Post by SoJasp on Feb 2, 2014 18:24:59 GMT -6
SAMUEL FLYNT STONE
(Sam-u-el Flint Stone
Dr. Stone is by far his most common nickname/title. Sometimes people will call him Dr. Samuel Stone in order to differentiate from his son. There are very few who can get away with calling him Sam and one of those few has already passed away. His middle name follows the trend of many Stones.)
(Sam-u-el Flint Stone
Dr. Stone is by far his most common nickname/title. Sometimes people will call him Dr. Samuel Stone in order to differentiate from his son. There are very few who can get away with calling him Sam and one of those few has already passed away. His middle name follows the trend of many Stones.)
Age: 67, birthday November 20
Gender: Male, associates Male/Masculine
Orientation: Pansexual- mentally closed off after being widowed
Profession: Survivor [dips into researcher]
Occupation: Doctor, true MD, Medical Tech Inventor / Repairer
Appearance:
Standing six foot five and bearing a thin if somewhat muscular frame, Samuel is a tall individual. At one time he might have stood out for the sheer amount of defined muscle on his otherwise intermediate frame, but having aged since then, he has lost a considerable amount of muscle mass and looks more thin than he used to if still a tad muscular. Upon his somewhat pale skin, scars cut down and veins cut up, but the muscles under this skin are still rather toned. He has luckily aged gracefully over the years possibly due to consistent exercise and the like, and some could argue he looks more in his late fifties than his late sixties. However, as a man that has since passed his prime, he bears the exhaustive look that comes with it, bags clearly seen under his eyes and wrinkles common enough on his features.
Akin to his father’s features and some of his children’s, Samuel has relatively sharp features, high cheek bones, a sharp thin nose, and a jutting chin. Numbers of wrinkles upon his forehead and cheeks have softened his appearances a tad, but overall there is still some sharpness. He has since grown a mustache and beard in an effort to lesson this as well, though it is very well maintained never allowed to go past his collar bone before he trims it. This hair and the hair atop his head has since lost the once eye catching slate blue it once held dulling to a fine pepper grey that falls evenly off his scalp and into a short ponytail in the back. Very rarely does he allow a few hairs to escape from this and sit beside his face. Behind under-rimmed spectacles, imperial purple eyes have not dulled since aging remaining vibrant and his most striking feature overall.
In his youth, Samuel had the Caduceus symbol of medicine tattooed on his right shoulder, but due to the fact that he rarely goes anywhere without the long sleeves of a medical coat, it’s rare to see and has since dulled from the vibrancy it once had. His ears are not pierced at the moment though at one time they had been and held simple studs. He dislikes piercings anywhere else and doesn’t seem to condone them on his patients. Upon shaking his hand, one will notice that said hands are abnormally rough- going beyond the callused nature of many who work with their hands, in fact. His fingers are long and slender, however, being rather controlled and useful. One will probably notice he still wears his wedding band on his left ring finger- a simple silver band with his wife's name carved into the inside.
Everyday Clothes:
There is very rarely a day in which one will not catch Samuel dressed in scrubs and his familiar lab coat. His scrubs, however, come in a number of different colors anywhere from beige to red- though he prefers the simple dulled purple ones considering at one time Jenna had said she liked them more on him. Sometimes when traveling, he will substitute this for loose fitting clothes of a softer texture and jeans simply due to hardier clothes being more useful on said roads.
Formal Garbs:
Samuel has one set of formal clothing, a simple black suit and slacks with a purple tie. However, it has been years since he has ever worn it.
Pack:
A rather simple medical backpack is his choice of medical supply carrying.
Personality:
At one time, Samuel Stone was a very ambitious young man with a burning desire to help others. He went so far as to become a doctor in hopes of helping/saving Hoenn, and since being unable to do so, he has transferred his desire to helping the citizens of Mi-aro. However, since the death of his wife, Samuel has become somewhat of a hollow individual, one that is still very willing and capable of helping others especially in medical situations but one who looks more somber than not. He tries to keep himself busy, considering it's easier to do that than wallow in sorrow, but ever still it floods his disposition frequently. It is rare to see a true smile on his face, though he has been known to attempt smiles simply to sooth others if he deems necessary. Those younger than the event would always have known him as the very calm doctor, but those older than it might have understood the cause. Regardless, approaching him about it will earn a rebuttal of defeated words more than defensive onset- and those that continue to pursue the issue will meet a self-defeating man on this touchy subject.
Despite his sometimes depressive tendencies, Samuel has learned that one can't act depressed all the time- even if he may be feeling it more frequently than he ever lets on. He tries to appear more calm than straight out sad and tired, which most of the time works overall. While more astute people could see past this, many of the younger generations are usually left to thinking that's just how he happens to be: calm, quiet, and very often monotone. There is a small shift in his personality when he is doctoring and helping people- as he grows a bit louder to be understood and shows his intelligence and capabilities as a doctor and one who has seen much in his life. Considering he actually went to college and medical school, he is well versed in many healing methods and medical technology, in fact. His capacity to make connections and use what is already given and modify it to his needs is his strongest strength allowing him to be very dynamic in a situation- especially in a medical situation. Despite this, Samuel is wary of himself, always feeling like he doesn't know enough yet even at his age and is always seeking to find new methods that can be used and an advancement in science/technology.
