Post by Adam Havelka on Jul 11, 2016 18:42:37 GMT -5
ADAM HAVELKA
"I will live forever. Submitting to death is submitting to weakness."
PLAYBY: Black Jack from Black Jack
AGE: 94 years
GENDER: Male
ORIENTATION: Asexual
GROUP: Axium
POSITION: Owner / Experimenter
OCCUPATION: Businessman / Scientist
AGE: 94 years
GENDER: Male
ORIENTATION: Asexual
GROUP: Axium
POSITION: Owner / Experimenter
OCCUPATION: Businessman / Scientist
APPEARANCE
Adam has an unusual physical appearance due to the many surgeries that he has been through. He has a long scar down the left side of his face, and the skin above the diagonal scar is in darker tone than the skin below it. His hair is white on the right side and black on the left, because the hair on the right cannot produce color. His eyes, which were naturally brown at his birth, are now red for the same reason that his hair is white, in that they cannot create much color. He can usually be seen wearing a white lab coat that is stained with any amount of blood or other bodily fluids, but when he is finished with whatever he is working on, he always changes into clean clothes. Beneath his lab coat, he often wears either scrubs or a suit, depending on what he is doing for that day. When working with his experiments, he usually wears scrubs. He has surgical scars all over his body from the experiments he has done to prolong his own life.
PERSONALITY
Adam's obsession is finding a way to live forever. To that end, he founded Axium and continues to experiment to find if it is possible to cause a human to live forever. In his pursuit of this goal, he has been known to lay aside any empathy or concern for others. Prone to fits of rage, Adam harshly punishes anyone who gets in the way of his scientific discoveries, whether because of ineptitude or on purpose. Ethics do not come into his calculations, and because of this, he is very dangerous as an enemy. He has more money than any one man should, and while his business practices are perfectly legal (aside from Axium), they are also ruthless and focused entirely on the bottom line. His employees only like him because he is extremely talented at making money. He lives modestly for his salary, funneling most of his funds into Axium. Although he usually seems unemotional, his rage is legendary among his underlings. He has never been known to take any interest in sex, or even to express attraction to anyone.
SPECIES
Human Experiment: Adam has used many of the discoveries from Axium to prolong his own life and to give him abilities that normal humans do not have. Among these powers are the apparently stunted aging abilities and his capacity to heal rapidly. No one is quite sure whether he feels pain, but he has been known to perform surgery on himself with little to no anesthesia. His eye coloration is the result of a failed night vision experiment, and thus his night vision is particularly poor, and his eyes do not produce pigment.
ABILITIES
Rapid healing: Adam heals more quickly than even a werewolf, almost instantly. This can be a gift and a curse, because this rapid healing does not wait for the injury to be set, and often heals wrong if something is out of place. This can also be dangerous because it has not cured the cancer that originally spurred him to begin the experiment. He still experiences many of the symptoms associated with his leukemia, although his healing powers keep him functioning. If he does not find a permanent cure to his cancer, this healing power will eventually cause the cancer to worsen, and kill him.
Pain tolerance: It takes a good deal of pain to cause Adam to flinch, partially because of the events that caused his first surgeries, and partly because of a level of dissociative disorder that allows him to separate his mind from his physical state. Because this does not actually indicate that he is not taking damage, he can injure himself further without realizing that he has taken damage.
Telepathy: The experiment that gave him this ability took an organ present in an angel and implanted it into his brain. This surgery is the one that led to his hair changing color. Because it is not backed up by spiritual or magical power, he can only hear and convey surface level thoughts and cannot see very far into the minds of others. This also has worsened his dissociative disorder, because it forces him to experience the same thing through the thoughts of several other people. When his rage gets out of control, others in the area can also feel echoes of it.
HISTORY
Adam Havelka was born in 1922 just outside of Prague to a wealthy family of industrialists. With the economy of central Europe in shambles following the first world war, his parents made their already-substantial fortune grow by expanding their interests into oil and railroads. Their rebuilding of the infrastructure got them many favors with the struggling governments, and they were talented in placing their bets on industries that would continue to build. Although more interested in going to medical school to become a scientist, Adam helped his father run the family business while attending his classes. By the late thirties, when Hitler was rebuilding Germany, Adam had taken over the family businesses. Although not a Nazi himself, he had remained apolitical enough to get the contracts for many of their endeavors, and even moved to Berlin for a time. The Havelka family moved back to Czechoslovakia before the war began, but Adam stayed on as a scientist.
The experiments began as mostly innocuous, mostly conducted on the dead, but as time went on, the Nazis cared less and less for ethics and more and more for results. Adam was as caught up in discovery as the rest of them, and participated in the systematic slaughter in the concentration camps. If not for the incident, he would surely have been captured by the Allied forces when Germany fell. As it was, fate had something else in mind, a blessing in disguise (for him, anyway). On the way to Berlin, his caravan hit a line of mines that killed most of the men in his jeep and left him nearly dead. Another scientist performed the surgeries that saved his life.
Adam awoke in Czechoslovakia, at his family's estate. At first, he hated the dark patch of skin on his face, the result of a skin graft that covered a severe burn, but there was no opportunity to get it corrected until years later, because the family was working toward moving to South America. Their home country, now mostly controlled by Communists, had turned against the rich and noble, and the Allies were looking for Adam. In 1949, the Havelka family, consisting of Adam, his aging mother, and his younger sister, moved to Argentina to escape arrest for their responsibility in the war construction and the concentration camps. They managed to retain most of their fortune, since they already had banking interests that they had carefully cultivated in the country.
Among other Nazi scientists, Adam was found by the United States government in the early fifties, and was offered amnesty for his crimes in exchange for the medical secrets that he had discovered in the camps. He accepted eagerly, ready to continue his experiments in the United States. Although they didn't allow him quite the same amount of leeway as the Nazis had, the United States offered his family a legitimacy that they had lost when the Germans lost the war. He was even hired as a consultant on the atomic experiments, intended to help the other scientists understand the danger of radioactivity and guard against it. This posting would prove to be his downfall.
At forty years of age, Adam was diagnosed with cancer. At the time, chemotherapy was in its infancy, and Adam was convinced that he would die. It was around this time that he started experimenting in alternative medicine. He was near death when he discovered his first angel. The angel, who took pity on Adam, healed his body of some of the symptoms of his illness, and forestalled his death by a few years. This act of kindness would prove to be a massive mistake for supernatural kind. Confining the angel with the sigils found in an ancient codex, Adam surgically dissected the angel until he found the organ that allowed it to heal itself, and got his assistant to implant it into his own skull. This had the unexpected side effect of stopping his aging process.
Astonished by the supernatural being, he began to do his own private experimentation on them, eventually expanding this to include granting supernatural powers to humans. He founded Axium Corporation with his family's money, and is using it to fund exploration into the area of eternal life, hoping to forestall his death permanently. These days, he continues to participate in the experiments directly, and has expanded operations to discover how supernaturals are able to do what they can do.
PLAYER INFORMATION: Scorch
PREVIOUS CHARACTER: Stellan Davis
EXTRAS: I am allergic to ranch dressing.
CREDIT: On the list.
PREVIOUS CHARACTER: Stellan Davis
EXTRAS: I am allergic to ranch dressing.
CREDIT: On the list.
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