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[cognitivus]

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Wrench | Fargo TV

[wwrench]

Player Name: Andie
Contact: stickyholograms

Character Name: Wrench
Canon: Fargo TV
Starting Canonpoint: I'm toying with a few different options if I go this route, so I'd welcome any input. Possibilities include:

S01E06
Wrench and his partner Numbers have just faced off against rival hitman Lorne Malvo. Numbers is dead, but Wrench doesn't know it yet. He's been hospitalized under police surveillance after being shot in the abdomen by a police officer. I am thinking in this version I would deviate from canon and the cluster would be the ones to help him escape from the hospital. He'd never have the encounter with the rival hitman who clues him into his partner's death, so he'd likely still be desperately searching for Numbers for some time.

S01E08
Another possibility is that I start him following his escape from the hospital, aided by the rival hitman who killed Numbers and obliterated the entire syndicate. Wrench would now know that his lifelong partner and everyone in his syndicate are dead and he's entirely on his own. He'd also be recovering from a gunshot wound and trying to find a safe place to post up, heal, and deal with the annihilation of his entire way of life. Fun times.

S03E10
Here's Wrench skipped ahead five years. He's been captured once and was bound for prison, but managed to escape and is now on the run from the US Marshals. This Wrench is 10 years post-syndicate and he's far more feral. Dude's been largely underground for nearly a decade, subsisting almost entirely on his own. He's probably not had much in the way of a conversation with anyone in the last half-decade, so he's primed to have his world rocked by connection of any kind.

Skills / Powers:
Wrench is, first and foremost, a survivor. He was raised by a mob boss and spent ample time working as a contract killer, which has given him a proficiency with a wide variety of ranged weapons. He's an excellent shot and can wield hatchets, axes, and tomahawks with similar brutality. At the end of his canon he's spent five years evading capture by the US Marshals, subsisting on what he's been able to hunt, forage, and construct with his own hands. Wrench is able to move among people without being noticed and stalk his prey, whether that's human or animal. And he knows how to do all of this without leaving a trace of himself behind. He can police his brass after a firefight and gut big game without wasting the offal. Wrench is also fluent in American Sign Language and English. He's a proficient speech reader (which is admittedly less proficient than most hearing assume), but will make every effort to hide that fact from others. Nevertheless, he's a man with a keen eye, adept at reading even the slightest microexpression. Perhaps most advantageous, he's a man with no concrete identity who is neither known nor missed by society at large.

Also, while Wrench is technically a squishy human, the Fargo canon generously incorporates elements of the supernatural throughout each of its seasons. Additionally, if I take him from S3 canonpoint, Wrench himself has had at least one direct encounter with an immortal being, and was subsequently granted his life back. This experience has been interpreted as a linchpin moment in his characterization, and the point at which he became something of an avenging angel figure. As such (and supported by his grooming from childhood), Wrench is more resilient than average. He requires significantly less sleep than the average person and can subsist on very little food and water — levels that would induce starvation in most. He's also quite a bit more resilient, and can heal from injuries other people would succumb to.

Flaws:
Strong "everyone I have ever loved is dead" vibes around this one. If the canonpoint I pull him from includes his awareness that Numbers is dead, that will come with extreme guilt. Numbers wanted to finish the job and go the hell home, and it was Wrench who insisted on gathering more information. Their pursuit of that ultimately led to Numbers' death. He's also really susceptible to letting himself become the henchman in someone else's plan. Wrench was groomed from a young age to kill at another man's behest, so he's already gone through all the mental gymnastics that allow a person to do that. He's essentially rudderless without a mission and a person controlling and guiding that mission. He's got no clue how to live for himself. Worse yet, he's been trained that needing, wanting, or enjoying things are all weaknesses that other people can use to manipulate you, so he's terminally un-fun.

Themes & Desires:
Please help this man experience emotions. Teach him that it's okay to want and to like things. Wrench is a murderer who has tortured people to elicit confessions and desecrated their corpses to hide their identities. He will likely try to hide this, and be horrified at the first sign that he's not capable of concealing it from his cluster. I'm not big on the idea of a redemption arc because that seems too tidy, but anyone who wants to talk about the complexities of the human condition is A+. He's also Deaf. I haven't completely decided yet how I'd like to handle that in the midst of all this sensating, but I know it's a big thing. I know that I'm not interested in every sensate experience that he has in another person's world inherently coming with their ability to hear transposed onto him, but I'm not averse to playing around with it a few times when the moment is right. Inversely I am very okay with other characters experiencing his deafness when they are sensating in his body.

Canonpoints To AU:

• His partner Numbers' death. They had gotten separated in a whiteout snowstorm and Wrench was shot while Numbers was dying elsewhere.

• His escape from the hospital following this shooting.

• S03 re-introduces Wrench on a prison transport bus, which is subsequently run off the road and boarded by men looking to kill his seatmate. He's chained to said seatmate and they escape into the woods while being stalked and pursued by the henchmen.

• Wrench is mortally wounded as a result of this and the two find their way into a bowling alley intended to serve as a manifestation of purgatory. In the bowling alley he encounters an immortal being who explains that Wrench's life has been spared.

Anything Else?:

[cognitivus]

me 🤝 you
copying shit over from the gpsl because we're lazy

[wwrench]

Busted.

Genuinely didn't even re-read it. I'm just out here hoping for the best.

[cognitivus]

same fuckin hat man

[wwrench]

Look at us, dude. We're already sensating~

[cognitivus]

ahahahaha

[aperturesubject0001]

wait sorry I'm

In the bowling alley he encounters an immortal being who explains that Wrench's life has been spared.

[wwrench]

Ahahaha, there I go not marking spoilers but YEP.

[aperturesubject0001]

I just wasn't expecting sudden magical realism in my slightly-absurdist crime drama!

[wwrench]

Oh yeah, they sort of toyed around with Malvo as a supernatural force in S1 and then went full-on alien spaceship in S2. It's definitely not a main theme, but there's a strong undercurrent there.