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E-mail: tehseto[at]hotmail.com
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Timezone: CST
Current Characters in Route: Larry Butz (failures), Dist (ortion)
Character
Name: Dimitri Allen
Series: Professor Layton and the Unwound Future
Timeline: after escaping from the Towering Pagoda in chapter 8.
Canon Resource Links: wiki!
Personality:
Dimitri Allen is a man warped by the ill effects of tampering with time.
He was once an ambitious scientist who worked with two close friends toward the invention of the world's first time machine. Before their work was completely finished, one of his friends, Bill Hawks, insisted on testing it out despite the numerous risks. They would use their assistant Claire for the test run. Dimitri was opposed to the idea, as he had strong feelings for the woman. Worse, he discovered a fatal flaw in their calculations that would require a few more weeks to fix. Despite his requests to call off the test, Bill went along with it anyway, resulting in an enormous explosion. The explosion not only killed Claire, but several people in a nearby apartment complex were also killed. In one fell swoop, Dimitri lost the love of his life and all of his research, while Bill was paid handsomely for performing the test, success or fail, and selling their machine's power source.
This was the beginning of his descent into guilt-ridden, vengeful madness.
The first thing that becomes apparent about Dimitri is that he's a very, very bitter man. You can practically see it in his physical appearance. The events described above truly did a number to his personality. He harbors an enormous grudge against Bill for recklessly going along with the test and throwing Claire's life away for his own benefit. While Claire was dead and Dimitri's life was ruined, Bill was able to use that new-found wealth to rise the political ladder and eventually become Prime Minister. His view of the government isn't much better, because they covered up the accident completely so no one could ever know of the corruption that went along with it. Part of his motivation for helping Clive build the replica London was to get back at Bill for everything he did.
It's safe to say that his life basically revolves around his work, and he will go to any length to assure that it can be completed. While he was helping with the construction of the replica London, he also was able to go back to his work on the time machine. Rather than striving to create a time machine to help everyone, he was now creating it in order to save Claire. He is wracked with guilt over what happened, and holds himself responsible for her death because he was not able to stop Bill in time. In order to make the time machine successful, he went so far as to kidnap scientists from around the world to help him construct it, threatening to hold them hostage in the "future" until the project is complete. When he eventually discovered that Claire was in fact actually shot into the future but was not completely stable, he only got more frantic to finish the time machine. He became so consumed by his work that he completely shut out Claire's pleas to stop trying to tamper with time. It becomes less about saving Claire and more about proving to himself that he can make this happen.
Despite his apparent hostility and manipulative nature, Dimitri is not a violent man. He won't resort to actually endangering anyone's life, aside from perhaps his own. It's true that he did kidnap and threaten many people, but he never once resorted to violence. A prime example of this was when he revealed his entire plot to Layton and Co. at the Thames Arms, he told them he had laced the entire restaurant with explosives and if they made the wrong move, the building would explode and kill them. In reality, there were no explosives and he never intended to hurt anyone. He simply wanted to stall them to make a getaway. And although he hates Bill for what he did, he likely would've never hurt the man. He just wanted him to own up to his wrongdoings, and because he knew he wouldn't, he wanted to go back in the past and take everything from him.
Dimitri's intelligence also deserves mention in this section, although it will be brought up again in the strengths section. The man is a genius, and he certainly shows it in the story. For one, he's trying to do the impossible: create a way to travel through time. It requires a lot of intelligence and talent to pull off, and if he could, he would probably try to do it all by himself. But he knew he couldn't, and so that's why he teamed up with Clive to concoct a convoluted plan to create a future London, complete with a tyrannical leader and mafia to tie it all together and keep all of the "residents" in check. He prefers to stay two steps ahead of everyone, always ready with a backup trump card in case something doesn't go completely according to plan. Like many characters in the Layton universe, Dimitri is extremely skilled with puzzles and uses that to his advantage to slow Layton and Co. down. He even used a puzzle as a trap to read Layton's memories and gain the last important piece of important information he needed to create a wormhole in time, from where he would emerge and save Claire in the past.
