Dr. Newton Geiszler

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IN CHARACTER
Name: Newton Geiszler
Canon: Pacific Rim
Canon Point: Just after he drifts with a kaiju for the first time.
Age: 36

History: character information here

Personality: Newton Geiszler is incredibly smart and he knows it. He knows it and likes to rub it in almost like a prepubescent kid who knows he's right and you're wrong and this is why. He's young a heart, incredibly energetic and generally an easy going, sincere and positive guy, which considering the severity of the situation the Earth is in all around him is pretty impressive. He listens to heavy metal and sings along with abysmal tune, likes to dance while he works, wears skinny jeans and has tattoos covering his body and loves proving people wrong, even if it means risking his own life.

Newt can come off as rude at times, especially when you're arguing with him. Thanks to generally not being good at interacting with people, most of his arguments with Hermann often just descend into full blown shouting matches and petty insult throwing. Once his mind is set on something you'll be damned if you'll be able to convince him otherwise. He's incredibly stubborn and will go out of his way to show off and prove to you that he's right, even if it means risking his life to do it. Like when he drifts with the kaiju brain for the first time--everyone told him he couldn't do it, and that it would probably kill him, but he's so sure it will work that he risks his own life and straight up blames Hermann for his death saying "Hermann, if you're listening to this I'm either alive and I've proven what I've just done works--In which case, ha! I won--or I'm dead, and I'd like you to know this is all your fault, it really is. You drove me to this. In which case, ha! I also won… Sort of."

He's overbearing and loud and thinks of himself and his work something equivalent to being a scientific rockstar, which technically he is. Being the last scientific saviour of mankind can kind of give you a big ego after a while, even commenting that if he died trying to discover things about the kaiju at least he'd "be a rockstar", much like the fame the Jaeger pilots receive. Working behind the scene doesn't get you a lot of notoriety, even if your research helped a Jaeger take down the latest kaiju--it didn't matter if nobody knew your name and what you did. So he wants people to know who he is. To respect the work he and Hermann do to help save mankind.

Even though he's incredibly immature, petty and loud, Newt is a heck of a hard worker. He rarely sleeps more than a few hours and puts everything he's got into his research. He's genuinely curious and fascinated by what he does and even though the world is ending around him, his curiosity and fascination with the kaiju is what keeps him going. His fascination is really shown when he gets let into Hannibal's secret lair and practically freaks out over the mint condition cuticle samples and lymph nodes from a category two like a kid in a candy store--forgetting what he was there for momentarily. He has to figure out how they work, they are the most amazing things to ever grace the world and he needs to know how they tick. His love for the monsters transcends into the physical world by the tattoos that litter his body, which often labels him as a kaiju sympathiser and adorer, no matter how much he denies it. This, combined with his generally bad people skills and loudmouth, tends to insult a lot of people traumatised and affected by the kaiju--like with his first meeting with Raleigh where the first thing he says about Yamarashi is that it was "two thousand five hundred tonnes of awesome", even though Raleigh had experienced its destruction first hand, and watched people die as a direct result of it. Newton had also just shrugged off his reaction as him being a jerk and a 'jarhead' rather than actually realising that he'd probably said something he shouldn't have.

Even though he's bad at interacting with people, Hermann has been a longtime friend and rival of his. They've known each other for nearly twenty years, and even though they scream and argue at each other--Hermann writing to the Marshall to complain about Newt's bad taste in music and leaving entrails on his side of the room--the two genuinely care for one anothers wellbeing. Deep down, Newt wants Hermann's acceptance and trust, and gets endlessly frustrated with him when they disagree. When Hermann eventually does show his trust--at the end of the movie, when they both drift together and share the neural load--Newt asks him "You'd do that for me?" before quickly catching himself and changing 'for' to 'with'. He respects Hermann a lot even though he teases him in front of others (for example, not calling him 'Doctor Gottlieb' in front of officials because he knows it annoys him) and their rivalry only makes them work harder--each trying to prove the other wrong.

His endless curiosity and wanderlust for the biological and xenobiological world can get the better of him sometimes and if he has nothing to do, boredom plagues him. He fidgets and fumbles, and is generally a nuisance to everyone around him until he's got something to do. This is partly thanks to having a borderline personality disorder which gives him manic episodes and downers when he's not medicated.

On his manic episodes, Newt suffers with hyperproductivity among other things. He doesn't sleep, and completely immerses himself in his work. And when he runs out of things to do he makes thing to do, or will reread his research four or five times to make sure it's accurate, and just quickly to an experiment to double check that because he's not entirely 100% positive it's correct. His body gets exhausted, but his brain wont shut off, and often during an episode he'll forget to eat and generally take care of himself because he needs to be doing something.

On the other-side of that coin, you have him in his anxious and depressive slumps. He barely has the energy to get out of bed, let alone do any work, and he often just shuts himself off from the world and listens to opera music and tries to get himself motivated by reading his favourite manga. Mostly he just sleeps though. It's been something he's struggled with from his early teens, and though he's found a cocktail of medicine that helps, he doesn't really like to take them as regularly as he should, so sometimes he has relapses. Being anxious about being rejected and by being proved wrong, is something he's always struggled with, and since he was a lecturer at MIT at a very young age, he's always had people clashing against him and his intelligence. It's this anxiety that spurs his determination to prove you wrong forward, but often it only pushes people away.

