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Personal Information
Name: Tsa
Age: 25
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Character Information
Character Name: Emmett Lathrop Brown
Fandom: Back to the Future (Movies + The Telltale Game)

Character History: Emmett Brown was born in 1914 in Hill Valley, California, the son of local Judge Erhardt Brown, a German immigrant. Erhardt came to America from Germany with two dollars to his name and built his fortune from the ground up by his own hard work. From the day Emmett was born, Erhardt channeled his parenting energies towards Emmett's education and discipline, hoping to instill the same work ethic that had pushed him so far in life.

Emmett grew up eager to please his father, fearing the man's wrath if he could not. He quietly followed his follows orders, working dutifully toward a career in law; After school, Emmett worked as a clerk at the courthouse, and after work would go home and pour over his law books further.
That is, as far as his father knew.

In actuality, Emmett had another dream. As a child he'd come across the works of an author by name of Jules Verne, and it ignited a spark in him he'd never before felt: The spark of inspiration. These books showed him that beyond the daily monotony of his father's law books there was a vast world of scientific wonder, and Emmett wanted to reach out and grasp it. He studied harder, supplementing his law studies with sciences of all fields. With time, Emmett was even able to convert his study into a small, makeshift laboratory where he could tinker and invent.

His inventions seemed to pay off. One day in 1931, long after applying for a patent on a rocket-powered drill, a young Emmett was approached by an officer from the patent office who called himself Michael Corleone. Michael needed a working, full-size model of the drill by that night, or Emmett would lose the patent. With help from Michael, Emmett was able to collect the components needed for the rocket fuel -- and, when his father questioned Emmett's actions, for the first time in his life he found the strength to put his foot down and stand up to his father. After all, with a patent coming, his future was set.

Yet as it turns out, it was not meant to be. After the drill was completed, Michael admitted he wasn't from the patent office -- he just needed the drill to help a friend. Confused, distraught, and betrayed after everything they'd been through, Emmett still found it in him to let Michael use the drill and give a few safety tips before Michael disappeared from his life... temporarily.

From there, Michael ket turning up at the oddest of times, sometimes months between visits. In the meantime, Emmett's thirst for science couldn't be quenched, and he was far more open about testing his experiments these days. One such experiment -- a rocket car -- helped him apprehend notorious bootlegger Kid Tannen, catching the eye of a young lady named Edna Strickland.

Edna was a muse to Emmett's work, and even helped inspire a device that could read a person's personality and predict their "normality" on a scale of saint to degenerate criminal. In their few short months together, Emmett fell madly in love, and resolved to propose to Edna on the day they were to unveil his invention.

However, Michael appeared once more -- and this time he was hear to tear Emmett's heart out. Somehow, he managed to orchestrate a series of events that not only ruined his proposal to Edna, but end their relationship completely. Distraught and heartbroken, Emmett climbed the clock tower to get a chance to clear his head and be alone, convinced he'd lost everything in life he had going for him. Michael appeared once more and Emmett confronted him, calling hi out on his lies and deceit and overall strange behavior. Michael wasn't even his real name, it turns out -- it was Marty.

The two got into a heated argument, one that (after a near-death experience) snapped Emmett out of his depressive state and get his inspriation going again. Emmett had another invention he wanted to show, and he finally had an idea of how to make it work. Letting bygones be bygones, Emmett enlisted Marty's help in completing his hovercar to show off at the Hill Valley Expo the next day.

The invention was completed in time, and ready to show off. As Emmett was preparing to launch, however, his father stormed into the Expo and demanded that Emmett stop the crazy experiment before he hurt himself. Desperate to see Emmett's invention fly, Marty acted as the mediator between the two, and managed to do the impossible: Help Emmett and Erhardt see eye-to-eye, and help Erhardt to understand Emmett's position. With his father's blessing, Emmett got the car flying... and after a moment of awe, managed to cause enough damage to get himself banned from the expo for the next 50 years. But the spark of scientific curiosity had ignited into a blazing flame, and Emmett was forever changed.

