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frontier_doktorPlayer Information
Name: Bianca | Binky
Age: 34
App Contact: macguffinrp at gmail
Character Information
Name: Utrecht Visscher
Canon: Original Character
Age: 37
Appearance:
HEIGHT: 5'10''
WEIGHT: 150lbs
HAIR: strawberry blonde / red
EYES: blue
Canon Point: N/A / Post-history
History: In 1961 the construction of a wall through Berlin began, and around this same time the passionate relationship between an East German technician and a West German botanist grew strained by the pressure of their respective governments. Due to their intelligence both were keenly watched, but neither had any interest in politics and both dreamed of running away to America. Before the Wall separated them, she talked of wanting to work in the Florida Everglades and he spoke of wanting to work with the American space program. By the time that the moon launch happened, even though they could no longer talk, their stories of a shared distant future seemed like a dream that could never be realized.
That's when Ms. Ward showed up in their lives. She was nearly middle-aged and dressed very casually, in tweeds and drab clothes for what was a bright era (at least on one side). Somehow she was able to travel from one side of the wall to the other on a regular basis without any risk of being caught. Eventually she revealed to them that she was a time traveler of a different species, one that shaped itself into the race that it chose to follow for the good of a unified future. She offered to take them away from Earth and into that distant future, to a colony called Braunschweig (Brunswick) where they could enjoy the age of space exploration as free citizens. They graciously accepted, happy to be together and happy that they would be able to discover so much about distant worlds and the future.
On Braunschweig they gave birth to two children- first Utrecht, named for the city that his Swiss paternal grandfather was born in. He suffered from a severe neural disease that was misdiagnosed, mild facial paralysis (not gruesome, but strong enough that it squicked some people's uncanny valley and some made him miserable for it)and even in the future medical technology couldn't give him full mobility of expression. Children called him "Ugly Uter", a name he grew to despise in school. It would be a name used to taunt him later as well. The daughter, Ingrid, was born later. When he was ten and she was five the reactor that maintained the colony's air supply failed. Mr. and Mrs. Visscher were among those that stayed behind during the evacuation to try and fix the reactor, but they ultimately failed. Utrecht was separated from his sister, and it was on a station that he met Dr. Ward.
Not knowing that this was the same woman that united his parents and took them into the future, she took him under her tutelage. He enjoyed working as an assistant despite his young age, finding it preferable to his miserable treatment in school because of ailment. He learned that helping people helped ease the pain of his loss. He could prevent other people from feeling what he went through, and while he was never able to maintain bonds for very long he was glad to see the ones he helped. He moved from station to station, eventually ending up on a ship-turned-station called the "Titanic" as a joke.
He fell into the service of Dr. Ian Ricardo. While he was waiting to earn enough money for formal schooling he helped the man with his terrible business; he worked for the slumship's criminal organizations. During this time he learned to use rare surgical gloves to remove foreign objects from people without surgery. Helping wounded goons and their sick families Visscher didn't mind. He liked to help them as much as he liked to help other people. But disposing of bodies, applying and removing mind controlling parasites, and repairing wounds from torture wore too much on his conscience. After eight years of study he left. He supported himself through the end of his education by interning at a wealthy port under a famous personality known as “Lady Constance”. There he saw the opposite side; almost everyone there was privileged and wealthy. They kept their living space exclusive and refused to help the needy.
By the time he left there, he was glad to wander from place to place. It was always hard for him to make permanent connections because he feared what would happen when he looked back, so instead he formed very intense and brief friendships. Nagging impressions from his childhood left him with a lack of self-confidence with "normal" humans, so he never pursued a romantic relationship with anyone. He did have idle thoughts about the overly romantic tales his father told about how he and his mother got together, but they were just thoughts and there was no one he would seriously consider, until he met Abigail.
