Name: Louis Carkaroff "Doc Lou"
Age: 23
Gender: Male
Role: Doctor

Specialty:
Anatomy, Surgeon, Wounds

Personality:
Doc Lou comes across as the silent type at first, he's often found with his nose in a book, however, once you get to know him, he can open up. When duty calls, he's always ready and despite his stand offish behavior, he will do anything to help someone in need. He enjoys watching others, choosing to observe more than participate. Occasionally, he finds himself longing for companionship, and he will sometimes find one or two people that he really hits it off with - and he'll usually be found amongst them more often than anyone else. 

Appearance:
[img]https://rvchua.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/tumblr_l4380ma4ad1qb5guno1_500.jpg[/img]

Other:
Doc Lou spent a good portion of his life struggling between dedicating his time to helping people or animals - he settled on becoming a surgeon to help people, but he still keeps his loyal dog - Molly - an intelligent Golden Retriever, who follows Lou almost everywhere. 

History: 
Doc Lou was born to an extremely well off family and was afforded many luxuries that other's simply couldn't afford. His childhood saw him grow extremely shallow and short sighted, completely unaware of the struggles of others. He was given private tutors and the best education money could buy, and discovered that he had a great love of books and knowledge. He was fifteen when his books could no longer curve his curiosity and he longed to explore the world. His father encouraged this behavior, saying that it would help him grow as a man, while his mother insisted that he stay home. Ultimately, he decided that it was more important to see what the world held, and it was this that changed his outlook on life. He traveled abroad, meeting a young woman by the name of Lydia Hatch - a very strange, but vibrant woman who grew up in what Lou would have considered the worst possible life - No family, and hopping from town to town since she was twelve. At first, this idea sounded foreign and he rejected the idea, but soon realized that Lydia had more life experience in just those two, short years, than he could ever hope while living the way he did. 

Lydia was like nothing he had ever met in a woman, and this enticed him. There was a point, in which, he was ready to return home, while she continued her travels. During this time with her, she pointed out all of the good that the two of them could do for those less fortunate than themselves. She taught him the power of empathy, and shared her love of animals. Lou asked her to join him, to come home with him where the two could continue doing good together, but Lydia refused, not willing to be tied down in any way and the two finally parted ways. Lou was ready to return home, his view on the world different than it ever had been and continued his schooling eagerly. Over the years, he wrote to Lydia, telling her about all of his accomplishments and owing his willingness to help others to her. Eventually he continued his studies into medical and got a job in a mining town in Arizona. There he saw injuries like he never had before and eventually got called to another, more prestigious hospital on the other coastline, in New York. He continued to write to Lydia through all this, before at last her responses stopped coming - the last letter he sent was returned to him with a stamp saying "return to sender". 

Eventually, he decided to look for Lydia, spending a large amount of his savings, moving from city to city, looking for any sign of her - before at last, he discovered the terrible truth - her death. Finding it difficult to return to the same life as before, he bargained passage on a ship, offering his services in exchange. He continued this way of life until getting a telegram from his father with the news that his mother had passed, he returned to say his final goodbye, and decided to take this opportunity to work in a stable hospital again. Intuition often lead him through some of the most complicated situations, and his success rate was higher than most, but even he couldn't save everybody, and at some point, the death toll grew to be too much. The last patient he lost was an older man who insisted on having his young Golden Retriever pup with him before he passed. Doc Lou had bypassed the hospital protocol and allowed the pup, who the old man called Molly. There was nothing he could do to help the poor man, but he seemed to know that it was his time and he asked Doc to take the pup and keep her as his own. It was his dying wish, and so, he took Molly and has kept her ever since. Once more, he left the hospital and hadn't been looking for employment again before being called upon for a very special mission - he probably wouldn't have agreed, had the man who asked not been the exact man who he had taken passage with before - with the same crew.