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Oct. 9th, 2013 11:49 amPlayer Information
Player name: Jen
Contact: plurk: substituteskull
Are you over 18: Yep!
Characters in The Box Already: Captain Jack Harkness
Character Information
Character Name: Mohinder Suresh
Canon: Heroes
Canon Point: Season One, between "Run!" and "Unexpected." AKA: Mohinder hasn't figured out Zane Taylor is Sylar yet.
Is your character Dead, Undead or Alive: Alive
History: Here
Personality:
Mohinder is a professor and a geneticist from Chennai, India. He has a doctorate in parapsychology and use to teach evolutionary genetics at the University of Madras. He had always attempted to follow in his father's footsteps, trying to get recognition for his own work while building off of his own father's research into the evolution of human beings through genetic mutations that would allow them to access special powers or abilities. Mohinder and his dad had a very rocky relationship which seems to have stemmed from the death of his older sister. When Shanti got sick with an unknown virus, Mohinder was conceived to produce antibodies for her. Though he was born with those antibodies, it was too late to save Shanti. This caused his father's coldness towards him.
Despite Mohinder's clash with his father, who had run off to America to try and find evolved human beings to support his book sometime after Mohinder gained tenure at his university, he still defended him and his work. When he was told that his father died, Mohinder even went so far as to take a leave of absence from his teaching position, and went off to New York City to discover why his dad was killed and to unlock his father's code on the way to find more people with abilities. This shows how much Mohinder longed to be accepted by his father and forms the basis for later daddy issues he encounters in New York.
Mohinder is a born skeptic, as any good scientist ought to be. Though he does believe his father's theories about evolved humans and super powers, he needs to see them for himself, first hand. He is quick to dismiss other people at first that claim to have powers but can't or have trouble with reproducing them. Conversely, he is also extremely gullible and easy to dupe. Over and over again, Mohinder's want-it-to-be-true nature has gotten him into trouble. He rarely stops to think through certain situations and is caught up in the plots of others because he feels himself powerless to do anything else. Despite all of his book smarts, Mohinder rarely shows signs of having common sense.
Mohinder has an inflated sense of morality. Though he is sometimes forced to do things outside of his comfort zone, more often than not, he rebels when pushed too far even if that gets him injured. He tries to be heroic and though he is far from cowardly, he is very easy to spook. He can be annoyingly persistent at times and is willing to drop his entire life for causes he believes in with very little provocation.
That said, Mohinder finds it very hard to forgive people that have wronged him. Though he is a religious man (the Hindi faith does not conflict with science as some monotheistic belief systems do), he also embraces revenge. Mohinder can be as cruel as he is kind and generally takes it upon himself to deal with his problems (and usually in somewhat stupid ways that puts him into more danger than it is likely worth). He gets very focused and sometimes can refuse to see reason.
Though Mohinder has had long term relationships, and actively accepts romances, he has never been married and is childless. His research and work always comes first.
Abilities, Strengths and Weaknesses:
Mohinder is a normal human being with no evolved abilities (though he does retain antibodies for a strain of a virus that effects evolved humans in his blood). He is a professor and a geneticist. The former makes him fairly knowledgeable about many subjects and gives him a passion for soliloquies and lectures. The latter doesn't really afford him a skill set that he can use outside of a lab or in a practical setting other than his own universe, however, but it does give him skill to draw blood, prepare slides, and work lab equipment. He is academically minded and very intellectual, though he does seem to fail when it comes to common sense. Mohinder is extremely adept at taking people at face value, given what they are saying is something he wants to hear. He is more or less tri-lingual, speaking both Hindi and English fluently and knowing French to get by. Mohinder is a vegetarian out of respect to his mother's religion, though he will from time to time consume fish. His diet may be his biggest weakness depending on how stores are stocked. His greatest strength and weakness, however, is his morality. Mohinder's moral compass always points true north, which sometimes is at odds with the situation or with what he may be forced to do. He has no trouble believing in the greater good, but acting on it is sometimes impossible for him.
