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IC Information:
Name: Mohinder Suresh
Fandom: Heroes
Timeline: Season One, between "Run!" and "Unexpected."
Age: 33
Appearance: Mohinder is of Indian decent with dark skin, black hair and brown eyes. He is 5'9" in shoes and though leanly muscled, is unimposing in appearance. His casual fashion is typical of thirty-something academics from New York, though he favors bright colors and layers with khakis, skinny jeans, and brown boots. While teaching in India, he preferred linen suits. He wears a wrist watch and a silver thumb ring.
Abilities: Mohinder is a normal human being with no evolved abilities. He is a professor and a geneticist. The latter likely will not afford him a skill set that he can use at the Facility, however, but it does give him skill to draw blood, prepare slides, and work lab equipment if that ever becomes important. He is academically minded and very intellectual, though he does seem to fail when it comes to common sense. He is tri-lingual. Though he speaks both Hindi and English fluently, he knows only enough French to get by.


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.


History: Mohinder was teaching a class on the evolution of humans when a friend came to tell him that his estranged father was killed in New York City while doing research on the same topic. Mohinder flew to New York to try and figure out why his father was murdered. He quickly became entrenched in his father's research, discovering that he had devised an algorithm that allowed him to track people with genetic mutations that gave them powers. He also discovered audio tapes recorded about his father's 'Patient Zero' called Sylar that prove to be threatening. Mohinder realized that Sylar killed his father.

Mohinder returned to India but after an encounter with another evolved human that could enter his dreams, he returned to America to try and crack the code of the algorithm. He accepted a job as a taxi driver and moved into his father's apartment in Brooklyn. After some time, he discovered that someone was trying to bug his apartment and he not only realized that he was being watched, but also might be targeted to be killed as his father was.

Mohinder eventually managed to track down Sylar to an apartment in Queens and found that Sylar had begun to track specials too. He decided that he had to get to those specials first and started making frantic calls to those identified as being genetic matches to the algorithm. After being ignored by most of those he contacted, he finally made a break through when Zane Taylor returned his call.

Unknown to Mohinder that Sylar had killed Zane and taken his powers, he drove down to Virginia to meet him and they decided to go on a road trip to try and find other specials.




Roleplay Sample - Log:
Mohinder longed for nothing more than to follow in his father's footsteps.  He seemed to actually be managing that quite well now that he had gone out for his first chance at field work.  Meeting Zane Taylor had been an exercise in suspension of disbelief and a lot of  courage (and stupidity).  Those were qualities that Mohinder found himself really very capable of maintaining despite having been shot at, his research almost destroyed, and believing himself to be tracked by his father's killer.  Eden was dead now, though she had been invaluable in his work and he wished that she could have been here with him now as he waited at the door in Virginia for Zane to answer.

He was nothing like Mohinder expected from their phone conversation that morning.  He was calm, a little bit on the squirely side, but very tall and quite handsome, as far as men tended to go.  The old rock and roll t-shirt seemed out of place on him.  His hair style even more so.  Mohinder bit his tongue.

And he had to bite it again when Zane showed him what he could do.  Disrupting the bonds between molecules and 'melting' objects with a touch?  Oh, it was so very dangerous. A power like that, perhaps, could kill. And yet, Zane had perfect control over it. They had tea together and decided to travel the country, seeking out people just like Zane. Mohinder had the algorithm worked out now, didn't he? He knew the mapped portions of the genome that showed the mutation to allow powers.

And so, off they went, towards Montana of all places to visit someone named Dale. A mechanic. Mohinder would never get there, though. One minute, he and Zane were pulled over in a parking lot by a diner, the other man having run in to get them both a cup of coffee to go and to use the bathroom, and the next?

Well Mohinder didn't know. He sat up slowly, still dressed in his jeans and his brown, lined wool coat. He was in bed with white sheets, staring at a white ceiling. Oh, had the car gotten hit? Was this a hospital?

"H-hello?" No answer. "Zane?!"




Roleplay Sample - Journal:
[Mohinder's hands shake as he flips through the only website his phone seems capable of accessing: a bulletin board filled with strange and confusing things. He's woken up in a very white room and a peek out the door has proven there to be just more white.]

[He decides to add something, via text, to this website. Some of the videos posted prove that those posting them are located in similar rooms to his.]

[Sender: M.Suresh]
Where am I? where is this? Is there a man named Zane Taylor here? I was with him moments ago and we seem to have gotten separated.</font>

[And now he's got a choice.  Wait for a reply or go and explore.]



This game includes horrible mental and physical torture of your character. After reading the rules/faq for clarification, how do you expect your character to handle this and continue to function?: Though I am taking Mohinder from early on in the series, he shows within a few episodes to be able to defend himself and maintain a cool head even when faced with bizarre, frightening, and indeed, very dangerous situations. Later on in the show and in the comic, he proves to be mentally resilient when faced with his own death on several occasions. I expect Mohinder will freak out quite a bit before he comes to terms with where he is, but he adapts very well to new situations, often reinventing himself to do so as any good research scientist must to be successful.

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