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• Player Age: over 30, bb
• Permissions: here
CHARACTER INFO
• Character Name: Dr. Alexander Hilbert
• Character Age: ~unknown~ (it's vaguely 50s, he's the only one that doesn't get a birthday for spoiler reasons)
• Character Canon: Wolf 359
• Canon Point: Season 3, episode 43.
• Character History: god bless a canon wiki
• Character Personality:
— Determined: Once Hilbert sets his mind to something, he'll keep at it with a scary intensity. He is willing to devote decades of his life to a project that he thinks might work, most notably the Decima virus, a genetically engineered murdervirus that Hilbert wants to retrofit to heal people and stimulate cellular regeneration. Because let's be clear, at no point in time has his Decima virus actually worked. It's got a body count and that's about it. But Hilbert is so determined, so focused, that he's going to keep at it and keep to the plan and work on this thing until it does the job. This is a man who believes the sunk cost fallacy is for suckers. And while that could easily be a negative trait, Hilbert also applies his determination to things other than his doomed virus plan. If they're going to try and stage a mutiny? He's in the mutiny attempt 100%. If someone on the ship is hurt? He's doing whatever it takes to patch them up.
— Altruistic: Work with me on this one. Hilbert doesn't care much for the individual. But the greater picture? That's what matters. At the core of his everything, he really does care for humanity. He's spent time and effort, pushing through all sorts of adverse situations, in order to make something to make things better. To prevent hurt. And, at the end of the day, as much as he's open about 'we really should just kill our new bosses,' if one of them is in front of him and is hurt, he'll do his best to save them and patch them up. He'll suffer though various abuses, degradation, berating, etc. as long as it lets him keep to his path and keep up the work. Because that's the only thing that matters to Hilbert: getting this viral project ironed out and working so that it can be used to help people.
— Creative: Hilbert is always up for finding a new solution to try and solve a problem. Eiffel needs to be knocked out? Lace his nicotine lozenge with drugs! We need to find a way to get SI-5's attention? Homemade explosives! Minkowski needs Eiffel out of her hair for a bit? Drug his coffee. Granted, a LOT of Hilbert's creativity involves new and interesting way to drug people, but it also can be expanded to new and interesting things like the mutant plant monster. This is a man that has rightfully earned every mad scientist joke thrown at him and is a master at thinking outside the box.
— Cold: Hilbert's bedside manner is absolutely horrific. He approaches almost every conversation with the same grumpy, irritated by people's mere existence, standoffish manner. He is not a people person. He doesn't see the point of things like friendships, sugarcoating bad news, or empathy. He's good at getting into fights with people and treats most situations with the same brand of grumpy neutrality. While he's a damn good doctor and would do his best to patch people up in case of an emergency, he is the last person you want to be the one to tell you about your horrible diagnosis. The few times someone talks to him about personal issues, he responds with cold pragmatism. You learned a secret about your coworker and now you're having problems working with him? Suck it up and deal with it like a big girl.
— Utilitarian: Hilbert firmly believes that the good of the many outweighs the good of the one. He believes in this so much, that he uses it to justify using people as unwilling (and unknowing) test subjects for his work. This utilitarian instinct goes so far that he forgets to consider things like "other people's feelings" and "the concept of personhood." His arguments to try and persuade Eiffel to accept his status as viral guinea pig all focus on the good he'll do for humanity, how much he'll change the world as a whole—with absolutely no focus on how this could benefit him or barely any acknowledgement that hey, Eiffel didn't sign on to being the host for an experimental death virus in the first place! And again, he's got a real nasty habit of drugging people to solve problems.
— Emotionally ignorant: Hilbert is horrible at dealing with other people's emotions and mitigating conflicts. To his credit, he knows this about himself in theory ("Could I ask you for your opinion on a personal issue?" "Under no circumstances."). But he's just as horrible at dealing with his own emotions. There is a big bundle of trauma in Hilbert's backstory that drives his entire life: all of his family died due to radiation poisoning from a nuclear meltdown. The meltdown happened when he was four, his last family member died when he was nine. Hilbert has never dealt with this in his life. It is VERY easy to draw a direct line from his childhood trauma to his current state of dubious science—and yet, Hilbert has never drawn that line himself, preferring to throw himself into his work over things like 'therapy.' He is absolutely horrible at recognizing his own emotions, preferring to push them down and ignore them instead of recognizing them for what they are.
• Character Skills:
• Fancy podcast scientist with multiple PhDs. Hilbert's main focus is on virology, but he also has knowledge of biology, radiation & radiation induced mutations, botany, chemistry, astrophysics, AI coding & manipulation, whatever the fuck he did to accidentally create a sentient plant monster that one time, computations, and various other things that are super useful for being on a spaceship orbiting a star but which are USELESS for being stuck in the frozen wilderness.
• Medical doctor. Hilbert is the ship's medical doctor and has treated all sorts of injuries, ranging from burns and scrapes to a lack of oxygen to grievous bodily harm to a crewmember almost going into cardiac arrest thanks to the death virus implanted in him. He's much more used to fancy spaceship technology than anything he'd find in-game—though Wolf 359 is technically set around 2014, technology is leaps and bounds ahead of our world. But what's the use of that big podcast brain if you can't figure out how primitive technology works?
• Food crimes. Hilbert made some seaweed concoction that kind of works like caffeine and at least had an idea of how to make spam taste like turkey.
• Character Inventory:
— ITEM ONE: One Phillips head screwdriver
— ITEM TWO: A second pair of glasses
— ITEM THREE: His favorite scalpel.
