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❝Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.❞ – by Marie Curie
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Note 3: The character app laid out herein has been made with the character change option bought HERE and thus, this new character inherits full and free access to all magic systems, monies, possessions, XP, and anything else that is mechanistic and plot-relevant and which had originally belonged to and was associated with the preceding and now permanently archived character app, i.e., NIKOLA EISENSTEIN Mk-V.
Name: Research Specimen 00 (i.e., RS00 - Codename: Rotwang Frankenstein Mk-I)
Gender: Male
Age: 21 years and counting
Birthday: 08/02
Sexuality: Asexual
Special Characteristics:
- Ageless Lacrimatek True Cyborg Body
- Full Body Lacrimatek Synthetic Human Skin Coat
- Non-Earthland Original Background
- Special Slayer Lacrima Implanted Body (In Abdomen)
- Reserve Amplification Seal Applied Body (On Forehead)
- Lacrimatek Ancient Reactor Implanted Body (In Chest)
- Lich Overlord Phylactery Implanted Body (In Chest)
- Bond Pact Seal Applied Body (On Right Forearm)
- Ancient Deity Eyes Implanted Body (In Eye Sockets and Forehead)
Basic Psyche:
In certain aspects of his personality, Rotwang is a rather stereotypical mad scientist just as would any other exemplar of said archetype. For instance, he tends to display a disconcerting level of curiosity as well as excitement about any entity, object, and/or phenomenon that may happen to catch his eye. This trait of his becomes even more apparent if said subject of his fancy is exotic and/or is unfamiliar to him and/or is of the scientific and/or technological variety. Another way in which he is a stereotypical mad scientist is that he is a true intellectual and thus tends to get lost in his thoughts quite frequently and is frequently the first to plunge headlong into analyzing and solving any problem(s) that may confront him in the situation at hand without regard to the danger involved since he loves being a problem-solver and the more complex and/or exotic the problem he faces is, the more apparent his excitement becomes, and as is the case with his curiosity, very often to a highly disturbing level.
That said, the only sorts of problem types that would even have a chance of catching his interest enough to make him want to analyze and solve them would be the type that are exotic and/or incredibly complex since they alone can give him that intense mental stimulation that he has been so irresistibly addicted to since childhood. Beyond this, yet another way in which Rotwang is a rather stereotypical mad scientist is that, just as would be others of his kind, he is forever obsessed with discovery and acquisition of ever-newer and ever-more knowledge through any means necessary, no matter how unethical and immoral it may be in the eyes of those around him. A side-effect of this is that, again just as would be others of his kind, he too is prone to viewing and/or treating the entire world around him as his own private research lab and its contents (including himself, of course) as being his lab rats to do with as he pleases for the sake of advancing his research.
Another side-effect of this trait is that he has a predilection for getting so engrossed in his work and/or whatever happens to be the subject of his study at any given time that he frequently forgets things that would be “common sense” to other more normal individuals and these include things such as bodily needs, other minor/auxiliary goals he may have in the situation at hand, and even basic and common social graces such as minding personal space boundaries as well as engaging in polite small talk, though this last part is quite variable in its appearance depending on the dynamics of said situation. Aside from this, yet another way in which Rotwang is a rather stereotypical mad scientist is that, just as would be others of his kind, he always prefers to maintain a highly logical mindset and unfazed body language in the situation at hand despite how traumatic and/or charged it may be (regardless of it polarity [i.e., positive, negative, or mixed]) and even usually prefers to detach himself completely from the overall milieu of the situation at hand and likes to view the various elements therein from a strictly objective P.O.V since it facilitates successful resolution of any problem(s) therein on his part.
