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dr_schreber) wrote2015-02-21 11:30 pm
Bio:
I have betrayed my own kind
BASIC STATS
APPEARANCE
PERSONALITY
PERMISSIONS
HISTORY
CONTACT
GENDER: Male
AGE: Early to mid Thirties
HEIGHT: 5'6" (Due to hunch, 5'8" before spine injury)
WEIGHT: Approx. 180 lbs
HAIR: Blonde
EYES: Grey-blue
OCCUPATION: Psychiatrist/Memory Chemist
SKILLS: Chemistry, psychology, molecular biology, swimming
TRAITS: Intelligent, nervous, friendly, agreeable, devious, snarky under pressure
MARITAL STATUS: Single
FRIENDS/FAMILY: None
LIKES: Reading, new places, plants, water, chemistry, psychology
DISLIKES: Heights, violence, the past STRENGTHS: Intelligence, book learning, observation, steady hands
WEAKNESSES: Severe heart issue, bad back, bad leg, poor eyesight without glasses
His clothing tends to be brown or grey three-piece suits and bow ties, and he wears thick wire-rimmed spectacles. Most of his clothes are just a little threadbare, but respectable. In the laboratory he sometimes wears a labcoat or an apron, depending what he's working with, but he usually keeps his sleeves long to hide scars.
As nebbish as he looks, Dr. Schreber has a low, almost husky voice. He might be nicer to listen to if he didn't seem to always be out of breath. His heart condition usually leaves him a little short on air and he has learned to just talk and pause when and where he needs to, even if it's in the middle of a word. Between always panting for breath and a limp that gets worse with activity, he gives a strong impression of being sickly and out of shape. He does not mean to look like that one kid who always got straight A's in school and got beat up by all the jocks, but he can't help it.
Dr. Schreber is a self-described coward, but he is also very devious. Because he is physically unable to stand up to aggressors, he has learned to be sneaky about undermining anyone who tries to push him around. He will fawn and be subservient to their face while very quietly building schemes to someday blow up in their face. He also has limits, and if he is pushed too far or is too tired to be afraid, Schreber sometimes loses his self-restraint and starts to talk back. His fear can only be pushed so far before it snaps and he decides he has nothing to lose.
Dr. Schreber has a serious heart condition and frequent pain from old injuries, and he has mostly learned to take it in stride but it has shaped his outlook on life. It's sometimes harder for him to take a long-range view of things because he assumes he will not be around for it. He tries not to let this perspective make him selfish, but it has probably contributed to a moral code that is firmly in the grey.
Dr. Schreber does not dislike people, and he tries to be friendly unless the other person starts trying to bully him or is otherwise unpleasant. He's never really had friends that he can remember, though, keeping a distance from everyone by necessity. With his old bosses out of the picture he wouldn't mind learning to make friends, now.
Threadhopping: As long as everybody else involved is okay with it!
Fourthwalling: Not without OOC discussion please.
Hugging this character: He won't stop you but be gentle! Schrebs is a little bit fragile.
Kissing this character: He will be surprised! But okay.
Flirting with this character: If you want to see him look all bashful/confused.
Smut: Not without OOC discussion please.
Fighting with this character: Not without OOC discussion please, and it will be very one-sided.
Injuring this character: Not without OOC discussion please, and the muse has a lot of previous injuries that make him delicate.
Killing this character: No.
Using telepathy/mind reading abilities on this character: OOC discussion first but I am open to this!
Because they were aliens and had a limited understanding of how the human mind works, They needed an accomplice, and that was Dr. Schreber. He was able to extract, mix, and distribute memories in liquid form via a syringe to the brain, and Dr. Schreber can't remember if that technique was his invention or Theirs. Under Their watchful gaze he remixed and distributed memories as they required, rescripting peoples lives to determine what made them who they are. The Strangers were trying to understand and find the human soul, hoping to use that knowledge to somehow save Their own dying race. Dr. Schreber was the only human working for Them, kept separate from his own kind by that secret. Disobedience was met with physical punishment, and They coldly studied his reactions to it the same way They studied everyone else. Dr. Schreber always knew he was just another lab rat.
Then a human man knocked the syringe out of his hand while being imprinted with new memories, and he began to show the ability to manipulate things with his mind the same way the Strangers did. Dr. Schreber saw the opportunity he'd been waiting for and helped the man, named John Murdoch, to overthrow and destroy the Strangers. It was an awkward kind of help because Murdoch distrusted him at every step, but it was successful and with the Strangers gone the experiment was broken.
John Murdoch and Dr. Schreber now share the secret of what the City really is, while everyone else lives on in ignorance. It can't last forever, but at least they're free.