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endoftheuniverse) wrote2018-04-09 02:06 pm
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Liam Ferohn-Gau | Gods Will Be Watching | Application for Rookshire
Personal Information
Name: World
Age: 26
Prefered Pronouns: They/Them
Contact: Discord: Worldres#6489, Plurk: worldres
Character Information
Character Name: Liam Ferohn-Gau
Fandom: Gods Will Be Watching (Final Chapter)
Character Journal:endoftheuniverse
Character History: The wiki isn't well written, unfortunately, and hasn't been updated to reflect the ending, so here we go:
In the world of Gods Will Be Watching, humans have destroyed earth to the point where all earth history is lost. Humans now colonize many planets across the galaxy, and have killed and enslaved many alien races to do so. The universe is split into four factions:
The two most powerful factions are:
-The Hollistic Empire, a dictatorial meritocracy made of both humans and aliens. Has no regard for human/alien rights in spite of this.
-The Constellar Federation, a human-centric faction that enslaves aliens as slave-labour for their colonies; otherwise the closest faction to earth ways of life.
There are also two independent factions:
-Xenolifer, a wandering militia that opposes all forms of oppression; the alien oppression of the Constellar Federation in particular.
-The Everdusk Company for Universal Knowledge (known as ECUK or Everdusk), a neutral faction that specializes in espionage.
Part 1: Main Game
Liam Ferohn-Gau is the leader of Xenolifer, which he founded as a young man (alongside his mentor, Shaman) with the intention of making the universe a better place. Four years after Xenolifer begins operating, Everdusk takes notice of their activities, and tasks two of their agents, Sergeant Abraham Burden (the protagonist of Part 1) and Corporal Jack Maslow, to feign sympathy to Xenolifer's cause and assume deep cover inside of it until further notice. Abraham's task is to get close to Liam and gain his trust; Jack's task is to send any and all information to Everdusk while Abraham has Liam distracted. Initially, Everdusk's plan was to keep an eye on Liam through their agents and eventually use him as a tool to help destroy or significantly change the Hollistic Empire and the Constellar Federation.
Abraham approaches Liam and offers his talents. Abraham was an accomplished Sergeant with the Constellar Federation before he turned rogue after the Federation used him as a professional assasin; he confesses to Liam that while he hates killing, sometimes there is no peaceful way of changing the world and sacrifices must be made. Liam takes Abraham's advice to heart, and decides to keep Abraham close at hand. Abraham and Liam become very close: while Abraham was only supposed to fake a relationship with Liam as part of his mission, Abraham truly falls in love with him. It is ambiguous as to whether Liam returned his feelings.
As Xenolifer matures, their methods become increasingly violent; Liam primarily tasks Xenolifer with assasinating policitians who support Alien slavery, but becomes frustrated when this leads to very little progress.
Three years after Abraham assumes deep cover, Liam and Abraham carry out a special mission to raid an Empire weapons depot. Inside the depot, they find evidence of the existence of a pathogen known as the Medusea virus; a virus that only affects humans.
Liam plans to steal information about the virus and cultivate a super-weapon of his own to use against humans who are not sympathetic to Xenolifer. Abraham reports this back to Everdusk, who are not pleased with Liam's plans - they immediately order Abraham to assasinate Liam. Abraham refuses, begging them for more time to let him try to talk Liam down.
Abraham is unsuccessful at convincing Liam to not steal the data. The game opens with Abraham and Jack taking Hollistic Empire scientists hostage as Liam hacks their database via his neural implants and uploads the Medusea virus research into his brain. Abraham loses control of the hostage situation and is apprehended by the Hollistic Empire military just as Liam finishes uploading the data. Liam escapes; Abraham and Jack do not.
Liam eventually finds Abraham and Jack in a lunar prison run by the Hollistic Empire. Abraham and Jack are being severely tortured by two agents of the Empire, who are trying to extract the name of the person who stole their research. Liam comes to them at night after their torturers leave and promises them that he'll help them escape, but as the prison is extremely well guarded, it will take 20 days to organize a jailbreak. He orders them to hang on that long, and offers to bring them medicine, painkillers, and information at night to help them survive.
