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✘ Name: Nicholas
✘ Age: 32
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✘ Character(s) currently in game: nope
✘ Favorite horror tropes/events: Body horror, cosmic/existential, psychological, sci-fi horror, surrealism
✘ Limits/Triggers: Anything to do with sexual violence, CSA, typically if I have a warning and things are not terrible descriptive I'm okay
✘ Invited by: naya
✘ Name: Daniel Harrow
✘ Canon: Harrow
✘ Canon Point: Post season 2, after Chester's arrest/death
✘ Age: Unspecified, but I go with 45
✘ History: CW: mentions of sexual and physical abuse, suicide, drug abuse
At fourteen, Harrow came home from school to find that his father had hung himself, causing him to act up and get kicked out of school. He meets Jack Twine, the pathologist who preformed his father's autopsy, and is taken under his wing. Harrow becomes interested in pathology and is guided back on the right path. He credits Jack as, "the man who saved my life" and taught him everything he knows. "Whiskey is made for drinking, rules are there to be skirted around, and the dead deserve respect." When he got his doctorate, Jack gifted him with an antique surgeon's kit.
Presently, Harrow is divorced from his wife, Steph — who remarries Robert Quinn, and their teenage daughter, Fern, lives off the grid with her boyfriend Callan. Harrow notices an interaction with her and Robert; he was aggressive, and she was terrified of him. He invites Robert onto his boat later that night. Robert shows up and Harrow confronts him about what he saw, getting Robert to admit that he had been abusing Fern. He tells Harrow he threatened to kill Steph if she told anyone. Robert gets aggressive with Harrow and attacks him, but Harrow ultimately comes out on top and kills him. He takes the body to the river and uses one of the cutters from the surgeon kit to cut off his ring finger, admitting later he doesn't know why he did that. Unfortunately, the cut on the finger becomes a key puzzle to the mystery of Robert's death when his corpse is found.
Having promised Fern that he would quit and sail to Bora Bora with her, he now has to break the news that he can't leave, as he must cover his tracks now that Robert's body was found. He can't tell Fern this, so she leaves, and begins to avoid him even more than she did before. Simon, Harrow's protégé, becomes interested in the case of Robert's river bones and works tirelessly to identify his body. Sergeant Dass, Harrow's new girlfriend, also becomes interested in the case and helps Simon, making Harrow more nervous. Because Simon and Dass are way too smart for their own good, they each learn more and more about Robert's murder, and Harrow desperately tries to stay one step ahead of them, falsifying and destroying evidence to do so. With the case stalled, Harrow's boss, Maxine, orders the bones to be cremated. Harrow isn't off the hook that easily, as Dass intervenes and halts the cremation after Fairley, another pathologist, tells her the bones had been in the water for less than a year, conflicting with Harrow's (lie) deduction that it had been there longer. She looks into Robert's disappearance, and with search personnel, she manages to find Robert's car that had been dumped in the lake. Everyone keeps the news about Robert's car from Harrow, given his history with him, but Fern finds out and tells him. Because of a voicemail from Steph threatening to kill Robert shortly before he went missing, she becomes the first suspect. Shortly after, Robert's skull is found, and his wedding ring is discovered in Steph's house by Dass. Detective Nichols talks to her himself, and she tells him she was in the hospital with broken ribs, so she couldn't have killed him.
While Steph is cleared, CCTV footage of Fern slashing Robert's tires puts her on the top of the suspect list instead, so the police grab Callan. Nichols gives him his phone and tells him to call Fern and meet him somewhere, but instead Callan calls and warns her and Harrow that the police are looking into her. However, Nichols discovers that she had been at the pawnbroker at the time of the muder, trying to sell Harrow's surgeon kit to obtain money for Callan's bail. Harrow finds her and has to buy back the kit, which Dass sees on the CCTV is missing a cutter. Because of the missing finger on the corpse she begins to suspect Harrow's cutter was used to cut it off. She and Simon both grow suspicious of him, so Simon goes to Harrow's boat to look into the surgeon kit and finds that the cutter is missing, but Harrow catches him. He admits to Simon that he killed Robert and dumped his body, but he did it to protect his family. Simon is understandably shaken up and frightened, but Harrow tells him to do what he must. Dass shows up to the boat later with police and Nichols who want to see the surgeon's kit. When he opens it the cutter is there, as Simon had went out and got another one to replace it in order to cover for Harrow. Jack, after Dass questioned him about Harrow, realized he was in trouble and wrote a letter that thanked him for visiting at the time of the murder, giving him an alibi. Harrow finds out later that Jack overdosed on oxycodone. So certain she was right about Harrow and feeling both lied to and made a fool of, Dass says goodbye to Harrow and transfers to Melbourne.
