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Father Jesus I'm an outlaw killer and a thief

And I slow down only to sow my grief

Created on 2008-08-24 19:28:04 (#16435555), last updated 2009-05-03

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Name:	James "Sawyer" Ford

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now I ain't sayin' that makes me an innocent man

but it was more 'n all this that put that gun in my hand

Series: Lost
Name: James “Sawyer” Ford
Age: 38
Gender: Male

well your honor I do believe I'd be better off dead

Appearance: Sawyer has long, sandy blond hair, a short beard and sharp blue eyes. He is handsome with a bad boy air about him and tends to walk with a cocky, confident swagger. His face usually wears a matching expression or a superior smirk but when something is truly upsetting him he has a very hard time keeping up this façade. He speaks with a lazy southern drawl that seems to fit his constant smirking perfectly. Physically he’s in quite good shape although he has picked up some fairly recent scars, most notably a knife wound on his right bicep and a gunshot wound on his left shoulder. He wears glasses when reading, which seems at odds with his attitude and persona but is an activity he nonetheless enjoys. For the most part he dresses in jeans and button down shirt, but knows how to dress up snappy when the occasion calls for it. He also always carries a concealed gun, usually either tucked into the back of his jeans or in a coat pocket.

Personality: Sawyer is all slick, confident conman, and always seems able to think up cutting remarks, comebacks and clever nicknames. He can often be downright mean to others, and generally comes off as a vengeful, angry jerk. In reality, he actually goes out of his way to make people hate him because of the guilt he feels over many of the things he has done in his life. He has a lot of emotional baggage and is bitter and driven to do what he feels he has to. Despite his scoundrel ways, he will never do anything that would hurt a child, even if it gets him in trouble. On the other hand, he can be funny and playful, and will usually do the right thing in the end. He’s surprisingly intelligent and well read, and often makes unexpected references to books or classic novels. Besides reading he also enjoys playing games - everything from cards to ping-pong. Although he always keeps up the bad guy attitude, he has proven over and over again he is willing to sacrifice himself to save others, even if he claims not to like or care about them. He is also surprisingly loyal and sticks by those around him, so long as that loyalty doesn’t put him in any personal danger. The jerk-like attitude is not exactly an act, but it is also not the complete truth of who he really is.

Since leaving the island the negative aspects of his personality have become more pronounced. He has always been quick-tempered but that has taken on a more mean, spiteful edge that is made worse by the fact that he’s started drinking. He’s guilt-ridden over leaving the rest of the survivors behind, but does not know how to deal with or express those feelings besides being angry with everyone and everything around him.

Particulars: Sawyer is the worst sort of lowlife criminal scum. He’s a thief and a conman, able to trick people out of their money, get them to do his dirty work and generally manipulate situations to his advantage. He’s a good shot and won’t back down in a tight situation. He is also not above a good old-fashioned fistfight, and has experience as a boxer he gained during his time in jail. He carries a gun with him at all times, hidden somewhere on his person and ready at a moment’s notice.

He’s a packrat and a scavenger, who always seems to have whatever items people need squirreled away in his tent, or home. He’s not above stealing from the dead or those around him, but is very protective of his stash.

and if you can take a man's life for the thoughts that's in his head

Canon History: James Ford was born in Jasper, Alabama, but had his life ruined at age 9, when his parents were conned out of all their money by a man using the alias “Sawyer”. James watched in horror as his father shot both his mother and himself while he hid, and vowed to avenge himself on the man who had destroyed his life. He dropped out of high school a few years later and attempted to track him down, but soon ran out of money. Before long he became a conman himself, adopting the same profession and even the name of the man who he hated; Sawyer. He used his good looks and charms to seduce rich women who would then convince their husbands to invest in a non-existent business deal and then steal their money. In one case, he attempted this trick on a recently divorced woman named Cassidy who saw through his deception and asked him to teach her the tricks of his trade. Sawyer agreed, and even though he grew to care about her still pulled off a long con in the end and tricked her out of her fortune. Cassidy pressed charges and he was sent to prison. She later visited him and informed him she had since given birth to a baby named Clementine, his daughter; Sawyer insisted the child wasn’t his, and she left. Soon afterwards he helped to trick a fellow prisoner into revealing where he had hidden the money he had stolen from the government, and his sentence was cut short; he had the money he received as a reward deposited into an anonymous bank account for Clementine.

