I guess I've always been a delicate man
Here is the backstory. The points leading to the now. To Inception, to Paris, to this time. If you need to comment/question/tell me I'm an idiot feel free to do so. This is just how I see things and it probably doesn't make any sense but when would it ever?
The official story of William James Wright goes like this:
→ Born on the 15th of September 1977, to Elizabeth Jane Wright (neé Eames) and Edward Thomas Wright, in Kent & Canterbury Hospital. There are no complications.
→ He grows up in Dymchurch, Kent for the beginning of his life. The first ten years pass by like most lives do. Simple, uncomplicated.
→ Seven years into his life, Edward Thomas Wright gets elected as a local MP for the Dymchurch constituency. Seven years into his life, Elizabeth Wright becomes plagued by headaches that no one can understand. She sees a number of specialists and doctors but there’s nothing to explain it away. Eventually she stops going.
→ It is possible Elizabeth Wright ceases seeking an answer to her illness two years later simply because of her husband’s rise in Political fame. She is quoted by one of her many friends to have spoken the words, “It’ll pass, Eddy and Will need me.”
→ They move to London, to a bigger house with a maid, a chauffer, one butler and a part-time nanny for William Wright. She is a Mrs Rita Davidson of Woolwell, Devon. She and her son, Jonathan Davidson become quite a feature in the house in Hyde Park.
→ Elizabeth gets sicker and sicker until it’s too late.
→ She enters a local hospital on December 24th 1987 to never leave again. By January 21st she has passed away of a brain tumour. The funeral is something of a public affair.
→ William Eames is sent to boarding school in the September of that year. It is widely believed he suffers from some form of learning difficulty. His grades fluctuate significantly throughout his stay.
→ There are several reports of bullying concerning the young William Wright. One more memorable occasion included a broken arm. William later suggested that he and the boys involved were simply playing a rowdy game of football.
→ When he is thirteen both he and Jonathan Davidson get into trouble for stealing sweets from the local corner shop and pick pocketing for fun. It is understood that Jonathan takes the other, slightly younger boy under his wing, teaches him to defend himself in a way only small boys now.
→ In later years he excels at subjects such as history, English literature, the social sciences while he lags behind in math and other ‘more desirable’ skills.
→ He gets into trouble for fighting. In the summer of his O-Level year, William gets arrested twice for altercations with some of the boys where he lives. There are also several rumours of a disagreement with his own father at this time. Police are called to the family home on a number of occasions, but his evidential learning problems and the status of his father suggests that these were simply a boy’s story, a way of acting out. He is telling tales.
→ He comes back to school with a black eye, more silent than before.
→ Weeks before his final exams, William Wright disappears from his school bed and doesn’t return. He leaves all his things behind and doesn’t move back to the London house.
→ Six months down the line he is arrested for shoplifting. It comes to light that he has been sleeping on the streets and stealing to get by. He has also become involved with a number of local gangs. This information is hushed up. William escapes the first attempt to bring him home.
→ A year into his disappearance William Wright appears again at the home of Mrs. Davidson. Her son, Jonathan is serving a two year sentence at the local prison. It is understood that William begins providing for the other woman through his own ventures.
→ At the very end of his eighteenth year, William is arrested after a bank robbery gone wrong. He is charged with aiding and abetting, intent to harm, burglary and two incidents of grievous bodily harm.
→ The case never makes it to court. Two months later, Private Wright is enlisted in to the army. He is nineteen years old.
→ His company is sent across the majority of Britain before finally being deployed to Afghanistan.
→ Shortly after Wright is promoted to Corporal he is shot in the shoulder and sent back to England.
→ Another year passes and he is redeployed to his regiment. Reports suggest that William Wright is quick to adapt, quicker to regain the skills he lost in his absence. He is almost ruthless and a favourite amongst the Lieutenants.
→ He quickly makes it to Sergeant.
→ Just a week shy of his twenty-fourth birthday, his battalion meets a rebel faction. There is a fight that lasts several days. Half of the company go missing.
→ Less than three weeks later the survivors are found once more on the border, trying to reconnect with the regiment.
→ There is a landmine. William Wright dies on the 3rd of November 2001.
