Rorick

" 'It's your fault this happened! It's your fault!'""-Rorick"Rorick is the main character in Psychosis.

Bio
As of the beginning of Psychosis, Rorick was very proud of his strength and how many freight cars he could pull on long distances. He was skeptical when his friend Jensen told him about new diesels, as Rorick thought there was no need for them.

When the diesels arrived two months later, however, Rorick was worried. He vowed not to let them take his place, and didn't care when a new diesel named Henry got assigned with him and Jensen.

One night, a freight train stalled on a hill and Rorick was called to help. He showed off his power by shoving the train over the hill, which wouldn't work in his favor. The dispatchers were impressed, so they reassigned him to helper service.

Rorick was also bound to have anger issues, as shown toward the end of his career. While still on helper service, he bumped a caboose too hard, causing an accident. He began to lose his mind, blaming Henry and the other diesels for everything. He even took it to the extreme of traveling to another yard and battling the diesels, eventually destroying a brand new Fairbanks-Morse Trainmaster by running it into the shed.

Rorick realized his mistake, but had a plan to keep himself in service. He went to a coal mine and assembled a bunch of coal hoppers until he had a very long train, which he overworked his boiler to keep running.

While Jensen and Henry were trying to find Rorick, they found him barreling toward them with a very heavy coal train. Jensen tried to warn him to stop, as the train was too long for regular braking power to be used, so he had to apply the brakes gradually for the brakes to spread to all of the cars.

Later on, Rorick's tracks were switched, and Jensen ran into the side of the train. Rorick, thinking Jensen died, applied his brakes very hard, causing the train to derail several cars at a time, eventually pushing Rorick off the tracks. The cars kept piling on Rorick until his boiler couldn't take it anymore and exploded, destroying Rorick.

Basis
Rorick is a Norfolk and Western A Class numbered 1238.

Specials

 * Psychosis

Trivia

 * He is the first antagonist to not be truly evil from the start, in contrast to UP #74 and the inspectors, who were purely evil.
 * In an early development, his number was going to be 1224.