mnemosyne app
PLAYER
PLAYER NAME: Kates
PRONOUNS: she/her
CONTACT: allikateor @ discord
OVER 18?: y!
CURRENT CHARACTERS: none
CHARACTER (CANON)
CHARACTER NAME: Alexander Hilbert. This is not his birth name, but as it's the name the character is credited as in the podcast, that's the name that will be going on taken lists, in journals, etc.
CANON: Wolf 359 (podcast)
CANON SPECIES: Human
CANON AGE: Unknown, approximately mid50s.
APPEARANCE: That's a good question as this is a podcast! What we know for certain is that Hilbert is a Russian man in his fifties, fit enough to serve multiple tours of duty on a space station, but unfit enough that various other military types in canon can and do kick his ass. We know that at some point in his life, he was bald (though it's unknown if he's bald at the moment). I personally use Mark Strong as a pb as he's around the right age, has a lot of good grumpy expressions, and fits how Hilbert is often depicted in fanart (white, bald, glasses).
CANON BACKGROUND: it's a wiki page!
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.
POWERS & ABILITIES: Absolutely no superhuman powers! However, Hilbert is a fancy podcast scientist in the vein of 'what science does he know? all of it.' 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. 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 also is very good at food crimes.
CHARACTER (AU)
CHARACTER NAME: Alexander Hilbert (this IS his birth name in the AU)
SPECIES: Human
AGE: 55
APPEARANCE: same as in canon!
MODS: A small implant on his chest that monitors vital signs, health updates, signs of illness, etc. As Hilbert's lungs were also damaged due to the accident that killed his family, he uses this port to help monitor his own health. It's small and relatively unobtrusive, kind of like a modern day insulin port. Very few people know it exists as Hilbert is 100% the sort of person who would never go shirtless ever.
Notably, Hilbert does not have any vision-based mods. The man's glasses are a bit more sci-fi now (they provide a basic heads up display) but his eyesight still sucks.
BACKGROUND:
Alexander Hilbert was born in a small mining town on the edges of the inhabitable zone. When he was around four or so, there was an accident. The climate control system started to fail as air pollutants started to breach into the town, causing people to get rapidly sick. The vast majority of Hilbert's family died before the breach was discovered and the remaining townspeople were forcibly relocated. Hilbert's last remaining family member died when he was nine, her lungs damaged from inhaling the highly polluted air.
Hilbert became absolutely jaded and broken at that point. But it also gave him a purpose in life. Technology will fail. Technology will always fail, systems can break, AI can stop working, technology cannot save you in the long run. The human body, however, can. If his sister's lungs were stronger, if humanity had evolved to breathe the polluted air, then they could survive whatever environment they were thrown into. Unlike canon, where Hilbert's ideas take a virology bent, here he focuses on genetic modification. He throws himself into genetic research, taking whatever job he can get that can help him pursue his passion as well as put food on the table.
This has led to Hilbert taking some very sketchy jobs from very sketchy companies. If you need someone in your backstory to have done a little human experimentation? Here's your guy. Needless to say, there are both literal and metaphorical skeletons in his closet, as for every genetic modification that went good, some of them went poorly.
It's because of his research and academic prowess, that Hilbert has spent the past few years working as an instructor at the Tellurian Space Academy. While he's undoubtedly knowledgeable in his chosen subjects (Xenobiology, Genetics, etc.), he's also the sort of instructor who doesn't care that your dog just died, if the paper is due on this day, then the paper's due on this day. Smart, but a hardass.
Hilbert accepted the mission to go on the Mnemosyne simply because it offers a unique research opportunity. If he can use his obviously prodigious scientific brain and combine it with whatever new discoveries he encounters, who knows what results might happen! Plus, it's really easy to not deal with those people you horribly mutated if you're thousands of light years away, hey what do you MEAN there's a chance one of them is a settler.
