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Name: Eric

Personal LJ: overbringer

Contact Info: AIM: samoverbringer

Character Name: Tim Jones

Character Series: the Webcomic Bobbins, which eventually changed into Scary-Go-Round

Character Age:none given, but let’s go with 26

Background: Not much has been revealed about Tim’s past from before he appears in his canon. At one point he wrote an autobiography, but it is generally accepted that he made up just about everything in it. Tim first appeared as a music writer for the magazine “City Limit”, in the small English town of Tackleford. He was hardly the model employee, as he spent most of his time not going to work, but instead trying to become a musical superstar, inventing bizarre things, or just getting drunk. Tim’s life was basically just a regular person’s life only a bit weirder. He had no great quest driving his story. That said he has had some interesting exploits in his life… (Explanation: Tim’s canon material is extremely episodic, and Tim plays only a minor role in many of the stories. I have left those bits out, so if this background seems very disjointed, you know why.)

As mentioned above, he wrote an autobiography, the contents of with were all outrageously made up. Even so the book was sensationally popular, and since then Tim basically hasn’t had to worry about money.

He got engaged to an Icelandic woman named Illeanna, but they had a rocky relationship, having to overcome such obstacles as having Tim fall into a coma from a head injury and almost lose her when his doctor turned out to be Illeanna’s ex. The engagement got called off when Tim invented a robot girlfriend (Unit Daisy) for his best friend (Rich), and the robot got rejected and fell for Tim instead. This threw Tim off the deep end for a while, where he had a series of very improbable hallucinations that ended in him getting rended to a paste by a giant red robot. When he eventually returned to sanity, he figured out that while his death at the hands of the Robot had not happened, the fiasco with Unit Daisy had. He went to try and stay with Rich until he got his feet back under him, only to find out that not only had Illeanna started sleeping with Rich, they had apparently been cheating on him for some time.

Illeanna and Rich wisely decided that now might be a good time to leave the area, and moved to Iceland. They haven’t been seen much since. Eventually, The City Limit closed, and all of its employee’s were forced to scatter and find new jobs. Tim, of course, was set for life from his book and went into becoming a full time inventor.

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A few months later, when Tim had become more sane, he entered an inventor’s convention, showing off his glow in the dark ducks (which would allow workers who are normally busy during the daylight hours to enjoy feeding the ducks.). He encountered his old nemesis, Seamus Fogerty (To readers, Seamus is completely new, *shrug*.), who had blatantly stolen an old idea of Tim’s for his invention. Long story short, Tim was eventually framed for Fogerty’s murder, but he was able to find the real killer with some help from his friends.

A friend of his (Shelley Winters) was murdered during the Fogerty affair, and so it was much to Tim’s surprise that one night his friend Ryan showed up with Shelley’s reanimated body. Shelley tried her best to come to terms with being a zombie (with reasonable success), but eventually left to be on her own while she figured out her new place in “life”. They didn’t meet again until Tim was trying to sell his prototype golf cart/lightning rod (allowing golfers to putt with impunity during a lightning storm). Shelley was also their as a business man’s personal assistant, and it was here that her zombie urges got the better of her. She attacked the businessman and then escaped in the prototype golf cart. Lightning struck, the cart did NOT work properly and Shelley was electrocuted, bringing all of her dead zombie cells back to life.

He once needed to use his knowledge of science to help super-sexy secret agent Fallon Young to hunt down a mad scientist in Romania. They failed to catch the man, but were able to shut down his operation of breeding and cloning primates. There was, of course, the required sexual tension in any spy story, but in the end they had to go their separate ways.

He met and fell in love with a girl named Riley. Though we the readers did not get to see much of their relationship, they did eventually get married. Riley has always been somewhat alarmed by the weirdness that happens in Tackleford that everyone else takes in stride.

