Dr Bearnard
From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe
| Dr. Bearnard | |
| Empathy / Fighting | |
| [[Image:|300px|]] | |
| Player: Bernard Wolfric Grant "Hammerhoof" | |
| Activity Level: Frequent | |
| Real Name: | Bruce Bernard Longhorn |
|---|---|
| a/k/a: | Primary: "Beast"
Secondary: "Bear" Tertiary: "Doc'" |
| Biographical Data | |
| Birthdate: | October 13th, 1972 (30 Years) |
| Birthplace: | Buffalo, Montana |
| Nationality: | Citizen of U.S.A. |
| Residence: | Paragon City |
| Occupation: | Doctor of Internal Medicine, Personal Fitness and Health Trainer, Registered Super Hero |
| Marital Status: | Single |
| Legal Status: | Registered Super Hero, City and Country Doctor |
| Relatives & Associates | |
| (None Living In Paragon City District) | |
| Physical Identifiers | |
| Species: | Homo Sapiens Canis Ursus |
| Sub-Type: | Gene-Altered Humanoid |
| Gender: | Male |
| Apparent Age: | Middle-Aged; Younger |
| Height: | 7' 7" (2.3m) |
| Weight: | 513lb (233kg) |
| Build: | Musclebound; Bulky, Heavy |
| Complexion: | Mostly Fur-Covered (short, bristly) |
| Eye Color: | Navy |
| Hair Color: | Brown |
| Distinguishing Features | |
| Large, musclebound frame; muscle definition visible through fur. Fur composition similar to Ursus arctos: short and bristly. Thick, trimmed jaw-line beard growth. | |
| Known Powers | |
| Beyond Normal Human Strength, Endurance, and Stamina | |
| Skills & Abilities | |
| Extraordinary Skill in Medical Application,
Trained and Experienced Brawler and Wrestler. | |
| Equipment | |
| Belt-Mounted Magnetic Polarity Modifier Unit,
Ear-and-Throat situated Communications Devices, Micro Digital Display Contact Lens. | |
Contents |
Dr. Bruce Bernard Longhorn
Role-playing Information
Bearnard the Beast / Dr. Bearnard Relation
In order to avoid confusion between characters which Grant emulates, please note that the characters Bearnard the Beast and Dr. Bearnard (the Beast) are often referred to as being the same person. Due to the Archetype restraint of not being able to be both a true Healer and Tanker at the same time, (and not wanting to waste four powers on the Healing Power Pool), Grant went ahead and made two separate characters. For the most part, Bearnard the Beast is Dr. Bearnard in his back-street brawling mood, able to use his physical strength to pummel his opponents senseless, while Dr. Bearnard is when he is in his lighthearted, relaxed and helpfully empathetic mood. There is a discrepancy however: as Bearnard the Beast, Bearnard has no healing abilities, and thus resorts to basic first aid techniques and knowledge, where as when he is Dr. Bearnard he suddenly has full knowledge of advanced medical practices. In order to avoid confusion, you may consider not trying to evoke his medical knowledge when he is Bearnard the Beast.
Role-playing Style
Grant first started role-playing in Yahoo! Chatrooms sometime in 2004. The style he was introduced to was paragraph role-playing, where each member of the role-play would, upon their turn, write a full-fledged paragraph (often multiple paragraphs) and post it. In it would usually be that person's actions, thoughts, reasons, interaction with surroundings, and other various things that the person would be thinking or performing if they were in their character's place. As such, Grant's style of role-playing may be seen as somewhat long-winded. He is rather prone to long emote-postings (/em <text>), in which he expresses his own thoughts, expressions, motions, speech, and actions. Often time he will use animated emotes to improve the interaction between role-playing characters; he will use various animated hand-gestures at certain points, have his character nod and simulate speaking, will appropriately shrug or draw back, and he will do his best to situate his character appropriately. If left standing when there is ample seating in an area, he will eventually take a seat, and expect his role-playing partner to do the same, inviting them if need be; all to generate a more in-depth feel to the role-playing atmosphere.
