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Portes Redux
Apr. 7th, 2015 02:41 pmPlayer's Name: Jeni
Contact info:substituteskull @ plurk
Character: Mohinder Suresh
Canon: Heroes
Version: TV Show/Comics
Canon Point: Between Seasons 2 and 3
Age: 33
Gender: Male
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.
Fears: Mohinder's greatest fear is failure. Since birth, he's felt the guilt of failing since he had not been born in time to save his sister. He's failed to garner much attention from his father despite following him in his research. Stemming from this comes his fear of letting people down or being unable to protect the people he loves and is what ultimately caused him to send Molly Walker away since he clearly put her in harm's way. This also helps explain his sometimes misplaced loyalty.
Weaknesses: Mohinder's greatest weakness is himself. His moral standards often get in the way of any common sense he might have and he just as often charges headlong into situations that could get him killed as he does running away. He also has a weakness for anyone that shows him kindness or interest. Given that his entire life has been built around receiving some sort of praise or recognition from his father, Mohinder latches on quickly to those sorts of people without thinking of the consequences. He is very gullible and naive, often allowing people to take advantage of him unwittingly.
Mundane Strengths/Abilities: Mohinder is a normal human being with no evolved abilities or super powers. He is a professor and a geneticist. The latter gives him skill to draw blood, prepare slides, and work lab equipment though he is not a medical doctor. He has participated in clinical trials however and can handle basic first aid. He is academically minded and very intellectual, though he does seem to fail when it comes to common sense. He speaks several languages such as Hindi, Tamil and English fluently. He knows only enough French to get by.
Sensitivity/Magical Ability: None, though his blood does carry the antibodies to a particularly nasty strain of virus that affects people with evolved human abilities.
Supply List: Mohinder wears a silver thumb ring and a wrist watch. He has on a button down shirt, a pair of jeans, and brown boots. He's also sporting a nose bandage thanks to recently having it been broke. He has a pair of glasses on him and is wearing contact lenses. In his wallet there is around $30 American, a condom (because he's responsible!), a keycard letting him into his lab in Manhattan, a picture of him along with Matt Parkman and Molly Walker at the Brooklyn Zoo, and a folded white paper with an orange and yellow star drawn on it in crayon. He has a brown leather satchel containing handiwipes, his passport and work visa, a small flashlight, his keys to his apartment, a hair tie, his laptop, a tourniquet, swabs, the remains of a sample kit formerly containing Claire Bennet's blood, needles, an injection gun and some empty vials.
Game Transfers: He originally arrived in Portes several months prior to his current canon point. I would like to transfer his memories from the last time he was here into his current canon point.
Sample RP post:
There was an all too familiar stench that assaulted his nostrils and made his skin crawl before he ever opened his eyes. Dried blood was a scent he could never forget, no matter how much he wanted to. Straining in the darkness, refusing to open his eyes, he tried to listen for the sound of breathing on the bed to his left. Molly had been too afraid to sleep alone for the last few days, ever since Sylar had burst back into her life...literally. Mohinder couldn't blame her. He was...weak. He'd been unable to protect her. He was a danger not only to himself (at the best of times) but a magnet for it too. Those around him suffered.
Just the night before he had started thinking about asking his mother to take the child in. She would have questions, no doubt, and Molly would be angry with him, but there was just no other way. Not with Sylar on the loose. Not with Sylar cured of the Shanti virus, his ability restored very likely by this point. Mohinder was, frankly, surprised that they had not been revisited by their shared personal demon.
There was only silence to great the scientist as he laid there now. Worry and disorientation was replaced by a slowly ebbing dread. He forced his eyes open and sat up.
This room... Mohinder pressed his eyes closed in a desperate hope that when he opened them again, he would see the parched but still peeling wall paper of his daughter's room and all of the little elephant dolls and statuettes she had collected since she came into his care.
There was no such luck. He called Molly's name, hoping that she might reply, even at a distance. Mohinder was not sure if he was relieved or upset when he heard no reply.