That being said, he has a very balanced love of science and people/nature. He is not someone who would go off the depend simply for science nor would he completely ignore morals in the name of science. He is also very Mi-aro conscious. Anything that could cause damage to this second chance at life is frowned upon heavily by Samuel, and he is always trying to come up with different ways of going about things should such situations come up. His desire to preserve nature outweighs his desire to move forwards in the scientific field but that does not completely thwart his desire for progress either. Especially with Portal energy being a new source of fuel, Samuel has looked forwards to seeing what he and others can do with it finding new ways to adapt and survive. Survival is a basic need brought about by food, water, and management of health. In the latter, he is very passionate, more than willing to help others who are ill or injured even if they do not have sufficient funds to pay him back. Many know him as the good doctor for this reason and regard him with positivty overall simply due to this.
Samuel is quite interested in researchers, often finding their intellectual minds and capacity to keep learning admirable especially in this day and age. Those that are especially outgoing earn a rather special place in his heart, in fact. However, he is also aware that there are dangerous of this world that can steal away those who are naive in their adventures, and because of this, he has a habit of going on long wayward conversations/rants about how people should be careful and what they should do in certain situations, etc. He speaks namely from experience and finds sharing something he enjoys even if some of his listeners don't quite enjoy it. In the polar opposite situations, those who are reckless and unfamiliarized with a situation they readily bring on themselves tend to give him headaches, and he's often conflicted on whether to block them from the situation or let someone learn from their mistakes. Some people don't learn unless they trip up first, and because he has grown to understand this concept well in life, when push comes to shove, he lets karma deal with others.
That, of course, does not mean that Samuel isn't willing to help people in this category. He is willing to help anyone who asks to a certain extent, being notably kind and generous in that regard. However, he holds a certain contempt for people who bring harm to themselves or others intentionally, and tends to come down on them socially wherein he wouldn't hurt them physically. As a doctor, it is against his beliefs to strike anyone at any given moment whether the situation demands it or not. Pokemon battles are a bit different as he sees it, considering pokemon are stronger, and connections are established between man and pokemon through battles and hardships which is a bit different than humans. However, that being said, he wouldn't let someone blatantly hurt / abuse their pokemon if he caught sight of it either. While he is not one to get into fights, he is one to defend, block, and seize / render someone immobile by force if not direct harm. These situations are generally rare and circumstantial.
One of Samuel's greatest desires is to leave a notable legacy to future generations and ensure that Mi-aro's human populace survives and flourishes correctly this time around. He feels in part just having children with at least one being a doctor isn't quite good enough, and he does what he can to spread his knowledge to anyone that will sit down and listen or read or learn in many different forms. He would probably be a teacher if he wasn't still practicing medicine religiously, and maybe in the future he desires to open a medical school or maybe just an even more general school for students outside of the 'pokemon school' the laboratory provides. Those that have the knowledge and power to build technology now should not simply disappear without leaving learners and those that can continue their work as far as Samuel sees it, and providing an adequate education system would certainly be the first step.
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Backstory:
Born into a generation that had become very aware the world was dying and resources were depleting, Samuel was lucky enough to also be born into the wealthy class, his family having owned the majority of the Devon Corporation of Hoenn for generations now. While food, water, and other resources were becoming harder for the common man to acquire, Samuel would not bear the suffering in his early life nor would he be aware of it until he was a older. His earliest memories would be of his immediate family: siblings, and a few family friends included. Every once in a while he would meet a few of his cousins, some of which were around his age and some who were much older and younger. He would be but three years old when his grandfather would give him his the first of many precious stones that would blossom into a large collection years later. While his mother was always just a little worried that he'd eat it or something, Samuel proved not to live up to these anxious worries, thankfully. At four years old, he would be placed in preschool where he would get his first glimpse of resource tension. While his parents had ensured he was in one of the richer preschools, even among the rich there were some that were clearly skinnier and had some rather disturbing stories to tell- disturbing from a child's point of view, anyways. As he moved up into kinder, Samuel would grow even more aware of this.
At six years old, Sam was suddenly prompted into the position of eldest sibling after his older sister ran away from home after a rather intense argument with their parents. While he would never learn the details of the situation due to his parents doing everything in their power to cover it up, Samuel would learn rather quickly that it became a taboo to talk about, as his father would often reply with a gruff 'enough' and his mother would do what she could to avoid the question entirely, and shortly after that, Samuel would find an intense pressure placed upon his shoulders. It seemed that since his sister was now out of the house, the expectations of being the future head of the Devon Corporation were set on Samuel instead, and while he clearly had older siblings that could step into the seat, it seemed neither of his parents was willing to let that happen if it could be helped. It would only be years later that he would come to grasp the idea it had been due to an underlying current of tension within the family for economic power.
The pressure to succeed in everything was immense. He was transferred away from his friends to a more rigorous private school and pressured to take up every kind of music, sport, and academic stimulus that he could muster- which for a six year old was more than enough to make him protest and argue. He was a kid and he wanted to have fun, not be pushed into doing so much all the time. But arguing with his parents was unfruitful. Changing their opinions and desires was impossible, and though he could never be sure, Samuel felt as though if this was what his sister had been going through, it was no wonder why she ran away. He tried- and failed several times. No, instead he was forced to deal with it, and slowly but surely he would begin to be able to manage it.... sort of. As time went on, though his parents tried to limit distractions, Samuel would become more and more aware of the suffering of the lower classes and the sickness that was flooding Hoenn. Ironically his science classes helped in this, and at nine years old, Samuel decided he would put a stop to it- by becoming a doctor and helping people. Though he didn't tell his parents or even his siblings at the time- mostly because he had become all too aware that popping their bubble would do no good, he began to push harder in his science classes and math and tended to stay longer in class longer if he could get away with it. Medical text books began to be checked out from the library and stored in Samuel's room when he had finished the series from h is father's library. Though he didn't understand a lot of the words, though many things gave him a headache, Samuel had a rare determination that kept him trying. It was this early flowered ambition that drove Samuel into the next few years.
