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Player name: Shannon
Contact: bandakar@gmail.com ; plurk.com/black_angel_
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Character Information
Character Name: Seth Gecko
Canon: From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series
Canon Point: The end of season 1. Just after getting out of the Titty Twister.

History:

Seth Gecko was one of two boys born to Ray Gecko and an unnamed mother. Mother left soon after both boys were born, leaving Seth and his brother in the not so capable hands of their father. ( It's not entirely clear why she left as there's conflicting ideas from both Seth and Ray, but in the end, it doesn't really matter. What matters is that she's not there. ) Seth and his brother Richie suffered abuse from their alcoholic father, Seth more so than Richie ( hell Seth didn't even so much as get his own bedroom. Just a mattress in Richie's room ). It was then that Seth and Richie started taking care of each other. Richie would think up ways to do things ranging from something as simple as getting around their father to watch cartoons, to keeping their father off of Seth.

But then there was a horrific fire, one that Seth, for about two decades, believed was caused by their father falling asleep with a lit cigarette. The whole place went up in flames, taking Ray with it. Seth was pulled out of the fire by Richie.

Eventually, the boys take a shining to a life of crime. Bank robbers. Professional thieves. It’s fairly safe to assume that it was a life style choice inspired by the late Ray Gecko, as he was supposed to have been a criminal as well. Thirty five jobs they managed to pull off and no one could touch them. The Gecko brothers were really a force to be reckoned with.

Until they weren’t. Job number thirty six didn’t go quite as well as the rest and ended with Seth going to prison. While there he told stories, listened to stories, got himself into fights until he was visited by a man with a proposition for him. A job that would net them thirty million dollars and a chance at paradise. A place called El Rey where not only would the Geckos not have to look over their shoulders constantly, but where Richie could get the help that he needed, because he was a little unwell. It would only cost ten million. After a little convincing, Seth accepted.

The job was planned while Seth was still in prison, with his ex-wife Vanessa ( he’d been married sometime before going to prison, but they divorced. They just weren’t good together ). He wasn’t much good to the job there though. Richie broke him out during a prison transfer.

The bank job was supposed to go just as smoothly as the rest of their jobs ( the one that landed Seth in prison aside ). But it didn’t. Richie ended up knocking out the one man who knew the combination to the safe, and it was just all downhill from there. They got their money but not without tripping an alarm and then killing four rangers and two cops who tried to stop them.

And taking a lady teller hostage.

Made them more wanted than even the prison break had previously.

A pit stop on their way to Mexico, where they were meeting with Carlos to give him his cut of the thirty million, turned bad. A stop at a liquor store for a bathroom and a few provisions ended with a dead cashier and ranger, and the liquor store up in flames. While Seth was making a phone call to Carlos, something happened with Richie and he had a gun pulled on two girls and the cashier when Seth was finished. And he shot a ranger. And the Geckos ended up having a shoot out with the ranger’s partner. Basically, everything that possibly could have gone wrong, did.

They make another stop, this time at a place called the Dew Drop Inn. Seth left the lady hostage in the capable hands of his brother and left to grab them some food. He was also meeting with his ex-wife. Their plans had been to cross the border into Mexico together. He couldn’t be with Vanessa. They’d tried it before and it just didn’t work. Besides, he wouldn’t abandon his brother. When he met with her, he gave her four million dollars to stay away from him. It was safer if she stayed away.

A sequence of events that happened once Seth returned to the inn lead to the Geckos taking a father, and his son and daughter hostage to get them across the border into Mexico. Seth had returned to find that Richie had murdered the bank teller and they really had to leave. It didn’t help that the police and Freddie Gonzalez ( the ranger partner from the liquor store ) had showed up.

With the help of the Fullers, the Geckos got into Mexico. They headed straight for the Titty Twister, a place where they would be meeting Carlos to finish the deal. The Fullers had been told that if they did everything they were told, they’d be free once the Geckos got to where they were going. Change of plans though. They were to stick around until Seth got to meet with Carlos, even though he didn’t like the feel of the place and would have preferred to leave, himself. But Richie wanted to stay so they stayed.

Unfortunately.