"Oh gods," he whispered in Hindi, regardless of his own personal beliefs. "Not again."
Contact info:substituteskull @ plurk
Character: Mohinder Suresh
Canon: Heroes
Version: TV Show/Comics
Canon Point: Between Seasons 2 and 3
Age: 33
Gender: Male
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.
Fears: Mohinder's greatest fear is failure. Since birth, he's felt the guilt of failing since he had not been born in time to save his sister. He's failed to garner much attention from his father despite following him in his research. Stemming from this comes his fear of letting people down or being unable to protect the people he loves and is what ultimately caused him to send Molly Walker away since he clearly put her in harm's way. This also helps explain his sometimes misplaced loyalty.
Weaknesses: Mohinder's greatest weakness is himself. His moral standards often get in the way of any common sense he might have and he just as often charges headlong into situations that could get him killed as he does running away. He also has a weakness for anyone that shows him kindness or interest. Given that his entire life has been built around receiving some sort of praise or recognition from his father, Mohinder latches on quickly to those sorts of people without thinking of the consequences. He is very gullible and naive, often allowing people to take advantage of him unwittingly.
Mundane Strengths/Abilities: Mohinder is a normal human being with no evolved abilities or super powers. He is a professor and a geneticist. The latter gives him skill to draw blood, prepare slides, and work lab equipment though he is not a medical doctor. He has participated in clinical trials however and can handle basic first aid. He is academically minded and very intellectual, though he does seem to fail when it comes to common sense. He speaks several languages such as Hindi, Tamil and English fluently. He knows only enough French to get by.
Sensitivity/Magical Ability: None, though his blood does carry the antibodies to a particularly nasty strain of virus that affects people with evolved human abilities.
Supply List: Mohinder wears a silver thumb ring and a wrist watch. He has on a button down shirt, a pair of jeans, and brown boots. He's also sporting a nose bandage thanks to recently having it been broke. He has a pair of glasses on him and is wearing contact lenses. In his wallet there is around $30 American, a condom (because he's responsible!), a keycard letting him into his lab in Manhattan, a picture of him along with Matt Parkman and Molly Walker at the Brooklyn Zoo, and a folded white paper with an orange and yellow star drawn on it in crayon. He has a brown leather satchel containing handiwipes, his passport and work visa, a small flashlight, his keys to his apartment, a hair tie, his laptop, a tourniquet, swabs, the remains of a sample kit formerly containing Claire Bennet's blood, needles, an injection gun and some empty vials.
Game Transfers: He originally arrived in Portes several months prior to his current canon point. I would like to transfer his memories from the last time he was here into his current canon point.
Sample RP post:
There was an all too familiar stench that assaulted his nostrils and made his skin crawl before he ever opened his eyes. Dried blood was a scent he could never forget, no matter how much he wanted to. Straining in the darkness, refusing to open his eyes, he tried to listen for the sound of breathing on the bed to his left. Molly had been too afraid to sleep alone for the last few days, ever since Sylar had burst back into her life...literally. Mohinder couldn't blame her. He was...weak. He'd been unable to protect her. He was a danger not only to himself (at the best of times) but a magnet for it too. Those around him suffered.
Just the night before he had started thinking about asking his mother to take the child in. She would have questions, no doubt, and Molly would be angry with him, but there was just no other way. Not with Sylar on the loose. Not with Sylar cured of the Shanti virus, his ability restored very likely by this point. Mohinder was, frankly, surprised that they had not been revisited by their shared personal demon.
There was only silence to great the scientist as he laid there now. Worry and disorientation was replaced by a slowly ebbing dread. He forced his eyes open and sat up.
This room... Mohinder pressed his eyes closed in a desperate hope that when he opened them again, he would see the parched but still peeling wall paper of his daughter's room and all of the little elephant dolls and statuettes she had collected since she came into his care.
There was no such luck. He called Molly's name, hoping that she might reply, even at a distance. Mohinder was not sure if he was relieved or upset when he heard no reply.
"Oh gods," he whispered in Hindi, regardless of his own personal beliefs. "Not again."