The following year at the tender age of ten, Samuel would receive his first pokemon- though not the conventional starters that were common to Hoenn. Instead, he was gifted a Beldum from his grandfather. It was apparently a common pokemon to give to children in the family, and though the Beldum only knew Take Down and caused a surprising amount of panic and havoc in the house, Samuel certainly enjoyed it a little more than he probably should have. He would eventually name the Beldum 'Iron-eye', not quite the most imaginative of names but something Samuel was proud of at the time. He was pushed to battle and train more thereafter, and while he wasn't allowed to go outside of the city that they made their home in, Samuel got quite a bit of battling in alongside his studies. He'd even go on to catch a few pokemon just outside the city- much to his mother's startled confusion and panic when he came home a bit more ragged than usual but with a new pokeball in hand. She insisted he only go out with an adult present- but Samuel tended to be too fast for adults to keep up with.
As he grew into teenage years, Samuel would go through a number of awkward years that he did his best to ignore via mass amount of studying. By then he was starting to fully grasp the concepts that had puzzled him in science, specifically anatomy and physiology, and by then his parents were beginning to realize their son's interest in everything but business wasn't going away. He'd be confronted about what he planned to do with his life several times, and after dodging the questions a number of times, he finally admitted he wanted nothing to do with the family business. He wanted to be a doctor and would do so even if they didn't want him to. With their future ambitions compromised, his parents didn't react well at first- however slowly but surely they came to grasp the idea that he would still be making money- and doing good for Hoenn, of course- and they had other children they could cultivate into the family business eventually. Hopefully one would show a desire to do so. Maybe they'd learned from their first child what could happen if they pushed things, maybe. Eventually it evolved into full encouragement, and they even had him transfer to a math and science college-prep high school, much to Samuel's surprise and honest joy. He'd never expected them to side with him let alone encourage him, and things would be different from thereon out between him and his parents.
When he was but sixteen, Samuel started taking college classes during the summer, and though they were mostly the prerequisites that were a tad easier than the heavier sciences, by the time he graduated high school, Samuel had already been accepted into a formal college in Mauville City with acceptable credits. He spent three years gaining the rest of his credits graduating two semesters early in the top ten percent of his class, and Samuel'd be accepted to medical school back home in Rustboro City shortly thereafter. With the economy only getting worse, Samuel was actually pressured to take up working during his years in medical school, and he spent a good deal of time working under a pharmacist eventually earning the license that came with actually preparing the ingredients rather than just working the register and doing what he was told. It was a hard life, a stressful life full of exams and late nights of studying, but he enjoyed it, surprisingly enough. He would be twenty-six when he finally graduated medical school again in the top ten of his class.
With years of work and college finally paying off, Samuel would begin formally working at an office initially before becoming a traveling doctor shortly thereafter. However, what he would find was more than an unfortunate world. Illness was rampant; starvation was everywhere. No one was happy, and no matter what he did, it never seemed to be enough. As if medical school hadn’t wrecked a part of his mind, Samuel found that socially it was the world around him threatening to do him in. He worked relentlessly day in and day out doing everything he could and more to take care of as many people as he could, but even he was starting to feel the sting of a financial crisis as his pockets became very limited. At some point he would break down heavily questioning what all those years of work and struggle had been for if he could help no one.
And then out of the blue, Jenna Joy would appear- well not, exactly, but yeah. He’d ended up taking refuge in a pokemon shelter after having traveled for a number of days and sat down again to reassess his life and choices… which would lead to a rather nasty break down followed by a lot of shaking and upset sounds. She’d end up coming in to check on him after hearing all the noise he couldn’t quite keep quiet, and though she barely knew him, the nurse would hold him for a while and tell him that it was alright that he was doing the right thing by trying to help people and all would turn out for the best. To say he’d been surprised, to say that the world turned on its head thereafter, would be what Samuel would argue for years thereafter. Everything just… felt a little calmer… a bit better. Everything could get better. In that small tender moment she'd managed to rejuvenate his self-confidence.
Samuel’d end up staying in the area for …quite a bit longer than he had expected, and while he told himself it wasn’t to catch an extra glance at the nurse who’d helped him, Samuel knew he was lying to himself. It seemed Jenna was more aware of him than she was letting on as it was, and after a short time she asked if the reason he was still in town was because of her- which dumbfounded him and sent him into a spiral of ‘I uhm you uhm maybe uhm’s for the next 15 minutes. She ended up blushing profusely form his strange confession that transpired shortly thereafter- considering a part of her hadn't quite expected him to say yes, and shortly thereafter they actually did sorta start dating.. in a strange if awkward way that included both of them working quite a lot regardless.