Role-playing Personality
Doctor Bearnard, quite similar to the character of [|Bearnard the Beast], is a beast--and by that I mean he's a hulking giant, muscle-bound and heavy looking, complete with a monstrous face resembling a cross between a wolf, a bear, and a bull, whose body is covered in short, bristly brown fur, and whose massive hands easily get the notion across that he can hit things with awesome force, and that whatever he's hitting ought to have made the necessary arrangements for securing a ward for themselves in the nearest hospital. What typically surprises most people however, is the fact that instead of hitting people with his massive paws, he prefers to help people. Typically, with his touch comes healing, in the form of various medical apparatuses that can quickly regenerate cells within the body including, but not limited to, flesh, skin, tissue, muscle and even the delicate membranes that surround vital organs. Using these medical tools with his expert knowledge and precision, Bearnard can literally bring the dead back to life, in a manner of speaking; and because of this, Bearnard often feels that the lives of the super heroes around him are in his hands. This kind of mental stress means Bearnard has grown strong in both mind and body, and is a very level-headed beast who, no matter what or how tense the situation, always keeps his cool and focus on the task at hand. When not performing his medical duties, Bearnard typically relaxes, and his cheerful attitude helps melt away whatever stress was upon his broad shoulders. Bearnard is very direct, very to the point, and he doesn't have much patience for dilly-dallying. He expects, perhaps somewhat unrealistically, for everyone around him to be as helpful as himself, and those who show traits of selfishness and greed he will instantly take a disliking towards. However, those who prove themselves to be kind, honorable, open and helpful, will receive much better words and feelings from him. To get on his good side, one typically needs only show that they are willing to do what must be done to ensure the safety of others, and prove that they are trustworthy souls. To get on his bad side, one only needs to perform an act or two of pure selfishness or ignorance. He's irritated by a lack of coordination, and disapproves of over-zealousness, knowing that it often leads to situations in which even his own abilities may not be able to compensate for poor decisions or strategies. Natural leaders he approves of, and those who know their task and are willing to give it their all, he'll respect. As a country doctor, Bearnard is quite capable of developing close friendships, and is as personal as he can be to people he meets, as though trying to will the person to be more open and relaxed, no matter what the situation. Calling people by name, talking in thoroughly casual tones, Bearnard is a kind soul who is willing to help anyone he comes across.
Role-playing Expectations
- Will expect his partner to use complete sentences and fair grammar (not much of a concern--if you're interested enough to be reading this right now, chances are you pass, hurr hurr).
- Will expect his partner to maintain a certain degree of realism during role-playing (now, I understand that role-playing itself is to allow people to involve themselves in a world where they are exactly whom they want to be, and can do all that they want to do, but I'm the kind of guy who just prefers that bit of grit to keep things believable. A way you could apply this is maintaining a sense of maturity and seriousness to the role-play. If you do something rather silly, like use the Power of Flower bestowed upon you by the Holy Bunny Rabbit, I'm probably going to retaliate with something just as silly, or simply be ignorant if I'm in a really deep role-playing mood).
- Will purposefully avoid extremely emotional characters (Sorry, but if you come to me for sympathy, you're going to have to do a darn good job at getting me involved in the reason why I should be sympathetic. Don't talk to me with joy one moment, and suddenly turn around sobbing because you remembered some terrible part about your history that came up because I mentioned tea cups or something. Be believable.
...He does, however, have no problem with flirtation. Hell, if you flirt with him or compliment him, he's going to puff up his chest, throw his shoulders back, and be completely friendly with you).
History
Parentage
Howard Longhorn and Helene Auburn met in the summer of 1967 in Medicine Bow, Wyoming. Helene was traveling north with her family, to move in with relatives living in central Montana, while Howard was heading north to see a friend of his who lived in the 'town' of Buffalo. Meeting in the Virginian Hotel in which they were both staying, the two travelers got to know each other quite well within the short duration of their stay together, and both parties were happy to discover that the other was heading north in the same fashion. In the week of traveling by train that followed, Howard and Helene became friends, and promised to meet again after they had concluded their individual intentions which had brought them both up north to begin with. A week later, and the two met the the town of Hobson. Suffice to say that after two weeks had gone by, Howard and Helene had genuine feelings for one another, and they became ever closer together. Howard was a doctor by profession, though nothing more than a country practitioner, and Helene was striving towards becoming a school teacher. Over the course of four years, the two moved into the same household, a small home in Buffalo, fell thoroughly in love, and eventually came to the decision that they wanted to have a child.