→ His remaining family are notified accordingly. There is no body to recover.
The unofficial documentation is different. It goes a little like this:
→ William Wright does not die. He barely survives, but he survives nonetheless. He comes away from Afghanistan with a death certificate and a web of scars down his left hip. Somehow, he manages to escape and disappears into obscurity.
→ Resurfacing in Cairo a year later is a man named Eames. Nothing more, nothing less. He gets a local tattoo artist to cover up his serial number tattoo, the blood-type. The virgin Mary spans he length of his arm.
→ He is arrested just outside of Cairo for a heist gone wrong. He uses the alias Henry Scobie and pays off the policemen responsible for him.
→ Eames is seen again at various points in the next few years, Kyoto, Monte Carlo, Vienna, Las Vegas, Rome. He never strays back to England.
→ There are jobs, a little better than the ones he used to take when he was fifteen. He’s involved in a number of heists, a number of scams and frauds and instances but he becomes like smoke, difficult to track down.
→ Art forgeries are another of his little ventures. His mark is secreted on a number of paintings in many museums to this day.
→ Las Vegas, 2004. Eames draws the attention of a Daniel Maycroft. He manages to win him out of a six figure number of money at the roulette table.
→ Maycroft puts him under sedation, convinced that Eames cheats, convinced of a scam. He pays an extractor to find out his secret and watches over the proceedings. The dream is brutal, ruthless and lacking any sort of clever cunning, the seams obvious and stark.
→ Eames puts a bullet through Maycroft's skull before he’s even properly awake and proceeds to shoot every team member but one. He then turns to the extractor Maycroft hires and asks, “How do I do that?”
→ Dreamsharing is still an underground motion at this point and Eames adapts to it like he adapts to everything else, quick and fully.
→ A year later and Eames is already fast on becoming the best at what he does. Forging is a skill he weaves like magic, slipping into any and all guises like an actor giving himself over to method.
→ He meets Mallorie Cobb first. She contacts him and the only reason he goes to see her is that she finds him which in itself should be an impossible task. It is easy to fall in love with the romance of her, and so he does.
→ Her husband, Dom Cobb comes later and along with him, Arthur (last name not disclosed). Eames is known to work with them on occasion but a lasting friendship does not seem to have been made.
→ Mal stays in contact with the young forger and they create a back and forth as rarely as when they both get a moment.
→ He works jobs around Europe for a while. There is no pattern to it.
→ Mallorie Cobb dies. A week after, the last known and concrete residence of Eames is burnt to the ground, everything lost within it.
→ He reappears in Mombassa, sticking close to the dream-dens and chemists. He works the odd job but doesn‘t stray far, choosing instead to stay in the one place for a while.
→ Inception.
Things You May Need To Know
Distinguishing features: → Heavily tattooed. ('Elizabeth' is the most prominent one. Tattoed on his chest)
→ One scar from the bullet wound in his left shoulder.
→ The faint lines of the scar from his shrapnel along his hip.
→ A scar on his stomach from a knife-wound in Rio.
Totem: → A small red poker chip. In reality this has the date of William Wright's 'death' scratched into it. In dreams it reads the number of days it has been since then. It's the one remaining poker chip from his winfall against Maycroft.
→ Despite reports, there was nothing dim or wrong about William's intelligence growing up. He is well-read, clever and able to pick things up significantly faster than most. He did not have learning difficulties, just a father who did not care enough to try and a nature that meant he would change himself to get by, making himself stupid seemed easier. It still does, even now.
→ He has a cat. Mister Bond. She is female, fat and ginger, a stray with a torn ear. She sleeps in his shoes at the foot of the bed and guards the door when there are people she doesn't know present.
→ His sexual orientation is never really in question. He is namely homosexual, but doesn't rule out any possibility. For a man who can shift genders in a dream it would be ridiculous to suggest he's one complete label outside of it.
→ He wasn't abused, but he did fight with his father physically. Half the reason Eames is such a good forger is because he's been changing himself for so long before the dreamshare to suit what others thought of him that it became second nature.
→ He paints, he bakes, he's generally a nice, warm person. He's only hard outside because life has made him that way.
→ He has a history with Arthur, one neither of them really acknowledge and that manifests in his antagonism, their sarcastic back and forth.