Clear of Robert's murder, Harrow enjoys a glass of wine on the deck of his boat when he's shot by a sniper. He ends up in the hospital, where he wakes up to flowers and get well cards all around him. Maxine is there and the two talk about the Lincoln roses someone sent with no card or name to it. Eventually, Harrow gets tired of the hospital and sneaks out. The day before he returns to work he meets Grace and sleeps with her, awkwardly finding out that she's the new pathologist and is Lyle Fairley's niece. They decide to keep things professional. Harrow recieves an anonymous call that taunts him about the shooting, saying he's glad he missed him because now he can ruin his life little by little, threatening to take away everything he loves. At this time, Fern's house gets raided just as she finds boxes of fentanyl planted in her bag. She's charged with stealing from her employer, Tim, who is a chemist. Harrow, believing that this is the work of the anonymous caller, tells Nichols. He comes to suspect a man named Francis Chester, who Harrow helped put away, is the caller, but Maxine informs him that's impossible as Chester died in a prison fire. This isn't enough to convince Harrow, so he tries to get as much information on the autopsy report as he can, looking for any scrap of proof that Chester is alive. It turns out his old mentor, Luarie Badcoe, had done the autopsy himself and identified Chester with dental records.
Even though he became obsessed with finding Chester alive so he can clear Fern's name, everyone manages to convince him otherwise. Having already discussed Chester with Simon, Harrow tells him to forget about it. While Harrow is away on a case with Grace, Simon is unconvinced that Harrow is wrong, as he usually isn't, and looks into Chester himself. Unfortunately, he looks too hard, and Chester ambushes him on a ferry back to Brisbane and injects him with a sedative, before tossing him overboard where he drowns. His corpse is found by the river and everyone writes it off as an accidental drowning. Harrow, absolutely devastated, begins to question his own doubts about Chester and flip flops the more he learns about Simon's death. He insists it makes no sense that he would be on a ferry, much less close enough to the railing to fall, as Simon hated boats and water. But later, Fairley mentions to Harrow that Simon had been researching Chester the day he died. Harrow picks up his research and tries desperately to convince others that Chester isn't dead, he killed Simon, he shot him, but a man who was apprehended and later died in custody, conveniently admitted to shooting Harrow and makes this impossible. Grace and Maxine also learn that Simon had been taking modofinil and deduce that it interacted with his epilepsy medication, causing dizziness and his subsequent fall. Maxine believes Simon overworked himself to be more like Harrow, which led him to taking modofinil which boosts concentration and energy. Harrow becomes wracked with guilt in his grief over Simon's death, once again convinced that he's wrong about Chester, telling Fern to let it go. But like Simon, she's not convinced and continues her investigation. She looks into Tim, the chemist, but as she leaves his house Chester goes in and murders Tim, sedating him and burning him alive, which leads the police back to Fern.
Harrow forges Maxine's signature to get Chester's corpse exumed, and when she finds out she suspends him. He goes to dig up the body himself but Chester injects him from behind and buries him alive with a phone he hacked so it couldn't make outgoing calls, but still recieve them. He uses this to send Harrow videos of himself watching Fern, then trying to kill her after luring her to Harrow's boat. She escapes and gets to the police with her mother, believing Chester was the one who tried to kill her. Naturally, no one believes this. Less so after Chester digs Harrow up, his plan having failed, and replaces the empty coffin with a body, leading Nichols to believe that Harrow is suffering from delusions brought on by drug abuse. Fern sends Callan a picture of Chester, which he opens as he's working in the reasturant and talking to his co worker Frank, who happens to be Francis Chester. Chester chases Callan, but before he can get to him Callan is hit by a moped, putting him in a coma. Chester shows up at the hospital dressed as a nurse and injects Callan just as Harrow is coming in to check on him. The two fight, but Chester tells Harrow that he can catch him, or save Callan. Harrow chooses to save Callan by reviving him with a defibulator. But just outside, Fern is injected by Chester.