10 days into their torture, Everdusk comes to extract Jack and Abraham, exploding a bomb on their cell wall as Liam is tending to them. Jack and Abraham are knocked unconscious and Liam is badly injured in the explosion; the Everdusk agents, unable to verify Liam's identity, leave Liam for dead in the cell. Liam overhears the Everdusk agents refer to Abraham as one of them just before he falls unconscious.
Upon his return to Xenolifer, Liam is enraged by Abraham's betrayal, believing Abraham's relationship with him was a lie and that he was merely lying in wait for an opportunity to assasinate him. One year later, he finds Abraham working on an ice planet named Sineicos, the native planet of the Medusea virus, and hatches a plan to get even.
Liam, Shaman, and a small team of gunmen infiltrate the Sineicos lab where Abraham and Jack are working with a science team to find a cure to the Medusea virus. Liam confronts Abraham at gunpoint and taunts him. When Jack tries to shoot Liam, Abraham intervenes - Abraham tries to tell Liam what happened, but Liam refuses to listen. He traps Abraham and his team in the lab, flooding it with live Medusea virus. He tells Abraham that he has 24 hours to find a cure to the virus or else he and his team will die.
After curing themselves of the infection, the team escapes the lab with the formula for the cure, which Liam takes for himself. Once again, Jack moves to kill Liam, but Abraham stops him. Liam repays Abraham's kindness by explaining that he can't risk being followed - and blows up Abraham's ship, stranding him and his team, before escaping with the cure.
28 days later, Abraham is able to call for rescue, and manages to get his team off the planet. Everdusk is extremely disappointed in Abraham's actions, and admonishes him for failing to kill Liam for the third time. They then inform him that 2 days before their rescue, Liam released Medusea virus on one of the most powerful human colonies, Gactus VII, which he intends to turn into a planet that is inhospitable for humans. Liam has decided to commit genocide against the human race, wiping out entire planets that refuse to grant equal rights to their alien slaves. When Abraham tells Everdusk that he knows the formula for the cure, Everdusk tells Abraham that Xenolifer engineered a strain of Medusea virus, Xeno-Medusea, which renders their cure useless; only Liam has the formula. With only 24 hours left until all humans on Gactus VII are dead, Everdusk tasks Abraham with one final mission:
Destroy Xenolifer, get the serum for Xeno-Medusa, release the serum into the atmosphere of Gactus VII, and kill Liam.
Abraham finally agrees. He sets off towards Liam's mothership, where he begins to remember something strange: he is an instrument of the Gods who has been living in a 7-year time loop, trying to find the most "ideal" universe in which as few people die as possible, but is never successful. He feels pain, and can be killed (which restarts the loop), but does not need to eat, drink, sleep, or even breathe, and cannot die a natural death. He never remembers his divine purpose until he begins his last mission to defeat Liam.
Abraham uses the memories from his infinite past lives and remembers that no matter how much he begs, Liam never agrees to save Gactus VII. After finding the cure, Abraham confronts Liam one last time, briefly explaining that he never meant to teach Liam to commit genocide; knowing they cannot change the other's mind, the two engage in a fight to the death. While Liam has used his wealth and resources to make himself a battlesuit that is near-invincible, Abraham uses his knowledge from "one million timelines" to eventually overpower him.
Abraham does not strike the killing blow. While Liam is incapacitated, he talks to him one last time and explains his divine purpose. However, living the same 7 years of utter torture one million times has jaded Abraham, and while he still loves Liam, he no longer cares about staying with him - or even about the fate of humanity. Abraham explains to Liam that while his entire existence revolves around stopping him from exterminating humans, he has not once made a choice for himself, and he hates the Gods for it.
Liam, finally calmed down, urges Abraham to choose for himself where his allegiance truly lies: with him or with Everdusk. The player can choose who Abraham decides to side with, either releasing or returning the cure based on their choice.
