Torn, Jak & Daxter series (Jak II onward)

[torn_krimson]

*Torn walks in, looking slightly worried. However, this is his default expression in any case. Having to run an entire city with a hero running around'll do that to you. His expression changes to one of bemusement as he notices a fairly basic physical difference between himself and the other human occupants of the room - i.e. that concerned with

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[carri3_whit3]

What's an ottsel?

[torn_krimson]

Ottsels are little orange rodents, half otter, half weasel. But mostly, they're annoying.

[carri3_whit3]

How so, what do they do?

[torn_krimson]

Well, lemme think... *Torn ticks the points off on his fingers as he speaks.* They're loud, they're obnoxious, they've got absolutely no respect for anyone, and they think they're the center of the world. And that's just what they can do without moving.

[carri3_whit3]

*giggles* What can they do t'annoy you if they move too?

[torn_krimson]

Mostly get into things they shouldn't. 'Course, the one I'm thinking of thinks he's a comedian. And a ladies' man, and I bet you know how well that turns out. I'm surprised Daxter doesn't get more death threats than he does - Precursors know I'd like to strangle him.

[carri3_whit3]

Depends on if the ladies agree with him, really. An' their husbands, boyfriends, brothers an' such, I guess. Never had any'a those, myself.

Precursors, is that like your ancestors?

[torn_krimson]

Even Daxter's smart enough not to hit on a married woman. Tess seems to like him, though. Don't know what the girl sees in him.

Not exactly ancestors... They're... I don't really know how to describe it. They left all this powerful technology all over the planet. We know how to use some of it, but we don't know how to make more. They're gone. The Sage says that it was so long ago even the rocks don't remember them. *He's not about to talk about how he met them, and especially not about just what they really are.*

[carri3_whit3]

Goes t'show there's somebody for ever'body, I guess. That's what they tell me, anyway.

...So they're like a past civilization, like the Greeks or Romans? We got all these ruins buried under years of dirt an' clay they keep diggin' up, an' learnin' more an' more 'bout how they lived. We got some books they wrote, an' we kinda know their language even though nobody really uses it anymore, an' some of our countries were built out of what they wrote an' taught. Is that kinda close?

[torn_krimson]

Tess worries me occasionally. One minute she'll be fawning over Daxter, next she'll be going on about slaughtering Metal Heads. *The ex-Guard shakes his head.* Mood swing city.

... I guess. *If Torn had no common sense, he would be asking "Were Greeks and Romans little fuzzy rats?" But he does, so he isn't. And anyway, Torn does not say fuzzy.* But like I said, the Precursors left all these technological wonders around. Or so Samos says. Most of 'em float - the artifacts, not the Precursors.

[carri3_whit3]

*nods* Do y'all know how t'use 'em, the artifacts? Got people who, like, do nothin' but study 'em?

[torn_krimson]

Most of them. Especially the teleporter gates. I don't think anyone ever figured out what the Orbs do, though - I think people used them as money at one point.

Nobody does nothing but study Precursor artifacts - but it seems like everyone does it sometimes, or hires someone to. Rulers, sages, mechanics... you name it.

[carri3_whit3]

*nods* Figures. Seems like ancients always leave at least a couple of mysteries lyin' around.

So what d'you like t'do back home?

[torn_krimson]

Like nothing. I'm having to help Ashlein run Haven City. Half the place is still rubble from when the palace fell and the damn Metal Heads invaded, there're still Metal Heads and KG hiding in the sewers, and don't get me started on Veger and his blasted crusade.

[carri3_whit3]

Hmm. Politics an' power's kind of a Slytherin thaing. But rebuildin' an' protectin' people, those're kind of a Gryffindor thaing. Cunning an' ambitious versus noble an' brave, like. Either of those seem like they apply to you?

[torn_krimson]

People keep telling me I'm heroic. I'm having trouble seein' it myself. And the last time I actually had an ambition was back with the Underground, and now that Praxis has been gone for a couple years, I'm just trying to keep the city from blowing up again.

I'm Torn, by the way.