Raymond Leon [Timekeeper, In-Time] (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
notgoingback) wrote2012-02-11 01:14 pm
notgoingback) wrote2012-02-11 01:14 pm
I concern myself with only what I can measure. Minutes, Seconds, and Hours.
User Name/Nick: Ramen.
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E-mail: carolynpoddig@gmail.com
Other Characters: Mark Hoffman, Carla Renaldi, Jerry Dandridge
Character Name: Timekeeper Leon, Raymond [ID 6001]
Series: In-Time (Movie)
Age: Age in In-Time is difficult to quantify. Ray looks like he's 26-27 (aged prematurely due to his location-and by prematurely we mean a couple of years as opposed to extensive wrinkles/wrinkling.) He is in fact 65 years old having lived the first twenty years in the Daytona Ghetto just outside of what was the greater Los Angeles Area (specifically Orange County) and then another fifty on the job working within the Greenwich Time Zone.
So, physical age, 25. Mental Age, 65.
From When?: Just after his internal clock or Apros Mechanism Timed Out, stopping his heart and killing him.
Inmate/Warden: Inmate. He is a man consumed by the system and doesn't see any way out of following it's wishes despite the system being fundamentally flawed. He relies on it due to a lack of personal development-he sees it as his only way out of a far more dangerous system. He has very little empathy for other human beings which-depending on the nature of the situation could either be an asset or a flaw.
Despite all of this, he is fundamentally loyal-behaves himself and is not corrupted. He knows his purpose in life and knows what he had to do to get that purpose and will not compromise that-without the help of a warden.
Item: [N/A]
Abilities/Powers: Raymond Leon is a genetically engineered human being born of two genetically engineered human beings who had the Clotho Gene or the "Aging" Gene turned off. Having progressed to being a natural biological process-he is immune to most diseases the biggest including cancer and the common cold. (However there's no chance of that coming up in game. It bears mentioning.) The only thing he is susceptible to is direct attack. (He is by no means invincible.)
Leon however has a genetic stunt put into his body, a collection of genes that act as a pacemaker and stop his heart if they run out of "time" or more genes that can keep somebody going. On the barge, they have been moved into a state of stasis. The count-down clock on his arm is perpetually set at one day. When he leaves the barge (as he won't be staying as a warden) He'll have a day to get enough time back and begin to eventually (hopefully) change the system. He is a literal example of time stopping.
Personality:
A few random notes about the personalities and nature of "In Time" and it's universe
Raymond Leon is a no-nonsense by the book investigator who is a skilled observer of people despite having no real connection to anyone. Humanity doesn't have the time for solid and concrete connections to people because human beings are constantly pursuing the furtherance of their own lives. Raymond Leon grew up in this world and because of it might have difficulty relating to people who don't constantly have their own mortality on their mind. Relating to people, friendships with people are for people who are rich not for people who are poor who have to focus on living day-to-day.
The problem is that people who live day-to-day get stuck in trying to continue their lives. They are stuck in survival mode and Ray is no exception. What differentiates him from others is the fact that his desire extended to breaking out of the common mold of thinking in day-to-day means. He saw that the only way to survive was to cast off his relationships and protect himself physically which meant getting out of the ghetto. That is his greatest secret. He gave up his right to individuality in favor of protecting his physical persons versus other people who might want to do him harm seeing that physicality is the only thing that kept him alive.
That denotes an incredible sense of selfishness. He did not chose to be a time keeper for a noble purpose or even a misguided sense of nobility and a desire to become a hero. He joined with the system to get away from people who would do him physical harm-not because he made any more money but because it protected him from the daily physical onslaught of people who live in the Ghetto. Enough time has passed for him to appreciate the system that keeps the lower masses, the riff raff in a constant struggle for survival and allows a few people to survive. While there are moments where he might give up on humanity as a whole he has been on the job long enough (as he says, He has given fifty years to the job)
He sees the idea that anything that prevents people from mass slaughter, as unregulated time going to the districts would be, is something that needs to be prevented. Ironically he has found purpose and a sense of nobility - in serving a corrupt system. He learned to value human life outside of himself in preserving the system-keeping people from physical harm simply by keeping the system going and keeping time moving through the ghetto. The downside is that rather then support the masses as a regular police officer would he supports the one percent because he sees that they are the ones who keep the system running and thereby keep the world functioning preventing greater harm and riots from occurring.
