HARLEY SAWYER HEADCANONS PT.2
PART 1: HERE PART 2: HERE PART 3: HERE PART 4: HERE
GENERAL DISCLAIMERS: bad language, probably not canon-accurate. mild depictions of gore, leith and harley prank wars.
a/n: first part kinda blew up and even MORE so after the revelation he didn't die!! so i made this bc i 1, love the attention this is getting, and 2, I love this man. these are long examples for the most part, so if you're looking for short, sharp examples, this isn't for you.
・Heavy coffee drinker. Caffeine is his lifeline in this job.
・Gets very pissed off when an experiment is done incorrectly by one of the lab boys. Will chase up whoever made the mistake and will make sure they never have a future at this company.
・Doesn't care if he comes to work with the appearance of a drunk person who looks like they slept on the streets. Will come into work looking like he got dragged through mud, but as long as he's sanitary enough to perform on the experiments, he doesn't really care how he looks.
・New scientists who would try to talk to the man would soon enough realise why older employees stay away from him. Newer employees assume he's like them and just looks burnt out from the work until they hear him open his mouth and almost call someone a really bad word, stare at his nametag and realise they fucked up.
・LOATHES having to do any work around the factory that doesn't directly involve him. Boring paperwork about the ins and outs of a proposed experiment isn't something he enjoys doing when the alternative is practical surgery.
・Is very much a people watcher. Can and will find out how to get under your skin if you so much as look at him the wrong way.
・Is either a smoker or a bad drinker. Or both. Knows its bad for him, but he couldn't care less; he hated this job.
・Very bad at reading other people's tones or even his own tone. Could sound rude or off-putting when he wasn't even meaning to. Helps with his persona, however, so he doesn't bother fixing it.
・Definitely has road rage. His language on the road would shock you.
・Finds it funny and watches when other people experience misfortune.
・Tells everyone his glasses are only reading glasses. They are actually supposed to be worn all the time, but he just doesn't want to tell anyone that. Leith took them once as a prank, thinking the doctor wouldn't even realise, but after the first hour, Leith realised Harley was actually blind as a bat.
・In retaliation, Harley took the man's coffee mug for a day, since he knew the man only drank out of his 'innovation is the key' mug. Leith scrambled to find the shittin' thing but never found it. Harley would chuckle as he witnessed the usual cheerful head of innovation grumble through the hallways.
・Has heard enough doctor jokes to make an entire corny joke book with it. Eddie really likes using those 'an apple a day keeps the doctor away' jokes while Harley shoves him off to the side and walks away with a scoff.
・Hates all the executives with a burning passion, especially that dickwad Leith Pierre. His cheery disposition upsets Harley immensely.
・The TV 'head' on his neck is really heavy on his metal body. After the event, he had to adjust almost every one of the bodies to move the head into a better position so it didn't weigh as heavily. He has missed a few bodies, though, and sometimes switches into one of them and gets really upset.
・He kinda likes to hear himself talk, hence why he tends to talk so much over the speakers in canon game time.
・Likes to study the mini experiments from time to time when his usual work slows down. He'll set out Yarnaby to go fetch some random critter, then open up the insides of one of them to see if he can recognise his own handiwork. Maybe he'll even add some new additions to the creature if he's feeling particularly creative that day.
・Doesn't actually need to sleep, but his consciousness does benefit from a shutdown every few days or so. Could sleep for an hour or two, or many, many hours. Yarnaby would find him during these sessions and try to sit on the giant robot. The Doctor would be fuming every time he woke to the yarn beast sitting on him, but never directly did anything to stop him from doing it.
・He would never admit it, but the prototype does scare him a little. That sinister, lasting grin would linger in his mind long after the creature was gone.
・The list of failed experiments was small, almost nonexistent. But the times in which he had failed made him lose all his sanity. He'd feed them to Yarnaby while screaming about how it 'must have been something wrong with the wretched creature' and nothing to do with his actions.
・Still enjoys listening to some old tunes when the radio signal is good enough to play something. A nice jazz tune is usually his go-to, but he's fine with anything when the occasion arises.
・The player genuinely interests him. A human, after so long, lucky him! He assumes the player must have been a former scientist or colleague he would have spoken to on the rare occasion, since the face was somewhat memorable to him.
・Often reads back through some of his or his other co-workers' old notes regarding experiments and their processes for doing them. Chuckles when Dr White does something stupid since the man always had a knack for messing things up without him to fix it up.
・Sometimes, while wandering around, I would find some of the bodies of several employees he knew on the factory floor or down in the labs. Usually, he didn't care for any of them. His gaze would linger down to their stomachs as their intestines lay scrambled out on the floor. Good thing that would never be him. He was cursed to a robotic body.
before exp.1354!harley (Mini-Oneshot)
・The day most of the scientists knew about. The day Harley never expected to really ever happen.
・Harley was sitting in his office, sifting through experiment paperwork. The one thing about the job he really hated was the paperwork side of it. He heard a knock at his door.
・Leith strode in, head held high. "Sawyer! Good day to you!" The man smiled down at the head of special projects.
・" Pierre, what a surprise." He scoffed out, unamused. "What do you need now? I'm busy." The coffee on his desk is now being picked up to be sipped.
・"The lab boys got'ta question for you. Wanted me to grab ya for a minute." Leith answered, opening the door up for the doctor to walk out into the hallway.
・Harley grumbled and stood up, stretching his back out, a small crack making itself audible. "Fine, only this once."
・The two strode down the hallway, Pierre leading the other. "So Sawyer, I've wanted to pick your brain about a question i've been pondering."
・"Spill it, Pierre. I don't have all day." Harley interrupted. Leith seemed unaffected by the sudden interruption. The other smirked.
・"How do you think you got away with the theatre incident that while back, hm?"
・Harleys pace slowed at the man's words. "I have no idea what you're talking about."
・"Sure you do! After all, it was your mistakes that made that incident occur in the first place."
・"You don't know what you're talking about! I didn't have anything to do with-" Harley started, but then cut himself off as he felt the arms of two others pulling him back by his upper arms. "Hey, what is this?!"
・Leith smirked yet again at the scientist. "We can't let these incidents weigh down the company, Sawyer. You're a liability, a liability we can't continue to have fester."
・ Harley struggled against his captors. He can make out the faint grumblings from them, "Don't make this hard, Sawyer" "This doesn't have to be done harshy Doctor." He continued to try and wrangle his way out of their hold.
・"N-no! You can't do this to me! After all I've done for this company! You need me." Sawyer pleaded with the executive, who simply stood in front of him with his arms behind his back.
"Don't worry, Sawyer, you're going to be just fine. At least you know your intellect is useful. You should be lucky it's going for a good cause, and not down the drain."
・Harley screams out his pleas, but they fall on deaf ears. Leith smiles at the erratic man. "You'll be all shiny and new by the time White and his team are done with you."
・"You're a DEAD MAN, Leith. You will never be safe when I get my hands on you!"
・"Sure, Harley, Sure." Leith coos the man before ushering the men holding Sawyer to bring him to the operating room.
・ Harley thrashes and screams. Leith grins as the man is dragged off. One problem down. Now, to make sure it doesn't happen a second time if all goes correctly.
a/n: ok i'll admit i got carried away at the end, but i really wanted to write my interpretation of how harley got turned into 1354. it never gets explained fully, sooooooo i wanted to write my own heheheh. hope whoever reads this liked the headcanons and drop a like if u did, it really helps support my motivation!!