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[angelhunter]

PLAYER CONTACT: PM ACTIVE TIMES/PACE: PST, evenings. BRACKETS/PROSE: Either. OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS & TRIGGERS: None.

IN CHARACTER PHYSICAL AFFECTION: Y. PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: Y. Prefers to incapacitate others with the use of tranquilizers. Owns a handgun and hunting rifle. RELATIONSHIPS: M/F 20+. Prairie/OA OTP. Crosscanon welcome, live action or video game medium pref. PSYCHIC & PSIONIC INFORMATION: No defenses. Outwardly charming, full of dark evil secrets. MAGICAL INFORMATION: Interdimensional traveler, but it takes some doing. MEDICAL INFORMATION: 54 years old, medium broad build. Dangerously allergic to tomatoes. Insomniac, reliant on sleeping pills. Former smoker, occasionally relapses. OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS & TRIGGERS: Serial: drugging, kidnapping, imprisonment, forced human experimentation, physical and psychological torture, murder. Gaslighting, manipulation, ableism, Lima syndrome, abuser mentality. CANON POINTS: I default to Part 1 but am more than happy to write from any point. PART I: An anesthesiologist and former emergency room doctor, Hunter Aloysius "Hap" Percy is obsessed with near death experiences. He endeavours to substantiate the survival of consciousness beyond death, no matter the cost. Hap lures NDE survivors to his remote cabin, imprisons them in glass cells beneath the house, and periodically drowns them using an apparatus that submerges only their head. Revives them after death to acquire further data, rinse and repeat. PART II: Hap has jumped universes and overtaken the body of this dimension's counterpart, known as Dr. Hunter Percy. Dr. Percy is a psychologist and the world-renowned author of Quantum Psychotic. He runs the Treasure Island mental health facility in San Francisco, where Hap continues to imprison his four captives from the previous universe that facilitated the crossover. His new pursuit is mapping the multiverse in order to navigate deliberately between dimensions, rather than travel blindly. He maintains a pool of dead bodies out of whom flowers grow that offer glimpses of other universes upon ingestion (don't ask, can't explain). PART III: In a third universe, Hap inhabits the body of actor Jason Isaacs. He is married to The OA costar Brit Marling, who now hosts the slumbering consciousness of OA. Hap selected this dimension in a play to make her doubt herself and renounce her enmity towards him. Though I'm very interested in playing out a hypothetical season three, this is the first and last time I'll use the actors' real names because that shit is too weird. I can excuse captive domestic snuff edging and consensual tentacle breathplay, but I draw the line at pseudo-RPF. CROSSCANON HOOKS: I: Besides kidnapping people, he often travels to sell patents on medical devices he's invented. II: Hap gets around a lot more, now he has an entire staff to look after his patients (captives). He also enjoys the celebrity of being a well known author. III: Even more celebrity as not!Jason Isaacs. Canon mesh: He can travel between universes so he can show up anywhere without much ado, pretty much. OPT-OUT at any time, no reason necessary. Comments screened. IP logging off.

OUT OF CHARACTER BACKTAGGING: Y. Literally forever. THREADHOPPING: N. FOURTHWALLING: N outside of a Part 3 canon point. NOT INTERESTED IN: Daddy kink, redemption, happy endings.

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personality.

[angelhunter]

Character Personality:

• obsessive: Hap's whole life revolves around his research. His entire home is dedicated to it, as is every waking moment. In fact, he deems sleep "a waste of time, but necessary" and only accomplishes it with sleeping pills. Every one of his doors is keypad locked and every room, upstairs and downstairs, monitored by camera to protect his research. When away from home, he keeps an eye on these feeds on his laptop and controls them remotely if necessary. He appears to have no relationships besides those with his subjects and his mentor (who conducts similar experiments of his own). Hap fixates on individuals that can further his research, none more so than Prairie. Making her his partner becomes a close secondary obsession, driven by her unique metaphysical insights and the bond he imagines that creates between them.
  
  
• meticulous: Hap's study has been refined to perfection. He "built his lab himself" underground, soundproofed and fed by a natural spring. Adjoining glass cells allow captives social interaction to manage their mental states. Lighting changes and food is dispensed on a timed system, taking menial tasks off Hap's shoulders and minimizing his contact with the subjects. When it comes time to retrieve them for experiments, he sedates them with a scopolamine-like gas that puts them in an extremely suggestible state. On top of preventing physical struggle, it spares them psychological trauma by obviating memories of their death and resuscitation. Hap is also a capable engineer; besides the equipment used in the study, he invents medical technology to fund his research through the sale of patents.
  
