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livelongenough) wrote2015-05-06 08:02 pm
livelongenough) wrote2015-05-06 08:02 pm
Application for The Underground
Player information
Name: Lynn
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Are you 18 or over? Yes
Other characters played: N/A
Character information
Name: Doctor Henry Morgan
Age: 235 ; appears 35
Date of Birth: July 4th, 1780
Canon: Forever
Species: meta-human
Role: Henry is a doctor to humans and supernaturals alike, and he moonlights as a medium in situations where he is approached for the service directly.
Preferred roles: Instructor at Redbright Institute, possible addition into Circle Daybreak (once he's aware of it/witches existing)
Rank: 3-4
Background:
Henry was born to a well-to-do family of English society in 1780. What his mother had failed to tell anyone was that she was the granddaughter of a Fae and a warlock. When Henry was a young man, his mother realised he had the ability to perform magic, so she taught him. Her husband found out and sent her away, vowing his son would be normal. However, when Henry learned that his mother was forbidden from seeing him, he lashed out against his father, abandoned the medical practice he'd already begun to build, and went to sea.
He returned a few years later after receiving a letter from his father, begging him to return. He was dying, and he wanted to see his son one last time. Henry agreed, and the two came to a sort of peace, culminating in Henry's father giving him a watch that had been in the family for generations.
With the man dead, Henry went to sea again, this time to atone for his father's slaving company. He joined a trip with a slaver, intent on freeing the men and women in bondage, but the captain discovered him. The man shot Henry and had him thrown into the sea, unaware that the Fae blood in his ancestry kept him from ever dying, just as it had his mother, who fled from every old life to start a new one when those around her began to suspect who and what she was.
Henry became a wanderer like his mother, always searching for her, wanting to know the truth of the world he'd been kept from for so long. He'd thought her a witch, but after his own brush with death and the realisation that he wouldn't die, but, then, he understood what she was and what she truly was. Whatever she had to teach him, he was eager to learn.
He never found her, but he moved again and again, trying to keep his secret. Then, on a return to London, he became aware of Redbright Institute. Once he understood their goal, he volunteered his experience to serve as a teacher as well as offering his medical know-how to the human and supernatural communities.
Personality:
Henry is an incredibly studious man. He studied to become a doctor in the late 1700s or early 1800s and remained in that profession directly until the 1930s. Some time later, he went into the profession of a medical examiner, which kept him near his original profession. Since his first foray into medicine, Henry has spent his (very long) lifetime keeping up with the developments in the field, even once he left being a physician. He has studied several languages and seems to thrive off learning new things and experiencing new challenges, such as when he begins assisting Detective Martinez in solving crimes, rather than merely examining the bodies brought to him. This shift in focus seems to energize him and give him something new to look forward to doing.
Henry has a great many good qualities. When he lets people in, he is a loving, loyal man. Even as his wife, Abigail, aged and he didn’t, he was devoted to her and lathered her with genuine affection. He shows the same fondness to his adopted son, Abraham, being equal parts protective and supportive, even though Abe has grown up and now appears older than Henry himself. When Henry sets himself to a project, he follows through with a great passion. He embraces the idea of helping Detective Martinez, and he pursues the dominatrix Iona as soon as he meets her, unafraid of the attraction. He is also a very generous man, as much of his medical work is done for those who can’t help themselves. In the 1890s, he would sneak into tenements of immigrants and provide them with free medical care because, otherwise, they would go entirely without. Henry also has a good heart, which makes him prone to guilt. For example, he gave up being a physician in the 1930s because he and a butcher were both shot by a mobster. If he had maintained pressure on the man’s wound as help arrived, he could have saved the man but exposed his secret, and he chose to protect himself. Because he felt he’d violated his oath as a doctor, he gave up practising medicine.