Chester tells Harrow that if he doesn't meet him he'll kill Fern. Harrow takes two pills meant to counteract Chester's sedative and meets him outside where he's driven to his mother's house, who is waiting on the porch for them. Fern is tied up inside and Harrow is injected again, then placed in a chair across from Fern. Chester admits that he wanted to kill Harrow because he knew he had faked the evicence that connected him to all the couples he murdered and put him away, though Harrow doesn't know what he's talking about. After killing his mother, Chester begins to strangle Fern in front of Harrow, but she's able to distract him. Harrow recovers from the sedative and Fern gets a hold of his gun. Harrow talks her down from shooting him and tells her he's been in her position and that kind of thing stays with you forever. Nichols shows up with the police and Chester is arrested, but Harrow asks Nichols if he can talk to him first. Chester brags that he got out once and he'll do it again, parotting back what Harrow had said to Fern about killing someone, taunting that he couldn't wait to tell everyone. Harrow hands him a Lincoln rose with the parting words, "this is for Simon", and injects him with a hidden needle before walking away. Chester dies on the way to jail and it looks like a heartattack.
Maxine, who had admitted to Grace that she was the one who faked the evidence to put Chester away, packs her office. Harrow tells her she doesn't have to go, he understands why she did it and she saved so many lives that day as Chester was about to walk, but she feels too much guilt for everything that happened to Harrow, and for Simon's death, so she resigns. Grace comes to Harrow's boat where they talk and share a kiss, still deciding that they should keep things professional between the two.
✘ Personality:
You're assigned a group project. What role do you end up taking?
That depends, doesn't it? If it's not my area of expertise, then it would hardly do anyone any good for me to take a key role. But let's say, for the sake of argument, that I happen to be very knowledgeable on the subject this hypothetical project is based on, shall we?
The thing is, it's not about leading or following, or having a big or small role. Whatever role I do play, if I know something is right or wrong, then I'm going to say so. And, sure...I do have a habit of, uh, overstepping maybe a touch — but that's because I know in my gut something is being looked over or missed completely.
People don't like to be undermined, and I get that, but it's not something I'm going to be thinking about during the course of a project. I'm going to be thinking about solving the puzzle that's going to make it a success. No stone left unturned. Completely thorough.
I don't do very well being pigeonholed, if you couldn't tell.
You have the chance to anonymously send a letter to someone who's wronged you in the past. What does it say?
Funny, I feel like I should be getting one of those letters.
[ A heavy sigh with a shake of his head, a tone suggesting that this isn't an avenue he'd have considered in the first place, and thus answers for the sake of getting through it. ]
Assuming, for whatever reason, I'm unable to speak to this person directly, and this is a wrong that at best resulted in hurt feelings or something non-lethal — don't ask — I would probably explain what they did to piss me off. Suppose it is easier when you're not caught up in the moment.
Oh, were you expecting something more specific? Fine. Dear asshole; you're dead, I'm not. Nice try.
Someone you admire very much has just done something you find reprehensible. How do you deal with the situation?
I'm the last person who should be making such judgements. In fact, I'm the type of person questions like these are about.
...
That's not to say that I haven't...known someone who did something that I normally would find inexcusable. If it's someone you admire, you admire them for a reason, don't you? I see no reason not to confront them and ask why they did it — give them a chance to explain themselves. Maybe I'll understand, maybe I won't. Regardless, it's important to know why. Why did they do it? Would they do it again? Do they regret it?
Would I have done the same in their position?
Mostly, I have to know why — I hate not knowing why.
If you could achieve all your goals right now, what would your life look like?
Oh, I don't ask for much. Just to be allowed to keep working, unperturbed, no one breathing down my neck or trying to get me to take a psyche eval.
