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PLAYER INFO
NAME: Teeny
JOURNAL: atorasu
CHARACTER INFO
NAME(S): Derek Stiles
CANON & FANDOM: Trauma Center: Second Opinion/カドゥケウスZ 2つの超執刀 (Wii)
TIMELINE: Fresh from his Paraskevi/Kyriaki operation done by Nozomi Weaver in Episode 6. This leaves him very vulnerable physically, to say the least.
CHARACTER TYPE: Canon
AGE: 26
APPEARANCE: (Image 1 | Image 2 | Image 3) Derek is rather lean in appearance and gives off a constant air of eagerness and willingness to learn. His hair is a light brown color and usually messy upon his head, almost like he's just rolled out of bed. His eyes are hazel in color and set behind a pair of rimless glasses. There isn't much muscle on him, but he's rather fast, all things considered. He's used to running around the ER and Caduceus getting files here and there (because Angie told him to do so) or rushing to patients rooms to check on them during the post-op. His typical uniform are his regulation blue Caduceus scrubs with a light blue smock with the emblem sewn into the left breast pocket and navy blue pants. For more casual wear, he dons a white and black shirt, dark pants, and a beige blazer. One could probably tell from a thousand miles away that he's a nerd. Hardcore nerd. He only has two scars, which are from his most recent surgery done by none other than Nozomi Weaver. After operating on a patient with a particularly pesky strain of Tetarti (toxic, infectious fumes included), Derek falls ill himself with not one, but two types of GUILT (Gangliated Utrophin Immuno Latency Toxin), Paraskevi and Kyriaki. There is a stitched scar along his lower abdomen and another right at the left side of his chest where the Paraskevi and Kyriaki nearly did him in.
PERSONALITY: Derek is normally a very cheerful and out-going person, always willing to lend a hand where he is needed, particularly in the operating room where he is quite the master surgeon after being such a newbie at Hope Hospital. His thirst for knowledge never seems to be quenched as he is constantly learning new things in his field on his eternal journey to becoming a master surgeon. Even with the acclaim he gets from surgery to surgery, he tries his best to remain down to Earth, even though flattery really gets to him and can distract him. This affects him quite a bit in his current canon and even in his later canon (during Trauma Center: Under the Knife 2) leading him to become careless.
Derek's emotions are relatively blatant to the naked eye. When flustered, he tends to stutter and rub the back of his neck shyly (a trait that also crops up when someone is laying on some thick slabs of flattery regarding his surgical prowess.) He also hunches over a bit, as if to shrink away from the speaker or the situation as a whole. When angered or frustrated, his arms will fold over his chest and his back with straighten defiantly. In general, Derek's a pretty physical guy, and when he's angry/depressed/elated/nervous/scared, you'll know it.
The surgeon in Derek longs to reach a state of perfection that is as close to godlike as it can get. Each surgery, Derek learns something new, how to stitch something a little bit better, how to maneuver the scalpel in a more efficient manner. All of these things improve each surgery, making him faster, and far more useful to Caduceus. Losing a patient devastates him to the point where he loses complete faith in himself and his profession, so he puts his everything into each surgery, no matter how difficult.
As a descendant of the Grecian god of medicine, Asclepius, Derek is able to invoke The Healing Touch--a power that lends him super human concentration. The consequence of using this power, however, is that it leaves him feeling extremely weak and tired, to the point of collapsing as he did during his first, accidental and desperate brush with his own power. Warned of its ability to consume the mind and lead master surgeons astray, Derek goes through numerous trials, overestimating his control of its power and from then on learns to control it properly without misusing it or misjudging its capabilities, shaping it to become just another tool he brings with him into the OR to save lives.
Overall, Derek is resilient, and it is his inability to give up that makes him a strong surgeon. Ever since the death of his father, which has plagued him and led to his choice in becoming a doctor, Derek has always wanted to prove to the world that no disease is incurable. He often puts this into practice by shouting (in game) "I WON'T LET YOU DIE" or "I WILL SAVE THIS PATIENT." He is determined with every surgery to prove to the world that nothing is incurable, even the seemingly unstoppable onslaught of GUILT that ravishes the Earth during his time. He is determined and anyone who tells him that something is impossible will be greeted with flaming hazel eyes and a stern voice telling them that nothing is truly impossible and that there is always a way around the worst of situations.
HISTORY & WORLD-BUILDING: The setting of Trauma Center is right on the west coast of the United States in California. Growing up in Northridge, a quaint suburb just outside of Angeles Bay (which in the "world" of Trauma Center, is pretty much the parallel to Los Angeles, and the other famous city, Santa Balboa being the parallel to Santa Fe,) Derek lived a fairly average life with his mother and father. He owned a cat, went to school, had friends, and was a very likable child. As a young boy, Derek doted upon his father greatly, so it was no shock that the death definitely left him with some emotional scars. Derek's father died of a so-called "incurable disease" (it's name is never really mentioned,) and thus Derek decided to follow the difficult path to becoming a doctor because of his belief from then on that there were "no incurable diseases."