Regardless of his choice, Liam reaches to grab Abraham's hand. Abraham refuses, bids Liam goodbye, and jumps into the vacuum of space - where he believes he cannot die or be killed, and will simply exist for all eternity, finally out of the time loop. Liam's story in Part 1 ends with him mourning for Abraham.
Part 2: Final Chapter DLC - Commitment, Regret, Temptation and Sacrifice
64% of players chose to side with Everdusk, making the universe where the cure is distributed the "canon" ending. 20 year after Abraham spaced himself, Liam has become a fugitive and is obsessed with finding Abraham. He has spent his life on the run as a scholar, and has learned that there are beings known as "anomalies" who return to the start of an infinite time loop upon their death, one of whom is Abraham.
In the 20 years since Xenolifer was defeated, the Constellar Federation has wiped out or enslaved all of the aliens within their reach, and have even started sentencing human prisoners and their desendants to slavery, creating a new caste of humans. Liam decides that he must find Abraham, tell him how things have turned out, and kill him to send him back to Liam's younger self so that they can release Xeno-Medusea into the Federation colonies and stop the future from coming true.
To find Abraham, Liam and Shaman assemble a team comprised of Abraham's old science lab buddies:
-Dr. Paul Zenesz, a bacteriologist and medical doctor
-Dr. Sarah Gaynor, an ex-psychiatrist turned soldier
-Donald Gaynor, a cowardly engineer who only agreed to come because his ex-wife is here
-Jack Maslow, former double-agent for Everdusk and Abraham's best friend.
Shaman and Liam locate Abraham in a nebula sacred to a now-extinct alien race (which happened to raise Shaman from birth). Shaman tells Liam that the Nebula itself is a God: Mihral, the Scholar of Paths. When Liam tries to drive his ship into the nebula, he instantly blacks out. The entire team wakes up on the surface of a barren ice planet, their ship in flames.
Shaman, who has broken his leg in the accident, tells the team that Abraham is imprisoned somewhere at the highest point on the planet. The team has no choice but to climb a 15km high mountain to find him, dragging an immobile Shaman with them, as he is the only one with the ability to free Abraham. They soon realize that they will not survive a return trip, and are very likely to die on the way to the peak.
After Liam convinces the team to exchange their lives to save the universe, they climb the mountain to their certain deaths. The player has the option to have Liam leave behind his teammates when they begin to slow him down.
Liam and Shaman reach the peak and free Abraham from a cage crafted by the Gods. Abraham is confused upon waking, his last memory being his fight with Liam. Liam tells him that he has searched for him for 20 years to ask him to go back and change the past. Abraham refuses, furious - he already told Liam that he no longer cares about saving humanity. Liam curses Abraham, and tells him that he doesn't care whether Abraham wants to save the universe or not - Liam is going to force him. Finally, Abraham laughs, and says that he knew he was right to let Liam live - he promises Liam that he'll go back to the past and help him prevent this future.
With one last goodbye, Liam shoots Abraham in the head, who returns to the past and warns Young Liam what will happen if they save Gactus VII. Young Liam is pleased to hear that he was right, and tells Abraham that the two of them can save the universe together. Abraham laughs - he tells Liam he never had any intention of helping him other than delivering the message. He tells Liam to take care of the universe on his behalf.
Liam reaches out to grab his hand, but once again, Abraham leaps into space to be imprisoned by the Gods.
20 years later, the Liam of the new timeline has become an accomplished Galactic commander of a war fleet against humankind. However, he regrets exterminating Gactus VII, which led to a two-decade long stalemate that has cost hundreds of billions of lives. The game ends with Liam and Shaman finding the nebula where Abraham is imprisoned, and they set off to kill him to change the past again, creating an infinite time loop.
I'll be taking Liam from the original timeline, from the instant he shoots Abraham.
Character Personality:
Externally, the writer describes Liam as an "energetic, wild, and indominable force". He is a charismatic speaker who exudes effortless confidence, and is capable of finding and bringing out the best qualities in the men and women around him. He has a sharp sense of humour, and tends to literally laugh off difficult situations until they cannot be ignored.