Henry, of course, also has his bad qualities. He is a well-bred gentleman brought up in the late 1700s, and he still maintains that sort of breeding about him. He shows his age by being very set in his ways. He dislikes cars -- hasn’t driven one in 37 years, according to Abe -- and never has a cellphone. He uses computers only at his office. He is extremely set in his ways and tends to resist any change that he hasn’t chosen to pursue himself. Henry also keeps himself extremely closed off. Because he is immortal, he has spent two hundred years watching the people around him -- especially those he loves -- grow old and die while he stays the same. When he realizes he has come to care about Molly, he informs her he can’t start a relationship with her because the pain from his last one is still too fresh, even though it’s been about 50 years since Abigail left his life. He is resistant to letting Detective Martinez in, though their constant work association does begin to wear that down. He keeps her at enough of a distance, still, though, that she can’t know his secret. Henry is also exceptionally smug. His long life has given him a great amount of experience and knowledge, so he is often right about the things he assumes or figures out, but he can be almost insufferable about it. When he knows (or just thinks he knows) he’s right, he’ll rarely listen to anyone else, and that includes adapting to technology and altering his lifestyle in any way he doesn’t want to.
Henry’s immortality has produced certain effects on his personality. Since he realized he couldn’t die, he has become obsessed with death. He keeps a journal of his deaths, including how he died, the pain rating, and the precise nature of the injuries or manner. He chose to go into the profession of a medical examiner to try and understand the nature of death better in hopes of finding a way to cure himself of his affliction of immortality, which has primarily consisted of trying different methods of death to see if they stick He does this sometimes even without thinking of people around him, such as Abe, who makes it clear he dislikes Henry's experiments.
Henry is also very indecisive about the past. At times, he clings to it tightly, as with the memory of Abigail, and other times he tries to push it away, such as his time in a Georgian mental institute. Part of his curse seems to be an acute memory (or that could be a natural gift of Henry’s), and his cases with Detective Martinez often trigger a great many of the memories, some he’d rather not remember and others he is holding tightly to. He prizes his memories of Abigail, but those of his first wife, Rhona, are ones he tries to put out of mind, as she sent him to a mental institute when he tried to tell her. He escaped from it only when a priest helped him kill himself. He has seen several friends die, like the Parisian artist who overdosed on heroin and a medical friend who died of tuberculosis while Henry tried to attend to him. For this reason, Henry tends to try and hold himself apart from people, not wanting to get close and have to, again, watch someone die while he remained unable to join them. However, much as he tries, he finds himself drawn to helping people and, eventually, getting attached.
Because of his immortality, Henry is incredibly secretive. When his condition has been found out before, he has suffered a variety of consequences. He has been institutionalized, hanged for heresy, had his organs harvested, had his blood drained, and other such tortures. Because of this, he guards his secret closely. If it ever seems to get out, his reaction is to pack up, move somewhere remote (usually overseas of wherever he is), and simply outlive the threat before returning to a more social life -- usually in London or New York, as he seems particularly attached to those cities. Henry's experience with immortality has led to a sort of pendulum effect. At times, he falls into lethargy and apathy. Then, he will find a new reason to go on and will revive his spirit, making him interested in the world anew. Even with his immortality, Henry is a man spurred on by hope. Whether that is the hope of ending his curse or helping others, Henry is prone to finding a reason to hope, even in the darkest of situations.
Powers & Possessions:
Henry is an immortal. He can experience death, however, instead of remaining dead, he returns, free of any mark of his ordeal, save for the scar from his first death. He always returns in water, and he is always naked. Whatever items or clothes he had on him at the time are returned to his original sea chest, which he keeps in his home. If something is not on his person or in his hand, however, it will remain at the site of his death.
Henry also, ironically, possesses the abilities of a medium. He has made death his profession and his hobby, working around it constantly. Whether his medium abilities are a result of his bloodline, surrounding himself with death, or some other cause, she doesn't know.
Because of his long life, Henry has picked up several skills. He can speak Russian, German, French, Italian, and Spanish. He is a skill physician, with both the living and the dead. He has studied both exotic and mundane ways to die, searching for a way to end his immortality.
Henry's two most important possessions are his father's watch and his notebook of his deaths. The watch is sentimental in nature, and the notebook contains details of every death's cause, the pain rating, and the extent of injuries. As well as, when possible, the amount of time taken to regenerate.
