Roland Deschain/Synopsis

Biography of Roland Deschain from The Dark Tower series.
==Biography==
===Past===
Roland was the son of the lord of Gilead, a proficient and skilled gunslinger by the name of Steven Deschain who put young Roland through an intense gunslinger training regiment. At just the age of 14, he challenged his teacher Cortland Andrus in an attempt to earn his own guns after seeing his mother in an affair with the person who will later be his nemesis, Randall Flagg.
It was all a ruse however as Randall wanted to get young Roland exiled for getting defeated in a duel. However Roland ended up succeeding in said duel, going so far to sacrifice his pet hawk, David just to win. The young gunslinger became the youngest person to earn their guns, prompting Flagg to vanish for some time. When Roland reported what had happened to his father, he simply explained that he had already known about the affair. 
====Flashback in Wizard and Glass====
Roland was later sent to the town of Hambry along with his friends Alain Johns and Cuthbert Allgood in order to deal with some errands. Arriving at town, they encounter the officials of the town as well as a girl by the name of Susan Delgado which Roland begins a romantic relationship with. The 3 travelers pretend that they're simply looking into livestock in Gilead. However they were actually looking into a future coup being lead by John Farson.
During their investigation, they encounter a group of rival gunslingers who had been hunting the group down after a past altercation. These Big Coffin Hunters had been hired by Farson who was also working with some of the officials. After escaping this encounter, Roland managed to discover where The Good Man had been fueling his weapons. 
Unfortunately, Roland's relationship with Susan has been driving a rift in his relationship with his friends. During these troubling times, a witch by the name of Rhea of the Cöos had come into acquisition of a mirror which allows for the viewing of future and past events. The witch invited Susan, hypnotizing her when threatened though Roland figured this out and vowed vengeance against Rhea. 
Before he could do so however, he and his team had been framed by the Big Coffin Hunters for murdering an official, resulting in them being jailed though Susan later frees them. The group soon prepare an ambush in order to take down Farson. Unfortunately, Rhea was able to notify one of the Big Coffin Hunters with one of them managing to kidnap Susan. 
While she was held captive, Roland and his team begin their ambush, attacking Farson's men and even managing to kill off the 2 Big Coffin Hunters in the scene. Unfortunately, they were holding Rhea's mirror which Roland took and looked into, beginning his obsession with the Dark Tower. He did remain lucid enough to remember his mission, joining his team in the assault on Farson's fueling location, being an oil plant. 
After escaping a trap and killing off the rest of Farson's men, Roland went home, unaware that Rhea had vowed vengeance against him and Susan. He ended up shooting an illusion which turned out to be his own mother and to make things worse, he ended up being tormented by visions from the mirror he had from the Big Coffin Hunters including visions of Susan's death which ended up coming true.
====Flashback in The Wind Through the Keyhole====
With the death of his mother, Roland's father sends him off to the town of Debaria with only one friend by the name of Jamie de Curry. Their goal is to simply catch the Skin-Man, a shape-shifter terrorizing the night in the villages he roams by. 
At first they went by train though it derails, forcing them to go on horse which is what lead to them passing by the town of Serenity. Roland recalled his mother being sent here from the breakdown she suffered upon realizing her affair with Flagg. Recognizing the place, he was able to get around and find a woman who had been attacked by the Skin-Man, hearing her story for information.
Eventually, Roland and Jamie arrive at Debaria with some help from the local sheriff. With some deduction, they were able to figure out that the Skin-Man is likely a salt miner. Despite this, another attack occurred in the morning. A farm was ravaged by the Skin-Man with the group being unable to find any other survivors besides a young boy. The group were able to deduce that the Skin-Man had left by horseback and for further information, Roland decides to hypnotize the boy. 
The group were able to gain more information on the Skin-Man's physical appearance, prompting Roland to bring the boy to a prison in order to identify which prisoner may be their suspect. To calm the boy down, the gunslinger tells a story of "The Wind Through the Keyhole", the title of the book. At the end of the story, the two entered the prison, finding the Skin-Man amongst the prisoners.
