Splice of Life: Reality Evolution

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"You're probably going to want to stay away from Doctor Suresh."  Fury, in all of his all-black glory, comes at them from around a corridor as Tony finally manages to catch up with the charging bull that is his, thankfully, not so currently green friend.  He does hold a hand up behind Bruce's back to try to signal Fury to move but, alas.  The Director never was good at listening.

You can't blame that on the missing eye or anything but Tony likes to think he has mini eye patches inside his ears too.

"In fact, I'm absolutely sure of it.  We need to get a baseline reading on you, Doctor Banner."

Player Information
Player name: Jen
Contact: plurk: substituteskull
Are you over 18: Yep!
Characters in The Box Already: Captain Jack Harkness

Character Information
Character Name: Mohinder Suresh
Canon: Heroes
Canon Point: Season One, between "Run!" and "Unexpected."  AKA:  Mohinder hasn't figured out Zane Taylor is Sylar yet.
Is your character Dead, Undead or Alive: Alive
History: Here

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.

Abilities, Strengths and Weaknesses:
Mohinder is a normal human being with no evolved abilities (though he does retain antibodies for a strain of a virus that effects evolved humans in his blood). He is a professor and a geneticist. The former makes him fairly knowledgeable about many subjects and gives him a passion for soliloquies and lectures. The latter doesn't really afford him a skill set that he can use outside of a lab or in a practical setting other than his own universe, however, but it does give him skill to draw blood, prepare slides, and work lab equipment. He is academically minded and very intellectual, though he does seem to fail when it comes to common sense. Mohinder is extremely adept at taking people at face value, given what they are saying is something he wants to hear. He is more or less tri-lingual, speaking both Hindi and English fluently and knowing French to get by. Mohinder is a vegetarian out of respect to his mother's religion, though he will from time to time consume fish. His diet may be his biggest weakness depending on how stores are stocked. His greatest strength and weakness, however, is his morality. Mohinder's moral compass always points true north, which sometimes is at odds with the situation or with what he may be forced to do. He has no trouble believing in the greater good, but acting on it is sometimes impossible for him.

Samples
Network/Action Spam Sample:
[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. The feeling seeing the posts gives him makes him shudder.]

[He decides to add something, via text, to this website.]

[Sender: M.Suresh] Where am I? Where is this?

[And now he's got a choice. Wait for a reply? Or go out to explore?]


Prose Log Sample:
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. Nothing seemed recognizable and it made his flesh crawl.  Did they get to him?  Oh God!

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

Someone's come back to life.  A lot has changed in two months.  Mohinder reconnects with Peter, Handy and Gabriel.  Laura apologizes.  Donna chides him for breaking her son's heart.  Bruce Banner brings a taste of home by speaking Hindi with him.  He makes a sandwich for Gabriel who dupes him into thinking that Ivy is a goblin.  Oh dear.

Mohinder meets Haldir.  And accidentally tells the elf his ears are round.  And then has coffee with Bigby.  He says too much.  As he always does.

After starting on some pasta for Elle, she lets it slip that she heard Loki killed Sylar, likely because Loki doesn't want anyone with Kenzi.  That is pretty terrifying because Peter Gilliam is good friends with Kenzi and Mohinder is now afraid for his life.  He makes a post on the network about Bad Things That May Happen and Bigby comes to the rescue....  But won't take him seriously.

The voices remind Mohinder that he's an idiot, gullible, and easily used.  This does not a Happy Mohinder make.

Bruce asks him for a science and blood test date.  Mohinder accepts and they flirt.  After Tony forgets all about his plans with Bruce, Bruce comes knocking at Mohinder's door.  Good choice.  Makeouts occur.

Mohinder goes to movie night too and chats with Handy, Bruce, and Zoey.

Eirik's found something foul.  Mohinder goes for samples.

And Barton's figured out that there's only one name not on that slam book...Mohinder's.

He offers Bigby his help with the hex bag situation, tells Sam that all of his blood screenings are coming back as O negative...which is strange.  Even the animal blood in the hex bags are human and O neg.

Bruce tells Mohinder that he can't be with him.  It has to do with the Hulk but Mohinder asks if there's someone else and Bruce is honest.  He leaves heartbroken only to go to Peter for comfort and realize that Peter's been hiding his own secret all along.  How could they have known each other for months and how could he never have seen that Peter loved him?

