Description

Personality

Personality: Lack is unusually jovial and good natured for someone in such a serious position. He can come over as gruff and serious at first, as he is often found frowning, taking notes, walking around very quickly and otherwise looking uncaring. He's kind and very generous, expecting nothing back but "thank you" and sometimes not even that. He's involved himself with several charities. He is, however, blunt and can come over as rude a lot of the time. He doesn't even realise he's doing it. He tends to ask too many questions, or too few, and is prone to threatening people with guards/himself if they don't co-operate on the simplest of things. He tends to act about things in a lighthearted manner. His slightly jokey comments about serious stuff drives most folk nuts. Despite his short temper, he is patient, and enjoys talking to experiments, and treating them as people. However, when he loses his patience, he can get very violent and will often need to remove himself from situations and away from people. Certain things may happen due to SIGMA exposure... good thing he has good control of his temper!

- aspirations: To learn all he can, to help forward mankind, to learn to subside on things that aren't coffee or stodgy foods.
- flaws: Bad tempered, blunt, socially inept in a strange way, rushes everything apart from his work.
- strengths: Tenacious, patient, accomodating, generous.

Likes: Lack enjoys meeting new people. Although he is a bit nervy and often accidentally rude, he genuinely enjoys meeting people and making new friends. He also enjoys learning new things, such as techniques, languages, etc. He loves reading, and tends to carry a book with him in his bag. He enjoys shooting, both as a hobby and self defence. He isn't the type to hunt, so he just does target shooting, and will often carry around a pistol in a shoulder holster (legal in his time). Most of all, he loves his job and is devoted to it.

Dislikes: Lack doesn't like cruelty. Although parts of his work involve experimenting on people, he doesn't like it and tries to be good to the test subjects. He also doesn't take things lightly - if people are rude to him, even as a joke, he will nearly always take it to heart and probably remember it for years and years. He doesn't like being shown up by others, and certainly dislikes show offs. Most of all, he detests willful ignorance.

Fears: Abandonment, being hated, falling in the scientific community.

Equipment

On him:
Handgun in thigh holster and ammo
Clipboard
Several pens
Calculator
Swiss Army knife
Money
Notes on said clipboard
Goggles/safety glasses normally tucked into a pocket

Other:
Scientific equipment
Apartment in City 11
Books on biomechanics and SIGMA
Specimens
ONE suit
Various respirators

History

Bio: Lack was born to parents in City 8, and raised in a life that was comfortable. He paid little attention to much but books, until his father took him to work with him when school was cancelled for a day. He quickly learnt the delights of mechanics, and asked for a crystal radio set. His parents were more than keen to encourage him, and taught the boy all the knew. He spent saturday afternoons with his next door neighbour, a mechanic, and the rest of the week with his books and electronics. However, fixing wasn't enough. Lack wanted to create.

When he left school, he went to university to study biomechanics, and was posted as a lab assistant in the Kaarto University of Science, City 8. He studied hard, and spent most of his life at the university, working away with other students. Aged 23, he was transferred to City 11 to continue research into powering mechanics with a substance known as SIGMA, also called 'magic' by lower classes.

He spent long hours working, and it paid off - he became a proper research scientist, and had a paper published. However, things came to a standstill when he was 25. A human augmented by SIGMA broke free, causing drama. Due to the relatively small number of guards, Lack had to throw himself into the fight, and was horrifically maimed. Luckily, his body was repaired using his very own research.

It took him a while to get back on his feet, but Lack eventually moved to government labs - although he still works for the university, when he can - and ended up being promoted to the head of the labs. The paperwork is dull, and so Lack often puts himself in the middle of actions, and enjoys helping and supervising students.