A year like this passed and they managed to keep it together. Despite various trials and tribulations, they did work well together and complement each other at every turn. At twenty eight years old, Samuel asked Jenna to marry him- and she actually said yes. They’d end up marrying and having a merry times despite the darkness of the situation around them. When Jenna stated that she was pregnant a little while later, the startled and blushing Samuel couldn’t be happier- if a tad surprised and awkward and oh god there was so much to do before a baby got there and he had to tell the rest of his family and oh so much running around to do and he needed to work more to make sure they were fed and oh god everything. As time went on and the baby Jasper came into the world, Samuel couldn’t help but be proud most of his features had predominated in his son. However, for as much joy as there was, there was much work as well. Money was still disappearing, and there was only so much to eat and oh gods it was difficult.
Samuel did what he could, worked long hours, and was often away from home during this time. He took care of those who could and could not pay- considering he found it unbearable to completely desert someone in need. As time went on and as he worked himself to the bone, Samuel grew burnt out… Things couldn't continue like this. Everyone was going to eventually die out, and it would have all been for nothing. Despite himself, Samuel started to succumb to depression. Then, however, Arceus appeared and showed a way out- a place that ensured food if not more than that. In a leap of sudden excitement and initial fear of the portal closing, Samuel had rushed home and rather quickly begun to get things ready telling Jenna and Jasper that they were leaving as soon as they could. He called other family members, explained what he was going to do- note even given them time to rebuttal if they even did so before hanging up. He packed up his books, what medical supplies he had on hand and got them all through the portal shortly thereafter. The thought that it could be a trap, could be a menace, did occur to him, but the belief that they'd eventually starve if they stayed anyways pushed the thought away, anyways.
What they came upon was an expanse of green wilderness and some beach. It was remarkable to see to say the very least of it. Everything was so vibrant and alive, a heavy contrast to the death and dying that had transpired around him before then. Therein he resolved to help build what would become Port City using hard labor. He was rather strong from having been a traveling doctor back home, and his pokemon were rather useful in brute strength when he didn't have enough of it. Samuel’d raise a house of his own eventually, and as everyone began to settle down, he settled into steady medical work once more. Though there wasn't standard electricity any longer, Samuel found a way to power his medical equipment through portal energy that, though it wasn't discovered by him, he was able to manipulate and use to his advantage. He also began to build completely different medical devices using portal energy that, unlike their Earth equivalents, were more durable - and a bit more personal, one could say. When asked to help engineer other things using portal energy, he hesitated but applied what knowledge he had from undergraduate physics and medical physics to a more broad spectrum.
It was… due to the excitement of surviving long enough to come into a world of plenty…that much more intimacy came about and eventually Jenna was pregnant with Joanna... and then Justine …and then Julia and finally Jacob- but it was with open, if super busy, arms that the father held his children thankful to Arceus for having provided him with many and now the power to ensure they were fed and taken care of. However, the last child Jenna was pregnant with would take her life and die shortly thereafter. Samuel had tried everything to ensure that she survived- all he knew, all he could think to do, but it did not work. Nothing worked. She died with the last words 'I love you' on her lips, and it broke him, simply broke him. How could Arceus do this? Why would he be robbed of his wife now of all times? Now that everything was stable, they should have lived to old age together and been happy the rest of their days. Jasper blamed him, and upon this revelation that it was probably truth, Samuel felt guilt and a deep self-loathing would begin to grow.
Samuel would fall into a heavy depression thereafter, yet rather than lock himself in a room all day, he continued to do his work, ignoring the pain as best he could and just maybe avoiding Jasper as well. He had to be useful to other people; it was the only thing he had left. If he couldn't do that, he would have nothing, and Samuel couldn't have that. It would hurt too much. Ironically in a way it made him a better doctor- for he read more, studied harder, and checked people for diseases more vigorously, the guilt beginning to burn in him as time went on. He couldn't, no wouldn't, have someone die on him if it could be helped in some form or fashion. He had to be the best doctor- because if he couldn't do that, he wasn't sure if he could ever look at Jenna in whatever afterlife there was. However, to many of his patients, it was clear he was suffering, his once lively voice having drawn itself into a somber monotone, a look of happiness almost never in his eyes. While some tried to comfort him, he pushed it away, doing his best to keep simply doctor-patient relations. It was easier to shoulder the burden that way, easier to lock it up not even allowing his children close- especially some of his daughters who looked more like Jenna....
It would never really be the same between father and son- or the father and any of his children, really. They all…became testaments to what had taken Jenna away, whether he wanted to admit this or not. Time passed and Samuel forced himself to go on with time- becoming better at locking his emotions away. He kept himself busy when not dealing with patients, helping anyone who needed it no matter the situation- though ironically staying far away from home for the most part in the process. He’d travel religiously between the two growing towns working where he went and sometimes training his pokemon if he had time. All of it, honestly, was to distract himself from the hurt of it all because if he could keep busy, he could maybe forget the problems in his life. He knew it was a lie, knew someday he'd have to deal with them full on again, yet he didn't want that day to come.
As he aged, Samuel slowed a little finding his memory wasn’t what it used to be and his body in general wasn’t what it used to be. He started seeing a chiropractor and did what he could to stay in shape, but some of the work outs were just too much for him now, sigh. He couldn’t blame himself for getting old. He just wished there was a fountain of youth around somewhere… and it was only after this that he realized that he was perpetually without grandchildren…. Whell......... At least he had a medical legacy and a medical technology legacy there on Mi-aro… even… Shortly after this revelation, he began to take up a number of medical 'apprentices' as it was, trying to transfer knowledge to them to ensure the towns would never be short of doctors. If he died and left nothing to the colonies then... all his work would have been for nothing- or so he felt.
