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TLV: App
User Name/Nick: Maniette
User DW:maniette, but I rarely use it
E-mail: rika.tags@gmail.com
Other Characters: Nope!
Character Name: Timothy Stoker
Series: The Magnus Archives
Age: Unknown, at least early 30s.
From When?: The aftermath of a plastic explosives detonation that destroyed a wax museum.
Inmate/Warden: Warden. Tim is one of few main characters in his series to have actual people skills, in that not only did he maintain a career in publishing for five years but he also studied anthropology and is generally an excited puppy of an extrovert. He has a strong handle on people in general, is very good at manipulating people into doing what he wants, by hook or crook or other far more pleasant and honest options. He's also used to, to a degree, spooky bullshit and won't be completely cowed by people showing off magic powers around him. He's also relentlessly stubborn, which is marked by his boss as a character flaw but it means he won't give up on a cause even if it seems hopeless. While previously the cost of his own life was too high, that's no longer an issue now he knows he's dead. He could be a good match for troublesome inmates who also don't see the point in this entire endeavour, since he's not going to force people to change but he won't let them get away with being a shithead to him either.
Item: A walkie talkie. Can be used to listen in on his Inmate and their location, and displays their proximity to him in feet, and can be tuned in case of multiple simultaneous Inmates.
Abilities/Powers: Jack and shit. okay no--
Has a First in Anthropology from Trinity College and spent five years at a publishing firm. Exceptional at dealing with people and getting them to do more or less what he wants, within reasonable (though not necessarily legal) bounds. Has multiple times called insurance/service providers to get a customer's own address, successfully, and wooed sensitive case files from police stations.
Researcher and assistant archivist at the Magnus Institute. Familiar with the supernatural, research involving them and making do with minimal data.
Considered the hot one. Has distinct and obvious pockmark scars on his face, arms and legs from flesh-eating worms, but canonically "makes them work".
Extremely kissable. Pan and implied poly. Can flirt his way into pretty much anyone's pants, and has been noted in canon as being in simultaneous relationships with male and female police staff.
Markedly fit. Not superhuman, but definitely able to hold his own in a basic bitch brawl.
Casual expert on the architectural works of Robert Smirke and 19th century circuses.
Personality:
Underneath the layers of grit that have built up over the last few years, Tim is a genuinely good and kind person. He's extremely social, knows how to work people and clearly finds some joy in doing so, as he is frequently noted as sleeping with clerks well after receiving the initial information he was tasked with finding, and has on more than one instance used Institute funds to do so. When Martin was sleeping in the Archives for his own safety, Tim would sometimes come and bring him fresh blankets for his cot and a few kind words, and is commonly noted as hanging around with staff in other sections of the Institute. It's also implied he and Sasha were quite close, and while it's not necessarily shown, Tim clearly puts a lot of stock in platonic friendships as well, and seems to see casual sex as a happy side effect of being really good friends. Tim's style of flattery is horrible pick-up lines and dumb jokes, but he's got a winning charm about him that makes them come across as sincere and funny rather than obnoxious or awkward.
Having spent five years at a publishing firm, nitpicking is in Tim's blood, and his first in-show appearance is bothering Jon to rerecord several statements to correct noted inaccuracies. He's a stickler for details and can get quite petty when they're ignored. However, he also has a thorough knowledge of corporate ranks and his social standing at any given point, and is adept at knowing when to hold his ground and when would be better to back off, and has been shown to err on the side of caution when he's not certain. He backs down on insisting on corrections when Jon gets frustrated at him, stops teasing Martin when he gets visibly flustered and asks, and is the one to notice Michael's non-human traits when it corners him and Martin.
However, that's not to say he'd generally a very open person with regards to his own emotions, and he's shown that quite often the opposite is true. Despite his aptitude for calling other people out on their romantic entanglements (or perceived ones) he's commented on as actively running from his own emotions, and we see it in action multiple times: while he and Jon both feel traumatised and isolated by their experiences with the Prentiss attack, Tim makes it everyone else's problem with his increasingly bad attitude, getting snarky and picking fights with people who address it without introspection. When his brother is killed he goes straight into investigating circuses and Robert Smirke's architecture instead of grieving, and overall has a strong tendency to blame outside forces or people for his problems.
