Character info:

• Full name: Flynn Walker
• Age: 26
• Gender: Male
• Sexuality: Heterosexual
• Species: Ram/Sheep
• Height: 5'11
• Tail length: 1'5
• Hometown: Wellington, NZ
• Phone: AT&T Tilt 8925
• Favorite song: Boards of Canada - Dayvan Cowboy
• Favorite food: Strawberries (especially parfaits)
• Personality: Nerdy, reserved, loner, stoic, perfectionist, serious, focused, workaholic
• Likes: Computers, the internet, the Commdore 64, programming, sleep, Mocha (but not in that way), electronic music, coffee, older tech, obscure things, tracker software/music, game music
• Hates: Meat, computers (sometimes), Apple, being called British, mornings, Telecom, troubleshooting, cable management

Character bio:

Having grown up in New Zealand in the 80s, he didn't get his hands on a proper game console until the early 90s with the Master System, but the majority of the time was spent on the Commodore 64, which was his family's main computer and his main machine he used for gaming, having spent most of his younger years playing it once he had some spare time, with most of his pocket money earned going to games, or having copied games and passed them around to people. Another avenue were the code books that were around, and it's through there that he learned to code, just starting off in BASIC before eventually moving onto bigger languages like C, MySQL, Java, and others, being able to land a pretty well paying job for his age, becoming a coder first for a game studio before working for a bigger tech company in his area, although this combined with working towards a college degree at the same time gave him a perfectionist workaholic attitude, with him first developing sleeping issues at 19, something that has continued to this day, spurring him to develop an addiction to coffee and caffeine, also getting him into an expensive hobby with getting a perfect coffee setup at home. He was VERY early to getting onto the internet, starting with first dabbling with the Commodore 64's various modems, leading to getting a full on dial-up connection in 1996, much to his parents' detriment, although still being blown away by the internet and BBS. After he moved into his own place in 2001, he got a broadband connection, allowing him to get access to the internet way faster than anyone else at the time, especially compared to others in NZ, having spent most of his time on internet forums, IRC and ICQ clients, and just browsing various websites for anything fun. Around 2003, he met Mocha while talking on a forum as usual, leading to them becoming best friends, talking to each other basically everytime they got online, although it was difficult due to the massive time difference. But that all changed in 2005 when Flynn was offered a VERY high paying job working at a tech company in Seattle, resulting in him having to pack up everything and move to America around a year later, with him finally being able to talk to and interact with Mocha in person, along with Mocha's other friends like Samantha and Dusty, although Flynn always stuck out due to him being taller than everyone else, being "the serious one", and having a pretty thick accent, albeit one that people he talks to seem to really like.

Character trivia:

• Meta Trivia: Flynn was originally intended to be American like my other characters, but I was watching Flight of the Conchords while drawing him, so I decided to make him a Kiwi, which is unintentionally appropriate as New Zealand is known for having a high Sheep population.
• He doesn't get nearly as annoyed if people call him Australian as opposed to British.
• Once spent 12 hours straight working on a game for a retro competition, both coding and making music for it, only stopping because he fell asleep right there at his desk.
• Has listened to all of Boards of Canada's albums about 15 times over.

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