t devoid of feeling or connection, he’s just a smug bastard.
And god, the smug, it’s almost paralyzing. Nobody thinks better of Rhys than Rhys. He’d be the first to tell you he deserves only the best and that anyone who wronged him should be given the boot. Often when he speaks, his words are dripping with smarm and sarcastic self-indulgence. Being an employee of Hyperion, he’s been conditioned to think he’s better than other people. Being marginally more moral than a lot of his co-workers, he’s let that conditioning fester and grow. He’s the ‘bad guy’ with a heart of gold he’d like to mine to fuel his 401K. He is undeniably an asshole, however there is a kernel of good inside of him that cannot be completely killed. It’s like, he could be convinced to rescue someone from a burning building, but he would grumble the entire way through it, decide everything he’d done was super cool, and expect his praises to be bellowed from the rooftops. He’s a bro-dude. It is terrible.
On the down(er) side, Rhys has something of a short temper. He’s too mature to screech and tantrum, so he substitutes that urge with continual snide comments. More often than he plays at politeness, he’ll squint his eyes and tell someone his name is “10 Million Dollars” because that is what he’s paying them, they don’t need to exchange pleasantries. He is definitely that guy you shouldn’t like, so why do so many people find him tolerable? One of life’s great mysteries, though the smart cookies don’t fall prey to his insufferable charms.
Starting in episode one, Fiona is eager to point out when Rhys becomes an unreliable narrator, correcting his side of the story when he goes on Rhys-centric tangents. He wants to be like his hero, but only the very best parts of him. An inspiration with the spoken word—the guy with the nicest cabana and the biggest office. And the real problem is that he’s hardly stupid. Full of himself? You betcha, but Rhys proves again and again he can think fast on his feet. Bandits may be approaching Rhys while the Loader Bot’s low on juice, but it takes him about fifteen seconds to jailbreak the bot and save the day. Moonshots are raining down like unholy comets, but he can use his ECHO eye to figure out their trajectory and avoid certain death. Being able to take quick and decisive action was a skill he previously used to move product and further company goals, yet it works just as well to help him survive on Pandora. He’s got talent and an overinflated ego. Boy has kissed so much ass in the past, you can’t really blame him.
Besides, he wants to be head honcho.
Eventually. When it’s smart to snag the crown. Until then, he’ll keep working with what he’s given and taking only theworst best risks.
POWER: 1.) Cyborg Stuff: in canon, Rhys can use his ECHO eye and mecha arm to scan objects and people of interest. By his current canon point, Handsome Jack has strengthened either ability so that Rhys can hack into any computerized item he comes across (guns, cars, etc. included). In MoM, this means Rhys can gather basic stats from any person or object he scans while being able to remotely control most tech (an opt-in/out permissions post will be put on his journal). Additionally, Rhys does have a port in his temple that can be used to plug tech into him so he can download larger programs and whatnot, but finding a hookup that’d work would be difficult. In theory, he’s even hackable, but good luck getting past Hyperion firewalls.
2.) Stunning: Rhys is able to operate as a human stun-gun. This power works the same as a high voltage taser with the degree of pain inflicted depending on Rhys’ intent (and thus influenced by his emotional state). This can go from a static shot to an incredible jolt that will send someone flying if they aren’t ready for it. Physical contact between some part of Rhy’s body (cyborg bits included) and his target is necessary.
3.) Open
CHARACTER NAME: Rhys
CHARACTER AGE: somewhere in his mid to late twenties
SERIES: Tales from the Borderlands
CHRONOLOGY: end of episode 2 (Atlas Mugged)
CLASS: Registered
HOUSING: anything’s fine
BACKGROUND: Rhys’ world is a red-hot mess, mostly because it isn’t one world so much as a lot of different worlds and space stations in a dystopian sci-fi nightmare. However, the main planet his story takes place on would be Pandora, which is a lot of desert, a lot of monsters that want to eat your face, and a lot of bandits. Unfortunately for Pandora, it also happens to have many geographical draws, including Eridium mines and Vaults (which I could go on about for a while but the Pandora wiki link does a better job). And whenever a place is rich in resources, you can bet your ass some corporation or other is going to try and take advantage. In Pandora’s case, several have, one of which is Hyperion. Rhys’ story begins shortly after the end of the Borderlands 2 game, wherein (SPOILER ALERT) Hyperion’s sociopathic CEO—Handsome Jack—dies.
