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Name & Pronouns: Roo, he/she
Age: 30-something
Contact Details: Disco: Rooibos#5175

Canon Info

Canon Name: Larry Laffer
Canon Age: Physically 40-something, conceptually 70-something. Basically he got Futurama'd into the modern age in canon.

Canon: Up through the latest game, Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Dry Twice

Character Summary: Have you ever heard of the term "failing upwards"? Well, Larry's whole shtick is "hornying upwards". Basically, Larry has a well-earned pop culture icon notoriety of being a sleazy, slimy, corny, unattractive horndog. It's not necessarily unwarranted, but it's also an incomplete picture: Larry is actually a hopeless romantic who just happens to be disastrously horny in the process.

Other things that Larry should have notoriety for: an extremely competent software programmer (canonically made an operating system just to earn his then-beau's hand in marriage), a master problem-solver (as evidenced by the fact that he's a point and click adventure protagonist), adventurous and sociable despite being an awkward nerd, and generally affable.

For most of his life up until his mid-30s, he really was just an easily forgettable nobody. Just someone who fades into the crowd -- and preferred it that way, just waddling through life without much want for anything, just content to get by living with his mom and competently working his programming job. For absolutely no discernible reason, though, he just...woke up horny one day. His performance at work tanks, he becomes super distractible, he starts hoarding copies of National Geographic magazine for...purposes. (If you know, you know.) So he loses his job, his mom kicks him out of the house to move to Florida, and basically overnight he becomes jobless and homeless on top of his brain being completely rewired.

Thus begins an adventure of a lifetime. Inspired by the disco era of free-love, he styles himself in that Saturday Night Fever kind of way, all the way through changing his taste in fashion to taking up dancing. He moves to Las Vegas (Lost Wages in canon) to immerse himself in bright lights and loose ladies, and persists in his search even after countless times of being played like a fiddle (which will become a prevailing theme here). He only really realizes that he's looking for more than just sex after a romp with a prostitute still leaves him wanting.

His pursuit of love sends him from Lost Wages, to Los Angeles, to Hawai'i (Nontoonyt in canon), where he finally finds a native woman to marry but only after saving her tribe from some high-ranking KGB goon. It was that kind of era, just roll with it. Despite being originally mad in love with each other, his wife Kalalau divorces Larry for being a lousy, unattentive lover. After a brief moment of feeling sorry for himself, he quickly returns to his roving lifestyle and wanders the island for new love. He finds it with a pianist named Patti, a woman who shares his passion for passion.

Things start getting a little shaky from there. As soon as Larry seems to have finally settled down with the perfect woman, a meta-joke where the creator of Leisure Suit Larry said that he'd never make a Leisure Suit Larry 4 keeps his word...and makes Leisure Suit Larry 5, where something unknown and mysterious happened to 4, leaving Larry with amnesia and an unexplained disconnect from Patti, going their different ways.

From 5 onwards, we see a pretty significant shift in Larry's motivations. He seems less interested in pursuing long-term love and romance and simply content to chase tail, pursuing high-status women for the sake of challenge. (I'm breezing over this because there's not much character development here.) After 7, the franchise stops completely, only to be picked back up again in 2018 with a soft reboot. Without much explanation, Larry wakes up under the streets of Lost Wages once again. Yeah, again. There's a cloning factory down there that explains how Larry comes back every time you reset the game. This series doesn't take itself too seriously, don't worry about it.

Larry still has his taste for high-status women, but this time he sets his sights on Faith, the CEO of what essentially is Apple in his universe, which also makes her a bad guy. She tells him she won't date him unless he gets an impossibly high score on the iPhone PiPhone dating app Tinder Timber. And, of course, he does.

Turns out that Faith was using her phones to spy on people. Larry still pursues her despite this, which is really what makes her fall for him. Just as she does, she gets clocked in the head with a projectile that Larry sent into space for an unrelated puzzle earlier in the game, so she ends up with her own bout of amnesia as she gets sent out to sea from Cancún Cancúm.

