Lionel McGee

One of the world's brightest young minds, McGee is a biomedicine student turned fugitive after having accidentally transfigured his brother into an unrecognizable abomination in a science experiment gone wrong. On the lam, he fervently searches for a means to turn his brother whole again while battling with the growing paranoia that the creature he's carrying around might not even be him anymore.

Antisocial, prickly, and all around not a people person, McGee is very introverted. He prefers overall not to interact with other people, partly because of his inflated ego and partly because of his lack of patience for social situations. He is most comfortable alone in his lab, where he can control everything that happens. He is somewhat noise sensitive and finds solace in an isolated room where he can manipulate the volume. McGee tends to be overly formal and stiffly polite when he does have to interact with other people, which can quickly devolve into snide remarks and frayed tempers. His temper as it stands is already short, and he has a habit of blowing up over the pettiest of things. His stoicism is heavily countered by this volcanic temper. McGee will often internalize things that upset him until he explodes, his anger management leaving something to be desired. Rarely will he get along with other people, refusing to respect another person unless they can echo his genius. There are some exceptions to this rule, but they are incredibly far and few between.

Born in California to a middle class household, McGee was raised in a loving environment with two doting parents. His childhood was fairly standard—save for a peculiar incident when he was a child and his brother was still too little to play. McGee had an insatiable, scientific curiosity burning within him at a young age to learn more about the natural world and the life teeming within it, foregoing socializing with other kids his age and spending most of his time exploring the woods behind his house.

One day, he took a different route than usual for his hike through the underbrush and tripped and fell down a steep ravine, breaking several bones and cracking his head open like an egg. Through the bloody haze, McGee felt a dull panic setting in—the concept of death was rapidly fermenting as a reality in his mind. Before he was able to fully come to accept his fate, he was rescued by some strange creature, as tall as the trees and wrapped in a thick, coarse fur. It delivered him safely home, and his parents rushed him swiftly to the emergency room. The concussion was the worst of his injuries—but it was determined that with enough bed rest, McGee would bounce back just fine. As McGee lay in his hospital bed, puzzling over his mysterious savior and their identity, he became distinctly aware of several different presences in his room aside from his mother and father. Whispering just softly enough for him to be unable to make out the words, an eerie glow emanating from their translucent forms.

Ghosts.

It was then that McGee's life changed forever. His exposure to the supernatural throttled his entire worldview- he had always considered himself a bit more ahead than the other kids his age—now there was definitive proof about how behind everyone else really was. His parents, of course, brushed his wild claims of ethereal beings from a different plane as the ramblings of a delusional little boy, and McGee determined that the only way he was going to prove there was another side to this reality was with evidence. So he clammed up, and turned his attentions onto the unseen world. It became a fixation for him—throughout primary to high school he spent his free time researching the unknown, dragging his brother out into multiple excursions with him to catch supernatural pests and drag them back home for study. Though their escapades were less than fruitful, they still persisted. Despite Garfield's lack of belief, his regular attendance and support of his older brother allowed their relationship to flourish the older they became, to the point where they did everything together and they were each other's only real friends. They were truly inseparable, even when it came time for McGee to take off for college. They stayed in contact, one often making pains to visit the other.

McGee, in all of his genius, became a top student at his university it seems almost instantly. Somewhat famous in the local news for his prodigal intelligence already, his reputation only grew when introduced to a community of academics. All honors classes, top marks, recognized by the academy's most highly regarded professors—McGee had a heavy heaping of expectations placed on his shoulders. His personal studies into the unknown became more serious, much to the disappointment of his professors. Why he was wasting his talents on a fool's errand chasing some 

Genius Level IQ — McGee is extremely intelligent and an unnaturally fast learner, able to pick up most things in half the time that other people would take. 

Photographic Memory — can recall anything he's experienced (within reason- obviously he doesn't have memories of being a newborn) with perfect clarity. His memory is just that good.

True Sight — McGee can see ghosts and demons that would otherwise be hidden from a normal person's sight. He also gets a faint Spidey-sense when supernatural entities appear. Passive.