If I'm thinking far less realistically, I'm sailing on the Bettie to Bora Bora with my daughter, like I promised her I would. I almost did it too — I was so close, but...something. Came up. And everything just became one big mess.
I would be perfectly happy if my life didn't interfere with the happiness of those I care about ever again. Whatever life I can lead that doesn't hurt everyone around me...well, that would be the ideal life for me. I'm just not sure how feasible that is.
Someone tells you all your flaws. What did they tell you, and are they right or wrong?
Ah, yes, another day ending in "Y"?
"Harrow, your maverick tendencies and baseless assumptions need to stop", or, "Harrow, you hurt everyone who gets close to you", "Harrow, that's breaking and entering", "Harrow, stop stepping out of line and follow basic protocol".
They're not wrong.
Sure, I do something slightly illegal at least once a day, but if I don't then most of these cases go unsolved and the loved ones of these victims don't get the proper closure they need. And, sure, I'm terrible at being wrong, but being wrong as a pathologist is...not great, to put it mildly.
And yes...I hurt people. I would never do it on purpose, but somehow...I hurt people. And apparently I can be hurting people and not even realize it. Not until it's too late. Everyone always tells me I care more about the dead than the living...that when I'm working I forget about everything else. And, I know they're right.
✘ Type: Bestial
✘ Powers:
Power 1: Pack communication | Harrow can communicate with wolves/packs, but he cannot control them. His relationship to them would be like any relationship with a human; he would have to spend time around them, maybe help them, talk to them frequently, etc, in order to form a bond with them before he can ask them for help or rely on them for anything. The ability won't be available to him until he starts growing the wolf parts, of course.
Power 2: Enhanced smell | Harrow can follow and track smells with his newfound sensitive nose, though he can easily be overwhelmed and left confused if there are multiple smells or by something particularly powerful.
Power 3: Night vision | Harrow is able to see in the dark at night and in doors, but he is incredibly prone to light sensitivity at this time, so bright flashes or sudden lights can practically blind him.
✘ Inventory: Just his cell phone
✘ Sample: TDM thread and TDM Top Level
✘ Name: Nicholas
✘ Age: 32
✘ Contact:
✘ Character(s) currently in game: nope
✘ Favorite horror tropes/events: Body horror, cosmic/existential, psychological, sci-fi horror, surrealism
✘ Limits/Triggers: Anything to do with sexual violence, CSA, typically if I have a warning and things are not terrible descriptive I'm okay
✘ Invited by: naya
CHARACTER INFORMATION
✘ Name: Daniel Harrow
✘ Canon: Harrow
✘ Canon Point: Post season 2, after Chester's arrest/death
✘ Age: Unspecified, but I go with 45
✘ History: CW: mentions of sexual and physical abuse, suicide, drug abuse
At fourteen, Harrow came home from school to find that his father had hung himself, causing him to act up and get kicked out of school. He meets Jack Twine, the pathologist who preformed his father's autopsy, and is taken under his wing. Harrow becomes interested in pathology and is guided back on the right path. He credits Jack as, "the man who saved my life" and taught him everything he knows. "Whiskey is made for drinking, rules are there to be skirted around, and the dead deserve respect." When he got his doctorate, Jack gifted him with an antique surgeon's kit.
Presently, Harrow is divorced from his wife, Steph — who remarries Robert Quinn, and their teenage daughter, Fern, lives off the grid with her boyfriend Callan. Harrow notices an interaction with her and Robert; he was aggressive, and she was terrified of him. He invites Robert onto his boat later that night. Robert shows up and Harrow confronts him about what he saw, getting Robert to admit that he had been abusing Fern. He tells Harrow he threatened to kill Steph if she told anyone. Robert gets aggressive with Harrow and attacks him, but Harrow ultimately comes out on top and kills him. He takes the body to the river and uses one of the cutters from the surgeon kit to cut off his ring finger, admitting later he doesn't know why he did that. Unfortunately, the cut on the finger becomes a key puzzle to the mystery of Robert's death when his corpse is found.
