Iron Horse & Tramp (Motorhead)

NAME/ORIGIN

Character name
Tramp & Iron Horse
"Tramp and his stallion"
Song/Album
 "Iron Horse/ Born to Lose"/ Motorhead
Act
 Motorhead
Writer
 Taylor, Mick Brown, Guy "Tramp" Lawrence
Release Date
 1977


ABILITIES

Powers
-Immortality
"He rides a road that don't have no end"
"Together they'll fly on the eternal run"
-Flight (the horse)
-"On an Iron Horse he flies"
-Speed/Accelerated time
"He lives his life... fast"
Skills
-Find the shortest route
"An open highway that don't have no bends"
-Lucid dreaming
"Alone in a dream"
-Can ride storm winds
"He rides a whirlwind"
Attributes
Nihilistic; considers himself "born to lose"
Vulnerabilities
Can't die, which would end his misery
Formidability
Harmless
Attractiveness
Low
Source
N/A
Goals
To fly into the Sun
"One day, they'll go for the Sun."


POSSESSIONS

Weapons
Guns with unlimited ammunition
"Loaded forever"
Amulets
N/A
Objects
"Dice" that help him locate people
"Don't try to hide once the dice have been cast"
"Booze"
Clothing
"colors," possibly of a gang (has "brothers")
Vehicles
"Speed bikes"
Dwelling

Milieu
"An open highway"


BIOGRAPHY

Gender
Male
Age
N/A
Physique
N/A
Ethnicity
N/A
Origin
N/A
Ancestry
N/A but has "brothers"
Profession
Biker
Education
N/A, likely little if any formal education
SES
High; is "Loaded forever"
Relationships
Is part of a gang, has brothers
Pets
(more like a "wife") Iron Horse, which is also partially "chromium"


PERSONALITY

Morality
N/A
Intro/extrovert
Introvert
Intelligence
N/A
Emotions
"Proud in his colors"
"He gladly dies"
"Loaded forever and ferociously stoned"/ "Wasted forever"
Sanity
Poor
Enemies
N/A
Narrative Function
Catalyst, if that. May be used for his dice, to help locate others. 
Other Notes
Tramp has a lot in common with the Riders on the Storm and the Ghost Riders in the Sky (and Ghost Rider himself). For him, immortality is a curse. All he can do is ride (or fly) around on Iron Horse. He seems to be working up the speed to break Earth's gravity so he can shoot into the Sun and end his incessant riding around the same highways, over and over for eternity.
It is not clear what this has to do with Iron Horse. Perhaps he made a devil's bargain, saying he'd do anything to ride that horse forever... and now he has to. He can stop long enough to use drugs and booze to dull his angst. Worse, time seems to travel faster for him; our day may just be his hour, so his eternity is even longer. It would not be surprising if he tried to act in a way  that would provoke someone to try to kill him; which frankly might be an act of mercy. Like the aging-but-deathless Tithonus of myth, Tramp is ultimately a tragic figure, doomed like a ghost to ride the endless highway. 



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