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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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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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