Tim once ran for mayor of Tackleford, under the “Scientific Democrat” party. He was doing quite well in the polls until he realized that the average man on the street didn’t care too much about science. At this point, Tim lost all will to continue campaigning. His friend Hugo took up the torch, and Tim signed on as his campaign manager. Hugo was hugely charismatic, and was leading by a significant margin in the polls, which probably explains why the leader of the Evil party hired a thug to attack Hugo. The thug did so with McDonalds apple-pie filling (apparently the hottest naturally occurring substance it is legal to have without a license, and only one molecule different from magma!). Hugo was horribly burned, and dropped out of the election, saying that Tim would have made a far better mayor than he. As it turns, out, Tim had been too depressed to actually drop out of the campaign (He tried to make the phone call, but the phone just fell out of his hand. This was followed by some low moaning.), and so he unexpectedly won the election.

Tim performed adequately as the Mayor of Tackleford (He wasn’t terribly politically minded, but he was very creative, so he could usually think up something to solve a problem). It all came crashing down, however, when the inventor’s society decided that Tim had left them all behind when he became mayor. Tim tried to throw a party to appease them, and got challenged to an invent-off. According to the rules of the inventors society, the loser of the invent off would be exiled to Wales. Due to foul play, Tim lost. So Tim resigned from the position of mayor and moved to Wales, where he still lives happily with his wife.

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Personality: Tim walks through life in an almost dreamlike fashion, doing whatever looks like a good idea at the time (and even then, sometimes you have to really squint before it looks like a good idea) without thinking about it too hard, or thinking about it in a very roundabout way. You could argue that Tim is a mad scientist; he even has a cupboard full of time machines in his garage. But if Tim is a mad scientist, he is the most mellow, non-dangerous mad scientist in history. The most dangerous thing we have seen him make is a trebuchet, and that didn’t even work right, because he made it with one hand badly injured. It is implied, however, that he could make some very dangerous things if he wanted to.

As suggested by the time machines, Tim is very smart, but only in certain areas. He has no trouble inventing all kinds of weird shit (Most notable inventions: Time Machine, Trouble-tron (a machine that lets you know when something is going wrong), the aforementioned Unit Daisy, and the Guiltomatic, which can tell if you are guilty of something. He was going to invent the world’s largest, angriest wasp, but his future self arrived with his time machine and warned him against that one. His future self had an eye-patch, so you can probably guess how the wasp fiasco went.), but when it comes to more day to day troubles, he is a regular kind of guy. He refuses to go to the doctor when sick, he makes mistakes with the ladies, he obsesses over minor problems, he gets depressed, and so forth. Tim does have a fair amount of charisma and confidence with the opposite sex, but in terms of this RP will probably not be hooking up with anyone since he is, technically, married both in Mayfield and out of it, I guess.

Tim’s imagination is also first rate. After all, it takes a special kind of mind to come up with a machine that detects troubling situations that is powered by a hot cup of coffee suspended precariously over a section of expensive shag carpet. He frequently mentions outrageous ideas he’s had, such as his intention to become a hot-air balloon vigilante, and it’s never entirely clear whether or not he’s joking. When he gets depressed, he tends to go on short rambling incoherent stories about the object of his depression. On occasion, Tim can become very angry (His friends refer to this jokingly as his bouts of “Red Mist”)

One particular quirk of Tim’s is his fondness of the phrase “Tupping Liberty”. Tupping Liberty seems to mean “Goddammit” or “What the hell”. To take a Tupping Liberty with someone (usually with Tim) is too attempt to play them for a fool or take advantage of them.

For the most part, however, Dr. Jones could be described as a likeable, laid back, first rate type of guy.

Abilities: The only thing Tim has that could even conceivably be considered a “special ability” would be his talent at inventing things, and that’s just more of him being smart.

Sample Entry: I imagine Jones will be somewhat confused and alarmed when he first arrives, so that won’t be a terribly representative post for what he is like. So instead, please follow this Elegant, hand crafted link to a muse box.

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right thread this time, right?

No one takes a tupping liberty with Tim Jones!