CREW DIVISION: Main: Medical
Back-Up: Science
DIVISION APTITUDE: Hilbert might have the world's worst bedside manner, but he is a good doctor. He's skilled, he's talented, and he'll do whatever it takes to keep his patients alive. Just ignore the fact that sometimes he has a shaky concept on things like 'ethics' and 'patient autonomy.' As for Science, he's a biologist! And he's got ten billion stupid little podcast skills (why do you know so much about AI, Hilbert???). He served as combination Medical/Science Officer on the Hephaestus in canon, so either one of those would suit him well here.
SUBDIVISION: General Practitioner for Medical, Xenobiologist for Science
SAMPLES
AU WORKSHOP: Link
SAMPLES: here!
PLAYER NAME: Kates
PRONOUNS: she/her
CONTACT: allikateor @ discord
OVER 18?: y!
CURRENT CHARACTERS: none
CHARACTER (CANON)
CHARACTER NAME: Alexander Hilbert. This is not his birth name, but as it's the name the character is credited as in the podcast, that's the name that will be going on taken lists, in journals, etc.
CANON: Wolf 359 (podcast)
CANON SPECIES: Human
CANON AGE: Unknown, approximately mid50s.
APPEARANCE: That's a good question as this is a podcast! What we know for certain is that Hilbert is a Russian man in his fifties, fit enough to serve multiple tours of duty on a space station, but unfit enough that various other military types in canon can and do kick his ass. We know that at some point in his life, he was bald (though it's unknown if he's bald at the moment). I personally use Mark Strong as a pb as he's around the right age, has a lot of good grumpy expressions, and fits how Hilbert is often depicted in fanart (white, bald, glasses).
CANON BACKGROUND: it's a wiki page!
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.
POWERS & ABILITIES: Absolutely no superhuman powers! However, Hilbert is a fancy podcast scientist in the vein of 'what science does he know? all of it.' 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. 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 also is very good at food crimes.
CHARACTER (AU)
CHARACTER NAME: Alexander Hilbert (this IS his birth name in the AU)
SPECIES: Human
AGE: 55
APPEARANCE: same as in canon!
MODS: A small implant on his chest that monitors vital signs, health updates, signs of illness, etc. As Hilbert's lungs were also damaged due to the accident that killed his family, he uses this port to help monitor his own health. It's small and relatively unobtrusive, kind of like a modern day insulin port. Very few people know it exists as Hilbert is 100% the sort of person who would never go shirtless ever.
Notably, Hilbert does not have any vision-based mods. The man's glasses are a bit more sci-fi now (they provide a basic heads up display) but his eyesight still sucks.
BACKGROUND:
Alexander Hilbert was born in a small mining town on the edges of the inhabitable zone. When he was around four or so, there was an accident. The climate control system started to fail as air pollutants started to breach into the town, causing people to get rapidly sick. The vast majority of Hilbert's family died before the breach was discovered and the remaining townspeople were forcibly relocated. Hilbert's last remaining family member died when he was nine, her lungs damaged from inhaling the highly polluted air.
Hilbert became absolutely jaded and broken at that point. But it also gave him a purpose in life. Technology will fail. Technology will always fail, systems can break, AI can stop working, technology cannot save you in the long run. The human body, however, can. If his sister's lungs were stronger, if humanity had evolved to breathe the polluted air, then they could survive whatever environment they were thrown into. Unlike canon, where Hilbert's ideas take a virology bent, here he focuses on genetic modification. He throws himself into genetic research, taking whatever job he can get that can help him pursue his passion as well as put food on the table.
This has led to Hilbert taking some very sketchy jobs from very sketchy companies. If you need someone in your backstory to have done a little human experimentation? Here's your guy. Needless to say, there are both literal and metaphorical skeletons in his closet, as for every genetic modification that went good, some of them went poorly.
It's because of his research and academic prowess, that Hilbert has spent the past few years working as an instructor at the Tellurian Space Academy. While he's undoubtedly knowledgeable in his chosen subjects (Xenobiology, Genetics, etc.), he's also the sort of instructor who doesn't care that your dog just died, if the paper is due on this day, then the paper's due on this day. Smart, but a hardass.
