Patient File - Daniel Laurier
Name: Laurier, Daniel
Sex: Male
Age: 25
D.O.B.: 31 October
Blood Type:
Height: 5' 10.5" / 179 cm
Weight: 130 lbs*
Eyes: Dk Grey
Hair: Black
Birthplace: Paris, France
Nationality: British
Family History:
Only child.
Father, Quentin Laurier, inventor/businessman/philanthropist. Age 71. CEO of Wammy Industries.
Mother, Janet Laurier, deceased in car accident age 31. (Subject was 5 years old at the time of the accident.)
Raised by father, staff members.
Life History: Daniel Laurier was born in 1979 to Quentin Laurier, an inventor and philanthropist who headed his own company, Wammy Industries, and his much-younger wife, Janet. While their son was born during an extended business stay in France, both parents were UK citizens; Janet's mother, however, had been Japanese. When Quentin finished his business in Paris, they returned to their usual home: Winchester, in England.
Family life was happy enough until 1985, when the three were in a car accident and Janet was killed. Daniel, who was already a quiet, intellectually gifted child before the loss of his mother, became even more withdrawn and solitary afterward. Quentin used his money to attempt to interest his only son in various topics and activities. The two which stuck were computers and detectives: Daniel read every mystery story he could get his hands on, eventually moving on to true crime and forensics; he also learned the ins and outs of various computer systems, developing skills as a hacker. In the meantime, Quentin, who had been orphaned at a young age, established a children's home in the area. Daniel usually avoided the children who lived there, but in spite of the fact that Quentin maintained a separate family residence in another part of town, the children were aware of Daniel and some looked up to him.
As Daniel grew older, he became suspicious of people, even paranoid, thinking that everyone was a potential criminal. By the time he was in his early teens, the Internet was growing in popularity. He began to spend a great deal of time checking into the lives of people around him. If he was able to uncover activity he deemed "suspicious," his invasions into the lives of others would become deeper and more serious: he would spy on them in whichever way he was able, even placing bugs (purchased through mail-order catalogues) and cameras in their houses. As netstalking became more feasible, his activities also expanded in that direction.
It was also around this point that he developed a "secret identity," a detective named L who only accepted cases which interested him, and never failed; in Daniel's memory, the line between reality and fantasy in terms of what he had read was almost completely erased. L became the hero of every detective story he'd read, and Daniel recalled all of it as having happened to him. (As such, he became a vegetarian: while it's common for some teenagers to be repulsed by meat, his own justification was relatively unique.)
Through his teens, he spent enough time on his studies, which were accomplished with private tutors, to get a place at Oxford. However, he lived on his own there, and without the structure that had been provided at home, his mental state deteriorated quickly: he stopped attending tutorials and began to live full-time and more actively as L. He was brought back to live in the Laurier household without attaining any kind of academic distinction, after complaints from professors and classmates began to draw the interest of the police.
Over the years, Quentin took Daniel with him on various business trips and sabbaticals, hoping that a change of scene might help; it never did. To Quentin's dismay, his son also failed to develop any interest in Wammy Industries or in the children's home, apart from attempting to get the few children he did meet to watch people for him. This pattern continued into Daniel's twenties. Attempts to curtail him in the financial sense were rarely successful, as Quentin did not wish to subject his son to criminal charges, and the computers and video cameras did not amount to much.
However, Daniel eventually locked horns with a young Japanese coder over the Internet, became suspicious of him, and began "investigating him" at great expense, including a trip to Japan and stays in hotel suites which cost thousands of dollars per night. While he moved from hotel to hotel for a while to avoid discovery, Quentin eventually found him; it was obvious that Daniel's own identity was now completely subsumed within that of "L". If the Japanese authorities became involved, it would be more difficult to extract Daniel from legal trouble than it had been back in England. At that point, Quentin decided that hospitalization -- a last resort -- would be the best thing for Daniel, and contacted Landel's for assistance.
Medical History: (physical ailments and mental degradation; brief description of any major illnesses or injuries your character has experienced in their "real" life and a slightly more in-depth description of how they developed their canon life "delusions" and how they came to reside at Landel's; no more than four paragraphs)
Physical: General good health.
At age 5, sustained injuries in car accident: collapsed lung, ruptured spleen, severe muscle strain, general trauma. Full recovery w/o incident after several months' convalescence.
Mental:
Beginning at around the age of 8, subject developed obsession with both true crime and fictional detective stories; over the next decade, these obsessions blossomed into delusions in which subject believed himself to have led the various investigations he'd read about. Self-isolation, academic failure, intrusive behavior directed at neighbors and acquaintances, malicious use of technology to invade privacy.
NB - Constructed personality of father: Believes that Quentin Laurier, who subject calls Quillish Wammy or Watari, is a kind of foster parent and benefactor whose later function has transitioned to a combination of handler, majordomo, and personal security. Has constructed a second "real father," a Frenchman who died in the car accident. Because of this, subject is unaware of own citizenship: believes that he has dual UK/French citizenship in the technical sense and no specific national ties in terms of his "work."
Current Status: Continued delusions related to "L" persona. Appears to be pursuing interaction with fellow patients, but primarily those whose delusions are in some way complementary to his own.
Not usually dangerous. While subject believes that aggressive measures should be taken to "secure a confession," he is also unwilling or unable to take them himself; he believes that a subordinate is performing interrogations on his behalf. Aggression is mostly psychological and, while subject is oppositional, it is internalized. Manner often deceptively calm and cooperative.
NB - Because it supports "detective" persona, food-related requests should be indulged only sporadically. Taper off meat-free meals over time.
Working Diagnosis: Schizoid Personality Disorder; poss. Delusional Disorder (mixed); paranoid tendencies.
* 110 is given in How to Read, but it seems to be a number pulled out of the air to designate that L is thin. So, after looking at a bunch of BMI-related height-and-weight photos and comparing them to how his physique is drawn, I'm using 130 as a more medically realistic estimate.