He quickly breaks free by shape-shifting into a snake, killing off 2 more people. Roland however had prepared for this, having made a silver bullet when he arrived to town. With a single shot he kills off the shape-shifter, finishing what he had been sent here for. With that deed done, Roland and Jamie bring the boy to Serenity for adoption. Roland also receives a note from one of the women at the town, revealing that his mother had been told by Flagg about her death in the hands of her son. This revelation is what caused her breakdown though she forgives him nevertheless. 
====The Little Sisters of Eluria====
With the Skin-Man case dealt with, Roland rides away on his own in his quest to find the Dark Tower and hunt down Flagg. While stopping at a deserted village called Eularia, he encounters a stray dog with a cross shape mark on its fur. Said dog was eating off a corpse with something shiny on it, prompting Roland to scare it off to get a closer look. 
The item is a rectangular medallion which he takes. Shortly after, he gets beaten up by a group of mutants until unconscious. He awakens in a hospital bed, being taken care of by a group of nuns calling themselves the "Little Sisters". They use tiny creatures called "Doctors" to heal off injuries, some of which they used on Roland to nurse him back to health.
However during his stay, he realized the true nature of the Little Sisters being vampires who feed on patients who had recovered. They are however warded off by the medallion Roland had taken which has holy properties. Despite knowing this however, he is helpless to do anything about it as he had been weakened by the potions given by the Little Sisters. 
Thankfully, he ends up meeting a benevolent nun under the name of Sister Jenna who had been longing to escape the grasp of the Little Sisters. She gives him a cure of the weakening potion while planning an escape. Unfortunately, the Little Sisters are ready to feed on Roland and one day, they send a mutant in to grab his medallion so that the sisters can touch and kill him safely.
Said mutant however was sapient enough to realize that it is being tricked and that it'll lose its life after its deed is done. It decides to slash the neck of the patient next to Roland, prompting the Little Sisters to feast on said dead patient while the mutant flees the scene. With that issue finished, Roland and Jenna can finally escape from the hospital.
On their way out, they are followed by a number of sisters which Jenna wards away with a swarm of doctors. Their escape prompted an attack by the leader of the Little Sisters who catches up with them. Somehow, she is taken out by the stray dog at the start of the story, allowing Roland and Jenna to escape.
The two profess love for each other before resting after the horrific situation. Unfortunately, Jenna ends up disintegrating to what is presumably her true form, a swarm of doctors. Upon awakening, Roland grieves for the disappearance of his love. Once again he is left alone in his quest to find the Dark Tower and hunt down Flagg.
===The Gunslinger===
Roland passes by a town called Tull in his hunt for the Man in Black who for some reason, is named Walter. The gunslinger noticed his target resurrecting a dead addict. Somehow this got Roland noticed by the local church leader who explained that she had been impregnated by a demon. The entire town ends up turning on the gunslinger, attempting to kill him which in turn forced him to kill them all. With the deed down, he went unconscious and wakes up the next day, finding his mule dead.
After some time of walking on foot, Roland encounters a young boy by the name of Jake Chambers who gives him some water and explains his backstory which he had forgotten some parts of. The gunslinger revealed his hypnotic ability, getting info on the boy's full backstory. With that encounter done, the two go off to search for food, only to encounter a demon which Roland dispatches, ripping its jawbone.
Back at the desert, the pair are attacked by a succubus which Roland dispels with the jawbone he had taken before giving it to Jake for further protection. Said succubus becomes a lot more amicable after that hostility, revealing herself to be an oracle. For some reason the gunslinger chooses to trust her despite the previous encounter and her species, gaining insight on his fate regarding the Dark Tower and giving the reader some insight on his backstory.
Continuing their journey, they soon saw the Man in Black at a mountain with him taunting them that at the other side of the mountain, only one of them will make it. Going through the tunnels in the mountain on a handcar, the two are chased down by a number of mutants. The tracks were damaged and unfortunately, Roland had to let Jake fall.
At the end of the tunnel, Roland finally got to come face-to-face with the Man in Black, revealing him to be Randall Flagg all along. Flagg gives his opponent a fortune reading session in which from a deck of cards he revealed a series of cards including most importantly, a card depicting the Tower itself. He then attempts to scare Roland into surrendering with visions of the universe though he remains unshaken. In the end, the Man in Black puts him to sleep for 10 years.
Upon waking up, he begins his quest to the Western Sea though not before taking a jawbone from the skeleton next to him.
