#rory bartlett

Full name: Rory Bartlett

Age: 34

Birth date: December 18, 1985

Gender & pronouns: Male, he/him

Status: Detainee

Arrived at Belmont: May 12, 2014

Ability: Mechromancer (instinctual advanced understanding of mechanical engineering) 

Faceclaim: Alex Meraz

B i o g r a p h y »

Rory's wealthy whitebread parents always proudly boasted that adopting him was the best Christmas present that they could have ever hoped to receive. Rory, on the other hand, affectionately claimed to everyone that his adoptive mother had stolen him from a stranger on the subway. 

From the time that Rory was nine months old he was deconstructing everything from his high chair to his dad's stereo. By the time that he was three years old he was learning to reconstruct things, though never without altering the construction to try and improve or enhance even the simplest of items.

Every year Rory would spend his summers at Space Camp, eagerly immersing himself in anything involving robotics or aviation engineering. He got his student pilot certificate when he was sixteen and managed to make the school science fairs an interesting event, particularly the year where he managed to accidentally blow four of his fingers off of his right hand. Rory never let these setbacks slow him down for long, instead diverting his energy and attention to robotic prosthetics until he'd perfected a replacement for his lost digits. Life was never dull with Rory around, and his adoptive parents were both proud and terrified as they watched him move away to attend college. 

Rory got his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and applied to work for NASA, ignoring his parents pleas to put off working and continue his education further. He wanted to work because he wanted access to the big kid toys, voluntarily pulling long hours and overtime on the weekends. They'd called him a savant but it'd never occurred to him or his doting parents and teachers that he was anything more than that. That is, until a tip from a coworker led to a snowballing investigation that led to the discovery of more than a few controlled substances and enough evidence in his possession to make the arrest under suspicion of terrorist activity. The final item that got him a one-way ticket to the Mad DOGS sector of Belmont was the hyper-intelligent android that was discovered in his apartment. Rory's case was transferred to the military where they did more than interrogate him, a multitude of tests were conducted on both Rory and the android until they came to the conclusion that his connection to the machine was the product of something beyond science.

P e r s o n a l i t y »

Rory is someone who is always pushing everyone's limits, including his own. He's never known when to quit and time spent inside of Belmont hasn't managed to temper his tenacity. He's not a loner on purpose but his blanket intensity has a tendency to push others away. 

With little outlet for his passions and the frustration of having his powers taken away,  Rory has garnered a reputation inside of Belmont as a troublemaker. He's often butting heads with the guards and other detainees, something that he jokes about being a side-effect of having been raised as an only child of a Stepford wife. He's made more than a few attempts to escape and has caused costly damage to Belmont property over the years.