He resumed his old con game, but some time later was informed by a business partner of the whereabouts of the original Sawyer who had killed his parents; Sydney, Australia. He hunted the man down and shot him, only to learn to his horror that the man he had killed had not been the right one, merely someone who owed his partner money. He was involved in a violent bar fight later that night, and subsequently deported from Australia on Oceanic Flight 815, flying to Los Angeles.

The passengers never reached their destination; the plane crashed over the pacific, breaking apart in midair and stranding them on a mysterious island. Although 48 of the passengers survived, they were stranded and no rescue arrived. Sawyer quickly set to work scavenging from the dead, setting up a sort of black market and forcing other survivors to bargain with him for items they needed. He was part of the small group that set out to try to send a distress call with the plane’s radio, but on the way to higher ground they were attacked by a polar bear of all things, which Sawyer shot with a gun he had taken from a dying US Marshall on the plane. When the radio succeeded only in picking up a French distress call that had been playing on a loop for 16 years, he and the others agreed not to tell everyone else, and returned to the beach.

The castaways slowly began to set up a life for themselves on the island. Sawyer often clashed with Jack, a doctor, over issues of morality and for the attention of Kate, a fellow convict, but made no effort to get along with anyone. When fellow survivor Shannon suffered an asthma attack, Sawyer refused to hand over any inhalers in his stash to help save her. Jack enlisted the help of Sayid, a former interrogator in the Iraqi National Guard to tortured Sawyer until he reluctantly informed them he did not have the inhalers after all, causing an enraged Sayid to attack him and stab him in the arm. Despite their differences, Jack saved him from bleeding to death and Kate convinced him to try to fit in with the group.

He helped Michael and Jin build their raft in return for a spot on it when they attempted to find help, and seemed to actually be getting along with the other survivors. Things on the island began to get more interesting though when the castaways discovered there was another mysterious and hostile group of people on the island who they referred to as the Others. When the three finally set sail on their raft, along with Michael’s young son Walt, they encountered a small boat that they originally believed to be a rescue but soon discovered was crewed by the Others, who demanded they be allowed to take Walt. Sawyer was shot in the shoulder while trying to save him and jumped off the raft just before it exploded. The three washed ashore and encountered the survivors of the tail section of the plane, who forced them to lead them back to their camp. Sawyer passed out from his wound and was carried the rest of the way back to camp, where he slowly recovered. When he discovered that his stash had been raided while he was gone, and Jack had taken the medicine in it, he conned Jack and Locke, pitting them against each for control of the castaways’ guns. He stole the guns in the ensuing chaos, keeping them hidden and proclaiming himself the new sheriff in town. He then agreed to help Michael locate the Others’ camp, along with Jack and Kate, only to realize too late that Michael was leading them into a trap. They were ambushed and kidnapped by the Others, who gave Michael back his son and a boat to escape the island in return for bringing the three new prisoners, who they knocked out and carried off into the jungle.

When he awoke, Sawyer discovered himself in a large cage (formerly used to hold polar bears), and Kate was soon placed in another nearby. Ben, the leader of the Others, tricked him into believing they had installed a pacemaker in his heart that would kill him if it reached a certain heart rate to prevent him from trying to escape. He later learned this had been a lie, but also that they were now on a different island entirely, located just a mile or so off shore. Kate managed to escape from her cage and join him in his, and they slept together for the first time. After Colleen, one of the Others was killed by the castaways back at camp, her husband Pickett who had been guarding Sawyer and Kate attempted to kill Sawyer but was stopped when Jack threatened to kill Ben unless Sawyer and Kate were allowed to escape. Jack remained behind, but Kate and Sawyer escaped and returned to their camp, where Hurley convinced him to act as the leader of the castaways until Jack returned a few days later, having escaped and bringing Juliet, one of the Others, with him.