===The Drawing of the Three===
While walking by the beach after his awakening, Roland was soon attacked by mutant which he dispatches though he was injured in the process and wound up getting infected. Due to his sickness, he wound up stumbling to a section of the beach with 3 doors, each leading to the regular world. Hoping to get some help, Roland enters these doors, getting involved in some adventures. 
Roland begins by entering a door labeled "The Prisoner" which leads him to a man named Eddie Dean who at that point, was try to smuggle some cocaine to a mob boss. With a doorway to an alternate world, the gunslinger was able to convince the prisoner to hide the drugs in his world. Despite no longer carrying the drugs, Eddie ended up getting caught and interrogated.
Things continued to get worse when the mob boss, Enrico Balazar figured out Eddie's arrest and decided to kidnap his brother as insurance that the prisoner finishes his delivery. Eddie does eventually arrive at Balazar's bar, claiming that the drugs are in his bathroom. After a lengthy search, no drugs could be found though the prisoner was able to convince the mob boss that he can find the drugs. 
Balazar sent his enforcer Andolini to ensure Eddie doesn't escape though upon entering, the two were dragged into the door leading to Roland's world. The gunslinger successfully knocks the enforcer into a horde of monsters who proceed to tear him apart. With that issue solved, Eddie returns though finds that his brother had been killed. Out of rage, he drags Roland along to a shootout with the mob, ending victorious. He later joins the gunslinger on his future journeys, starting with the second door labeled "The Lady of Shadows". 
Opening the door, the two are lead to a wheelchair bound woman by the name of Odetta Holmes. Unfortunately upon being dragged in to Roland's world, she ends up revealing her second personality, the vicious and deadly Detta Walker. The two were able to keep her from hurting them until they find the third door labeled "The Pusher". Roland decided to give his companions one of his revolvers for defense, his infection growing worse. 
As Roland enters the third door, he was unaware that Detta had already taken the revolver he had given and took Eddie hostage, using him to force the gunslinger to return her. Roland however had already entered the door, coming face-to-face with a sadistic sociopath, Jack Mort. For some reason this time, Roland ends up taking control of Jack's body, allowing him to prevent a murder he was supposed to commit. 
With this opportunity, Roland uses Jack to snag some medication and ammunition, allowing the gunslinger to cure his infection. Afterwards he makes the pusher jump into a moving train, resulting in his death and Roland's return to his world, immediately being notified of what had happened to Eddie. The gunslinger used the open door behind him to force Odetta to confront her alter, resulting in the two merging into a brand new personality, Susannah Dean who quickly releases the prisoner. 
===The Waste Lands===
5 weeks after the events of the previous book, the 3 travelers continue their journey East away from the beach and into the woods, fittingly encountering a cyborg bear on the way. In the woods they encounter one of the 6 mystical beams which allows them to travel inland to Mid-World. Finding a place to rest, Roland decides to reveal to his group that he is growing insane as a result of a paradox he created when he stopped Jack's murder, revealing that he had prevented the death of Jake Chambers who had arrived to this world due to his murder in Jack's hands. 
Roland ends up burning the jawbone he had been bringing after waking up, allowing Eddie to figure out the solution to this problem. After some struggles, Eddie and Susannah were able to bring the Jake created by the new timeline to their world, removing Roland's madness. With that issue solved, the travelers continue on their journey to find the next mystical beam.
On their way, they encounter an intelligent creature recognized to be a "Billy-Bumbler" whom Jake names Oy. Eventually they arrived at the city of Lud, once ancient and high tech though now a war-riddled place between two factions. While crossing a decaying bridge, the travelers wound up in an accident and while they survived, they ended up losing Jake to a gangster from the "Grays" faction named Gasher.
Roland decides to only take Oy with him to rescue Jake, having to traverse a labyrinth in the sewers until they finally find the place the teenager was being brought to, the lair of the Tick-Tock Man. The gunslinger and his companion broke in to the layer and in the chaos, Jake successfully shoots down the Tick-Tock Man though unfortunately, he ends up surviving.
Once Jake is back, the group continue their journey, arriving at an abandoned monorail. Unfortunately the AI running the place had gone insane, threatening to run them off the tracks unless they can beat it in a riddle contest. As they do so, they were able to see the outside world. A horrid apocalyptic place leading to a place called Topeka.