All that said, Dimitri would have likely been a completely different person if that fateful explosion didn't happen. As Claire states at the very end of the game, no one can escape their fate, and trying to tamper with time only creates more suffering. However, Dimitri has yet to come to his senses on that matter from the canonpoint I have taken him from.
Strengths/Weaknesses:
Strengths
He's very intelligent. Of course being a space-time physicist requires intelligence, but Dimitri is really smart. Not only has he been working on trying to punch holes in time, but he also is able to plan schemes of immense proportions. He was able to recreate London so well, that everyone who was kidnapped and placed in there really did think they had found themselves in a future London. And when in the event that something goes wrong with his plans, he has plenty of backup ideas.
He has strong determination. He spent years recreating a lifelike future London setting and kidnapped many scientists in attempt to create a working time machine, ALL to prevent one woman from dying ten years in the past. It's safe to say he'll go to extreme lengths for his goals, and for those he deeply cares about.
He's a good actor. He uses multiple disguises in the story, such as Dr. Alain Stahngun, a scientist who apparently created a working time machine, although that was a ruse to kidnap the Prime Minister. He also disguises himself as the future Hershel Layton, tyrannical ruler of future London. Creating the Layton character was especially useful. Rather than coming out and claiming himself to be the creator of this future London and the one funding the time machine project, he was able to hide amongst the other scientists and work on the time machine while "Layton" did all the leading.
Weaknesses
He's blinded by his pride and obsession. His determination can also be seen as a weakness. The further he goes along with his plans, the more caught up he gets in it all, ignoring the fact that he is forcing people to live in fear of never seeing their families again and the fact that he is putting his life at risk to travel back in time. His time machine project becomes less about saving Claire and more about proving to himself that he can actually do it. So in other words, he thinks he's capable of anything he sets his mind to, and no one can prevent him from thinking otherwise. Going along those lines, you could say he has a hard time admitting defeat.
He's also far too caught up in the past. He knows how impossible it is to save Claire with the time he has, but he absolutely refuses to give up hope. He can't accept that he couldn't save her, and that's where the above point comes in. He's also fueled by his hatred for Bill Hawks, the man that ruined his life and killed Claire due to his greed. He wants to make this time machine work not just because it'll save Claire, but he could ruin Bill's life in the process and prevent him from becoming Prime Minister in the future.
It is perhaps because of all of this that he didn't realize that he himself was being played for a pawn in a grander scheme.
He might not get along so well with others. He doesn't exactly think much of others, and he has a habit of seeing most people as tools for manipulation than anything else. He might have a hard time dealing with the fact that he's starting out as an actual lackey in some unknown organization.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Team Rocket
Starter: Shuppet
Password: This is where you'll put the passwords from the Rules and the F.A.Q. There are two words, to assure you've read both.
Samples
First Person Sample:
[The feed opens up to a view of the shrine in Ilex Forest. Around the shrine are various books and papers. Whoever is visiting the shrine today seems to have been doing a bit of research...at least, that's the only conclusion one could come to.
Eventually, a soft voice comes from somewhere off-screen. The feed continues to focus on the shrine, where a Shuppet can be seen floating around it.]
It is rumored that the mythical Pokemon Celebi resides within this shrine. Celebi, the Pokemon that supposedly can travel through time...
[There is a slight pause before he continues. Gradually, a sense of desperation builds in his tone.]
It's fascinating. From what my research has unveiled, there is no evidence of an attempt at creating a time machine in this world. Given the miraculous abilities of Pokemon, that could only mean that this Celebi could be creating wormholes all on its own, wherever in time that it pleases. But how? How is such a feat possible? Imagine how beneficial for us all it would be if we were able to tap into Celebi's abilities!
[Realizing that he's gotten a bit too excited, he takes a moment to calm down.]