Eventually he would cultivate quite a few who had the knowledge to be doctors if not the general hands on capacity that came with experience. He has since hoped to expand more.
Appearance:
Standing six foot five and bearing a thin if somewhat muscular frame, Samuel is a tall individual. At one time he might have stood out for the sheer amount of defined muscle on his otherwise intermediate frame, but having aged since then, he has lost a considerable amount of muscle mass and looks more thin than he used to if still a tad muscular. Upon his somewhat pale skin, scars cut down and veins cut up, but the muscles under this skin are still rather toned. He has luckily aged gracefully over the years possibly due to consistent exercise and the like, and some could argue he looks more in his late fifties than his late sixties. However, as a man that has since passed his prime, he bears the exhaustive look that comes with it, bags clearly seen under his eyes and wrinkles common enough on his features.
Akin to his father’s features and some of his children’s, Samuel has relatively sharp features, high cheek bones, a sharp thin nose, and a jutting chin. Numbers of wrinkles upon his forehead and cheeks have softened his appearances a tad, but overall there is still some sharpness. He has since grown a mustache and beard in an effort to lesson this as well, though it is very well maintained never allowed to go past his collar bone before he trims it. This hair and the hair atop his head has since lost the once eye catching slate blue it once held dulling to a fine pepper grey that falls evenly off his scalp and into a short ponytail in the back. Very rarely does he allow a few hairs to escape from this and sit beside his face. Behind under-rimmed spectacles, imperial purple eyes have not dulled since aging remaining vibrant and his most striking feature overall.
In his youth, Samuel had the Caduceus symbol of medicine tattooed on his right shoulder, but due to the fact that he rarely goes anywhere without the long sleeves of a medical coat, it’s rare to see and has since dulled from the vibrancy it once had. His ears are not pierced at the moment though at one time they had been and held simple studs. He dislikes piercings anywhere else and doesn’t seem to condone them on his patients. Upon shaking his hand, one will notice that said hands are abnormally rough- going beyond the callused nature of many who work with their hands, in fact. His fingers are long and slender, however, being rather controlled and useful. One will probably notice he still wears his wedding band on his left ring finger- a simple silver band with his wife's name carved into the inside.
Everyday Clothes:
There is very rarely a day in which one will not catch Samuel dressed in scrubs and his familiar lab coat. His scrubs, however, come in a number of different colors anywhere from beige to red- though he prefers the simple dulled purple ones considering at one time Jenna had said she liked them more on him. Sometimes when traveling, he will substitute this for loose fitting clothes of a softer texture and jeans simply due to hardier clothes being more useful on said roads.
Formal Garbs:
Samuel has one set of formal clothing, a simple black suit and slacks with a purple tie. However, it has been years since he has ever worn it.
Pack:
A rather simple medical backpack is his choice of medical supply carrying.
Personality:
At one time, Samuel Stone was a very ambitious young man with a burning desire to help others. He went so far as to become a doctor in hopes of helping/saving Hoenn, and since being unable to do so, he has transferred his desire to helping the citizens of Mi-aro. However, since the death of his wife, Samuel has become somewhat of a hollow individual, one that is still very willing and capable of helping others especially in medical situations but one who looks more somber than not. He tries to keep himself busy, considering it's easier to do that than wallow in sorrow, but ever still it floods his disposition frequently. It is rare to see a true smile on his face, though he has been known to attempt smiles simply to sooth others if he deems necessary. Those younger than the event would always have known him as the very calm doctor, but those older than it might have understood the cause. Regardless, approaching him about it will earn a rebuttal of defeated words more than defensive onset- and those that continue to pursue the issue will meet a self-defeating man on this touchy subject.
Despite his sometimes depressive tendencies, Samuel has learned that one can't act depressed all the time- even if he may be feeling it more frequently than he ever lets on. He tries to appear more calm than straight out sad and tired, which most of the time works overall. While more astute people could see past this, many of the younger generations are usually left to thinking that's just how he happens to be: calm, quiet, and very often monotone. There is a small shift in his personality when he is doctoring and helping people- as he grows a bit louder to be understood and shows his intelligence and capabilities as a doctor and one who has seen much in his life. Considering he actually went to college and medical school, he is well versed in many healing methods and medical technology, in fact. His capacity to make connections and use what is already given and modify it to his needs is his strongest strength allowing him to be very dynamic in a situation- especially in a medical situation. Despite this, Samuel is wary of himself, always feeling like he doesn't know enough yet even at his age and is always seeking to find new methods that can be used and an advancement in science/technology.
That being said, he has a very balanced love of science and people/nature. He is not someone who would go off the depend simply for science nor would he completely ignore morals in the name of science. He is also very Mi-aro conscious. Anything that could cause damage to this second chance at life is frowned upon heavily by Samuel, and he is always trying to come up with different ways of going about things should such situations come up. His desire to preserve nature outweighs his desire to move forwards in the scientific field but that does not completely thwart his desire for progress either. Especially with Portal energy being a new source of fuel, Samuel has looked forwards to seeing what he and others can do with it finding new ways to adapt and survive. Survival is a basic need brought about by food, water, and management of health. In the latter, he is very passionate, more than willing to help others who are ill or injured even if they do not have sufficient funds to pay him back. Many know him as the good doctor for this reason and regard him with positivty overall simply due to this.
