Hugh Travis

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Hugh Christopher Travis




"Now you see that evil will always triumph because good is dumb."

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Full Name - Hugh Christopher Travis
Nicknames/Alias - Prefers simply to be called “Travis”, Chris
Age - 39
Date of Birth - November 12, 2480
Gender - Male
Sexual Orientation - Heterosexual
Affiliation - Neutral (Fought in the War as Alliance, works frequently with persons from both sides, has no real loyalty to anyone)
Occupation - Hired Gun/Mercenary/Pirate

Play-By - Jerome Flynn
Build - Athletic and strong but a bit on the thin side
Height & Weight - 6’1”, 170 lbs
Hair - Brown, medium-long length, frequent unshaved facial hair
Eyes - Blue
Unique Features - A handful of minor scars here and there from a life full of fighting both in war and on the streets, also some damage sustained while in prison. Notably, Travis has also been shot twice, once through his left hand and then into the left shoulder (funny story) and the other in the right leg.
Dressing Style - Fashion and style aren’t exactly the words that come to mind. Hugh Travis tends to dress in dark earth tones, primarily browns. Tough and worn brown boots are a staple of his attire but the rest is a bit fluid in that color range and ranges from tactical equipment to simple cotton clothing. However, he rarely ever wears any headwear or eyewear.
Other - He’s a gorram pirate.

Likes - Girls, booze, a hot meal, fighting, killing sometimes, winning, getting paid, the ca-ching of coin, adrenaline rush, good gear and weapons
Dislikes - Cheats, cowards, anybody preachy about his lifestyle and the above likes, prison, Alliance (not enough to turn down jobs), cutting edge tech (i.e. the kind of stuff that puts people like him at a disadvantage against the rich and/or feds)
Quirks/Habits - Smiles… a lot. He’s quick to joke or laugh but he’ll also smile at just about anything. You and he just got ambushed and barely survived. He looks at the guy you just killed and then at you and smiles.
Fears - Going back to prison.
Secrets - From reputable folks: his extensive criminal record
From non-reputable folks: his past disloyalty to his supposed comrades on a few occasions
Strengths - Fierce fighting in close combat, brave (perhaps foolishly so) when it suits him, strong sense of humor, can lie his way into or out of nearly anything
Weaknesses - Fickle loyalty, his vices of women and booze, serious ranged fighting, no technical or mechanical skills at all
Talents/Special Abilities - Skilled fighter with a short blade or with close range guns, extremely agile and quick despite his increasing age, great liar
Aspirations - Get that big score and retire. Until then have fun getting in fights, making bank, and pissing all his coin away on women and alcohol.
Overall Personality - Travis is a scoundrel. He always has been and probably always will be. His priorities begin and end with Travis and his needs. That means his lifelong pursuit is happiness which translates into the quest for adventure and coin so that he can be happy. He’s fairly loyal as pirates go, but he has on occasion betrayed his comrades for a better offer or deserted them when facing impossible odds. He’s not a total coward or traitor though. He’s not the kind of man to betray you for 101% of what he’s currently being paid. Just make sure he is paid well, treated well (i.e. you’re not a complete ass to him), and you don’t ask him to do something he’s not getting paid nearly enough to do (like a suicide mission).

Travis has spent most his life in crime and particularly in the violent part of it. He has killed plenty of people, sometimes even murdered them. Yet he’s not a sociopath like your average run-of-the-mill murderer. Yes, he enjoys the rush of fighting and even killing but he only ever kills because he’s being paid to or you pissed him off. The “fun” of it is only an added benefit for a job that needed doing either for an outside employer or Travis “employing” himself to take care of business.

Outside of his “work” Travis is pretty laidback. He enjoys his down time, his girls, his drinks, his jokes, etc. He’s friendly, funny, and happy even at times when one should probably be a little more serious. Preparing to raid an enemy ship he might be cracking a joke or humming a tune while the others are either “getting in the zone” or saying their prayers.

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Father - Owen Travis (Deceased) 31
Mother - Karen Travis 63
Siblings - Lauren Travis 37, John Travis 36, Wade Travis 33
Other Significant People - Jack Daniels?
Pets - Not really the type to keep anything too long. Maybe a dog or two he then pawned off on a family member or his sweetheart at the time.
Your History - Travis is from Shinon originally. The family was pretty well off until Owen, their father, died when Hugh was only six. From there the family fell on tough times with a single parent home not to mention the hardships on the kids for not having a father figure in their lives. Hugh Travis never really put much effort into school and began to skip class and assignments frequently throughout his entire youth, finally culminating in a dropout at the age of sixteen, ten long years later. Meanwhile he’d also been a “bad boy” outside of school with petty theft, fist fights, vandalism, and the like once he hit about eleven years of age.