The test results are in...only one person tested had o negative blood before the mess -- though there are unaccounted for people not tested as well.  Mohinder tells Sam all about it.

A rag covered in blood from Grace Barlow's room gets tested and seals her fate as the witch.

He gets caught outside with the Hulk but Diana saves him...only to reveal that she's a vampire.  Understandably, he's camera shy about that.  Martha has to go poking through.

Ivy yells at him and is rude over the greenhouse so Mohinder, dejected, feels out areas he might be useful in.

Mohinder meets another vampire.  And goes a bit insane.

Mohinder's trying to be helpful.  AKA: stupid.  He converses with Rebekah about missing daggers and promised to keep a look out for it.  He then shows off the garden in the green house.  People...are not...impressed.  What's with the radish hate folks?

After the party, in which he missed the zombie attack because he was with John Kenway getting it on drinking blood being awesome, Mohinder asks for Sylar's help with a friend of a friend.  Handy's friend Donna needs her brain looked at.

Now guess who's arrived?  Peter?  Yes.  Poor man.

And Peter Guillam inquires after their radish children.  They go to see the doctor when Mohinder's being stupid about the sunlight.  And he collapses and goes comatose.

But then he's back and Peter, Laura and Handy comfort him when John Kenway refuses to answer him at all.

He meets Lexi, a very nice...err...person.

Mohinder should never be a plumber.  He doesn't know how to turn off the water before he goes in after his ring.  Handy manages to get fixed, finds the ring and then has pizza with Mohinder and tells him what it's like to be a clone.  Kenzi also gets Mohinder some dry clothes with a lot of flirting, he touches base with Elle and Gabriel offers him a solution to the gallons-of-water-in-the-bathroom issue.

Afterwards, he answers a call from John Kenway.  Silly thing.  He ends up as dinner and then is forced to forget by the hypnotic older vampire.  Sylar quickly figures out what happened by touching Mohinder's coat, which leads Mohinder to spend the first night on his sofa and the second nearly getting shot by Matt Parkman.  He manages to attend a little dream session with Sam and Donna in the meantime.

The very next day, Mohinder bumps into John Kenway again and let's him know how unhappy he is with being a snack!  He ends up being curious about being a future snack... AND makes friends with the old man.  Something's wrong here!

Handy's taken to making bagel pizzas.  Mohinder is sure it has to do with luring sheep people.  Either way?  Good distraction.

He meets up with John Kenway for coffee and a chat at the library, discovers he can turn into a bird, and happily decides he is the most awesome person ever.  He has a chat with Gabriel after about his blood, his status as a pixie, and the other usual stuff.

A monster attacks!  And Mohinder hides in his bathroom.  And chats to Peter Gilliam!

Mohinder's discovered the donuts.  He speaks with Alex S and makes a new friend.  Elle is bringing sexy back and Mohinder misses her terribly.  Sylar is going to seek out Charles for help, and Riku stops in for a chat too while he gathers supplies.  Gabriel pops in as well to have a discussion about his abilities.  Mohinder agrees to cook for him.  He leaves some out for Sylar too.

And then comes an awkward post from Sylar...who isn't Sylar.  Mohinder is ultimately disappointed by what he learns, hope not quite there in the time it will take for Sylar to control his hunger.

Mohinder chats to Castiel a bit about ghosts too.

And finally, Molly.  Because honestly, fuck his life.

Peter tries to antagonize him with a message to Mohinder about how he and Elle are sharing a room and Mohinder crushes his faciliberry.

Mohinder leaves food for Sylar and eventually drags him home.  They accidentally fall asleep on the couch.  Molly is not happy to wake up to her boogeyman in the room.  Mohinder reaches out to the other Sylar for advice.

Mohinder's done being dead.  Riku comes to his aid.  Yukina and Riku Replicant offer help as well.

Elle brings mistletoe for kissing shenanigans.

And then Mohinder seeks out Milla for a chat.

Mohinder can't sleep.  Thanks Val.  He talks a bit to Sylar though and they get to know each other.

And then Elle teaches him sign language.

Grell's out for some Indian blood.

Sylar helps Mohinder with his wings.  They're white with pale gray speckles around the edges.

Unfortunately, he left Xavier's room a bloody mess.

Mohinder decides he needs to talk to Sylar and Elle about his feelings for them.  It goes soooo well.