Hilbert accepted the mission to go on the Mnemosyne simply because it offers a unique research opportunity. If he can use his obviously prodigious scientific brain and combine it with whatever new discoveries he encounters, who knows what results might happen! Plus, it's really easy to not deal with those people you horribly mutated if you're thousands of light years away, hey what do you MEAN there's a chance one of them is a settler.
CREW DIVISION: Main: Medical
Back-Up: Science
DIVISION APTITUDE: Hilbert might have the world's worst bedside manner, but he is a good doctor. He's skilled, he's talented, and he'll do whatever it takes to keep his patients alive. Just ignore the fact that sometimes he has a shaky concept on things like 'ethics' and 'patient autonomy.' As for Science, he's a biologist! And he's got ten billion stupid little podcast skills (why do you know so much about AI, Hilbert???). He served as combination Medical/Science Officer on the Hephaestus in canon, so either one of those would suit him well here.
SUBDIVISION: General Practitioner for Medical, Xenobiologist for Science
SAMPLES
AU WORKSHOP: Link
SAMPLES: here!
relax! don't do it!
Who: Hilbert & ota!
When: post port
Where: all over the Barge
Warnings: will edit as needed, thanks Jacob, really appreciate your bullshit
Honestly, Hilbert is more than a little annoyed that the Admiral knocked him out into a coma and made him miss the vast majority of the port. He was looking forward to picking things up and not dealing with people! Rude.
No matter. Time to get back to work.
Hilbert hits up his normal haunts. The greenhouse, where he weeds various plots, trims the occasional tree, and just vibes with the plant monster. The infirmary, where he's occasionally on duty, ready to patch up whoever comes in with whatever problem. The library, where he reads texts on biology, virology, botany, and Horseback Riding For Dummies. The deck, where he looks up at the stars, lost in thought.
Noticeably, for the first day or two post port, Hilbert looks a bit rough. He'll deny it if pressed, but there's something about him that looks a little peaky or a little sleep-deprived. Personally, he blames the Admiral.
When: post port
Where: all over the Barge
Warnings: will edit as needed, thanks Jacob, really appreciate your bullshit
Honestly, Hilbert is more than a little annoyed that the Admiral knocked him out into a coma and made him miss the vast majority of the port. He was looking forward to picking things up and not dealing with people! Rude.
No matter. Time to get back to work.
Hilbert hits up his normal haunts. The greenhouse, where he weeds various plots, trims the occasional tree, and just vibes with the plant monster. The infirmary, where he's occasionally on duty, ready to patch up whoever comes in with whatever problem. The library, where he reads texts on biology, virology, botany, and Horseback Riding For Dummies. The deck, where he looks up at the stars, lost in thought.
Noticeably, for the first day or two post port, Hilbert looks a bit rough. He'll deny it if pressed, but there's something about him that looks a little peaky or a little sleep-deprived. Personally, he blames the Admiral.
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"Hello. Senior Officer Dr. Alexander Hilbert. Please leave message after the beep."
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PERMISSIONS/OPT OUT OOC • canon point usually post canon IC • demeanor Hey gang, it's Dr. Alexander Hilbert, the guy who has no idea what fun is. Hilbert is very dry, very monotone. He can get worked up, but when he gets worked up it's more along the lines of anger or annoyance. Jury's out on if this man can feel any emotion along the lines of 'happy' or 'sad.' NOTES • Hilbert will be very blunt about it and not sugar-coat things, but triggers likely to come up with him when discussing what happened in canon are non-consensual administration of drugs/viruses, non-consensual medical procedures, brainwashing sort of (he forced an AI to act in his interests against her own personality), and outright murder. That being said, in settings where the general public does not know what happened in canon, he will lie like a little bitch and not tell anybody any of that. Feel free to comment here or on his HMD if you wish to opt-out of any of those topics! |