Tyler Striker

Tyler in Journey through Blockteria

"Great shot Steve, that was one in one billion"-Tyler Striker

**Tyler Jacob Striker** is a male, human teenage warrior and an ex-minion of Herobrine. He is Steve Fighter's childhood best friend. He is the main antagonist in Travels Through the Overworld, but after being unbrainwashed is the deurotagonist throughout the rest of the series. He is also the main protagonist in the Redemption of a Minecraft Griefer series. At some point in his past, Tyler and his family were forced to move away from Minetown. Tyler later runs away from his family so he can visit Steve but instead gets lost and ends up on an adventure instead, picking up the warrior tracker of a deceased warrior and claiming it as his own. He kills loads of monsters and becomes a brave and strong hero among villagers, he also makes new friends who travel with him through the nether and build a secret base. Tragically, as Tyler and his friends were fighting mobs one night, they were captured and taken to Herobrine himself who disguised as an old man, treated them with hospitality to gain their trust and then brainwash them all. After commiting a series of atrocious acts due to Herobrine's brainwashing, Tyler is freed from his possessed state and sees Steve Fighter again. Since then, Tyler has been aiding the Fighters on their journey to defeat Herobrine. He has a secret base that no one except for him and his friends know about

## **Biography**

### **History**

Tyler was born on April 23 2016, in Minetown. At some point in his early life, he met and became best friends with Steve Fighter.

### **Journey Through Blockteria**

In this volume, Tyler is a nine year old boy and the main character.

### **Travels Through the Overworld**

Tyler meets Steve for the first time in Variety Ville, when he is with his fellow griefers who are burning all the houses, kidnapping a villager girl, and nearly kills Steve Fighter's dogs. This results in Tyler getting drawn into a fierce brawl with Steve and his sister Lavender Fighter. Steve and Lavender are able to wound Tyler's friends but Lavender is wounded severly. Tyler is then defeated by Steve who out of the kindness of his heart, allows him to live.

Tyler then runs away, it is possible that he returned to Herobrine's castle but was sent back out to the wilderness.

The following night, Tyler sees Steve's compact base, he secretly, steals the diamond and 8 gold blocks from the chest before damaging the base. He and his friends then fight Steve but his friends are brutally defeated in the end forcing him and his friends to retreat once more vowing to return and kill Steve the next time they meet.

Tyler is never seen again for five days until Steve enters a village on the night of Tuesday June, 12th. After seeing Steve and Lavender had been tired out from the illager raid. TheTyler runs up and hits Steve with his newly enchanted diamond sword. He brags about how his armor protects him from most forms of damage and he and his friends team up against Steve. However, just when it seems like they have defeated Steve, The Ruiner's friends are distracted by Lavender. Down to just him and Steve,Tyler continues to fight Steve but then, Steve takes off running and wears down his energy, then his food is stolen by Steve. After that, The Ruiner continues to try to kill Steve but his foe is too clever as he is poisoned by a witch thanks to a trick that Steve pulled off. The Tyler watches in agony as his health is depleted, before he is killed however, Steve unexpectedly saves his life. He then calls off the battle and retreats with his friends, vowing to defeat Steve and Lavender once and for all.

Tyler is later seen in Steve Fighter's dreams. He stands in front of Herobrine's throne who angrily reprimands him for failing to kill Steve thrice. The Ruiner begs and pleads that he will act better and not let Steve outsmart him. Furious, Herobrine gives him one last chance and sends him on a quest to destroy Minetown, before Tyler sets off, Herobrine threatens him to not fail him again. Little does he know, Herobrine has also sent illagers to kill him.

On the night of Friday June, 22nd, Tyler attacks Minetown. Steve confronts him personally, but he just has the illagers attack him. Tyler then starts destroying the Minetown buildings, unfortunately for him, the civilians escape. He then sees a kid with blond hair out in the city, unprotected, Tyler decides that he is an ideal first victim and goes to attack him, brutally defeating him. Before he could go in for the kill, the blond haired kid is rescued by Steve and Lavender Fighter. Furious, Tyler storms off to find another house. He finds one and makes his way upstairs, there he finds a girl, and begins to attack her and knocks her to the ground. However, he still can't get a kill as Steve Fighter came in and intervened. Tyler angrily tells Steve to leave him alone after Steve yelled at him for the destruction he caused. They can't argue as Tyler is attacked by a pillager. Once again, Steve saves him, but Tyler des not show any gratitude so they continue to fight until a diamond falls from Tyler's inventory.

Steve recognizes the diamond as the one he gave Tyler on the day that he moved. With Tyler's identity revealed, Steve begs Tyler to stop helping Herobrine. When Tyler refuses, Steve throws a splash potion at Tyler thus freeing him from Herobrine's control. Tyler then helps Steve kill all the remaining monsters and rescue Lavender from a zombie general. They then are requested to meet with the mayor to establish improvements for Minetown and are rewarded for their efforts. Steve, Lavender, and Tyler share their plans with The Mayor, build a wall, then head off to Tyler's base.

At Tyler's base, Tyler locks up the zombie general he captured to be interrogated. He then helps Steve and Lavender enchant their gear with powerful enchantments and gives them better horses. He also tells them that he wants to head back to Herobrine's castle to free his friends from Herobrine's control and then will join Steve and Lavender in the nether. He also reveals that his dad Jacob Striker is in league with Herobrine. The next day, Tyler accompanies his friends to the edge of the desert and then parts ways with them. Tyler has not been seen again ever since.