When things get serious, however, Liam becomes deathly so. He is very easily upset by injustice and violence, and can't stand to witness it without acting to protect the person affected, often to the detriment of his own safety. His anger runs cold, manifesting as joking insults at best, and carefully calculated violence at worst.
Liam is extremely ambitious. As a result, he is very stubborn and bull-headed, refusing to back down from his goals. He is a thrillseeker and adrenaline junkie who puts himself in danger for the fun of it, and has no regard for his own personal safety. He has an obsessive personality that makes him hyperfocused on his goals and his relationships.
He is something of a narcissist, and loves being loved. He has delusions of great self-importance, desiring to die in such a fashion that history will remember him. Interpersonally, Liam is viciously loyal, and cares deeply about the people in his circle - expecting the same level of devotion in return. This means that he interprets any slight against him as a fierce betrayal. Liam is somewhat flirty, even at inappropriate times, which may tie in to his narcissistic and obsessive nature; he needs the people around him to be close to him, and to love him.
Privately, Liam harbours a great deal of doubt and self-loathing. He remarks to himself that he is not a person worthy of respect, and believes that his life has been worthless. His friend Sarah, who is a psychiatrist, believes that Liam is secretly suffering from depression, as he has deeply repressed his trauma over killing millions of humans in his youth to the point of "not feeling anything." In response to his own lack of remorse, Liam expresses worry that he is a psychopath; Sarah assures him that he is more empathetic than he realizes, but is so dominated by his repressed grief that he must contain his true emotions to protect himself.
Finally, Liam is easily frustrated and discouraged. Note that this is irrespective of his driven nature: while Liam never backs down, he finds himself escalating his methods quickly, as he is easily disappointed by a lack of results and finds himself scrambling to save face. Abraham remarks that Liam was corrupted by his frustration of his inability to change the world over a mere few years, which made him resort to genocide and war rather than taking the time needed to educate his enemies over several generations. In spite of his repeated, outward assurances that what he is doing is right, when the chips are down, this facade falls apart and Liam finds himself asking whether or not he is doing the right thing. He is filled with regret, and wonders if he has truly changed the universe for the better as he originally set out to do.
Powers and Abilities:
-Liam is a cyborg, and has a neuro-implant which allows him to interface with technology via a cable. He is able to hack quickly and efficiently, and is capable of uploading information directly into his brain. However, if the information is corrupted or has a firewall, he experiences severe pain and seizure. He has very limited awareness of the "real world" while he is interfaced with tech.
In the game The Red Strings Club, which is tenously attached to the world of GWBW and seems to take place 100 years prior to the events of the game, we learn that neuroimplants such as Liam's can run various subroutines on the human body, such as voice modulation, antidepressant/antianxiety neurotransmitter regulators, pacemakers, gender calibrators, etc.
I headcanon that Liam only has the neurohacking interface/storage and the gender calibrator active [as he has for 30+ years, so temporary shutdowns wouldn't cause a change at this point], but this list has the potential to be added on to if the means were somehow available. Of course, anything to do with Liam's implant would be subject to mod approval.
-Liam is an accomplished martial artist, having studied alien martial arts under Shaman for much of his adult life. Abraham refers to Liam as a "great warrior" whom he could only beat after millions of years of time loops. However, when assessing who is most likely to survive climbing the mountain, Liam notes that he is in good enough shape to manage it, but his stamina and strength is greatly outmatched by Jack, a soldier of 60+ years, so Liam isn't superhuman by any means. It is likely his combat ability is bolstered by the battlesuit technology he uses, which he does not have at his pull point.
Inventory:
-Clothing: White turtleneck, thigh-length coat, black pants, holsters (one on chest, one on thigh), belt, waterproof boots.
-Neuroimplant (soldered to head)
-1 laser pistol with 4 rounds
-A paper journal (no pen or ink)
Samples:
One: Happy Hearts TDM voicetesting. You can read as much as you need for the first sample.