Not long afterwards, fellow survivor John Locke lured Sawyer into the jungle to the Black Rock, an old 18th century slave ship that had crashed on the island, and locked him in a room with a mysterious man who he discovered was the original Sawyer. How he had gotten there was impossible to say, and Sawyer did not know how Locke had known about his connection to the man, although while talking to him Sawyer learned he was Locke’s father. He killed him, and Locke released him, informing him that Juliet was a spy and giving him a tape recording of her reporting to Ben. When he confronted her in front of the whole camp she revealed that the Others were planning to attack that night. They set a trap for them but when it failed. Sawyer helped to rescue the survivors who had stayed behind. When they contacted Jack afterwards he informed them he had just made radio contact with a helicopter that was coming to rescue them from a freighter anchored several miles off shore. When the two groups met back up in the jungle, Locke reappeared and said that they should not trust the people on the helicopter and that he planned to avoid them. Sawyer agreed with him, and left Kate behind to follow Locke into the jungle.

Their group set up camp in the abandoned town the Others had, until recently, lived in. Ben, the leader of the Others, seemed to be cooperating with them for once and joined their group. It soon turned out he and Locke had been right about not trusting the people on the freighter and helicopter; they had been sent to capture Ben and kill all the survivors, for reasons unknown. When they attacked the town, Sawyer risked his life to rescue Claire and help evacuate the survivors. He rejoined Jack, Kate and the rest of their group, and they managed to fight off the attacking freighter people and steal their helicopter. When they tried to escape the island, however, they discovered a bullet had pierced the fuel tank during the fight and it was doubtful they would be able to reach the freighter before running out of gas.

then won't you sit back in that chair and think it over judge one more time

Crux: Realizing that his weight might be enough to allow the helicopter to reach the freighter, Jack jumped out into the ocean and swam back to shore.

Tangent: Jack’s sacrifice meant the helicopter reached the freighter and was able to refuel, but they had to hurry; a bomb had just been discovered onboard and was about to go off. The helicopter just made it with Sawyer, Kate, Claire’s baby Aaron, Sayid, Hurley, Sun, Desmond and Frank the pilot on board. They started to head back to the island, but suddenly it was engulfed in a blinding flash of white light and vanished. (Ben had “moved” it.) The chopper crashed in the water, and they were left adrift in its emergency life raft. Not long afterwards they were picked up by a boat crewed by Desmond’s girlfriend Penny who had been searching for him. Desmond, Frank and Penny remained on her boat, and the others washed up in the life raft on a nearby inhabited island.

The Oceanic Six, as the rescued survivors were called, lied about what had happened to them, saying the plane had crashed in the water and only they had survived. They received huge amounts of publicity and fame, but the attention was not the only thing preventing their lives from returning to normal; all felt guilt and regret over those they had been forced to leave behind.

For awhile Sawyer and Kate stayed together, although he was never comfortable with Aaron, who she pretended was her son; he couldn’t help remembering his own daughter who he had never met and was unable to shake the belief that he would be a horrible father. Moreover, the fame of being one of the Oceanic Six meant he could no longer continue his life of crime or be a successful conman. In his mind he wasn’t good for much else, and often wished he could have been the sort of respectable man he felt Kate deserved. Insecurity led to tension, fighting and drinking until she eventually broke up with him, saying she didn’t want him around her son.

At some point during this time he was visited by John Locke who had left the island by his own means and tracked Sawyer down to try to convince him to return to the island, saying that the people he had left behind were in danger. Sawyer refused to listen to him.

After all that there really wasn’t much worth staying in LA for, and eventually he decided he had to get away from everything and headed off to another, very different island.

Allegiance: Mafioso
Reason: Sawyer would never choose any profession but that of a conman. He’s good at what he does, doesn’t believe there is anything else he could make a living from, and has been doing so from a very young age.

and let 'em shave off my hair and put me on that execution line

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