Unfortunately, the last six months or so in particular have left Tim completely burnt out. His boss accused him of murder and stalked his house, his best office buddy turned into a monster and he doesn't even remember what she really looks like, and everyone else in the office is either entirely useless or actively malicious - and the job itself will actively kill him if he doesn't perform it with at least minimal effort. While he may not strictly have depression in and of itself, he's very much at a point where his behaviour outwardly reflects it, to the point of some openly suicidal tendencies, such as the oft-mentioned picking fights and extreme disinterest in existing beyond token effort.
Tim's threshold for trusting people with more than basic surface emotions or a night or two of sex is unattainably high. He has completely lost faith in his coworkers and also most of humanity in general, and this comes out as an incredibly tired and cynical tone. His humour's still there but it's black, bitter, and bitingly sarcastic, and any overt offers of friendship or a caring hand are slapped away with a flat, resentful comment. All he's been focused on is revenge, for his brother and his own satisfaction and he didn't let anything get in his way, to the point of openly threatening and attacking people who confronted him to stop it. Elias describes Tim as disruptive, a rogue element and "an angry, unpredictable man with nothing left but the desire to feel in some way revenged", and Tim actively embraces it.
Barge Reactions: Since Tim just came from a world-shattering eldritch event that was just a giant anti-semiosis trip (unable to identify people and objects, or misidentifying them as something they aren't, or even unable to understand what they are in the first place) and blew himself up in the process, he's going to handle being in a random room in an unknown location very poorly, and he will absolutely continue swinging in raw panic until he recognises that he can recognise things. And then have a very confused crisis.
As for the other people on-board - he'll be openly threatening towards vaguely non-human characters, or ones that fall directly into the Uncanny Valley (undead, androids, human adjacent etc), but increasingly less so the more they visibly veer towards openly non-human. And he is very mad at his own entire cast.
Deal: For Grimaldi, the Stranger entitity that killed his brother, to be utterly destroyed with no chance of coming back. He knows he and his coworkers disrupted the ritual, but he wants that clown dead. Largely this is, purely and simply, an act of revenge, but an avatar of the Stranger being permanently destroyed is no bad thing for the general level of fear in his world.
History: Tim's past is noted by Jonathan Sims as being impressive - or at least, impressive in the context of 'why would he try and get a job at the Institute??'. His childhood is implied to be fully mundane, quite possibly in an upper socio-economic bracket: he attended Trinity College and graduated First in Anthropology (a bachelor's degree in at least the seventieth percentile, if not much higher) and moved almost immediately into working for a publishing firm.
While his life was utterly mundane until this point, the actual majority of the event that changed his life happened to his little brother, Danny. Tim and his younger brother weren't particularly close; they loved each other and enjoyed the other's company, they just lead very different lives and largely kept different company. The younger Stoker burned through passion projects while Tim stayed steady in his university study and publishing job, and Tim pointed out, sincerely, that he was never jealous of his brother's success, confidence and general superiority in looks, height and fitness. In 2013, Danny's passion shifted to urban exploration, and in August that year his exploration lead him to investigate Covent Garden Theatre. While Tim objected, thinking it was too dangerous to investigate what is technically the Royal Opera House, and how that's technically trespassing, Danny brushed him off and left to break in.
Tim waited until 1AM for his brother to return, but eventually had to sleep; when he got up again towards the early end of dawn, he found Danny sitting in his lounge, dead still and crying. Tim tried to coax him to talk or relax, but Danny didn't respond. When Tim finally got him to lie down, he went back to bed, but when he woke up Danny was gone, and had only left horrifying sketches of a clown behind. Tim quickly found Danny's exploration notes, and used them to break into the Royal Opera House himself to find where he might have gone, but when he got inside and made it to the auditorium he found Danny's body standing in the middle of the stage, on display for an audience of carved stone figures; and a tall, disjointed clown figure dragged itself across the stage and ripped Danny's skin off him, to reveal a figure that Tim can't rightly describe: "like an impressionist painting of a dancer, all colours and shapes that made you feel movement you couldn't see".
The next thing Tim remembers is being outside the theatre with no intervening movement or memories. He never tried going back, certain of the fact that if he did, he wouldn't get away a second time. Instead he applied for a job at the Magnus Institute, quitting his old job and life and throwing himself into dedicated research, trying to discover everything and anything about the old circus, the horrific Joseph Grimaldi parody, or just anything about supernatural circuses, but eventually he became complacent and simply fell into his new lot in life. He was a regular researcher for the Institute for two years, until he was picked by the new Head Archivist, Jonathan Sims, to be one of his assistant archivists with Sasha James, and also Martin Blackwood.