Two: Legion of the Eclipse TDM. Much shorter, but the prompt itself is probably a decent sample.
Name: World
Age: 26
Prefered Pronouns: They/Them
Contact: Discord: Worldres#6489, Plurk: worldres
Character Information
Character Name: Liam Ferohn-Gau
Fandom: Gods Will Be Watching (Final Chapter)
Character Journal:
endoftheuniverseCharacter History: The wiki isn't well written, unfortunately, and hasn't been updated to reflect the ending, so here we go:
In the world of Gods Will Be Watching, humans have destroyed earth to the point where all earth history is lost. Humans now colonize many planets across the galaxy, and have killed and enslaved many alien races to do so. The universe is split into four factions:
The two most powerful factions are:
-The Hollistic Empire, a dictatorial meritocracy made of both humans and aliens. Has no regard for human/alien rights in spite of this.
-The Constellar Federation, a human-centric faction that enslaves aliens as slave-labour for their colonies; otherwise the closest faction to earth ways of life.
There are also two independent factions:
-Xenolifer, a wandering militia that opposes all forms of oppression; the alien oppression of the Constellar Federation in particular.
-The Everdusk Company for Universal Knowledge (known as ECUK or Everdusk), a neutral faction that specializes in espionage.
Part 1: Main Game
Liam Ferohn-Gau is the leader of Xenolifer, which he founded as a young man (alongside his mentor, Shaman) with the intention of making the universe a better place. Four years after Xenolifer begins operating, Everdusk takes notice of their activities, and tasks two of their agents, Sergeant Abraham Burden (the protagonist of Part 1) and Corporal Jack Maslow, to feign sympathy to Xenolifer's cause and assume deep cover inside of it until further notice. Abraham's task is to get close to Liam and gain his trust; Jack's task is to send any and all information to Everdusk while Abraham has Liam distracted. Initially, Everdusk's plan was to keep an eye on Liam through their agents and eventually use him as a tool to help destroy or significantly change the Hollistic Empire and the Constellar Federation.
Abraham approaches Liam and offers his talents. Abraham was an accomplished Sergeant with the Constellar Federation before he turned rogue after the Federation used him as a professional assasin; he confesses to Liam that while he hates killing, sometimes there is no peaceful way of changing the world and sacrifices must be made. Liam takes Abraham's advice to heart, and decides to keep Abraham close at hand. Abraham and Liam become very close: while Abraham was only supposed to fake a relationship with Liam as part of his mission, Abraham truly falls in love with him. It is ambiguous as to whether Liam returned his feelings.
As Xenolifer matures, their methods become increasingly violent; Liam primarily tasks Xenolifer with assasinating policitians who support Alien slavery, but becomes frustrated when this leads to very little progress.
Three years after Abraham assumes deep cover, Liam and Abraham carry out a special mission to raid an Empire weapons depot. Inside the depot, they find evidence of the existence of a pathogen known as the Medusea virus; a virus that only affects humans.
Liam plans to steal information about the virus and cultivate a super-weapon of his own to use against humans who are not sympathetic to Xenolifer. Abraham reports this back to Everdusk, who are not pleased with Liam's plans - they immediately order Abraham to assasinate Liam. Abraham refuses, begging them for more time to let him try to talk Liam down.
Abraham is unsuccessful at convincing Liam to not steal the data. The game opens with Abraham and Jack taking Hollistic Empire scientists hostage as Liam hacks their database via his neural implants and uploads the Medusea virus research into his brain. Abraham loses control of the hostage situation and is apprehended by the Hollistic Empire military just as Liam finishes uploading the data. Liam escapes; Abraham and Jack do not.
Liam eventually finds Abraham and Jack in a lunar prison run by the Hollistic Empire. Abraham and Jack are being severely tortured by two agents of the Empire, who are trying to extract the name of the person who stole their research. Liam comes to them at night after their torturers leave and promises them that he'll help them escape, but as the prison is extremely well guarded, it will take 20 days to organize a jailbreak. He orders them to hang on that long, and offers to bring them medicine, painkillers, and information at night to help them survive.