Abigail was a smuggler, and was making deliveries between stations. She was injured by a rival group trying to steal her cargo, specially sealed for delivery to its rightful recipient. He didn't want to see her killed so he hid her and nursed her back to health. In the time he spent with her, he fell in love with her, and while Ricardo was scum, Visscher's desperation to see her better meant that Visscher was willing to contact him and ask for advice. Only instead of getting advice, Ricardo betrayed both of them to the rival gang and she was killed. Visscher hid, and though he felt like a coward (he didn't know how to fight, all he could do was fix people) he did manage to protect her cargo. He then received an anonymous message over the station's network saying that Ricardo had betrayed him.
He wasn't sure what he would do, but Visscher decided to confront him. He took the cargo with him, and upon arriving opened it in front of Ricardo while holding him at gunpoint (though he barely knew how to use it). It was a parasite queen, and it latched onto Visscher. Because Visscher was so full of anger one of her extensions made Ricardo kill himself before Visscher could put much thought into it. It was then that Ms. Ward showed up and informed Visscher that she had needed this to happen because he was the one that would do the least amount of damage with her, even with that violent act.
Already feeling guilty and angry he ran, and he's been on the run ever since. He's not used the queen except in self-defense since, and he still moves quickly from place to place so he won't be a target for any of the groups (military, criminal, or corporate) that would want the parasite queen.
Personality: Utrecht actually has very low self-esteem because of his childhood. He acknowledges that the feeling is mostly in his own head now; other than people at the rich station, he's been treated fairly despite the fact he has partial facial paralysis. He's enthusiastic about nature and sustainability and is paranoid of the dependence on raw technology because of what happened on Braunschweig. He's shy about personal relationships and with his difficult upbringing he finds it difficult to trust as he would much rather be self-reliant. This doesn't mean he's unkind, but he doesn't like to be very dependent on someone's generosity and if he's forced to be he won't remain so for very long. Most of his stories about people he's known in the past end with that he's not spoken with those people in a while, and that's usually because he doesn't want to look back and find something awful has happened to someone he cares about. He's lonely, though less so now that the queen is attached. She's created a dependency on her company, an addiction both she and her extensions create. Abigail was the first person to spend a considerable amount of time with Visscher in a personal context (as well as approach him for it), and he's never been able to shake his love for her.
He's going at his mission all or nothing; it's his one agenda, his one goal, and other than protecting the queen he basically has no other prospects for his future. In attaching the parasite queen to himself he believes he has no chance of ever being intimate ever again. He has given up on finding his sister, thinking that maybe she was returned to their parent's home in the confusion after his settlement deteriorated, or she is still with a kind neighbor.
Visscher is capable of hating people, but he's never been inclined towards violence. He's not very good at it, he doesn't like it, and when given the chance he would much prefer the "I will take care of the enemy of my enemy or weaken my enemy with truth" approach rather than outright attacking them. He won't insult anyone that uses violence, everyone has to take care of things their own way, but he will say that it's not his way and he can't bring himself to do it. He does, however, quietly hate when people harm others (especially friends) for the sake of profit or a good time. He strays away from verbal conflict because, in having to depend on the kindness of strangers in his youth, he got used to doing as he was told and raising his voice could end up with him homeless. Even when he despised people like Ricardo, he couldn't confront them.
He is a very involved environmentalist and likes to talk about wildlife and nature and the different peoples he has encountered. He doesn't own any domesticated animals because he would feel guilty for containing them and making them move places they didn't want to go, and he doesn't like to use transportation with any sort of exhaust. More often than not he'll use a bicycle to get around. This is as much born from the desire to make sustainable colonies on resource rich worlds as it is influence from the parasite on his back and her displeasure at what happened to her and her kind. He dresses nicely and tries to make himself presentable despite the slight issue with facial expression. He has a sense of humor, but is shy and evasive (especially when people show a romantic interest in him).