Emmett saw Marty outside the expo one last time, and once again, Emmett asked for answers. Close as they'd become, Marty was a complete mystery. Marty tore a slice from a newspaper and handed it to Emmett, telling him not to open it until he received the key to the city. Confused, but trusting as ever, Emmett took the paper, and not long after Marty was nowhere to be found.

Character Personality: Emmett is intense and passionate. When he's engrossed in something, he puts his all into it, wanting nothing more than to see his projects through to the end. His thirst for knowledge is boundless and his creativity in making things happen lends itself well to the strange and wonderous ideas he gets for inventions. However, for all his intensity, it's very easy for him to get so obsessed with something that he can't see the forest for the trees and often loses sight of the world around him.

For all of Emmett's drive and will, however, focus and consistency is another story. He may want to complete his inventions, but the world is so vast and full of wonder that there's just so many things that demand his attention, how could he not try to devote it to them all at once?

It's that sense of wonder that truly defines Emmett. It's not greed or pride that drives him to create, but his thirst for knowledge and the excitement he feels when he discovers something new. There's a rush that comes with newfound knowledge, and Emmett not only wants to recapture that with every discovery, but share it with the world around him.

Of course, wide-eyed idealist as he may often be, Emmett is still very much his father's son. Though easily distracted and led astray by the things he wants and enjoys, when Emmett is annoyed or angry, he becomes a solid wall. When confronted, sarcasm and wry humor is his first line of defense, but when that doesn't work Emmett often becomes flustered and unreasonable. When he's truly angry, all scientific logic flies out the window as he resorts to yelling and ranting.

However, unlike his father, Emmett isn't one to hold a grudge. Opinions are opinions, but Emmett deals in fact and wonder and science.

Powers and Abilities: Emmett's pretty smart for his age, and is also well-versed in law. He's also a talented football player, having earned the nickname "The Streak" from how fast he could run.

Samples
Network:
[Emmett's staring down at the camera a little too closely for comfort. Have a nice hi-res view of his eye, everyone!]

What a marvelous device! Why, if everyone back home had one of these, think of the information we could share!

Why, it'd be a utopia of knowledge and understanding! Surely communication like this could spell the end of things like war and... political battles, right?

Prose Sample:

Nautilus.

It was fitting -- almost too fitting -- that this city of scientific wonder he'd somehow wandered into (albeit Emmett remained unconvinced it wasn't some sort of fever dream or fume inhalation hallucination; Time would tell) would share the name of the ship that had captivated his imagination so long ago. Why, in a way, he felt like Captian Nemo himself! Instead of a submarine in an ocean of danger, however, it was a city among a sea of stars, the likes of which Emmett couldn't have even imagined.

In his defense, there was a highly spiritual aspect to it all, and theology and the like were the sort of studies with which Emmett rarely concerned himself; Barring, of course, social contexts such as (but in no way limited to) Sunday Mass, Christmas and Communion. Religion, like his father's will, was something that simply was not questioned in the Brown household. Given the sensory overload of spirituality now bombarding Emmett from all sides, he wasn't about to start now; Save, of course, for the obvious inconsistencies between his own upbringing and the specific spiritual nature of this "Nautilus". Higher powers had never been something that particularly held Emmett's attention, but now in the face (and upon the surface) of multiple higher powers and having regular conversation with them, Emmett supposed there was no time like the present to let his curiosity lead him in such a direction.

Nautilus. It was strangely fitting that so many years ago, when he was merely a boy curled up and reading his Jules Verne, it was the Nautilus that had awakened him to his higher calling. Now here, upon a (living? He'd have to research that) city called Nautilus, he'd awoken to a higher calling in a far more literal (almost laughably so) sense.

It was almost as if his life was framed by the Nautilus somehow. Were Emmett a more poetic young man, he may have found words to describe it and evoke the feeling like an author could. But Emmett was a scientist, and words could fail him, but experience would be invaluable.