The History of Timothy Lawrence - Borderlands

having made his debut as the fifth playable vault hunter in borderlands the pre-sequel timothy lawrence's past and real appearance are largely unknown life before his transformation seems almost irrelevant and uneventful the one detail we do know about him physically was that he used to have freckles i miss my old face i miss my freckles and in terms of his home life he was very much a mama's boy except his mom didn't like him i should be at home with mom not hanging out on the moon getting shot at the moment his real journey in life began was when he was in need for cash to pay off his student loan debts because of this he took up a job hyperion was offering where he would undergo major reconstructive surgery his physical appearance would be altered in every way possible to make him look and sound like handsome jack mr lawrence oh yeah that's me timothy please go through the door to your right your interviewer will be waiting for you do i uh need to sign some papers or through the door please no wait how do i know this isn't some scam to get my kidneys you applied for this position because you needed money beggars can't be choosers but i okay all right i'm ready very good timothy how are you feeling oh i what happened what is the last thing you remember i was there was a door and and you were there and you asked me some questions and then i woke up here hmm seems the anesthesia we're using is still causing substantial memory loss nurse collect all my notes on experimental post-traumatic stress therapy i've got some ideas da doctor i hooked this one up to drip no not until he feels it we need to make sure the nerves weren't damaged during the surgery surgery what surgery relax i'll fill you in on everything my name will be jack i work as an engineer for hyperion doctor i still sound like myself that will be fixed with the voice modulator implants now that you've signed these forms for the next 20 years you'll be jack geez when do i get paid soon report to medical chamber 7 experiment commentary day four visual transformation complete and all records deleted timothy lawrence at least on paper no longer exists and neither do his secrets jack will be very very pleased hey there sexy what are you talking to me of course who else would i be talking to you see any other gorgeous strangers in this place uh no guess not what's your name or should i keep calling you sexy oh the name's tim jack but you can call me whatever you like how about the man who bought me a drink to attempt to make them as much like him as possible part of jack's dna was also injected into them in hopes to give them his personality as well but this didn't have too much of an effect immediately and would largely be unpresent for a long time but we'll come back to that later as part of the doppelganger program timothy's death was faked when his mother found out she laughed though he tries convincing himself that she was crying on the inside poor mom i mean when i took the body double gig they had to fake my death she was laughing when they told her but i'm sure she was crying on the inside sobbing well fairly sure timothy was one of many doppelgangers recruited for this purpose his own personal designated hyperion code is doppelganger 21c to keep them in control hyperion also placed bombs in their faces to prevent them from detailing any specifics about themselves or anything else they don't want the doppelgangers to say for example timothy was legally not allowed to speak his real name thus he must find workarounds try telling it to the guy who doesn't have a bomb surgically implanted in his face lady well i'm legally forbidden to tell you but uh it rhymes with jimothy despite looking and sounding like jack timothy was still very much timothy in personality and attitude even despite the dna injection so it was on him to play up the facade and act the part anybody watching great god this character right such an insufferable piece of [ __ ] hey somebody's listening i'm jack and i'm the best and i love being drack three cheers for jack i'm great when the real jack begins hunting the vault on elpis timothy happens to be the one recruited among several other vault hunters to help with this goal and this is where the events of borderlands the pre-sequel take place alongside wilhelm athena claptrap nisha and aurelia timothy helps in the takedown of the lost legion and the inadvertent creation of the persona that is handsome jack it is important to note that unlike many of his fellow allies like nisha and wilhelm timothy did not ethically agree with much of what jack was doing as it was very immoral and downright evil he didn't do anything against it but he didn't feel good when he was complying to begin with not much is to be said about his own individual journey throughout the story but probably the biggest takeaway for him are the people he met rowland lilith and most importantly moxie considering jack and moxie had dated in the past timothy was forced to act like jack and pretend to be him while he thinks he does a good enough job at pretending to be him and tricking her moxie is much too observant and clever and sees right through his facade she never brings it up until later but she knew all along that he was not jack in fact timothy actually developed a bit of a crush on her as does everyone and invited her on a date which she agreed to and got food timothy feels conflicted not knowing why she would go on a date with someone like jack not aware of her true intentions until later anyway despite disagreeing with jack morally he still couldn't just