• Important Notes: n/a
• Writing Samples:
— SAMPLE ONE: Here
— SAMPLE TWO: Here
Player Name: Kates
• Player Contact:
• Player Age: over 30, bb
• Permissions: here
CHARACTER INFO
• Character Name: Dr. Alexander Hilbert
• Character Age: ~unknown~ (it's vaguely 50s, he's the only one that doesn't get a birthday for spoiler reasons)
• Character Canon: Wolf 359
• Canon Point: Season 3, episode 43.
• Character History: god bless a canon wiki
• Character Personality:
— Determined: Once Hilbert sets his mind to something, he'll keep at it with a scary intensity. He is willing to devote decades of his life to a project that he thinks might work, most notably the Decima virus, a genetically engineered murdervirus that Hilbert wants to retrofit to heal people and stimulate cellular regeneration. Because let's be clear, at no point in time has his Decima virus actually worked. It's got a body count and that's about it. But Hilbert is so determined, so focused, that he's going to keep at it and keep to the plan and work on this thing until it does the job. This is a man who believes the sunk cost fallacy is for suckers. And while that could easily be a negative trait, Hilbert also applies his determination to things other than his doomed virus plan. If they're going to try and stage a mutiny? He's in the mutiny attempt 100%. If someone on the ship is hurt? He's doing whatever it takes to patch them up.
— Altruistic: Work with me on this one. Hilbert doesn't care much for the individual. But the greater picture? That's what matters. At the core of his everything, he really does care for humanity. He's spent time and effort, pushing through all sorts of adverse situations, in order to make something to make things better. To prevent hurt. And, at the end of the day, as much as he's open about 'we really should just kill our new bosses,' if one of them is in front of him and is hurt, he'll do his best to save them and patch them up. He'll suffer though various abuses, degradation, berating, etc. as long as it lets him keep to his path and keep up the work. Because that's the only thing that matters to Hilbert: getting this viral project ironed out and working so that it can be used to help people.
— Creative: Hilbert is always up for finding a new solution to try and solve a problem. Eiffel needs to be knocked out? Lace his nicotine lozenge with drugs! We need to find a way to get SI-5's attention? Homemade explosives! Minkowski needs Eiffel out of her hair for a bit? Drug his coffee. Granted, a LOT of Hilbert's creativity involves new and interesting way to drug people, but it also can be expanded to new and interesting things like the mutant plant monster. This is a man that has rightfully earned every mad scientist joke thrown at him and is a master at thinking outside the box.
— Cold: Hilbert's bedside manner is absolutely horrific. He approaches almost every conversation with the same grumpy, irritated by people's mere existence, standoffish manner. He is not a people person. He doesn't see the point of things like friendships, sugarcoating bad news, or empathy. He's good at getting into fights with people and treats most situations with the same brand of grumpy neutrality. While he's a damn good doctor and would do his best to patch people up in case of an emergency, he is the last person you want to be the one to tell you about your horrible diagnosis. The few times someone talks to him about personal issues, he responds with cold pragmatism. You learned a secret about your coworker and now you're having problems working with him? Suck it up and deal with it like a big girl.
— Utilitarian: Hilbert firmly believes that the good of the many outweighs the good of the one. He believes in this so much, that he uses it to justify using people as unwilling (and unknowing) test subjects for his work. This utilitarian instinct goes so far that he forgets to consider things like "other people's feelings" and "the concept of personhood." His arguments to try and persuade Eiffel to accept his status as viral guinea pig all focus on the good he'll do for humanity, how much he'll change the world as a whole—with absolutely no focus on how this could benefit him or barely any acknowledgement that hey, Eiffel didn't sign on to being the host for an experimental death virus in the first place! And again, he's got a real nasty habit of drugging people to solve problems.
— Emotionally ignorant: Hilbert is horrible at dealing with other people's emotions and mitigating conflicts. To his credit, he knows this about himself in theory ("Could I ask you for your opinion on a personal issue?" "Under no circumstances."). But he's just as horrible at dealing with his own emotions. There is a big bundle of trauma in Hilbert's backstory that drives his entire life: all of his family died due to radiation poisoning from a nuclear meltdown. The meltdown happened when he was four, his last family member died when he was nine. Hilbert has never dealt with this in his life. It is VERY easy to draw a direct line from his childhood trauma to his current state of dubious science—and yet, Hilbert has never drawn that line himself, preferring to throw himself into his work over things like 'therapy.' He is absolutely horrible at recognizing his own emotions, preferring to push them down and ignore them instead of recognizing them for what they are.
• Character Skills:
• Fancy podcast scientist with multiple PhDs. Hilbert's main focus is on virology, but he also has knowledge of biology, radiation & radiation induced mutations, botany, chemistry, astrophysics, AI coding & manipulation, whatever the fuck he did to accidentally create a sentient plant monster that one time, computations, and various other things that are super useful for being on a spaceship orbiting a star but which are USELESS for being stuck in the frozen wilderness.
• Medical doctor. Hilbert is the ship's medical doctor and has treated all sorts of injuries, ranging from burns and scrapes to a lack of oxygen to grievous bodily harm to a crewmember almost going into cardiac arrest thanks to the death virus implanted in him. He's much more used to fancy spaceship technology than anything he'd find in-game—though Wolf 359 is technically set around 2014, technology is leaps and bounds ahead of our world. But what's the use of that big podcast brain if you can't figure out how primitive technology works?
• Food crimes. Hilbert made some seaweed concoction that kind of works like caffeine and at least had an idea of how to make spam taste like turkey.
• Character Inventory:
— ITEM ONE: One Phillips head screwdriver
— ITEM TWO: A second pair of glasses
— ITEM THREE: His favorite scalpel.
• Important Notes: n/a
• Writing Samples:
— SAMPLE ONE: Here
— SAMPLE TWO: Here