10 days into their torture, Everdusk comes to extract Jack and Abraham, exploding a bomb on their cell wall as Liam is tending to them. Jack and Abraham are knocked unconscious and Liam is badly injured in the explosion; the Everdusk agents, unable to verify Liam's identity, leave Liam for dead in the cell. Liam overhears the Everdusk agents refer to Abraham as one of them just before he falls unconscious.
Upon his return to Xenolifer, Liam is enraged by Abraham's betrayal, believing Abraham's relationship with him was a lie and that he was merely lying in wait for an opportunity to assasinate him. One year later, he finds Abraham working on an ice planet named Sineicos, the native planet of the Medusea virus, and hatches a plan to get even.
Liam, Shaman, and a small team of gunmen infiltrate the Sineicos lab where Abraham and Jack are working with a science team to find a cure to the Medusea virus. Liam confronts Abraham at gunpoint and taunts him. When Jack tries to shoot Liam, Abraham intervenes - Abraham tries to tell Liam what happened, but Liam refuses to listen. He traps Abraham and his team in the lab, flooding it with live Medusea virus. He tells Abraham that he has 24 hours to find a cure to the virus or else he and his team will die.
After curing themselves of the infection, the team escapes the lab with the formula for the cure, which Liam takes for himself. Once again, Jack moves to kill Liam, but Abraham stops him. Liam repays Abraham's kindness by explaining that he can't risk being followed - and blows up Abraham's ship, stranding him and his team, before escaping with the cure.
28 days later, Abraham is able to call for rescue, and manages to get his team off the planet. Everdusk is extremely disappointed in Abraham's actions, and admonishes him for failing to kill Liam for the third time. They then inform him that 2 days before their rescue, Liam released Medusea virus on one of the most powerful human colonies, Gactus VII, which he intends to turn into a planet that is inhospitable for humans. Liam has decided to commit genocide against the human race, wiping out entire planets that refuse to grant equal rights to their alien slaves. When Abraham tells Everdusk that he knows the formula for the cure, Everdusk tells Abraham that Xenolifer engineered a strain of Medusea virus, Xeno-Medusea, which renders their cure useless; only Liam has the formula. With only 24 hours left until all humans on Gactus VII are dead, Everdusk tasks Abraham with one final mission:
Destroy Xenolifer, get the serum for Xeno-Medusa, release the serum into the atmosphere of Gactus VII, and kill Liam.
Abraham finally agrees. He sets off towards Liam's mothership, where he begins to remember something strange: he is an instrument of the Gods who has been living in a 7-year time loop, trying to find the most "ideal" universe in which as few people die as possible, but is never successful. He feels pain, and can be killed (which restarts the loop), but does not need to eat, drink, sleep, or even breathe, and cannot die a natural death. He never remembers his divine purpose until he begins his last mission to defeat Liam.
Abraham uses the memories from his infinite past lives and remembers that no matter how much he begs, Liam never agrees to save Gactus VII. After finding the cure, Abraham confronts Liam one last time, briefly explaining that he never meant to teach Liam to commit genocide; knowing they cannot change the other's mind, the two engage in a fight to the death. While Liam has used his wealth and resources to make himself a battlesuit that is near-invincible, Abraham uses his knowledge from "one million timelines" to eventually overpower him.
Abraham does not strike the killing blow. While Liam is incapacitated, he talks to him one last time and explains his divine purpose. However, living the same 7 years of utter torture one million times has jaded Abraham, and while he still loves Liam, he no longer cares about staying with him - or even about the fate of humanity. Abraham explains to Liam that while his entire existence revolves around stopping him from exterminating humans, he has not once made a choice for himself, and he hates the Gods for it.
Liam, finally calmed down, urges Abraham to choose for himself where his allegiance truly lies: with him or with Everdusk. The player can choose who Abraham decides to side with, either releasing or returning the cure based on their choice.
