Lucas Alexander Scudder,Throw me a bone,feed me a linePour a hard drink for harder timesI'm the king of the gutters, the prince of the dogsOne or the other,a ship lost in the fogAGEAFFILIATIONSPECIESthirty-eightVeritasHumanNICKNAMESDr. Scudder, Luka (doesn't appreciate that) BIRTHDAYMay 19thLOCATIONCurrently London, born in Inverness, moved a fair bit.SEXUALITYbisexualLISTSI LIKE1. Chocolate2. Arguing3. Making people uncomfortable4. Reading5. Healing/helping people6. Spying/Snooping7. Drinking8. Being more informed9. Gloating10. DrivingI DISLIKE1. When people won't tell him things2. Not knowing3. Waiting4. boredom5. Tedious people6. Being ordered around7. People not thinking he's funny8. His things being messed with9. Not being listened to10. Lacking confidenceMY STRENGTHS ARE1. Confidence2. Competence3. Naturally decisive4. Not at all bashful or shy, can generally come up with something to say no matter the situation5. Highly organizedMY WEAKNESSES ARE1. An ability to panic very easily2. A lack of patience3. Bluntness4. Very particular5. Has a tendency to be lazyI'M AFRAID OF1. Severely claustrophobic2. Commitment issues3. Being alone at the end4. Being wrong5. Being abandonedI ASPIRE TO1. Be nicer, will never happen.2. Be more patient, will never happen3. To settle down (secret, even to himself possibly)4. Live to retire5. To secretly have been naked in every room of the headquarters.MY QUIRKS/HABITS ARE 1. Is a terrible flirt2. Has a deadpan 'I'm judging you' look3. Has a tendency to mutter behind people's backs4. Uses his hands to talk5. Runs his hands through his hair when he's nervousPOSSIBLE PLAY BYJason BatemanTHE PLAYERHey, I'm Fergie, 26, and playing Lucas here, Bryn, Clemency, and Lalita at the moment. You can reach me through PM, on the c-box and on aim (bumblefergie)personalityLucas is a surprising mix of people person and bad bedside manners. He has a tendency to bask in the attention from others, be it good attention or bad attention, though when he was less of a cynic this was really not the case for him. Before deciding that life could only manage to either suck or blow Lucas was a much more happy seeming person. Now he would say he's happy enough but there's a layer of bitterness to him that comes out pretty often.When it comes to work you simply don't question Dr. Scudder. You want to be a picky patient? Well too bad because you're going to do what he prescribes or die a horrible death/get your ass verbally kicked. He can be a regular drill sergeant when it comes to physical therapy to be sure. His work is where he is in charge and he will not let anyone mess with what he is in charge of. He might have some serious control issues.Outside of work, however, Lucas's confidence is faked to a very high degree. He is highly neurotic. Almost all of his decisions are based on snap judgements that, once it's too late, he considers how it's all going to come back to bite him in the ass later. So let it be clear that the one thing Lucas is asked during ambassador missions is to keep his mouth shut.historyLucas Scudder was born May 19th to Vicky Rory and Jonathan Scudder, two people that had hooked up after a party around nine months previously but had at least had the sense to realize this wasn't relationship material. He grew up going between both houses in Inverness quite easily enough. His parents were young, Vicky a starting out legal secretary and Jonathan still in school for architecture, and still fairly optimistic that things would work out just fine with their family arrangement. The positive tone to the arrangement slipped into complacency and then on into bitterness as Jonathan married.The newly blended Scudder family, now moved to nearby Aberdeen, worked just fine. Lucas got along just fine with his new stepmother and step sister but his mother did not take kindly to the fact that Jonathan had managed to marry while she was still single and prospects were becoming less and less. Her mind had settled on Lucas, already growing into a personality that was a little hard to get along with, as the reason any dates s did have that made it passed the second, soon fizzed out. There relationship became a strained one with one another thinking less and less of each other as the years went on until, despite the agreements that had been made when he was born, Lucas moved in full time with his father in Aberdeen at age 16.Life was quiet then and Lucas was quite happy with that. He had limited contact with his mother but things were quiet on all fronts, he enrolled into university at York, already knowing what he was going to go into so premed it was. He did quite well despite not being the most studious med student around. Lucas Scudder did know how to party it turned out but that wasn't evident in his grades as he was quite gifted in the art of last minute work and also was already leaning towards being an unsatisfied perfectionist over most anything. Then came full on med school in London which he did manage to take more seriously. Here he met Carrie Lawson and became sure he was going to be luckier than at least one parent when it came to settling down with someone. That wasn't exactly to be as, during the last few months of their final year Lucas made an interesting discovery involving his then fiancee, bioethics teacher, and an MRI machine that was mind-boggling to say the least. He was angry and petty enough to call of the engagement with her parents there complete with the scans taken by the machine at the time. It had made for an awkward graduation celebration dinner but he didn't feel all that guilty upon walking out without paying.He settled into residency smoothly enough and from then on concentrated on his work. It took over his life and he essentially lived for it. Work was the one thing in his life for almost a year. Then he found out Carrie was not only gone to him in the romantic sense of the word but from the living sense of it as well, finding out from a mutual friend not only did she have cancer but had died within months of finding it. That was when it dawned on him that perhaps pushing people out of your lives for good might not be the best thing for him, leading him to start talking with his mother again. Their relationship remained strained and Lucas can't help but hate the fact that he's seeing where he got a lot of his personality and outlook.Work was still the biggest part of his life though he did try to branch out. He just didn't have the confidence he had used to and he found that he was actually afraid of what it would mean for his life if he did change his current set up. Involving others in it didn't really sound like it was a good idea at all. He was good at what he did and enjoyed it so staying just like that didn't seem like a horrible thing. Years came and went like this pretty much filled with work and work drama which his natural curiosity and noisiness always kept him in but not involved with. That is until he found himself piecing together a woman who looked as if she had been gored repeatedly, and thus his connection with the Veritas Institute was starting to be formed.He helped the woman, Segupta, back together, also taking an active role in her physical therapy despite that not really being what he did. Rumors were flying among hospital staff and if Lucas could hear the talk about why he left the hospital when she was released he would either be actually embarrassed or quite proud of himself. His natural curiosity and refusal to settle had earned him knowledge of the secrets his new job entailed though and he is quite happy with that, despite his inability to deal with his own issues and maybe make some of those hospital rumors involving Segupta true.BANNER BY WHOEVERTEMPLATE BY FEDORA @ CAUTION 2.0 AND A THOUSAND FIREFLIES