  
• detached: Hap considers himself a scientist, first and foremost. Empirical proof of life beyond death will revolutionize not only science but the world, though Hap doubts he will achieve it in his lifetime and seems content to have lain the foundation for the next generation of researchers. He whitewashes the inherent cruelty of the experiment by minimally interfacing with the subjects and focusing on the data. Hap believes he's removed his ego from the equation, a fundamental self-deception considering the chasm-steep power imbalance between him and his captives.
  
  
• petty: Hap nevertheless has flashes of pure vindictiveness. These revolve around Prairie, who denies him her acceptance and willful collaboration. Homer is a subject with whom Prairie shares a genuine bond. Hap coerces him into seducing a new subject, Renata, and patches the sound of their intercourse over the lab's PA to devastate Prairie. When another subject, Scott, reveals Prairie has been lying to Hap, he's so blinded by rage he accidentally kills Scott, then takes his body back to the others and blames his death on Prairie. Lastly, when Homer and Prairie are able to physically touch for the first time, Hap drags her away, drugs her, and drives her out to the middle of a mountain highway. There, while pinning her down and holding a knife to her throat, he berates her, tears the strap of her dress, and then abandons her -- not only on the side of the road, but in that universe, as he leaves it and takes her friends with him.
  
  
• lonely: Hap's most exploitable weakness is his loneliness and his reluctance to acknowledge it. The significance of two brief but potent interactions is all it takes for him to offer Prairie the position of his housekeeper. Though she's still very much his prisoner, Hap treats the arrangement as more and more normal as the months go on. At one point, his guiding touch lingers on her hand; at another, he asks if she's doing her hair different and remarks that it looks nice, with the ease and familiarity of a friend or partner. Even after that arrangement ends sourly, he tells her that, unlike the other subjects, he thinks of her as a partner in his research. Prairie notes that Hap, unlike the captives who have each other, has nobody except his mentor Leon. When Leon violently attempts to seize Hap's research, Hap is forced to kill him. Noticeably shaken, this prompts him to invite Prairie (now known as OA) to run away with him and continue the work together elsewhere. Her staunch disinterest further destabilizes him.
  
  
• manipulative: Hap is aware that his behavior is unethical, or he wouldn't go to such lengths to cover his tracks or feel the need to obfuscate it to attract new subjects. He's adept at recruiting them with promises of remuneration and a sense of purpose. He charms Prairie, who has been sheltered and medicated all her life, into feeling special and seen. When an approach fails, like his offer to fly Renata out of Cuba, he uses what he's learned of his target and changes tack: forcing Homer to get her alone and seduce her. In the midst of this, Homer flees the hotel to escape Hap. However, Hap catches up with him and gaslights him about his chances of getting any justice in a foreign country.

canon history.

[angelhunter]

content warnings: Serial: drugging, kidnapping, imprisonment, forced human experimentation, physical and psychological torture, murder. Gaslighting, manipulation, sexual coercion, Lima syndrome, ableism, quasi-deadnaming, abuser mentality, victim blaming, bodysnatching.

PART I:

Hap claims to have hated medical school for how professors and peers looked down on him for asking the "interesting questions" -- the ones without answers. The mystery surrounding consciousness and what happens to it upon death. Early into his medical career, he is working in the emergency room when a patient died and is revived soon after. In that moment, he hears what he describes as a "whoosh," a sound he considers distinct evidence of consciousness leaving and returning to the body. This experience solidifies his obsession with death and people who have experienced it.

Over the next couple decades, Hap dedicates himself to the study of near-death experiences. He excavates the ground under his home and builds cells within to house his subjects. These people he acquires through advertising the study and offering monetary incentives; he gets a pilot's licence to fly them personally to his cabin, avoiding paper trails. There, they are repeatedly subjected to a procedure which allows Hap to kill and revive them, in as safe and humane a manner as possible. On top of the readings taken during the procedure, he interviews them about their experiences afterwards.

This all proceeds relatively smoothly until, by sheer coincidence, he meets Prairie Johnson, an NDE survivor who returned to life without her sight. Her disability lowers Hap's guard and compels him to provide her small freedoms he's never given other subjects. For a time, she works in his home as his housekeeper, until the day she pushes him down the stairs and tries to escape. Hap confines her thereafter to the basement lab but maintains a fixation on her, which worsens as her bond with the other captives grows. Prairie regains her sight during the escape and thereafter refers to herself as OA, which Hap does not acknowledge.

After having become accustomed to Prairie as a fixture in his life, Hap feels increasingly excluded by the subject group and aware of his own loneliness. He observes them making discoveries of their own regarding the study, despite measures he's taken to ensure they remember nothing after the interviews. Nonetheless, he comes to the realization that what they see upon death isn't another plane of existence, but other dimensions. A subject confesses that they are working together to learn a series of movements that will allow them to escape Hap by traveling into another universe.