So in all honesty, what began as a selfish decision eventually became a decision that is motivated by good-he has no desire to see people suffer on a grand and global scale which will occur if the system stops (in his mind). He could provide order to chaos and perhaps spearhead a movement where people turn the Clotho gene back on if they so desire it, or at least he could regulate Will Salas's unregulated crime spree if given a chance. Were he rehabilitated he would be able to provide a steadying hand to unorganized chaos and anarchy.
However, since his motivations are to preserve all life, he unfortunately works within a corrupt system and needs to be shown that he can break out of it without causing undue stress. That people can think for themselves and will not constantly be attacking others and that strict regulation in a top-heavy government system is not the way to go. He needs to learn about Justice beyond what he's read in books as a requirement for his education within the TimeKeeper Agency. At the end of the film, the police give up and go home saying that anarchy is spreading. Leon's presence and connection to actual justice could help them keep order and stop the spread of riots as eventually the world will descend into chaos and anarchy.
Ray's personal motivation aside in explaining his desire to help the system, another interesting personality trait is his mental age. People will age, they will grow old-they simply do not look old. The actors strove to put age into their performances. (This is particularly noted in Weis who played an 85 year old man despite looking 25). Ray has the mind of someone who is in his mid sixties and has been on the job for quite awhile. I liken him to the tough street cop we see in Law and Order serials. He's Lennie Briscoe, the guy who's seen it all without the personal problems. We see that in "The Minutes" as he doesn't talk about the specifics of his job and spends his time watching for people trading illicit time.
Raymond is not one for hobbies or wasting time. He is incredibly punctual and matter of fact about his behavior. Time is literally currency in his world so every second is very carefully measured. You can distinguish the rich from the poor easily because every move is slow and deliberate and no one runs because they have all of the time in the world to get where they need to go. Ray is paid on a day-to-day basis. He's used to moving slow and calculating how much he needs to do. It will take him some time to adjust to the barge and the notion that he does not need to run from day-to-day. A good warden will have to help him understand that fact. He has learned the value of a life. He has not learned the value of a day and what one person can do with it.
He is extremely cerebral, very analytical, and very focused. He does not feel he has time for fear or emotion and might be unaware of any changes (including graduation) depending on how it plays out for him. Chances are he'd do best with other people who work within systems and can serve as a cautionary reminder of what not to do when you put the power in the hands of a select few people. He can also serve as a reminder to people who don't know the value of a day or the value of their loved ones. He has relationships but thinks of them only to further his own time/job requirements.
Path to Redemption:
Raymond is a relatively simple rehabilitation for someone who can accept that he works within a system, respects that he works within a system, and then explain that sometimes the rules are made to be broken. He needs to be shown that the system which he dedicated his life to is flawed fundamentally and that while he has the right idea fundamentally he needs to accept that a system which glorifies the rich and puts the poor down.
He needs to re-learn faith in people and see a positive example of the system. Someone should put him to work studying basic police procedure or at least learning about justice. This will be important. He also needs to learn the importance of leisurely activities. Getting him to read these books and giving him activities that take time will teach him to slow down and not to measure people in terms of minutes and hours.
In short he needs to:
Make friends and develop leisure time. He needs to feel safe and secure so that he can understand relationships and see people as something beyond "quantity" or a seperate social class.
Once he sees people as individuals and is relaxed enough not to see them as enemies, he will come to the conclusion that they can be reasonable, Will was right, and he can go back and insist on a more orderly shake up of the system.
Ideally I would like him to regain some concept of justice because while he knows the term and has a vague idea it's not really solid. People are either good or bad (again with the things that he can quantify) he needs to learn the right terms for what he already knows about them.
History:
A brief history of the world of In-Time taking into account the short film "The Minutes" attached to the movie
Raymond Leon was born on July 18th in 2086 in the Daytona Ghetto. For the first twenty years of his life, like everyone else, he lived with the knowledge that when he turned twenty five his clock would start and he would have one more year left to live unless he could purchase more time. He worked in a data centered and at the local mission, storing all of his time on a portable counter and giving it to his mother, father, and younger brother and sister (a set of twins.)