Having promised Fern that he would quit and sail to Bora Bora with her, he now has to break the news that he can't leave, as he must cover his tracks now that Robert's body was found. He can't tell Fern this, so she leaves, and begins to avoid him even more than she did before. Simon, Harrow's protégé, becomes interested in the case of Robert's river bones and works tirelessly to identify his body. Sergeant Dass, Harrow's new girlfriend, also becomes interested in the case and helps Simon, making Harrow more nervous. Because Simon and Dass are way too smart for their own good, they each learn more and more about Robert's murder, and Harrow desperately tries to stay one step ahead of them, falsifying and destroying evidence to do so. With the case stalled, Harrow's boss, Maxine, orders the bones to be cremated. Harrow isn't off the hook that easily, as Dass intervenes and halts the cremation after Fairley, another pathologist, tells her the bones had been in the water for less than a year, conflicting with Harrow's (lie) deduction that it had been there longer. She looks into Robert's disappearance, and with search personnel, she manages to find Robert's car that had been dumped in the lake. Everyone keeps the news about Robert's car from Harrow, given his history with him, but Fern finds out and tells him. Because of a voicemail from Steph threatening to kill Robert shortly before he went missing, she becomes the first suspect. Shortly after, Robert's skull is found, and his wedding ring is discovered in Steph's house by Dass. Detective Nichols talks to her himself, and she tells him she was in the hospital with broken ribs, so she couldn't have killed him.
While Steph is cleared, CCTV footage of Fern slashing Robert's tires puts her on the top of the suspect list instead, so the police grab Callan. Nichols gives him his phone and tells him to call Fern and meet him somewhere, but instead Callan calls and warns her and Harrow that the police are looking into her. However, Nichols discovers that she had been at the pawnbroker at the time of the muder, trying to sell Harrow's surgeon kit to obtain money for Callan's bail. Harrow finds her and has to buy back the kit, which Dass sees on the CCTV is missing a cutter. Because of the missing finger on the corpse she begins to suspect Harrow's cutter was used to cut it off. She and Simon both grow suspicious of him, so Simon goes to Harrow's boat to look into the surgeon kit and finds that the cutter is missing, but Harrow catches him. He admits to Simon that he killed Robert and dumped his body, but he did it to protect his family. Simon is understandably shaken up and frightened, but Harrow tells him to do what he must. Dass shows up to the boat later with police and Nichols who want to see the surgeon's kit. When he opens it the cutter is there, as Simon had went out and got another one to replace it in order to cover for Harrow. Jack, after Dass questioned him about Harrow, realized he was in trouble and wrote a letter that thanked him for visiting at the time of the murder, giving him an alibi. Harrow finds out later that Jack overdosed on oxycodone. So certain she was right about Harrow and feeling both lied to and made a fool of, Dass says goodbye to Harrow and transfers to Melbourne.
Clear of Robert's murder, Harrow enjoys a glass of wine on the deck of his boat when he's shot by a sniper. He ends up in the hospital, where he wakes up to flowers and get well cards all around him. Maxine is there and the two talk about the Lincoln roses someone sent with no card or name to it. Eventually, Harrow gets tired of the hospital and sneaks out. The day before he returns to work he meets Grace and sleeps with her, awkwardly finding out that she's the new pathologist and is Lyle Fairley's niece. They decide to keep things professional. Harrow recieves an anonymous call that taunts him about the shooting, saying he's glad he missed him because now he can ruin his life little by little, threatening to take away everything he loves. At this time, Fern's house gets raided just as she finds boxes of fentanyl planted in her bag. She's charged with stealing from her employer, Tim, who is a chemist. Harrow, believing that this is the work of the anonymous caller, tells Nichols. He comes to suspect a man named Francis Chester, who Harrow helped put away, is the caller, but Maxine informs him that's impossible as Chester died in a prison fire. This isn't enough to convince Harrow, so he tries to get as much information on the autopsy report as he can, looking for any scrap of proof that Chester is alive. It turns out his old mentor, Luarie Badcoe, had done the autopsy himself and identified Chester with dental records.
