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====A Few Questions:==== If your character is finished but you still want to add more meat to the bones, you can try answering some of the following questions. Feel free to answer some or all of them. =====What Do You Look Like?===== ''What is your ethnicity? What fashions do you favor? Do you have a separate "mad scientist" wardrobe, or do you wear regular clothes in the lab? Or do you walk around "in character" when interacting with normal society? Do you look like a scientist, mad or otherwise, or would be people be surprised if they found out you have a death ray in your briefcase?'' =====How Hard Was Your Breakthrough?===== ''Was it a process of gradual revelation, or a sudden thunderbolt from the Heavens that burned out most of your normal-person circuitry? Did you lose your job, your friends, or your mind, or did you manage to hide the madness? Are you trying to rebuild, trying to hide what has happened, or happy to let your old self disappear?'' =====How Much of "You" Is Left?===== ''Do you view yourself as basically the same person as you were before your Breakthrough, or do you see yourself as an inhuman mentality inhabiting a mortal body? How certain are you of that assessment―do you feel comfortable relating the disparate parts of your higher and lower thoughts, or are you tormented by your new, warped identity?'' =====Who Matters To You?===== ''Are any other geniuses your friends, or just co-workers? Are you married? In love―perhaps unrequited? Do you have a beautiful daughter? (If so, be careful―if you turn evil she'll probably betray you to the hero and let the monster eat you.) Do you have an extended family, or a network of friends that care about you, or are you alone in the world except for your fellow geniuses? Do you have a home, or just a workplace where you spend the night?'' =====What Are You Working On?===== ''What are your long-term mad science plans? Do you have a half-built time machine that you lack the expertise to finish lying around the lab? What sorts of wonders do you want to build, once you master the necessary Axioms? Do you have ambitions in the mortal world―in politics, in finance―or in the weird halls of power created by the Inspired?'' =====Names and Titles:===== ''Geniuses are physically human and most stick with their regular name. If "Jane Conant" is fine for a regular scientist, it's probably fine for a mad one. Others alter their names to reflect their fields of study, often using puns and wordplay. "Jane Chronos" has a nice ring to it, after all. Plenty of geniuses like having "Doctor" or "Professor" in front of their name, and those that don't have a degree figure that being a genius entitles them to one. (Few among the Inspired dispute this point.) Some geniuses prefer entirely fanciful names, with or without a title, like Doctor Tempest, Mr. Syntax, or The Calculatrix. These nicknames are becoming more common with the rise of Internet use among the Inspired. Asking if a mad scientist really has a degree is considered as polite in the Peerage as asking if a mad scientist has a problem with drug addiction.''
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