#bl3 troy

Scenario: The Calypso Twins (Separate) open a vault but don't realise the danger they put you in.

Characters: Tyreen Calypso, Troy Calypso

Warnings: angst, mentions of gore, mentions of blood, mentions of death, guilt

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TYREEN CALYPSO

They finally opened a vault without the vault thiefs getting in their way.

Troy had been stood beside her to her right and you to her left. You looked to her as if she had placed the stars in the sky, so much pride and hope. All for her.

And she had mimicked these looks back at you.

Until it wasn't there, and instead replaced with fear, hurt, disappointment. Until the light drained from your eyes. Until you were gone.

The Vault monster's claws sheathed within your ribcage while your intestines pour out from the lower slices through you.

She leeches the Vault monster without a single word spoken. Her anger is silent and quickly subsides when she sees your corpse hit to floor finally

Troy wasn't close to you but he respectfully bows his head, the cov followers do the same. Tyreen grits her teeth and stands up away from you.

"Let's go. We have what we need."

And then she leaves. Without you. Without what she actually needed.

TROY CALYPSO

You came with him to the Jakobs Estate, Aurelia tried to put the moves on him but you weren't letting that slide. Unless you could join.

He ran off after the last Jakobs and you ran to make sure the Vault Thiefs didn't get you.

But they did.

A little before getting to Aurelia.

Troy found you in the gardens, bullet wounds all over. Blood seeping past your lips. Skin pale. Eyes faded. Jaw bruised.

He yells out in anguish and rushes to you. He drops to his knees.

Nobody is around to help you, no cult members, no Tyreen, nobody.

He gathers you up into his arms and sobs into your chest. Tears flowing freely and eventually into your wounds, but you do not feel the stinging that you would normally feel from salty tears entering a wound.

You're already gone.

You were what grounded him. Kept him from snapping at Tyreen. Kept him from hurting important members of the cult. You protected him when he needed it. You gave him praise for simply being himself.

He loved--no. He loves you. He'll continue loving you until the day he dies. In fact, he can't wait.

He wants your smile, your laughter, your warmth. But all he receives is a cadaver as cold as Windshear Waste.

 Tory Calypso is the best example of wasted potential in all of Borderlands! Gearbox set him up as the brother to an arrogant and tyrannical sister (Tyreen), always being degraded by her and called a “leech”. In one of the missions, there is even a “Team Troy” and “Team Tyreen”! It seemed like foreshadowing to something bigger down the road. I thought that towards the end Troy would attempt to go against her and take the power for himself, finally standing up to her and fulfilling his character arc.

 Instead, Troy just dies lamely and Tyreen fulfills her original plans. I feel like the story got lost in Borderlands 3, Troy definitely felt like an underdog antagonist that would rise up against Tyreen. I hosted an hour stream once about how I’d rewrite Borderlands 3, and the character arc (or lack thereof) of Troy Calypso was a huge part of what I wanted to fix. I wanted dynamic characters, but the Calypsos were static and that was hugely disappointing, especially because it seemed that Gearbox was building up to a character arc for Troy.