In Which Huxley Plots

[Cyrus Wright]

Cyrus J. Wright

Cyrus has been teaching at Hammel for seven years now. He was a student when he was younger. He has a daughter, age 10, that he sees during the summer. He is a bit of a feisty fellow, very opinionated, moody, egocentric, outgoing, intelligent, but very eccentric. He can be hard to get along with as he can very judgmental and outspoken about his various judgments. He is a good friend if you can reach that point, easier said than done. He enjoys drinking, too much, and has a violent temper when drunk. He generally dislikes humans and those who know him best know the depth of this 'dislike.' He is a dangerous flirt, but makes a point not to have casual hook ups often. He becomes emotionally entrenched in relationships easily, but then will just as quickly pull back when the other party becomes too demanding of him. He can be charming when it suits him, and a downright pain in the ass at other times.

Friends
Specific request: One of his best friends who went to school with him also helped him get his current job and to get himself back on his feet after his life basically fell apart. They would be up to 3 years older or two years younger and currently/previously worked at Hammel in some capacity.

Cyrus is not an unfriendly fellow persay, just difficult to get along with initially until he is sure he actually likes you. It's not typical for him to open up to people completely, but there would be a few people he considered worthy of such introspection. He is a loyal friend and very generous with himself.

Enemies
It would be easy to see why a person did not like Cyrus. He is opinionated, demanding, and outspoken. He can come off as very condescending, mostly because well... he is. He dislikes quite a few people, though it's generally because he believes them to be complete idiots and not necessarily because they committed some wrong against him.

Love Interests
He flirts like he breathes, mostly unconscious of it until after the fact. Half the time he is just lost in thought in the first place. He is interested in both men and women, though he favored women through his twenties. In recent years he has preferred men, after a particularly harrowing experience with the mother of his daughter. His relationship could be likened to a comet streaking into the Earth's atmosphere, painfully bright and hot, only to quickly burn out. He doesn't do well with casual sex, his emotions running too high and too deeply for it to be something he seeks out.

[Dr. Sean Neville]

Huxley, I have one character and Cyrus certainly knows him.

I play Sean Neville, the Hammel psychiatrist. He's been with the school for twenty-four years, which means he was there for the entire duration of Cyrus's days as a student. He's also been here for all of Cyrus's years as a teacher.

Personality-wise, he and Cyrus have more dissimilarities than similarities. He self-identifies as a hippie, and he's in a relationship with a non-powered person. He prefers cooperation and he isn't particularly moody. He's also a telepath.

We should work out some history for them and then move forward with a thread, if you are interested.

[Hay-lin Mae]

Hey! Welcome to Hammel! I'm sky!

Hay-lin: I am going to throw her at you because, well at the moment she is my only staff member, and I would be interested in seeing how well these two get along, or you know how well they don't get along lol. hammelinstitute.proboards.com/thread/19241/hay-lin-mae < her bio... Cause I really don't know what to really plot with them, though I do have an open thread with Hay-lin if you want to just throw him in there, I can link you?

[Cyrus Wright]

Sean: Cyrus would have probably gotten to know Sean as a student from his behavior troubles outside of class. I imagine that Sean was probably able to get him to trust him and if anything teenage Cyrus would have respected Sean. His interest in philosophy started way back when so there is always the possibility that they bonded to a degree over discussions of philosophy. When Cyrus returned to the school he had more concrete views and they differ drastically from Sean's in almost every way that I can see. He is pretty conservative, though I'd probably say more leaning towards a libertarian than a true conservative. I envision his personal philosophy actually leaning towards objectivisim, which Sean dislikes. I feel like Cyrus would still respect Sean, but that they would probably have some rather heated discussions over philosophical differences. Cyrus would also have trouble respecting the fact that he has a human love interest and actually that could have been the reason for his corrective action, if that would be something you were interested in. (Early on in his employment he got a little too aggressive discussing his anti-human sentiment in the teacher's lounge and was reported for it.)