That said, this may or may not make an appearance in said situation, and this depends entirely on the situational dynamics therein. Therefore, to those around him, he frequently tends to come off as hardhearted and distant and this is again due to his basic nature as a logician as well as a “mad science”-type. Apart from this, yet another way in which Rotwang is a rather stereotypical mad scientist is that, just as would be others of his kind, he finds great amusement and takes equally insatiable pleasure in the ever-so-subtle and yet simple to complex manipulation of those around him to his advantage, whether it be a single individual or even multiple, frequently for the purposes of advancing his research efforts and/or other similar interests in one way or another. This holds true regardless of the nature of the target(s) of said manipulation and/or any sort of connection(s) they may have to him, though in the case of his allies and/or acquaintances, he may just hold back depending on his mood at the time. In addition to this, yet another way in which Rotwang is a rather stereotypical mad scientist is that, just as would be others of his kind, he is always in a creative mood, at least for as long as his body and mind cooperate with him.
In other words, Rotwang loves to generate novel ideas and then make said ideas into reality, and this holds true whether said idea is of the entity-type, object-type, and/or phenomenon-type, and again has no qualms about breaching commonly accepted ethical and/or moral norms if it means completing these various creations in a successful manner. A side effect of this trait is that this frequently makes him highly resourceful and when combined with his generally incorrigible love of manipulating everything and everyone around him including the situation itself, also tends to give him a preference for reliance on complex strategy and tactics rather than pedestrian and simplistic brute force. Beyond this, yet another way in which Rotwang is a rather stereotypical mad scientist is that, just as would be others of his kind, he frequently behaves in a manner which is explicitly prideful in nature and thus is prone to not only challenging higher authority when it suits his purposes to do so. However, he also tends to be very condescending and disparaging to those whom he believes and/or knows are less capable than himself and/or if they are of the inane sort.
Apart from this, Rotwang absolutely loves to have fun at the expense of other people and one of the things that brings him great pleasure is to behold others in the throes of discomfiture and/or displeasure of varying types and degrees, but this is never constantly the same from one situation to the next. This holds true whether they be friend or foe, or anyone else in between. To that end, he would do just about anything to make that sort of situation a reality even if that means using all means that happen to be at his disposal. He especially loves to do this to anyone and/or anything that has the gall to interfere with his goals and his pursuit of whatever interests him in the situation at hand, and he usually does it with a seemingly kind and positively angelic smile on his face, all while having the overall mindset of a scheming devil. That said, due to his obsession with aesthetic and style, the methodology he prefers to employ in these situations is always elegant as well as sophisticated and is never even remotely barbaric and/or cruel in nature which he usually prefers to accomplish by framing his methodology in a format that seems beneficial to the victim or at the very least would be innocuous to them, although his unfortunate victim(s) and/or any beholders may and will certainly think otherwise.
Next, yet another way in which Rotwang is a rather stereotypical mad scientist is that, just as would be others of his kind, he is always highly self-motivated and persevering regardless of the odds of success, especially when his interest happens to have been completely captured by the subject(s) of his current study. However, this does have the side effect of causing him to behave in a highly recalcitrant to the suggestions of those around him, especially if they are of the type designed to dissuade him from his chosen course(s) of action in the situation at hand. The only reason why he will relent is if he realizes on his own that his situational advantage has become wholly untenable for whatever reason. The final way in which Rotwang is a rather stereotypical mad scientist is that, just as would be others of his kind, he is highly eccentric and melodramatic, and so has a nigh-irresistible preference for being “over-the-top” (i.e., theatrical) in his words and even his actions, and never seems to be cognizant of just how disconcerting and/or embarrassing it is or would be for those around him and/or those in his company to bear in the situation at hand. This preference of his is always proportional to his current level of sleep-deprivation and/or undernourishment.
Despite all these previously mentioned traits, Rotwang is not at all like a typical mad scientist in certain other ways. One of the ways in which he is not at all like a typical mad scientist that he tends to be highly unpredictable when such a mood overtakes him, and in these situations, both his moral alignment and his thought processes that guide his actions and decisions in said situations tend to fluctuate quite erratically, making it impossible for those around him and/or in his acquaintance to paint him as either a hero or villain overall and then prepare accordingly. The other way in which he is not at all like a typical mad scientist is that he prefers to play the part of a “chameleon” when it comes to his relationship to the “system”. In other words, while most other mad scientists tend to throw caution to the winds and operate outside the bounds of the “system”, Rotwang tends to be highly cautious when the situation warrants such action from him, such as if said situation holds any prospect of being disadvantageous and/or hazardous to him and/or his research interests and always prefers to maneuver the situation so that he is the one with the greatest advantage(s) (in both quality and quantity) and degrees of freedom therein, using any means necessary.
