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Arrival Date: May 27th, 2010 (From the year 306 AI) <--sorry to those I've already stated 303 AP to, teeny canonical writing was teeny
Residency: Clean, Modern Mid-Rise Apartment in Sector 4 bordering Sector 2, Near Fable Way Stop
Occupation: General Practitioner of Medicine at Skye Medical Center (Clinic, Night Shift)
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Residency: Clean, Modern Mid-Rise Apartment in Sector 4 bordering Sector 2, Near Fable Way Stop
Occupation: General Practitioner of Medicine at Skye Medical Center (Clinic, Night Shift)
>> LOOK HE HAS AN ID CARD (Made ( Read more... )
Gee, I wonder what gave that one away?
He feels...lots of things for Re-l. In fact, in Romdeau where feelings are generally quite socially constrained and repressed, she's probably the primary thing he'll admit to having any feelings about- to himself. Since they were young, she's been a constant in his life, he's been in many ways her primary support after Iggy, her entourage.
Outwardly, he can't really openly express his affection for Re-l. One, he's her primary physician, and there's a boundary of professionalism to maintain. Two...she's got a very different, important role to play in things, he knows full well that she's made in the image of a 'godlike' being, and he's conceded to something of a backseat role because he's very aware of where he stands in relation to Proxies.
But he has called her his 'treasure', his 'favorite', his 'raison d'etre', and he keeps her pictures up on his desk. He'd probably admit to a very strong platonic love- Daedalus is a scientist and a clinical person and doesn't really like to reveal things like romantic feelings...but its pretty obvious from his actions, his eventual jealousy and obsession, the way he kinda goes nuts in her absence- he does have strong feelings for her that go above and beyond. If there's anything in life he really, truly loves, has faith in, is proud for, it is her.
Could he ever fall in love with someone not Re-l?
You mean besides the replacement goldfish?
It would take a lot of time for a person like Daedalus to develop that kind of intimate feeling for someone else, that intense of an attachment, and probably a whole lot of guilty feelings once he recognized he was falling for someone else.
His devotion to Re-l is understated but still very intensive- he kinda goes a little crazynuts for loss of her, even if he can 'maintain himself' and hold it together on the surface. He would probably peg developing feelings for anyone else as a selfish indulgence.
That said, there's a lot of people who stimulate a good deal of his interest. But he's a very clinically detached person- despite tolerance and warmth in his care, he keeps people at an emotional arms length. Even Re-l, especially Re-l, in many respects. It's his job and his duty to look after people's welfare without expecting care back- he can take care of his own needs, he's convinced himself that a long time ago.
(Not that he's not harboring a little bitterness about it.)
What's the most important thing to Daedalus? A person, a set of values, an idea?
^ See above blurb about Re-l Mayer first. That should clear a lot of things.
Aside from her, Daedalus is very concerned about humanity having a purpose-- his canon death monologue spells that out pretty clearly in a 'this life has been an exercise in futility' kind of way. He's got a subtle undercurrent of 'perpetually bothered' going on that's probably a constant gnawing of 'Why?' on the edge of his curiosity. He likes answers. He likes deep questions. He likes to know things. He genuinely enjoys watching other people seek things out and come to their own conclusions.
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Because it gives him a very profound sense of purpose. He knows he exists for serving the Health/Welfare of the public, but Re-l and 'The Specimen' were both impressed upon him as Special Important Appointment, and he holds them up higher than the rest of his professional career.
Why? Because he's monitored her so carefully, taken so much of a key background role in her development, that she's...his, his attentiveness to her is somehow mentally transferred onto a reflection of himself ("When I look into her eyes, I want to see my reflection") it's definitely a little narcissistic. Also, she's modeled of a life force that's not entirely human, but put into human form- Re-l is as close to biological perfection as Romdeau has been able to achieve, and he appreciates/admires her in that sense. She preoccupies his thoughts, when he's not thinking about 'Other Work'.
After a certain point, Re-l's grandfather kinda failed at being her nurturing support and Daedalus was too glad to step in- not too overbearingly, and such that she barely even noticed that shift.
Post-death, and post-half acknowledged reconciliation with Re-l over the Monad Clone business, post Romdeau's collapse, and Re-l's journey...he thinks she's the best example of a legacy of their age, and that since he had a hand in helping her to that point, he takes great private pride in her- and so that devotion continues.
I wouldn't call it fatherly or brotherly because there's definitely romantic feelings, it's kinda Pygmalion Complex and very clear Daedalus is only suppressing his desire to outright call her 'beloved' because of professional constraint...that emotional balance that he feels responsible to maintain at all times. He's already stopped caring and let that become very unbalanced and despairing once- and he's really quite ashamed in retrospect for showing her that side of himself.
