Instead of Gio...
Appearance:
Character Name: Travis Touchdown
Age: 29-30
Attributes/Powers:
Powers and skills
Travis, despite being an otaku, is a very formidable assassin, having learned how to wield a sword from correspondence tapes, and is able to
grapple from his own former training in
Calgary to being inspired and mimicking certain moves by seeing various
wrestling tapes.
After becoming acquainted with
Randall Lovikov, the town drunk, Travis is taught special
techniques that compliment his arsenal of combat skills.
When properly provoked, Travis can snap into a "
Dark Side" mode (that in game is accessed by lining up three objects in a slot machine mini game after killing a foe). When in Dark Side, he gains superhuman strength, speed, invincibility, and powers that can affect reality, to sometimes resorting to cheating and unfair methods.
His preferred weapon are beam katanas, and can also be upgraded throughout the game, initially starting with the
Blood Berry, followed by the durable
Tsubaki, the heavily upgraded and empowered
Tsubaki Mk-II (which comprises five rotating beams, and requires more finesse to wield), the
Tsubaki Mk-III, a very showy beam katana designed from the beam Samurai sword of Travis' mentor,
Thunder Ryu, the
Peony, a slow, but powerful "giant beam katana' capable of expanding its blade, and the
Rose Nasty, versatile dual katanas made for fast killing.
He also shows to have some resistance to firearms, one instance being when Helter-Skelter riddled Travis with bullets and rockets, culminating with absolutely no effects. This also may have been related to the robe he was wearing at the time, however. Despite this, Travis managed to survive many deadly attacks without the robe, ranging from a series of energy blasts, three consecutive close range grenade explosions, to a death blow to the chest.
Weaknesses: See personality/ history
Personality/History:
He is a 27-year-old
American assassin and stereotypical
otaku – his motel room decorated with
professional wrestling and
anime collectibles – living in near poverty in the
motel "NO MORE HEROES" of
Santa Destroy, California accompanied by his kitten
Jeane (most likely named after
his lost love). He appears to have interest in
lucha libre and
Japanese pro wrestling icons (like
Thunder Ryu), as well as a
moe driven anime series called
Pure White Lover Bizarre Jelly; his apartment is filled with such mentioned merchandise.
After winning a
beam katana in an online auction he becomes a hitman. When he runs out of money to buy video games he accepts a job to kill
Helter-Skelter, also known as "the Drifter," which earns him rank eleven by the
United Assassins Association, a governing body of assassins. Realizing that he has now made himself a target for aspiring assassins, he sets out to secure himself as number one in the UAA. He gets around on his motorcycle, dubbed the "
Schpeltiger."
Travis usually wears a light weight leather jacket, t-shirt, jeans and sunglasses, though his outfit varies more in No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle. Travis has dark spiky hair, and blue eyes, is 6'0" and weighs 170lbs.
While Travis displays crude, punkish and immature behavior, and is especially cruel toward the male assassins he fights, he displays normal and decent behavior whenever he isn't on the job. Travis is relatively calm about killing people, but in the first
No More Heroes, killing women made him feel uncomfortable.
He is capable of being touched by people's emotional and personal experiences, seeing that he didn't seem entirely settled after killing Dr. Peace, whose daughter was estranged from him.
Despite his sadism, Travis himself is not without morals; he has a certain amount of honor and respect for people he believes to be "True Warriors", as he tries to spare the assassin Ryuji in Desperate Struggle, and after experiencing the grueling and inhumane trials of Ranking Battles twice over, he became determined to take down the UAA once and for all.
Touchdown is very driven to prove himself, is shown to be highly knowledgeable and a slow learner, and can be surprisingly funny and even humourous. Touchdown takes his friendships very seriously as well, as evidenced by his quest to avenge the murder of Bishop Shidux, after which he seems to learn something about the repercussions that death has on others aside from the one being killed.
His red jacket, unique swordplay, physical abilities and amoral persona are comparable to
Samurai Champloo's Mugen
Canon: Sometime after No more heroes 2: Desprate struggles
