seekevolution | Application for Project Blue

[PLAYER INFO]
Name/Nick: Jeni
Age: 29
User LJ: N/A
AIM/IM: Hookandoil
E-mail: jmullen521@gmail.com
Other Characters: NA at this time.

[CHARACTER INFO]
Character Name: Dr. Mohinder Suresh
Fandom: Heroes
Age: 33
Canon Point: Episode 211 "Powerless." Sylar has just stolen the cure to Strain 138 from him and Mohinder, fearing for Molly's life, sends her away to India to live with his mother.
AU?: No.
Starting Location: New York City
Equipment: Silver thumb ring, wrist watch, green t-shirt, purple collared shirt, jeans, brown boots, possibly a small standard medical kit (containing needle tips, injectors, aspirin, one vial of antibiotics, sterile gauze pads, bandages, rubbing alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, anti-bacterial spray, suture thread, suture needle, chemical 'ice pack,' small pair of scissors, two pairs of gloves, adhesive bandage tape, tweezers, a small penlight, 5 cotton balls and a thermometer). Also, if allowed, Mohinder will be carrying a backpack of supplies with him (as in my sample below). It will contain two 2-litre bottles of water, a blanket, Molly's favourite doll, some canned food from the corner store, a map, a toy compass that barely works, a thermos with a cup lid, and some basic utensils including a knife from his kitchen.

Abilities/Powers: None. Mohinder is still a normal human being and has no other powers other than his intellect.

Personality: Mohinder is a professor and a genetist from Chennai, India. He has a PhD in parapsychology and use to teach at the University of Madras. He has 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. Mohinder and his dad have a very rocky relationship stemming from the death of his older sister. Mohinder was conceived solely to produce antibodies for his sister, who had contracted a virus that attacked and killed any evolved human being. Though he was born with those antibodies, it was too late for his sister.

Despite Mohinder's clash with his father, who has run off to America to try and find other evolved human beings, Mohinder still defends him. When he is told that his father died, Mohinder takes a leave of absence from his teaching position, packs up what he can of his father's work, and goes off to New York City to discover why his dad was killed and to continue his work.

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 reproduce 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 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. Just the same, he considers himself a father to Molly Walker, a little girl he helped to save from the same virus that killed his sister. For a few months, she lived with him in his apartment in New York along with Matt Parkman, who Mohinder took in to help him recover from his gun shot wounds.

Mohinder genuinely loves Molly and has since sent her off to stay with his mother in India where he thinks she'll be safe.

History: Mohinder's history. He is canon up until the end of Season Two, having sent Molly Walker, his ward, away to India to stay with his mother.

Special Notes: Mohinder will come into the game just after having sent Molly away. He'll have fallen asleep in 2007 and wake up in 2011 just as the flu is in full swing. He will do his very best to try and do what he can for people, believing that this is Strain 138. He even thinks he can make a cure. After all, he's done it twice before.

[SAMPLES]
Journal Entry:
[The video starts with a tired looking Indian man adjusting the screen. He looks like he might not have slept for two days. There's some unidentified stain on the front of his t-shirt. It's dark. Brownish. He doesn't seem to care much to have changed his clothes.]

Hello again. This is Doctor Mohinder Suresh from New York. It's Day 14, according to some of you on the Network. For me, it's Day 4 since I woke up to this virus. Most of you refer to it as Captain Trips and though I know it as Shanti, I will use the common vernacular.

[His words have a touch of culture to them. He is a man trained at Cambridge and his years of study there have given his spoken English a decidedly British flair.]

Everyone in my building is dead. I've just come back from my rounds to bring Mrs. Partridge some instant oatmeal still left way in the back shelf of the drug store on the corner to find that she's finally passed away.

[He pauses to rub a hand over his forehead, looking nothing if not on the verge of breaking down. When he speaks again, it's into his palm.]

I've not heard from any of my friends but should anyone else have heard of them or know their whereabouts, please pass on a message that I will be starting for Vermont where I can hopefully help to find a cure for this. Peter and Nathan Petrelli. Matt Parkman. Noah and Claire Bennet. Niki Sanders. Elle Bishop. Maya.. Sy--

[Not all of these people are his friends, but he knows them and while that's better than nothing, he's not too far gone to actually mention Sylar. Yet.]

And for God's sake...Molly Walker and my mother. They'll be in Chennai, India.

[There's no goodbye. He just signs off.]

Sample Log:
Packing his things turned out to be easier than he thought would ever be possible. He had one backpack, Matt Parkman’s bag actually, but far more convenient than his shoulder bag, and tried to think back to survival documentaries his old roommate use to rather love. What would he need to make it up to Vermont, to where a cure had been rumoured since he arrived on the Network? There were lists of things he found online from others as well and he tried his best to simply pare it down.

He had two bottles of water, a blanket, Molly’s toy compass that came in one of her board games, her favourite doll, some utensils, a lighter and map from he corner shop, and various cans of things. It didn’t occur to him to bring a can opener, however, and somewhere down the road, he’d find himself angry and frustrated trying to use a steak knife to slide into some peas.

There wasn’t anything at all left to do here. The dead people still in his building were starting to smell up the corridors. Soon, this apartment would be unlivable. Summer in New York was not a friendly place to be. Without bothering to check the Network for replies to his last post, Mohinder shouldered his bag, wrapped the waist straps around himself, and set off out the door. He was too determined to grieve.

He’d find Molly. He’d find the rest. And he’d save them all.