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Tig Trager (Sons of Anarchy)
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» NAME: Alexander "Tig" Trager
» FANDOM: Sons of Anarchy
» CANON POINT: End of season six.
» AGE: 48
» GENDER: Male
» ORIENTATION: Heterosexual
» COLLAR:
KINKS
» YES: There are very few limits to Tig. Seriously, this guy's open to almost literally anything. Ask!
» MAYBE: Homosexual sex; depends on the circumstances and who it's with etc.
» NO: I honestly can't think of a single thing to put here.
» PAIRING PREFERENCES: Tig should never be paired with anyone ever.
EXTENDED PROFILE
» APPEARANCE: Tig is 6'1, has curly black hair that's typically kept somewhere between his ears and his shoulders, and bright blue eyes. Having spent decades both as a mechanic and as the Sargent at Arms for the Sons of Anarchy, he has various cuts and scars over his body as well as the slightly weathered appearance of someone who's spent his years doing blue collar work. Though his facial hair changes, at the point I bring him in he sports a mustache, slight goatee and a bit of fuzz on his chin. His body is covered in tattoos, mostly related to the Sons of Anarchy, save one on his left forearm that reads "Death Before Dishonor" from his says as a Marine. He's well-built for a rough and tumble lifestyle; he has a decently sized frame and is well muscled from a life of violence and heavy lifting, and despite his age he seems to recover pretty quickly from his wounds and injuries.
» PERSONALITY: Tig Trager is a difficult man to sum up in a handful of paragraphs. For starters, he's a violent man with very few boundaries. He's depraved and feels absolutely no shame about it, bragging about enjoying sex with corpses and casually talking about slicing open the bellies of women to pour bleach inside them. He's depicted as a man who'll try just about anything once, a wild man with a death wish who not only can handle the violence required by his position in the club but as someone who actually enjoys it.
He's the club's go-to trigger man for that very reason; whatever dirty business they need done, so long as it's for the good of the club and the good of his brothers Tig's very unlikely to balk. He's been willing to execute a young, innocent woman for witnessing a crime that would land his brothers in jail though he was deeply remorseful of the perceived necessity and would have carried a weighted guilt with him had he actually done the deed. He's been willing to covertly murder a brother he thought had turned traitor simply because his closest friend and club president Clay ordered him to.
But that leads us to another side of Tig; when he fails to murder the would-be traitor, Opie, and accidentally murders his wife Donna instead, the guilt of what he's done weighs him down almost completely. He burns with the need to confess it to more than just Clay, to come clean to Opie especially when it comes out that he'd never turned traitor in the first place. One day while high he's seen sobbing and apologizing over and over, asking for forgiveness. It eats at him to the point where against Clay's orders he confesses the crime to Opie. He doesn't bother to defend himself when Opie beats him, doesn't think he's earned the right to. Tig's a man willing to take the lumps for his wrongs. He can take pain, especially pain he thinks he deserves. Because above all Tig is a protector. It's his job to take care of his own, and when he fails to do that no one's harder on Tig than Tig.
There's no one he protects more closely than his family, and his definition of family is a bit different than your average person's. It includes the club, his brothers and even their old ladies. In several scenes we see Tig putting himself between them and bodily harm; when the club house explodes we see Tig usher Tara out, covering her body with his to protect her from the blast. Not because she and him are particularly close, but because they are both members of this club. She's Jax's old lady, and even when he loses his Sgt. at Arms patch he never loses that protective instinct.
For all his loyalty and specific pockets of compassion, Tig is prone to rash decisions without thinking through the consequences, especially when provoked or feeling particularly emotional. An extreme example of this is when his daughter Dawn is killed. It's the end result of a series of poor, rash decisions Tig makes that culminates in the murder of the daughter of a man you do not mess with. In payment he kidnaps Tig's daughter, throws her in a pit and Tig is made to watch her burn alive, made to listen to her screams while he's tied up and helpless.
