AU NAME: Booker DeWitt (Previously: Zachary Hale, explained below.) AU AGE: 38 AU OCCUPATION: Private Investigator/Detective and handyman on the side. BLURB:
- Booker's actual AU name is Zachary Hale. This is due to a pretty heavy life of crime, which resulted in him changing his name and skipping town.
- Booker moved to Recolle roughly close to a year ago, having left Brooklyn, NY to attempt escaping the eyes of the mob he'd been doing dealings with.
- At age 36, Booker lived a modest life with his wife of two years, Annalise Hale. He was a police officer with the NYPD, and working towards having a family until Analise was diagnosed with a terminal disease. Treatment cost far more than either of them could afford, and so their quality of life severely decreased due to funds necessary for her medication and surgeries. Unfortunately, money ran dry. Zachary Hale eventually loses his job as a police officer, and decides to take on a life of crime in order to earn big money fast. He became very quickly indebted to the mob, where he eventually was forced to work for them in order to 1. pay his debts and 2. still make enough money to get by.
- Zachary Hale's involvement with the mob leads to regularly committed crimes, violence, murder, and robbery.
- Annalise, despite constant treatment and surgery, dies of her ailment and leaves Zachary a widow. Many attempts to have a child failed, and so he has no family when his wife passes.
- This leads to a severe downward spiral of depression and erratic behavior. Zachary normalizes his crime life and no longer sees it as a means to get by. Rather, he adjusts to it and uses it as a coping mechanism to ignore the loss of his wife. He becomes extremely erratic, angry, and unpredictable in his time with the mob.
- Hit jobs are the norm with the mob he's tangled up with, and Zachary is tasked with his first assassination. A man who is severely in debt with the group who is delinquent in his payments. Zachary almost gets the job done, until he's forced to face a fearful mother of three children. The mother being the man's wife, the kids being his. Given that this hits pretty close to home, Zachary is forced to remember how soft he really is and he refuses the job. This doesn't bode well with the mob, and eventually results in the mob coming after him. With his life threatened and his life essentially in shambles, he manages to steal a large sum of money and weapons belonging to them as a last "fuck you". This facilitates the means for him to change his name and skip town to Recolle to assume a new life with a clean slate.
- Now Booker DeWitt, he eventually seeks help for his drug and alcohol addiction. He goes through rehab and meetings and manages to get clean. He gets a job as a private investigator/detective and starts working as a handyman on the side for extra money.
- Zachary Hale became a very angry, very depressed man. The assumed new life of Booker DeWitt has made him want very much to be a better man. While he's not a sweetheart and he's definitely got the very same snarky attitude that Booker has in Infinite, he's not a total asshole either. He does struggle and often lets his old self seep in every so often, but he makes a conscious effort not to be that way. He's striving to keep clean and move on with his life.
- He's afraid of heights and hates flying. Because I think I'm funny sometimes.
- Booker does have a close friendship with Rosalind Lutece. He's done plenty of extra jobs for her on the side, and they wound up becoming good friends in the process. She's really the only friend he's made since his arrival to Recolle.
LOOKING FOR: - Booker is extremely, EXTREMELY cautious about who he lets in his life. While he'd deny and work very hard to make himself unrecognizable, I'm not at all opposed to having anyone have been to Brooklyn at any point and seen Zachary Hale.
- Always love negative CR, so I'm down for that. Positive, too! And I'd like to explore his addictions and such. He's got plenty of PTSD from his experiences, so anyone who's willing to work off of that and plot with me would be great!
- Anything and everything pls.
OPTIONAL ENABLE ME: WOULD ANYONE LEGITIMATELY ENJOY HAVING CR WITH THIS WALKING DUMPSTER FIRE? Booker DeWitt is... A special individual, and his regains are going to be extremely weird, hard to understand, and kind of horrifying. He's not a saint, but he's a genuine dude who wants to be a good guy. Your typical anti-hero tbh.