It turned out that a lot of the people in that place weren’t people at all. They were some type of vampires. The people who were actually people? They were just there to serve as a meal. Richie was lead there by the voice in his head ( the voice belonging to Santanico Pandaemonium, some vampire goddess who was trapped there ), and Seth was, basically, manipulated into going there.

What appeared to be a strip club from the outside, was actually an ancient temple, and they were all trapped there. What was supposed to be a simple handing off of a large sum of money turned into spending the entire night fighting for their lives. Richie was shot and then dragged off by Santanico and Seth spent most of his time trying to find him, which happened to coincide with the Fullers trying to find their own missing brother.

Once Seth did find Richie ( the gun shot didn’t kill him. He was, however, turned into a vampire ) and what he thought was a way out, his actual presence in the temple finally became clear. It seemed that he was just as instrumental in freeing Santanico from her temple prison as Richie was. Along with Richie, he was to make his way through a labyrinth of his own memories to obtain something that would grant Santanico her freedom.

What the labyrinth chose was the job Seth failed, the one that landed him in prison. There were a few differences though. People he’d seen since then, that hadn’t been there originally. Of course there were vampires. Seth also encountered his father. He couldn’t leave until his father was satisfied with how quickly Seth assembled a handgun, something he’d apparently had to do quite a bit as a child.

It was there where he finally learned the truth about the fire that had killed his father. It was no accident. Richie had doused the man in lighter fluid. Seth didn’t want to believe it, but despite everything, their father had never been a liar.

Unlike the first time, and despite everything the labyrinth threw at him, Seth and Richie got what Santanico needed. It wasn’t enough though. Carlos wanted the money. All of it. And he took Richie to get it. Seth considered not giving it up. Because it was his money. He stole it. A little convincing from Santanico, though, got him to decide otherwise.

Besides, his brother was out there, even if Seth had seemingly given up on him. His brother was a monster.

Seth went to meet with Carlos, accompanied by a group of Santanico’s girls to get Richie back. Richie and Seth argue about about jobs they’d pulled in the past ( unbeknownst to those around them, they were discussing ways to get out of there ) before Richie attacked Seth, biting his neck. But they managed to get away and back to the Twister, without the money, unfortunately.

After witnessing a ritual between Santanico and Richie back at the Twister to allow Santanico her freedom, Seth turned his back on her brother, no longer wanting anything to do with him. Seth was finally done there. He may never actually be free of any of what happened there, but for the time being, he was free of the Titty Twister.

Kate Fuller, now just as alone in the world as he was, was standing out in the parking lot when he got outside. After a drawn out silence between them, Kate asked if he wanted any company. Accepting her offer, they both get into a car and leave the Titty Twister behind.

Personality:

One of the things that really stands out about Seth Gecko is his nearly unwavering love and devotion to his family and some sort of need to protect them. This is shown most in his relationship with his brother Richie. They are both all the other has, and Seth truly takes that to heart. He looks out for Richie, takes care of him. When the series starts, we learn that Seth is trying to get himself and Richie to a place called ‘El Rey’, a place that’s supposed to be like paradise. It’s a place that’s supposed to save his brother, and that’s what truly matters. Richie is a little mentally unwell from what Seth can see, and getting to ‘El Rey’ is supposed to be able to help, so even though Seth is sceptical of the existence of paradise, he’s ready to do what he has to, to get Richie there.

That isn’t to say that he’s blindly loving or devoted though. For as much praise as he throws Richie’s way ( he often speaks with pride about Richie’s talents especially in regards to bank robberies, even going as far as regaling hostages with tales of past glories ), there’s an equal amount of not so kind words, though it’s rarely said with actual malice. Particularly heated moments tend to come with Seth slinging words like ‘crazy’ or ‘whack job’ in Richie’s direction ( he will readily defend Richie’s sanity should anyone else try to say the same, though. Only he can say anything negative about his brother ). He sometimes speaks to Richie in a somewhat condescending manner, cuts him off a lot when he’s trying to speak if he doesn’t like what Richie’s saying, and will sometimes talk to him like a child. But, as previously states, he’s the only one who gets to do things like that. He snapped at his ex-wife when he found out she had a friend “head shrink” him while Seth was in prison. He beats down a man nearly twice his size in prison for simply saying things about how Richie had supposedly gone soft, about how he couldn’t handle a knife like he used to be able to. All after taking a fairly bad beating himself.

