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Name: Cuthbert Allgood

Fandom: Dark Tower (Stephen King)

Canon point/AU: Post Wizard and Glass - Before the fall of Gilead

Journal: tis_allgood

History: http://darktower.wikia.com/wiki/Cuthbert_Allgood

Presentation: Cuthbert Allgood comes across to the world as a self confident joker, which is mostly the truth. Cuthbert doesn’t know the meaning of the word ‘quit’, nor does he seem to know the meaning of the word ‘quiet’ either, as he will joke and chatter to anyone within earshot regardless of whether or not they’re listening. His humor isn’t always appreciated by others, no one but Cuthbert seems to see the fun in naming his horse Glue Boy. He has a healthy sense of humor about himself, too, and is usually the first to joke about his own shortcomings. Bert can find the humor in dark times as well, regardless of how appropriate it may be. The few times he is utterly serious and morose it’s usually due to life and death circumstances, or things being utterly out of his control.

Cuthbert doesn’t deal well with things he can’t control. It’s not really surprising, he grew up learning how to fight, kill and even how to deal with situations so they don’t have to end in violence. He has been prepared for just about any eventuality. The one skill he has a hard time with, a psychic intuition called the Touch, leaves him with a bad taste for the supernatural and Cuthbert is somewhat hostile to the notion of Ka, or destiny. He hates the idea that his life has been predetermined and prefers to be in charge of his own actions.

Though he acts more immature that the other boys he’s grown up with, Cuthbert is quite clever. He is quick to plot and pick up on others plots, as quick as he is to a joke or draw a gun. He has demonstrated a talent for remembering names and bits of information about people after even brief meetings and his attention to details makes him worthwhile to have around. Unfortunately he’s not always careful about keeping his clever mind to himself and he can often be his own worst enemy. It often takes all of his self control to keep from making sarcastic comments in the most inappropriate of times. Sometimes it takes more self control than he has.

Descended from a long line of Gunslingers, Cuthbert has a prestigious legacy to live up to. He is handsome, enough that his best friend’s lover thinks she might have fallen for him if she had met him first. That combined with his easy manner and quick wit ought to make him shine in any other profession. But unfortunately for Bert, they’re not the most important skills for a Gunslinger. He lacks the cold reason that makes for a perfect Gunslinger though he can be a very effective one in the right circumstances. He is usually perceived by the elder Gunslingers as a nuisance, though the idea has never really bothered Cuthbert.

Motivations: Cuthbert hides a deadly serious side and deep shadows. Like all the boys who succeeded and moved on to become Gunslingers he has to close his heart off to the task of killing. During their trials in Hambry, Cuthbert and his friends kill a sizeable posse of men, both directly (Bert is deadly with a slingshot) and by trapping them in a screaming interdimensional fog. It’s safe to say that he doesn’t feel an ounce of remorse for those and most other lives he takes. In fact, Bert seems to enjoy the work. But that idea also scares him, as it isn’t really a professional way to face his profession, and he keeps it from showing as best he can.

Deep down Cuthbert is terrified that he really is fate’s fool, as he is often called. It’s only ever said to him in jest, but Bert knows the best jokes hold a kernel of truth to them. He is scared that his life has already been written and there is nothing he can do to change it. Beyond the anger he isn’t afraid to show lies the fear he is.

But not all of what Cuthbert hides is bad. Bert has a soft side that he also tries desperately to keep hidden. Apprentice Gunslingers spend a lot of time getting the weakness beaten out of them, which is why Bert doesn’t generally admit to his weakness for the innocent. Most notably, he puts himself in very clear danger to save a simple boy he barely knows even though it costs him part of his cover. He simply can’t stand idly by and watch someone utterly undeserving be killed.

SAMPLES

Thread: Thread from a Wolf Game for former CFUD players. It is comment spam, with very little action. I have some other more in depth threads if necessary, they’re just shorter.

Prose:

Despite how little he appreciated being manhandled into it with neither warning nor permission, the Gamemakers could not have chosen a better ‘tribute’. Cuthbert had the gist of it, a fight to the death with others like him that would leave only one survivor and if he could prove himself now the advantage might be his. Little did they know they had just set a hawk loose over a pen of rabbits.

Of course, his cocksure posturing suffered a bit of deflation when he discovered no firearms available, and in light of the fact that he lacked his own massive revolvers he felt oddly naked and out of sorts. Clearly, the best time to joke.

“Wise not to arm me with a gun, aye. Your game would end far too quickly.”

Cuthbert wasn’t talking to anyone in particular, he just took to long silences like a fish did to the desert. His former teacher would have beaten him senseless if he had given up so easily on a situation just because he hadn’t been handed guns. The only trouble here was that the options were too many. On instinct Cuthbert had picked up items he thought might be of use, items he would want to be gifted with in a battle to the death. And on a slightly more puckish instinct, he set a fire on a tabletop.

Not the most unique skill, to be sure, but a practical and showy one. All the more so when he turned the various projectiles he’d gathered on the lights above him. The knives were fairly useless and he had to sidestep a few of them on their descent. But the javelin was more effective and the sling even more so. Perhaps it was just the childish want to destroy when given the chance, or simply a convenient way to vent his frustrations, but no matter what he was enjoying the noisy end of something so precious and irreplaceable in his own world.

He would have been happy to take the rest of the lights out if his time had not run out. Still, he left with a triumphant grin on his face.


What is your character scored: Cuthbert would likely score in the double digits as he’s been training to be a gunslinger since he was quite young. Even without his guns Bert is dangerous and a force with which to be reckoned. He has survival skills, the will to kill and some very flamboyant tendencies that would make him easily a top choice, scoring wise.