Samples:
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Name: Lynn
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Are you 18 or over? Yes
Other characters played: N/A
Character information
Name: Doctor Henry Morgan
Age: 235 ; appears 35
Date of Birth: July 4th, 1780
Canon: Forever
Species: meta-human
Role: Henry is a doctor to humans and supernaturals alike, and he moonlights as a medium in situations where he is approached for the service directly.
Preferred roles: Instructor at Redbright Institute, possible addition into Circle Daybreak (once he's aware of it/witches existing)
Rank: 3-4
Background:
Henry was born to a well-to-do family of English society in 1780. What his mother had failed to tell anyone was that she was the granddaughter of a Fae and a warlock. When Henry was a young man, his mother realised he had the ability to perform magic, so she taught him. Her husband found out and sent her away, vowing his son would be normal. However, when Henry learned that his mother was forbidden from seeing him, he lashed out against his father, abandoned the medical practice he'd already begun to build, and went to sea.
He returned a few years later after receiving a letter from his father, begging him to return. He was dying, and he wanted to see his son one last time. Henry agreed, and the two came to a sort of peace, culminating in Henry's father giving him a watch that had been in the family for generations.
With the man dead, Henry went to sea again, this time to atone for his father's slaving company. He joined a trip with a slaver, intent on freeing the men and women in bondage, but the captain discovered him. The man shot Henry and had him thrown into the sea, unaware that the Fae blood in his ancestry kept him from ever dying, just as it had his mother, who fled from every old life to start a new one when those around her began to suspect who and what she was.
Henry became a wanderer like his mother, always searching for her, wanting to know the truth of the world he'd been kept from for so long. He'd thought her a witch, but after his own brush with death and the realisation that he wouldn't die, but, then, he understood what she was and what she truly was. Whatever she had to teach him, he was eager to learn.
He never found her, but he moved again and again, trying to keep his secret. Then, on a return to London, he became aware of Redbright Institute. Once he understood their goal, he volunteered his experience to serve as a teacher as well as offering his medical know-how to the human and supernatural communities.
Personality:
Henry is an incredibly studious man. He studied to become a doctor in the late 1700s or early 1800s and remained in that profession directly until the 1930s. Some time later, he went into the profession of a medical examiner, which kept him near his original profession. Since his first foray into medicine, Henry has spent his (very long) lifetime keeping up with the developments in the field, even once he left being a physician. He has studied several languages and seems to thrive off learning new things and experiencing new challenges, such as when he begins assisting Detective Martinez in solving crimes, rather than merely examining the bodies brought to him. This shift in focus seems to energize him and give him something new to look forward to doing.
Henry has a great many good qualities. When he lets people in, he is a loving, loyal man. Even as his wife, Abigail, aged and he didn’t, he was devoted to her and lathered her with genuine affection. He shows the same fondness to his adopted son, Abraham, being equal parts protective and supportive, even though Abe has grown up and now appears older than Henry himself. When Henry sets himself to a project, he follows through with a great passion. He embraces the idea of helping Detective Martinez, and he pursues the dominatrix Iona as soon as he meets her, unafraid of the attraction. He is also a very generous man, as much of his medical work is done for those who can’t help themselves. In the 1890s, he would sneak into tenements of immigrants and provide them with free medical care because, otherwise, they would go entirely without. Henry also has a good heart, which makes him prone to guilt. For example, he gave up being a physician in the 1930s because he and a butcher were both shot by a mobster. If he had maintained pressure on the man’s wound as help arrived, he could have saved the man but exposed his secret, and he chose to protect himself. Because he felt he’d violated his oath as a doctor, he gave up practising medicine.