Visscher is used to stress. Near destruction of some of the stations he's been on, plagues, involvements with criminals, military personnel. Anything that happened at Blackstaff or in Blackway would probably be on par with things that he's already encountered. In conflict he would be completely dependent on other people, but that seems to work out well for building CR and there are usually people willing to pull him out of a bad situation. He will also do his very best to keep calm, because while he retains some control over the parasite queen she will act independently from him to keep her host safe (usually by trying to mind control someone away from him).
Abilities:
NOTE: most of these are because of the parasite queen
Strengths:
» a parasite extension from the queen (basically a creature not even independent enough to be a drone) can attach itself to a host and control it
» a parasite knows what its host knows and will control it based on the host's methods and knowledge, using the queen's command like a minimal base program
» both queens and extensions optimize their physiology so they have the best possible strength and stamina
» extensions (and queens to a lesser extent) feed off the host's personality as well
» they can also turn off their host's organs and hold them hostage
» Visscher himself is a VERY good doctor and trained for eight years to use a pair of surgical gloves that would allow him to remove foreign objects.
» He can sing very well
Weaknesses:
» the range of the queen is usually infinite because the extensions are given a base order before they leave the queen, and then follow it after attached (on Quadratus her influence will turn off once the extension host is out of range)
» Visscher can't fight. He has enhanced endurance and physiology thanks to the parasite, but it doesn't make him stronger, he still panics under pressure, balks from anything that makes him anxious
» extension parasites completely control their host but are easily removed with electricity
» queen parasites will kill their hosts if removed, so if anyone tries to remove her from Visscher he will die
» he flat out won't be using her if he can help it
Possible Jobs:
» Clinic
» A medicinal botanical shop
» Singing at Dorian's place
RP Samples:
» PSL scenario
» Original Test Drive Thread
» 4th Wall Threads
Companions: The Parasite Queen
Additional:
Special History: The parasite queen was born on a watery world where her kind grew to have a symbiotic relationship with dim minded cetaceans. She mildly encouraged them to return to her, to pass warnings from extensions back to the pod leader when one encountered the large aquatic predators of that world, and for it her kind was supported by their hosts.
Their world was raided, though, once the nature of the symbiotes was discovered. Outside of their original hosts the queens were largely parasitic and as they were attached to many of the sentient species of the galactic arm meant that a queen had access to all the knowledge of the host. When they intended to use her to control their underlings, a queen would also have access to their knowledge. They wouldn't share this with their host, but they would store it and use it for their own benefit. While the extensions could control people completely, and for as deeply as a queen rooted into her host, she couldn't control them completely. All she could do is make them feel physically uncomfortable with one idea or give them pleasure at another. Her influence was subtle, but it often worked.
The queens were also pushed by the wants and needs of their new hosts, which were violent and selfish for the most part. Military, black market operations, corporate entities; they all wanted to use one and would pay high prices. Soon the ocean-covered homeworld was rid of queens and after that the now unprotected, aimless pods that once hosted them. The queens were now dependent on the kindness (or selfishness) of strangers that wanted to use them to manipulate people, to control minions without speaking their intentions to them, that thought wearing a creature capable of killing it at whim would be worth the profits they would earn.
Visscher's own queen was to be sold on the black market to a large criminal family. She was in stasis before Ricardo opened her containment. Automatically she latched onto the person closest to her, Visscher, climbing to his bare back and sinking in. Her first feelings from him were rage and fear, and when Ricardo came at Visscher to defend himself she protected her new host by releasing an extension. It latched onto the back of Ricardo's neck and made him eviscerate himself. Since then she's become content with her new host, though sensing that telling about her would be a grievous mistake whenever he gets close to doing so she physically influences him to be quiet.
Issues: Visscher cannot live without her as stated under his weaknesses. Removing her causes irreperable damage now. I don't intend to use her unless plot comes to it, though, considering she was triggering during an earlier plot. Her abilities are listed under his strength, since he's ultimately the one that makes the decisions for her and how they're used. All she can do is manipulate how his body responds to things, rather than his actual thoughts.