Tim's life continued to be largely mundane, in his new role, as he continued to work in a research capacity, using his humour and charms to flirt with clerks of all genders for information and performing valuable research for Jon, who appears by all measures to regard him and his work highly (though not necessarily the means in which he got them, stop using Institude funds for that, Tim) and largely being uninvolved with the supernatural aspects of their job, until Martin got trapped in his apartment for two weeks by a flesh-eating human hive of worms formerly known as Jane Prentiss, that started stalking the archival section of the Institute. Until on July 29, 2016, when he was on his way back from lunch, walked into the building and very nearly got eaten by a swarm of worms before Sasha bodyslammed him out of the mess and saved his life. Tim ran from the worms and into an office - Martin had been hiding a stash of CO2 canisters for several months here, which Tim used to gas the secret tunnels in the Institute that the worms had originally entered from. He managed to relocate Martin and Tim, though by then was already suffering from oxygen deprivation due to the sheer amounts of CO2 he'd been spraying. While he travelled with the two in the tunnels to try and escape, Martin got scared and fled ahead, leaving Jon and Tim to meet Prentiss alone - right as their boss Elias Bouchard activated the fire suppression system. The two are nearly suffocated and eaten alive by worms, but ultimately survive with no lasting effects.
However, Martin had found the body of the previous Head Archivist, Gertrude, in the tunnels, which sent Jon into a paranoid spiral for the next several months as he starts suspecting all his colleagues of having killed her. Tim is the one most heavily affected by this, as Jon is shown to be stalking his apartment and acting increasingly hostile towards him, which Tim return in kind. An intervention is staged for Jon regarding his erratic behaviour, but does nothing to improve Tim and Jon's relationship, which comes to a head when Tim finally snaps and rants at Jon about how everything bad that's happened to him is directly Jon's fault, and realises that as much as he wants to, he can't quit working at the Archives, and Jon can't fire him.
He continues working, despite hating every minute of it, until Jon gives him and Martin a few days off out of nowhere. Thoroughly suspicious of this, Tim convinces Martin to come back to the Archives with him to see what Jon's really doing, and he and Martin spot the horrible doppelganger of Sasha rampaging like a monster through the corridors and down into the secret trapdoor to the tunnels under the Archives. Despite his protests, Tim follows Martin down to the tunnels, but both are accosted by the entity known as Michael; Tim is the one to notice that Michael is non-human, and both men rush into the suddenly-present door that wasn't there before - which leads to Michael's own domain, where they're trapped for what feels like days or even weeks. However, they emerge only a few hours later in real time, and come back to Jon's office to try and find him, only to find the corpse of some random old man at Jon's desk, beaten to a bloody pulp.
Tim is convinced that Jon finally snapped and did it, and tries to run away to Malaysia to escape the Institute: however, there's a magic chokehold on him and the others working in the Archives, and he rapidly grows sick and weak, and after just a week is forced to return and continue working. When Jon returns, after being in hiding from the police and reveals that Elias, not himself, was the one who killed the man in his office (an infamous spooky librarian known as Jurgen Leitner), Tim becomes outright hostile to literally everyone in the office and functionally gives up on working at all - until Martin tells him there's an investigation going on into an evil circus trying to cause an apocalyptic event called the Unknowing, and Tim demands to be involved.
He does end up allowed on the mission, but gets caught up in the mind-meltiness of it all, acting aggressive towards everyone he meets from his own paranoia increasing a thousandfold, until Jon uses his own spooky powers to remind Tim that he's holding a detonator that will blow up the building and disrupt the event.
So, he does. And this is where he is being taken from by the Admiral: confused, angry and very much dead.
Sample Journal Entry:
[The audio recording is dead air for a few long seconds, until finally there's a quiet sigh.]
Statement of Timothy Stoker, regarding... his own death, and subsequent bullshit. Statement begi--
...no. N-no, this isn't an actual statement. Suppose it's just easier to say it all out loud to make sense of it. Always did work better bouncing ideas off of other people, I just... don't have any people here. Not like that.
[His voice turns aggressive, briefly.] So if you're listening, piss off right now. This isn't for you.
[And back to normal - which is to say, incredibly tired.]
Jon and Martin are here, though. Apparently they've been here for a while. Looks like they got together, which - about time, Martin, really, but-- [The apathy breaks for dryness.] --you've got terrible taste.