The next game focuses on Larry exploring the archipelago Kalau'a to pursue Faith to try to find her, only to discover that she doesn't remember him, and also girlbossed her way into becoming the leader of a tribe of cannibal lesbians. He works tirelessly to recover her memories, only for her to reveal that she actually didn't forget about him at all and actually just wanted to use this opportunity to get herself out of the hectic, fraudulent life she had as a megacorp CEO.

In the end, they get married and decide to pursue peaceful life among the cannibal lesbians. Try not to pay attention to the army of murderous sex robots that may or may not have been brought to life in this process.

AU Info

AU Name: Larry
Age: mid-70s
Suitability: he hasn't been carded in decades

AU History: Basically the same as canon but all of the Rule of Funny plot points and technological impossibilities have been removed.

1948 - Born in Gumbo, Missouri

1969 - Graduates community college; gets a job programming office tools and selling them.

1987 - Larry both awakens as a Dreamer and develops his libido overnight. Equivalent events of Larry 1 occur: he loses his job and moves to Las Vegas.

1988 - Events of Larry 2 occur. Moves to Hawai'i and is married to Kalalau.

1989 - Events of Larry 3 occur. Divorces Kalalau, meets Patti.

1990 - Re-establishes his career as a programmer working for Nevada On-Line, moves back to Las Vegas, marries Patti.

1991 - ??? Larry suffers a major injury in Dream Sphere and is comatose for several months, trapped in the Sphere while he heals. (btw mod: this is just a pitch and totally negotiable, I just have Weird Amnesia Nonsense to account for somehow here) Larry's memories pick back up some months later. How'd he get this job at a porn studio? Events of Larry 5 occur. Who is this gorgeous brunette and why does he know her name? Why does she know his name? Anyway.

1993 - He gets his job at Nevada On-Line back but now it's in their California offices. Ends up winning a vacation package in a raffle. Events of Larry 6 occur, but this time Larry has a bisexual awakening with Gary and gets introduced to drag through Chablis.

1996 - Larry goes on a singles cruise. Events of Larry 7 occur, except without the alien abduction at the end.

2004 - Nevada On-Line gets acquired. Larry continues to work for the acquisition company, Bilendi Games.

2007 - Bilendi Games also gets acquired. Lives in France to work on mobile (flip phone) games.

2013 - Moves back to Las Vegas to independently work on games.

2018 - Meets Faith. Events of Wet Dreams Don't Dry occur. Drag queen Tuck helps Larry get properly established in the Vegas drag scene.

2019-2020 - I'd say that most of Wet Dreams Dry Twice happens here but Faith doesn't end up on the island and remains a CEO while Larry acts as her nursemaid while she recovers from her injuries.

2020 - Larry marries Faith.

2023 - Larry is hired by a studio in Japan and moves to Yumemigaoka!

AU Personality: Largely unchanged! His native canon, with exceptions for Cartoon Logic, is already pretty slice-of-life so there isn't much of a change needed here. The biggest difference is that he's actually able to have a successful career, able to focus on professional pursuits as long as he regularly indulges in his vices, and not be nebulously employed like in canon. This also extends to him being an experienced Dreamer who really does give a crap about what they do. Oh, he's also aggressively bisexual now.

By far his most defining characteristic, Larry is permanently and relentlessly horny on main. He'll hit on anything with a heartbeat even if they wouldn't even give him the time of day. Cheesy pickup lines and double entendres abound and anything you say can and will be twisted into that's what she said. At least he has the decency to introduce himself before hitting on someone...well, most of the time.

However, Larry, while a far cry from being a classic textbook gentleman, is not hunting for conquest. When people rebuff his attentions -- or worse, take advantage of him -- regardless of how much he's done for them to win them over, he shrugs it off and moves on. Not a single time has he ever believed that anyone owed him something, nor has he ever flared a temper or held a grudge. While a persistent flirt and a single-minded pervert, Larry has always honored consent, holding both people and their autonomy in high regard...

