FLYNN, Atticus

Atticus Lorendale Flynn

20

Male

United States

At about 5"5' and 110 lbs, Atticus is a small guy. He's got more strength than you'd think in the real world, but that still doesn't add up to much. In this world, however, size doesn't really matter! He favors heavy armor and prefers to tank the attacks of his enemies.

The user brings the sword to their side to activate the art and jumps forward while slashing horizontally outwards. The glow is red.

The user points the sword behind them to activate the art and swings the sword in a full vertical arc while taking a step forward. The glow is red.

Positive:
- Daring
- Honest
- Loyal
- Adventurous
- Long-Fused

Negative:
- Reckless
- Sacrificing
- Gullible
- Naive
- Explosive (when he gets angry, he lets it all out)

Atticus had a very sheltered childhood, having gone to a private elementary school. His formative years were very safe and loving. He was always very curious, though, and he loved to climb things or take them apart. He had gotten hurt more than once climbing chairs or window sills or even an exercise bike when he was very young. He had dismantled a chair and put it back together. He once crawled out the front door in his birthday suit and made his way across the street to his neighbor’s house. Luckily for him he was returned unharmed. These kinds of shenanigans more or less stopped once he entered elementary school. From then on, his adventurous side shrank to a smolder.

His teenage years weren’t all that great at first. He was a very small guy, and pretty nerdy, so he was regularly bullied for his first year of middle school. It was a rough transition, but moving from a private elementary to a public middle school is bound to be rocky. He always daydreamed about adventure or monter-slaying, but resigned himself to reality. He would have taken up sword fighting it wasn’t pointless and dangerous. He tried fencing for a bit, lost interest soon enough. As he entered high school, he became more social, gradually gaining friends. His interest in the medieval still lingered in his mind, but again, he resigned to reality, and retreated into computers, manga, and anime in order to live out his adventurous fantasies.

Atticus had hardly ventured into his adulthood, having only started college. With a small taste of freedom and independence, Atticus decided that he could try to live out his fantasies by buying the new virtual reality system.

Atticus was taken aback by the revelation that he and several thousand other people were trapped in this game. At first he was afraid and worried about his family and his real body’s health. Then he quickly grew accustomed to the reality of his situation. He realized that he could finally live out his dream of adventuring and slaying monsters! He could be a hero! He could be an adventurer!

It’s strange that being an adventurer was more important to him than being a hero, but going out into the world, discovering new places, finding artifacts, slaying monsters, saving people. These were all things that adventurers can do! Heroes? All they can do are the last two! Being an adventurer was so much more! It was freedom! Heroes are bound to their duties while adventurers can do what they like! Not to say that Atticus didn’t want to be a hero! No, he felt it was a hero’s duty to save people, but he wouldn’t lose his title if he chose not to! A hero would lose his title!
He wanted freedom! Adventure! Spirit!