After leaving school, Hugh Travis found jobs here and there, primarily around the ship yards. For a year he actually had a job aboard a ship but that only lasted a few months and ended with him back home on Shinon. While getting work where he could find it as a manual laborer, he also moonlighted as hired muscle. Some of his “friends” from his younger criminal days had now moved into the more organized aspect of crime and would farm work out to their old buddy. For the most part it was intimidation (breaking shop windows for protection money, breaking kneecaps, being an extra bodyguard on a deal, etc.).

In 2506, at about the age of 25, the Unification War broke out. Although not a patriotic man by any stretch of the imagination, Travis joined up. He soon learned, however, that military service was not all the adventure, exotic travel, and great benefits they advertised on the vids. He saw buddies blown apart and nearly got killed himself. They travelled to exotic locations that may have been pretty once but were now blown up and full of people trying to kill him. The great benefits came in the medical costs for when you had your legs blown off and maybe a big fat pension if you survived the war and then also put in half the rest of your life. Yeah… they were not paying him enough for this shit. War sucked.

First chance he got, Travis dropped his uniform and deserted. He managed to find his way off world and soon wound up back on Shinon. He fell back in with the criminal underworld he’d been a part of and now worked there fulltime and gave up on that promising dockworker career. It was a sweet deal until 2508 and he got pinched by the law. He was given the choice between a lengthy prison sentence and military service so Travis ended up getting shipped off to war for a second time (the judge apparently didn’t know about his earlier desertion).

Round two wasn’t much better than round one. Travis stayed for nearly a year before finally “getting lost” during a redeployment at the end of a particularly gruesome campaign. He found his way back to Shinon like before and once again found his way back to the crime family. Yet again, however, this life was about to end. Just as the war was winding down and the Alliance could focus more attention domestically, the Feds cracked down on their organization. There was intense but brief fighting until finally the Feds overwhelmed them. Nearly everyone involved was either killed or captured. Somehow Travis got off lucky and didn’t have any serious crimes attached to him (e.g. the handful of murders including one fed) and was in prison for just four years before the revolving door of the judicial system released him.

Back on the streets, Travis decided NOT to go back to Shinon and his old buddies there both because that always seemed to end poorly and, well, they were all dead or locked up anyway. Instead he turned to the stars with the theory that it’d be harder for an operation that was constantly mobile to get tracked down and taken out so easily. He moved around a bit as a hired gun but eventually settled in the more disreputable classification of pirate.

What should we call you? - Roger
Roleplaying Experience - Couple years
Where did you find us? - From the ‘Verse
Prove Yourself - I work for the shiny
Post Script - absolutely anything else you would like to mention about your character should go right here.
Other characters - Roger, Friedrich, James Rickart
How we should contact you - PM
Roleplay Example -
The first hint Travis had that they were under attack was when he awoke from his sleep facedown on the hard floor beside his bunk with a large welt already forming on his forehead. Alarms and lights were going off all across the ship along with the sounds of panic and a hurried defense being prepared. Travis only groaned and ran his hand back through his hair as he got up from the floor. TWINS! He’d been dreaming about twins! ”God, damn it!” he cursed slowly and deliberately before then roughly sweeping his arm across the nearby table. In the process he grabbed both his knife and sidearm. He didn’t bother really checking either or even preparing them with his other gear.

With knife in one hand and gun in the other, Travis, dressed only in his skivvies, exited his small cabin and made his way down the cold metal hallway toward the cargo bay and the epicenter of most of the commotion. Along the way the ship was rocked by another impact. There was no explosion so this must have been a grapnel. Were they really being boarded like this? Who was dumb enough to try and get in a boarding fight with a bunch of pirates? Probably other pirates who had no idea they weren’t just some simple cargo ship.

Travis took position in the main hold with the others, setting himself off to the side so he’d be out of the direct line of fire and could maybe get some good stabs into anyone who tried to rush right on in and to the side. He drew a few looks from the others at his lack of dress to which he merely asked if they’d taken a hull breach because it felt a bit breezy. With grins on their faces, the doors made their seals and in poured a half dozen attackers not expecting such a well-armed reception.

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