- Name: William Smith
Age: 51
Nationality: Canadian
Race: Caucasian
Hometown: Delisle, Saskatchewan
Appearance:
Habits/Hobbies: Experimenting
Favorite Sayings: "You see that? They all assume I'm a patient because of this cane."
Intelligence Level: Genius
Introvert or Extrovert?: Extrovert
Mental Illness: Alcoholism
Personality: William's character frequently shows his cunning and biting wit, enjoys picking people apart, and often mocks their weaknesses. William accurately deciphers people's motives and histories from aspects of their personality and appearance.
Bio: William was born on June 11, 1959 to John and Blythe Smith. William is a "military brat"; his father served as a Marine Corps pilot and transferred often to other bases during William's childhood. One place in which his father was stationed was Egypt, where William developed a fascination with archaeology and treasure-hunting, an interest which led him to keep his treasure-hunting tools well into his adulthood. Another station was Japan, where, at age 14, William discovered his vocation after witnessing the respect given to a buraku doctor who solved a case no other doctor could. William loves his mother but hates his father, who he claims has an "insane moral compass", and deliberately attempts to avoid both parents. At one point, William tells a story of his parents leaving him with his grandmother, or "oma" (Dutch for grandmother), whose punishments constituted abuse. However, he later confesses that it was his father who abused him. Due to his father abusing him, William never believed that John Smith was his biological father; at the age of 12, he deduced that a friend of his family with the same birthmark was his real father.
William suffered an infarction in his right leg, which went undiagnosed for three days due to doctors' concerns that he was exhibiting drug seeking behavior (William was also unable to diagnose his own infarction). An aneurysm in his thigh had clotted, leading to an infarction and causing his quadriceps muscles to become necrotic. William had the dead muscle bypassed in order to restore circulation to the remainder of his leg, risking organ failure and cardiac arrest. He was willing to endure excruciating post operative pain to retain the use of his leg. After William was put into a chemically-induced coma to sleep through the worst of the pain, Dr. Emily Wilson decided to choose a safer surgical middle-ground procedure between amputation and a bypass by removing just the dead muscle. This resulted in the partial loss of use in his leg, and left William with a lesser, but still serious, level of pain for the rest of his life.