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Info/Permissions/Opt-out post: The Doctor edition
OPT-OUT: The doctor is a character who is a worst-case scenario from a world that has fallen to a totalitarian regime. As such, it's possible that interacting with him may involve dark themes and potential triggers. The doctor comes from an aggressive upbringing steeped in toxic masculinity, and his narrative text might allude to domestic violence/child abuse (father->son) and thinking influenced by patriarchal views regarding gender (generally self-referential; he fears being "womanish" but does not have trouble with the idea of strong women surrounding him). He is prone to violence, and may casually mention death and murder in a scientific environment. Threads that involve a laboratory environment may include details of inhumane medical procedures (it is unlikely these will pop up without warning). Don't hesitate to let me know here or privately if any of these topics are uncomfortable for you or you would rather not be tagged by this version of Fitz at all.
This version of Fitz has had his understanding of reality adjusted to fit with a dystopian VR environment called The Framework. He is presently unable to access the bulk of his canon memories, and will consider himself as hailing from a different reality than the other members of the MCU, though he will continue to be affected by MCU-specific events. As far as he is aware, he is currently the second-in-command of Hydra and will conduct himself accordingly.
Deviance from primary MCU canon
As the doctor currently understands events, Hydra took over the world over the course of 2008-2009, after a superpowered child staged a mass murder on American soil. SHIELD lost public trust and was subsumed by the propaganda and fearmongering that Hydra unleashed on society. History books have been rewritten to place Hydra as the world's saviors who protect humanity from monstrous superpowered menaces. It is routine to be stopped and checked for identification, both in the form of tangible paperwork and genetic examination. Those who show signs of resistance are branded as "subversive" and sent to re-education facilities to be brainwashed into proper thinking.
Dr. Leopold Fitz, with a demanding father at his side urging him to reach for power, innovated much of the technology that helped Hydra remain in power. He specializes in genetic probing and violent, torturous means of handling powered people. He rationalizes this as simple animal testing; aliens and the supernatural are subhuman, he reasons. It shouldn't matter if they suffer. Chances are, they deserve it.
Questions for you! Please feel free to ask "why do you want to know?" for any of these -- it'll facilitate discussion and further plotting maybe.
1) If you play a powered character, would you be open to having them placed on a (potentially nonconsentual from an ic standpoint) monitoring list? The idea will probably evolve over time, but at first I'm thinking it might be like microchipping a pet. Minimally invasive, with a subdermal outcome.
2) If your character is based in tech, the doctor might have a vested interest in liberating them and/or manipulating them to suit his needs. If this pings you, would you mind chatting a little about your character's particular specifications? It'll be useful later, both for plotting and for the root of ridiculous fake science.
3) Is there anything else at all that you want me to know about your character in relation to actual evil mad science plots and limits?
4) Same as 3, but what about your mirrors?
And a few requests/entreaties from me:
Hero types!!! I am here to play with you. The doctor is here to make your characters look cool. But that means I need you to talk to me OOCly as well, especially if I've written something that oversteps a boundary.
From a narrative standpoint, I absolutely do intend to have the doctor be taken down and forced to face consequences for his actions. But I'd appreciate having the opportunity to do some bad things before I'm rushed down by people with bad feelings. Please contact me prior to having a character make a public callout post. I might be able to integrate your hero into stuff that other heroes are planning if we all work together.
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I think that the way things are settling out, it might be August before he gets a good enough space to start building a lab for the mad sciences, but once he's in full swing there are a lot of bullshit fascist reasons to start doing science on someone with Tim's profile -- especially if that dumb violent self is something he thinks can be harnessed and/or weaponized, since he's under the impression that he's in a hostile environment and needs to protect himself. If it's a "blink and you miss it" kind of thing, he's been harnessing Monika from DDLC as a network spying aid, and there might be some paths through that?
But YES I'd be happy to have his role expand or contract to suit your needs. If you want to have him go full winter soldier jumpscaring kids and murdering them for the lolz, I'm here for it? Also here if you just want some medical torture that lasts for like a weekend and gives his buds a reason to go on a rescue mission and have to get him out from a Saw-style trap room or something?
basically YES pretend you're at a suffering buffet. Eat as much as you'd like.
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i can def dredge up more Opportunities for this personality to manifest so that it's not quite as abstruse and a bit more palpable for the doctor to latch onto if you want! they like posting cryptic coded messages onto the network and there was a plot a while back that had someone more or less expose one of those coded messages as something that came from tim's device, which miiiiight be a red flag?? LIKE I SAID I'VE KEPT THINGS VAGUE THUS FAR partly because once it's Out There it's Out There, it's like peeing in a pool and once everyone knows then everyone KNOWS. but also in the chaos of events it's easy for there to be an "oh shit forgot to medicate" moment and he masks out lol
i can go as slow burn or as quick and ugly as you want, basically! you wanna do surveillance or research or containment or just out and out "wow this is a threat we should destroy it" (not totally incorrect tbh) EITHER ONE IS COOL WITH ME
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SO I GUESS LIKE. How much do you need me to know? I am aware of the following: something something slenderman something something serial killers and tim needs to stay on meds because otherwise he too is a serial killer? If it's more complicated than that I might need a heads up for more substantial plotting. Like. Is it not just a murder personality? Because I might need a round of "please explain your character to me as if addressing a senior citizen" if I've misunderstood some major character mechanics.
So I guess it's still an enthusiastic yes but now with a side of "wait what are we agreeing to" because I THOUGHT I UNDERSTOOD and now I don't think I do.
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the operator (basically slender man) latches onto tim when he's a young bab. this exacerbates pre-existing mental health issues. the operator is essentially a brain virus - the more people it "spreads" to the more power it gets, and it uses tim to "spread" and the most relevant repercussions to this are how it basically makes people do a murder and be violent and shit. so THAT is a danger.
in adulthood tim develops this second masked personality. they're dumb and violent but not a killer. tim has an advanced form of epilepsy and takes anticonvulsants for this. it's in the stage post-epileptic seizure that the masked personality has the window to pilot his meat for a bit, and whenever they do this they usually kind of regress to trying to tackle things they don't understand, which is everything.
SO TLDR: masked personality is the more immediate thuggish danger, startling in the short-term but ineffective in the long term. slender man brain virus is the more actually dangerous but less obvious danger, hard to parse in the short-term but devastating in the long term if it's allowed to flourish
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