This nearly unwavering love and devotion to his family extends beyond just Richie. Seth feels the same for his father ( perhaps not quite to the extent that he does for Richie, but the feelings are still there ), a man who has proven he isn’t even really worth Seth’s time. As a child, with the house burning down around him and Richie trying to drag him outside, he wants to save his father, a man who has done terrible things to him, who has apparently cut him down at every turn. Richie seems to only care about getting himself and Seth out, but Seth wants to save their father. It could be argued that Seth was just a child and a child wanting to save a parent, even a parent that has so often hurt him isn’t exactly unheard of. But that didn’t exactly change even as Seth grew up. According to Richie, Seth gave their father a pass, despite everything he did. Because he was blood. He was family and that was all that mattered to Seth, really.

This want to protect people doesn’t just include his family. He takes to protecting Kate quite quickly. First from his brother then from everything else. It’s probably something that started out as him simply keeping his word to her, that if she and her family did everything he said, they’d walk away unharmed. But it evolved from there. If he was just keeping his word to a hostage, he probably wouldn’t have risked his own life to protect the Fullers, leaving relative safety to put his own life on the line for Kate and Jacob. Something like that goes far beyond the confines of their original relationship and a deal between a criminal and his hostages. They were a close family who looked out for each other and protected each other and they were fighting for the same things he was. It was an odd sort of connection that was formed between them, but it was there.

Seth also has a bit of a stubborn streak, for better or for worse. He can be a little hard headed. He gets an idea in his head of what he wants to do and it’s a little difficult to get him to change his mind. Because plans don’t change, that’s what he always says. Except over the course of the first season, plans do change from time to time. It’s usually his choice to change the plans though ( granted, sometimes his hand is forced, but regardless. Like with his ex-wife. The plan was for Seth and Richie to rob the bank, and Vanessa would cross with them. That was all part of her plan at least. But Seth gave her four million dollars to stay away. Crossing together was dangerous and he wouldn’t have it, which goes back to his propensity for protecting those he deems worth it ).

He also seems to prefer being in charge of whatever situation he finds himself in. That’s not to say that he won’t relinquish control of the situation should someone better suited for it present themselves, but for the most part, he’s in charge and he has no problem reminding people of that. It just seems that he feels better about things with a situation in capable hands, those hands usually being his own. One of the few times he does, in fact, relinquish control is just after the initial vampire attack. Scott has far more ideas about what they should be doing than anyone else. That means that Scott’s the right one to be handling things, right?

Seth also has a bit of a tendency to be a little smug, almost bordering on cocky sometimes. He can be shamelessly smug when things go his way, or how he expects them to go. Like the fact that the preacher’s daughter isn’t quite the pinnacle of innocence that one would expect her to be, or when Kate forgives him for the people he’s killed, who were trying to get between him and his freedom. ( He is no murderer, but he will kill if it’s deemed necessary. Honestly, he seems to prefer that no one gets hurt at all during the jobs he and his brother pull, but desperate times and all that )

He seems to believe in things that he can see and in his own experiences. He’s proven himself to be a bit of a sceptic from time to time. Like when Carlos comes to see him in prison and starts to tell him about ‘El Rey’, Seth tells him that it sounds like paradise, but he doesn’t believe in paradise. It’s not something that he’s ever seen or had the pleasure of experiencing. As Carlos says, paradise for men like Seth and Richie is not having to look over their shoulders, and as a professional thief, that’s something that Seth doesn’t really get to experience. Not looking over his shoulder, not being just a little paranoid could get him and his brother caught, after all. The same goes for the monsters in the temple. He doesn’t question their existence so much as he just accepts it. He’s seen them, touched them. He’s seen their fangs and that they tend to go for necks. It’s less about believing in the vampires, themselves, when he sees them and more about simply believing in his own eyes.

Items on your character at canon point: Seth quite literally left everything behind when he walked out of the Titty Twister. All he has with him is the suit that he's wearing, and a watch.