When Raymond was twenty two his mother, father, and siblings were all timed out (robbed) by minutemen. In a world where burglary can be lethal, Raymond hid. He escaped the house and refused to go to the youth authority, working odd jobs and sleeping on the street waiting for his clock to start. When he was twenty four he encountered the Minutemen who killed his family again. He timed out one of them, fighting (the In-Time Equivalent of Arm wrestling) before the group was caught by two Time Keepers and shot and killed.
It is one thing to see someone timed out (the equivalent of robbed) another to see someone murdered. Ray fled to walk into another murder where he nearly expired-two men who were fighting and one drew a gun on the other. Believing that murder and the potential threat to his person was a bigger problem then the potential to be robbed or Timed Out (death was inevitable and would happen either way) he turned in three of the minutemen, leading two time keepers to their location. When they were locked down the lead Time Keeper offered Raymond an opportunity to take their entrance exam. He did and passed.
His clock started the year he started at the academy (everyone remembers when their clock starts). His comrades bought him a drink but he became increasingly aware that now he could be robbed and brutalized. It instilled within him a driving need to do better then everyone else in the hope that one day he would not have to worry about being robbed and timed out. No one knows about his past and he prefers to keep it that way. He devoted fifty years to the job-right up until he was about 30 and Harold Salas came into the picture.
Harold Salas was a fighter who gave away his time to others causing mass panic and riots in Daytona and Brighton-a second ghetto that the man travelled to during a particularly up-beat month. It was Harold Salas who drove home the idea that while he had taken the job to keep himself safe he genuinely did not want to see humanity destroyed. People kidnapped one another, raped, and even purposefully timed out others to get a part of Harold Salas's fortune. Part of the task force that apprehended him, he took a special pride in watching the man be timed out by order of the state. Causing undue chaos in the system was not to be tolerated-even if the system itself was flawed.
He continued working, growing more and more jaded and less and less human by the year until the movie took place.
Sample Journal Entry:
[There is a click, and then a young very familiar looking young man in a severe black suit with a trench coat. He looks very much like a matrix cosplayer.
If he knew of anyone who cosplayed. Or took the time to do so. People didn't have the time for pursuits like that. The young man straightens his hair before fixing his gaze at the camera.]
This is Time Keeper Leon, Badge Number 6001. I need to speak to whoever's in charge and require transport to Greenwich Time Zone.
[Businesslike and to the point, the camera clicks off.]
Sample RP:
Raymond was quite sure he timed out. He remembered sun and the very vivid heart pounding feeling of air in his lungs and his heart roaring in his ears. Then a momentary spark of fear before something punched him in the chest.
And then, with all haste, he awoke. Lying on his own bed in his room breathing heavily his clock glowing green and fixed steadily at one day. One damn day?
A person could do nothing in a day. Nothing but attempt to stop the inevitable spread of humanity from killing each other over time. Punch the clock, deposit perdium, pay the rent maybe take the time for food before counting away the seconds in your head and listing the hours and the things you had to do. Paperwork, supervise patrols, sideline glance at the up-and-coming recruits who wanted to serve and protect.
He died. He timed out. He remembered falling uselessly to the ground like a puppet with his strings being cut. Your sight was the first to go, your hearing was the last and the world had ended in a spastic frightening roar and he was lying on his bed with one day left.
Except it wasn't counting down.
He did a quick inventory of his room and found his gun was missing but his identification, uniform, clothing, all in place folded neatly ready to grab with the utmost haste. His personal bathroom seemed to be missing.
He glanced around. No effects. Nothing but the odd black box that had been left on his desk amid neatly folded paperwork and his digital catalogue. His job afforded little time for leisure and he liked looking for things to do to make it go easier. That was what got him promoted. That was what made people think he was their friend.
All of that gone because he was sure-quite sure-that he had died and been left on a desert road for one of the roaming cleaning crews to come up and take away to the disposal vats.
He hesitated and reminded himself that whatever had happened he needed that information now. The odd stiff feeling in his arm would not go away. He wanted to press his hand over his heart and check to make sure it was working. He did not. He did not have the time to wonder at his medical state.
