[ooc] i know i'll never run into your body walking through the crooked streets
:: Dr Nicholas Hardaway
Name Nick Hardaway
Sex Male
Orientation Heterosexual
Born Jan 04 1958, Marske-by-the-Sea
Died May 26 2001, Seattle
Located Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, NYC
Fandom Stephen King's Rose Red
Played By Julian Sands
Journal whatdorosesmean
In Brief six foot tall dead psychic psychiatrist (currently catering to werewolf mafia)
:: Details
At first glance, Nick Hardaway is a relatively personable psychiatrist in his early forties. He stands six foot, has silly blond hair, blue eyes, and a gentle British accent (Nick hails originally from Marske-by-the-Sea). He's never been married, hasn't got any children, was the only child of only children and is, generally, a man beholden only to himself. He's also psychic; if he focuses and he's not blocked out past his ability he can fairly easily read minds (among other tricks he's not exactly forthcoming on the nature of, but which may or may not extend to manipulation of other minds, blastin' shit and apparently seeing things in beer - seriously, canon).
Nick died over Memorial Day weekend in 2001. For the past seven years he's existed in one form of afterlife or the other - the nature of his death in Rose Red meant this wasn't exactly the better place many faiths talk about. He doesn't have clear memories of the intervening years between his death and the resurrection given to him by the nexus; this is for the best, although what little he does have is enough to have him wake up screaming every night since he's come back. It's probably a good thing he sleeps alone.
Due to his death and subsequent resurrection, Nick is now something like functionally immortal - he can't age, he can't grow sick, and left to his own devices he will live indefinitely, incapable of a 'natural' death...but he's no harder to kill than anyone else. For those who can read futures, Nick Hardaway doesn't have one; his life began in 1958 and as far as the multiverse is concerned, ended in 2001. It's not reality's fault he couldn't take a hint.
As of his agreement with Alya Sadova, Nick is practicing privately in NYC; many of his patients are Shadow Lords and yes, navigating the psyche of werewolves is a really fascinating way to make a living, especially when you're a psychic. While Nick does bend his code of professional ethics where he can for his rather unexpected benefactor, he is also a fairly good psychiatrist (being able to read minds helps, although it'd probably be considered inappropriate if there were rules for that sort of thing) and not all of his patients are there just to be stamped SANE and sent on their way.
He lives and works in Brooklyn (Carroll Gardens), and one day will even have all the usual home furniture. Really.
:: Typist & Disclaimer
I do not make any claim to Stephen King's Rose Red or Julian Sands's charmingly silly face; I'm not making any profit here and don't own anything you recognize. Since the miniseries didn't really go into detail with the backgrounds and lives of most (if not all) of the characters, I'm taking liberties here and there to elaborate on Nick's life with things that should make sense in the context of the man he was presented as. In other words: most of his history I'm making up myself.
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