Around this time, Hap is forced to kill his mentor and the only other person who knows about his study (and conducts one of his own) in self-defense. He asks OA to abandon the others and continue the research with him elsewhere, which she refuses. His desperation to achieve interdimensional travel reaches a breaking point when he murders a police officer and his wife, who entered his home and witnessed his crimes. As punishment for rejecting him, he abandons OA on the side of the road. He forces the remaining four subjects to perform the Movements with him instead, by injecting all of them, including himself, with a lethal dose of sodium pentathol.

PART II:

Hap and the others awake in San Francisco and overtake the bodies of this new dimension's counterparts. Learning from his environment, Hap assumes the role of Dr. Hunter Percy, a renowned psychologist and psychiatrist, whose therapy incorporates quantum theory. He runs Treasure Island mental health facility, where Hap's subjects are now his patients. Assimilating, Hap discovers Percy is secretly working with a tech mogul named Pierre Ruskin to acquire the bodies of people Ruskin lured to a strange property.

This house, owned by OA's alternate universe counterpart, Nina Azarova, is essentially a window into the fabric of the multiverse. The people who enter invariably go mad and die. The corpses are delivered to Treasure Island where Percy, now Hap, performs a peculiar autopsy. He coaxes vines to grow out of their ears, which immediately flower. Ingesting the petals of these flowers grants him a glimpse into another universe. Afterwards, the corpses are preserved in a pool where the vines continue to grow and connect, forming a map of the multiverse.

Hap has Rachel, a subject, assist him with these autopsies. After OA becomes a patient at Treasure Island and reunites with the others, Rachel finds the courage to attack Hap. Hap accidentally breaks her neck. Burying Rachel's body, he explicitly blames Prairie for her death.

When OA arrives in the body of Nina, a Russian heiress, Hap confines her to the facility with the others. He places Homer in charge of her care in an attempt to break her bond with him. Homer is the one subject who did not overtake his counterpart's existing consciousness in the jump; he is now a psychiatrist who believes OA/Nina to be unwell.

OA escapes the facility and Hap tasks Homer with tracking her down. Meanwhile, he meets another interdimensional traveler, Élodie. From her, he learns how OA was able to locate them across dimensions, how to detect other travelers, and how to travel with fewer than five participants. He intends to abduct her to discover more but she evades him. Hap returns to Treasure Island and bargains with one of his former subjects for information, soon betraying and killing him. The flower that grows from his corpse is Hap's key to finally making Prairie (OA) his partner.

OA returns to Treasure Island, the consciousness of Nina Azarova back in control of her body (with both identities sharing it). She demonstrates familiarity with Dr. Percy that Hap lacks, leaving him nonplussed. Nonetheless, he accommodates her request to see what he and Ruskin have been doing with her money and property. The pool of corpses shocks OA back to the surface, who reiterates her disgust with Hap. She flees and he pursues her into a courtyard. There they are joined by Homer, who has integrated both his identities like OA and Nina have. Hap reveals the monuments surrounding them are robots that perform the Five Movements. He states he is taking OA to a dimension where everyone calls her OA except herself. Hap shoots Homer and OA ascends into the sky. She begins to glow before jerking in the air as if suspended by faulty wires.

OA falls to the ground as she and Hap jump universes. They "awake" on the set of The OA television show. OA lies bleeding in the ground, unconscious. Hap learns her name is Brit. As OA is loaded into an ambulance, Hap rushes after, stating he is Jason Isaacs, her husband.

skills & abilities

[angelhunter]

SKILLS

• medicine — Hap attended and graduated medical school, and spent time working in the ER as an anesthesiologist.
  
• chemistry — He has devised a unique compound to induce unconsciousness and suggestibility upon inhalation. Presumably this is the same solution he means to inject Élodie with when he is preparing to abduct her. He preserves a dead body in a bathtub and dozens of dead bodies in a pool.
  
• engineering — He invents medical devices and equipment to both fund and execute his experiment. This includes programming the automation for said equipment.
  
• piloting — He owns a small plane that is his preferred method of long distance travel. In the series he flies as far as Cuba from Missouri.
  
• construction — Hap claims to have built his underground lab himself, which would require assembly of the cells and tunnel supports within.
  
• gardening — He maintains a fresh herb garden.

ABILITIES

• healing & resurrection — Through the performance of a specific dance, he knows how to heal wounds to the point of resurrecting someone who's been dead for several hours. This requires another person to perform it in tandem.
  
• interdimensional travel — Through an extended performance of the same dance, his consciousness can cross between universes and occupy another version of his body. This requires four other people to perform in tandem. He's discovered that this travel can also be accomplished with the use of five choreographed automatons.

(frozen comment) TMI meme

[angelhunter]

niche information

CLEAN(ISH) SECTION

Character name: Dr. Hunter Aloysius "Hap" Percy. Goes by Hap in Part I and Dr. Percy in Part II.

