First Name: Lainer
Last Name: Lainer
What, Like Lainer Lainer?: Exactly!
Sex: Male
Physical Age: Twenty four.
True Age: Twenty four.
Also Goes By: Subway, but only if he doesn't have enough money for a taxi.
Residence: The office building he sort of owns in Dream City's fourth borough.
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 154 lbs
Eyes: Green
Hair: Blue in a pony tail that goes a few inches down his back.
Primary Goal(s):
XPs
To save his beloved car
Secondary Goal(s):
To make it to heaven.
To light up the sky like a flame.
FAME!
Strengths/Abilities:
-The coat. It's a bit more common place in Dream City than in other places, but it's still a super powered piece of hardware that gives him just about every power any video game character has ever had. In addition it also has an extensively stocked hammerspace. It also makes him functionaly immortal.
-Can absolutly beat the CRAP out of someone with a mop. Not a pole, or a length of pipe, only a mop.
Weaknesses/Quirks:
-The coat. While it is stupidly powerful, it almost never works unless Lainer is in life threatening danger, and even then it's not a sure thing. The chance of pulling anything useful out of the hammerspace is equily remote, because it is mostly filled with junk. Busts of TV actors from the 1980s, Pokemon fan art, SEGA Saturns, stuff like that. And if having a particular video game power at some point would be detrimental to his health (such as while crawling through a patch of mushrooms) he will almost always gain that power at the worst possible time. Finally, the coat typically won't keep Lainer from dieing; it just keeps him from staying dead.
-Has a perchent for chewing up scenery in fights if at all possible for no other reason than the fact that it looks cool. However, this will never hurt innocent bystanders, and will typically not hurt the intended victim either.
-Will almost never get mad or angry with anyone about anything. There are rare occasions where he can get mad, but they are rare.
-The above is irrelevent if his car is involved. You stay the hell away from his car, you hear?!
Likes:
Video Games
Giant Robots
Action Movies
His '72 pastel orange AMC Gremlin
Fads
Instant food
Boss fights
Dislikes:
Scientists
Power outages
Authority
Background:
Lainer was probably the Destined Hero from some obscure RPG universe, but he's not terribly concerned with ever getting home; mainly because of how heros always get shafted after saving the world. In Dream city he's been supplying himself with Cup Ramen and Famicon games by temping at the various buisnesses around town and around the multiverse. He's also been buying a good deal more of them after every other person living and working in his apartment building disappeared a few months back. Not having to pay rent or utilities almost makes the unpredictable and devastating portals in that part of town bearable.
The temping is how he came across the coat in the first place. He *ahem* borrowed the prototype from dataDyne about a year ago, and they've been tracking him off and on since then. They don't really need the prototype anymore, seeing as how they now have fully functional versions, but it's the principle of the matter.
Things were pretty idylic until, a few days ago, his car suddenly stopped working. All the doctors said it was a lost cause, that he should scrap it and get on with his life. Lainer can't accept that, and as we all know, anything can be solved if you throw enough money at it. Now where could he find lots of money?
Fellow Authors, please ask me before you:
-Make Lainer get mad. As already stated, Lainer barely ever gets mad, so it would have to be a special occasion.
Fellow Authors, please do not:
-Write something with me in it and not let me see it.
-Murder me in my sleep. It's just not a nice thing to do.
Posted on May 5, 2003, 1:43 AM from IP address 172.156.152.183