Samuel is quite interested in researchers, often finding their intellectual minds and capacity to keep learning admirable especially in this day and age. Those that are especially outgoing earn a rather special place in his heart, in fact. However, he is also aware that there are dangerous of this world that can steal away those who are naive in their adventures, and because of this, he has a habit of going on long wayward conversations/rants about how people should be careful and what they should do in certain situations, etc. He speaks namely from experience and finds sharing something he enjoys even if some of his listeners don't quite enjoy it. In the polar opposite situations, those who are reckless and unfamiliarized with a situation they readily bring on themselves tend to give him headaches, and he's often conflicted on whether to block them from the situation or let someone learn from their mistakes. Some people don't learn unless they trip up first, and because he has grown to understand this concept well in life, when push comes to shove, he lets karma deal with others.
That, of course, does not mean that Samuel isn't willing to help people in this category. He is willing to help anyone who asks to a certain extent, being notably kind and generous in that regard. However, he holds a certain contempt for people who bring harm to themselves or others intentionally, and tends to come down on them socially wherein he wouldn't hurt them physically. As a doctor, it is against his beliefs to strike anyone at any given moment whether the situation demands it or not. Pokemon battles are a bit different as he sees it, considering pokemon are stronger, and connections are established between man and pokemon through battles and hardships which is a bit different than humans. However, that being said, he wouldn't let someone blatantly hurt / abuse their pokemon if he caught sight of it either. While he is not one to get into fights, he is one to defend, block, and seize / render someone immobile by force if not direct harm. These situations are generally rare and circumstantial.
One of Samuel's greatest desires is to leave a notable legacy to future generations and ensure that Mi-aro's human populace survives and flourishes correctly this time around. He feels in part just having children with at least one being a doctor isn't quite good enough, and he does what he can to spread his knowledge to anyone that will sit down and listen or read or learn in many different forms. He would probably be a teacher if he wasn't still practicing medicine religiously, and maybe in the future he desires to open a medical school or maybe just an even more general school for students outside of the 'pokemon school' the laboratory provides. Those that have the knowledge and power to build technology now should not simply disappear without leaving learners and those that can continue their work as far as Samuel sees it, and providing an adequate education system would certainly be the first step.
Likes:
- Outgoing Individuals
- Helping Others and Being Useful to Society
- Science Fiction Novels
- Language Variety
- Apples
- Independence
- Calligraphy
- Puzzles
- Sunny Weather
- Rocks and Precious Stones
Dislikes:
- Rain
- Unnecessary Pessimism
- Profuse Swearing
- Cluttered Spaces
- Restrictions
- Taking Orders
- Unnecessary Carnage
- Ambivalence
- Impracticality
- Failure
Backstory:
Born into a generation that had become very aware the world was dying and resources were depleting, Samuel was lucky enough to also be born into the wealthy class, his family having owned the majority of the Devon Corporation of Hoenn for generations now. While food, water, and other resources were becoming harder for the common man to acquire, Samuel would not bear the suffering in his early life nor would he be aware of it until he was a older. His earliest memories would be of his immediate family: siblings, and a few family friends included. Every once in a while he would meet a few of his cousins, some of which were around his age and some who were much older and younger. He would be but three years old when his grandfather would give him his the first of many precious stones that would blossom into a large collection years later. While his mother was always just a little worried that he'd eat it or something, Samuel proved not to live up to these anxious worries, thankfully. At four years old, he would be placed in preschool where he would get his first glimpse of resource tension. While his parents had ensured he was in one of the richer preschools, even among the rich there were some that were clearly skinnier and had some rather disturbing stories to tell- disturbing from a child's point of view, anyways. As he moved up into kinder, Samuel would grow even more aware of this.
At six years old, Sam was suddenly prompted into the position of eldest sibling after his older sister ran away from home after a rather intense argument with their parents. While he would never learn the details of the situation due to his parents doing everything in their power to cover it up, Samuel would learn rather quickly that it became a taboo to talk about, as his father would often reply with a gruff 'enough' and his mother would do what she could to avoid the question entirely, and shortly after that, Samuel would find an intense pressure placed upon his shoulders. It seemed that since his sister was now out of the house, the expectations of being the future head of the Devon Corporation were set on Samuel instead, and while he clearly had older siblings that could step into the seat, it seemed neither of his parents was willing to let that happen if it could be helped. It would only be years later that he would come to grasp the idea it had been due to an underlying current of tension within the family for economic power.
The pressure to succeed in everything was immense. He was transferred away from his friends to a more rigorous private school and pressured to take up every kind of music, sport, and academic stimulus that he could muster- which for a six year old was more than enough to make him protest and argue. He was a kid and he wanted to have fun, not be pushed into doing so much all the time. But arguing with his parents was unfruitful. Changing their opinions and desires was impossible, and though he could never be sure, Samuel felt as though if this was what his sister had been going through, it was no wonder why she ran away. He tried- and failed several times. No, instead he was forced to deal with it, and slowly but surely he would begin to be able to manage it.... sort of. As time went on, though his parents tried to limit distractions, Samuel would become more and more aware of the suffering of the lower classes and the sickness that was flooding Hoenn. Ironically his science classes helped in this, and at nine years old, Samuel decided he would put a stop to it- by becoming a doctor and helping people. Though he didn't tell his parents or even his siblings at the time- mostly because he had become all too aware that popping their bubble would do no good, he began to push harder in his science classes and math and tended to stay longer in class longer if he could get away with it. Medical text books began to be checked out from the library and stored in Samuel's room when he had finished the series from h is father's library. Though he didn't understand a lot of the words, though many things gave him a headache, Samuel had a rare determination that kept him trying. It was this early flowered ambition that drove Samuel into the next few years.