Name: Bianca | Binky
Age: 34
App Contact: macguffinrp at gmail
Character Information
Name: Utrecht Visscher
Canon: Original Character
Age: 37
Appearance:
HEIGHT: 5'10''
WEIGHT: 150lbs
HAIR: strawberry blonde / red
EYES: blue
Canon Point: N/A / Post-history
History: In 1961 the construction of a wall through Berlin began, and around this same time the passionate relationship between an East German technician and a West German botanist grew strained by the pressure of their respective governments. Due to their intelligence both were keenly watched, but neither had any interest in politics and both dreamed of running away to America. Before the Wall separated them, she talked of wanting to work in the Florida Everglades and he spoke of wanting to work with the American space program. By the time that the moon launch happened, even though they could no longer talk, their stories of a shared distant future seemed like a dream that could never be realized.
That's when Ms. Ward showed up in their lives. She was nearly middle-aged and dressed very casually, in tweeds and drab clothes for what was a bright era (at least on one side). Somehow she was able to travel from one side of the wall to the other on a regular basis without any risk of being caught. Eventually she revealed to them that she was a time traveler of a different species, one that shaped itself into the race that it chose to follow for the good of a unified future. She offered to take them away from Earth and into that distant future, to a colony called Braunschweig (Brunswick) where they could enjoy the age of space exploration as free citizens. They graciously accepted, happy to be together and happy that they would be able to discover so much about distant worlds and the future.
On Braunschweig they gave birth to two children- first Utrecht, named for the city that his Swiss paternal grandfather was born in. He suffered from a severe neural disease that was misdiagnosed, mild facial paralysis (not gruesome, but strong enough that it squicked some people's uncanny valley and some made him miserable for it)and even in the future medical technology couldn't give him full mobility of expression. Children called him "Ugly Uter", a name he grew to despise in school. It would be a name used to taunt him later as well. The daughter, Ingrid, was born later. When he was ten and she was five the reactor that maintained the colony's air supply failed. Mr. and Mrs. Visscher were among those that stayed behind during the evacuation to try and fix the reactor, but they ultimately failed. Utrecht was separated from his sister, and it was on a station that he met Dr. Ward.
Not knowing that this was the same woman that united his parents and took them into the future, she took him under her tutelage. He enjoyed working as an assistant despite his young age, finding it preferable to his miserable treatment in school because of ailment. He learned that helping people helped ease the pain of his loss. He could prevent other people from feeling what he went through, and while he was never able to maintain bonds for very long he was glad to see the ones he helped. He moved from station to station, eventually ending up on a ship-turned-station called the "Titanic" as a joke.
He fell into the service of Dr. Ian Ricardo. While he was waiting to earn enough money for formal schooling he helped the man with his terrible business; he worked for the slumship's criminal organizations. During this time he learned to use rare surgical gloves to remove foreign objects from people without surgery. Helping wounded goons and their sick families Visscher didn't mind. He liked to help them as much as he liked to help other people. But disposing of bodies, applying and removing mind controlling parasites, and repairing wounds from torture wore too much on his conscience. After eight years of study he left. He supported himself through the end of his education by interning at a wealthy port under a famous personality known as “Lady Constance”. There he saw the opposite side; almost everyone there was privileged and wealthy. They kept their living space exclusive and refused to help the needy.
By the time he left there, he was glad to wander from place to place. It was always hard for him to make permanent connections because he feared what would happen when he looked back, so instead he formed very intense and brief friendships. Nagging impressions from his childhood left him with a lack of self-confidence with "normal" humans, so he never pursued a romantic relationship with anyone. He did have idle thoughts about the overly romantic tales his father told about how he and his mother got together, but they were just thoughts and there was no one he would seriously consider, until he met Abigail.