Now, the relationship between those who live on Pandora and Hyperion employees is a soundly bad one, so it’s better for the latter to stay up on their moonbase Helios. That was Rhys’ plan, anyway. When we meet the man, he is a (kinda) humble corporate monkey who has been tirelessly working toward a promotion with the help of his two best friends, Yvette and Vaughn. With Handsome Jack out of the picture, Hyperion has gone to absolute shit, and the fact it’s a company that mostly hires assholes (Rhys’ words, not mine) doesn’t help. Despite that, Rhys is pretty sure he has a good chance at making the uproar work for him. Sadly, before the promotion can come about, Rhys’ work nemesis—Vasquez—is given the power to demote our hero to VP of janitorial duties. Big mistake, seeing as Rhys doesn’t take it lying down. After overhearing Vasquez has made a deal to purchase a Vault Key from a dude down on Pandora, the plot writes itself. Rhys and Vaughn plan to go down planetside with laundered money, obtain the Vault Key, and negotiate their way to a better positon in Hyperion’s hierarchy.
Great plan. Awesome plan. Plan does not go so hot. The deal for the Vault Key turns to shit when a bandit breaks in, a Vault Hunter shows up, and, cool story, the Key was a fake the whole time. That’s how Rhys meets the con artist sisters responsible, Fiona and Sasha. After that, a lot of things happen (linking ‘cause otherwise this is going to literally go on forever). As this is a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure kind of game, the important choices made were Rhys told the Loader Bot to evacuate (earning him a loyal robot son), Rhys chose Vaughn over Vasquez’s skeevy betray-your-bros deal (friends 4 lyfe), and Fiona warned her adopted father, Felix, about the bombs in the money briefcase so that he’d survive. At the end of episode one, Rhys realizes he accidentally injected an AI version of Handsome Jack into his head. That could have gone better.
Open episode two, which there is no good wiki article for so here goes. Now that their suitcase of money is nice and exploded, there is no Vault Key, and Hyperion has turned against them, Rhys and Vaughn are utterly fucked. They have, however, found an underground lab with connections to that mysterious Gortys Project everyone’s all hyped about. As the rest of the crew deals with that, Rhys deals with his new hologram buddy—Handsome Jack. Not only can nobody else see or hear the scoundrel, but all those rumors that he was murderous, manipulative, and childishly cruel turn out to be true! Joy to the world. When finally Jack fucks off to who-knows-where, Rhys and Fiona discover two parts of an odd tech relic that jolts anyone else who touches it after they do. They realize this is all pointing them toward an abandoned Atlas—yet another company—factory they can find in a location called Old Haven.
They hit the road when Hyperion starts firing moonshots (think lesser versions of a Death Star’s world eruption beams) at them. Big chase scene, lots of monsters show up, and in the end Vaughn and Rhys are separated from Sasha and Fiona. Rhys has the option of telling Vaughn about Handsome Jack hiding out in his headmeat, but chooses not to (because I figured he’d rather not come off as crazy). Loader Bot eventually finds them and becomes their new ride. They could go to Hollow Point, a slum town, to meet up with the con ladies, or they could go straight to the Atlas factory. Because I am playing Rhys as a good friend but a dick to those who have wronged him, he chooses the latter and heads to Old Haven.
Nothing good happens. Vasquez and August—the man who wanted to sell the Vault Key that turned out to be a fake—both turn up and put everyone in compromising positions. They capture all the protags, ultimately using Sasha and Vaughn to control Rhys and Fiona (since only they can touch the relic-key-maybe). Yadda yadda yadda, Fiona and Rhys ultimately end up in some kind of giant map room (COULD THIS CORE THINGY BE A VAULT KEY??? WHAT IS THE GORTYS PROJECT???). When core-key-relic-who-knows is accidentally dropped, killer bots show up and are about to shoot… you know. Literally everyone involved in this shitstorm. Rhys has the option to either trust Fiona or Handsome Jack to take care of the mess. My Rhys is stupid and lets the AI of a mass murderer take over his body. Cyborg nonsense. Episode 2 ends there.
PERSONALITY: Some men are built for the business world. They have charisma, they have ambition, and they feel right at home in a boardroom. Rhys is lucky enough to count himself among their number. See, he’s the shark that’s swimming in a too small tank, kowtowing to those higher on the corporate ladder that don’t yet know he wants to usurp their role. He’s a man who can work on the long con, buttering up his bosses for years at a time. That’s part of working at Hyperion, after all. Even if you hate the guy in the next office over, as it’s assumed you must, you have to play along. And Rhys has been doing it for a while, to the point he can seem more suit than man. When he’s faced with the struggles of the lower class on Pandora, his ability to empathize ranges from pathetic to a full-blown Does Not Compute. While Pandorans may argue that their world is as cutthroat as it comes, Rhys has grown used to brutality in the workplace. His old supervisor ended up jettisoned out an airlock and Rhys was less stressed out over the man’s murder than the waste of a good suit and the backtracking it put on his promotion. All the same, it would be wrong to say that Rhys is cold. Rather, he’s a product of his dubious career, and the unfortunate part is it’s one that has little value for human life.