Another important aspect of him exemplified by this scene is his incredible capacity to feel. In addition to the guilt already mentioned, grief and regret are two things Tig carries tucked under his wing. He has an amazing capacity for compassion, he's just seemingly random in who he awards it. Chuckie, a former accountant for competing Asian drug lord Lin, is someone Tig saves on a whim. When Clay is ready to let him get murdered simply because he believes the man is more trouble than he's worth, it's Tig that steps in on his behalf and brings him on board the club as an asset.
For all his protective instincts and urges, aside from his daughters Gemma is the one who bears the most of this. It's her that prompts him to turn in his Sgt at Arms patch, it's her showing up physically battered by Clay's hand that cements Tig's inability to follow him in the same capacity he once did. It's his protectiveness of her that ultimately leads him in the most unlikely direction possible; against Clay. He's constantly looking out for her, constantly checking in, especially when he knows things are sideways for her. In fact, it's implied throughout the series that his feelings for her go beyond just friends. They almost have sex at one point but Tig can't bring himself to complete the act; he respects her and Clay too much, and they were still together at the time. Where he treats most other women like they exist solely to provide him with sex or don't really matter at all, Gemma he hovers over.
And in part it's his loyalty to Gemma that leads him to eventually support Jax. His loyalty is hard won, and it isn't until very near the point I take him from that he's earned it completely, finally having paid off his debt to the men who murdered his daughter. He's Jax's man through and through, officially convinced that he's the right leader for the club and ready to fall in line like he did for Clay all those years before.
» BACKGROUND: Wiki Link
» OTHER: Tig needs a walking content warning. He's misogynistic, racist (only towards men, apparently) and uses a lot of slurs. I'll work around the actual language, but his attitudes will still be there, as an FYI. I'll also make sure to label any posts or logs that contain this kind of behavior so they can be avoided by those who'd rather not read it.
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CONTACT
» OOC JOURNAL:zully
» AIM/PLURK/OTHER: Plurk: Zully
» EMAIL: zullyquirke@gmail.com
STATS
» NAME: Alexander "Tig" Trager
» FANDOM: Sons of Anarchy
» CANON POINT: End of season six.
» AGE: 48
» GENDER: Male
» ORIENTATION: Heterosexual
» COLLAR:
KINKS
» YES: There are very few limits to Tig. Seriously, this guy's open to almost literally anything. Ask!
» MAYBE: Homosexual sex; depends on the circumstances and who it's with etc.
» NO: I honestly can't think of a single thing to put here.
» PAIRING PREFERENCES: Tig should never be paired with anyone ever.
EXTENDED PROFILE
» APPEARANCE: Tig is 6'1, has curly black hair that's typically kept somewhere between his ears and his shoulders, and bright blue eyes. Having spent decades both as a mechanic and as the Sargent at Arms for the Sons of Anarchy, he has various cuts and scars over his body as well as the slightly weathered appearance of someone who's spent his years doing blue collar work. Though his facial hair changes, at the point I bring him in he sports a mustache, slight goatee and a bit of fuzz on his chin. His body is covered in tattoos, mostly related to the Sons of Anarchy, save one on his left forearm that reads "Death Before Dishonor" from his says as a Marine. He's well-built for a rough and tumble lifestyle; he has a decently sized frame and is well muscled from a life of violence and heavy lifting, and despite his age he seems to recover pretty quickly from his wounds and injuries.
» PERSONALITY: Tig Trager is a difficult man to sum up in a handful of paragraphs. For starters, he's a violent man with very few boundaries. He's depraved and feels absolutely no shame about it, bragging about enjoying sex with corpses and casually talking about slicing open the bellies of women to pour bleach inside them. He's depicted as a man who'll try just about anything once, a wild man with a death wish who not only can handle the violence required by his position in the club but as someone who actually enjoys it.