Booker DeWitt | Bioshock Infinite
CHARACTER: Booker DeWitt
CANON: Bioshock Infinite
AU NAME: Booker DeWitt (Previously: Zachary Hale, explained below.)
AU AGE: 38
AU OCCUPATION: Private Investigator/Detective and handyman on the side.
BLURB:
- Booker's actual AU name is Zachary Hale. This is due to a pretty heavy life of crime, which resulted in him changing his name and skipping town.
- Booker moved to Recolle roughly close to a year ago, having left Brooklyn, NY to attempt escaping the eyes of the mob he'd been doing dealings with.
- At age 36, Booker lived a modest life with his wife of two years, Annalise Hale. He was a police officer with the NYPD, and working towards having a family until Analise was diagnosed with a terminal disease. Treatment cost far more than either of them could afford, and so their quality of life severely decreased due to funds necessary for her medication and surgeries. Unfortunately, money ran dry. Zachary Hale eventually loses his job as a police officer, and decides to take on a life of crime in order to earn big money fast. He became very quickly indebted to the mob, where he eventually was forced to work for them in order to 1. pay his debts and 2. still make enough money to get by.
- Zachary Hale's involvement with the mob leads to regularly committed crimes, violence, murder, and robbery.
- Annalise, despite constant treatment and surgery, dies of her ailment and leaves Zachary a widow. Many attempts to have a child failed, and so he has no family when his wife passes.
- This leads to a severe downward spiral of depression and erratic behavior. Zachary normalizes his crime life and no longer sees it as a means to get by. Rather, he adjusts to it and uses it as a coping mechanism to ignore the loss of his wife. He becomes extremely erratic, angry, and unpredictable in his time with the mob.
- Hit jobs are the norm with the mob he's tangled up with, and Zachary is tasked with his first assassination. A man who is severely in debt with the group who is delinquent in his payments. Zachary almost gets the job done, until he's forced to face a fearful mother of three children. The mother being the man's wife, the kids being his. Given that this hits pretty close to home, Zachary is forced to remember how soft he really is and he refuses the job. This doesn't bode well with the mob, and eventually results in the mob coming after him. With his life threatened and his life essentially in shambles, he manages to steal a large sum of money and weapons belonging to them as a last "fuck you". This facilitates the means for him to change his name and skip town to Recolle to assume a new life with a clean slate.
- Now Booker DeWitt, he eventually seeks help for his drug and alcohol addiction. He goes through rehab and meetings and manages to get clean. He gets a job as a private investigator/detective and starts working as a handyman on the side for extra money.
- Zachary Hale became a very angry, very depressed man. The assumed new life of Booker DeWitt has made him want very much to be a better man. While he's not a sweetheart and he's definitely got the very same snarky attitude that Booker has in Infinite, he's not a total asshole either. He does struggle and often lets his old self seep in every so often, but he makes a conscious effort not to be that way. He's striving to keep clean and move on with his life.
- He's afraid of heights and hates flying. Because I think I'm funny sometimes.
- Booker does have a close friendship with Rosalind Lutece. He's done plenty of extra jobs for her on the side, and they wound up becoming good friends in the process. She's really the only friend he's made since his arrival to Recolle.
LOOKING FOR:
- Booker is extremely, EXTREMELY cautious about who he lets in his life. While he'd deny and work very hard to make himself unrecognizable, I'm not at all opposed to having anyone have been to Brooklyn at any point and seen Zachary Hale.
- Always love negative CR, so I'm down for that. Positive, too! And I'd like to explore his addictions and such. He's got plenty of PTSD from his experiences, so anyone who's willing to work off of that and plot with me would be great!
- Anything and everything pls.
OPTIONAL ENABLE ME: WOULD ANYONE LEGITIMATELY ENJOY HAVING CR WITH THIS WALKING DUMPSTER FIRE? Booker DeWitt is... A special individual, and his regains are going to be extremely weird, hard to understand, and kind of horrifying. He's not a saint, but he's a genuine dude who wants to be a good guy. Your typical anti-hero tbh.
So uh. Yeah.