He pressed the "on" button of the device, gave it a once over and began to speak.
Special Notes:
User DW: blackswanevent.on.dreamwidth
AIM/IM: bubblegumofficer
E-mail: carolynpoddig@gmail.com
Other Characters: Mark Hoffman, Carla Renaldi, Jerry Dandridge
Character Name: Timekeeper Leon, Raymond [ID 6001]
Series: In-Time (Movie)
Age: Age in In-Time is difficult to quantify. Ray looks like he's 26-27 (aged prematurely due to his location-and by prematurely we mean a couple of years as opposed to extensive wrinkles/wrinkling.) He is in fact 65 years old having lived the first twenty years in the Daytona Ghetto just outside of what was the greater Los Angeles Area (specifically Orange County) and then another fifty on the job working within the Greenwich Time Zone.
So, physical age, 25. Mental Age, 65.
From When?: Just after his internal clock or Apros Mechanism Timed Out, stopping his heart and killing him.
Inmate/Warden: Inmate. He is a man consumed by the system and doesn't see any way out of following it's wishes despite the system being fundamentally flawed. He relies on it due to a lack of personal development-he sees it as his only way out of a far more dangerous system. He has very little empathy for other human beings which-depending on the nature of the situation could either be an asset or a flaw.
Despite all of this, he is fundamentally loyal-behaves himself and is not corrupted. He knows his purpose in life and knows what he had to do to get that purpose and will not compromise that-without the help of a warden.
Item: [N/A]
Abilities/Powers: Raymond Leon is a genetically engineered human being born of two genetically engineered human beings who had the Clotho Gene or the "Aging" Gene turned off. Having progressed to being a natural biological process-he is immune to most diseases the biggest including cancer and the common cold. (However there's no chance of that coming up in game. It bears mentioning.) The only thing he is susceptible to is direct attack. (He is by no means invincible.)
Leon however has a genetic stunt put into his body, a collection of genes that act as a pacemaker and stop his heart if they run out of "time" or more genes that can keep somebody going. On the barge, they have been moved into a state of stasis. The count-down clock on his arm is perpetually set at one day. When he leaves the barge (as he won't be staying as a warden) He'll have a day to get enough time back and begin to eventually (hopefully) change the system. He is a literal example of time stopping.
Personality:
A few random notes about the personalities and nature of "In Time" and it's universe
Raymond Leon is a no-nonsense by the book investigator who is a skilled observer of people despite having no real connection to anyone. Humanity doesn't have the time for solid and concrete connections to people because human beings are constantly pursuing the furtherance of their own lives. Raymond Leon grew up in this world and because of it might have difficulty relating to people who don't constantly have their own mortality on their mind. Relating to people, friendships with people are for people who are rich not for people who are poor who have to focus on living day-to-day.
The problem is that people who live day-to-day get stuck in trying to continue their lives. They are stuck in survival mode and Ray is no exception. What differentiates him from others is the fact that his desire extended to breaking out of the common mold of thinking in day-to-day means. He saw that the only way to survive was to cast off his relationships and protect himself physically which meant getting out of the ghetto. That is his greatest secret. He gave up his right to individuality in favor of protecting his physical persons versus other people who might want to do him harm seeing that physicality is the only thing that kept him alive.
That denotes an incredible sense of selfishness. He did not chose to be a time keeper for a noble purpose or even a misguided sense of nobility and a desire to become a hero. He joined with the system to get away from people who would do him physical harm-not because he made any more money but because it protected him from the daily physical onslaught of people who live in the Ghetto. Enough time has passed for him to appreciate the system that keeps the lower masses, the riff raff in a constant struggle for survival and allows a few people to survive. While there are moments where he might give up on humanity as a whole he has been on the job long enough (as he says, He has given fifty years to the job)
He sees the idea that anything that prevents people from mass slaughter, as unregulated time going to the districts would be, is something that needs to be prevented. Ironically he has found purpose and a sense of nobility - in serving a corrupt system. He learned to value human life outside of himself in preserving the system-keeping people from physical harm simply by keeping the system going and keeping time moving through the ghetto. The downside is that rather then support the masses as a regular police officer would he supports the one percent because he sees that they are the ones who keep the system running and thereby keep the world functioning preventing greater harm and riots from occurring.