→ He drinks tea of course and despite all appearances, misses England dearly.
The official story of William James Wright goes like this:
→ Born on the 15th of September 1977, to Elizabeth Jane Wright (neé Eames) and Edward Thomas Wright, in Kent & Canterbury Hospital. There are no complications.
→ He grows up in Dymchurch, Kent for the beginning of his life. The first ten years pass by like most lives do. Simple, uncomplicated.
→ Seven years into his life, Edward Thomas Wright gets elected as a local MP for the Dymchurch constituency. Seven years into his life, Elizabeth Wright becomes plagued by headaches that no one can understand. She sees a number of specialists and doctors but there’s nothing to explain it away. Eventually she stops going.
→ It is possible Elizabeth Wright ceases seeking an answer to her illness two years later simply because of her husband’s rise in Political fame. She is quoted by one of her many friends to have spoken the words, “It’ll pass, Eddy and Will need me.”
→ They move to London, to a bigger house with a maid, a chauffer, one butler and a part-time nanny for William Wright. She is a Mrs Rita Davidson of Woolwell, Devon. She and her son, Jonathan Davidson become quite a feature in the house in Hyde Park.
→ Elizabeth gets sicker and sicker until it’s too late.
→ She enters a local hospital on December 24th 1987 to never leave again. By January 21st she has passed away of a brain tumour. The funeral is something of a public affair.
→ William Eames is sent to boarding school in the September of that year. It is widely believed he suffers from some form of learning difficulty. His grades fluctuate significantly throughout his stay.
→ There are several reports of bullying concerning the young William Wright. One more memorable occasion included a broken arm. William later suggested that he and the boys involved were simply playing a rowdy game of football.
→ When he is thirteen both he and Jonathan Davidson get into trouble for stealing sweets from the local corner shop and pick pocketing for fun. It is understood that Jonathan takes the other, slightly younger boy under his wing, teaches him to defend himself in a way only small boys now.
→ In later years he excels at subjects such as history, English literature, the social sciences while he lags behind in math and other ‘more desirable’ skills.
→ He gets into trouble for fighting. In the summer of his O-Level year, William gets arrested twice for altercations with some of the boys where he lives. There are also several rumours of a disagreement with his own father at this time. Police are called to the family home on a number of occasions, but his evidential learning problems and the status of his father suggests that these were simply a boy’s story, a way of acting out. He is telling tales.
→ He comes back to school with a black eye, more silent than before.
→ Weeks before his final exams, William Wright disappears from his school bed and doesn’t return. He leaves all his things behind and doesn’t move back to the London house.
→ Six months down the line he is arrested for shoplifting. It comes to light that he has been sleeping on the streets and stealing to get by. He has also become involved with a number of local gangs. This information is hushed up. William escapes the first attempt to bring him home.
→ A year into his disappearance William Wright appears again at the home of Mrs. Davidson. Her son, Jonathan is serving a two year sentence at the local prison. It is understood that William begins providing for the other woman through his own ventures.
→ At the very end of his eighteenth year, William is arrested after a bank robbery gone wrong. He is charged with aiding and abetting, intent to harm, burglary and two incidents of grievous bodily harm.
→ The case never makes it to court. Two months later, Private Wright is enlisted in to the army. He is nineteen years old.
→ His company is sent across the majority of Britain before finally being deployed to Afghanistan.
→ Shortly after Wright is promoted to Corporal he is shot in the shoulder and sent back to England.
→ Another year passes and he is redeployed to his regiment. Reports suggest that William Wright is quick to adapt, quicker to regain the skills he lost in his absence. He is almost ruthless and a favourite amongst the Lieutenants.
→ He quickly makes it to Sergeant.
→ Just a week shy of his twenty-fourth birthday, his battalion meets a rebel faction. There is a fight that lasts several days. Half of the company go missing.
→ Less than three weeks later the survivors are found once more on the border, trying to reconnect with the regiment.
→ There is a landmine. William Wright dies on the 3rd of November 2001.
→ His remaining family are notified accordingly. There is no body to recover.