However, with his concentration being less than up to par, Derek was unsure that he could do it. Recalling a trick that his father left to him before his death, Derek surged forward into the world of medicine. When the going was tough, he would try his best to imagine the shape of a star, which would help him focus upon the current task at hand, whether it was figuring out the complex math equations in his Calculus With Limits class or how exactly he was going to scrounge up some dinner at one in the morning.
Derek learns the basics of OR training under the motherly eyes of sweet Mary Fulton, a head OR nurse at Hope Hospital. She and Derek go through quite a bit together and she teaches him many tricks of the trade. However, time goes on, and Mary Fulton must leave, leaving a young Angela (Angie) Blackwell in her stead. A very competent and quick nurse, Angie and Derek did not get along so well at first. Derek's over-confidence due to his time with the sweet and gentle Mary leads him to a traumatic situation in which a careless surgery leaves him with a lot to learn. Through this, Derek grows to understand that being a doctor is not just about himself, but about the patients and the others around him.
He resumes his old goal, realizing that he has strayed off the path due to over-confidence, and tries to get back on that horse to becoming one of the best surgeons around. Later on in his career as a surgeon, Derek is recruited by Caduceus Hospital to become one of their top surgeons, fighting the good fight against GUILT. It is here where he and Angie begin to bond as Surgeon and OR Nurse and become Caduceus' dream team fighting off everything from Kyriaki to Defetra and Pempti. However, it is during a bad run in with some malformed Tetari that Derek suffers a surgeon's worst nightmare--contracting a disease from his patient, and a very-near fatal one.
Collapsing in the OR room just after suturing his patient up, Derek is taken to an isolation chamber and diagnosed with a very violent strain of Paraskevi (the arrow to the heart) and Kyriaki (the hidden blades) both of them being the biochemical weapons sent to destroy humankind. While the Paraskevi works its way from his very bowels to his heart, the Kyriaki have a ball with tearing up the tissue in his lungs. With the surgical prowess and Healing Touch belonging to Nozomi Weaver, a fellow surgeon, and the steady hand of his nurse, Angela Thompson, Derek lives to tell the tale, coming out with two very violent scars from the emergency surgery.
It is during this point in his canon that he is brought _______. He is not in the best of shape due to having just been released and heading to a conference to stop GUILT once and for all. If he strains himself too much he might aggravate his stitches and his horrible clawed up lungs. However, Derek will try to vehemently deny that he is in pain if he is. Don't believe him. Ever. He lies.
EXTRA INFORMATION: He has incredible surgical ability after his fight against GUILT. One of his major abilities is The Healing Touch, passed on through the descendants of Asklepios. It allows him to achieve intense concentration during surgery by imagining a star before his eyes. This intense concentration makes it appear, in his eyes, that time slows down, when actually, he is moving with quick and expert precision. This ability, however, drains his energy and usually gives him a rather large head ache and the urge to lie down for a while and rest (when he first used it, he had passed out and slept for three days). Overall, he is only allowed to use it once per operation.
Affection-wise, Derek's a friendly guy... not when it comes to lovey-dovey relationships, but friendly as in a good pat on the back, a shake of the hand, maybe a hug from a good friend, but otherwise, and sort of kissing would possibly put him into a state of embarrassment, mainly because he's sort of shy about that thing (and perhaps he has a little crush on his assistant nurse, but that's debatable nowadays). Derek himself would probably be oblivious at first when someone is flirting with him, but when he gets the message he becomes a bit uncomfortable. In giving, Derek probably would hand out a hug or two, but a kiss would be something very rare (you'd have to work at it, not that the RP-er wouldn't like you to try...)
Derek is a bit of a passive aggressive, preferring his words over his fists. No, he's not a muscle man, no he isn't very strong of body, but he is of mind, and he uses it (even if that damn Pempti Laser puzzle took him a good hour and a half to finish). Yes, a character could injure/maim/wound/possibly kill Derek (watch out for that scalpel though, don't catch him mid-operation), but Derek himself would not invoke a fight on purpose. Oh, and he's pretty handy with technological gadgets too, able to disarm a bomb solely with antibiotic gel, a scalpel, some forceps and a drain.
Derek, when faced with mentally-unstable patients (depressed, faced with problems, etc.), is able to snap them out of it. One of his patients, Linda Reid, was a depressed teenager bent on killing herself. After telling her a few choice words about how his cat, Tama, had died because of his carelessness, she reconsidered and desired to live. He relies heavily upon the memories of his parents, though sometimes when he thinks about his father, he becomes a bit depressed. Also, he tends to miss and reminisce about his assistant nurse Angie...