How old was Daedalus when he got his M.D.?
This is where it would be really nice if Ergo Proxy had a definitive pre-canon timeline, because his appointment coincides with the capture and containment of Mosque's Monad Proxy, and at some point after the creation of Re-l (who we've headcanoned as having been 'bumped' a little in development for sped growth, there's several points that suggest this. Re-l is younger than Daedalus by a little more than just a few years, but he's been her personal physician as long as she can remember.)
Daedalus was designed and groomed to take on his position from a very young point, so he was specialized early for medical research/administration and probably was a full fledged doctor at the head of the facility by age 14.
He's not a hands on surgeon- for precision and cleanliness reasons, that's all done by AutoReiv, he just walks them through it. Actually, he's used to a lot of hands on tasks being done by his two entourage, so while he's got a deep textbook knowledge and good understanding of human biology, of general health consultation...while he knows what all your DNA means, hands-on medicine and all this knuckle deep in trauma center injury is really bewildering to be suddenly thrust into.
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He's used to being called a "Young Prodigy", he sort of laughs off being nicknamed "The Prince of Romdeau"...he's self-satisfied in what he knows he's capable of, and the fact that he has authority and is young- no one really doubted his competency because of age before until he encountered it here in Siren's Port.
At Skye they're calling him Doogie, and while he doesn't catch the cultural reference he knows it's a playful insult on his age. He runs into a lot of middle-aged nurses who either try to mother him or resent a young doctor getting aggravated with their inefficiency- ageism has been really tough on his recently. He's had to learn to make compromises and bow to higher authority- luckily he's very patient, and skilled at playing passive. But it's a quiet tension that's building- work really wears him out at Skye, which is why he'll eventually take the upcoming offers and cozy up in some SERO lab all by himself with some microscopes and interesting DNA specimens and be more satisfied and relaxed than he's willing to admit.
He doesn't look down on old geezers, but he did sort of begrudge Re-l's grandfather the regent for giving up on progress.
He deeply dislikes it when Raul calls him a 'boy', and lords age over his head in a domineering way. But he's got the smug 'I may be young but I know so much more than you and have so much more self-restraint' chip on his shoulder.
To Daedalus, which is better: Siren's Port, or his home world in its most perfect state? There's so many clear differences between the two of them--natural childbirth versus synthetic babies is one that immediately comes to mind! Is there a depth to his preference?--like, professionally, he would admit to preferring home, but personally there are aspects of all this freedom that he enjoys.
Daedalus is kinda constantly wrestling with this question, nowadays.
On one hand, Romdeau was very packaged, very neat, very well maintained. Things had a clear place and a clear function, and...once you explored every corner of the system's intricacies, it was very boring. Once you knew the truth of it's design-doomed-to-extinguish-itself...well. That spoilt a lot of it's beauty, even in its most perfectly balanced state.
Siren's Port is very much none of those things. It's crazy-hectic and there's very little oversight and that's...very bewildering, very uncomfortable, very viscerally horrifying in some sense. But at the same time it's liberating, there's a wealth of new ideas and things to explore, he's lost all his status and comforts and civic privileges but that's not terribly- he can overlook that, because he's kinda disillusioned about Romdeau, and because he'll learn the loopholes of exploiting a new system, though that may take some time.
Abilities are also a big draw- he's fascinated by all these new scientific breakthroughs and curious genetics.
So...while there are drawbacks, I think he prefers the mental stimulation of Siren's Port. It's going to take some getting used to, because he's used to a very rigidly controlled environment, but he's tolerant and open to new things.
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He doesn't have as strong a professional drive as say- Raul Creed, he doesn't have that kind of alpha male claw-to-the-top disposition. Mostly because he's just intelligent, expectations were made very clear from fairly early, and has been pretty much been handed most materials and status and accepted them diligently. His ambitions don't usually get aggressive in terms of personality. He's more about self-control and surreptitious action/info analysis.
That said, he recognizes the huge drawbacks of being at the bottom of the heap, socially. He's hugely stressed by clinic work and would like a position a little more comfortable, with a bit more respect, with less sheer volume of people and noise to deal with daily. He'd like a quieter office or a well maintained lab setting. He misses his great big office with his great big holographic display monitors, and his faithful bunch of autoreiv personel. He really does. Lower level medical positions here are very overstimulating.
