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PLAYER
[journal] tsunderes
[age] 19
[previous characters] Kiyoha (tsuridasu)
CHARACTER
[series] House, M.D.
[full name] Gregory House, M.D.
[age] 50
[gender] Male
[canon point] 6x15, "Private Lives"
[reference] House is cool enough to have his own Wiki page
[personality]
House is a jackass. That's really all there is to it. But he has attained a kind of nirvana of being a total douchebag, ascending to levels never imagined, or at least, not for a doctor. It's fairly incredible, and is attributed to how much his life has sucked. But there are several points to his asinine behavior, so let's get this started!
So like I said, House is a complete, utter jackass. But he is an insanely intelligent one. He's, arguably, the best diagnostician in the US, and he's proud of that fact. He's an arrogant guy with pride the size of Texas. It's certainly not undeserved, though. Most of the time, no matter what it is, House is right. A patient, paternities, a bet, House just has the gift of either being lucky or having his intelligence on his side. After all, in the hundred or so cases presented in House M.D., there have been less than five cases where he was not right. Pretty good track record for 5 years.
I imagine that his accuracy is nothing less than superb because of his bad attitude. That sounds odd, but remember that House's idolization of the buraku man made him want to become a doctor, and I think shaped House's personality substantially. House is obsessed with finding the answers, and getting the right ones because he thinks that as long as he produces results, then people can tolerate him. This is why he seems so upset when cases do not go as planned. So House is a perfectionist, in a sense. He wants to uphold his reputation, in part, but he also feels the need to do so to keep himself from being completely alienated.
But this brings up another important part. If he's worried about being alienated, it would stand to reason that he could just change his personality a bit to not be so offensive. But House is stubborn and resistant to change. Once he gets settled with a particular set of people, he doesn't want new ones to invade his turf, or for the others to leave. This is evidenced by his resistance to Vogler taking over and having to pick a new team especially. But Vogler is different too, because this revealed his stubbornness. House is resistant to change, sure, but more than that, he hates being told what to do.
House frequently goes against the rules, not just to rebel or not conform, but because he finds them trivial. The labcoat rule or professional dress rule are ignored 99% of the time, and House is likely to skip out on his required clinic duty by playing games, watching soap opera, whatever. He does what he wants to do. Yet that's not to say that he doesn't take orders. It's more like he's very specific in whose orders he takes. That comes down to respect. The people that House respects are the only ones that can make him waver or even consider doing something that he doesn't want to do. For example, House doesn't always pick up cases on his own, but rather, gets them presented by his team, Cuddy, or Wilson. These are the only people that he will consider it for, just because he does respect them enough to value their opinions and ideas.
But people he does respect, that's a very small pool. They're people that can deal with his crap, in one sense, but he likes people that can retaliate, or humor him, like Wilson does. He has no patience for ignorance or stupidity, and will brush people off for it. Though, House's version of brushing people off is his trademark. The reason House is such a popular show is because of its titular character, who is famous for his biting sarcasm. Obviously, people that annoy him get the worst of it. And it's this that also makes him a confrontational person. His stubbornness makes him believe that he is always right, so if someone challenges him? Whoa, back up now.
This is why he hates clinic duty. Having to deal with idiotic problems when he's the best doctor in that hospital is very tedious to him, and the patients are very annoying. He hates things that are boring and ordinary, and clinic duty falls right into this category for him. It's too easy for him. This is when he plays his game systems or goes to watch soaps with coma guy. Similarly, he doesn't like meeting the patients he actually has. He rarely does, letting his team relay information for him. He just doesn't like interacting with people outside his "circle" and is extremely reluctant to let new people into that circle.
That's not to say he's an emotionless bastard, though. He's still a bastard, but there have been several cases that House has actually become endeared to his patients or made some kind of emotional connection to them. It's brief, understated, and coated in his usual sarcasm, but it is there. The people he bonds the most to are people who society considers abnormal. For example, a schizophrenic, an autistic child, and a homeless person. People cast away are the people that he relates to best, and are the ones that he rarely uses his sarcasm with. These are also the cases that he tends to pick up on his own time rather than being presented with them.
As for all the other patients, he's not the kindest. He's not a shy person by any means, and is quite frank. He's not one to side step asking questions about their sex lives, relationships, or habits, and it's because people lie about these things that House has his infamous motto "Everybody lies". So in his own philosophy, he does consider everyone to be a liar, and treats them as such. Yet, if they admit the truth, he's not even phased by the fact that they lied. It's just brushed off.
But about his patients, House often picks up on important clues when he goes to visit the patient himself. Which is funny, because you would think that he would figure out that he should visit them more often, but nope, quite the opposite. House is an observant and perceptive person! He is able to pick up quite accurately about tiny, almost unrelated details about a person and identify underlying problems, whether physical or social. As far as his social perceptiveness goes, he's extremely accurate about picking up details or hints about not-quite-perfect relationships. This is likely because of his lack of luck in this department in general, and his general view of the world as an outsider.
