Laurence

Laurence is the energetic, optimistic deuteragonist of the Reverend James series, being Reverend James' boyfriend and loyal microwave. He has a knack for stating the obvious and dragging out vowels and is the fated sidekick to the Guardian of Fire.
== Appearance ==
=== Human ===
Laurence had pale skin and a brown quiff hairstyle. He wore a pink long-sleeved shirt and had no legs.
=== Microwave ===
Laurence's head remains intact on a pink microwave with 5 buttons, a dial, a handle and a screen that displays the time.
== History ==
Laurence lived with Reverend James, Small Boy, Large Woman, and Skinny Girl in Ireland. Reverend James was incapable of providing food for those living there, having no oven or method of cooking food. One Christmas Eve, Laurence complained about this to James, who simply put a microwave on his Christmas list.
Overnight, Reverend Jack brought them a microwave, but unknown to all parties, this was the Legendary Microwave. Reverend James was drawn inside, and Laurence, unawares, simply commented on the frivolity of the action. Now with a method of preparing food, Reverend James and Laurence went to the Co-Op supermarket, where they met a shopkeeper who could not understand James' mumbling language. Laurence's phone told him to proceed to the Arctic to find the Legendary Google Translate for James' language. 
In the Arctic, Reverend James remained inside the microwave, warm. Outside, with no protection, Laurence died of hypothermia. Reverend James brought him inside the microwave, and its magical powers revived him. Laurence embraced James, and the two proceeded to an icy cave, where they met a Google employee, later revealed to be Reverend Jack in disguise. After winning a Pokemon battle, Laurence claimed the Legendary Google Translate. However, the shopkeeper did not possess this upgrade and continued to be unable to understand James. Out of frustration, James shot the shopkeeper with an M9. As Laurence was present for the scene of the crime, he was arrested and sent to prison.
In prison, Laurence donated his credit card number to a prisoner who promised to find James' microwave. He then went with James to listen to a story about the Guardians. The prisoner returned with the microwave, but the police quickly shut the operation down. In the midst of this, Reverend James unintentionally used the microwave's power to burn down the prison, allowing the two to escape. However, they soon arrived in quicksand and sunk into an underground cave, where Mining Mike forced them into manual labour, as somebody was stealing his metal.
Laurence and Reverend James worked away in the mines and discovered they could use the microwave's power to smelt ore into metal ingots. Once they had finished working, a robot appeared and stole their metal, fleeing into the ocean and turning into a boat. The two tried to follow but began drowning. Laurence, believing this was his last moment, confessed his love for Reverend James.
Reverend Joel, the Guardian of Water, saved the two from a watery demise, and, after a brief battle against Reverend Vincent, asked for Laurence's help to find the remaining Guardians, as all 4 WERE needed to be present to defeat Reverend Vincent. Laurence agreed, but was sad to see that Reverend James had decided to go face Reverend Vincent alone. 
Reverend Joel used his water powers to allow the two to travel quickly to the Arctic, where they encountered a Bear. They were saved by Reverend Jack, the Guardian of Ice, who told them he knew where the third Guardian is. They took a rocket to the sun, where they met Reverend Jade, the Guardian of Light. Laurence sensed that Reverend James was in trouble and they ditched finding the fourth Guardian to help Reverend James, accidentally destroying the Moon in their haste.
Reverend Vincent, having defeated James, gave the order to start his deadly Power Machine, but before the robots could finish doing so, Laurence and the three Guardians interrupted. They took on Vincent, but begin to lose as not all four Guardians are present. Vincent was distracted, however, as the volcano the Power Machine sits upon erupted and destroyed it, due to the power of Reverend James, the fourth Guardian, having claimed his power by fusing with the Microwave. James and Vincent did battle, and Reverend James was forced to use the Microwave to prevent his death from a great height. Laurence, seeing the crushed Microwave, believed Reverend James was dead, before James appeared to prove the contrary.
Jack told the group they need to find the Temple of Repairs to repair the Microwave. Laurence called some help to assist in searching the vast Jungle, which included Small Boy, Large Woman, Skinny Girl, Shopkeeper, Granny, Blue-Haired Prisoner, a few other Prisoners, Shopkeeper, Mining Mike, and the bear they fought earlier. They located the temple, but accidentally led Reverend Vincent there! The Guardians and Laurence headed inside to find the Repairing Hole, which they locatde with a map.
The Repairing Hole required a sacrifice to repair the Microwave. This led all four Guardians to try and sacrifice themselves, but Laurence offered himself to be the sacrifice, as he believed he had no destiny, unlike the others. James refused to let Laurence do it, but was eventually persuaded to let Laurence do it. The two confessed their love and Laurence jumped into the Repairing Hole with the Microwave, where he died and appeared in the Witches' Realm.
Hecate, Goddess of Witchcraft, sensed Laurence's desire to help his boyfriend and the Guardians, and allowed him to live again as the Microwave, fusing the two together in her hands. Upon returning to the mortal world, Laurence and Reverend James fused, granting the Guardian of Fire his power again. The Guardians took on the newly formed Pure Vincent and won. 
The two unfused after the battle and celebrated Vincent's death with a song named I'm a Microwave!. The next day, Laurence found Reverend James using the Guardians' power to create a portal to another dimension. Laurence forced James to let him go along as he did not want to be apart from his boyfriend ever again.
== Abilities ==
=== Legendary Microwave abilities ===
Being one with the Legendary Microwave, Laurence possesses all of its powers, including:
* Revival of the dead
* Ore smelting
* Fireball creation
* Explosive powers
* Fusion with worthy individuals
These powers are amplified when fused with Reverend James.
=== Spiritual Link ===
Destined to be James's companion, Laurence is able to sense when Reverend James is in danger.
== Leitmotif ==
See Laurence's theme for more.
== Equivalents/variants ==
=== Universe 8.2 - LDthebadman ===
Resembles not only in appearance, but in personality too.
== Trivia ==
* Laurence spinning inside the microwave at the start of most Reverend James episodes was foreshadowing for his eventual awakening as the microwave.
* Laurence was originally written as a self-insert character for LDthebadman, but as the plot developed he became more distinct.
* Laurence was originally supposed to be dead permanently after sacrificing himself, but it was decided that he was too integral to the Reverend James series.
* An early draft of the script had Reverend James going into isolation from guilt after destroying the microwave, and Laurence assuming his title as the Guardian of Fire.
*He does not have legs because he forgot them when moving into Reverend James' house.