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Jan. 15th, 2011 03:04 pm[nick / name]: Riko
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[other characters currently played]: Gregor Vorbarra :: The Vorkosigan Saga ::requestrequire
[e-mail]: riko.tropes @ gmail.com
[AIM / messenger]: rikotropes
[series]: The Passage by Justin Cronin
[character]: Bradford Joseph Wolgast
[character history / background]: Wikipedia plot summary.
In addition to the information noted there, there are a few other pieces of information that are important for understanding Brad Wolgast. He spent a lot of time moving around as a child because of his parents' jobs. During his high school years, he never really stayed at any given school for longer than a year before his family moved again.
He maintained the same sort of detachment throughout his early professional life. Eventually, he met Lila Kyle, an orthopedic surgeon, when he's brought into the hospital for a basketball injury. They dated for a while and then married. They bought a house in Cherry Creek and eventually had a daughter named Eva. Eva isn't a healthy child, however, and she dies three weeks before her first birthday. Lila and Wolgast divorce not long after.
As Wolgast's storyline begins, he has been working on Project NOAH for months and has recently heard from Lila who has informed him that she's getting remarried and is pregnant again.
[character abilities]: Wolgast has a bachelor's degree in criminal justice and a bunch of FBI training, with a certain amount of specialization in counterterrorism and the Russian mob. He was selected for work with Project NOAH because of his negotiation skills.
[character personality]: Wolgast is largely a man plagued by guilt. His divorce and the death of his child placed him in a particularly vulnerable position, which the military took advantage of to recruit him for Project Noah. Now Wolgast carries around guilt not only for Lila's death but for his role in the project, the people who became virals because of him, and what happened to Amy as a result of his actions.
But ultimately, Wolgast is a good person. His moral compass may have been clouded for a while, but it's generally solid, and Wolgast learned the hard lesson from Project NOAH that not asking questions and just following orders doesn't do much to make you feel better in the long run. He's not likely to make the same mistake again.
Wolgast is no genius, but he's clever and good at improvising. He's not the most skilled people-reader on an objective scale, but he's better than many, and his innate decency goes a long way to helping him figure out how best to get on someone's good side. As a result, he is a good negotiator, and his skills have been honed by his work with Project NOAH.
Wolgast's guiding motivation, however, is his dad instincts. They never really went away after Lila died and were reignited by meeting Amy. There's very little that Wolgast cares about more than Amy's safety and happiness. He'd sacrifice everything, including his own life and own happiness, to secure it. The loss of his first daughter has also lent an extra clingy streak to Wolgast's paternal instincts. To Amy, he's a particular attentive and doting father-figure and, in general, finds it very difficult to say no to her. Given the danger she was in during their time together, though, this clingy streak also emerges as a protective streak, and Wolgast will be highly wary of anyone who attempts to get close to her.
Due to his death and his time spent with only an echo of his consciousness remaining with Amy, Wolgast will enter the City mildly disoriented and with a vague, blurry sense of the time after his death and of his own mortality.
[point in timeline you're picking your character from]: From the amorphous time following his death but before Amy releases his "spirit" at the end of the novel.
[journal post]: [ When the audio comes on, the only noise is coughing. It's a dry, hacking cough, like someone whose lungs aren't used to taking in and letting out air. Between the coughs, a man's voice says, dazedly, ] Amy, Amy.
[ More coughing and then a few deep breaths followed by a rough clearing of the throat. ] My name is Brad Wolgast. If there's anyone out there -- anyone who can hear this -- I need to know if the virals (CHECK THIS) are gone. Are we safe?
[third person / log sample]:
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riko[other characters currently played]: Gregor Vorbarra :: The Vorkosigan Saga ::
requestrequire[e-mail]: riko.tropes @ gmail.com
[AIM / messenger]: rikotropes
[series]: The Passage by Justin Cronin
[character]: Bradford Joseph Wolgast
[character history / background]: Wikipedia plot summary.
In addition to the information noted there, there are a few other pieces of information that are important for understanding Brad Wolgast. He spent a lot of time moving around as a child because of his parents' jobs. During his high school years, he never really stayed at any given school for longer than a year before his family moved again.
He maintained the same sort of detachment throughout his early professional life. Eventually, he met Lila Kyle, an orthopedic surgeon, when he's brought into the hospital for a basketball injury. They dated for a while and then married. They bought a house in Cherry Creek and eventually had a daughter named Eva. Eva isn't a healthy child, however, and she dies three weeks before her first birthday. Lila and Wolgast divorce not long after.
As Wolgast's storyline begins, he has been working on Project NOAH for months and has recently heard from Lila who has informed him that she's getting remarried and is pregnant again.
[character abilities]: Wolgast has a bachelor's degree in criminal justice and a bunch of FBI training, with a certain amount of specialization in counterterrorism and the Russian mob. He was selected for work with Project NOAH because of his negotiation skills.
[character personality]: Wolgast is largely a man plagued by guilt. His divorce and the death of his child placed him in a particularly vulnerable position, which the military took advantage of to recruit him for Project Noah. Now Wolgast carries around guilt not only for Lila's death but for his role in the project, the people who became virals because of him, and what happened to Amy as a result of his actions.
But ultimately, Wolgast is a good person. His moral compass may have been clouded for a while, but it's generally solid, and Wolgast learned the hard lesson from Project NOAH that not asking questions and just following orders doesn't do much to make you feel better in the long run. He's not likely to make the same mistake again.
Wolgast is no genius, but he's clever and good at improvising. He's not the most skilled people-reader on an objective scale, but he's better than many, and his innate decency goes a long way to helping him figure out how best to get on someone's good side. As a result, he is a good negotiator, and his skills have been honed by his work with Project NOAH.
Wolgast's guiding motivation, however, is his dad instincts. They never really went away after Lila died and were reignited by meeting Amy. There's very little that Wolgast cares about more than Amy's safety and happiness. He'd sacrifice everything, including his own life and own happiness, to secure it. The loss of his first daughter has also lent an extra clingy streak to Wolgast's paternal instincts. To Amy, he's a particular attentive and doting father-figure and, in general, finds it very difficult to say no to her. Given the danger she was in during their time together, though, this clingy streak also emerges as a protective streak, and Wolgast will be highly wary of anyone who attempts to get close to her.
Due to his death and his time spent with only an echo of his consciousness remaining with Amy, Wolgast will enter the City mildly disoriented and with a vague, blurry sense of the time after his death and of his own mortality.
[point in timeline you're picking your character from]: From the amorphous time following his death but before Amy releases his "spirit" at the end of the novel.
[journal post]: [ When the audio comes on, the only noise is coughing. It's a dry, hacking cough, like someone whose lungs aren't used to taking in and letting out air. Between the coughs, a man's voice says, dazedly, ] Amy, Amy.
[ More coughing and then a few deep breaths followed by a rough clearing of the throat. ] My name is Brad Wolgast. If there's anyone out there -- anyone who can hear this -- I need to know if the virals (CHECK THIS) are gone. Are we safe?
[third person / log sample]:
