Emmerich Sawyer //wip//

[Emmerich Sawyer]

EMMERICH SAWYER

better men than me have failed

NAME Emmerich Rhys Sawyer ALIAS Sawyer, Doc AGE 41 DATE OF BIRTH 7th November 2541 GENDER Male

PLAY BY Nikolaj Coster-Waldau SEXUAL ORIENTATION Homosexual AFFILIATION Neutral OCCUPATION Medic PLACE OF BIRTH Henley Bay, New Melbourne.

HEIGHT 6'1" WEIGHT 194lbs HAIR Dirty Blonde / Light Brown, jaw-to-shoulder length, either unshaven or scruffy beard. EYE COLOR Blue

DISTINGUISHING MARKS 'Cura te Ipsum' (heal thyself) tattooed on his right arse-cheek. Don't ask. GENERAL APPEARANCE Sawyer is a man of strong jawline and sharp nose. He has been told in past he has the sort of face that encourages people to throw a punch, but that was certainly more in his younger years. Now, while he still cleans up pretty nicely, the medic is a little more grizzled. His sense of dress, his appearance, all point towards a man used to a rough and tumble life. Ups and downs etched in the odd scar or worn-in attire. Clothes are more utility, and has a tendency to own a lot of thick overshirts as opposed to anything fit for warmer weather. Like a man always expecting the cold, and making sure he doesn't have to suffer it.

LIKES Any dish that doesn't involve fish in some way. The general lull after the rush of excitement / peril where he can sit, contemplate and enjoy a nice drink to forget it all. DISLIKES Being interrupted in the middle of his work. Seeing other people suffer for ridiculous, antiquated reasons. QUIRKS/HABITS Sawyer's family originates from the working class of Londinium, and he carries the accent well. Will always introduce himself, generally, as just Sawyer. Has a preference to this over his first name. FEARS Freezing to death. Drowning.

STRENGTHS Sawyer has a rational, realistic mind, and he balances it well with his ethics. He is not naive enough confuse anything personal with a patient, but will do his best to treat and heal anyone, regardless of affiliation. Not that he's going to keep trying to save a man trying to kill him, of course. Sawyer is a man certainly not easily manipulated. He cannot be bribed nor threatened. He has very little to lose and this keeps him focused, though can make him highly sceptical and mistrusting. He is fine with important judgements being left to the captain, of course. WEAKNESSES Can't swim for shit. Hopes this never comes up in his line of work. Will tend to overwork himself to the point of exhaustion, which puts his abilities as a capable body at risk. TALENTS/ABILITIES Medical Expertise; naturally, this is Sawyer's defining skill. He is no Core-Bred master surgeon, nor gifted miracle worker, but he can do his job and do it well enough that people survive. He can gut a fish with the best of them. SECRETS He has only once in his life refused to save a dying person, and will never speak of it. ASPIRATIONS Never get caught surrounded by a large body of water, nor freezing temperatures, ever again.

OVERALL PERSONALITY

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Sawyer is a man like any other in the 'Verse. The wild, unpredictable life of living outside the Core containing it's fair share of trials and tragedies. Someone like Sawyer has more than likely, when tallied up, lost more than he has gained, but the added bonus of living to tell the tale will almost always keep him going. Work is a good drive, the means to see how far he'll go and how long he'll last is another. Just the sheer stubbornness to make it despite the odds of the 'Verse around him. From loss he has long since learned that you take what you can get in this life, for as long as you can take it.

While he isn't one to lecture nor complain on acts of violence - he understands the necessity in this wild west of a universe - Sawyer himself isn't much for it. Hence his profession. He can still throw a good, decent punch, but it is almost entirely rare you might see him hold a gun - more than likely to beat someone unconscious with it than he is to shoot them. At best, he will be willing to wound, but as a medic that somewhat solidifies the idea he knows just how to disable a person, so as not to kill them.

FATHER Kristoph Sawyer, fisherman, deceased. MOTHER Vivian Sawyer, retired, 67, still living on New Melbourne. SIBLINGS Yvette Sawyer, younger sister, deceased. OTHER NOTABLE RELATIVES No one of note.

SIGNIFICANT OTHER Felix Richmond-Sawyer, deceased. CHILDREN None. OTHER SIGNIFICANT PERSONS Insert people here. PETS None.

BACKSTORY

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Many words to be rogered go here. But not by Roger.

The earliest memories Sawyer can recall are fresh, saltwater air and the stench of fish. His family arrived some time before his conception, settling in New Melbourne's Henley Bay area for the purposes of a fresh start. A means to get out from under the hectic life in a densely-packed city on Londinium. So Sawyer initially grew up learning all there was about fishing, and preparing fish-related meals. Safe to say, it was easy to get sick of the sight and smell of marine life by the time he hit his teenage years. To this day, the more successful means the man has cooked for himself have had something to do with fish, so it wasn't like he could escape it entirely. The one notable thing about his childhood would have to be the fact he refuses to go near large bodies of water. During his time learning to swim, an incident occurred where a young Emmerich almost drowned - and as a result that trauma never left him. It forced him to take work, when he was old enough, further inland of the Bay, working deliveries and such for his father. Kristoph Sawyer was the sort of man it would take a lifetime to impress with anything, and naturally had nothing to be proud of with his only son. His daughter, Yvette, however, took to the new family business like - well - a fish to water, and became the burly man's pride and joy. Emmerich didn't mind it so much, considering whenever she was nearby, it kept his father off his back. Yvie was his closest friend - his confidant - outside any other friendships he might've made. She was his voice of reason and probably why he grew into a much more rational man.

Once he hit his twenties, Sawyer was desperate to get out of that Bay, away from the endless stretch of ocean and escape the smell that clung to his very skin.

tbc.

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Seriously though, if you want to discuss ideas for Sawyer whether that be original stuff or connections to the histories of other characters, just let me know.