Thus entering into the world was Bruce Bernard Longhorn, on October 13th, 1972. As an infant he was quiet and quite manageable, and brought joy to his parents with his ease and friendliness. As a young boy, Bruce was rare child who enjoyed the physical rigors of working on the nearby farms, and helping with various labors to which the other families living in the town often performed. Gradually, he developed an interest in his father's medical practice, and Howard gladly began to share his knowledge, and teach his son the medical trade. Bruce proved an able student, and even as a young teenager, he began helping his father as a partner. When Bruce turned seventeen, Howard's cousin, Texan by birth and a rather large man who took the essence of being a cowboy to heart, visited the family and took a liking to Bruce, who did the same. Jim Leonard was ten years older than Bruce, but Bruce himself, by his father's intellectually stimulating practice and his mother's intellectually enhancing teaching craft, was quite smart and mature, and he and Jim became good friends. Jim's personality was open and easy going, and he very much enjoyed riding a horse, no less, down roads and into the hills, going away a week at a time merely to enjoy an adventure. Camping, hiking, riding and hunting were activities that Bruce joined in on, and his knowledge of the natural world grew with each trip he embarked on.
But traveling the wilds wasn't the only thing which Cowboy Jim took pleasure in. Bruce was introduced to city life when he turned twenty, and found it to be a chaotic storm. After a few weeks however, Bruce began to adapt, and Jim showed him just what the city had to offer. Bruce was more than interested, and for the next two years, he spent his time between the country home and the city, until an intriguing offer was handed to him: it was a medicine-based internship program which offered people the opportunity to travel to New York to learn advanced medical techniques and training, as well as take part in various medical research programs. Though Bruce's adventures with Jim had gradually reduced his interest in medicine as a profession, replacing it with cattle-driving, farm labor, and generally working hard physically, his interest had begun to return, and after coming to a final decision, he took the offer, and applied.
If only because of his pre-existing knowledge of medicine, Bruce was accepted, and he and four others found themselves traveling by plane to New York city, where they spent a year in the internship program. Bruce's interest had not waned at all at the end of the internship course, and he stayed on, going on to earn a five year medical degree, and officially becoming a licensed medical doctor and surgeon. Five years was, of course, a very short amount of time to become a fully licensed doctor, but Bruce proved to be something of a prodigy, and soon was being offered positions in various hospitals around the north-east United States.
Arrival in Paragon City
One position he was offered appealed to him more than others however. The position was being offered by an advanced bioengineering and medical research laboratory based in Rhode Island. Intrigued, Bruce accepted the position, and found himself in a world that he could never have dreamed existed.
Paragon City was a place that left Bruce starstruck for no less than a month. Superheroes abound, magic and technologies that existed only in fairy tales and comic books, alien powers that he had been entirely shielded from, left him completely at a loss. Chiron Medical, the primary hospital and medical research facility located in the Atlas Park district of Paragon City, was where Bruce found himself working, learning, and employing his various skills to do all he could to help the super and non-super community alive, quite literally. Though he gradually became used to the intensity of the work and lifestyle surrounding him, Bruce's abilities and confidence were beginning to wane, as he simply had a hard time accepting the world around him. Nearly reaching a point in which he was prepared to quite simply resign and return home to the world he understood, the most illogical coincidence he would have ever assumed would happen to him, happened. Stepping out of the hospital on a cloudy day in an effort to relax his mind after hours of intensive work, Bruce accidentally walked into a burly Texan, in full cowboy attire, who looked so familiar that Bruce could have sworn he knew the man. And he did.
For two months after their meeting in the unlikeliest of places, Jim Leonard dedicated as much time as he could spare into educating Bruce on the lifestyle surrounding Paragon City. Gradually, Bruce began to understand and accept the superhero way of life, and was able to cope much easier with the goings-on around him, which before, uneducated and unaccepted, he had endured such difficulty in bearing. Jim, as it turned out, was indeed a superhero. He had spent nearly ten years living in Paragon City, and occasionally returned home to Texas for what he considered a vacation, and a return to the wilds. He had visited his cousin, Bruce's father Howard, with the specific purpose of acquiring some medical data that Howard had. Bruce was shocked to discover that his father too was something of a superhero: Bruce had worked for several years as a super-powered field medic, before the Might For Right Act was declared unconstitutional and repealed.
This kind of information came so quickly and was of such fantasy that for a while, Bruce had a difficult time accepting it. However, he continued to work at Chiron Medical, and became much more adept at his job. Soon, he was working naturally and efficiently, and by understanding of the super-powered world around him, it became much easier for him to cope with the various issues that surrounded him.
Introduction as a Superhero
Months passed, in which Bruce became evermore acquainted with the superhero world.
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