So in all honesty, what began as a selfish decision eventually became a decision that is motivated by good-he has no desire to see people suffer on a grand and global scale which will occur if the system stops (in his mind). He could provide order to chaos and perhaps spearhead a movement where people turn the Clotho gene back on if they so desire it, or at least he could regulate Will Salas's unregulated crime spree if given a chance. Were he rehabilitated he would be able to provide a steadying hand to unorganized chaos and anarchy.
However, since his motivations are to preserve all life, he unfortunately works within a corrupt system and needs to be shown that he can break out of it without causing undue stress. That people can think for themselves and will not constantly be attacking others and that strict regulation in a top-heavy government system is not the way to go. He needs to learn about Justice beyond what he's read in books as a requirement for his education within the TimeKeeper Agency. At the end of the film, the police give up and go home saying that anarchy is spreading. Leon's presence and connection to actual justice could help them keep order and stop the spread of riots as eventually the world will descend into chaos and anarchy.
Ray's personal motivation aside in explaining his desire to help the system, another interesting personality trait is his mental age. People will age, they will grow old-they simply do not look old. The actors strove to put age into their performances. (This is particularly noted in Weis who played an 85 year old man despite looking 25). Ray has the mind of someone who is in his mid sixties and has been on the job for quite awhile. I liken him to the tough street cop we see in Law and Order serials. He's Lennie Briscoe, the guy who's seen it all without the personal problems. We see that in "The Minutes" as he doesn't talk about the specifics of his job and spends his time watching for people trading illicit time.
Raymond is not one for hobbies or wasting time. He is incredibly punctual and matter of fact about his behavior. Time is literally currency in his world so every second is very carefully measured. You can distinguish the rich from the poor easily because every move is slow and deliberate and no one runs because they have all of the time in the world to get where they need to go. Ray is paid on a day-to-day basis. He's used to moving slow and calculating how much he needs to do. It will take him some time to adjust to the barge and the notion that he does not need to run from day-to-day. A good warden will have to help him understand that fact. He has learned the value of a life. He has not learned the value of a day and what one person can do with it.
He is extremely cerebral, very analytical, and very focused. He does not feel he has time for fear or emotion and might be unaware of any changes (including graduation) depending on how it plays out for him. Chances are he'd do best with other people who work within systems and can serve as a cautionary reminder of what not to do when you put the power in the hands of a select few people. He can also serve as a reminder to people who don't know the value of a day or the value of their loved ones. He has relationships but thinks of them only to further his own time/job requirements.
Path to Redemption:
Raymond is a relatively simple rehabilitation for someone who can accept that he works within a system, respects that he works within a system, and then explain that sometimes the rules are made to be broken. He needs to be shown that the system which he dedicated his life to is flawed fundamentally and that while he has the right idea fundamentally he needs to accept that a system which glorifies the rich and puts the poor down.
He needs to re-learn faith in people and see a positive example of the system. Someone should put him to work studying basic police procedure or at least learning about justice. This will be important. He also needs to learn the importance of leisurely activities. Getting him to read these books and giving him activities that take time will teach him to slow down and not to measure people in terms of minutes and hours.
In short he needs to:
Make friends and develop leisure time. He needs to feel safe and secure so that he can understand relationships and see people as something beyond "quantity" or a seperate social class.
Once he sees people as individuals and is relaxed enough not to see them as enemies, he will come to the conclusion that they can be reasonable, Will was right, and he can go back and insist on a more orderly shake up of the system.
Ideally I would like him to regain some concept of justice because while he knows the term and has a vague idea it's not really solid. People are either good or bad (again with the things that he can quantify) he needs to learn the right terms for what he already knows about them.
History:
A brief history of the world of In-Time taking into account the short film "The Minutes" attached to the movie
Raymond Leon was born on July 18th in 2086 in the Daytona Ghetto. For the first twenty years of his life, like everyone else, he lived with the knowledge that when he turned twenty five his clock would start and he would have one more year left to live unless he could purchase more time. He worked in a data centered and at the local mission, storing all of his time on a portable counter and giving it to his mother, father, and younger brother and sister (a set of twins.)
