Ah, who would have thought? How far I've come since then.
Username: Macyduke
Name: Larkin Greenlee
The short version of the events leading up to the biggest decision he's ever going to have to make:
Larkin Greenlee is both a scientist and an inventor, who like the rebels, is trapped under the rule of a ruthless dictator who’s keen on keeping a world plagued by nuclear fallout, in his image and under his rule. Unlike the rebels who sought to overthrow their dictator and establish a new government the a few months the vile propaganda and campaigns started against viscets, Larkin was relatively happy with his life. Not to say he wasn't bitter, the man was pairing the term viscet with savage and grungy after all; not to mention turning his human neighbors against him and his small family. However it wasn't until doctors began to refused to save his son, who'd been badly beaten, did his demeanor really start to spiral out of control. His obsessive, paranoid, uncaring, short temper, and almost constant aggression paired with his inability to do anything but bury himself in his work drove his mate away. His work in an instant changed from inventing gizmos and toys to entertain and make life easier for his family, to what he believed to be the ultimate means of vengeance with a side of rescuing his son. For the most part this meant looking for loopholes in scientific laws, making countless calculations, designing a machine and building it, testing his device on countless lab rats, and readjusting his calculations. After years of work and one major lucky break, he found a means of teleporting living creatures back through time, and had acquired a massive amount of what he believed he needed to travel back.
By the time he was ready to make the trip back, which was right after he got the large quantity of the substance needed to get his device to send him back, the government had closed in on him, his purchases having tipped them off. Unable to make the final calculations necessary for him to be reasonably close to the time he planned on landing in or further testing to see if his machine could handle it, being that officers were practically breaking down his door; Larkin Greenlee decided to chance ripping apart the fabric of time, tear him to shreds simultaneously, he swung the dial on the device and pressed the center button. In an instant he was engulfed by a white light that filled the room, temporarily blinding the humans who finally managed to break down his door, before pushing them back via explosion.
When the light faded, Larkin found himself surround by a dim darkness, the only light source being the brightening sky and fading moon. He gawked at the ocean of untamed green that swayed toward him in light morning breeze. His ability to marvel at the sound of the nature around him waking up to greet the day, was somewhat muddied by his dew covered tail and hind legs. The past was significantly warmer than he would have expected it to be during this time of day, which he assumed to be nearing seven in the morning, in spite of his internal clock telling him that it was still eight or nine at night. It wasn't until he'd found intelligent life did he realize that he'd overshot his goal by a little over several hundred years, which had overloaded his time-machine, leaving him with nothing but a burnt up knob, green markings on his pelt, and a butterfly wing on the back of each arm. His views on life, unaffected by the change in time period, for a time became slightly more extreme. That is until he started to scavenging for things to rebuild his machine in junkyards. Having enjoyed the sun on his back along with the beauty of the earth without all the destruction, he started spending more of his time outdoors. However it wasn't until he fell hopelessly in love with a beautiful viscet who brought out the best of him, did he start to enjoy life and feel happy again. Eventually leaving him to have to choose between trying to save his son along with the boy's future with a side of revenge, and staying in the past with the love of his life and their chance at happiness along with a new family. I won't say which he chooses, but I will say that this arc ends with him thinking; Ah, who would have thought? How far I've come since then.
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