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Otto Van Stragen  ✗ 42 ✗ Widowed ✗ David Tennant ✗ Civilian ✗ TAKEN

This is my life's work, and I have taken myths and turned them into reality. I have made the impossible for you to see in front of your own eyes. I have not been afraid to take the next step in the name of science, and the results have been miraculous...

Otto began life as the only son of a painter in Holland, his mother raising him on what little money they had. They were far from well off, but they made the most of things. His father used to say "So long as I have my family and my brushes, I am the richest man in the world." and yet Otto wanted more. He had a drive that his mother and father couldn't understand, spending hours in school after the last bells had gone in order to gain more knowledge. To him, knowledge was the highest form of power. 

He earned himself a scholarship to Cambridge university, and left his family behind in a heartbeat. They had treated him well, but like obsolete theories he had abandoned them for the next logical step to his goal. He wanted the world to know his name one day, to push the boundaries of science further than any other man before him. In his belief, the purpose of logic sometimes meant breaking ethics. 

It was here he met Eleanor Russell, a pretty, blonde, Welsh student with a love for Keats and Byron. He made her question whether love was just a series of chemical reactions, whether there wasn't something more. She softened him, made him relax like no one else could. When he was with her, the world had a certain beauty that he had never seen before. Only it wasn't to last.

As time passed, Eleanor grew ill. After giving birth to Felicity, she lost her love for literature as well as her love for life. She was suffering, and despite trying everything he knew, Otto couldn't fix it. They saw every doctor, every specialist, every psychiatrist but she was slipping away. She wasn't the optimistic young girl he had fallen for, and he wasn't the same man when she died. He never told his children because they were too young to remember, but her mothers suicide too it's tole on him. He decided never again to feel powerless to nature, never to let it win. He had already lost the most precious thing in the world to him.

Otto threw himself into his work, leaving his young children to babysitters and nannies. His sense of purpose had grown, he would barely eat or sleep to try and find his breakthrough. However he needed live subjects, something that the Royal Institute of Science would never allow. He turned to the family pet, Archie, in his desperate frenzy to show his results and findings. He knew once the Ministry of Defense saw what he had made possible, they wouldn't be able to resist. Otto was right.

Upon proving his findings he was given a compound, people to use in his experiments and anything else he ever asked for.  But only if he kept it quiet. It was too sensitive a matter to divulge to the public, there would be war and outrage everywhere, a public revolution. As long as he made sure it was unknown, he had their full support.

Quick facts:

Originally Dutch

Went to Cambridge

His wife committed suicide

Has two children