Even though he became obsessed with finding Chester alive so he can clear Fern's name, everyone manages to convince him otherwise. Having already discussed Chester with Simon, Harrow tells him to forget about it. While Harrow is away on a case with Grace, Simon is unconvinced that Harrow is wrong, as he usually isn't, and looks into Chester himself. Unfortunately, he looks too hard, and Chester ambushes him on a ferry back to Brisbane and injects him with a sedative, before tossing him overboard where he drowns. His corpse is found by the river and everyone writes it off as an accidental drowning. Harrow, absolutely devastated, begins to question his own doubts about Chester and flip flops the more he learns about Simon's death. He insists it makes no sense that he would be on a ferry, much less close enough to the railing to fall, as Simon hated boats and water. But later, Fairley mentions to Harrow that Simon had been researching Chester the day he died. Harrow picks up his research and tries desperately to convince others that Chester isn't dead, he killed Simon, he shot him, but a man who was apprehended and later died in custody, conveniently admitted to shooting Harrow and makes this impossible. Grace and Maxine also learn that Simon had been taking modofinil and deduce that it interacted with his epilepsy medication, causing dizziness and his subsequent fall. Maxine believes Simon overworked himself to be more like Harrow, which led him to taking modofinil which boosts concentration and energy. Harrow becomes wracked with guilt in his grief over Simon's death, once again convinced that he's wrong about Chester, telling Fern to let it go. But like Simon, she's not convinced and continues her investigation. She looks into Tim, the chemist, but as she leaves his house Chester goes in and murders Tim, sedating him and burning him alive, which leads the police back to Fern.
Harrow forges Maxine's signature to get Chester's corpse exumed, and when she finds out she suspends him. He goes to dig up the body himself but Chester injects him from behind and buries him alive with a phone he hacked so it couldn't make outgoing calls, but still recieve them. He uses this to send Harrow videos of himself watching Fern, then trying to kill her after luring her to Harrow's boat. She escapes and gets to the police with her mother, believing Chester was the one who tried to kill her. Naturally, no one believes this. Less so after Chester digs Harrow up, his plan having failed, and replaces the empty coffin with a body, leading Nichols to believe that Harrow is suffering from delusions brought on by drug abuse. Fern sends Callan a picture of Chester, which he opens as he's working in the reasturant and talking to his co worker Frank, who happens to be Francis Chester. Chester chases Callan, but before he can get to him Callan is hit by a moped, putting him in a coma. Chester shows up at the hospital dressed as a nurse and injects Callan just as Harrow is coming in to check on him. The two fight, but Chester tells Harrow that he can catch him, or save Callan. Harrow chooses to save Callan by reviving him with a defibulator. But just outside, Fern is injected by Chester.
Chester tells Harrow that if he doesn't meet him he'll kill Fern. Harrow takes two pills meant to counteract Chester's sedative and meets him outside where he's driven to his mother's house, who is waiting on the porch for them. Fern is tied up inside and Harrow is injected again, then placed in a chair across from Fern. Chester admits that he wanted to kill Harrow because he knew he had faked the evicence that connected him to all the couples he murdered and put him away, though Harrow doesn't know what he's talking about. After killing his mother, Chester begins to strangle Fern in front of Harrow, but she's able to distract him. Harrow recovers from the sedative and Fern gets a hold of his gun. Harrow talks her down from shooting him and tells her he's been in her position and that kind of thing stays with you forever. Nichols shows up with the police and Chester is arrested, but Harrow asks Nichols if he can talk to him first. Chester brags that he got out once and he'll do it again, parotting back what Harrow had said to Fern about killing someone, taunting that he couldn't wait to tell everyone. Harrow hands him a Lincoln rose with the parting words, "this is for Simon", and injects him with a hidden needle before walking away. Chester dies on the way to jail and it looks like a heartattack.
Maxine, who had admitted to Grace that she was the one who faked the evidence to put Chester away, packs her office. Harrow tells her she doesn't have to go, he understands why she did it and she saved so many lives that day as Chester was about to walk, but she feels too much guilt for everything that happened to Harrow, and for Simon's death, so she resigns. Grace comes to Harrow's boat where they talk and share a kiss, still deciding that they should keep things professional between the two.
✘ Personality:
You're assigned a group project. What role do you end up taking?