The following year at the tender age of ten, Samuel would receive his first pokemon- though not the conventional starters that were common to Hoenn. Instead, he was gifted a Beldum from his grandfather. It was apparently a common pokemon to give to children in the family, and though the Beldum only knew Take Down and caused a surprising amount of panic and havoc in the house, Samuel certainly enjoyed it a little more than he probably should have. He would eventually name the Beldum 'Iron-eye', not quite the most imaginative of names but something Samuel was proud of at the time. He was pushed to battle and train more thereafter, and while he wasn't allowed to go outside of the city that they made their home in, Samuel got quite a bit of battling in alongside his studies. He'd even go on to catch a few pokemon just outside the city- much to his mother's startled confusion and panic when he came home a bit more ragged than usual but with a new pokeball in hand. She insisted he only go out with an adult present- but Samuel tended to be too fast for adults to keep up with.
As he grew into teenage years, Samuel would go through a number of awkward years that he did his best to ignore via mass amount of studying. By then he was starting to fully grasp the concepts that had puzzled him in science, specifically anatomy and physiology, and by then his parents were beginning to realize their son's interest in everything but business wasn't going away. He'd be confronted about what he planned to do with his life several times, and after dodging the questions a number of times, he finally admitted he wanted nothing to do with the family business. He wanted to be a doctor and would do so even if they didn't want him to. With their future ambitions compromised, his parents didn't react well at first- however slowly but surely they came to grasp the idea that he would still be making money- and doing good for Hoenn, of course- and they had other children they could cultivate into the family business eventually. Hopefully one would show a desire to do so. Maybe they'd learned from their first child what could happen if they pushed things, maybe. Eventually it evolved into full encouragement, and they even had him transfer to a math and science college-prep high school, much to Samuel's surprise and honest joy. He'd never expected them to side with him let alone encourage him, and things would be different from thereon out between him and his parents.
When he was but sixteen, Samuel started taking college classes during the summer, and though they were mostly the prerequisites that were a tad easier than the heavier sciences, by the time he graduated high school, Samuel had already been accepted into a formal college in Mauville City with acceptable credits. He spent three years gaining the rest of his credits graduating two semesters early in the top ten percent of his class, and Samuel'd be accepted to medical school back home in Rustboro City shortly thereafter. With the economy only getting worse, Samuel was actually pressured to take up working during his years in medical school, and he spent a good deal of time working under a pharmacist eventually earning the license that came with actually preparing the ingredients rather than just working the register and doing what he was told. It was a hard life, a stressful life full of exams and late nights of studying, but he enjoyed it, surprisingly enough. He would be twenty-six when he finally graduated medical school again in the top ten of his class.
With years of work and college finally paying off, Samuel would begin formally working at an office initially before becoming a traveling doctor shortly thereafter. However, what he would find was more than an unfortunate world. Illness was rampant; starvation was everywhere. No one was happy, and no matter what he did, it never seemed to be enough. As if medical school hadn’t wrecked a part of his mind, Samuel found that socially it was the world around him threatening to do him in. He worked relentlessly day in and day out doing everything he could and more to take care of as many people as he could, but even he was starting to feel the sting of a financial crisis as his pockets became very limited. At some point he would break down heavily questioning what all those years of work and struggle had been for if he could help no one.
And then out of the blue, Jenna Joy would appear- well not, exactly, but yeah. He’d ended up taking refuge in a pokemon shelter after having traveled for a number of days and sat down again to reassess his life and choices… which would lead to a rather nasty break down followed by a lot of shaking and upset sounds. She’d end up coming in to check on him after hearing all the noise he couldn’t quite keep quiet, and though she barely knew him, the nurse would hold him for a while and tell him that it was alright that he was doing the right thing by trying to help people and all would turn out for the best. To say he’d been surprised, to say that the world turned on its head thereafter, would be what Samuel would argue for years thereafter. Everything just… felt a little calmer… a bit better. Everything could get better. In that small tender moment she'd managed to rejuvenate his self-confidence.
Samuel’d end up staying in the area for …quite a bit longer than he had expected, and while he told himself it wasn’t to catch an extra glance at the nurse who’d helped him, Samuel knew he was lying to himself. It seemed Jenna was more aware of him than she was letting on as it was, and after a short time she asked if the reason he was still in town was because of her- which dumbfounded him and sent him into a spiral of ‘I uhm you uhm maybe uhm’s for the next 15 minutes. She ended up blushing profusely form his strange confession that transpired shortly thereafter- considering a part of her hadn't quite expected him to say yes, and shortly thereafter they actually did sorta start dating.. in a strange if awkward way that included both of them working quite a lot regardless.
A year like this passed and they managed to keep it together. Despite various trials and tribulations, they did work well together and complement each other at every turn. At twenty eight years old, Samuel asked Jenna to marry him- and she actually said yes. They’d end up marrying and having a merry times despite the darkness of the situation around them. When Jenna stated that she was pregnant a little while later, the startled and blushing Samuel couldn’t be happier- if a tad surprised and awkward and oh god there was so much to do before a baby got there and he had to tell the rest of his family and oh so much running around to do and he needed to work more to make sure they were fed and oh god everything. As time went on and the baby Jasper came into the world, Samuel couldn’t help but be proud most of his features had predominated in his son. However, for as much joy as there was, there was much work as well. Money was still disappearing, and there was only so much to eat and oh gods it was difficult.