...still, they seem like they're doing well together. Jon almost looks... happy.
[And doesn't he sound resentful of the fact.
There's more dead air, and another long sigh. More bitterness.]
Nice to see life keeps moving on. Fuck me.
[Statement ends.]
Sample RP: Chase and Taylor give him grief in the library
Special Notes:
PB: Elliot Knight
Not!Tim: Alex Saxon
User DW:
maniette, but I rarely use itE-mail: rika.tags@gmail.com
Other Characters: Nope!
Character Name: Timothy Stoker
Series: The Magnus Archives
Age: Unknown, at least early 30s.
From When?: The aftermath of a plastic explosives detonation that destroyed a wax museum.
Inmate/Warden: Warden. Tim is one of few main characters in his series to have actual people skills, in that not only did he maintain a career in publishing for five years but he also studied anthropology and is generally an excited puppy of an extrovert. He has a strong handle on people in general, is very good at manipulating people into doing what he wants, by hook or crook or other far more pleasant and honest options. He's also used to, to a degree, spooky bullshit and won't be completely cowed by people showing off magic powers around him. He's also relentlessly stubborn, which is marked by his boss as a character flaw but it means he won't give up on a cause even if it seems hopeless. While previously the cost of his own life was too high, that's no longer an issue now he knows he's dead. He could be a good match for troublesome inmates who also don't see the point in this entire endeavour, since he's not going to force people to change but he won't let them get away with being a shithead to him either.
Item: A walkie talkie. Can be used to listen in on his Inmate and their location, and displays their proximity to him in feet, and can be tuned in case of multiple simultaneous Inmates.
Abilities/Powers: Jack and shit. okay no--
Personality:
Underneath the layers of grit that have built up over the last few years, Tim is a genuinely good and kind person. He's extremely social, knows how to work people and clearly finds some joy in doing so, as he is frequently noted as sleeping with clerks well after receiving the initial information he was tasked with finding, and has on more than one instance used Institute funds to do so. When Martin was sleeping in the Archives for his own safety, Tim would sometimes come and bring him fresh blankets for his cot and a few kind words, and is commonly noted as hanging around with staff in other sections of the Institute. It's also implied he and Sasha were quite close, and while it's not necessarily shown, Tim clearly puts a lot of stock in platonic friendships as well, and seems to see casual sex as a happy side effect of being really good friends. Tim's style of flattery is horrible pick-up lines and dumb jokes, but he's got a winning charm about him that makes them come across as sincere and funny rather than obnoxious or awkward.
Having spent five years at a publishing firm, nitpicking is in Tim's blood, and his first in-show appearance is bothering Jon to rerecord several statements to correct noted inaccuracies. He's a stickler for details and can get quite petty when they're ignored. However, he also has a thorough knowledge of corporate ranks and his social standing at any given point, and is adept at knowing when to hold his ground and when would be better to back off, and has been shown to err on the side of caution when he's not certain. He backs down on insisting on corrections when Jon gets frustrated at him, stops teasing Martin when he gets visibly flustered and asks, and is the one to notice Michael's non-human traits when it corners him and Martin.
However, that's not to say he'd generally a very open person with regards to his own emotions, and he's shown that quite often the opposite is true. Despite his aptitude for calling other people out on their romantic entanglements (or perceived ones) he's commented on as actively running from his own emotions, and we see it in action multiple times: while he and Jon both feel traumatised and isolated by their experiences with the Prentiss attack, Tim makes it everyone else's problem with his increasingly bad attitude, getting snarky and picking fights with people who address it without introspection. When his brother is killed he goes straight into investigating circuses and Robert Smirke's architecture instead of grieving, and overall has a strong tendency to blame outside forces or people for his problems.
Unfortunately, the last six months or so in particular have left Tim completely burnt out. His boss accused him of murder and stalked his house, his best office buddy turned into a monster and he doesn't even remember what she really looks like, and everyone else in the office is either entirely useless or actively malicious - and the job itself will actively kill him if he doesn't perform it with at least minimal effort. While he may not strictly have depression in and of itself, he's very much at a point where his behaviour outwardly reflects it, to the point of some openly suicidal tendencies, such as the oft-mentioned picking fights and extreme disinterest in existing beyond token effort.
