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Name: Darwin Bhatnagar
DOB / Age: 29 /
Location: Las Vegas
Occupation: Ph.D student; biochemistry.
Horror: The Mad Scientist.
Attributes & Abilities: Inspector Gadget, but his biggest feat -- his life's achievement, the culmination of his horror, the well-kept knowledge and secret wriggling its way through his family -- is to raise the dead. Modern-born Asclepius. Is an actual ability, but needs some science to back it up.
Personality: both intellectual curiosity and personal gratification -- he resents the fact that he descended from the archetypal mad scientist, and is determined to change this reputation as much as possible. No cracks of lightning and maniacal laughter here, tyvm! For Darwin is driven by science -- a methodical approach, clear-cut decisions, straight-forward language, and above all else, results. He's not exactly one of the top researchers out there, though he's working on it.
he is polite and affable. inoffensive and insecure. you can walk all over him and he becomes positively tongue-tied if ... but social sphere, he waffles and wavers and hems and haws and has great, great difficulty expressing himself and making decisions. a lifetime of books and numbers hasn't helped him much. he still stutters and forgets his words around pretty women.
but when it comes to his work, well, he's entirely different. very direct and to-the-point when it's in a field he knows like the back of his hand. possesses a curt professionalism and unflagging focus, characteristic of his predecessors. just minus the mad.
very, very, very bad insomniac. medication and meditation, relaxing tapes, tin foil on the windows, not much help. Has resulted in going to the nearest 24-hour diner at totally wonky hours to get his reading done. Does tai chi and feng shui; weird habits for someone otherwise so scientific.
Anthropologist, but pressured biochem thanks to his parents. Never considered NOT doing science.
Investigating for a scientific basis behind the tale/horror thing. Wants to test their powers. The clash between the paranormal and his own belief in hard fact; how to reconcile the two?
Darwin keeps a cat, because it does not mind his nocturnal hours nor his solitary nature.
Notes: Seems quiet and self-effacing, but is capable of being cruelly professional — berates and argues with the sharpest finesse if it comes to it. This guy is extremely polite and awkward around women (a throwback to my Caspar Lovegood intellectual archetype), much safer burying himself in books and research papers than trying to navigate the morasses of complicated social interaction. But is totally capable of becoming stern and hardass when it comes to his job.
Calls women "ma'am" and "miss". Holds doors open for them. Some 50s mentality, alright?
Glasses, humble, painfully polite, withdrawn. Hasn't been on a date in a while, can't remember how it's done. Buries self in books and intellectual, business-like conversation. Goes to conferences, travels a lot — doesn't consider himself any particular nationality, but is a ~citizen of the world~. has minors in anthropology under his belt.
Psych concepts. Approaches life like a textbook. |