Samuel did what he could, worked long hours, and was often away from home during this time. He took care of those who could and could not pay- considering he found it unbearable to completely desert someone in need. As time went on and as he worked himself to the bone, Samuel grew burnt out… Things couldn't continue like this. Everyone was going to eventually die out, and it would have all been for nothing. Despite himself, Samuel started to succumb to depression. Then, however, Arceus appeared and showed a way out- a place that ensured food if not more than that. In a leap of sudden excitement and initial fear of the portal closing, Samuel had rushed home and rather quickly begun to get things ready telling Jenna and Jasper that they were leaving as soon as they could. He called other family members, explained what he was going to do- note even given them time to rebuttal if they even did so before hanging up. He packed up his books, what medical supplies he had on hand and got them all through the portal shortly thereafter. The thought that it could be a trap, could be a menace, did occur to him, but the belief that they'd eventually starve if they stayed anyways pushed the thought away, anyways.
What they came upon was an expanse of green wilderness and some beach. It was remarkable to see to say the very least of it. Everything was so vibrant and alive, a heavy contrast to the death and dying that had transpired around him before then. Therein he resolved to help build what would become Port City using hard labor. He was rather strong from having been a traveling doctor back home, and his pokemon were rather useful in brute strength when he didn't have enough of it. Samuel’d raise a house of his own eventually, and as everyone began to settle down, he settled into steady medical work once more. Though there wasn't standard electricity any longer, Samuel found a way to power his medical equipment through portal energy that, though it wasn't discovered by him, he was able to manipulate and use to his advantage. He also began to build completely different medical devices using portal energy that, unlike their Earth equivalents, were more durable - and a bit more personal, one could say. When asked to help engineer other things using portal energy, he hesitated but applied what knowledge he had from undergraduate physics and medical physics to a more broad spectrum.
It was… due to the excitement of surviving long enough to come into a world of plenty…that much more intimacy came about and eventually Jenna was pregnant with Joanna... and then Justine …and then Julia and finally Jacob- but it was with open, if super busy, arms that the father held his children thankful to Arceus for having provided him with many and now the power to ensure they were fed and taken care of. However, the last child Jenna was pregnant with would take her life and die shortly thereafter. Samuel had tried everything to ensure that she survived- all he knew, all he could think to do, but it did not work. Nothing worked. She died with the last words 'I love you' on her lips, and it broke him, simply broke him. How could Arceus do this? Why would he be robbed of his wife now of all times? Now that everything was stable, they should have lived to old age together and been happy the rest of their days. Jasper blamed him, and upon this revelation that it was probably truth, Samuel felt guilt and a deep self-loathing would begin to grow.
Samuel would fall into a heavy depression thereafter, yet rather than lock himself in a room all day, he continued to do his work, ignoring the pain as best he could and just maybe avoiding Jasper as well. He had to be useful to other people; it was the only thing he had left. If he couldn't do that, he would have nothing, and Samuel couldn't have that. It would hurt too much. Ironically in a way it made him a better doctor- for he read more, studied harder, and checked people for diseases more vigorously, the guilt beginning to burn in him as time went on. He couldn't, no wouldn't, have someone die on him if it could be helped in some form or fashion. He had to be the best doctor- because if he couldn't do that, he wasn't sure if he could ever look at Jenna in whatever afterlife there was. However, to many of his patients, it was clear he was suffering, his once lively voice having drawn itself into a somber monotone, a look of happiness almost never in his eyes. While some tried to comfort him, he pushed it away, doing his best to keep simply doctor-patient relations. It was easier to shoulder the burden that way, easier to lock it up not even allowing his children close- especially some of his daughters who looked more like Jenna....
It would never really be the same between father and son- or the father and any of his children, really. They all…became testaments to what had taken Jenna away, whether he wanted to admit this or not. Time passed and Samuel forced himself to go on with time- becoming better at locking his emotions away. He kept himself busy when not dealing with patients, helping anyone who needed it no matter the situation- though ironically staying far away from home for the most part in the process. He’d travel religiously between the two growing towns working where he went and sometimes training his pokemon if he had time. All of it, honestly, was to distract himself from the hurt of it all because if he could keep busy, he could maybe forget the problems in his life. He knew it was a lie, knew someday he'd have to deal with them full on again, yet he didn't want that day to come.
As he aged, Samuel slowed a little finding his memory wasn’t what it used to be and his body in general wasn’t what it used to be. He started seeing a chiropractor and did what he could to stay in shape, but some of the work outs were just too much for him now, sigh. He couldn’t blame himself for getting old. He just wished there was a fountain of youth around somewhere… and it was only after this that he realized that he was perpetually without grandchildren…. Whell......... At least he had a medical legacy and a medical technology legacy there on Mi-aro… even… Shortly after this revelation, he began to take up a number of medical 'apprentices' as it was, trying to transfer knowledge to them to ensure the towns would never be short of doctors. If he died and left nothing to the colonies then... all his work would have been for nothing- or so he felt.
Eventually he would cultivate quite a few who had the knowledge to be doctors if not the general hands on capacity that came with experience. He has since hoped to expand more.