Tim's threshold for trusting people with more than basic surface emotions or a night or two of sex is unattainably high. He has completely lost faith in his coworkers and also most of humanity in general, and this comes out as an incredibly tired and cynical tone. His humour's still there but it's black, bitter, and bitingly sarcastic, and any overt offers of friendship or a caring hand are slapped away with a flat, resentful comment. All he's been focused on is revenge, for his brother and his own satisfaction and he didn't let anything get in his way, to the point of openly threatening and attacking people who confronted him to stop it. Elias describes Tim as disruptive, a rogue element and "an angry, unpredictable man with nothing left but the desire to feel in some way revenged", and Tim actively embraces it.
Barge Reactions: Since Tim just came from a world-shattering eldritch event that was just a giant anti-semiosis trip (unable to identify people and objects, or misidentifying them as something they aren't, or even unable to understand what they are in the first place) and blew himself up in the process, he's going to handle being in a random room in an unknown location very poorly, and he will absolutely continue swinging in raw panic until he recognises that he can recognise things. And then have a very confused crisis.
As for the other people on-board - he'll be openly threatening towards vaguely non-human characters, or ones that fall directly into the Uncanny Valley (undead, androids, human adjacent etc), but increasingly less so the more they visibly veer towards openly non-human. And he is very mad at his own entire cast.
Deal: For Grimaldi, the Stranger entitity that killed his brother, to be utterly destroyed with no chance of coming back. He knows he and his coworkers disrupted the ritual, but he wants that clown dead. Largely this is, purely and simply, an act of revenge, but an avatar of the Stranger being permanently destroyed is no bad thing for the general level of fear in his world.
History: Tim's past is noted by Jonathan Sims as being impressive - or at least, impressive in the context of 'why would he try and get a job at the Institute??'. His childhood is implied to be fully mundane, quite possibly in an upper socio-economic bracket: he attended Trinity College and graduated First in Anthropology (a bachelor's degree in at least the seventieth percentile, if not much higher) and moved almost immediately into working for a publishing firm.
While his life was utterly mundane until this point, the actual majority of the event that changed his life happened to his little brother, Danny. Tim and his younger brother weren't particularly close; they loved each other and enjoyed the other's company, they just lead very different lives and largely kept different company. The younger Stoker burned through passion projects while Tim stayed steady in his university study and publishing job, and Tim pointed out, sincerely, that he was never jealous of his brother's success, confidence and general superiority in looks, height and fitness. In 2013, Danny's passion shifted to urban exploration, and in August that year his exploration lead him to investigate Covent Garden Theatre. While Tim objected, thinking it was too dangerous to investigate what is technically the Royal Opera House, and how that's technically trespassing, Danny brushed him off and left to break in.
Tim waited until 1AM for his brother to return, but eventually had to sleep; when he got up again towards the early end of dawn, he found Danny sitting in his lounge, dead still and crying. Tim tried to coax him to talk or relax, but Danny didn't respond. When Tim finally got him to lie down, he went back to bed, but when he woke up Danny was gone, and had only left horrifying sketches of a clown behind. Tim quickly found Danny's exploration notes, and used them to break into the Royal Opera House himself to find where he might have gone, but when he got inside and made it to the auditorium he found Danny's body standing in the middle of the stage, on display for an audience of carved stone figures; and a tall, disjointed clown figure dragged itself across the stage and ripped Danny's skin off him, to reveal a figure that Tim can't rightly describe: "like an impressionist painting of a dancer, all colours and shapes that made you feel movement you couldn't see".
The next thing Tim remembers is being outside the theatre with no intervening movement or memories. He never tried going back, certain of the fact that if he did, he wouldn't get away a second time. Instead he applied for a job at the Magnus Institute, quitting his old job and life and throwing himself into dedicated research, trying to discover everything and anything about the old circus, the horrific Joseph Grimaldi parody, or just anything about supernatural circuses, but eventually he became complacent and simply fell into his new lot in life. He was a regular researcher for the Institute for two years, until he was picked by the new Head Archivist, Jonathan Sims, to be one of his assistant archivists with Sasha James, and also Martin Blackwood.
