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[color=burlywood][b]⏳𝓝𝓪𝓶𝓮[/b]
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[INDENT]Vincent Lionel Halverson [/INDENT]

[color=burlywood][b]⏳𝓣𝓲𝓽𝓵𝓮[/b]
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[INDENT]Doctor[/INDENT]

[color=burlywood][b]⏳𝓐𝓰𝓮[/b]
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[INDENT]32[/INDENT]

[color=burlywood][b]⏳𝓖𝓮𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻[/b]
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[INDENT]Male[/INDENT]

[color=burlywood][b]⏳𝓐𝓹𝓹𝓮𝓪𝓻𝓪𝓷𝓬𝓮[/b]
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[INDENT]Vincent is definitely not a very intimidating man, standing no taller than average and possessing a rather slim build. At a first glance, everything about him seems, well, [i]average[/i]; he dresses in a somber, understated manner (though he places great importance on proper attire, of course), and loves a good waistcoat. His hair is [i]always[/i] neatly styled in the most unassuming way, with not one strand out of place, and is a dark, inky black. His eyes are a warm brown color, and they reveal very little of what he is thinking or feeling. His long, thin hands are on the smaller side, and his complexion is fairly average-not overly pale, but not overly tan, either. In short, everything about Vincent’s outer appearance, from his clean-shaven face to the simple, demure clothing that he favors, is utterly forgettable.

However, those who are keener observers may notice that his clothing is [i]just[/i] solemn enough to be less than perfectly fashionable, his hair is cut [i]just[/i] plainly enough so that it does not attract attention by being in an old-fashioned style, and his stance and demeanor are [i]just[/i] unassuming enough to be passed over in favor for his bigger and bolder peers. Indeed, Vincent has purposefully cultivated an image of being completely, perfectly [i]forgettable[/i]. Most people do not notice him, because he does not want them to.

Beneath his earth-toned jackets and slight figure, Vincent boasts a bit of lean, lanky muscle on his arms and legs. His angular features are rather contemplative, if one watches carefully, and some people may be able to deduce that he is constantly thinking, constantly considering his every move. His skin is, for the most part, smooth and unblemished, though there is a burn scar down the side of his leg from a lab explosion five years ago.[/INDENT]

[color=burlywood][b]⏳𝓢𝓬𝓱𝓸𝓸𝓵[/b]
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[INDENT]The Polytechnique Institute of Arts and Sciences[/INDENT]

[color=burlywood][b]⏳𝓖𝓾𝓲𝓵𝓭[/b]
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[INDENT]Apothecary[/INDENT]

[color=burlywood][b]⏳𝓖𝓲𝓯𝓽[/b]
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[INDENT]Vincent is a Mera-healer; he can heal wounds, cuts, abrasions, bruises, et cetera with sparks that come flying out of his fingertips.[/INDENT]

[color=burlywood][b]⏳𝓞𝓬𝓬𝓾𝓹𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷[/b]
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[INDENT]A physician in the employ of the Imperia-Airwrights; it pays better than the places in Cindergate, and he has to provide for his parents.[/INDENT]

[color=burlywood][b]⏳𝓟𝓮𝓻𝓼𝓸𝓷𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓽𝔂[/b]
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[INDENT]Vincent is an exceedingly mild-mannered man. He is quiet and reserved and shows very little emotion, no matter if he approves or disapproves of something. Calm and collected, even in times of crisis, Vincent is as steadfast and as unmoving as a rock. Dependable and practical, Vincent always makes sure that whatever has to be done is done-in fact, he makes sure that it is done [i]well[/i]. He carries all his tasks through with the utmost efficiency, and he values organized inventories and work spaces over everything else. With his quick, analytical mind Vincent is very often two or three steps ahead of everyone else. He prefers to examine all sides of an issue and take every variable into account before passing judgement, and he has a knack for coming up with elegant solutions that all parties involved can agree upon.

Vincent tends to keep his thoughts to himself, and he prefers to sit back and observe than get involved in the fray. He always feels slightly uncomfortable in large crowds of people, though he is not easily intimidated (something that others usually miss, considering his outward appearance). Vincent carries out orders very well, and he is quick about it, too. 

Vincent is very practical and prefers simplicity over extravagance in all matters, from attire to home decor and food-though décor must be tastefully done, and food must not be inedible, thank you very much. Calm, polite, and solicitous, very few people in this world have reason to dislike him. He is quiet and serene, and seems to calm people down just by being near them. He doesn't like asking others for favors or assistance-he feels uncomfortable because he thinks he is bothering them-and keeps most of his own problems to himself.

