Torrin

Torrin, now the only living member of his crew left, gazing out at sea.

**Torrin**, voiced by Troy Baker, is a character in LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS, appearing as the main protagonist in the third season episode titled "*Bad Travelling*".

## History

Torrin is the first mate of a ship ambushed by a Thanapod. During the attack, the ship's captain, alongside three others, are killed, and the Thanapod descends into the below hold.

After the attack, the survivors gather together. Torrin holds out straws to determine who will investigate what is happening below. Cert, the youngest crew member who is also sitting closest to Torrin, goes first. Jorvan, the largest and strongest crew member, pushes ahead but draws the short straw. Instead of going down, he declares that he is now the captain and "volunteers" Torrin. The rest of the crew back Jorvan.

Torrin descends into the bowels of the ship where the Thanapod lurks. The creature can use the corpse of Turk, one of the people it killed, to communicate. It demands to be transported to the populated Phaiden Island to eat meat. Torrin claims that he is the only one that can keep the ship on a straight keel. He then makes a deal with it: he gives it meat; it does not consume him; and they will sail to Phaiden Island. The Thanapod agrees. Torrin then instructs the creature to vomit up the remains of the captain so he may collect the captain's keys.

Torrin calmly emerges, and the crew glare at him somewhat shocked to find him alive. He makes a run for it to the captain's cabin and reaches the captain's gun box, unlocks it, and withdraws a loaded revolver before they can reach him. Having regained authority, Torrin curtly explains that he is in charge, but the creature has developed a taste for humans. Jorvan readily suggest that they feed it Calis, who was already injured when the Thanapod boarded the ship. Calis' brother Melis threatens Jorvan in return, and Torrin calms everyone down by stating they are together in the situation. Chantre acidly complains that this brings them back to where they started. Torrin agrees and notes that they have a tough decision to make, unless it had already been made.

He looks at Jorvan.

The crew carry the screaming and struggling Joran to the hole in the deck and throw him to the Thanapod. Torrin mutters, "That's it. Every last bite."

Torrin then explains to the crew that they have two options: one is to go to the populated Phaiden Island; the other is to sail further to a deserted island and try to fool the creature. He hands out paper ballots to the crew and instructs them to vote anonymously: An 'X' votes to go to Phaiden Island; an 'O' votes to take the longer but riskier journey. He advises them to follow their consciences. After counting the votes, he declares the decision is to go to the unnamed, unpopulated islands. He then claims a confession: he had marked the ballots in a way that he knows how each voted, and that there are "cowards", to which Maril acts surprised.

Torrin declares that he indeed discovered two cowards who would rather save their own skins than the innocent men, women, and children of Phaiden Island. He approaches Cert and calmly asks Melis to step to the side. Cert flinches, and after thanking Melis, he shoots him in the head, and the bullet passes through to kill his brother. He tells the crew that they are now united in their goal, and tells Suparin to resume course. After their bodies are tossed to the Therapod, Torrin hopes two will buy them twice the time.

Later while Torrin sits in the crow's nest to look out at sea and take measurements, crew member Deacon climbs up with a knife to kill him. Torrin points his revolver at him; Deacon begs that the crew made him do it. However, Torrin hears the Thanapod call to him. The Thanapod reveals its numerous tiny and hungry offspring.

They approach Phaiden Island, and Chantre remarks that it gets closer by the minute. Torrin assures the crew that he dismisses the attempt on his life as an expression of low morale and encourages them to stick with the plan. Suparin asks about the next day, and what would happen if Torrin's "friend" below them gets hungry again, but Torrin cuts him off and orders him to maintain course, and for him to be woken at the toll of the hour.

That night, Cert, Chantre, Maril, Suparin, and Paln sneak into the captain's cabin and attack the bed that appears to contain Torrin. He placed pillows under the covers as a diversion, and Torrin kills all of them. He hears rattling from a closed box and discovers it contains Deacon, who claims that he refused to participate. Torrin gave his thanks. After Deacon helps him toss the corpses of the crew to the Thanapod and its offspring, Torrin confesses that he lied when he stated that he marked the ballots. Every crew member voted to sacrifice the people of Phaiden Island. He pushes Deacon into the hold to the feeding creatures.

Now alone, Torrin continues his journey to Phaiden Island. He goes down to the Thanapod to announce that they have arrived at the destination. He walks around, slicing barrels containing oil, spilling the oil over the deck, as he explains that the jable shark is only useful for its oil. When he draws his gun the Thanapod mockingly tells him, "Shell protects." Torrin replies, "It's not for you". He fires the last bullet at a lantern, which drops down and ignites the oil. Torrin runs up to the main deck, while the Thanapod slashes at him, destroying sections of the ship and nearly killing him. Torrin gets out of the staircase, runs to the edge of the ship, and jumps into the water, where he quickly climbs into a rowboat he had set up, and rows away.

## Personality, Skills, and Mindset

Torrin is a man that is willing to do whatever he deems fit in service of justice and the greater good, which is why he kills his crew of cowards to save countless innocent lives. He is also very smart and good at improvising, as shown throughout the episode. He is able to be calm in stressful situations, and possesses a charisma that can command attention. He can read people and is able to predict their movements, as shown when he predicts them attacking him. He is able to improvise and change plans; after learning of the Thanapod's offspring and that there was not enough time to sail to the unnamed islands, he adapted his plan and chose to kill the creatures and row away to Phaiden. He is a highly skilled marksman, as demonstrated with the shots he takes with the revolver, and is agile, as shown through how he vertically flips with Suparin and is able to dodge around when his crew attacks him. He is also fast, as shown when he outruns his crew to get to the gun box and when he outruns the Thanapod's claws.

## Trivia

* It is assumed that Torrin killed Melis and Calis because he couldn't kill all the crew at once, but needed to kill them off separately, and had an opportunity to kill them both at the same time, with Melis stepping to the side allowing for them to be lined up and only one shot to be required. The two men were close brothers, so this prevented one of them from avenging the other, and also saved a bullet. It also gave a way to feed the creature, and provided a way to decide who would be sacrificed to it by claiming those two men were to die for cowardice, even though Torrin secretly knew that all of them were cowards.
* Besides the reasoning of feeding the Thanapod, it is disputed why Torrin chose to kill his crew when he could have just informed them of his plan to kill the Thanapod and row to Phaiden Island. While he killed many of them in self-defense, his murder of Deacon makes it likely that he had planned to kill them all anyway. Possible explanations are as follows (could be any combination):
	+ Knowing the crew would rather save themselves than many innocents, he assumed they wouldn't go along with his plan that detailed risking themselves and their ships just to kill the monster and save innocent civilians.
	+ The rowing boat could only fit so many people.
	+ He believed that his crew deserved to die for being cowards.
	+ As revenge for forcing him to confront the Thanapod which would have resulted in his death, if not for his negotiation.
* Torrin killed the Thanapod close to Phaiden Island and sailed away as opposed to the original plan which was to go to unpopulated islands, and the likely reasoning is that the Thanapod's offspring provided the reveal that there were more mouths to feed, and there was not enough time to sail past Phaiden Island. Thus Torrin could not afford to wait any longer, but either way, he was unwilling to let the crustacean eat the innocents.
* Torrin is the last surviving member of the crew. He is also the only character in the episode to survive.

## Gallery

Torrin when he first sees the Thanapod.Torrin has the votes in his hand.Torrin keeps the crew at bay with the captain's gun.