The unofficial documentation is different. It goes a little like this:
→ William Wright does not die. He barely survives, but he survives nonetheless. He comes away from Afghanistan with a death certificate and a web of scars down his left hip. Somehow, he manages to escape and disappears into obscurity.
→ Resurfacing in Cairo a year later is a man named Eames. Nothing more, nothing less. He gets a local tattoo artist to cover up his serial number tattoo, the blood-type. The virgin Mary spans he length of his arm.
→ He is arrested just outside of Cairo for a heist gone wrong. He uses the alias Henry Scobie and pays off the policemen responsible for him.
→ Eames is seen again at various points in the next few years, Kyoto, Monte Carlo, Vienna, Las Vegas, Rome. He never strays back to England.
→ There are jobs, a little better than the ones he used to take when he was fifteen. He’s involved in a number of heists, a number of scams and frauds and instances but he becomes like smoke, difficult to track down.
→ Art forgeries are another of his little ventures. His mark is secreted on a number of paintings in many museums to this day.
→ Las Vegas, 2004. Eames draws the attention of a Daniel Maycroft. He manages to win him out of a six figure number of money at the roulette table.
→ Maycroft puts him under sedation, convinced that Eames cheats, convinced of a scam. He pays an extractor to find out his secret and watches over the proceedings. The dream is brutal, ruthless and lacking any sort of clever cunning, the seams obvious and stark.
→ Eames puts a bullet through Maycroft's skull before he’s even properly awake and proceeds to shoot every team member but one. He then turns to the extractor Maycroft hires and asks, “How do I do that?”
→ Dreamsharing is still an underground motion at this point and Eames adapts to it like he adapts to everything else, quick and fully.
→ A year later and Eames is already fast on becoming the best at what he does. Forging is a skill he weaves like magic, slipping into any and all guises like an actor giving himself over to method.
→ He meets Mallorie Cobb first. She contacts him and the only reason he goes to see her is that she finds him which in itself should be an impossible task. It is easy to fall in love with the romance of her, and so he does.
→ Her husband, Dom Cobb comes later and along with him, Arthur (last name not disclosed). Eames is known to work with them on occasion but a lasting friendship does not seem to have been made.
→ Mal stays in contact with the young forger and they create a back and forth as rarely as when they both get a moment.
→ He works jobs around Europe for a while. There is no pattern to it.
→ Mallorie Cobb dies. A week after, the last known and concrete residence of Eames is burnt to the ground, everything lost within it.
→ He reappears in Mombassa, sticking close to the dream-dens and chemists. He works the odd job but doesn‘t stray far, choosing instead to stay in the one place for a while.
→ Inception.
Things You May Need To Know
Distinguishing features: → Heavily tattooed. ('Elizabeth' is the most prominent one. Tattoed on his chest)
→ One scar from the bullet wound in his left shoulder.
→ The faint lines of the scar from his shrapnel along his hip.
→ A scar on his stomach from a knife-wound in Rio.
Totem: → A small red poker chip. In reality this has the date of William Wright's 'death' scratched into it. In dreams it reads the number of days it has been since then. It's the one remaining poker chip from his winfall against Maycroft.
→ Despite reports, there was nothing dim or wrong about William's intelligence growing up. He is well-read, clever and able to pick things up significantly faster than most. He did not have learning difficulties, just a father who did not care enough to try and a nature that meant he would change himself to get by, making himself stupid seemed easier. It still does, even now.
→ He has a cat. Mister Bond. She is female, fat and ginger, a stray with a torn ear. She sleeps in his shoes at the foot of the bed and guards the door when there are people she doesn't know present.
→ His sexual orientation is never really in question. He is namely homosexual, but doesn't rule out any possibility. For a man who can shift genders in a dream it would be ridiculous to suggest he's one complete label outside of it.
→ He wasn't abused, but he did fight with his father physically. Half the reason Eames is such a good forger is because he's been changing himself for so long before the dreamshare to suit what others thought of him that it became second nature.
→ He paints, he bakes, he's generally a nice, warm person. He's only hard outside because life has made him that way.
→ He has a history with Arthur, one neither of them really acknowledge and that manifests in his antagonism, their sarcastic back and forth.
→ He drinks tea of course and despite all appearances, misses England dearly.