Torrin

Torrin is a character in the Netlix adult animated series Love, Death, & Robots'. He is the main protagonist in the season 3 episode Bad Travelling where he acts as the good willed yet lethal crewman who is forced to negotiate with a creature from the deep.
==Appearance==
Torrin appears to be a middle-aged man of average height with very short black hair. He has a long pale face with notable cheekbones and wrinkles along his small forehead and his black eyes. He also has a scar going from his cheek up to his nose.
He wore a black long coat and a sailor cap during the beginning of his travels, but would most of the time wear dark brown suspenders and an old-style drawstring sailor shirt.
==Personality==
Torrin generally appears to be a serious, methodical, and stoic man who deep down has strong morals that make him commit actions for the greater good. He cares for the lives of the innocent and is perfectly capable of eliminating close comrades who would rather eliminate the innocent in order to safe their own skin, such person who Torrin labels as a “coward.”
Torrin is shown to have an intuitive and keen mind, making him good at managing plans and other strategies, whilst also capable of acting as a serious leader who enforces his ethics onto others, even when they despise him for it.
==Story==
All of Torrin’s past is unknown, only that he at some point in his life became a first mate and navigator for a ship that prioritizes itself on hunting “great jable sharks” that infest the dangerous oceans.
Whilst in the middle of the ocean during a stormy night, a monstrous crab called a “Thanapod” attacks the ship that Torrin is on. The crab successfully kills 2 sailors, but when the captain tries to stop the creature, he is devoured by it instead. Torrin watches along as the crab then drags a sailor down to the below hold where it kills the man and hides itself.
With the captain now dead, the remaining crewmembers come together as Torrin figures out a solution to who will be forced down into the below hold so they can investigate what the crab is doing. He makes each survivor grab straws and whoever grabs the smallest will be forced to go. The young cabin boy Cert goes first, but he draws a long one and is spared, together with the sailor brothers Calis and Melis who also draw long ones. A large burly man named Jorvan goes next and draws a short one. He stares at Torrin, giving him a smirk. Jorvan then states that they selected who their new leader is, and that he shall now pick who has to go, shocking his crewmates for the disloyalty. Jorvan picks Torrin and it’s shown that the crew now have decided to follow Jorvan’s command anyway, despite the betrayal, Torrin states that he will go down and give a report on the situation.
Torrin is given a sword, reluctantly goes thru the doorway and walks down a narrow staircase into the hold. As he reaches the area, he warily enters and looks around himself but can only see the shark carcasses that they’ve hunted. Suddenly in front of Torrin, the creature emerges from the dark and launches itself towards him, Torrin throws the sword at it and runs back into the staircase. The Thanapod attempts to devour Torrin but its body is too big for it to enter the narrow stairway. The creature than walks back and picks up the corpse of the sailor who it dragged down earlier before. It wraps a tentacle around the neck of the corpse so it can control the deceased man like a puppet. The dead sailor then suddenly starts speaking, saying the words “Phaiden Island” and “Me eat meat”, as the crab has the ability to talk thru him. Torrin despite being shocked, knows that the Thanapod’s semi-intelligence can be of an advantage. He tells the creature that he needs to be kept alive in order for the ship to keep functioning, and the Thanapod steps back to make itself less threatening, showing that the situation has calmed down. Torrin asks the creature for it to give him the key that the crab swallowed after devouring the captain. The Thanapod vomits up the captain’s remains and Torrin cautiously walks to it, he crouches and searches around the gory mass where successfully obtains the key.
Torrin returns to the upper deck where everyone is waiting for him. He is allowed inside but doesn’t give a report, only a quiet “hello” as he walks past Jorvan and the others. Torrin continues to calmy walk forwards while Jorvan calls out for him and asks what happened. Torrin suddenly begins sprinting, everyone runs after him but Torrin has already ran past the stairs and barges into the captain’s lodge. He jumps to a table where he uses the key to open a box under it where he obtains a gun. Torrin quickly makes everyone back down as he’s now in control of the situation. He tells the others that the Thanapod is capable of speech and that it wishes to go to Phaiden Island. Knowing that they can’t possibly fight back against it, Torrin says that it still needs to be fed during the travel. Jorvan suggest that Calis can be sacrificed as he’s already a disabled man, but his brother defends him and threatens anyone that might think of hurting Calis. Torrinsays that they are all together in their misfortune while saying, “We find ourselfs faced again with a grim and terrible decision. Unless… its already been made.” With Torrin then looking at Jorvan as many others begin doing the same. Jorvan is then thrown into the below hold by Melis and Paln. While everyone walks away, Torrin watches Jorvan yell in fear as he’s devoured by the Thanapod, hoping that it will savor each bite and by them more time.
Torrin and the others gather in the Captain’s quarters and discuss their options of what to do. Torrin reinstates the creature's motive of going to Phaiden Island so it can feast on its inhabitants. Paln appears to have no problem with this, claiming that the inhabitants are severely disrespectful, with Cert agreeing. But Torrin nontheless suggests that they can also go to an uninhabited island near Phaiden where they can trick the monster to get off and then escape, so that countless lives can be spared. Everyone seems to be unable to give a response, making Torrin decide to vote which option is the best. Each crewman gets a piece of paper where they write either a, O or an X. An O meaning to go with Torrin's plan and having to travel a longer distance so that numerous people can be spared, or an X, meaning that you fulfill the creature's wish of going to Phaiden Island. Torrin gives everyone a paper and they anonymously give their vote which they place in the box. Torrin collects the votes and sees that every crewman wrote an X, knowing that his supposed allies were contempt with sacrificing countless people to safe themselves, makes Torrin decide to get rid off as many by feeding them to the Thanapod so he can keep stalling time, as he is going to go through with his own plan anyway.
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