In these situations, he loves to and prefers to manipulate his allies and acquaintances into taking on the dangers in his stead and then convey to him the situation data he needs to resolve any problem(s) in said situation successfully while he remains safe and sound back at base. Another way in which Rotwang is not at all like a typical mad scientist is that he is an incorrigible hedonist, and thus is often strangely obsessed with and finds insatiable pleasure in indulging a variety of hedonistic pursuits (mostly centered around his borderline unhealthy and disturbing obsession with fluffy and jelliform entities and/or objects as well as more traditional ones such as cuisine, drinks, technology, and the like), likely because he was born into great wealth and influence which is, in turn, the case due to his family’s highly exalted socioeconomic status and also due to his various life experiences in this regard. Yet another way in which Rotwang is not at all like a typical mad scientist that he has a strange obsession with observance of sophisticated aesthetics and style and thus tends to be disapproving and even highly critical of and antagonistic towards those who, in his opinion anyway, happen to lack sophisticated aesthetics and style, whether they be friend, foe, etc.
This is once again likely because he was born into great wealth and influence which is, in turn, the case due to his family’s highly exalted socioeconomic status. Still another way in which Rotwang is not at all like a typical mad scientist is that he is always very evasive and disingenuous when it comes to his words, thoughts, and deeds that are related to anything regarding him and/or his mad science research efforts. The third to last way in which Rotwang is not at all like a typical mad scientist is that he does not waste time monologuing when confronted with those would seek to stop his otherwise inexorable advance towards his main goal(s), regardless of their ethical and/or moral alignment. The second to last way in in which Rotwang is not at all like a typical mad scientist is that he prefers to display speech patterns, behavioral traits, and actions which are totally divorced from each other. For instance, he sometimes loves having a seemingly but not really genuine saintly smile on his face and speaking like a true well-wisher while dealing with his enemies and/or those who try to impede his path to his goals in the situation at hand using heartless brutality or conversely, another example of this is his irresistible preference for displaying the most maniacal and diabolical expression on his face with corresponding speech patterns while performing truly lifesaving medical operations on some patient(s) and/or test subject(s).
Naturally, Rotwang does these things mostly because he loves to afflict onlookers in his vicinity with the most extreme of shock, terror, and awe and by extension, because he loves to see these types of expressions on their faces, but sometimes he employs these tactics for practical purposes as well. Lastly, Rotwang is also an atypical mad scientist since he prefers instead to work within the “system” and to even use it to his advantage. Specifically, he does this by doing things such as presenting a rather convincing but ultimately false façade of him always being an exemplary, upstanding, sophisticated, quite innocuous, and even well-bred gentleman whenever he feels that the situation warrants/demands it of him as well as by employing his comprehensive as well as detailed knowledge of and experience with theatrical arts as well as the various loopholes and/or blind spots in its framework. He does this, of course, to safeguard himself and everything that is connected to him from those who would seek to hinder him while simultaneously advancing his interests, research or otherwise, to ever-greater heights (e.g., from the inevitable interference from all the usual do-gooder types).
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Preferences:
Likes:
- Intellectual Pursuits:
Rotwang likes these since, from his perspective and in his experience, they provide him with the ever-present and ever-burgeoning intense mental stimulation that he craves so much and which he has been irresistibly addicted to right from his childhood years. - Power:
Rotwang likes this since, from his perspective and in his experience, it affords him the capacity to safeguard himself, his possessions, his subordinates, and his interests (whether these be research-related or otherwise) from hindrance and/or harm successfully. - Hedonistic Pursuits:
Rotwang likes these since, from his perspective and in his experience, they provide him with the ever-present and ever-burgeoning intense pleasure that he craves so much and which he has been irresistibly addicted to right from his childhood years, and this is intensified even more especially after his finishing of a rather challenging job, work session, or some other such challenging undertaking and one example of this is his love of all that is fluffy and/or jelliform (whether they be entities, objects, or otherwise).