Age: 54
Birthdate: 1962
Zodiac sign: Aquarius

Height: 5'11"
Build: medium-broad, active but not athletic. ref.
Appearance: gallery
Voice: link
Body hair: Light scattering of chest hair. Average amount everywhere else.
Scent: Faint charcoal and anise.

Residence: Missouri (Part I), San Francisco CA (Part II)
Occupation: MD and anethesiologist (Part I), head psychiatrist (Part II)

Clothes: Trousers, dress shirts (tucked in or loose), sweaters. Whites, blacks, greys and dark or desaturated shades of blue and purple. Shirt collar terminally open. A brown leather messenger bag. Rotates a couple of wrist watches.
Scars: Small stab wound on left of abdomen (Part II).
Piercings: None.
Tattoos: None.
Other bodily modifications: None.
Other notable physical details: Wears glasses.

Vices of choice: Cigarettes, black tea, research, ruining Prairie's life.
Hygienic routine: Bathes and shaves daily unless he's in an obsessive spiral.
Other daily habits: He eats well, maintains his fitness, and works. He doesn't love socializing but he's made it a part of his day as head of Treasure Island (Part II).
Sleeping habits: Relies on sleeping pills. He generally has a hard time slowing his mind down and likes to get an early start on the day.

DIRTY SECTION

Sexual preference: Women.
Where they fall on the D/s spectrum normally: Dominant by default but enjoys submitting as long as his safe word will be respected.
Penis size: 6.5" with the girth to match the rest of him.
Pubic hair: Trimmed.
Circumcised?: Sure.

Underwear preference: Boxer briefs.
Sleepwear preference: Pants, no shirt.
What was their first time like?: With a girl of similar inexperience. Maybe not a girlfriend as such. He came, she didn't, this profound disappointment compelled him to express more interest in her than he had previously. They kept having sex, he learned a lot, she got feelings, he didn't. Messy teenage shit.
Best sexual experience: An adventurous girlfriend in med school introducing him to the wonders of D/s.
Worst sexual experience: Nothing traumatic. Just some lackluster encounter.

Size preference: Slender or fit.
Preferred method of sex: Oral, giving. Fingering, giving. Penetrative. He's had a vasectomy so doesn't bother with condoms as lambskin isn't great at preventing STI's.
Preferred frequency: Every once in a while. He can go months without.
Masturbation habits: Occasional.

Favorite position: From behind, back to chest, kneeling or on their sides.
Favorite place to have sex: Kitchen. Also on a porch, with relative privacy.
Favorite kinks/sex acts: breathplay, sensory deprivation, obedience, overstimulation
Kinks they've tried and hated: Explicit daddy kink, role play.
Favorite toys: Using vibrators on his partner, including remote controlled. Neck-to-wrist cuffs, though otherwise he prefers ties for bondage. Chained nipple clamps.

Sensitive areas: groin, thighs, chest, throat, scalp, he's pretty touch-starved all over.
Turn-ons: earnestness, honesty, gratitude, curiosity, expertise, worldliness, confidence, self-consciousness, independence, dependence, mercurialness, reliability, these are two very different women. Discussing sexual interests and boundaries is practically foreplay to him.
Turn-offs: abrasiveness, acerbity, moroseness, stubbornness, duplicity, idealism, degradation
Triggers: None.
Something they want to try but haven't before: Electrostimulation, giving.
Number one fantasy: Prairie. But a good substitute would be fucking his housekeeper, which he doesn't have.
After-sex habits: Clean-up, sticks around but likely to lie awake a long time. May or may not be there in the morning, depending on the circumstances.

(frozen comment) PSL ad / wishlist / what-have-you

[angelhunter]

OFFERING

— Dr. Hunter Aloysius "Hap" Percy (angelhunter)
— Prairie Johnson/Nina Azarova/The OA (wolftone)

SEEKING

— for Hap:

• OA: Part one, part two, part three (just not with actors' names, too weird), captive domesticity, patient/doctor power dynamics, fake Stockholm vs a splash of genuine Lima syndrome. Enemies to lovers that are still enemies, dubcon over noncon, the hatesex version of soulmates. Role reversal: lock his ass up. Nina throwing him for a whole loop. Alignment swap and/or transdimensional namnesia shenanigans.
  
• crosscanon (M/F, 21+): OA analogues (other such take-no-shit-but-bide-their-time heroines w/ mortal enemies, your Jessica Joneses, Genya Safins, etc), morally dubious women

— for OA:

• Hap: The other side of all of the above.
  
• Homer/crosscanon Homer analogues (M/F or F/F, 21+): bonding in captivity, friendship turning romantic, unbearable pining while kept on opposite sides of a glass wall, meeting in another universe with one of them unremembered (part two or part three), basically the whole thing.

PREFS

— Memes, PSL posts/comms, anywhere! Brackets or prose.
— Smut very welcome but not necessary.
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