Regardless of his choice, Liam reaches to grab Abraham's hand. Abraham refuses, bids Liam goodbye, and jumps into the vacuum of space - where he believes he cannot die or be killed, and will simply exist for all eternity, finally out of the time loop. Liam's story in Part 1 ends with him mourning for Abraham.
Part 2: Final Chapter DLC - Commitment, Regret, Temptation and Sacrifice
64% of players chose to side with Everdusk, making the universe where the cure is distributed the "canon" ending. 20 year after Abraham spaced himself, Liam has become a fugitive and is obsessed with finding Abraham. He has spent his life on the run as a scholar, and has learned that there are beings known as "anomalies" who return to the start of an infinite time loop upon their death, one of whom is Abraham.
In the 20 years since Xenolifer was defeated, the Constellar Federation has wiped out or enslaved all of the aliens within their reach, and have even started sentencing human prisoners and their desendants to slavery, creating a new caste of humans. Liam decides that he must find Abraham, tell him how things have turned out, and kill him to send him back to Liam's younger self so that they can release Xeno-Medusea into the Federation colonies and stop the future from coming true.
To find Abraham, Liam and Shaman assemble a team comprised of Abraham's old science lab buddies:
-Dr. Paul Zenesz, a bacteriologist and medical doctor
-Dr. Sarah Gaynor, an ex-psychiatrist turned soldier
-Donald Gaynor, a cowardly engineer who only agreed to come because his ex-wife is here
-Jack Maslow, former double-agent for Everdusk and Abraham's best friend.
Shaman and Liam locate Abraham in a nebula sacred to a now-extinct alien race (which happened to raise Shaman from birth). Shaman tells Liam that the Nebula itself is a God: Mihral, the Scholar of Paths. When Liam tries to drive his ship into the nebula, he instantly blacks out. The entire team wakes up on the surface of a barren ice planet, their ship in flames.
Shaman, who has broken his leg in the accident, tells the team that Abraham is imprisoned somewhere at the highest point on the planet. The team has no choice but to climb a 15km high mountain to find him, dragging an immobile Shaman with them, as he is the only one with the ability to free Abraham. They soon realize that they will not survive a return trip, and are very likely to die on the way to the peak.
After Liam convinces the team to exchange their lives to save the universe, they climb the mountain to their certain deaths. The player has the option to have Liam leave behind his teammates when they begin to slow him down.
Liam and Shaman reach the peak and free Abraham from a cage crafted by the Gods. Abraham is confused upon waking, his last memory being his fight with Liam. Liam tells him that he has searched for him for 20 years to ask him to go back and change the past. Abraham refuses, furious - he already told Liam that he no longer cares about saving humanity. Liam curses Abraham, and tells him that he doesn't care whether Abraham wants to save the universe or not - Liam is going to force him. Finally, Abraham laughs, and says that he knew he was right to let Liam live - he promises Liam that he'll go back to the past and help him prevent this future.
With one last goodbye, Liam shoots Abraham in the head, who returns to the past and warns Young Liam what will happen if they save Gactus VII. Young Liam is pleased to hear that he was right, and tells Abraham that the two of them can save the universe together. Abraham laughs - he tells Liam he never had any intention of helping him other than delivering the message. He tells Liam to take care of the universe on his behalf.
Liam reaches out to grab his hand, but once again, Abraham leaps into space to be imprisoned by the Gods.
20 years later, the Liam of the new timeline has become an accomplished Galactic commander of a war fleet against humankind. However, he regrets exterminating Gactus VII, which led to a two-decade long stalemate that has cost hundreds of billions of lives. The game ends with Liam and Shaman finding the nebula where Abraham is imprisoned, and they set off to kill him to change the past again, creating an infinite time loop.
I'll be taking Liam from the original timeline, from the instant he shoots Abraham.
Character Personality:
Externally, the writer describes Liam as an "energetic, wild, and indominable force". He is a charismatic speaker who exudes effortless confidence, and is capable of finding and bringing out the best qualities in the men and women around him. He has a sharp sense of humour, and tends to literally laugh off difficult situations until they cannot be ignored.