That depends, doesn't it? If it's not my area of expertise, then it would hardly do anyone any good for me to take a key role. But let's say, for the sake of argument, that I happen to be very knowledgeable on the subject this hypothetical project is based on, shall we?
The thing is, it's not about leading or following, or having a big or small role. Whatever role I do play, if I know something is right or wrong, then I'm going to say so. And, sure...I do have a habit of, uh, overstepping maybe a touch — but that's because I know in my gut something is being looked over or missed completely.
People don't like to be undermined, and I get that, but it's not something I'm going to be thinking about during the course of a project. I'm going to be thinking about solving the puzzle that's going to make it a success. No stone left unturned. Completely thorough.
I don't do very well being pigeonholed, if you couldn't tell.
You have the chance to anonymously send a letter to someone who's wronged you in the past. What does it say?
Funny, I feel like I should be getting one of those letters.
[ A heavy sigh with a shake of his head, a tone suggesting that this isn't an avenue he'd have considered in the first place, and thus answers for the sake of getting through it. ]
Assuming, for whatever reason, I'm unable to speak to this person directly, and this is a wrong that at best resulted in hurt feelings or something non-lethal — don't ask — I would probably explain what they did to piss me off. Suppose it is easier when you're not caught up in the moment.
Oh, were you expecting something more specific? Fine. Dear asshole; you're dead, I'm not. Nice try.
Someone you admire very much has just done something you find reprehensible. How do you deal with the situation?
I'm the last person who should be making such judgements. In fact, I'm the type of person questions like these are about.
...
That's not to say that I haven't...known someone who did something that I normally would find inexcusable. If it's someone you admire, you admire them for a reason, don't you? I see no reason not to confront them and ask why they did it — give them a chance to explain themselves. Maybe I'll understand, maybe I won't. Regardless, it's important to know why. Why did they do it? Would they do it again? Do they regret it?
Would I have done the same in their position?
Mostly, I have to know why — I hate not knowing why.
If you could achieve all your goals right now, what would your life look like?
Oh, I don't ask for much. Just to be allowed to keep working, unperturbed, no one breathing down my neck or trying to get me to take a psyche eval.
If I'm thinking far less realistically, I'm sailing on the Bettie to Bora Bora with my daughter, like I promised her I would. I almost did it too — I was so close, but...something. Came up. And everything just became one big mess.
I would be perfectly happy if my life didn't interfere with the happiness of those I care about ever again. Whatever life I can lead that doesn't hurt everyone around me...well, that would be the ideal life for me. I'm just not sure how feasible that is.
Someone tells you all your flaws. What did they tell you, and are they right or wrong?
Ah, yes, another day ending in "Y"?
"Harrow, your maverick tendencies and baseless assumptions need to stop", or, "Harrow, you hurt everyone who gets close to you", "Harrow, that's breaking and entering", "Harrow, stop stepping out of line and follow basic protocol".
They're not wrong.
Sure, I do something slightly illegal at least once a day, but if I don't then most of these cases go unsolved and the loved ones of these victims don't get the proper closure they need. And, sure, I'm terrible at being wrong, but being wrong as a pathologist is...not great, to put it mildly.
And yes...I hurt people. I would never do it on purpose, but somehow...I hurt people. And apparently I can be hurting people and not even realize it. Not until it's too late. Everyone always tells me I care more about the dead than the living...that when I'm working I forget about everything else. And, I know they're right.
✘ Type: Bestial
✘ Powers:
Power 1: Pack communication | Harrow can communicate with wolves/packs, but he cannot control them. His relationship to them would be like any relationship with a human; he would have to spend time around them, maybe help them, talk to them frequently, etc, in order to form a bond with them before he can ask them for help or rely on them for anything. The ability won't be available to him until he starts growing the wolf parts, of course.
Power 2: Enhanced smell | Harrow can follow and track smells with his newfound sensitive nose, though he can easily be overwhelmed and left confused if there are multiple smells or by something particularly powerful.
Power 3: Night vision | Harrow is able to see in the dark at night and in doors, but he is incredibly prone to light sensitivity at this time, so bright flashes or sudden lights can practically blind him.
✘ Inventory: Just his cell phone
✘ Sample: TDM thread and TDM Top Level
