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Player Info

Name: Katie
Age: 27
Contact: superkappa @ plurk
Characters Already in Teleios: Rebekah, Allison, and Violet
Reserve: reserve

Character Basics:

Character Name: Tyler Lockwood
Journal: lockwood
Age: 20 (after two years in Chicago)
Fandom: The Vampire Diaries
Canon Point: 3x02 “The Hybrid” + 2 years of BTR CR
Debt:

Class A:
1 year murder - of Sarah, triggering the werewolf curse
1 year betrayal – making out with Matt’s mom
1 year betrayal – not doing anything when the other werewolves take Caroline
6 years betrayal – enabling Caroline to keep up her blood addiction longer than he should have in Chicago
1 year rape – attempted with Vicki
2 years espionage – hiding his werewolf status from both his mother and Matt

total: 12 years total

Class B:

assault – 12 years, we see him get into several fights within canon and he probably got in a lot pre canon as well due to his werewolf temper
theft – 6 months for stealing the moonstone from Mason
fraud – 6 months hiding Vicki from his parents

total: 13 years total

Class C:

Encouraging or contributing to child delinquency – 6 months
False accusation – 1 month
Indecent Exposure/Public Nudity – 3 months
Property damage – 3 months
Reckless Driving – 1 month
Sexual Harassment – 8 months (we see it a few times with Vicki and it’s safe to say it happened some times precanon too)
Substance Abuse – 2 years (it’s implied he got high quite a bit pre-canon)
Underage drinking – 5 years (he drinks a lot in canon and did a lot of drinking in Chicago too)
Total : 9 years and 10 months

List crimes you’ve created for your character here.

GRAND TOTAL: 34 years and 10 months

Canon Character Section:

History: one wiki entry


Personality:

Tyler is kind of naturally a dick. He's from a rich old family, one of the founding families of Mystic Falls, and his father was the mayor. And he was a star athlete, all those things combined gave him an air of superiority. He often acts like he could do whatever he wanted and get away with it. He's cocky, and acts like he owns the room. And it usually works, he's been very popular in school, especially with women. So he must be doing something right in his mind.
He tends to be very straight forward. He doesn't sugar coat things. If he wants something, he goes after it.

But more and more as the series goes on, it becomes apparently that a lot of this act of his is exactly that, an act. A lot of the behavior he portrays in school feels like a way to keep people at bay. Though he's popular, he doesn't have a lot of close friends except for Matt. And even he gets pissed off at Tyler a lot. He sleeps around with girls, but he never gets close to them. Though it's a terrible pun to make because of his werewolf gene and all, he is a lone wolf in a lot of ways. He looks out for himself, because he's the only one who will.

Growing up, you're given the impression he's not close to his parents. He had a particularly rocky relationship with his father. His father was constantly berating him and putting him down, talking about but what a disgrace he was. He even hit him a few times. Given that context, it makes much more sense that Tyler acts the way he does in the beginning of the series. Children from unstable environments, from abuse, they often end up being angry and lashing out themselves. As terrible as he could be sometimes, the one thing Tyler did know was he didn't want to be like his father. This is also explains why he tries so hard to be impressive, to be noticed, because at home he never, ever felt like he was good enough.

But then his father dies, and everything changes. This is when Tyler discovers he has the werewolf gene in him. The whole Lockwood family does. And this gene explains one huge part of Tyler's personality: his temper. Tyler's always been the type of person to start a fight over almost nothing. He lashes out. He goes too far. When people asked him what his problem was he always responded with "I don't know." Because he didn't. It was like a part of himself he didn't know how to control. He never meant to be like that, he just was. He likens it to blacking out almost. Like something takes over him. He finds out it's not just him, but a Lockwood trait. A werewolf trait.

Eventually, he accidentally triggers the werewolf gene due to an accident at a party where a girl ends up dying. This is when we start seeing a lot more of Tyler's other sides. He's no longer acting confident or cocky, he's scared. He's going to become a monster and the one person who could have helped him, his uncle Mason, dies. It leaves Tyler feeling lost and unsure. Even when he was unhappy with his life before, he always knew what to expect. But his father's dead, his uncle is too, and he's becoming a werewolf and he's seemingly alone.

Which is why his connection to Caroline Forbes is so important to him and his character development. He's never had someone he could really rely on before. Who just wants to help him. He's always felt alone to a certain degree and now that he's going through the worst experience of his life, she stays with him, even when he's being difficult. Even when it could risk her own life (because a werewolves bite is deadly to a vampire). And that floors him. He's always been a selfish person and he kind of assumes everyone else to be as much of a dick as he can be. But she held him during his first transformation. She made sure he didn't go through it alone. It's not the kind of thing you just forget. And it leaves an impression on Tyler.