That said, it’s not as if Rhys is a complete monster (though he idolizes Handsome Jack who may as well be one). He sometimes worries more about a dent in his car than the creature he hit with it, but he cares about his friends. Beneath the heavy layers of smarm and occupation preoccupation, Rhys isn’t solely planning for himself, nor is he ungrateful to those who help build him up. Yes, he’s the one that’s supposed to earn a promotion, but it’s obvious his friends will benefit from his soon-to-be glamorous lifestyle. Although there are options in the game for Rhys to point out he’s the figurehead of the trio, there are unavoidable moments that show he does care. When Vaughn is threatened by a man with a meat cleaver toward the beginning of the game, Rhys is swift to step between the two. He isn’t devoid of feeling or connection, he’s just a smug bastard.
And god, the smug, it’s almost paralyzing. Nobody thinks better of Rhys than Rhys. He’d be the first to tell you he deserves only the best and that anyone who wronged him should be given the boot. Often when he speaks, his words are dripping with smarm and sarcastic self-indulgence. Being an employee of Hyperion, he’s been conditioned to think he’s better than other people. Being marginally more moral than a lot of his co-workers, he’s let that conditioning fester and grow. He’s the ‘bad guy’ with a heart of gold he’d like to mine to fuel his 401K. He is undeniably an asshole, however there is a kernel of good inside of him that cannot be completely killed. It’s like, he could be convinced to rescue someone from a burning building, but he would grumble the entire way through it, decide everything he’d done was super cool, and expect his praises to be bellowed from the rooftops. He’s a bro-dude. It is terrible.
On the down(er) side, Rhys has something of a short temper. He’s too mature to screech and tantrum, so he substitutes that urge with continual snide comments. More often than he plays at politeness, he’ll squint his eyes and tell someone his name is “10 Million Dollars” because that is what he’s paying them, they don’t need to exchange pleasantries. He is definitely that guy you shouldn’t like, so why do so many people find him tolerable? One of life’s great mysteries, though the smart cookies don’t fall prey to his insufferable charms.
Starting in episode one, Fiona is eager to point out when Rhys becomes an unreliable narrator, correcting his side of the story when he goes on Rhys-centric tangents. He wants to be like his hero, but only the very best parts of him. An inspiration with the spoken word—the guy with the nicest cabana and the biggest office. And the real problem is that he’s hardly stupid. Full of himself? You betcha, but Rhys proves again and again he can think fast on his feet. Bandits may be approaching Rhys while the Loader Bot’s low on juice, but it takes him about fifteen seconds to jailbreak the bot and save the day. Moonshots are raining down like unholy comets, but he can use his ECHO eye to figure out their trajectory and avoid certain death. Being able to take quick and decisive action was a skill he previously used to move product and further company goals, yet it works just as well to help him survive on Pandora. He’s got talent and an overinflated ego. Boy has kissed so much ass in the past, you can’t really blame him.
Besides, he wants to be head honcho.
Eventually. When it’s smart to snag the crown. Until then, he’ll keep working with what he’s given and taking only the
POWER: 1.) Cyborg Stuff: in canon, Rhys can use his ECHO eye and mecha arm to scan objects and people of interest. By his current canon point, Handsome Jack has strengthened either ability so that Rhys can hack into any computerized item he comes across (guns, cars, etc. included). In MoM, this means Rhys can gather basic stats from any person or object he scans while being able to remotely control most tech (an opt-in/out permissions post will be put on his journal). Additionally, Rhys does have a port in his temple that can be used to plug tech into him so he can download larger programs and whatnot, but finding a hookup that’d work would be difficult. In theory, he’s even hackable, but good luck getting past Hyperion firewalls.
2.) Stunning: Rhys is able to operate as a human stun-gun. This power works the same as a high voltage taser with the degree of pain inflicted depending on Rhys’ intent (and thus influenced by his emotional state). This can go from a static shot to an incredible jolt that will send someone flying if they aren’t ready for it. Physical contact between some part of Rhy’s body (cyborg bits included) and his target is necessary.
3.) Open