He Waits Dreaming App - Redux
✢ The Player
Player Name: Jeni
Age: 29
LJ: N/A
AIM / MSN / Y!M: hookandoil (aim)
E-mail: jmullen521(@)gmail(.)com
Other Characters: John Watson, Tony Stark
✢ The Character
Character Name: Doctor Mohinder Suresh
Fandom: Heroes
Canon Point: Episode 211 "Powerless." Sylar has just stolen the cure to the mutated Shanti virus from him. Fearing for the life of his ward, Molly Walker, Mohinder sends her to India to stay with his mother. And, technically, right after Laura Kinney ripped him to shreds in the game back in May.
Age: 33
Appearance: Mohinder is of Indian decent with dark skin, black hair and brown eyes. He is 5'9" in shoes and though leanly muscled, is unimposing in appearance. His casual fashion is typical of thirty-something academics, though he favors bright colors and layers with khakis, low slung jeans, and brown boots. While teaching in India, he preferred linen suits. He wears a wrist watch and a silver thumb ring on his left hand. He also needs glasses but prefers contact lenses.
Abilities / Powers: Mohinder is a normal human being with no evolved abilities or super powers. He is a professor and a geneticist. The latter gives him skill to draw blood, prepare slides, and work lab equipment though he is not a medical doctor. He has participated in clinical trials however and can handle basic first aid. He is academically minded and very intellectual, though he does seem to fail when it comes to common sense. He is trilingual. Though he speaks both Hindi and English fluently, he knows only enough French to get by.
Inventory: Mohinder wears a silver thumb ring...and that's about it this time around.
Personality: Mohinder is a professor and a geneticist from Chennai, India. He has a PhD in parapsychology and use to teach at the University of Madras. He has 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. Mohinder and his dad have a very rocky relationship stemming from the death of his older sister. Mohinder was conceived to produce antibodies for his sister, who had contracted a virus that attacked and killed any evolved human being. Though he was born with those antibodies, it was too late to save his sister.
Despite Mohinder's clash with his father, who had run off to America to try and find other evolved human beings, Mohinder still defends him. When he is told that his father died, Mohinder takes a leave of absence from his teaching position, packs up what he can of his father's work, and goes off to New York City to discover why his dad was killed and to continue his work.
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 reproduce 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. As a former employer put it, Mohinder's moral compass points true north. 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 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. Just the same, he considers himself a father to Molly Walker, a little girl he helped to save from the same virus that killed his sister. For a few months, she lived with him in his apartment in New York along with Matt Parkman, who Mohinder took in to help him recover from his gun shot wounds during a battle against the super powered villain, Sylar, at the final show down of Season One.
Mohinder genuinely loves Molly and has since sent her off to stay with his mother in India where he thinks she'll be safe. It's his greatest hope that he will not only be able to protect her, but also that he will be able to find a way to protect everyone with abilities...or find a way to stop those that would only harm others. His greatest fears include being worthless and losing anyone else he cares for. He is terrified of what he doesn't know and therefore adamantly chases answers. His hopes are simple. He wants to save the world. He hopes that he'll be able to do it before Sylar or someone else destroys it. He hopes for Molly to grow up to live a normal life as well.
History: http://heroeswiki.com/Mohinder
Mohinder is canon up to the end of Season Two. He is taken from canon right before he arrives home, and therefore, before the first episode of Season Three.
First Person Sample:
It has been roughly two days since I’ve found myself here. All attempts to figure out where ‘here’ is have been, unfortunately, met with little success. So far, I've gotten a name of a city, Arkham, and a location in New England, but that's it. The people in this place are not exactly unfriendly, though they seem unwilling to offer information or to talk with me at any length. Those that reside in this building are a little more helpful, though they seem nearly as confused as I.
I have already discarded the theory that I am being held by the Company, that this is a test, or that I am in a hospital of any sort. Today, I will head out to the library as I have been informed it's open to anyone here, and perhaps explore the grounds.
[He pauses, and for a moment, he speaks to himself in Hindi, muttering away at the device before it clicks off and then on again.]
My main goal is to find a way out to back to New York City. I have work there to finish before I follow Molly to India.
Third Person Sample:
He stopped off at Starbucks on the way back home to Brooklyn, eyes red-rimmed and heart heavy. Letting Molly go, after losing Matt and being flung again into the power play between the Company and a man he watched die on the sidewalk at Kirby Plaza, had been more than just a little difficult for him. He did manage not to tear up until he was back in the car. Now, standing in line for overpriced coffee, Mohinder realized his mistake coming here. He had a standard order up until two weeks ago. Chai tea for him, strawberry crème Frappacino for Molly, special blend, black, for Matt. Now he had a woman at his apartment, waiting for him, manipulated by Sylar as he had been, and he didn’t know her order. It was frustrating in the worst possible way.
He ended up leaving Starbucks in a tearful huff when the barista asked what he’d like. Mohinder ignored the car, walking passed it. He needed to clear his head.
Mohinder knew he had done the right thing sending Molly to Chennai to stay with his mother. It was safe there. Sylar couldn't get her there. Not that it mattered. Mohinder still felt cheated. Sylar had taken everyone and everything from him: his father, his research, his ability to trust, his livelihood… He would not get his hands on a girl he started to think of as his daughter.
Mohinder ignored the mist curling around his feet as he cut down an alley. It was stupid to do the latter, even in the day time, but Mohinder did not always think things through. He was running from himself, from his thoughts, he was running-
Mohinder blacked out. He must have. One moment he was in Brooklyn and now he was laying in a bed that was not familiar. He has no idea how could have gotten there. His first thoughts: Sylar. “H-Hello?” Shit…! “Is anyone there?!”
No one answered. No one came. And after the headache and the room stopped spinning, Mohinder found the mobile phone beside him.