What I would give to see this Pokemon myself... But even then, would it be willing to share its secrets with me?
Hm. I wonder.
Third Person Sample:
It was another quiet evening in the Goldenrod Headquarters, and Dimitri had retired to his room early that night. As he eased into his less than comfortable desk, he allowed his chin to rest on his hands. He then glanced down at the journal on his desk and began to think. He had other things on his mind; things that had prevented him from focusing on his Rocket work for a few days now. It had been almost a month since his arrival in Johto, and for the umpteenth time, he reflected on what he left behind back in his own world and his current standing in this one.
When he awoke in Johto one month ago, he, well...had mixed feelings on the matter. It was a cross between utter amazement and rage. Amazement at how he had somehow wound up in a world he had never heard of. He had crossed space and possibly time, and he had no way of knowing how whoever abducted him had managed to pull it off. It took some time to fully accept that, but he had no choice but to. Rage at the fact that he was abducted before he could complete his time machine and in turn, make his goal of ten long years into a reality. There was no possibility of bringing Claire back on his own at this point, since crossing time and traveling through space is another matter entirely. All of his resources were back in London anyway. He would most likely have to postpone his work once again, and that was the harder thing to accept. In fact, he still hadn't completely accepted it. Why was it every time that he was so close to achieving his goals that something had to tear everything out from under him?
Then, of course, there was Team Rocket, the organization that welcomed him with open arms upon his arrival. He had a sneaking suspicion that they may have been the ones who took him away from his work, and his dreams. That was the very reason he decided to stick around. He didn't care how long it took; he was going to find out how they pulled him from his own world. If he could somehow access the technology, he could return himself to his own time and place. Perhaps it would even have the missing pieces to the puzzle of his own time machine.
It was at that moment that he pulled out a pen from his drawer and wrote a new entry in his journal. It was short, sweet, and to the point. He had to make this official to himself:
I will never stop searching for a way home. Claire needs me, and I must not give up for her sake.
Name: Seto
Personal Journal:
fearowE-mail: tehseto[at]hotmail.com
AIM/MSN: MSN: zeloslover@comcast.net
Timezone: CST
Current Characters in Route: Larry Butz (
failures), Dist (ortion)Character
Name: Dimitri Allen
Series: Professor Layton and the Unwound Future
Timeline: after escaping from the Towering Pagoda in chapter 8.
Canon Resource Links: wiki!
Personality:
Dimitri Allen is a man warped by the ill effects of tampering with time.
He was once an ambitious scientist who worked with two close friends toward the invention of the world's first time machine. Before their work was completely finished, one of his friends, Bill Hawks, insisted on testing it out despite the numerous risks. They would use their assistant Claire for the test run. Dimitri was opposed to the idea, as he had strong feelings for the woman. Worse, he discovered a fatal flaw in their calculations that would require a few more weeks to fix. Despite his requests to call off the test, Bill went along with it anyway, resulting in an enormous explosion. The explosion not only killed Claire, but several people in a nearby apartment complex were also killed. In one fell swoop, Dimitri lost the love of his life and all of his research, while Bill was paid handsomely for performing the test, success or fail, and selling their machine's power source.
This was the beginning of his descent into guilt-ridden, vengeful madness.
The first thing that becomes apparent about Dimitri is that he's a very, very bitter man. You can practically see it in his physical appearance. The events described above truly did a number to his personality. He harbors an enormous grudge against Bill for recklessly going along with the test and throwing Claire's life away for his own benefit. While Claire was dead and Dimitri's life was ruined, Bill was able to use that new-found wealth to rise the political ladder and eventually become Prime Minister. His view of the government isn't much better, because they covered up the accident completely so no one could ever know of the corruption that went along with it. Part of his motivation for helping Clive build the replica London was to get back at Bill for everything he did.
