Connor

**Connor** is a Shade citizen and the owner of a small shop stall outside the wall of the city in the Dustlands. He was the last person to own Pete's guitar, before it was confiscated by the SIA agent Maxwell Sterling in his investigation of Connor's possible colluding with Axle Rubix to cause the Blackout, after which Sterling directed the Red Eyes to attack Connor, disfiguring his face and forring him to replace it with a robotic one, using a holographic face to communicate his emotions.

Connor has been portrayed by multiple people, including being played by Andy Dopieralski as a younger version, Teague Chrystie around the same age, and Ian Hubert as an older present Connor.

## Biography

Not much is known of Connor's earlier life. Some years ago, he was working his stall outside the wall of Shade when Pete came walking out of the city and passed the stall. Connor called after him asking him where he had gotten the guitar case he was carrying. Pete asked Connor if he was a cop, and when Connor told him no Pete decided to tell him where he got it. Pete told him that he "got it out in the desert, from a pterodactyl, The King of The Mall, whom I destroyed", which made Connor very exciting. Pete told him it was a physical reminder of his biggest regret. He handed the case to Connor telling him to take it so that he might carry the burden no longer, and then turned and began walking away. As he was walking away, Connor opened the case a found a guitar inside of it, and called after Pete saying he loved him, but by then he had already walked some distance away.
 After Connor's brief meeting with Pete, he still likes to tell the tale to people passing by his store, although it is unknown how much of the story he tells is true, as he was not there. For instance, it features several rather over-the-top elements, such as supernatural powers used in a big fight between Pete and Tbe King of The Mall. It is possible the story is 100% true, pieced together by Connor from rumours he has heard of Pete from before and after he met him, combined with the tiny few words Pete spoke to him, or it is embellished heavily.

Some time after meeting Pete, Connor was visited by Axle Rubix in his van, where they both did snails. Ten minutes after Rubix left his van, the Blackout happened, causing every human in Shade to lose consciousness for twenty whole minutes.

Some time after the Blackout incident, Connor was interrogated by the Superintelligence Agency, with the interrogation conducted by Special Agent Maxwell Sterling. After discussing the guitar, which according to Sterling was an "Unregistered B-Class Dustland import," Sterling wanted to know if Connor had anything to do with the Blackout, since the SIA was was suspecting Rubix was to blame for it and had evidence of him leaving Connor's van ten minutes before the event. Connor however didn't even really know Rubix. The agent asked Connor when he last dreamed at night, to which Connor incredulously responded that no one dreams. Sterling remindes him that they used to dream – used to build cities on every corner of the globe, used to reach for the stars, and used to get things done, and he wished to find out why and said, with a wrathful undertone, find out why "they" took this from them. Then Agent Sterling pressed the button on a special device in his hand, after which the light in the room turned off, and something, most likely the Red Eyes, prepared to attack Connor. Agent Sterling apathetically said "Goodbye, Connor" after which Connor was attacked. The Red Eyes did horribly disfigured Connor's face, possibly even tearing it off of his head, after which Connor got a cybernetic robotic face in its place. He also had a holographic display added to his shop's countertop which could project a simple white 3D face that would mimic the rotation of his head in 3D space and move its lips on Connor's own command, to better show his emotion to people and show when he was speaking.

A video recording of the interrogation exists and is in the possession of Agent Sterling.

## Appearances

### *Dynamo Dream*

* *Episode 2: A Single Point in Space* (younger Connor)
* *Episode 3: A Pete Episode* (younger Connor and older 35-year old Connor)

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 *A Pete Episode*, episode 3 of *Dynamo Dream*. Ian Hubert. April 6, 2023.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 *A Single Point in Space*, episode 2 of *Dynamo Dream*. Ian Hubert. March 29, 2023.