From a minicomic I made in 2011 called KRAKEN, he is the naturalist that his old friend The Captain persuades to join him for one last and greatest polar expedition-- the hunt for the legendary Kraken.

Along with The Hunter, the capable and fierce jack-of-all-trades that the Captain recruits to track the beast, the three of them set forth for the polar ice in search of a legend.

The Naturalist is a nervous man by nature, and though he is a loyal person, he was really unprepared for the lunacy of the half-nude man running around in furs harpooning ship rats and the Captain unable to stop shouting for two seconds and an actual sea monster lurking in the ice-- but he tries his best to be a professional and get through it all, earnestly taking notes on anything the Captain tells him to, and poring over his studies for any hint of a lead on the beast's whereabouts. Despite himself, he greatly hopes that the Kraken is no fairytale, because the discovery's meaning for science would be incredible.

I created the three humans of this comic for a character design class (though the Kraken and the comic were my own thing), and all of them are inspired by trips to the American Museum of Natural History. The polar expedition team is, of course, inspired by the real exploration teams of the era; the Naturalist isn't based on any one person, though his fantastic triangular beard is based on Otto Sverdrup's, and by personality and role he likely most resembles Apsley Cherry-Garrard, "the scholar", from Captain Robert Falcon Scott's second Antarctic exploration team.