Henry, of course, also has his bad qualities. He is a well-bred gentleman brought up in the late 1700s, and he still maintains that sort of breeding about him. He shows his age by being very set in his ways. He dislikes cars -- hasn’t driven one in 37 years, according to Abe -- and never has a cellphone. He uses computers only at his office. He is extremely set in his ways and tends to resist any change that he hasn’t chosen to pursue himself. Henry also keeps himself extremely closed off. Because he is immortal, he has spent two hundred years watching the people around him -- especially those he loves -- grow old and die while he stays the same. When he realizes he has come to care about Molly, he informs her he can’t start a relationship with her because the pain from his last one is still too fresh, even though it’s been about 50 years since Abigail left his life. He is resistant to letting Detective Martinez in, though their constant work association does begin to wear that down. He keeps her at enough of a distance, still, though, that she can’t know his secret. Henry is also exceptionally smug. His long life has given him a great amount of experience and knowledge, so he is often right about the things he assumes or figures out, but he can be almost insufferable about it. When he knows (or just thinks he knows) he’s right, he’ll rarely listen to anyone else, and that includes adapting to technology and altering his lifestyle in any way he doesn’t want to.
Henry’s immortality has produced certain effects on his personality. Since he realized he couldn’t die, he has become obsessed with death. He keeps a journal of his deaths, including how he died, the pain rating, and the precise nature of the injuries or manner. He chose to go into the profession of a medical examiner to try and understand the nature of death better in hopes of finding a way to cure himself of his affliction of immortality, which has primarily consisted of trying different methods of death to see if they stick He does this sometimes even without thinking of people around him, such as Abe, who makes it clear he dislikes Henry's experiments.
Henry is also very indecisive about the past. At times, he clings to it tightly, as with the memory of Abigail, and other times he tries to push it away, such as his time in a Georgian mental institute. Part of his curse seems to be an acute memory (or that could be a natural gift of Henry’s), and his cases with Detective Martinez often trigger a great many of the memories, some he’d rather not remember and others he is holding tightly to. He prizes his memories of Abigail, but those of his first wife, Rhona, are ones he tries to put out of mind, as she sent him to a mental institute when he tried to tell her. He escaped from it only when a priest helped him kill himself. He has seen several friends die, like the Parisian artist who overdosed on heroin and a medical friend who died of tuberculosis while Henry tried to attend to him. For this reason, Henry tends to try and hold himself apart from people, not wanting to get close and have to, again, watch someone die while he remained unable to join them. However, much as he tries, he finds himself drawn to helping people and, eventually, getting attached.
Because of his immortality, Henry is incredibly secretive. When his condition has been found out before, he has suffered a variety of consequences. He has been institutionalized, hanged for heresy, had his organs harvested, had his blood drained, and other such tortures. Because of this, he guards his secret closely. If it ever seems to get out, his reaction is to pack up, move somewhere remote (usually overseas of wherever he is), and simply outlive the threat before returning to a more social life -- usually in London or New York, as he seems particularly attached to those cities. Henry's experience with immortality has led to a sort of pendulum effect. At times, he falls into lethargy and apathy. Then, he will find a new reason to go on and will revive his spirit, making him interested in the world anew. Even with his immortality, Henry is a man spurred on by hope. Whether that is the hope of ending his curse or helping others, Henry is prone to finding a reason to hope, even in the darkest of situations.
Powers & Possessions:
Henry is an immortal. He can experience death, however, instead of remaining dead, he returns, free of any mark of his ordeal, save for the scar from his first death. He always returns in water, and he is always naked. Whatever items or clothes he had on him at the time are returned to his original sea chest, which he keeps in his home. If something is not on his person or in his hand, however, it will remain at the site of his death.
Henry also, ironically, possesses the abilities of a medium. He has made death his profession and his hobby, working around it constantly. Whether his medium abilities are a result of his bloodline, surrounding himself with death, or some other cause, she doesn't know.
Because of his long life, Henry has picked up several skills. He can speak Russian, German, French, Italian, and Spanish. He is a skill physician, with both the living and the dead. He has studied both exotic and mundane ways to die, searching for a way to end his immortality.
Henry's two most important possessions are his father's watch and his notebook of his deaths. The watch is sentimental in nature, and the notebook contains details of every death's cause, the pain rating, and the extent of injuries. As well as, when possible, the amount of time taken to regenerate.
Samples:
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Link 2