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Dislikes:
- Restrictions:
Rotwang hates these since, from his perspective and in his experience, all they manage to do is impede the true progress of those affected by them to ever-greater heights of achievement. - Inadequacy:
Rotwang hates this since, from his perspective and in his experience, it makes those afflicted by it prone to succumbing to some sort of harm and/or restriction(s) which would, in turn, hinder their progress to ever-greater heights of achievement. - Ignorance:
Rotwang hates this since, from his perspective and in his experience, all that it manages to do is to make those afflicted by it succumb to a desire to act in all sorts of unseemly ways towards those who may be different from them in some respect or another.
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Motivations:
- Freedom:
Rotwang pursues this since, from his perspective and in his experience, it is crucial to have for enabling the successful achievement of any truly noteworthy ambition(s) and/or objective(s). - Resources:
Rotwang pursues these since, from his perspective and in his experience, they are crucial to have for enabling the successful achievement of any truly noteworthy ambition(s) and/or objective(s). - Comprehensive Knowledge:
Rotwang pursues this since, from his perspective and in his experience, it is crucial to have for enabling the successful achievement of any truly noteworthy ambition(s) and/or objective(s) as well as for satiating his ever-present and ever-burgeoning desire of intense mental stimulation that he craves so much and which he has been irresistibly addicted to right from his childhood years.
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Fears:
- Boredom:
Rotwang fears this since, from his perspective and in his experience, it dulls the superior keenness of his mental faculties and because it leaves him unable to satisfy his powerful and insatiable craving for ever more knowledge about all the various topics that interest him in the world. - Heights Above 300 m:
Rotwang fears these since he has experienced falling from such heights at various points in his past for one reason or another and because these experiences have left him with a lifelong acrophobia towards them regardless of the nature of the situation at hand. - Stagnation:
Rotwang fears this since, from his perspective and in his experience, it makes those afflicted by it prone to succumbing to some sort of harm and/or restriction which would, in turn, hinder their progress to ever-higher stages of success.
Height: 5’ 7” (1.70 m)
Weight: 148.0 lbs. (67.1 kg)
Hair Color: White to Light Green
Eye Color: Rust-Red
Skin Tone: Pale to Sallow
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Appearance (Written):
Physique Details:
Rotwang is an apparently 21-year-old young man (in both physique as well as function) who is 5’ 7” (1.70 m) in height and who weighs in at 148.0 lbs. (67.1 kg), which gives him a lean build. Additionally, he possesses white to light-green brush-like hair that spikes up and which has two locks of it that drape over his face and a pale or sallow complexion. These two physical traits, like his lean build, are also present in him because of the combination of him enduring various stressors from his work and life as well as his proclivity of willful and total ignorance of his basic bodily needs if not forced by external parties to attend to them in a timely manner. The first of the most notable traits of his appearance would be his rust-colored eyes.
The next of the most notable traits about his body is the ever-present pair of dark circles that can be seen under his normally rust-colored eyes which constantly haunt him due to his obsessively workaholic nature when it comes to his ongoing and ever-burgeoning mad science research pursuits. This is exacerbated, albeit to a lesser extent, by the stressors he has to endure in his publicly known profession of being a respected, highly talented, and also fully qualified physician-scientist mage as well as his role as the next-in-line CEO of "SteinCorp" which is the world-famous, multinational business conglomerate that is owned and operated by his family and the associated business group (i.e., the Frankenstein family and business group).
