Post by joefoxx on Sept 28, 2010 19:34:42 GMT -5
Name: Ivan Eucharius Schrader
Nickname: Prefers Ivan
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Straight
Age/Birthday: 28, December 16, 2433
Race: Russo/German
Place of Birth/Home Town: Duisberg
Character Portrayal: Dominic Monaghan
Hair: Dirty blond
Eyes: Grey Blue, the color of an angry sky
Height: 5’7”
Individual Features: Darkened ring of subdermal ionized gold around his left ring finger
General Appearance:
Family:
Father - Burke Schrader (60), alive, industrial foreman.
Mother - Rosa Schrader, deceased.
Brother - Jakob Schrader (22), manager of an Oriental style spa and hotspring resort on New Earth.
Brother - Dominic Schrader (30), Orbital Earth Space Dock worker.
Fiancee – Victoria Prideaux, MIA
Friends: James Hammons (34), fellow researcher at CERN now director of ALICE 2. Maximillian “Max” Richards(25), First Lieutenant in the UGAP Navy.
Enemies:
Gregory Prideaux - Rear Admiral of UGAP Valkyrie Fleet, brother of fiancee, who blames Ivan for her untimely death.
Job: Liaison to CERN Dimensional Research Division, Particle Physics Expert
Personality: Ivan is generally cheerful, charitable, and enjoyable to be around, though never is the life of the party he is always a welcome addition. He is fervent about work and study of what would be considered unnatural phenomena, and will violently deal with anything that gets in his way.
Likes:
-Violin music: He listens to this as works, as it helps him concentrate.
-Fine Red Wine: His fiancée was French and introduced him to this.
-Eastern Mysticism: Yoga and Taoism mainly, his work with advanced physics and the bending of reality involved has made him believe more in the possibility of previously preposterous ideas. Plus the yoga poses are relaxing.
-Cats: They’re friends rather than followers like dogs.
New Experiences: The universe as we know it is rapidly expanding and there are new possibilities everywhere that could hold a nugget of truth.
Dislikes:
-Rigid or unbendable rules: He believes the world works without rules so much as suggestions and guidelines. There are times for every rule to be broken.
-Unnecessary or forced manual labor: Work should be done from the heart rather than out of societal requirements.
-Arrogance: If you’re better than someone else don’t flaunt it.
Fears:
-Pure iron: He only realized this some months after the accident in CERN. He reflexively will not touch or go near pure iron, just like a hydrophobic with water. Burning welts appear if he makes direct contact. He believes this is a severe psychosomatic reaction that somehow was triggered by the trauma of the event.
-Dead ends: Primarily in research, but in other areas too. There should always be a way around, or to continue.
-Being Alone: Isophobia
History: Ivan was born the middle son of three in the heavily industrialized slums of Duisberg, Germany. In regular fashion the expectation of the sons was to follow in the father’s trade of Industrio-Mechanical Reprocessing. However, determined to escape from the dark undercity life, Ivan devoted himself to study, finding mathematics an instinctive path for him, quickly rose to be the top student in Rhur Valley.
He was allowed entrance into the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, where he majored in Physics and won entrance into the International Honors Society of Sciences. He was asked to attend Harvard for his graduate studies, and there met Dr. Petrovich who noticed his potential and scouted him for work on CERN’s dimensional research division, progenitors of the theories behind warp drives and beam transportation. Elated, Ivan joined the team working on ATLAS 2, a supersymmetric string experiment. During his internship, Ivan grew close to his fellow young brilliant researcher, Victoria Prideaux, though romantic relations within staff were generally frowned upon at CERN, theirs was excused due to their intellectual brilliance seemed magnified together. Within a year they had finished their Doctorates, became engaged and were hired as fulltime researchers in CERN.
Together they produced the theory of “Orgone,” a limitless supply of energy existing just beyond the scope of this plane, which if tapped into could provide free energy across all reaches of space, raising the standard of living on all worlds and elevating mankind to the level of gods. On the verge of a break through, the crew opened a trans-dimensional rip, which did produce the expected surge of energy, but also dislodged the laws of gravity from the surrounding area which succinctly began to wreak havoc upon the testing facility. Ivan and Victoria quickly realized the field could not be shut using their instruments, as they had all been shorted by the power surge. Their only hope was to manually disrupt the containment mechanism for the dimensional rip. Buffeted by gravitational pulses, they fought to the mechanism and broke several components, after which the rip slammed shut releasing cascading tides of darkness and a dramatic pull of gravity inward, like a black hole. When the dust cleared Ivan was found, unconscious, yet uninjured in the center of the wreckage. Victoria was never found and is presumed dead.