Abigail was a smuggler, and was making deliveries between stations. She was injured by a rival group trying to steal her cargo, specially sealed for delivery to its rightful recipient. He didn't want to see her killed so he hid her and nursed her back to health. In the time he spent with her, he fell in love with her, and while Ricardo was scum, Visscher's desperation to see her better meant that Visscher was willing to contact him and ask for advice. Only instead of getting advice, Ricardo betrayed both of them to the rival gang and she was killed. Visscher hid, and though he felt like a coward (he didn't know how to fight, all he could do was fix people) he did manage to protect her cargo. He then received an anonymous message over the station's network saying that Ricardo had betrayed him.
He wasn't sure what he would do, but Visscher decided to confront him. He took the cargo with him, and upon arriving opened it in front of Ricardo while holding him at gunpoint (though he barely knew how to use it). It was a parasite queen, and it latched onto Visscher. Because Visscher was so full of anger one of her extensions made Ricardo kill himself before Visscher could put much thought into it. It was then that Ms. Ward showed up and informed Visscher that she had needed this to happen because he was the one that would do the least amount of damage with her, even with that violent act.
Already feeling guilty and angry he ran, and he's been on the run ever since. He's not used the queen except in self-defense since, and he still moves quickly from place to place so he won't be a target for any of the groups (military, criminal, or corporate) that would want the parasite queen.
Personality: Utrecht actually has very low self-esteem because of his childhood. He acknowledges that the feeling is mostly in his own head now; other than people at the rich station, he's been treated fairly despite the fact he has partial facial paralysis. He's enthusiastic about nature and sustainability and is paranoid of the dependence on raw technology because of what happened on Braunschweig. He's shy about personal relationships and with his difficult upbringing he finds it difficult to trust as he would much rather be self-reliant. This doesn't mean he's unkind, but he doesn't like to be very dependent on someone's generosity and if he's forced to be he won't remain so for very long. Most of his stories about people he's known in the past end with that he's not spoken with those people in a while, and that's usually because he doesn't want to look back and find something awful has happened to someone he cares about. He's lonely, though less so now that the queen is attached. She's created a dependency on her company, an addiction both she and her extensions create. Abigail was the first person to spend a considerable amount of time with Visscher in a personal context (as well as approach him for it), and he's never been able to shake his love for her.
He's going at his mission all or nothing; it's his one agenda, his one goal, and other than protecting the queen he basically has no other prospects for his future. In attaching the parasite queen to himself he believes he has no chance of ever being intimate ever again. He has given up on finding his sister, thinking that maybe she was returned to their parent's home in the confusion after his settlement deteriorated, or she is still with a kind neighbor.
Visscher is capable of hating people, but he's never been inclined towards violence. He's not very good at it, he doesn't like it, and when given the chance he would much prefer the "I will take care of the enemy of my enemy or weaken my enemy with truth" approach rather than outright attacking them. He won't insult anyone that uses violence, everyone has to take care of things their own way, but he will say that it's not his way and he can't bring himself to do it. He does, however, quietly hate when people harm others (especially friends) for the sake of profit or a good time. He strays away from verbal conflict because, in having to depend on the kindness of strangers in his youth, he got used to doing as he was told and raising his voice could end up with him homeless. Even when he despised people like Ricardo, he couldn't confront them.
He is a very involved environmentalist and likes to talk about wildlife and nature and the different peoples he has encountered. He doesn't own any domesticated animals because he would feel guilty for containing them and making them move places they didn't want to go, and he doesn't like to use transportation with any sort of exhaust. More often than not he'll use a bicycle to get around. This is as much born from the desire to make sustainable colonies on resource rich worlds as it is influence from the parasite on his back and her displeasure at what happened to her and her kind. He dresses nicely and tries to make himself presentable despite the slight issue with facial expression. He has a sense of humor, but is shy and evasive (especially when people show a romantic interest in him).