It's safe to say that his life basically revolves around his work, and he will go to any length to assure that it can be completed. While he was helping with the construction of the replica London, he also was able to go back to his work on the time machine. Rather than striving to create a time machine to help everyone, he was now creating it in order to save Claire. He is wracked with guilt over what happened, and holds himself responsible for her death because he was not able to stop Bill in time. In order to make the time machine successful, he went so far as to kidnap scientists from around the world to help him construct it, threatening to hold them hostage in the "future" until the project is complete. When he eventually discovered that Claire was in fact actually shot into the future but was not completely stable, he only got more frantic to finish the time machine. He became so consumed by his work that he completely shut out Claire's pleas to stop trying to tamper with time. It becomes less about saving Claire and more about proving to himself that he can make this happen.
Despite his apparent hostility and manipulative nature, Dimitri is not a violent man. He won't resort to actually endangering anyone's life, aside from perhaps his own. It's true that he did kidnap and threaten many people, but he never once resorted to violence. A prime example of this was when he revealed his entire plot to Layton and Co. at the Thames Arms, he told them he had laced the entire restaurant with explosives and if they made the wrong move, the building would explode and kill them. In reality, there were no explosives and he never intended to hurt anyone. He simply wanted to stall them to make a getaway. And although he hates Bill for what he did, he likely would've never hurt the man. He just wanted him to own up to his wrongdoings, and because he knew he wouldn't, he wanted to go back in the past and take everything from him.
Dimitri's intelligence also deserves mention in this section, although it will be brought up again in the strengths section. The man is a genius, and he certainly shows it in the story. For one, he's trying to do the impossible: create a way to travel through time. It requires a lot of intelligence and talent to pull off, and if he could, he would probably try to do it all by himself. But he knew he couldn't, and so that's why he teamed up with Clive to concoct a convoluted plan to create a future London, complete with a tyrannical leader and mafia to tie it all together and keep all of the "residents" in check. He prefers to stay two steps ahead of everyone, always ready with a backup trump card in case something doesn't go completely according to plan. Like many characters in the Layton universe, Dimitri is extremely skilled with puzzles and uses that to his advantage to slow Layton and Co. down. He even used a puzzle as a trap to read Layton's memories and gain the last important piece of important information he needed to create a wormhole in time, from where he would emerge and save Claire in the past.
All that said, Dimitri would have likely been a completely different person if that fateful explosion didn't happen. As Claire states at the very end of the game, no one can escape their fate, and trying to tamper with time only creates more suffering. However, Dimitri has yet to come to his senses on that matter from the canonpoint I have taken him from.
Strengths/Weaknesses:
Strengths
He's very intelligent. Of course being a space-time physicist requires intelligence, but Dimitri is really smart. Not only has he been working on trying to punch holes in time, but he also is able to plan schemes of immense proportions. He was able to recreate London so well, that everyone who was kidnapped and placed in there really did think they had found themselves in a future London. And when in the event that something goes wrong with his plans, he has plenty of backup ideas.
He has strong determination. He spent years recreating a lifelike future London setting and kidnapped many scientists in attempt to create a working time machine, ALL to prevent one woman from dying ten years in the past. It's safe to say he'll go to extreme lengths for his goals, and for those he deeply cares about.
He's a good actor. He uses multiple disguises in the story, such as Dr. Alain Stahngun, a scientist who apparently created a working time machine, although that was a ruse to kidnap the Prime Minister. He also disguises himself as the future Hershel Layton, tyrannical ruler of future London. Creating the Layton character was especially useful. Rather than coming out and claiming himself to be the creator of this future London and the one funding the time machine project, he was able to hide amongst the other scientists and work on the time machine while "Layton" did all the leading.
Weaknesses
He's blinded by his pride and obsession. His determination can also be seen as a weakness. The further he goes along with his plans, the more caught up he gets in it all, ignoring the fact that he is forcing people to live in fear of never seeing their families again and the fact that he is putting his life at risk to travel back in time. His time machine project becomes less about saving Claire and more about proving to himself that he can actually do it. So in other words, he thinks he's capable of anything he sets his mind to, and no one can prevent him from thinking otherwise. Going along those lines, you could say he has a hard time admitting defeat.