He's the club's go-to trigger man for that very reason; whatever dirty business they need done, so long as it's for the good of the club and the good of his brothers Tig's very unlikely to balk. He's been willing to execute a young, innocent woman for witnessing a crime that would land his brothers in jail though he was deeply remorseful of the perceived necessity and would have carried a weighted guilt with him had he actually done the deed. He's been willing to covertly murder a brother he thought had turned traitor simply because his closest friend and club president Clay ordered him to.
But that leads us to another side of Tig; when he fails to murder the would-be traitor, Opie, and accidentally murders his wife Donna instead, the guilt of what he's done weighs him down almost completely. He burns with the need to confess it to more than just Clay, to come clean to Opie especially when it comes out that he'd never turned traitor in the first place. One day while high he's seen sobbing and apologizing over and over, asking for forgiveness. It eats at him to the point where against Clay's orders he confesses the crime to Opie. He doesn't bother to defend himself when Opie beats him, doesn't think he's earned the right to. Tig's a man willing to take the lumps for his wrongs. He can take pain, especially pain he thinks he deserves. Because above all Tig is a protector. It's his job to take care of his own, and when he fails to do that no one's harder on Tig than Tig.
There's no one he protects more closely than his family, and his definition of family is a bit different than your average person's. It includes the club, his brothers and even their old ladies. In several scenes we see Tig putting himself between them and bodily harm; when the club house explodes we see Tig usher Tara out, covering her body with his to protect her from the blast. Not because she and him are particularly close, but because they are both members of this club. She's Jax's old lady, and even when he loses his Sgt. at Arms patch he never loses that protective instinct.
For all his loyalty and specific pockets of compassion, Tig is prone to rash decisions without thinking through the consequences, especially when provoked or feeling particularly emotional. An extreme example of this is when his daughter Dawn is killed. It's the end result of a series of poor, rash decisions Tig makes that culminates in the murder of the daughter of a man you do not mess with. In payment he kidnaps Tig's daughter, throws her in a pit and Tig is made to watch her burn alive, made to listen to her screams while he's tied up and helpless.
Another important aspect of him exemplified by this scene is his incredible capacity to feel. In addition to the guilt already mentioned, grief and regret are two things Tig carries tucked under his wing. He has an amazing capacity for compassion, he's just seemingly random in who he awards it. Chuckie, a former accountant for competing Asian drug lord Lin, is someone Tig saves on a whim. When Clay is ready to let him get murdered simply because he believes the man is more trouble than he's worth, it's Tig that steps in on his behalf and brings him on board the club as an asset.
For all his protective instincts and urges, aside from his daughters Gemma is the one who bears the most of this. It's her that prompts him to turn in his Sgt at Arms patch, it's her showing up physically battered by Clay's hand that cements Tig's inability to follow him in the same capacity he once did. It's his protectiveness of her that ultimately leads him in the most unlikely direction possible; against Clay. He's constantly looking out for her, constantly checking in, especially when he knows things are sideways for her. In fact, it's implied throughout the series that his feelings for her go beyond just friends. They almost have sex at one point but Tig can't bring himself to complete the act; he respects her and Clay too much, and they were still together at the time. Where he treats most other women like they exist solely to provide him with sex or don't really matter at all, Gemma he hovers over.
And in part it's his loyalty to Gemma that leads him to eventually support Jax. His loyalty is hard won, and it isn't until very near the point I take him from that he's earned it completely, finally having paid off his debt to the men who murdered his daughter. He's Jax's man through and through, officially convinced that he's the right leader for the club and ready to fall in line like he did for Clay all those years before.
» BACKGROUND: Wiki Link
» OTHER: Tig needs a walking content warning. He's misogynistic, racist (only towards men, apparently) and uses a lot of slurs. I'll work around the actual language, but his attitudes will still be there, as an FYI. I'll also make sure to label any posts or logs that contain this kind of behavior so they can be avoided by those who'd rather not read it.
CONTACT
» OOC JOURNAL:
zully» AIM/PLURK/OTHER: Plurk: Zully
» EMAIL: zullyquirke@gmail.com