Visscher is used to stress. Near destruction of some of the stations he's been on, plagues, involvements with criminals, military personnel. Anything that happened at Blackstaff or in Blackway would probably be on par with things that he's already encountered. In conflict he would be completely dependent on other people, but that seems to work out well for building CR and there are usually people willing to pull him out of a bad situation. He will also do his very best to keep calm, because while he retains some control over the parasite queen she will act independently from him to keep her host safe (usually by trying to mind control someone away from him).
Abilities:
NOTE: most of these are because of the parasite queen
Strengths:
» a parasite extension from the queen (basically a creature not even independent enough to be a drone) can attach itself to a host and control it
» a parasite knows what its host knows and will control it based on the host's methods and knowledge, using the queen's command like a minimal base program
» both queens and extensions optimize their physiology so they have the best possible strength and stamina
» extensions (and queens to a lesser extent) feed off the host's personality as well
» they can also turn off their host's organs and hold them hostage
» Visscher himself is a VERY good doctor and trained for eight years to use a pair of surgical gloves that would allow him to remove foreign objects.
» He can sing very well
Weaknesses:
» the range of the queen is usually infinite because the extensions are given a base order before they leave the queen, and then follow it after attached (on Quadratus her influence will turn off once the extension host is out of range)
» Visscher can't fight. He has enhanced endurance and physiology thanks to the parasite, but it doesn't make him stronger, he still panics under pressure, balks from anything that makes him anxious
» extension parasites completely control their host but are easily removed with electricity
» queen parasites will kill their hosts if removed, so if anyone tries to remove her from Visscher he will die
» he flat out won't be using her if he can help it
Possible Jobs:
» Clinic
» A medicinal botanical shop
» Singing at Dorian's place
RP Samples:
» PSL scenario
» Original Test Drive Thread
» 4th Wall Threads
Companions: The Parasite Queen
Additional:
Special History: The parasite queen was born on a watery world where her kind grew to have a symbiotic relationship with dim minded cetaceans. She mildly encouraged them to return to her, to pass warnings from extensions back to the pod leader when one encountered the large aquatic predators of that world, and for it her kind was supported by their hosts.
Their world was raided, though, once the nature of the symbiotes was discovered. Outside of their original hosts the queens were largely parasitic and as they were attached to many of the sentient species of the galactic arm meant that a queen had access to all the knowledge of the host. When they intended to use her to control their underlings, a queen would also have access to their knowledge. They wouldn't share this with their host, but they would store it and use it for their own benefit. While the extensions could control people completely, and for as deeply as a queen rooted into her host, she couldn't control them completely. All she could do is make them feel physically uncomfortable with one idea or give them pleasure at another. Her influence was subtle, but it often worked.
The queens were also pushed by the wants and needs of their new hosts, which were violent and selfish for the most part. Military, black market operations, corporate entities; they all wanted to use one and would pay high prices. Soon the ocean-covered homeworld was rid of queens and after that the now unprotected, aimless pods that once hosted them. The queens were now dependent on the kindness (or selfishness) of strangers that wanted to use them to manipulate people, to control minions without speaking their intentions to them, that thought wearing a creature capable of killing it at whim would be worth the profits they would earn.
Visscher's own queen was to be sold on the black market to a large criminal family. She was in stasis before Ricardo opened her containment. Automatically she latched onto the person closest to her, Visscher, climbing to his bare back and sinking in. Her first feelings from him were rage and fear, and when Ricardo came at Visscher to defend himself she protected her new host by releasing an extension. It latched onto the back of Ricardo's neck and made him eviscerate himself. Since then she's become content with her new host, though sensing that telling about her would be a grievous mistake whenever he gets close to doing so she physically influences him to be quiet.
Issues: Visscher cannot live without her as stated under his weaknesses. Removing her causes irreperable damage now. I don't intend to use her unless plot comes to it, though, considering she was triggering during an earlier plot. Her abilities are listed under his strength, since he's ultimately the one that makes the decisions for her and how they're used. All she can do is manipulate how his body responds to things, rather than his actual thoughts.