Post by Philomela on Mar 4, 2012 16:12:24 GMT -5
Stats
Name: William Ichabod Hughes
Age: 27.
Birthday: April 1st.
Gender: Male.
Height: 5’8”
Weight: 134 lbs
Sexual Orientation: On the gayer side of bi.
Relationship Status: Single.
Ethnicity: White.
Race: Human.
Asylum Occupation/Position: Psychiatrist.
Time Era (Modern or Victorian): Modern era.
Appearance
Build: Wiry, scarecrowish.
Hair: Black, to his jaw, but uneasily tamed. Sometimes it just spirals out of control at all angles.
Eyes: A very dark brown. He wears contacts, but forgets them sometimes & is forced to wear his thick black glasses. He is very embarrassed of these.
Casual Clothing: Striped waistcoat, matching fitted pants, tie, white button-down shirt, cufflinks, pointed shoes. He always likes to look presentable, but sometimes he is just too scatterbrained to dress properly & his shirt may come untucked & miss three of its buttons.
Work Clothing: Black shirt, black tie, cufflinks, lab coat, steel-toed 10-eyelet Doc Marten shoes (they’re nonslip, after all).
Identifying Marks: He has itty-bitty circular scars on the insides his wrists that he covers with his buttoned sleeves.
Overall Appearance: Ichabod has a long face, with pointed cheekbones & a defined nose. His hands are very animated, his face looks perpetually nervous. His brown eyes are dark enough to look like bottomless pits, especially against his stark white skin. He has terrible posture & a fidgety disposition.
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Personality
Likes: Cigarettes (they calm him), Jack Daniels, experimental ambient music (or just quiet music. He likes music like Erik Satie, Hammock, A Silver Mt. Zion, & Godspeed You! Black Emperor), coffee, sketching.
Dislikes: Loud noises, his panic attacks, disorder, food with slimy textures.
Fears: That his career path is slowly turning him into a serial killer.
Goals: Lead life as normally as possible.
Self Esteem Level: Low.
Skills/Strengths: He is (at first) very tender & understanding with patients. At first meeting he can come off as very rational & egalitarian.
Weaknesses: Being accused of his sociopathic & sadistic tendencies.
Personality:
Ichabod tries to be an average man. He talks good-naturedly about shallow things to sound normal. But one look at his office shows that he is actually very high-strung & disorganized; papers everywhere, tacked up on the wall over more papers, books littering the floor, ashtray overflowing. He can be very curt & gruff with people that interrupt his work or merely piss him off. In episodes of high anxiety, he will hide in his office & paw at his hair, unresponsive to his duties. One can always tell when he is stressed by how messy his hair is on top of his head.
When he drinks heavily, however, he is instantly relaxed, confident, & outspoken.
Background
Parents/Guardians: Lucy & Matthew Wells, still living.
Siblings: None.
Spouse/Significant Other: None.
Child/Children: None.
Place of birth: Massachusetts.
History:
Ichabod was an only child raised in a large New England house with emotionally distant parents. They left him to his own devices, more or less. This led to him disappearing into the woods for hours at a time to torture little animals & wander graveyards, which amused & transfixed him. His parents never knew. As he grew older, he realized that that sort of behavior is an early symptom of sociopathy. He began studying psychology in a vain attempt to understand his own mind. He had always been so interested in painting & sketching, but the consuming dread of being insane led him to abandon his dreams of art school & pursue a doctorate in psychiatry.
He has good grades & excellent credentials, but his resume is mysteriously blank of previous experience. He has had jobs in other psychiatric wards, but has been fired time & again. As he gets to know patients, he begins manipulating & twisting their minds without even really knowing what he’s doing. & while he hates himself for it, he gets a sick pleasure from it that he is addicted to. He would never admit it to himself, but he would love to plunge a scalpel into a patient’s leg.
Due to this inner battle between leading a normal life & hiding the fact that he likes to hurt people causes him a great deal of anxiety that he deals with by smoking, drinking heavily, & listening to calming music. He may show up to work drunk a few times a month, & try to smoke out of his office window so he doesn’t have to walk outside.