...even if "yield" means "go" to Larry. If you're not interested, nothing short of "no" or "I'm not interested" is going to work; ultimatums are taken as challenges and are worthless in trying to dissuade him. Likewise, attempts to insult or tease him frequently go right over his head. Before he started his swinger lifestyle he used to be an extreme shut-in, and the lack of early life social skills that implies frequently rears its head.

Even though it's obvious that Larry thinks with his dick, it's clear that his heart is at least sitting in shotgun with the map. At his core, Larry craves genuine emotional connections with people. Because he doesn't view sex as mere conquest, he doesn't try to force a connection when it's not there. This is the most significant reason why, despite his libido, he doesn't simply stick to transactions with prostitutes.

Unfortunately, Larry is the textbook example of "product of his time." Even though Larry has a gentle soul, he has some backwards conceptions about minorities and a tasteless sense of humor about them. None of it comes from a malicious or hateful place, but he unfortunately thinks that it's harmless. He genuinely apologizes when someone makes it clear that he overstepped a line, but old habits die hard.

No matter how hard he gets shafted, he always retains an upbeat attitude. Let it be known that life loves to shit on Larry Laffer. With what could only be cosmic karma for reckless pursuit of his vices, Larry finds himself frequently in unfortunate situations. Sometimes he ends up chained to a bedpost while the woman he thought he was about to have sex with steals his wallet, sometimes he gets kicked out of the bed (and onto the street) immediately after the act, and he's had several types of emergency services called on his behalf.

However, there's a hidden genius in this crouching moron. Using esoteric problem-solving skills, Larry can MacGyver the most illogical items together into something useful to solve problems, navigate puzzles, and obliterate obstacles. His career choice is quite literally nothing but problem solving; he's stayed on top of the rapid development of computer technology and has been a game developer from 8-bit to high resolution polygons. While not a household name, his veteran status in the industry is fairly well-known to those in the know.

On that note, If you have something Larry thinks could be helpful down the line, hopefully it's either (a) tied down, (b) cemented into place, or (c) too heavy for him to lift, because it's going to disappear. It doesn't matter how readily apparent the utility of the object is. He'll do it right under your nose, too. Catch him in the act and he's likely to try to bargain for it. For what it's worth, if he likes you (or, hell, even ambivalent towards you) it's likely to end up in your favor at the end.

Other AU Changes: N/A

Dreamer Info

Dreamer Title: Dreamer Sudo
Appearance: Dreamer Sudo is, in the simplest terms, weird. Very little of their actual skin is visible -- just the lower half of their face and a bare window on their flat chest -- and the rest of their body is covered in a white that shimmers in oil-slick rainbow, ribbed in a way that makes it feel like the sinew of their flesh is exposed. The upper half of their head is covered in a smooth, bulbous headdress that slicks all the way to the back of their head, where it starts to transition into yet another ribbed shape that runs down their back quickly turns into an exaggerated series of vertebrae that acts as a free-moving tail. It ends with a shape that looks like a cross between a coccyx and a scorpion tail.

TL;DR Dreamer Sudo looks like a cross between HR Giger's Alien and Warframe's Lotus except bright white and shimmmery.

Archetype: Experienced; Saver

Power Considerations:

Worm. A small, summonable half-bird half-wasp that can act as a scouting drone. It's very fragile and has no attack.

Ping. A quick but weak ranged attack.

Defragment. "Rearranges" the target. When used on an ally, swaps their highest stat for their lowest stat (for example, a tank would lose their defense and gain attack, becoming a glass cannon. A DPS would lose their attack and gain defense to keep them safe in dire situations.) When used on an opponent, the opponent's weak spot becomes more accessible and/or vulnerable.

Daemon. it's a friggen face-hugger A fragile parasite that, if allowed to imbed into the target, allows Dreamer Sudo to remotely mind-control them. Can be resisted by strong-willed targets with due effort. Control ceases if the Daemon is disconnected or destroyed.

RP Sample: TDM!
Other Notes: oh my god i banged out this app in less than 24 hours while crunching at work please be gentle