He's also far too caught up in the past. He knows how impossible it is to save Claire with the time he has, but he absolutely refuses to give up hope. He can't accept that he couldn't save her, and that's where the above point comes in. He's also fueled by his hatred for Bill Hawks, the man that ruined his life and killed Claire due to his greed. He wants to make this time machine work not just because it'll save Claire, but he could ruin Bill's life in the process and prevent him from becoming Prime Minister in the future.
It is perhaps because of all of this that he didn't realize that he himself was being played for a pawn in a grander scheme.
He might not get along so well with others. He doesn't exactly think much of others, and he has a habit of seeing most people as tools for manipulation than anything else. He might have a hard time dealing with the fact that he's starting out as an actual lackey in some unknown organization.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Team Rocket
Starter: Shuppet
Password: This is where you'll put the passwords from the Rules and the F.A.Q. There are two words, to assure you've read both.
Samples
First Person Sample:
[The feed opens up to a view of the shrine in Ilex Forest. Around the shrine are various books and papers. Whoever is visiting the shrine today seems to have been doing a bit of research...at least, that's the only conclusion one could come to.
Eventually, a soft voice comes from somewhere off-screen. The feed continues to focus on the shrine, where a Shuppet can be seen floating around it.]
It is rumored that the mythical Pokemon Celebi resides within this shrine. Celebi, the Pokemon that supposedly can travel through time...
[There is a slight pause before he continues. Gradually, a sense of desperation builds in his tone.]
It's fascinating. From what my research has unveiled, there is no evidence of an attempt at creating a time machine in this world. Given the miraculous abilities of Pokemon, that could only mean that this Celebi could be creating wormholes all on its own, wherever in time that it pleases. But how? How is such a feat possible? Imagine how beneficial for us all it would be if we were able to tap into Celebi's abilities!
[Realizing that he's gotten a bit too excited, he takes a moment to calm down.]
What I would give to see this Pokemon myself... But even then, would it be willing to share its secrets with me?
Hm. I wonder.
Third Person Sample:
It was another quiet evening in the Goldenrod Headquarters, and Dimitri had retired to his room early that night. As he eased into his less than comfortable desk, he allowed his chin to rest on his hands. He then glanced down at the journal on his desk and began to think. He had other things on his mind; things that had prevented him from focusing on his Rocket work for a few days now. It had been almost a month since his arrival in Johto, and for the umpteenth time, he reflected on what he left behind back in his own world and his current standing in this one.
When he awoke in Johto one month ago, he, well...had mixed feelings on the matter. It was a cross between utter amazement and rage. Amazement at how he had somehow wound up in a world he had never heard of. He had crossed space and possibly time, and he had no way of knowing how whoever abducted him had managed to pull it off. It took some time to fully accept that, but he had no choice but to. Rage at the fact that he was abducted before he could complete his time machine and in turn, make his goal of ten long years into a reality. There was no possibility of bringing Claire back on his own at this point, since crossing time and traveling through space is another matter entirely. All of his resources were back in London anyway. He would most likely have to postpone his work once again, and that was the harder thing to accept. In fact, he still hadn't completely accepted it. Why was it every time that he was so close to achieving his goals that something had to tear everything out from under him?
Then, of course, there was Team Rocket, the organization that welcomed him with open arms upon his arrival. He had a sneaking suspicion that they may have been the ones who took him away from his work, and his dreams. That was the very reason he decided to stick around. He didn't care how long it took; he was going to find out how they pulled him from his own world. If he could somehow access the technology, he could return himself to his own time and place. Perhaps it would even have the missing pieces to the puzzle of his own time machine.
It was at that moment that he pulled out a pen from his drawer and wrote a new entry in his journal. It was short, sweet, and to the point. He had to make this official to himself:
I will never stop searching for a way home. Claire needs me, and I must not give up for her sake.