Travis Rogers

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Mr Old Soul

"*I've been doing this for a long time. I started when I was a kid. I was running away from something. I wanted my own life, my decisions. [...] Your situation is different. **Everyone** is looking for you. My advice: **become someone else**. That's your best bet. [...] Nah. I got my own path to follow. Something I should have completed long ago. [...] Farewell, brother,*"
—Travis says goodbye to Jim[src]

**Travis Rogers** is a character in *Kings of the Road*. He is an experienced vagrant and veteran of the trainhopping culture, which he still follows and often teaches to fellow travellers. At some point, Travis joined a commune of youths led by Finn and developed a strong bond with them, all while hiding his true identity.

## Biography

### Season 1

#### 'Lost'

Travis is introduced at the end of the first episode, sitting in the boxcar with the rest of the commune when they are greeted by fugitive brothers James and Drew Wolff. For some reason, Travis takes a quick liking to the brothers, and votes to let them accompany them on their travels across America.

#### 'Roads'

Two weeks after the Wolff Brothers joined the commune, Travis is seen having coffee with Georgie and Ingred when Jim comes over to join them. By this point, the commune has started working at a pot farm in Indiana. Travis mentions to Ingred that he used to work the winters at a farm just like this.

## Overview

### Physical Appearance

Having spent nearly two decades on the road, Travis has a somewhat dishevelled, dirty appearance. His hair has turned brown - unlike the dark blonde of his youth - and he has an unkempt beard.

Travis notably has a wide range of body scars, including but not limited to: a rope scar on his neck; whip marks on his back; stab wounds in his ribs and abdomen; and a gunshot wound in his left shoulder.

### Personality

Travis Rogers was once known as David Mayfair, the heir to his family's fortune who ran away from home in the early 2000s. Although the rest of his story is mostly a secret, David slowly picked up the personalities and habits of the many people he met on the road, hardening more and more and becoming ever more distant from the boy he once was, developing a grudge against society and its norms.

In *Kings of the Road*, David Mayfair is no more and Travis Rogers is all that remains, having completely abandoned all of the norms, rules and setbacks of society that had once held him back. He has taken on aspects of the personalities of many people he has met during his life on the road, developing a somewhat sneaky manner that is sometimes bordering on comical. Nonetheless, Travis is kindhearted, loyal, charismatic and generally good at heart. Because of his free-hearted nature, Travis can sometimes come off as apathetic, but this is never his intension and he cares deeply for those who do not impede on his own morals or actions.

Travis' complete detachment from normal societal values and the rule of law has been demonstrated several times, often to a disturbing degree; one of the more minor instances is his voicing strong support for the heist of St. Victoria Depository, but perhaps the most troubling is his murder of Mortimer without batting an eye, albeit to avenge the death of his friend Branch.

Following this, it is obvious that Travis is not above sanctioning murder, even encouraging Jim to permanently remove the inconvenience presented by Lilith Frie and the Church of St. Valentine. Ultimately, it was these actions that forced Travis to leave the commune and flee into the wilderness to live in hiding once more.

## Powers, Equipment and Abilities

### Powers

* **Supernatural perception:** Although David/Travis does not possess any overt supernatural powers, he does possess the power to detect those with such abilities; he perceives this as waves of strange energy, describing it as feeling like "when you stand next to a power line and you feel the electricity on your skin". It is not clear if this is an "Awoken" ability or something he is attuned to due to growing up with Karen Moore, but it nonetheless allows him to "detect" those who are "Awoken".

### Equipment

* **"Gordie":** "Gordie" is David's nickname for the ruined black guitar that he found on the side of the road as he left St. Charles and spent the next few years restoring; in *Kings of the Road*, David continues to carry this guitar, at which point he has restored it to look almost like new. The guitar is one of the core aspects of David's life as Travis Rogers.

## Associated Deaths

### Murders committed by David

* Mortimer - shot several times to avenge Branch

### Murders connected to David

* Lilith Frie - sabotaged the Church's security system, allowing Jim to break in, then confront and ultimately kill Lilith

### Deaths connected to David

* Several hobos - accidentally killed by the gas explosion

## Trivia

* The name "Travis Rogers" is a combination of country singers Randy Travis and Kenny Rogers.
* Travis' animal symbol is a bear.
* Travis is described as "running faster from his past than any other member of the commune, even more than the Wolff Brothers".
* In 2020, a prequel series centred around Travis in his early days of vagrancy was ordered, titled *Juvenile Prosperity*. The series explores David's early adventures and his transformation into the character of Travis Rogers.
* Travis is confirmed to not be appearing in *Season 2*.