leave as he was under contract with a bomb still in his face so he was forced to continue to be his body double anyway so at the end of the pre-sequel lilith had punched the vault symbol into jack's face branding him and creating the alter-ego of handsome jack because jack himself now had a physical alteration made to him he forced all of the doppelgangers to suffer the same fate as well each one of them were branded with the vault symbol on their faces as well so to keep up the charade of his body doubles because of this timothy holds a little bit of resentment towards lilith and i never really resented lilith but after jack got his scar he branded all of us body doubles to match so as i'm a little miffed about that jack went on to force him to do other various menial jobs which presumably he got kicked out of just for the hell of it timothy was forced to star in various pornographic adult film movies which he is less than proud of hey you didn't see any of those movies jack made me do right you know what forget i mentioned it posters for these can be seen all over borderlands 3. fortunately though he got closer to using his real name going under the stage name timothy doppelman at some point however jack under motivations we don't fully know gathered all of his doppelgangers to one central location the handsome jackpot it's a casino that he had opened up to accrue more wealth in timothy's case he was invited to live the life of luxury as a sort of reward for helping on elpis but that likely was just a ploy to get him to the casino each of the doppelgangers were given what were known as winning hands they gave them access to all areas of the casino likely jack's motivation was that they could be used as free labor since he was the face of the casino having a bunch of hymns running around fit the vibe of the place so he just had them work as their employees they however did not get their free will back the bombs that were implanted in each one of them seemed to be only able to serve a single purpose while it was stopping timothy from speaking his real name initially all of the bombs were changed to prevent them all from leaving the casino thus they were trapped there until jack chooses to free them this all of course goes bad for the doppelgangers as jack would obviously meet his end in the events of borderlands 2. with jack no longer alive any and all businesses he was running went into ruin including the handsome jackpot the place went into lockdown and chaos slowly but surely erupted from all of its employees and customers alike in the beginning some of the doppelgangers initially attempted to help out those who needed it with their winning hands however they were killed by the more ruthless the doppelgangers you know we weren't all bad guys when the lockdown happened some of them actually tried to use their winning hands to help out the survivors you know get them something to eat they all got torn to pieces so i had stayed alive timothy himself even had to kill a few of them which he tries to justify saying it was self-defense just me now the rest are dead i didn't kill them most of them i killed a couple self-defense we're gonna go with self-defense nevertheless over time every single doppelganger aside from timothy would be killed leaving him the last remaining body double he spent his time largely in hiding finding few allies he could trust and trying not to be killed specifically by pretty boy a figure from the casino who had risen to power in its decline this would all take place over the course of seven years and this is where the events of borderlands 3 come in moxie sends the vault hunters to the handsome jackpot as the concept and design for the place were initially hers and stolen by jack when the vault hunters get there they meet timothy who explains everything that's been happening as well as being reunited with moxie she obviously doesn't trust amir for having been associated with jack for so long the dlc mainly consists of meeting up with the allies timothy had made and formulating a plan to overthrow pretty boy and save everyone in the casino during this journey timothy winds up getting kidnapped and held hostage where the vault hunters are obviously forced to rescue him pretty boy is eventually killed but after this the casino goes into self-destruct mode sending it hurtling towards a black hole the only way to stop it is with timothy's winning hand which is hard because he's still trapped in a cage for everyone's sake he uses the cage to cut off his hand so the characters can use it and save everyone at the very end of the dlc he and moxie are reunited in person this time where he learns the real reason she went on a date with him way back when oxy you know i've been wondering why did you say yes to dinner that night i was hungry yeah but jack he was the worst oh honey if i thought you were jack i'd have shot you the moment you stepped up to my bar so i didn't even fool you a little not even a little and he finally gets some closure knowing she went with him not jack another fun fact about timothy is that he suffers from acrophobia otherwise known as a fear of heights but as for now that does it for the history of timothy lawrence just a normal person who got roped into a much bigger world which he hates being a part of if there's any other characters you'd like to see me do the history of then be sure to let me know in the comments below and until next time i'll see you in the next video [Music] you

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Length: 12min 29sec (749 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 03 2021