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Doctor Samuel Graves II; Paging Doctor Darwin?
Topic Started: Feb 24 2017, 10:58 PM (210 Views)
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Character Name:Dr. (And don't you dare forget it!) Samuel Graves II PhD

Ship Applying For:Darwin

Character Occupation:Medical Doctor, Scientist, Conspiracy Theorist

Age (of the character): 69

Appearance: An elderly gentleman, though not at all frail, one immediately tends to notice the height of Dr Graves. At just over six feet, despite his advancing age, the man walks straight, stands tall and moves without a quiver in his limbs. His dark eyes glance side to side constantly yet he never seems flustered or out of breath. His graying hair is cut short, his simple beard still maintaining a hint of the sandy blonde color from his youth. A multitude of lines, from both age and stress, make their way across his face and body despite his remarkable vigor. He speaks with the Core Londinium accent except those rare moments of anger, frustration or shock, when he instinctively reverts to the "Dixie" southern accent of his youth.

Unless dressed in a labcoat or medical scrubs, Graves dresses like an old country doctor, dark suit, long coat and bowler hat, with a leather medical bag within easy reach. He's a striking figure when he wants to be.

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Attributes and Skills: Graves is an extremely competent Doctor and combat medic, this extends to everything from sewing closed wounds and setting broken bones to creating vaccines for diseases and prescribing medication for various mental disorders. He's remarkably calm under pressure, something he learned stitching men up during the war but he prefers the confines of the lab or surgery to the battlefield. He's also an excellent scientist, mathematician and physicist who, when he's not busy, is devoting his spare time to one of two things, working on complex experiments for his own amusement or looking into, and contributing to, the various conspiracy theories about alien life surrounding the 'Verse. We cannot be alone out here.

First Impression: Graves comes off as an alright if somewhat distance chap. It isn't his fault really, you look through test tubes for most of your life and people start to become almost annoyances. They do stupid things that can't be explained or quantified within a lab and that flusters him. While he's always polite, rudeness is so unprofessional, he makes it plain, unless you have time to discuss quantum string theory or you're there for an examination he's got better things to do with his time. Unless you've claimed to have seen the Deep Space ghosts... or know something about the Londinium Strangler, or Bigfoot, then he's got all the time in the world. Doubly so if you've got proof of Alien life, he'll drop everything if you claim you've got that. The search for ET is his all consuming passion.

Oh, and he always smells faintly like a hospital. It's a doctor thing...

Under the Surface: Graves is completely professional. He enjoys cutting up the body, not in a serial killer way mind you but anatomy is fascinating, a perk of the job. He's aloof, laconic if the mood strikes him. His mind is always racing, always wondering, running calculations and thinking of experiments, getting the man to relax is something precious few people can actually do. He's not the kind of person to relax easily and if someone actually gets close enough to him to be considered friend that's a rather shocking turn of events to him. Those are few and far between. If you're a fellow believer, like he is, he warms instantly, and trusts far too quickly.

Deep Dark Self: What about the aliens huh? What do the elite know about aliens that they won't tell us? Sometimes he can get a little bit paranoid, that's just what happens when you go down the rabbit hole too far.

Public /Common History: Samuel Graves II was born on Jefferson, a rural rim world with a fiercely independent streak. His father and mother owned a very successful tobacco farm and trained their numerous children for the family business. But young master Graves wasn't interested in growing tobacco or any kind of agriculture for that matter, he was content to stay within the Antebellum style mansion and read up on the anatomy of the human body and complex mathematical equations.

It was more out of frustration than love that the older Samuel Graves sent his teenage son to Londinium to attend the finest universities and earn an MD in medicine, at least doctoring was a somewhat respectable skill his son showed interest in. Pity for the elder Graves, the younger fell in love with the Alliance core worlds and lost that famed Jefferson independence. The Alliance was a place of mystery and adventure, a place where his knowledge and brain were respected rather than simply tolerated as they had been back home.

Samuel had earned his MD and was beginning work on a PhD in physics and mathematics when the war for independence broke out and Jefferson tried to secede from the Alliance along with the other Browncoat loyal planets. For reasons known only to Graves he gave up his practice and went to war as a combat medic for the Alliance his father so hated.

Throughout the war, Doctor Graves earned a reputation as someone unflappable, unbeatable. He'd do simple surgery on the battlefield with bullets and shells flying by seeming unbothered by any of it. He'd reattach limbs with decent success and treated disease when he could. Many an Alliance soldier survived the night because of Samuel's work.

After the war, Samuel returned to the university, with a commendation for bravery and a glowing service record. Shortly thereafter, he earned his PhD both in physics and mathematics. While working as a doctor, a very good doctor, kept his bills paid handsomely he was free to continue his true passion for experimentation. He published several papers on matters of theoretical physics and genetics, all the while hinting that he was searching for something else, climbing the ladder of social and scientific success because there was something he wanted, yet no one save Graves himself knew what that was. Eventually, someone found him, someone with similar beliefs and information he was willing to share with the old doctor, for a price....

Unknown History: The childhood of Samuel Graves II was highly critical for the man himself and what he would become. In particular two events stand out above the rest.

The first occurred when Graves was eight. The young Samuel was out playing in his father's fields when he came across one of the workers, or rather, the remains of one. Despite the largely automated nature of running such a vast farm there was need for several dozen hands. This unfortunate one had run afoul of some piece of automated machinery and had been split in half.

The young Samuel Graves didn't call for help immediately; instead he looked down at the dead man and studied his insides. The boy was fascinated, rather than disgusted by what he saw, the inner workings of the human body on display. When eventually he did call out for someone to come get the long dead worker he couldn't even fake shock and horror, his curiosity was too strong. That day sealed the deal and Samuel Graves knew he'd been born a surgeon.

The second incident occurred later, when he was sixteen. Samuel went into town for booze and some old books. While there he stayed far too long and drank a little too much. Knowing how mad his father would be if he didn't get home on time for curfew Samuel took a shortcut home through the forest over a rickety bridge across the creek. The bridge collapsed and Graves smashed his head against a rock, knocking himself unconscious. When he recovered from his blackout he saw lights hovering in the sky above him, lights the likes of which he'd never seen before or since. After they vanished he told his father the truth he knew to be beyond reproach, he'd seen aliens. The old man denied it and scoffed at him, insisting it was probably a ship of some kind yet Graves would not let go of the strange incident. He knew the truth, others on the Cortex knew it too. Aliens were real, they were out there he'd seen them! It was just the matter of proving it.

Secret History: Graves has done everything, his experiments, his work with the Alliance and his practice, in an attempt to move up the ladder of the 'Verse and learn the truth about alien life. He knows the government, the corporations, whoever, is hiding it, and he's going to find it.

Strengths: Graves is an unflappable surgeon and doctor, that, coupled with his scientific know-how make him invaluable as a medical expert. He's an excellent scientist and mathematician as well. He's very dedicated to finding the truth and, despite a few doubts, believes firmly in the Alliance cause. Just because the government doesn't want him knowing about the Aliens doesn't mean they aren't right about other things.

Weaknesses: Graves is no fighter, he can't brawl or shoot worth a damn. Unless you're a conspiracy nut like he is, the man isn't personable, he's rather cold in fact. To Graves, everything is a conspiracy and everything is shadowy. His willingness to believe a fellow conspiracy theorist leaves him vulnerable to manipulation quite easily as, if someone is sharing something with him it must be true! Why lie about Bigfoot?
Edited by Wildback, Feb 25 2017, 11:45 PM.
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