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PLAYER INFORMATION

Name: mippins

Reserve: here!

Contact: mippins

Have you participated in a short-term game before? NOPE this is my first rodeo.

I have read the rules and understand the activity requirements: i have indeed!

CHARACTER INFORMATION

Name: Dr. Newton Geiszler (goes by Newt)
Canon: Pacific Rim
Age: 35

(Brief) Canon Description: Here's a wiki link but tl;dr: Newt's from Earth circa 2025 and there are big nasty alien monsters attacking the planet, so humanity is fighting back with GIANT ROBOTS!! Newt is a scientist working with the giant robot people to figure out how to defeat the aliens. (Also the aliens are called Kaiju and the robots are called Jaegers.)

Personality/Background: OKAY quick background deets: Newt is like a child prodigy and has 6 doctorates. He's super smart. Specifically, he's basically a biologist because he specializes in studying Kaiju. He joined up with the Pan Pacific Defense Corps (PPDC) and got involved in K-Science just a couple of years after the first invasion, and his research on Kaiju biology has contributed to the resistance efforts like whoa. Now, it's about ten years later, and he and this other NERD Dr. Gottlieb are the only K-Scientists left because they were the best of the best and survived budget cuts.




Newt is dedicated to helping humanity defeat the Kaiju once and for all, but his motivations aren't entirely selfless. He views himself as a rock star of science and his work in K-Science has been a nonstop ego boost for him. As a result, he's super arrogant, which is great because he's confident in himself and not afraid to make bold decisions, but he can be incredibly reckless, directly disobeying orders from his superiors to do cool dangerous stuff that could get himself killed. Also, he is an absolute nightmare to work with. He's loud and pushy and has little regard for boundaries (personal or otherwise). He and the other K-Scientist, Dr. Gottlieb, share a lab and Gottlieb has reported Newt like a million times for rude behavior ranging from blasting heavy metal to getting Kaiju viscera on Gottlieb's side of the lab. Newt is bad at sharing and also bad at not being the smartest and the best. He's too busy saving the world and being a rock star to worry about stuff like "rules" and "manners."

All that said, Newt is nothing if not enthusiastic. While the rest of the world views the Kaiju as their sworn enemies, Newt has chosen to embrace them. He's got full body tattoos of various Kaiju that have attacked over the years, and he talks about them like they're biological marvels akin to Godzilla and old school monster movies. This keeps him optimistic in the face of what could be the literal end of the world. Because he's so hype about Kaiju, he's developed a kind of tunnel vision to block out the scary and can instead focus hard on the fascination, which is how he deals with stress in most cases. Get hype, forget the bad shit. And getting hype is never not within reach for Newt; he's incredibly high energy, which everyone around him super loves (no they don't he's very annoying).

Long story short, Newt is Extra and has an unconventional way of looking at the world, but his brains make him an asset to most teams... if you can get past the narcissism and the heavy metal.

Moral Alignment: Newt is CHAOTIC GOOD because, in a nutshell, he's invested in helping others but wants to do that in his own way without regard for rules and societal expectations. He's kind of a renegade and has a sort of... against the grain way of helping that usually doesn't sit well with others. His "Kaiju worshipping" is a good example of this; he's super fascinated with Kaiju and has dedicated his life to studying them, which pisses a lot of people off because the Kaiju are on the verge of destroying the whole planet. His rationale is basically "know thy enemy" and he argues that he needs to understand them in order to stop them. Also, it's a fear-coping thing. Throwing himself headfirst into his fascination makes them less fucking terrifying.

Speaking of things that are terrifying, killing isn't something he would enjoy, but he'd look at it in a "greater good" kind of way as opposed to toiling over the morality of singular actions. If it has to happen, he'll do it in order to save others (or himself, really), and he figures that he's smart enough to find a way to get it done, er, efficiently.

Item: A beat-up mp3 player. This isn't from canon necessarily but there's not much in canon that would count, plus he's a music junkie so here Newt have a music thing.

Role: Since I've never murdergame'd before, I think I'll sit out on the cool fun role thing this time while I find my footing.

Comments

Tattoos

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largely headcanon bc ~newt's tats are a mystery~

right forearm - hundun (feb 2014)
right upper arm - reckoner (2016)
left forearm - yamarashi (oct 2017)
left upper arm - kaiceph (jun 2014)
back - scissure (sep 2014)
chest - ceramander (oct 2021)
neck/collarbone - spinejackal (jan 2022)
left calf - hammerjaw (???)
left thigh - knifehead (feb 2020)
right thigh - trespasser (aug 2013)


pics for ref:

torso/arms
yamarashi tat
atticon tat
baby otachi tat that he doesn't actually have
nip nip belly button
not entirely accurate to my headcanon back tats
if this was less sexy i would like it better

Music

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a ref!!! bless u travis beacham

Arcade Fire, Sex Pistols, LCD Soundsystem, Ben Folds Five

maybe: anti flag, strike anywhere, the adolescents, rancid, the ramones, the clash, cake, metallica, against me, fronterior