Samples
Network/Action Spam Sample:
[Mohinder's hands shake as he flips through the only website his phone seems capable of accessing: a bulletin board filled with strange and confusing things. The feeling seeing the posts gives him makes him shudder.]
[He decides to add something, via text, to this website.]
[Sender: M.Suresh] Where am I? Where is this?
[And now he's got a choice. Wait for a reply? Or go out to explore?]
Prose Log Sample:
Mohinder longed for nothing more than to follow in his father's footsteps. He seemed to actually be managing that quite well now that he had gone out for his first chance at field work. Meeting Zane Taylor had been an exercise in suspension of disbelief and a lot of courage (and stupidity). Those were qualities that Mohinder found himself really very capable of maintaining despite having been shot at, his research almost destroyed, and believing himself to be tracked by his father's killer. Eden was dead now, though she had been invaluable in his work and he wished that she could have been here with him now as he waited at the door in Virginia for Zane to answer.
He was nothing like Mohinder expected from their phone conversation that morning. He was calm, a little bit on the squirely side, but very tall and quite handsome, as far as men tended to go. The old rock and roll t-shirt seemed out of place on him. His hair style even more so. Mohinder bit his tongue.
And he had to bite it again when Zane showed him what he could do. Disrupting the bonds between molecules and 'melting' objects with a touch? Oh, it was so very dangerous. A power like that, perhaps, could kill. And yet, Zane had perfect control over it. They had tea together and decided to travel the country, seeking out people just like Zane. Mohinder had the algorithm worked out now, didn't he? He knew the mapped portions of the genome that showed the mutation to allow powers.
And so, off they went, towards Montana of all places to visit someone named Dale. A mechanic. Mohinder would never get there, though. One minute, he and Zane were pulled over in a parking lot by a diner, the other man having run in to get them both a cup of coffee to go and to use the bathroom, and the next?
Well Mohinder didn't know. He sat up slowly, still dressed in his jeans and his brown, lined wool coat. Nothing seemed recognizable and it made his flesh crawl. Did they get to him? Oh God!
"H-hello?" No answer. "Zane?!"
Player name: Jen
Contact: plurk: substituteskull
Are you over 18: Yep!
Characters in The Box Already: Captain Jack Harkness
Character Information
Character Name: Mohinder Suresh
Canon: Heroes
Canon Point: Season One, between "Run!" and "Unexpected." AKA: Mohinder hasn't figured out Zane Taylor is Sylar yet.
Is your character Dead, Undead or Alive: Alive
History: Here
Personality:
Mohinder is a professor and a geneticist from Chennai, India. He has a doctorate in parapsychology and use to teach evolutionary genetics at the University of Madras. He had always attempted to follow in his father's footsteps, trying to get recognition for his own work while building off of his own father's research into the evolution of human beings through genetic mutations that would allow them to access special powers or abilities. Mohinder and his dad had a very rocky relationship which seems to have stemmed from the death of his older sister. When Shanti got sick with an unknown virus, Mohinder was conceived to produce antibodies for her. Though he was born with those antibodies, it was too late to save Shanti. This caused his father's coldness towards him.
Despite Mohinder's clash with his father, who had run off to America to try and find evolved human beings to support his book sometime after Mohinder gained tenure at his university, he still defended him and his work. When he was told that his father died, Mohinder even went so far as to take a leave of absence from his teaching position, and went off to New York City to discover why his dad was killed and to unlock his father's code on the way to find more people with abilities. This shows how much Mohinder longed to be accepted by his father and forms the basis for later daddy issues he encounters in New York.
Mohinder is a born skeptic, as any good scientist ought to be. Though he does believe his father's theories about evolved humans and super powers, he needs to see them for himself, first hand. He is quick to dismiss other people at first that claim to have powers but can't or have trouble with reproducing them. Conversely, he is also extremely gullible and easy to dupe. Over and over again, Mohinder's want-it-to-be-true nature has gotten him into trouble. He rarely stops to think through certain situations and is caught up in the plots of others because he feels himself powerless to do anything else. Despite all of his book smarts, Mohinder rarely shows signs of having common sense.