Ivan underwent a month of heavy medical testing, yet to the surprise of the doctors he seemed in perfect prime health, both physically and mentally, with the exception that he would not believe that Victoria was dead. Once medical stability was ensured, he was called before CERN’s board of directors, but rather than the harsh reprimand and dismissal he expected, they wished to continue the Orgone research project, but would be focusing more on theoretical and natural phenomena in the universe before implementing experimentation. Ivan, if he was willing, would spearhead the trans-dimensional stability research for CERN, joining an elite interstellar crew of scientists onboard the Venia, which would be investigating just such phenomena. Ivan leapt upon this chance with enthusiasm for he believes that Victoria is still alive, yet stuck in stasis somewhere on another plane. That hope is now his raison-d’etre.
Random Facts:
-He has not contracted an illness since the incident at CERN
-Multilingual: French, German, English, Swedish
-He often gets the feeling that something else is watching from behind his eyes, especially when working. It feels as if it is calling him towards a goal.
-He sleeps with a black stuffed animal cat named Julius.
RP Sample: It had been a quarter of twelve for three hours. The second hand feebly twitched upward, then crashed down as the same moment seemed to repeat itself for eternity. Ivan’s eyes stared blankly at the broken clock, unseeing as one thought echoed in his mind: Victoria was gone. The shock and disbelief still pooled inside him attempted to force aside that stark reality that ate at his sanity every moment.
He blinked. The weariness from the day’s events crept upon him, dragging his eyes lower. They fluttered for a moment, like a moth beating against a light; then they shut, plunging his mind into darkness. Memories of the moments inside the field rippled through the deep waters of his thoughts.
Ivan stood alone on an endless field of glass. The sky was an empty black canvas, with neither stars nor other source for the faint light which illuminated the blank world. He spun left and right, frantically shouting for Victoria, she had been right beside him a moment earlier. The sound was deafened by the oppressive silence of the world, consumed almost before it left his mouth. An enormous ovoid eye opened beneath him in the glass, growing till it swallowed him with darkness.
He burst awake, spiraling his arms as if swimming, slick with sweat, and shouting. Panting, Ivan watched the shadow of the fan spin against the wall. It was still late, and he was still tired. However he decided it better to deprive himself of sleep, than journey back and disturb the waters of memory again.
(The night after the CERN incident)
Rules: 'Ha! What are these things you call rules?'
Nickname: Prefers Ivan
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Straight
Age/Birthday: 28, December 16, 2433
Race: Russo/German
Place of Birth/Home Town: Duisberg
Character Portrayal: Dominic Monaghan
Hair: Dirty blond
Eyes: Grey Blue, the color of an angry sky
Height: 5’7”
Individual Features: Darkened ring of subdermal ionized gold around his left ring finger
General Appearance:
Family:
Father - Burke Schrader (60), alive, industrial foreman.
Mother - Rosa Schrader, deceased.
Brother - Jakob Schrader (22), manager of an Oriental style spa and hotspring resort on New Earth.
Brother - Dominic Schrader (30), Orbital Earth Space Dock worker.
Fiancee – Victoria Prideaux, MIA
Friends: James Hammons (34), fellow researcher at CERN now director of ALICE 2. Maximillian “Max” Richards(25), First Lieutenant in the UGAP Navy.
Enemies:
Gregory Prideaux - Rear Admiral of UGAP Valkyrie Fleet, brother of fiancee, who blames Ivan for her untimely death.
Job: Liaison to CERN Dimensional Research Division, Particle Physics Expert
Personality: Ivan is generally cheerful, charitable, and enjoyable to be around, though never is the life of the party he is always a welcome addition. He is fervent about work and study of what would be considered unnatural phenomena, and will violently deal with anything that gets in his way.
Likes:
-Violin music: He listens to this as works, as it helps him concentrate.
-Fine Red Wine: His fiancée was French and introduced him to this.
-Eastern Mysticism: Yoga and Taoism mainly, his work with advanced physics and the bending of reality involved has made him believe more in the possibility of previously preposterous ideas. Plus the yoga poses are relaxing.
-Cats: They’re friends rather than followers like dogs.
New Experiences: The universe as we know it is rapidly expanding and there are new possibilities everywhere that could hold a nugget of truth.
Dislikes:
-Rigid or unbendable rules: He believes the world works without rules so much as suggestions and guidelines. There are times for every rule to be broken.
-Unnecessary or forced manual labor: Work should be done from the heart rather than out of societal requirements.
-Arrogance: If you’re better than someone else don’t flaunt it.