Abilities, Strengths and Weaknesses: Despite everything about this canon, Seth is still very much just a regular human with no supernatural abilities to speak of. He's a good shot with a gun as well as pretty quick with one most likely due to having a lot of practice with a gun ( starting from when he was a kid, if his projected memories in the labyrinth are to be believed ). He is also pretty decent in an old-fashioned, physical fight. He's fairly proficient in a fight. And it helps that he can take a beating, as well. He's pretty stubborn and just won't stay down even when he really should, which is also just as much of a strike against him. Stubbornly fighting back when he should concede has nearly been his downfall a few times, as it was with a group of vampires who saw fit to quite literally try to pull him apart.

It doesn't help that he jumps straight to physical violence when one of his own is threatened ( even if, in some cases, this comes in the form of a terrible comment directed at a hostage ). That somewhat protective nature is another thing that can be labelled as both a strength and weakness. He has shown time and time again that he will go out of his way to protect those he deems worth it ( even if it seems that it's against his better judgement, as is the case when he runs from safety out into a hallway full of monsters to help Kate and her father to safety ). But that also makes it something of a glaring weakness. His want to protect and save certain people can be used against him. It's what got him in this whole mess in the first place. It was the want to protect his brother, to save him, that made him agree to the bank robbery that got him mixed up with vampires in the first place.

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Network/Action Spam Sample: so just what DO you do after escaping from an ancient mayan titty bar?

Prose Log Sample: There was something about walking out that door, knowing that his brother wouldn't be following him. Not this time and maybe never again. It felt like a part of him was still back there, in the dark recesses of that temple, and wasn't it? Richie had been such a big part of him, a big part of his life since they were kids. Richie saved him from that fire when they were kids. Richie caused the fire, yes, but he didn't have to save Seth. He easily could have left Seth to burn with their family, separate himself completely from the Geckos and what it meant to be one. Richie saved Seth and in the end, Seth couldn't return the favour. He could put on a brave face, act like cutting Richie out of his life wasn't one of the most difficult things he'd done in the last twenty-four hours, but that was just it. He'd gone toe to toe with supernatural horrors that simply shouldn't have existed and yet leaving his brother behind was still just about the hardest thing he'd done.

It was easy to tell himself that what he left in there wasn't his brother, that his brother died hours ago, that is was just a monster wearing his brother's face, but a man could only lie to himself but so long. He saw Richie do terrible things, watched him rip a man's throat out with his own teeth ( the man may have only been a memory, a projection from the labyrinth, but that couldn't change the realty of the situation. Seth could tell him that it wasn't real, but he knew that it was. He could still vaguely feel the hands around his throat. He knew that if Pete had pulled the trigger, bye bye Seth Gecko. Seth knew the feel of a gun better than almost anything else, and that was definitely a real gun his father had held against his head ), and it made his skin crawl, but none of that mattered. His brother was still in there. In the temple and in the monster.

When Seth threw open the door of the Titty Twister and stepped out into the harsh Mexican sun, he thought for sure that it was feel like freedom but it didn't. It felt like... like guilt. Especially when he spotted Kate. He can't help but feel at least a little responsible for her even having been there in the first place. He used her and her family to cross the border and that was all he really needed them for. He could have let them go after that. Hell, he should have let them go after that. He'd told the Fullers that they would be walk away without any bumps or scrapes as long as they did what he said. And they did! They all played their assigned roles perfectly and yet he didn't manage to deliver on his end. They got him and his brother across the border like they were supposed to do. That was the agreed upon plan and plans weren't supposed to change. He'd always said that plans don't change, but he'd been changing them a lot lately. Seth made them stick around, wanted them as some kind of extra insurance that he didn't need, until he handed of Carlos' share of the bearer bonds. He should have let them go. Without him, without the inclusion of the Geckos in their lives, things may have played out exactly the same for the Fullers. Things might have gone exactly the same even if they hadn't accompanied Seth and Richie to the Titty Twister. Maybe they would have gotten there themselves somewhere. But with the way things played out, Seth can't help but feel a little responsible.

What in the hell was she even still doing there? If he'd been in her position, he would have been long gone from this place. At least he liked to think that he would have been.

And there he went. Probably just lying to himself again.