Tim's life continued to be largely mundane, in his new role, as he continued to work in a research capacity, using his humour and charms to flirt with clerks of all genders for information and performing valuable research for Jon, who appears by all measures to regard him and his work highly (though not necessarily the means in which he got them, stop using Institude funds for that, Tim) and largely being uninvolved with the supernatural aspects of their job, until Martin got trapped in his apartment for two weeks by a flesh-eating human hive of worms formerly known as Jane Prentiss, that started stalking the archival section of the Institute. Until on July 29, 2016, when he was on his way back from lunch, walked into the building and very nearly got eaten by a swarm of worms before Sasha bodyslammed him out of the mess and saved his life. Tim ran from the worms and into an office - Martin had been hiding a stash of CO2 canisters for several months here, which Tim used to gas the secret tunnels in the Institute that the worms had originally entered from. He managed to relocate Martin and Tim, though by then was already suffering from oxygen deprivation due to the sheer amounts of CO2 he'd been spraying. While he travelled with the two in the tunnels to try and escape, Martin got scared and fled ahead, leaving Jon and Tim to meet Prentiss alone - right as their boss Elias Bouchard activated the fire suppression system. The two are nearly suffocated and eaten alive by worms, but ultimately survive with no lasting effects.
However, Martin had found the body of the previous Head Archivist, Gertrude, in the tunnels, which sent Jon into a paranoid spiral for the next several months as he starts suspecting all his colleagues of having killed her. Tim is the one most heavily affected by this, as Jon is shown to be stalking his apartment and acting increasingly hostile towards him, which Tim return in kind. An intervention is staged for Jon regarding his erratic behaviour, but does nothing to improve Tim and Jon's relationship, which comes to a head when Tim finally snaps and rants at Jon about how everything bad that's happened to him is directly Jon's fault, and realises that as much as he wants to, he can't quit working at the Archives, and Jon can't fire him.
He continues working, despite hating every minute of it, until Jon gives him and Martin a few days off out of nowhere. Thoroughly suspicious of this, Tim convinces Martin to come back to the Archives with him to see what Jon's really doing, and he and Martin spot the horrible doppelganger of Sasha rampaging like a monster through the corridors and down into the secret trapdoor to the tunnels under the Archives. Despite his protests, Tim follows Martin down to the tunnels, but both are accosted by the entity known as Michael; Tim is the one to notice that Michael is non-human, and both men rush into the suddenly-present door that wasn't there before - which leads to Michael's own domain, where they're trapped for what feels like days or even weeks. However, they emerge only a few hours later in real time, and come back to Jon's office to try and find him, only to find the corpse of some random old man at Jon's desk, beaten to a bloody pulp.
Tim is convinced that Jon finally snapped and did it, and tries to run away to Malaysia to escape the Institute: however, there's a magic chokehold on him and the others working in the Archives, and he rapidly grows sick and weak, and after just a week is forced to return and continue working. When Jon returns, after being in hiding from the police and reveals that Elias, not himself, was the one who killed the man in his office (an infamous spooky librarian known as Jurgen Leitner), Tim becomes outright hostile to literally everyone in the office and functionally gives up on working at all - until Martin tells him there's an investigation going on into an evil circus trying to cause an apocalyptic event called the Unknowing, and Tim demands to be involved.
He does end up allowed on the mission, but gets caught up in the mind-meltiness of it all, acting aggressive towards everyone he meets from his own paranoia increasing a thousandfold, until Jon uses his own spooky powers to remind Tim that he's holding a detonator that will blow up the building and disrupt the event.
So, he does. And this is where he is being taken from by the Admiral: confused, angry and very much dead.
Sample Journal Entry:
[The audio recording is dead air for a few long seconds, until finally there's a quiet sigh.]
Statement of Timothy Stoker, regarding... his own death, and subsequent bullshit. Statement begi--
...no. N-no, this isn't an actual statement. Suppose it's just easier to say it all out loud to make sense of it. Always did work better bouncing ideas off of other people, I just... don't have any people here. Not like that.
[His voice turns aggressive, briefly.] So if you're listening, piss off right now. This isn't for you.
[And back to normal - which is to say, incredibly tired.]
Jon and Martin are here, though. Apparently they've been here for a while. Looks like they got together, which - about time, Martin, really, but-- [The apathy breaks for dryness.] --you've got terrible taste.
...still, they seem like they're doing well together. Jon almost looks... happy.
[And doesn't he sound resentful of the fact.
There's more dead air, and another long sigh. More bitterness.]
Nice to see life keeps moving on. Fuck me.
[Statement ends.]
Sample RP: Chase and Taylor give him grief in the library
Special Notes:
PB: Elliot Knight
Not!Tim: Alex Saxon