===Wizard and Glass===
In an attempt to beat the AI, Eddie tells it some childish jokes, befuddling the AI to the point of short-circuiting. Exiting the monorail, they soon discovered that Topeka was actually the same one as the Kansas city Topeka, taking place in a similar universe as another of Stephen King's work. After passing through a bunch of references, they decide to take a break in which Roland reveals more details of the past.
After going through the flashback, the group decide to continue their journey, discovering a green tinted town reminiscent of the Emerald City from Wizard of Oz. In one of the castles they encounter "the wizard" who was actually just a disguised Flagg. All around a loud voice belonging to the surviving Tick-Tock Man threatens the group, trying to get them to turn away. 
This fails and he was quickly killed off, followed by the group turning on Flagg. The Man in Black quickly disables Roland's guns, forcing him to borrow Jake's gun. Unfortunately he still missed, allowing Flagg to escape and leave behind a mirror which reveals the day when Roland killed his mother. Despite knowing the fates of people close to the gunslinger, the group still goes along with him, continuing their journey forward. 
===The Wind Through the Keyhole===
During their journey, Roland and his group had to take cover from a depression, having been warned by an elderly ferryman. During their cover, the gunslinger decides to reveal more details of his past. After a long-winded story of his past adventures against another horrific foe, the depression eventually ended and the group can continue their journey. 
===Wolves of the Calla===
After escaping the depression, Eddie and Jake are sent to New York with the rest of the travelers getting followed by a group of citizens from a village. Their leader who is a character from another of Stephen King's book, under the name of Father Callahan, explains their need for assistance against a group of wolves who engage in kidnapping and mutating children twins. 
Said leader ended up explaining how he had gotten to this place after the many crossover chapters he went through, he shows the travelers an evil magic ball which had been given by Flagg himself. The ball, being named Black Thirteen, is something Roland could recognize, figuring that it was what had taken Eddie and Jake from their companions. They decide to use said ball to join their separated companions, arriving to New York and finding said companions.
They ended up explaining what they had been doing while trapped in New York, meeting an old enemy, the mob boss that had kidnapped Eddie's brother and is now hunting down a friend they had made in this place. The two went to the cave the leader had used to get to their realm, allowing them to travel to another part of New York where they fend off Balazar's goons, threatening them upon defeat. 
Finding the friend Eddie and Jake had made, Roland warns him to get away as Balazar may come back for him. They agreed on a way to find him again later as well as a promise to protect his valuable books, hiding it in the cave they had come from. With the group reunited, they decide to take a break and plan for their battle against the wolves.
During this time, the group noticed Susannah's odd behavior which had something to do with the ritual she and Eddie did to bring Jake into their realm and stop Roland's madness. As it turns out, the lady of shadows had been impregnated by a demon. She didn't mind it, having come to terms with this revelation and even giving a name to it, Mia. 
With their planning finished, the travelers begin their preparation while Jake goes off to a military outpost where he discovers a conspiracy. Roland decides to spare one of the conspirators while Eddie blinds the other. Just before the attack, the gunslinger listens in to the prisoner's conversation with the attack team on the nature of the wolves, them being robots.
However this revelation was far worse as these wolves have the power of blatant referencing and immunity to copyright. They wear green hoods meant to resemble Dr. Doom and wield lightsabers from Star Wars. At a range they begin attacking with flying winged killer orbs resembling Golden Snitches from the Harry Potter series. 
The travelers along with some warriors were able to take down the wolves with little casualties all while the children remain safe. Unfortunately after this battle, Mia ended up taking over Susannah's body and ran off with the other travelers failing to follow her. Worse still, Father Callahan ended up discovering himself and his world to be from a book, written by Stephen King.
===Song of Susannah===
During their attempt at chasing Susannah down, the travelers ended up being separated with Roland and Eddie ending up in Maine, 1977. They began searching for a vacant lot owned by the friend Eddie and Jake had made while separated in Wolves of the Calla named Calvin Tower. In that lot was a rose which has a connection with their realm and said lot is about to be bought by Balazar and his men. 