Contracts: The last thing that Newt remembers drifting with part of Mutavore's brain. He mind melded with the entire kaiju hivemind--it's all teeth and instinct and pain--and was overwhelmed with information about their species and 'creators'; the Precursors. As such, he will probably be convinced that the overload of information probably either killed him or put him into a coma, and being here is a result of the drift fucking his brain up. He'll go along with anything put in front of him and sign stuff, mostly because he'll be too out of it and confused to argue it, assuming he's sort of in a 'I got stuck in a coma and now I'm in another world' trope that's frequently used in a lot of media he consumes.

Abilities/Skills:
Intelligence: Newton is hideously intelligent. He currently holds six doctorates (a mixture of medical and science ones, including an MD, Engineering and cellular biology), all of which he got before he was 25. He was the second youngest student to be let into MIT and was often teaching students several years older than him. He also pioneered research in artificial tissue replication which can be applied to prosthetics, replacement organs, skin repair for burns and invented the 'Milking Machine' which helps remove the deadly toxins from the kaiju glands to make it easier to study them without having to use a hazmat suit. This is ignoring all the research and classifications he did whilst working for the PPDC for over ten years, helping categorise Kaiju, increasing knowledge and research into these aliens and becoming the leading scientist on Kaiju Xenobiology. Between his fellow K-Sci lead, Hermann Gottlieb, they work together categorising the kaiju via the Serizaawa Scale, based on their toxicity and ambient radioactivity.
Music: Newton grew up around lots of musicians--his father is a piano tuner, his uncle Ilia is a musical engineer who eventually taught Newton the basics of electronics and his mother is an coloratura soprano opera singer. Newton is really good at playing electric keyboard, though he didn't get his mothers singing voice
Engineering: Newton has a similar level of engineering understanding akin to Tony Stark from Marvel comics. He isn't quite at the level of building an Iron Man suit out or scraps in a cave, but he does build a PONS unit out of scraps in a storage room to help him drift with a kaiju. That's mind melding with a piece of preserved kaiju brain they have on ice, using a machine that literally has bellows keeping it from overheating. Though engineering isn't his main focus, he still uses it regularly to build things to make his job easier (milking machine, helping work on the kaiju scanners and develop safer practises to handling the kaiju) and loves tinkering with stuff when he's bored.
Language: Newton grew up speaking both English and German and is fluent in both. He also knows a moderate amount of speaking Italian (from listening to so many of his mother's opera recordings), Japanese (he is weeaboo trash), Cantonese and Mandarin and a small amount of speaking Russian. He can't read Japanese or Russian, but recognises and can read some Cantonese thanks to living in Hong Kong for so long. He also knows a fair amount of computer programming languages. Not that any of this will be helpful in a place where translators are in effect.

Strengths/Weaknesses:
Strengths: intelligent, energetic, passionate, curious, creative, sure of himself, witty, hard working, adventurous.

Weaknesses: loud, overbearing, stubborn, rude, narcissistic, manic, depressive, fidgety, bad at singing, insular

Items: Clothing: white dress shirt, skinny black tie, black skinny jeans, black Doc. Martens boots, leather bracelet, skull ring, black glasses, black belt.
Items: PPDC id card, a set of keys with a USB drive filled with research notes, voice recorder that he uses for research, wallet attached to a chain on his belt, with around 100 yuan, ID cards and photos of his family inside.

SAMPLES
Network Sample:

ok listen up guys gals and all the inbetweens
my names newt geiszler and im the worlds leading xenobiologist back home and its something that im pretty proud of since aliens only just got to earth
or well okay they poked their heads in in the triassic period but humans werent even a thing back then so it totally doesnt count
IM GETTING OFF POINT
anyway so
me=expert on all things kaiju
you=potential NEW ALIENS FOR ME TO STUDY

you see where this is going right??
basically im not about to give up my totally awesome rockstar name of worlds leading xenobiologist and so i gotta know all about the alien species that live on the ship!
anything thats not human is pretty much an alien sorry if thats space racist but them the breaks

dont worry im not gonna ask if you have tentacles for dicks or whatever but i am geninuely interested in learning about new species and planets where you guys originate and biology specifically
plus if you let me study you and end up getting hurt you get a shiny new medic so
WIN/WIN
AMIRITE

im living in suite [NUMBER HERE] so come on down and let me study you!!


EDIT:
wow ok reading this back it makes me sound like i wanna harvest your organs or preform cavity searches but wow i promise im not gonna do that I JUST WANNA MEET SOME COOL ALIENS we can do the cavity searches after you buy me dinner first if u know what i mean B)

EDIT 2:
fuck no scratch that im not a xenophile either what the fuck is wrong with me

Prose/Action Sample: TDM post