When Raymond was twenty two his mother, father, and siblings were all timed out (robbed) by minutemen. In a world where burglary can be lethal, Raymond hid. He escaped the house and refused to go to the youth authority, working odd jobs and sleeping on the street waiting for his clock to start. When he was twenty four he encountered the Minutemen who killed his family again. He timed out one of them, fighting (the In-Time Equivalent of Arm wrestling) before the group was caught by two Time Keepers and shot and killed.
It is one thing to see someone timed out (the equivalent of robbed) another to see someone murdered. Ray fled to walk into another murder where he nearly expired-two men who were fighting and one drew a gun on the other. Believing that murder and the potential threat to his person was a bigger problem then the potential to be robbed or Timed Out (death was inevitable and would happen either way) he turned in three of the minutemen, leading two time keepers to their location. When they were locked down the lead Time Keeper offered Raymond an opportunity to take their entrance exam. He did and passed.
His clock started the year he started at the academy (everyone remembers when their clock starts). His comrades bought him a drink but he became increasingly aware that now he could be robbed and brutalized. It instilled within him a driving need to do better then everyone else in the hope that one day he would not have to worry about being robbed and timed out. No one knows about his past and he prefers to keep it that way. He devoted fifty years to the job-right up until he was about 30 and Harold Salas came into the picture.
Harold Salas was a fighter who gave away his time to others causing mass panic and riots in Daytona and Brighton-a second ghetto that the man travelled to during a particularly up-beat month. It was Harold Salas who drove home the idea that while he had taken the job to keep himself safe he genuinely did not want to see humanity destroyed. People kidnapped one another, raped, and even purposefully timed out others to get a part of Harold Salas's fortune. Part of the task force that apprehended him, he took a special pride in watching the man be timed out by order of the state. Causing undue chaos in the system was not to be tolerated-even if the system itself was flawed.
He continued working, growing more and more jaded and less and less human by the year until the movie took place.
Sample Journal Entry:
[There is a click, and then a young very familiar looking young man in a severe black suit with a trench coat. He looks very much like a matrix cosplayer.
If he knew of anyone who cosplayed. Or took the time to do so. People didn't have the time for pursuits like that. The young man straightens his hair before fixing his gaze at the camera.]
This is Time Keeper Leon, Badge Number 6001. I need to speak to whoever's in charge and require transport to Greenwich Time Zone.
[Businesslike and to the point, the camera clicks off.]
Sample RP:
Raymond was quite sure he timed out. He remembered sun and the very vivid heart pounding feeling of air in his lungs and his heart roaring in his ears. Then a momentary spark of fear before something punched him in the chest.
And then, with all haste, he awoke. Lying on his own bed in his room breathing heavily his clock glowing green and fixed steadily at one day. One damn day?
A person could do nothing in a day. Nothing but attempt to stop the inevitable spread of humanity from killing each other over time. Punch the clock, deposit perdium, pay the rent maybe take the time for food before counting away the seconds in your head and listing the hours and the things you had to do. Paperwork, supervise patrols, sideline glance at the up-and-coming recruits who wanted to serve and protect.
He died. He timed out. He remembered falling uselessly to the ground like a puppet with his strings being cut. Your sight was the first to go, your hearing was the last and the world had ended in a spastic frightening roar and he was lying on his bed with one day left.
Except it wasn't counting down.
He did a quick inventory of his room and found his gun was missing but his identification, uniform, clothing, all in place folded neatly ready to grab with the utmost haste. His personal bathroom seemed to be missing.
He glanced around. No effects. Nothing but the odd black box that had been left on his desk amid neatly folded paperwork and his digital catalogue. His job afforded little time for leisure and he liked looking for things to do to make it go easier. That was what got him promoted. That was what made people think he was their friend.
All of that gone because he was sure-quite sure-that he had died and been left on a desert road for one of the roaming cleaning crews to come up and take away to the disposal vats.
He hesitated and reminded himself that whatever had happened he needed that information now. The odd stiff feeling in his arm would not go away. He wanted to press his hand over his heart and check to make sure it was working. He did not. He did not have the time to wonder at his medical state.
He pressed the "on" button of the device, gave it a once over and began to speak.
Special Notes: