"Doc" Emmett L. Brown

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Character's Full Name: Dr. Emmett Lathrop Brown (formally known as Doc)
Character's Canon: Back to the Future
Character's Canon Point: 1892, shortly before the family visits 1985 at the end of Back to the Future Part III
Character's Journal Name: 4thdimensional
What would you like your character's tag to be?: doc brown

Answer the following questions in no less than 300 words but no greater than 1000 words put together...
Character's background (their past and present):

Emmett Brown was born in the early 20th century, raised by a strict father who pushed him into pursuing a career in law. His true passions always lay with science, and thanks to a strange visitor from out of town, he finally found the courage to tell his father to stuff it. From the tender age of 17, he pursued physics with an uncommon zeal, inventing powerful engines and strange devices all over the place---but few worked.

The other citizens of Hill Valley were bothered by his strange ramblings, so he remained friendless for most of his life. And as failure after failure piled up, he began to fear that he'd never make a name for himself as he dreamed of doing. Even when a random flash of head-trauma induced brilliance showed him the way to invent a time machine, he bitterly dismissed it as an impossibility.

But his fears were finally laid to rest that night, when a teenaged boy in strange clothes arrived on his doorstep claiming to have arrived in that very same time machine. Indeed, it worked just as he'd dreamed. So he spent one very happy week with the young Marty McFly, successfully powering the time machine to send him back to the future.

From that point forward, Emmett's life had purpose. Even when his home burned down and the townsfolk laughed him off, he held his head up and continued to work. One day, he knew, Marty would come into his life again, greeting him with a 'hey Doc' as he always did. And a day soon after that, he'd be the first in the world to successfully enable time travel.

Doc was right on both counts. After Marty completed the time loop that kicked off the whole mess, Doc could finally embark on his first trip to the future---and he didn't quite like what he saw. Marty's future happiness was at stake, so Doc wasn't above a little meddling to fix it. But one stolen time machine and another changed past later, Marty and Doc found themselves back in 1955 on a quest to stop a bully from giving himself the information he needed to rule the future with an iron fist. They succeeded---but at the cost of Doc disappearing in a flash of lightning.

Destination: the Old West. Doc was initially dismayed to find that the time machine could not be repaired with 1885 technology, meaning he could never jump forth to meet Marty again. But as a fan of classic Westerns, his new life was almost a dream come true. Instead he set about preserving the time machine in a safe location, where his future self and Marty could set apart sending the similarly-stranded Marty back to 1985. Doc also carefully preserved a letter, giving the pair repair instructions and a direct order to jump immediately to 1985.

Imagine his surprise, then, when he found himself rescuing Marty from a madman shortly after that placing that letter in safekeeping. The reason for Marty's flagrant disobedience soon became clear: according to a tombstone in the future, Doc would be murdered in a few days' time if he didn't leave the Old West as soon as possible.

Unfortunately, a complication popped up. The same tombstone warning of Doc's fate also showed that the memorial was erected by his 'beloved Clara'. Who was Clara? He soon found out: a day later, he swooped in to save a lady in distress. This lady turned out to be a beautiful schoolteacher with a passion for astronomy and speculative fiction. Her name? Clara. Much to Doc's surprise, it was love at first sight.

His heart was torn: remain in the past with his new love, or return to the future with his best friend? When Clara broke his heart, he chose the future---but realizing her mistake, Clara chased after him, and with not enough roadway to bring all three to the future, Doc was forced to remain in the past with her while Marty sped ahead.

With a little help from a stray hoverboard left behind by Marty, Doc set about finding a way to reunite everyone. It took him several years, but after a marriage and a few additions to the family, Doc was finally able to bring his next invention to life: a time train. He set out to visit Marty immediately upon its completion---and thanks to a certain Q, he never quite made it to the future.


Character's personality:

Draw a mental picture of 'mad scientist' in your head. Frizzy white hair, incomprehensible techno-babble, flagrant disregard for safety protocols, unprecedented experiments, and bitter isolation in a lab. In another life, all of this could be an accurate depiction of Dr. Emmett Brown, and some of these stereotypes definitely apply to him---but the actual picture is a little more complicated than that.

After years of loneliness followed by one inspiring visit from a future boy, Doc learned to stand proud and brush off criticisms. He really doesn't give a darn what the townsfolk think of him anymore---none of them will ever be his friends, so he doesn't think twice before shooting his mouth off about some of the ruder people he encounters or doing his own thing.

Unfortunately, he's also developed a justified paranoia that others will try to ruin him. Regarding his science projects, he holds his cards very close to the vest, not even telling his one friend about his life's work until he's sure it's complete. He's always looking over his shoulder, trying to anticipate worst-case scenarios and prepare for them---and this can be unpleasant sometimes.

Behind that cold shell, though, is an eager scientist very much in love with his work. He still desperately wants to share his findings about physics and stars and impossibilities with someone, When he encounters someone willing to give him a chance, Doc becomes an over-excitable zealot, eagerly babbling about his findings and bursting with pride. When he finally meets other scientists (or schoolteachers) who understand and are willing to listen, he might not be able to contain his excitement.

Years of loneliness have made Doc an intensely loyal friend to the very few he considers worthy. For his best friend (and only friend), he's concocted complicated time travel schemes, thought up desperate MacGyver worthy rescue plans, sacrificed his own chance to return home, and even taken bullets for him. And he's so infatuated with his new love that he remained 100 years in his own past for her sake, content to talk about the stars and the universe with someone who has the same wide-eyed love for it that he does. When it comes to love, Doc will do anything. Friendship and love are to be treasured and protected.

Overall, Doc's a kooky scientist with just a hint of madness, severe paranoia, and a sarcastic streak...but earn his trust and he becomes a fierce friend, willing to fight to the depths of hell for the people he loves most.

Character's skills/abilities/powers: Doc is a gifted nuclear physicist. He also has experience with automobile repair, clock repair, and inventing many things that don't work (along with a few that do). He can work with natural gas, steam, or electricity, and thanks to his stay in the Old West he's also an excellent smith.

There are no superpowers here, just science. A little ingenuity can accomplish anything.

Any special equipment your character is bringing along? This includes weaponry, magic items, etc.: In addition to the Wild West clothes he wears, he has two special keepsakes: a piece of the hoverboard Marty borrowed in 2015, and a photo of himself and Marty at the activation of Hill Valley's clock tower.

Are you bringing your character to ten_fwd from another game? If you are, which game?: Nope!

If you answered yes above, briefly summarize how they were affected by the other game: N/A

Why do you want to play this character in Ten Forward, and what do you plan to do with them?
Doc has always had an eye for the future. He's even fonder of the past in some ways, but to travel where no one from the 20th century dares to dream, except in books? He'd be thrilled and honored, if not a little out of his element at first.

He won't be taking anyone on space joyrides through time (at least...he probably won't), but when crazy inventions are needed, he's always there. He also has a taste for all sorts of eras and all sorts of people, something that will serve him well on the Enterprise. Sci fi nerds are gonna do their sci fi nerd thing, after all.

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