### **Conquering the Other Dimensions**

Tyler has sucessfully saved his friends from Herobrine and enters the nether. He and his friends decide to fight a wither but the wither runs away. They see Steve fight the wither from a safe distance. A ghast attacks them but Steve kills it. Not wanting to have his friend be in danger, he orders his friends to fire at the wither. Tyler gets in on the action himself and they take out half of the wither's heath. The wither explodes and blasts Steve into the air. Tyler is scared that Steve is going to die, and he and his friends did not plan ahead to save him. Luckily, his friend Morgan whips out a slime block that Steve bounces on, thus allowing him to evade death much to Tyler's relief. Tyler and Steve have a joyous reunion and Tyler thanks Steve for killing the ghast. Steve then explains to Tyler that Lavender is in trouble and thus Tyler feels obliged to team up with his friend. All of Tyler's friends agree as well. Tyler follows Steve down the Fortress and helps him rescue Lavender by giving him a milk bucket for him to use to save Lavender from the wither. Tyler is pleased to see Lavender and offers to introduce her and Steve to his friends but Steve insists they fight the wither. Since the wither is at half health, the warriors are forced to fight with their swords. With the hardwork of everyone, the wither is defeated. Following this, Tyler and his friends permanently join Steve and Lavender and travel together as one group.

## **Appearance**

Tyler is a young boy with long red hair and green eyes as well as light skin. He is drawn wearing a Creeper shirt to perhaps forshadow his transformation into The Ruiner. He is also stands slightly tall for his age with a height of 5'3 at 13 years old which is the same height as Steve.

## **Personality**

### **As The Ruiner**

In his brainwashed state, Tyler is seen as evil, cruel, and selfish. He has no regard for the safety of others and will ruthlessly hurt anyone he comes across, even innocent people. He hates villagers and seeks to exterminate them at all costs. He is immensly loyal to his master Herobrine although he is very unforgiving. As the Ruiner he also seems very sadistic as he laughs when he tortures a villager child. However this is all because of Herobrine's programming and given how he shows remorse and reverts back into his kinder personality upon becoming Tyler again, all his actions as the Ruiner were ultimately Herobrine's and not his.

### **As Tyler Striker**

In his youth, Tyler was a kind-hearted and carefree individual who enjoyed spending time with Steve. As shown in the Journey Through Blockteria movie, Tyler can be very cocky at times as well, especially when he was swinging a stick around at invisible monsters. After being freed from Herobrine's control, Tyler regains his kind-hearted personality that he had as a little kid. He has become far more mature but still retains some traces of his cockiness from his youth. He proves to be a selfless pure-hearted individual when he expresses his concern about his friends who are still brainwashed by Herobrine to Steve. He gives Steve his unconditional support and is willing to be with him at all costs as he tries to kill Herobrine. He seems to have a fear of silverfish due to an unexplained trauma he had in his past. Whenever his friends are in danger, Tyler tends to let his anger take control of him as he tries to protect people.
Like Steve, he also gets annoyed at the Shearer twins when they nearly get killed due to messing around. He can also be very aggressive to his enemies and is clearly more vocal in his dislike of Robert Attacker than Steve is. However, he does assist with Steve in saving his old bully despite their mutual hatred of each other showing that he is loyal to his friends. He also seems to love animals and is seen affectionately caring for his dog Max on more than one occasion. Overall, Tyler is very loyal to his friends but can be a fearsome opponent in battle to his enemies.

## **Skills and Abilities**

* **Combat:** Many times, Tyler has proven to be very good at combat. His combat skills have saved the lives for himself and countless others many times
* **Griefing:** During his time as Herobrine's minion, Tyler has become a very adept griefer, and after being unbrainwashed and allying himself with Steve Fighter, has had his griefing skills come in handy.
* **Swordsmanship:** Tyler is great at using a sword, this makes him a powerful asset as he can easily take down large groups of monsters with his sword to defend himself and his friends

## **Trivia**

In the movie script for Journey Through Blockteria, the opening scene is a filler that takes places a day before the events of the book. In it, there is a plot error which is where the film was set in 2029 and Tyler was nine years old. However, Tyler's birthday is on April 23rd and the movie begins on April 22nd meaning Tyler would've been ten years old. Fortunately, author Eric Qi saw this error and fixed it.

Tyler also shares some similarities with Luke Castellan from Percy Jackson.

For instance:

* Both Tyler and Luke ran away from home when they were nine years old because of undesirable reasons. Tyler ran away because he didn't like his new home in Cube Ville, and Luke ran away because his mother was mentally unstable.
* Both met new companions who accompanied them on their journeys upon running away from home. Tyler met Morgan, Lilly, Molly, Malcolm, and Maddox, and Luke met and travelled with Thalia, Annabeth, and Grover.
* Tyler and Luke also needed to fight monsters to survive in the wilderness and both of them also became heroes of their own stories.
* Tyler and Luke also turned evil and served the main antagonists of their respective series for some time. (Though Tyler had no desire to join Herobrine and Luke joined Kronos out of hatred toward the Olympian gods.)
* Both villains eventually redeemed themselves and turned good once more. (Tyler after learning he was brainwashed by Herobrine. Luke regains control of his body after remembering his broken promise to Annabeth and redeems when he learns he was mislead by Kronos the whole time, though unlike Tyler, he died to achieve redemption while Tyler lived and went on to become a main character for the rest of the series.)
* Both characters were originally friends with the main protagonist. (Tyler had been Steve's friend since he was a little kid. Luke was Percy Jackson's friend for some time after Percy came to Camp Half-Blood until Luke revealed his true colors as an agent of Kronos.
* Tyler and Luke were honored as heroes upon their redemptions.
* He is said to bear a slight resemblance to Petra, a character from the (now non-existent) video game Minecraft Story Mode, mostly because of his hairstyle.

Tyler is seen to freak out around silverfish implying he might suffer from entomophobia, however, he's just fine around bees