NAME: Teeny
JOURNAL: atorasu
CHARACTER INFO
NAME(S): Derek Stiles
CANON & FANDOM: Trauma Center: Second Opinion/カドゥケウスZ 2つの超執刀 (Wii)
TIMELINE: Fresh from his Paraskevi/Kyriaki operation done by Nozomi Weaver in Episode 6. This leaves him very vulnerable physically, to say the least.
CHARACTER TYPE: Canon
AGE: 26
APPEARANCE: (Image 1 | Image 2 | Image 3) Derek is rather lean in appearance and gives off a constant air of eagerness and willingness to learn. His hair is a light brown color and usually messy upon his head, almost like he's just rolled out of bed. His eyes are hazel in color and set behind a pair of rimless glasses. There isn't much muscle on him, but he's rather fast, all things considered. He's used to running around the ER and Caduceus getting files here and there (because Angie told him to do so) or rushing to patients rooms to check on them during the post-op. His typical uniform are his regulation blue Caduceus scrubs with a light blue smock with the emblem sewn into the left breast pocket and navy blue pants. For more casual wear, he dons a white and black shirt, dark pants, and a beige blazer. One could probably tell from a thousand miles away that he's a nerd. Hardcore nerd. He only has two scars, which are from his most recent surgery done by none other than Nozomi Weaver. After operating on a patient with a particularly pesky strain of Tetarti (toxic, infectious fumes included), Derek falls ill himself with not one, but two types of GUILT (Gangliated Utrophin Immuno Latency Toxin), Paraskevi and Kyriaki. There is a stitched scar along his lower abdomen and another right at the left side of his chest where the Paraskevi and Kyriaki nearly did him in.
PERSONALITY: Derek is normally a very cheerful and out-going person, always willing to lend a hand where he is needed, particularly in the operating room where he is quite the master surgeon after being such a newbie at Hope Hospital. His thirst for knowledge never seems to be quenched as he is constantly learning new things in his field on his eternal journey to becoming a master surgeon. Even with the acclaim he gets from surgery to surgery, he tries his best to remain down to Earth, even though flattery really gets to him and can distract him. This affects him quite a bit in his current canon and even in his later canon (during Trauma Center: Under the Knife 2) leading him to become careless.
Derek's emotions are relatively blatant to the naked eye. When flustered, he tends to stutter and rub the back of his neck shyly (a trait that also crops up when someone is laying on some thick slabs of flattery regarding his surgical prowess.) He also hunches over a bit, as if to shrink away from the speaker or the situation as a whole. When angered or frustrated, his arms will fold over his chest and his back with straighten defiantly. In general, Derek's a pretty physical guy, and when he's angry/depressed/elated/nervous/scared, you'll know it.
The surgeon in Derek longs to reach a state of perfection that is as close to godlike as it can get. Each surgery, Derek learns something new, how to stitch something a little bit better, how to maneuver the scalpel in a more efficient manner. All of these things improve each surgery, making him faster, and far more useful to Caduceus. Losing a patient devastates him to the point where he loses complete faith in himself and his profession, so he puts his everything into each surgery, no matter how difficult.
As a descendant of the Grecian god of medicine, Asclepius, Derek is able to invoke The Healing Touch--a power that lends him super human concentration. The consequence of using this power, however, is that it leaves him feeling extremely weak and tired, to the point of collapsing as he did during his first, accidental and desperate brush with his own power. Warned of its ability to consume the mind and lead master surgeons astray, Derek goes through numerous trials, overestimating his control of its power and from then on learns to control it properly without misusing it or misjudging its capabilities, shaping it to become just another tool he brings with him into the OR to save lives.
Overall, Derek is resilient, and it is his inability to give up that makes him a strong surgeon. Ever since the death of his father, which has plagued him and led to his choice in becoming a doctor, Derek has always wanted to prove to the world that no disease is incurable. He often puts this into practice by shouting (in game) "I WON'T LET YOU DIE" or "I WILL SAVE THIS PATIENT." He is determined with every surgery to prove to the world that nothing is incurable, even the seemingly unstoppable onslaught of GUILT that ravishes the Earth during his time. He is determined and anyone who tells him that something is impossible will be greeted with flaming hazel eyes and a stern voice telling them that nothing is truly impossible and that there is always a way around the worst of situations.
HISTORY & WORLD-BUILDING: The setting of Trauma Center is right on the west coast of the United States in California. Growing up in Northridge, a quaint suburb just outside of Angeles Bay (which in the "world" of Trauma Center, is pretty much the parallel to Los Angeles, and the other famous city, Santa Balboa being the parallel to Santa Fe,) Derek lived a fairly average life with his mother and father. He owned a cat, went to school, had friends, and was a very likable child. As a young boy, Derek doted upon his father greatly, so it was no shock that the death definitely left him with some emotional scars. Derek's father died of a so-called "incurable disease" (it's name is never really mentioned,) and thus Derek decided to follow the difficult path to becoming a doctor because of his belief from then on that there were "no incurable diseases."
