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Connor Temple is from the canon Primeval TV Show. This is a British TV show that started airing in 2007 and ran to about 2011. General summary of the show is a group of scientists who are investigating ruptures in space time that are allowing prehistoric monsters into our world. In 1998, Professor Nick Cutter's wife, Helen, disappeared while investigating reports of cryptids, and no trace was ever seen or heard from her again.


Eight years later, reports of monsters and cryptids pick up again and the discovery of strange anomalies are growing. These anomalies turn out to be portals to different points in Earth's history and they are beginning to appear all over London, allowing primeval creatures to walk into our world. To combat the anomaly threat, government officials partner with local scientists and private experts with the aim of capturing the creatures, protecting the world at large, protecting the secret truth of the anomalies, and getting the creatures back to their own world safely if possible. The show spans 5 seasons and covers the team's adventures with the anomalies.


Creatures encountered in the show range from giant bugs and snakes to extinct dinosaurs such as mosasaur, pteranodons, sharks, raptors, and ankylosaurus, to other creatures like the dodo. Towards the end of the series, the portals start opening to the far future and an apocalyptic end of humanity scenario where mutant monsters and creatures have killed nearly all living humans.


In every encounter, the team fights to save humanity, send the creatures back through the portal, kill them if they cannot be sent back, and keep nature from destroying itself and rewriting the history of mankind.


Connor Temple is a very nerdy and geeky young man who has been obsessed with dinosaurs, primeval creatures, and cryptids. He looks every inch the nerd he is and is extremely awkward and has little to no social skills. He joins the team to fight the creatures and solve the riddle of the anomalies as a young college student in his mid 20's.

He is around 5ft 9in in height and slim and not at all muscular- very geeky in looks. Has dark black hair that is either cut short or at times allowed to grow to about shoulder length. He is fond of fedoras and hats in general, and he also often wears scarfs of various sizes and styles. He has dark eyes and can grow facial hair though he is often clean shaven or has only small growth of the beard and mustache. By the time he is coming to Fandom he is about 29 years old.


Connor also often has on gloves of some kind, usually knit black fingerless gloves. When he's carrying things around, he often uses an oversized messenger bag slung over his shoulder. He has an overall very nerdy appearance and can be clumsy and awkward, especially when interacting with other people or talking about non-nerdy things that interest him.



This conversation when Connor first joins the team to find the anomalies sums up how people see him at first and the vibes he gives off:


James Lester: "Who's that idiot?"

Nick Cutter: "Connor Temple; he may look like a halfwit, but he has a very good brain."

James Lester: "We may stand on the brink of Armageddon, but at least we have an irritating student on our side. How reassuring!"


Connor was one of the first people brought on to be part of the team at the Anomaly Research Center, and the genius of the operation responsible for inventing new Anomaly-combating technology and learning more about the phenomenon. He knew the most of any team member about the creatures that were coming through the anomaly portals- everything from giant millipedes and scorpions to saber tooth creatures, and ancient dinosaurs. When the team needs to know a weakness, strength, or way to deal with one of the creatures, it is often Connor who has the answer and is instrumental in finding a way to deal with the crisis.

He is coming from a mostly canon compliant timeline until the end. Rather than settling down with with Abby and marrying her, he left the UK ARC branch and ended up coming to Fandom. They are still friends but their relationship, when it got serious, didn't work out and so they never got engaged or got married once things calmed down with the anomalies. His past relationships- Abby and otherwise- and his fumbling at the whole romance thing in general has got him questioning a lot of things... about himself and well, everything. (AKA he's not aware of the whole bisexual thing being an actual thing just yet.)

So yay, lots to explore with this one!