Of course, his outrageous, uncensored questions get him in trouble. Patients get mad, and House has been punched, shot, and threatened. He's a mean person and has no regard for other peoples' feelings. He will scathingly say what he wants because he has no need to censor himself (or so he thinks) and he when something about a person intrigues him, he will interrogate them until he gets the answer he wants. Some people call it bullying, House and Wilson call this a friendship.
Back to his arrogance, his arrogance and unabashed statements, obviously, get him into trouble. I don't only mean with people with just as much power or equal to House's own, but with patients. He tends to skim over informed consent, for example, and coerce a patient into doing a treatment that House thinks is right if they don't agree with them.
I keep jumping around, oops. But anyways, back to the kind of relationships House has, his sarcasm can be a term of endearment, in a way. The only people that he will get close to or allow to get close to him are those that he deems interesting. In fact, his motivation for anything seems to be on the criteria of how personally interesting House finds it. As he says, "anomalies bug me". He likes people, cases, and things that go against the norm, and in terms of people and cases, he digs deeply to find out why that is. He analyzes things intensively because he wants to make sense of the world.
Yet, despite everything, House is unhappy. His life has not been sunshine and rainbows, so he probably hasn't been actually happy in a long time. But he denies it over and over again. If anyone confronts him about it, he responds with a quick "no" and some biting sarcasm to go with it. He's unhappy, but he won't allow himself to admit it because that would be acknowledgment, on his own level, that he's miserable. And he doesn't want that. He wants to function, and unhappiness is a hindrance to functioning. And that is House's definition of happiness, in a way. As long as he can function, he's "happy".
But functioning for House is also defined by another key point of his character: Vicodin. House has severe pain in his leg ever since his surgery, and he takes the pain pill for it. However, he is addicted to the drug. When he's made bets that he can function without it, or it got revoked, then House goes into full blown withdrawal, which is also accompanied by pain. His leg genuinely does hurt to the point that he needs Vicodin, but he takes it more often than he should. It was implied once that he took as many as 5 pills at a time, and he takes "shots of pills" often enough. He is heavily dependent on the drug to function, and remember what functioning is equatable to for House. Of course, after rehab, he's much better. He's slightly nicer (slightly) and not tripping balls, but he's otherwise his usual, misanthropic self.
[orientation] Though House has a rockin' bromance with Wilson, he's heterosexual. His numerous hookers and his eventual relationship with Cuddy support this. Even though he's not in a relationship with Cuddy at this canon point, he certainly has feelings for her that he's struggling with.
[appearance] n/a
[wish] To not be in pain.
[requested house] Shishu Household
[misc notes] n/a
SAMPLES
[network post]
So, I can't decide whether this whole situation is supposed to be heaven or hell yet.
On one hand, this is a geisha district. Forget what they're called, but the point is, an eternity of prostitutes and considerably classy ones at that. I guess they'd be closer to escorts, if they weren't so deluded to think that selling sex with arts is somehow above selling sex without it. Sex is sex, no matter how you spin it.
On the other hand, seeing as I'm stuck as the house doctor, this also equates to an eternity of swabbing crotches. Just a tip in advance: if you think you have one, let's just say that you do and save us both the trouble. Same for pregnancy.
I guess I'll just have to settle for it being "limbo." Sort of. Pretty sure I'm not dead, last time I checked. [there's a pause as he--yes, checks] Yep, still beating.
[prose log]
It wasn't the first time that House had woken up naked in a strange place. Nor was it the first time that his wish for a lack of pain had appeared in his dreams in an oddly abstract manner. Of course the Japanese setting was a reflection of the event of meeting the buraku man as a child. Duh. Dreamology (that was totally a legit science) said so. But usually, these two things didn't happen at the same time.
He remembered his sarcasm clearly--"Come on, usually when I wake up naked, there's at least a hooker to keep me warm," he had quipped, "Can I at least have my clothes back? Or are you a mean hooker that won't give them back until I pay?"
But everything else--that was kind of a blur. It didn't feel like he was drugged. He knew what being drugged felt like. House stood in the small room with care, steadying himself against the wall to walk over to the modest, but certainly traditional Japanese window.
House wasn't versed as much in Japanese history as some other subjects in his near encyclopedic knowledge. But he knew enough to pinpoint what kind of place he was. He couldn't help but half smile at the irony. It was hookers. Sort of.
But onto more important matters.
House shuffled away from the window, slamming open the flimsy screen that acted as his door. "Where is my damn cane?!" he shouted down the hall, "I kind of need that to, you know, walk. Weird how that works, huh? And I'm pretty sure I didn't sip on some nitrous, so this is an especially colorful trip. I'd like to at least actually walk through it."
He knew he had shouted in English and hadn't expected anyone to come to his call other than to shush him for his noisiness. But instead, a few children came, asking what he wanted. Like they hadn't heard.
God, whatever he was taking to have this kind of trip or hallucination or whatever--he needed to stop taking it.