To make things worse, the two travelers are ambushed on arrival by those men with Andolini apparently still alive despite having been thrown to the Lobstrosities at The Drawing of the Three, presumably being a past version of him. They were able to get away from the ambush with the help of a local man. With their survival, they decide to deal with another problem, the author of the book.
After using the book found by the village's leader, they were able to track down Stephen King at his home, finding the location to be affected by his involvement in the writing of The Dark Tower series. Strange creatures wander the place which the two travelers were able to avoid, eventually reaching the author in his home. 
Roland quickly hypnotized him, finding that he is merely a vessel for the creation of their realm and stories and at this point, he had stopped. Fearing the existence of other forces, the gunslinger suggests to King to finish the story of The Dark Tower, believing it to be the key to the success of their quest. 
===The Dark Tower===
After exiting the author's home, Roland and Eddie ended up being followed by the former's son who had been born from Susannah. They remained blissfully unaware of this, going off to invite the local who had saved them from the gangsters, a man named John Cullum. Afterward they are able to rejoin their group, finding Jake and Susannah who had survived their ordeals. Unbeknownst to Roland, his rival Flagg had been killed off by his son, Mordred Deschain. 
The group travel to Thunderclap in an attempt to find and free a group of psychics who are attempting to break beams supporting the Dark Tower. They meet a few of Roland's old friends and other characters from Stephen King's other works. During a fight to free the psychics, Eddie ended up getting injured severely due to a bullet to the eye. His group spent what little time they had to stay by his side and listen to his final words. Despite how painful it was, they had to go on once he died as they didn't have the time to mourn.
Jumping to 1999, Roland and Jake attempt to save Stephen King from the car accident he will suffer though this ends with the death of the latter. The gunslinger was heartbroken by this event, taking his time to bury Jake though he eventually snaps out of it and goes back to Oy. After going through freezing wastelands and avoiding a horrific monster, they ended up being tangled up with a particular monster under the name Dandelo in their attempt to save an imprisoned man. 
Dandelo feeds on laughter which is what prompts him to tell jokes to the group that were surprisingly effective. Even Roland who is normally dry and unemotive was made to laugh by the monster's joke which allowed him to slowly drain them of their life. Thankfully, Stephen King was able to snap Susannah out of it with some written in hints, allowing her to kill off Dandelo. 
The imprisoned man, another character from Stephen King's written works with the name Patrick Danville, had the ability to bring life to his drawings. At this point, the travelers had been getting closer to the Dark Tower which is when Susannah decided that Roland needed to finish his journey without her. With a sad goodbye, she enters a doorway created by Patrick, leading her to a new realm where Eddie and Jake are still alive with various changes in.
As the gunslinger continues his journey, he finally encounters his son. They engaged in a vicious battle in which Oy ended up having to attack the gunslinger's son, giving him time to shoot Mordred dead. Unfortunately, the billy-bumbler was impaled into a tree branch, killing him. This was the last member of his group and in the end, he arrived at the Dark Tower with only Patrick.
The two discover the place to be occupied by the Crimson King, a malevolent godlike entity responsible for many horrid deeds throughout The Dark Tower series and other Stephen King's works. Roland engages in combat with the Crimson King, managing to stand a chance against the evil god with his supernatural abilities. However, he was not able to finish off his opponent, forcing him to ask Patrick for help in which he erases the Crimson King's body besides his eyes.
With this victory, Roland sends Patrick away to go home. Finally reaching his end goal, the gunslinger knocks on the door while shouting the names of his friends and loved ones that he had lost in his journey as he had promised to do. The door opens and locks behind him as Patrick watches.
===Ending===
As Roland steps into the Dark Tower, he finds in the internal structure to be made of flesh instead of inorganic materials. He quickly figures out that this tower is the physical body of another more neutral godlike entity under the name of Gan. With every step on the stairs of the tower, he discovers rooms showing events of his past until he finally arrives at the top.
At the top of that tower he finds a door with his name on it which he opens and enters. In an instant he realizes that he had reached the Dark Tower countless times and that he is stuck in a time loop where his memories are reset at the beginning. Before he can react however, he is pushed in and awakens in the desert he used to be at the start of The Gunslinger. This time however, he is allowed to hold an odd item which he had left behind on the previous timeline.
Despite his loss of memories, his goal to reach the Dark Tower persists and once again he embarks on this never-ending journey
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