However, with his concentration being less than up to par, Derek was unsure that he could do it. Recalling a trick that his father left to him before his death, Derek surged forward into the world of medicine. When the going was tough, he would try his best to imagine the shape of a star, which would help him focus upon the current task at hand, whether it was figuring out the complex math equations in his Calculus With Limits class or how exactly he was going to scrounge up some dinner at one in the morning.
Derek learns the basics of OR training under the motherly eyes of sweet Mary Fulton, a head OR nurse at Hope Hospital. She and Derek go through quite a bit together and she teaches him many tricks of the trade. However, time goes on, and Mary Fulton must leave, leaving a young Angela (Angie) Blackwell in her stead. A very competent and quick nurse, Angie and Derek did not get along so well at first. Derek's over-confidence due to his time with the sweet and gentle Mary leads him to a traumatic situation in which a careless surgery leaves him with a lot to learn. Through this, Derek grows to understand that being a doctor is not just about himself, but about the patients and the others around him.
He resumes his old goal, realizing that he has strayed off the path due to over-confidence, and tries to get back on that horse to becoming one of the best surgeons around. Later on in his career as a surgeon, Derek is recruited by Caduceus Hospital to become one of their top surgeons, fighting the good fight against GUILT. It is here where he and Angie begin to bond as Surgeon and OR Nurse and become Caduceus' dream team fighting off everything from Kyriaki to Defetra and Pempti. However, it is during a bad run in with some malformed Tetari that Derek suffers a surgeon's worst nightmare--contracting a disease from his patient, and a very-near fatal one.
Collapsing in the OR room just after suturing his patient up, Derek is taken to an isolation chamber and diagnosed with a very violent strain of Paraskevi (the arrow to the heart) and Kyriaki (the hidden blades) both of them being the biochemical weapons sent to destroy humankind. While the Paraskevi works its way from his very bowels to his heart, the Kyriaki have a ball with tearing up the tissue in his lungs. With the surgical prowess and Healing Touch belonging to Nozomi Weaver, a fellow surgeon, and the steady hand of his nurse, Angela Thompson, Derek lives to tell the tale, coming out with two very violent scars from the emergency surgery.
It is during this point in his canon that he is brought _______. He is not in the best of shape due to having just been released and heading to a conference to stop GUILT once and for all. If he strains himself too much he might aggravate his stitches and his horrible clawed up lungs. However, Derek will try to vehemently deny that he is in pain if he is. Don't believe him. Ever. He lies.
EXTRA INFORMATION: He has incredible surgical ability after his fight against GUILT. One of his major abilities is The Healing Touch, passed on through the descendants of Asklepios. It allows him to achieve intense concentration during surgery by imagining a star before his eyes. This intense concentration makes it appear, in his eyes, that time slows down, when actually, he is moving with quick and expert precision. This ability, however, drains his energy and usually gives him a rather large head ache and the urge to lie down for a while and rest (when he first used it, he had passed out and slept for three days). Overall, he is only allowed to use it once per operation.
Affection-wise, Derek's a friendly guy... not when it comes to lovey-dovey relationships, but friendly as in a good pat on the back, a shake of the hand, maybe a hug from a good friend, but otherwise, and sort of kissing would possibly put him into a state of embarrassment, mainly because he's sort of shy about that thing (and perhaps he has a little crush on his assistant nurse, but that's debatable nowadays). Derek himself would probably be oblivious at first when someone is flirting with him, but when he gets the message he becomes a bit uncomfortable. In giving, Derek probably would hand out a hug or two, but a kiss would be something very rare (you'd have to work at it, not that the RP-er wouldn't like you to try...)
Derek is a bit of a passive aggressive, preferring his words over his fists. No, he's not a muscle man, no he isn't very strong of body, but he is of mind, and he uses it (even if that damn Pempti Laser puzzle took him a good hour and a half to finish). Yes, a character could injure/maim/wound/possibly kill Derek (watch out for that scalpel though, don't catch him mid-operation), but Derek himself would not invoke a fight on purpose. Oh, and he's pretty handy with technological gadgets too, able to disarm a bomb solely with antibiotic gel, a scalpel, some forceps and a drain.
Derek, when faced with mentally-unstable patients (depressed, faced with problems, etc.), is able to snap them out of it. One of his patients, Linda Reid, was a depressed teenager bent on killing herself. After telling her a few choice words about how his cat, Tama, had died because of his carelessness, she reconsidered and desired to live. He relies heavily upon the memories of his parents, though sometimes when he thinks about his father, he becomes a bit depressed. Also, he tends to miss and reminisce about his assistant nurse Angie...