Polite and respectful, it is all too easy to mistake Vincent’s deference for submissiveness. Vincent doesn’t mind-it makes him seem perfectly harmless and not threatening in the least, which he does intentionally. He knows full well that if someone were to unearth some of the things he’s done in the past, he would be in deep trouble indeed-because behind the polite expression on his face and utterly inoffensive appearance, Vincent can be just as cunning and manipulative as the worst of them.[/INDENT]

[color=burlywood][b]⏳𝓦𝓱𝔂 𝔀𝓸𝓾𝓵𝓭 𝓒𝓪𝓹𝓽𝓪𝓲𝓷 𝓚𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓼𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓭 𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓪𝓬𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓶?[/b]
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[INDENT]Vincent’s got a solid understanding of the procedure required to create an automaton-or what his teachers could teach him, anyway. He’s also worked for men interested in reviving automatons, so he has practical experience in that…[i]field[/i]. Besides, it’s always nice to have a doctor on hand, and even better when he works for your “second-in-command”. As an added bonus, Vincent went to the Institute, meaning that none of this is particularly unusual to him, relatively speaking.

In short, Captain Kingsford contacted him because he was convenient. And Vincent knows that whether he says yes or no doesn’t really matter, because the Imperia-Airwrights would [i]probably[/i] call on him to patch up anybody wounded during the investigation anyway, seeing as Rowena is involved. So Vincent agreed to help, lured by the Legionnaire captain’s promise of a “generous compensation”. [/INDENT]

[color=burlywood][b]⏳𝓟𝓻𝓮𝓯𝓮𝓻𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓦𝓮𝓪𝓹𝓸𝓷[/b]
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[INDENT]Vincent is not much of a fighter, and he prefers to use words in the place of weapons. However, if worst comes to worst, Vincent favors poison or the little butterfly knife he has tucked into a pocket sewn on the inside of his jackets at all times. [/INDENT]

[color=burlywood][b]⏳𝓟𝓻𝓮𝓯𝓮𝓻𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓜𝓮𝓽𝓱𝓸𝓭 𝓸𝓯 𝓒𝓸𝓷𝓯𝓻𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷[/b]
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[INDENT]With calm words, comfortable chairs, and a good pot of tea. Unfortunately for him, things don’t always work out this way.[/INDENT]

[color=burlywood][b]⏳𝓕𝓪𝓿𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓽𝓮 𝓒𝓵𝓪𝓼𝓼(𝓮𝓼) 𝓪𝓽 𝓢𝓬𝓱𝓸𝓸𝓵[/b]
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[INDENT]Waistcoats and Weaponry, Deadly Plants and Deadlier Poisons, some of more advanced biology, anatomy, and physiology courses[/INDENT]

[color=burlywood][b]⏳𝓑𝓲𝓸𝓰𝓻𝓪𝓹𝓱𝔂[/b]
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[INDENT]The Halversons have always been loyal.

Vincent’s grandfather was a butler in the Golding-Brassmott household. He came with Lady Eliza Imperia-Airwright, formerly Lady Eliza Golding-Brassmott, to Hourglass City from the Triarchy city of Slateton City. She was betrothed to Malcolm Imperia-Airwright, and their marriage was a way to seal a trade alliance.

Vincent’s grandfather left his entire family behind to serve as Eliza’s butler, because he was [i]loyal[/i]. This loyalty would drive Vincent’s grandmother insane, and when she died of both heartache and old age, his son-Vincent’s father-went to Hourglass City to find him. 

Find him he did, and Vincent’s father stayed with his grandfather until the butler died, and Vincent’s father, with nowhere else to go, became an accountant in the employ of the Imperia-Airwrights. He was there, through the darkest of times for the family, and he married a Craftswoman and had four children with her. Vincent was the youngest.

By the time Vincent was fourteen, the Imperia-Airwrights had recovered from their plight, for the most part. To reward Vincent’s father for his loyalty, Malcolm offered to send their youngest son to the Polytechnique Institute, free of charge. With university bills for his three older children piling up, Vincent’s parents were happy to accept the offer.

At the Institute, Vincent was nothing exceptional in terms of evil genius-ness, although his instructors noted that he had a quick mind and a knack for biology and medicine. Considering the fact that he was gifted with the power to heal, it was a perfect fit (though some of his teachers noted that it was a shame Vincent was not inclined to be particularly evil at all, because he would have made a [i]wonderful[/i] mad scientist-slash-surgeon, apparently). 

Shortly before Vincent graduated, his oldest brother was killed while he was out on an operation for the Imperia-Airwrights. Not long after that, his second-oldest brother and his father were both injured when an airship crash-landed in the middle of New Toppingham, with his brother dying a week later and his father paralyzed from waist-down. His older sister quit her job to take care of their parents, leaving Vincent to do his best to earn enough money to provide for both his parents and himself.

After graduating from the Institute, Vincent studied for a number of years in order to become a licensed, practicing healer. He joined the Apothecary Guild, and began looking for a job. He found an entry-level job at the Cindergate Hospital, and although the pay was meager, Vincent was just glad to have a source of income.

A few months later, it was becoming clear that Vincent would not be able to support an entire household on his salary, so he began searching for other job opportunities, tapping into his connections from his time at the Institute. He eventually found a position as a researcher under one Lord Archibald Sullivan, who had decided that he wanted to create an automaton for himself. Vincent was skeptical, at first, but the money that Archibald was offering eventually won him over.