Mohinder has an inflated sense of morality. Though he is sometimes forced to do things outside of his comfort zone, more often than not, he rebels when pushed too far even if that gets him injured. He tries to be heroic and though he is far from cowardly, he is very easy to spook. He can be annoyingly persistent at times and is willing to drop his entire life for causes he believes in with very little provocation.
That said, Mohinder finds it very hard to forgive people that have wronged him. Though he is a religious man (the Hindi faith does not conflict with science as some monotheistic belief systems do), he also embraces revenge. Mohinder can be as cruel as he is kind and generally takes it upon himself to deal with his problems (and usually in somewhat stupid ways that puts him into more danger than it is likely worth). He gets very focused and sometimes can refuse to see reason.
Though Mohinder has had long term relationships, and actively accepts romances, he has never been married and is childless. His research and work always comes first.
Abilities, Strengths and Weaknesses:
Mohinder is a normal human being with no evolved abilities (though he does retain antibodies for a strain of a virus that effects evolved humans in his blood). He is a professor and a geneticist. The former makes him fairly knowledgeable about many subjects and gives him a passion for soliloquies and lectures. The latter doesn't really afford him a skill set that he can use outside of a lab or in a practical setting other than his own universe, however, but it does give him skill to draw blood, prepare slides, and work lab equipment. He is academically minded and very intellectual, though he does seem to fail when it comes to common sense. Mohinder is extremely adept at taking people at face value, given what they are saying is something he wants to hear. He is more or less tri-lingual, speaking both Hindi and English fluently and knowing French to get by. Mohinder is a vegetarian out of respect to his mother's religion, though he will from time to time consume fish. His diet may be his biggest weakness depending on how stores are stocked. His greatest strength and weakness, however, is his morality. Mohinder's moral compass always points true north, which sometimes is at odds with the situation or with what he may be forced to do. He has no trouble believing in the greater good, but acting on it is sometimes impossible for him.
Samples
Network/Action Spam Sample:
[Mohinder's hands shake as he flips through the only website his phone seems capable of accessing: a bulletin board filled with strange and confusing things. The feeling seeing the posts gives him makes him shudder.]
[He decides to add something, via text, to this website.]
[Sender: M.Suresh] Where am I? Where is this?
[And now he's got a choice. Wait for a reply? Or go out to explore?]
Prose Log Sample:
Mohinder longed for nothing more than to follow in his father's footsteps. He seemed to actually be managing that quite well now that he had gone out for his first chance at field work. Meeting Zane Taylor had been an exercise in suspension of disbelief and a lot of courage (and stupidity). Those were qualities that Mohinder found himself really very capable of maintaining despite having been shot at, his research almost destroyed, and believing himself to be tracked by his father's killer. Eden was dead now, though she had been invaluable in his work and he wished that she could have been here with him now as he waited at the door in Virginia for Zane to answer.
He was nothing like Mohinder expected from their phone conversation that morning. He was calm, a little bit on the squirely side, but very tall and quite handsome, as far as men tended to go. The old rock and roll t-shirt seemed out of place on him. His hair style even more so. Mohinder bit his tongue.
And he had to bite it again when Zane showed him what he could do. Disrupting the bonds between molecules and 'melting' objects with a touch? Oh, it was so very dangerous. A power like that, perhaps, could kill. And yet, Zane had perfect control over it. They had tea together and decided to travel the country, seeking out people just like Zane. Mohinder had the algorithm worked out now, didn't he? He knew the mapped portions of the genome that showed the mutation to allow powers.
And so, off they went, towards Montana of all places to visit someone named Dale. A mechanic. Mohinder would never get there, though. One minute, he and Zane were pulled over in a parking lot by a diner, the other man having run in to get them both a cup of coffee to go and to use the bathroom, and the next?
Well Mohinder didn't know. He sat up slowly, still dressed in his jeans and his brown, lined wool coat. Nothing seemed recognizable and it made his flesh crawl. Did they get to him? Oh God!
"H-hello?" No answer. "Zane?!"