The last of the most notable traits about his body are the pair of, symmetrically diagonal, healed suture lines that are present on top of his inner eyebrows and the multifarious blemishes that mar the rest of his body which include various chemical stains, smaller scars, suture lines, and wounds, and he received all these from his ongoing and ever-burgeoning mad science research. These have been accumulating throughout his past and they only keep increasing as time goes on, but the only one of these blemishes that is normally visible is the suture lines present on his face. However, this appearance of Rotwang's described above is merely a façade made to appear convincingly human in every way despite not being so by the special, fully customized, synthetic skin that covers his entire body from head to toe. Underneath that, however, his real form is that of a highly advanced lacrimatek, true cyborg.
This real form of his has a fully non-biological, quasi-metallic/quasi-organic, external shell that is composed of a special blend of a unique alloy metal thread inextricably interwoven with carbon nanofibers and lacrimatek smart materials, which have all been inscribed with various special runic formulae which act like circuitry to allow it to always be fully and inextricably interconnected with the various magic circuits of his fully biological vital organs (w/ the exception of his brain which contains both biological as well as cybernetic components) which are housed within it, thus allowing him to be one cohesive whole and control this new body of his at will as and when he sees fit. The metal alloy thread is composed of orichalcum and adamantium in 95% of his body and adamantium and gold over the remaining 5% of it.
This true body of Rotwang has also been designed by him to always house a multifarious slew of hidden combative, supportive, and utilitarian systems and modules within its various sections and these are all ones which he can deploy as and when he sees fit verbally and/or even by mere thought-command alone. Lastly, this true body of his always has innumerable swarms of organites that are always moving around throughout all its parts. Each of these organite swarms are always connected to, and thus, are always available to be commanded as/when necessary, at will, for performing various functions by him through the various special runic formulae that have all been inscribed onto each individual unit of these innumerable swarms and these formulae act like circuitry to enable this permanently active link. Naturally, each component of this true body of his has been fully custom designed by him as is the case with his seemingly human artificial skin.
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Attire Details:
Rotwang can almost always be seen wearing his work attire which is always composed of the following ensemble. The first piece is his white lab coat which always possesses some sort of chemical stain or another in various areas of its overall form. The second piece is a bipartite one consisting of a formal long-sleeved shirt along with a formal necktie which is always knotted in the Eldredge style as per the normal conventions regarding their use. These two may vary in shade every so often or even daily depending on his mood at the time. The third piece are his formal or semi-formal pants that he wears below the formal shirt that he wears above. Like his formal shirt and formal necktie, these pants may also vary in shade every so often or even daily, again, depending on his mood at the time.
The fifth piece of this ensemble are his fully custom-made, polarized goggles which have been designed and crafted by him for his use in various situations. The last piece are his surgical gloves which he wears to protect his hands in various situations and these, like some other pieces in this default attire ensemble, two may vary in shade every so often or even daily depending on his mood at the time. That said, even though this ensemble is his default choice, he will still vary his outfit to something else if the situation at hand should demand it of him. Finally, he always prefers to have his equipment and accessories on his person for ease of transport and to afford him the ability to access them quickly whenever he should have need of them in some situation or another.
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Appearance (Image):
Façade Form (FC 1: Senkū Ishigami, Source: Dr. Stone)
Note 1: This form of his is his external appearance portrayed through the use of the fully custom-built lacrimatek synthetic human skin coat that he has applied to cover over his fully custom-built lacrimatek true cyborg body which is his real form (for reference, see the image immediately below)
Note 2: Note: All credit for this image goes to the creators of the Dr. Stone anime series and to the artist HANUSHCCKA for the fanart itself.
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True Form (FC 2: Iron Man, Source: Marvel Comics)
Note: This true form of his cannot be discerned by conventional means (e.g., via the five natural senses or via anything else that is not supernatural in nature) and so, can only be detected via the use of supernatural means of a sensory nature or equipment that has been enhanced via these means.
Guild: Silver Wolf
Tattoo (Located on Precordium):
Tattoo Color: White
Rank: S-rank
Faction: Ironheart Pact
Faction Chapter: Minstrel