He takes a lot of pride in his professionalism, he never appears in canon OUTSIDE of his doctor's coat (except in a very wacky dream sequence where he's Re-l's little brother DONT ASK, ITS MINDSCREW). So he probably feels, if not for the stigma of being a newcomer, that it's only natural that he'll progress sooner or later, once someone notices he's doing a good job.
(HAHA, too bad it'll be SERO noticing.)
Would aligning with SERO or AGI be an easy or a difficult decision for him?
Aligning with AGI- he doesn't have any reason to, and finds their general entertainment blitzing to be really exploitative and indulgent.
I shamelessly brought him to SP with intentions to get him in on SERO's side- He's from an age where test tube kids are nothing out of the norm, and he's got plenty of background in working with a certain unusual specimen- 'Human Experimentation' isn't a phrase that particularly appalls him, if handled in the right manner, with good intentions-
SERO's got their loose standards. But they've also contributed to the city a great deal in terms of technical advancement, got very nice testing equipment that he can't get him paws on anywhere else. While Daedalus is a doctor, research is also a very fundamental part of his work, and he's not satisfying that itch working Skye's critical care- Okay, maybe under the table a little bit, but not to the extent he'd like to.
So with the right nudging, the right bait of ideal working conditions, any other measure of corporate wooing, and the assurance that he won't have to take part in any research he morally objects to....Daedalus would be hard pressed to find reason not to eventually join with SERO, especially if they allow him to draft his own schedules/projects and continue working a few shifts at Skye.
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Daedalus thinks of himself in terms of roles as a doctor, as a scientist- he knows he ultimately existed as caretaker of Re-l and the Proxy, but now that Romdeau's finished he's concentrating on his professional skills a little closer. He's very aware he's dropped a lot in status in this strange new place. He's identifying as a 'newcomer' now, as the Immigrant Faction- that's a large turnabout in view, and so he's trying to fit to the mold of this city from a very flip-flopped perspective. He knows he's competent in knowledge, and genuinely enjoys being the 'good' doctor with approachable bedside manner, an advocate for his 'fellow newcomers'.
How well does Daedalus tolerate ambiguity?
Assuming you mean generally speaking, can he handle things that aren't absolutes?
He likes clean cut solutions, logical routes and answers- but I think he also appreciates complexity. He's a puzzler, I think he enjoys playing with ideas that aren't so clean cut, although he's likely to try to categorize and compartmentalize his understanding of things. Whys and hows fall into his thought patterns, but he's open to the notion of multiple factors. Ambiguity is fascinating- it's also a useful tool to fall back on, emotional ambivalence.
It should be noted that in personality, he's extremely tolerant of most things, even things that have frustrated him for a long time. He's a patient, passive person- most of the time.
Morally....He's comfortable with recognizing a grey area. That's a very human thing, what keeps humanity from being like the Autoreivs. Sure, there's coding and design- but ultimately human thought/emotion/morality goes a lot deeper than 1's and 0's and black and white.
Which one of them is more difficult to play? Is it easier to write posts for one over the other, or do tags for one over the other? AND which one is the most like you, personally?
I really only magnetized to Daedalus as a muse-I-wanna-play a few months ago, so Daedalus is definitely the one I'm handling with care right now, especially since there's so few Ergo Proxy players out there and I'm kinda one of the first to pave the standard.
I wonder if I'm playing Daedalus carefully intelligent enough. They're both easy to churn out posts for if I can breeze through a scenario in my heard that would inspire either of them to speak at length about anything-
Daedalus has more professional observations to make. Daedalus is curious with what he say, but also...much more frugal and polite about what he puts out, he's a lot more reserved, and he understands the worth of status and negotiation- he'll usually talk about what he thinks before broaching how he personally feels.
I roadblock with Daedalus when he's patiently satisfied with pushing no further for now, or when I get tossed a genuine stumper question where I need to think back and decide if his canon world still HAS those things, or if he'd know about the subject vs. what he'd tell.
They're both on some level like me- Daedalus sets up nicely on my introverted intellectual side, he is genuinely fascinated by concepts and feels kind of disoriented in disorder (which much of SP is to him). He likes balance, he likes neat answers, he likes slipping under red tape and working the existing system's imperfections to his advantage. He has an understanding/respect for purposeful existence, something that resonates with me. He can be kind of a quietly smug bastard about what he knows- I'm guilty of that too.
It occurs to me that Replica and Daedalus have something of an unrequited infatuation thing about "that girl" in their lives, Namine and Re-l. A protective bent. That's something I've never really experienced, but it fascinates me as an undercurrent of character motivation
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