Hay-lin: Threads are win. ;] I wouldn't mind just throwing them together to see how the get along, it would probably be relatively interesting. Especially if she is new-ish to the institute and what have you.

[Dr. Sean Neville]

Sean's dated non-powered people on and off for his entire dating career, but he and his partner, Josh, weren't together at the time of his incident (since he's been here for seven years and it was early on, yes?).

Sean does loathe objectivism with a quiet passion, and I love debates, so this should be fun.

I want to give you a warning that I am one of the slower posters here, but are you interested in a thread? We have a couple of options: 1) present day 2) For the next two weeks, we are still in our Time Warp event, which means that we could do a thread in the past when Cyrus was a student. What do you think?

[Cyrus Wright]

Yes it was relatively early on, within probably the first two years of his arrival, so perhaps not the best candidate then. :3 Debates are far too much fun. I would love a thread, and it would be entertaining to do a young Cyrus thread actually. Bring on the teenage angst. Slow posts are fine so long as they are like, you know, a trickle sort of effect. ;]

[Dr. Sean Neville]

Marvelous! If you make a thread in Sean Neville's office and title it with "Time Warp:" before the title (and then include a time and date stamp), I can add it to my pile of posts as I wind my way through what I owe.

It should be a lot of fun.

[Hay-lin Mae]

hammelinstitute.proboards.com/thread/25235/eyes-open here is her open, just let me know if you want to post in this one, or start a new one

[Joshua Bernstein]

So I play Dr. Neville's partner and omg I want threads.

Josh is friendly and outgoing and loves to drink so he and Cyrus hae probably met. They are both opinionated but their opinions are vastly different. Further more, Josh is running for town council. Is Cyrus the sort of person wih would attend townhall meetings of speeches?

[Joseph Morgan Jr.]

Joey/Cyrus:

So, my first thoughts were, they are only 3 years apart. They could have been friends in Hammel and maybe even stayed friends after? I'm terrible with plots, I'm sorry. I just think they would make good friends...any thoughts or ideas just let me know!

[Cyrus Wright]

Joey: Hehehee. :3 That was my initial response. Cyrus is probably fairly vested in local politics, though I doubt he actually does much. I think he would go to Town Hall meetings just to annoy others, but also because he is opinionated and at times has his own agenda for things. I could see the two of them drinking and 'debating' in a mostly civil manner their differences in opinion. Depending on who Josh was running against Cyrus might even step outside the box and support him if he thought he was intelligent, a trait he cannot help but respect.

Joseph: Actually Cyrus and he would probably make good friends. He would make a good candidate for the guy who helped Cyrus sober up and get a job too, since he's so generous/caretaker like. I think the two of them would get along well and maybe even keep each other in check, or possibly just feed into their own dramatics, which is not necessarily a bad thing haha.

Hay-lin: I responded!

Sean: Super pumped for this thread. :3 I'll PM you the link as soon as I get it up.

[Joshua Bernstein]

sadly Josh is only running against NPCs right now, because the one person playing an actual elected town council member is no longer RPing with us :c But she was a meta human, since that probably makes a difference to Cyrus (also she was a Democrat and Josh is running on the Progressive party which I am sure Cyrus just loooooooves >.>)

So you want to say they already know each other? Debate thread, then? Beer and debating? Cyrus won't mind sharing a table with a baseline human?

[Rhea Hartman]

Hullo! I like this char quite a bit, and though I don't do many threads at once, I should have a few spots opening up soon as I have two other threads that are reasonably close to opening up. And I was wondering if you would be interested in any plotting! I have two characters of interest.

Adam: Adam is a Hammel math teacher, young, non-powered, brilliant, and with a temper even worse than Cyrus'. Though he is trying hard to improve his anger issues, he is aggressive and explosive. Their meeting would be an unprecedented disaster, I think. xD

Rhea: Rhea is a suppressor and a police officer in Pilot Ridge. This meeting would take some more planning and could go in several different directions.

If you're interested take look at my plotter, it is in the link of my signature. :3 *points down* Welcome to Hammel!