Schrödinger

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[edit] The Character

Schrödinger (Brian Molko) is so effing goth he died, and now raises the dead just because he likes them. Just try and top that.
Schrödinger (Brian Molko) is so effing goth he died, and now raises the dead just because he likes them. Just try and top that.

[edit] Appearance

Schrö is slim and androgynous, standing at about 5'6", with black hair (which has a marked inclination to curl -- not that he indulges it much) and blue eyes. He wears makeup pretty much constantly, and wears a lot of black, but isn't overtly gothy unless he has a good reason to dress up. Jeans and a t-shirt work well enough most of the time.

Some people mistake him for a girl, which he finds somewhat amusing. He rarely bothers to correct them -- just because he defaults to male pronouns for convenience's sake, it doesn't really mean anything.

[edit] Personality

Schrödinger's not evil, precisely... It's more that he feels standard moral constraints don't apply to him. Hurting people isn't really his thing, but disturbing them is something he enjoys greatly -- particularly when it comes to sex and death, the two great taboos. After all, some of his best friends/favorite pets are dead, and he's not shy about admitting it. If the omnisexual boy(?) in makeup doesn't weird people out, there's always the disconcerting stare, the morbid sense of humor, and the habit of dropping questions like, "So, if you bring someone back from the dead by supernatural means, is it still necrophilia?" into casual conversation. He's fascinated with taking things that are usually "either/or" questions (Male or female? Good or evil? Alive or dead?) and showing people the possibility of "both/neither". Binaries are so terribly limiting.

He'll flirt with anyone interesting and sleep with anyone who he doesn't scare off, be they alive, undead, or... whatever. That said, he's quite fond of his privacy, and when he doesn't want to be bothered -- or worse, when someone bores him -- he's not shy about making it known. He chainsmokes, dabbles in hallucinogenic drugs, and is very, very fond of cats.

He also makes a habit of raising the dead just to chat with them. Waste of power? Maybe. But what else is he going to do with a talent like that?

Besides, most of the time, the dead make better conversationalists.

[edit] History

There once was a boy named Collin Anderson. Perhaps a bit more effeminate than normal, but still, just a boy like any other. Then when he was twelve years old... There was an accident. Electrocution, just one of those things, dropping electrical appliances into water is a Bad Idea, and so on. It took several minutes to restart his heart, during which, he was technically dead.

Collin Anderson died, and came back... different. Perhaps the accident triggered a latent magical talent, perhaps the trauma just messed with his head a bit, but either way, the boy who woke up after that incident wasn't quite Collin. Strange things started happening around him. The family cat, run over by a car, started scratching at the back door at night. By the age thirteen, he was getting his hands on every magical resource he could find.

At sixteen, he took the name Schrödinger. By nineteen, he was already an accomplished necromancer, and had been disowned by his family. He didn't much care. His family bored him. Lots of things bored him. Everything was black and white in the boring little mundane world, and he felt himself a shade of gray... Not quite alive anymore, but not quite dead, neither exclusively male or female, but containing the possibility of both, only existing as one or the other under the influence of an outside observer.

He started wandering, looking for stimulation, for anything that would make living more interesting than the alternative.

And now he's found Chicago.

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