Matvei Alexeyev
atroscence
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- 8 months, 26 days ago
- Creator
- atroscence
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Profile
01 — Profile
People tend to dislike Matvei -- given how strict and impatient he is, talking with a somewhat-annoyed tone at anybody who works below him. Despite their grievances, they tend to begrudgingly admit that, if anything, he's good at his job. He has an eye for anatomy and biology that no one else is capable of matching, even if that isn't accompanied by a proportionate amount of humility or common sense.
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Wears frameless glasses with a glasses cord. His lab goggles are optional; he just puts them on over his glasses when he's actually in the lab.
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Sleeves are pushed up to his forearms.
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Division symbol is on the bottom of both sides of his coat.
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Wears a semi-transparent plastic apron when working.
02 — Personality
Matvei is strict, harsh, judgemental, and not afraid to let the world know. It's difficult to really make friends with him, given the high standards that he holds people to. While some of his pride might have some basis in reality -- he is, admittedly, an incredibly good doctor with a penchant for memorization that few others can match -- it certainly isn't enough to win him much favor. Matvei expects people to follow his lead, thinking that he knows best because of his advanced degrees and general seniority in the office. Whenever people don't, he gets irritated... and it doesn't take much to make him start yelling at the person who might've offended him.
With all that being said, it doesn't take much for Matvei to yield to the demands of the few people willing to stand up to him. While he likes being the one starting conflicts, he feels a deep sense of embarrassment whenever he starts to realize that he might genuinely be in the wrong. While he affords an automatic respect to his workplace superiors (or anybody who he thinks might have an impact on his job stability), he begrudgingly gives way to people who argue with him or manage to actually listen and respond to his lectures. The only thing that Matvei values more than 'being in charge' is 'doing things the right way' -- and managing to convince him that he's not doing the latter always causes him to become surprisingly sheepish.
For all the bravado that he displays, Matvei has a soft spot to him -- and a surprisingly delicate eye for detail, given the skill with taxidermy (his only hobby) that he displays. While he tends to scare off most children, he unwillingly tends to find himself caring for the more precocious ones that are willing to talk back, forcing him to see things in a new light. He'll never admit to it, of course, but he genuinely goes out of his way for those that he feels like he can trust. God forbid anybody actually point out when he's being nice, though, or thank him for anything that he helps them with. He has an image to keep up!
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People that unquestioningly listen to him.
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Reading about strange medical cases.
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Taxidermy.
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His privacy.
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When people ignore his advice.
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Most children.
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Being rushed.
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Having someone watch him work.
03 — Background
Past
Placer.
Virion Project
Placer.
04 — Trivia
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He doesn't usually have people over to his house -- and the people that do come over typically don't want to come again. He's basically converted his kitchen into a taxidermy lab, and the freakiness of seeing half-stuffed birds, animal pelts hanging to dry, and dozens of pinned insects while the heavy smell of cleaning supplies hangs in the air wards just about anyone off.
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Has the tendency to call people by their last names. It started when he was in medical school and when he was working as a doctor, when he would call all his patients Mr. or Mrs. Last Name. As his patience wore thin, however, he started dropping the title entirely -- and now he just comes off as rude about it, for the most part.
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It's genuinely hard for him to smile. He only does it out of nervous instinct, and it ultimately just ends up looking awkward and uncomfortable for everyone around him -- particularly given that it's often followed by some kind of lecture or outburst.
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Writes with the most stereotypical doctor's handwriting in the world: scrunched, nearly-unreadable cursive with slanted letters that blend together on the page. Has absolutely written prescriptions that look like loops and scribbles for exhausted, well-trained pharmacists to try and decipher.
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Smokes rarely, only when he's off of work and incredibly stressed. He hates the chance of getting burned and hates the smell that it actually leaves on his fingers, which is why he invested in a cigarette holder instead.
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Has a surprisingly good memory, particularly for medical terminology and Latin prefixes or suffixes. Even though he's never taken a single Latin class in his life, he can normally make a pretty good guess as to what any medical term actually means (if he doesn't just straight up know the definition, of course).
05 — Relationships
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