Character Profile: Travis Turner

Description

Travis Marshall Percy-Newton Turner is 12-and-a-half years old, five-two, and 120 pounds. He has tightly coiled curly black hair, with dark brown eyes and skin. The right side of his face and body are covered in burned scars from a fire when he was younger, and he often wears hoodies to hide his face.

Personality

Travis has a dark, sarcastic, geeky sense of humor, and thinks he’s above everyone around him. A know-it-all, he has a massive superiority complex, and hates being viewed as weak or anything but the best at whatever he does. While outwardly stoic, he has anger problems, which becomes his greatest strength and his greatest weakness.

Likes

Travis likes reading books and learning in general, especially if it involves languages, science, or technology. He often takes electronics apart to figure out how they work and has been working on his robot Cha for the past year.

A gamer, he loves fighters, RPG’s, and puzzle/platformers.

He’s also big on gangster movies and bad sci-fi and horror movies.

Music-wise, he likes classical, rap, R&B, soul, Motown, but his favorite genres are Alternative and metal.

Travis also likes order and being in control and as such his room is always clean, with everything labeled and in its place.

When it comes to people, his social circle is small and he only considers Jenny Adams, the nurse who’s taken care of him for years, and his grandmother, Helena Aurum, worthy of his attention and affection.

However, that all changes when he and JJ start hanging out and Travis finds himself falling for the older boy, despite his protestations that love is an evolutionary joke, a trick of chemicals to compel the species to procreate.

Dislikes

He dislikes disorder, messes, surprises, being around a lot of people, and meeting many people at once. Travis also loathes small talk, celebrity and pop culture, stupidity, being vulnerable, and anything that makes him seem weak.

Goals

While still young, Travis knows he wants to do something with technology or electronics, such as becoming an electrical engineer, computer engineer, or programmer. His main goal right now is surviving the hell that is school until he’s old enough to take the GED and go off on his own. But when Oblivion reveals Travis is his vessel, prophesied to end the world, his goal shifts to mastering his powers and stopping the prophecy from coming true.   

Desires

On the surface Travis wants to be normal. But what he desires most is to be accepted for he truly is, to have a place where he can drop his guard and not worry about being strong all the time. Though he says otherwise, he does want friends, to love, and be loved.

Fears

Travis fears emotions and being rejected, so he suppresses the former and pushes everyone away when they get too close. He puts on an act like he doesn’t care what anyone thinks of him. But most of all he fears Oblivion is right about them being the same, and that he has no control over his destiny.

Morality/ Religious Belief

Morally speaking, Travis is Chaotic Neutral, following his own set of rules with little regard to whether his actions are good or evil, so long as they achieve his goals.

Religiously, he’s an atheist, staunch materialist, and Secular Humanist who believes this is the only world that exists and the only life we get, so we should make the best of it for ourselves and others.

Political Alignment

Raised in a working-class neighborhood, Travis leans liberal, believing the state has a role to play in government, but it shouldn’t be the answer to everything. And in general, it should keep its nose out of people’s business and let them do whatever they want if it doesn’t harm anyone.

Conclusion

Thank you for reading this post. Next week’s post will explore JJ’s background.