Fears:
-Pure iron: He only realized this some months after the accident in CERN. He reflexively will not touch or go near pure iron, just like a hydrophobic with water. Burning welts appear if he makes direct contact. He believes this is a severe psychosomatic reaction that somehow was triggered by the trauma of the event.
-Dead ends: Primarily in research, but in other areas too. There should always be a way around, or to continue.
-Being Alone: Isophobia
History: Ivan was born the middle son of three in the heavily industrialized slums of Duisberg, Germany. In regular fashion the expectation of the sons was to follow in the father’s trade of Industrio-Mechanical Reprocessing. However, determined to escape from the dark undercity life, Ivan devoted himself to study, finding mathematics an instinctive path for him, quickly rose to be the top student in Rhur Valley.
He was allowed entrance into the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, where he majored in Physics and won entrance into the International Honors Society of Sciences. He was asked to attend Harvard for his graduate studies, and there met Dr. Petrovich who noticed his potential and scouted him for work on CERN’s dimensional research division, progenitors of the theories behind warp drives and beam transportation. Elated, Ivan joined the team working on ATLAS 2, a supersymmetric string experiment. During his internship, Ivan grew close to his fellow young brilliant researcher, Victoria Prideaux, though romantic relations within staff were generally frowned upon at CERN, theirs was excused due to their intellectual brilliance seemed magnified together. Within a year they had finished their Doctorates, became engaged and were hired as fulltime researchers in CERN.
Together they produced the theory of “Orgone,” a limitless supply of energy existing just beyond the scope of this plane, which if tapped into could provide free energy across all reaches of space, raising the standard of living on all worlds and elevating mankind to the level of gods. On the verge of a break through, the crew opened a trans-dimensional rip, which did produce the expected surge of energy, but also dislodged the laws of gravity from the surrounding area which succinctly began to wreak havoc upon the testing facility. Ivan and Victoria quickly realized the field could not be shut using their instruments, as they had all been shorted by the power surge. Their only hope was to manually disrupt the containment mechanism for the dimensional rip. Buffeted by gravitational pulses, they fought to the mechanism and broke several components, after which the rip slammed shut releasing cascading tides of darkness and a dramatic pull of gravity inward, like a black hole. When the dust cleared Ivan was found, unconscious, yet uninjured in the center of the wreckage. Victoria was never found and is presumed dead.
Ivan underwent a month of heavy medical testing, yet to the surprise of the doctors he seemed in perfect prime health, both physically and mentally, with the exception that he would not believe that Victoria was dead. Once medical stability was ensured, he was called before CERN’s board of directors, but rather than the harsh reprimand and dismissal he expected, they wished to continue the Orgone research project, but would be focusing more on theoretical and natural phenomena in the universe before implementing experimentation. Ivan, if he was willing, would spearhead the trans-dimensional stability research for CERN, joining an elite interstellar crew of scientists onboard the Venia, which would be investigating just such phenomena. Ivan leapt upon this chance with enthusiasm for he believes that Victoria is still alive, yet stuck in stasis somewhere on another plane. That hope is now his raison-d’etre.
Random Facts:
-He has not contracted an illness since the incident at CERN
-Multilingual: French, German, English, Swedish
-He often gets the feeling that something else is watching from behind his eyes, especially when working. It feels as if it is calling him towards a goal.
-He sleeps with a black stuffed animal cat named Julius.
RP Sample: It had been a quarter of twelve for three hours. The second hand feebly twitched upward, then crashed down as the same moment seemed to repeat itself for eternity. Ivan’s eyes stared blankly at the broken clock, unseeing as one thought echoed in his mind: Victoria was gone. The shock and disbelief still pooled inside him attempted to force aside that stark reality that ate at his sanity every moment.
He blinked. The weariness from the day’s events crept upon him, dragging his eyes lower. They fluttered for a moment, like a moth beating against a light; then they shut, plunging his mind into darkness. Memories of the moments inside the field rippled through the deep waters of his thoughts.
Ivan stood alone on an endless field of glass. The sky was an empty black canvas, with neither stars nor other source for the faint light which illuminated the blank world. He spun left and right, frantically shouting for Victoria, she had been right beside him a moment earlier. The sound was deafened by the oppressive silence of the world, consumed almost before it left his mouth. An enormous ovoid eye opened beneath him in the glass, growing till it swallowed him with darkness.
He burst awake, spiraling his arms as if swimming, slick with sweat, and shouting. Panting, Ivan watched the shadow of the fan spin against the wall. It was still late, and he was still tired. However he decided it better to deprive himself of sleep, than journey back and disturb the waters of memory again.
(The night after the CERN incident)
Rules: 'Ha! What are these things you call rules?'