When things get serious, however, Liam becomes deathly so. He is very easily upset by injustice and violence, and can't stand to witness it without acting to protect the person affected, often to the detriment of his own safety. His anger runs cold, manifesting as joking insults at best, and carefully calculated violence at worst.
Liam is extremely ambitious. As a result, he is very stubborn and bull-headed, refusing to back down from his goals. He is a thrillseeker and adrenaline junkie who puts himself in danger for the fun of it, and has no regard for his own personal safety. He has an obsessive personality that makes him hyperfocused on his goals and his relationships.
He is something of a narcissist, and loves being loved. He has delusions of great self-importance, desiring to die in such a fashion that history will remember him. Interpersonally, Liam is viciously loyal, and cares deeply about the people in his circle - expecting the same level of devotion in return. This means that he interprets any slight against him as a fierce betrayal. Liam is somewhat flirty, even at inappropriate times, which may tie in to his narcissistic and obsessive nature; he needs the people around him to be close to him, and to love him.
Privately, Liam harbours a great deal of doubt and self-loathing. He remarks to himself that he is not a person worthy of respect, and believes that his life has been worthless. His friend Sarah, who is a psychiatrist, believes that Liam is secretly suffering from depression, as he has deeply repressed his trauma over killing millions of humans in his youth to the point of "not feeling anything." In response to his own lack of remorse, Liam expresses worry that he is a psychopath; Sarah assures him that he is more empathetic than he realizes, but is so dominated by his repressed grief that he must contain his true emotions to protect himself.
Finally, Liam is easily frustrated and discouraged. Note that this is irrespective of his driven nature: while Liam never backs down, he finds himself escalating his methods quickly, as he is easily disappointed by a lack of results and finds himself scrambling to save face. Abraham remarks that Liam was corrupted by his frustration of his inability to change the world over a mere few years, which made him resort to genocide and war rather than taking the time needed to educate his enemies over several generations. In spite of his repeated, outward assurances that what he is doing is right, when the chips are down, this facade falls apart and Liam finds himself asking whether or not he is doing the right thing. He is filled with regret, and wonders if he has truly changed the universe for the better as he originally set out to do.
Powers and Abilities:
-Liam is a cyborg, and has a neuro-implant which allows him to interface with technology via a cable. He is able to hack quickly and efficiently, and is capable of uploading information directly into his brain. However, if the information is corrupted or has a firewall, he experiences severe pain and seizure. He has very limited awareness of the "real world" while he is interfaced with tech.
In the game The Red Strings Club, which is tenously attached to the world of GWBW and seems to take place 100 years prior to the events of the game, we learn that neuroimplants such as Liam's can run various subroutines on the human body, such as voice modulation, antidepressant/antianxiety neurotransmitter regulators, pacemakers, gender calibrators, etc.
I headcanon that Liam only has the neurohacking interface/storage and the gender calibrator active [as he has for 30+ years, so temporary shutdowns wouldn't cause a change at this point], but this list has the potential to be added on to if the means were somehow available. Of course, anything to do with Liam's implant would be subject to mod approval.
-Liam is an accomplished martial artist, having studied alien martial arts under Shaman for much of his adult life. Abraham refers to Liam as a "great warrior" whom he could only beat after millions of years of time loops. However, when assessing who is most likely to survive climbing the mountain, Liam notes that he is in good enough shape to manage it, but his stamina and strength is greatly outmatched by Jack, a soldier of 60+ years, so Liam isn't superhuman by any means. It is likely his combat ability is bolstered by the battlesuit technology he uses, which he does not have at his pull point.
Inventory:
-Clothing: White turtleneck, thigh-length coat, black pants, holsters (one on chest, one on thigh), belt, waterproof boots.
-Neuroimplant (soldered to head)
-1 laser pistol with 4 rounds
-A paper journal (no pen or ink)
Samples:
One: Happy Hearts TDM voicetesting. You can read as much as you need for the first sample.
Two: Legion of the Eclipse TDM. Much shorter, but the prompt itself is probably a decent sample.