After that first transformation, his personality begins to change. Even though he still has a temper and can still be cocky, he listens to other people's needs. He tries to help. He doesn't want to be just another dick. For the first time in his life he thinks he can be more than that, and part of that's because Caroline has challenged him to be. But it's not a perfect transformation. He still has cowardly moments, or ones where he just fucks up. And a lot of that's because he's still trying to discover who he is. The strongest example of this is when he doesn't interfere when the other werewolves are torturing Caroline. He had had a fight with her earlier over hiding the other vampires in the town, and had beens scared to interefere. He didn't quite understand just yet what being someone's friend really meant. But unlike before, he realizes he fucked up. So he leaves, to figure himself out. To find a way to better control his new werewolf traits.

Despite his lone wolf tendencies, he does have loyalty to those he cares about. When he eventually comes back to Mystic Falls it's because his mother is in the hospital. And even with as shaky as his relationship with his father was, when Matt starts badmouthing him after his death he gets very upset. When Caroline claims to not want to be friends with him anymore he doesn't try to push himself back into her life but instead agrees. She deserves better than him. Even tries to hekp patch things up between her and Matt. Because she deserves to be happy.

So far, Tyler's had almost more character development than any other character in the first two seasons. One of the best examples of how far he's come is in the episode "The Hybrid." When he figures out his mother is testing to see if he's a vampire he confronts it head on, and pushes farther when he figures out she was behind who kidnapped Caroline. And goes even farther by exposing himself as a werewolf to his mother in order to try to help Caroline. This is something we would have never seen Tyler of the first season do. But he's grown up. He was thrown head first into a few bad situations and became better for it.

Powers/Abilities:

Werewolves of their world have both super strength and super speed, but not as much as the vampires there. Though during the full mood they can easily overpower any vampire. They also have accelerated healing, enhanced senses, durability, and lie detection. A werewolf bite in their world is deadly to vampires.

Every full moon, they transform into a wolf. It is an excruciatingly painful process. Their wolf form looks much like a normal wolf would and in it a werewolf has no control over themselves. Because of this, many try to chain themselves up during the full moon to prevent themselves from hurting anyone.

Weaknesses for werewolves are wolfsbane, high frequency noises, and if you remove the heart of a werewolf it results in instant death.

Appearance: Tyler has an athletic build, this is mostly due to the fact that he's a football player. He's fairly tall (5'9") and muscular from all the working out he does. He has brown hair and brown eyes. He usually carries himself with a very confident, cocky sort of air and can often be seen grinning or smirking.

When he transforms, his eyes turn amber and wolf like, something that'll happen briefly under other situations as well. In his wolf form, he looks like a regular grey wolf.

CR AU

Game You’re Transferring CR from: Beyond the Rift

How has your character changed from their canon self?

In many ways Chicago has helped to mellow Tyler out. Away from the pressure of his family or anything else he’s been able to live life on his own terms – something he’s never really had the freedom to do before. In many ways it was as terrifying as it was freeing. It’s forced him to grow up more, to do responsible things he’s never had to do before like get a job. But it’s also allowed him to pursue interests he had kept at bay before, like his artwork. He also had to deal with his curse being triggered by his temper instead of the full moon, since he can’t control himself as a wolf

Not only that but he’s created a network of people who really felt like his own. Despite having friends from sports and partying Tyler never had people he really felt close to outside of Matt and then Caroline. But in Chicago he made a lot of close connections and friendships. Some like Amy Pond were like siblings to him. Others, like Alek Hale, were more like a pack to him.

Chicago also helped him become more comfortable in his werewolf skin. Not only did his rift change make it so he transformed less often but it also gave him wolves he could get along with. The few wolves he had made connections with in Mystic Falls were dead and/or had betrayed him. In Chicago he was able to find people like him to bond with instead of feeling like an outsider like he often did with the vampire population in Mystic Falls.

He and Caroline became much more serious within Chicago and when it seemed like the world was going to end he proposed to her. There was a time were Tyler wouldn’t of ever thought of starting a family or marriage but he can’t imagine a life without Caroline Forbes in it now. He also doesn’t blindly follow her lead like he did in the beginning either. After her struggles with blood addiction to try to do everything he realized their relationship needed to be more even, that he needed to support her as much as she did him. That blindly heroworshipping her wasn’t doing either one of them favors.

Also once the rift turned him into a wolf puppy and it was adorable.

Are they gaining any abilities from their time in game? Did the game setting take something from them?

Rift Change:

Instead of his transformation being triggered by the full moon it is now triggered by his temper. This has forced him to deal with the temper side of his werewolf genes a little more head one. Because if he gets too angry and transforms he could hurt someone, which he'd like to avoid if possible.

Samples:

Actionspam Sample: tyler goes drinking with Alek and Jeremy

Prose Sample:

caroline and tyler get festive for easter