Lord Archibald Sullivan was the son of Lord Robert Sullivan, a notorious air-merchant who had a long-standing feud with the Imperia-Airwrights, though Vincent had not known it at the time. He worked under Archibald for five years-five long, torturous years-and in the process, he realized that it simply was not the life for him.

During his time with Archibald Sullivan, Vincent fell himself falling slowly, but deeply, in love with Stephen Trevant, a mercenary under the Sullivans' employ. He hid it until he could hide it no more, and the two began seeing each other, concealing the fact from everybody else.

It was also during his time with Archibald Sullivan that Vincent saw [i]why[/i] Myalo had been labeled "black magic" by the rest of society. The darkness in the very nature of the magic began corrupting Archibald, turning a man already inclined to evil even more, well, [i]evil[/i]. Archibald's already-mean temper became decidedly meaner, and on more than one occasion, Vincent was left in so much pain that he couldn't even summon up the energy to heal himself. Still, he stayed, if only because of Stephen, if only because he needed the money. 

But when Stephen found out, inevitably, and confronted Archibald about it-when Stephen tried (and failed) to [i]kill[/i] Archibald Sullivan, despite Vincent's protests and warnings; when he saw Stephen's dead body, his lifeless eyes-Vincent decided to take matters into his own hands. He bided his time, carefully, making sure that considered every option, every possibility.

Vincent knew, rationally, that he himself would not be able to kill Archibald without leaving behind traces of evidence. So instead, he manipulated Archibald into a confrontation with the Imperia-Airwrights, one close enough to Peripoint that the Legionnaires would put a stop to it before anyone was seriously injured. Vincent made sure to slip Archibald's notes about automatons into his jacket pocket before he left, to leave traces of the experiments throughout Archibald's airship-so that the Legionnaires would be able to arrest him for life.

The plan should have gone smoothly. [i]Would[/i] have gone smoothly, if Malcolm Imperia-Airwright's third-in-command, Azariah Wynlad (the second being his niece, of course) had not decided, out of the blue, to accompany the men in the airship that Archibald decided to attack. In the ensuing confrontation, both Archibald and Azariah were arrested. Before the Imperia-Airwrights could negotiate his release, Lord Robert Sullivan had Azariah poisoned in his jail cell. Which, of course, led to the Imperia-Airwrights blowing up Archibald's lab, destroying all his notes, then violently gutting Archibald Sullivan himself while he lay defenseless in his cell.

After Archibald was killed, Vincent returned to his family. When the Imperia-Airwrights offered him a position as a physician, Vincent was nervous, initially, but accepted. He knows that there's not really a way to [i]prove[/i] what he did, but he's heard plenty of rumors (from his Institute friends, at least) about Lady Rowena Imperia-Airwright's ability to read minds, and that is certainly not a very reassuring thought...
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[color=burlywood][b]⏳𝓔𝓿𝓲𝓵 𝓖𝓮𝓷𝓲𝓾𝓼 𝓛𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓵 𝓪𝓽 𝓖𝓻𝓪𝓭𝓾𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷[/b]
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[INDENT]Mildly Rude Genius (he was never that good at being [i]evil[/i], no)[/INDENT]

[color=burlywood][b]⏳𝓞𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻[/b]
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[INDENT][b]⏳𝓛𝓲𝓴𝓮𝓼:[/b] clean clothes, clean surfaces, cleanliness in general, sharp pencils, tidy rooms, the smell of coffee, organized rooms, being polite to others, biology, botany, being a Healer, going about on his way unnoticed, being underestimated by those outside of his family, being prepared for [i]everything[/i], elegant solutions, daffodils and daisies, subtle earth tones (namely greens and browns and beiges), everything being resolved in a peaceful manner, efficiency, the smell of the sea

[b]⏳𝓓𝓲𝓼𝓵𝓲𝓴𝓮𝓼:[/b] facial hair, inappropriately loud people, rumpled clothing, bloodstains, ineffectiveness, disorganized messes, chaos, incompetent people, being unprepared, messiness, drunkards, bar fights, fighting in general, obnoxious displays of force, people that he’s not sure he trusts realizing how capable he truly is, alcohol (he'll take it in moderation, but not enough to get drunk)

[b]⏳𝓢𝓴𝓲𝓵𝓵𝓼:[/b] remembering small details, manipulating the situation in his favor, drawing up compromises, a quick learner, quick and nimble in a fight and half-decent with a gun/knife (Vincent draws upon his agile cunning and element of surprise more than his physical strength when he is engaged in any sort of physical altercation), makes a mean roast chicken, a very good listener, reliable and dependent

[b]⏳𝓦𝓮𝓪𝓴𝓷𝓮𝓼𝓼𝓮𝓼:[/b] his lack of brute strength puts him at a disadvantage in certain situations, tends to be a bit passive and go-with-the-flow, not very intimidating or assertive (and as such, he would not be a great leader), singing and playing instruments (Vincent is the opposite of "musically inclined") [/INDENT]

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