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Re: Ambrose | Tin Man 2/?

[wholeheaded]

C H A R A C T E R; (NOTE: this app is partly scavenged from this one and this one.)
NAME: Ambrose "Glitch" Langwe (his surname is 100% made up)
CANON: Tin Man
POINT IN CANON: two years (or annuals, to use Ozian phrasing) post-canon
AGE: roughly 45
APPEARANCE: Ladies. Fellas. People. Ambrose is 5'10" and has a slender dancer's build, with pale skin, brown eyes, and curly dark brown hair that is noticeably turning silver. Of note there is a metal zipper on his head, starting at the center of his hairline and running to the back of his skull. His fashion sense is a bit eccentric by 21st-century standards; expect a lot of waistcoats, embroidery, and the occasional ascot. He likes basic black, earth tones, and dark reds.

CANON HISTORY:
As his pre-canon history is sketchy, I've tossed in some generally accepted fanon and bits of headcanon to flesh it out a bit. More detailed canon info can be located at Wikipedia. And since the wiki entry is awful, I'll elaborate:

Once upon a time Ambrose was chief adviser to the Queen of the Outer Zone and had a reputation for being the smartest man in the land. While he dabbled in several areas he was primarily an inventor, and he designed many creations for the people of the O.Z. He was very close to the royal family, and the Queen thought of him as a friend rather than just a member of her staff.

Then it all went wrong. The queen's eldest daughter became possessed by the spirit of an ancient Witch, her younger daughter was sent to the Otherside (aka Kansas) for protection, and civil war broke out when the Witch began to seize power. The queen and Ambrose were eventually captured, and Ambrose was ordered to give up his plans for the Sun Seeder, a machine allegedly intended to slow the suns and extend the growing season to help the famine-ravaged land.

The Witch, however, wanted to use the machine to bring eternal darkness to the Outer Zone. Even after extensive torture Ambrose refused to help her and so she had him headcased: removed part of his brain and sealed his skull closed with a zipper, a procedure usually performed on criminals to make them docile prisoners of their own minds. With the brain matter containing the plans in her possession the Witch had no more need for Ambrose and so sent him out to fend for himself.

Soon he forgot his real name and began calling himself Glitch, as that is what he did - forget things, repeat himself - and it seemed fitting. For years he wandered the land, until one day he met a girl looking for home, a man who'd lost his heart, and another in need of courage. Together the four of them set out on a quest to defeat the Witch, return the queen to her throne, stop the eternal darkness of the Double Eclipse, and along the way find out their missing were Within Them All Along.

...except the other half of Glitch's brain, of course, which was conveniently being kept alive in a jar in the Sorceress' tower.