"If you are capable of, then you are entitled to; Bar none."
Name: Joel Marna Schroeder
Aliases: "Marn" -restricted to close friends, or people of interest.
Age: 43
Birthday: November 25th, 1972.
Ethnicity: Primarily Italian.
Birth Place: Sioux City, Iowa.
Place of Residency: Alistair Apartments
Hometown Sioux City, Iowa
Gender: Male
Highest Level of Education: A Doctorate in Historical Mythology and Symbolism, a Masters in Sociology.
Occupation: Non-Fiction Author, Mythology and Symbolism Professor at Cornell.
Languages: English, German, Spanish, and Arabic Fluently. French, Italian, Russian, Japanese, and (Mandarin) Chinese conversationally.
Height: 1.9 cm
Weight: 84 kg
Body Type: Lean
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color and Style: Salt and Pepper. Short, with trimmed sides.
Skin Tone: Tan/Olive
Tattoos/Scars/Piercings: A small circle tattooed onto his collarbone, and a slightly raised scar across the top of his left hand, angling from the bottom joint of his pinkie to a few inches left of his thumb.
Personal Style: Business casual, primarily sports jackets and dark khakis.
Creative * Over Attentive * Open Minded * Analytical
Sexuality: Asexual
Relationship Status: Single
Personality: While often considered complicated by people with higher levels of emotional intuition, an understanding of analytical behavior can reveal the simplicity behind his personality. What he lacks for in emotional knowhow, he makes up for in creative ingenuity; his enthusiasm is unrivaled dependant upon interest. His primary motivation in life is curiosity and child-like awe for explanations on once deemed impossibilities or unlikelihoods. While a bit of an oxymoron in regards to social settings, given his brilliance of sociological tendencies yet a puzzling lack of understanding when confronted with emotional influence. He is capable of performing expert-tier observations, predictions, and analysis; Yet once intimate relationships form, he is often seen as apathetic towards emotional interests, when in reality he is merely clueless when presented with emotional motivations.
Habits: Rambling when excited, nervous tapping of pens (on paper), half-pointing when confused or upset, tapping his canines together when pondering/contemplating. Swearing (Especially when struggling to remember something).
Hobbies: Smoking his Pipe, Drinking casually, and occasional reading/writing.
Fears: - Abandonment
- Intimacy
- Death, in the Abstract.
- Mediocrity
Likes: - Aged Whiskey
- English Tobacco
- Strong Coffee
- Writing
- Philosophy
- Politics
Dislikes: - Extremism
- Clear Liquor
- Libertarianism
- Buzzwords-Emotionally charged "Propaganda"
- Bigotry (with non-personal motivations)
- "The enemy is evil with intent" Mentality
More Mental Skills: No more than six, be specific, and keep it realistic! For example, driving and cooking are both considered skills
- Eloquence (A wonderful speaker, when intentional)
- Decoding (Symbological Understanding/translation}
- Allusional Knowledge (Mythological References)
- De-Escalation (Solving Conflict, calming heated scenarios etc.)
- Driving (Motorcycles)
Physical Skills: No more than four, and be specific!
- Speed
- Stamina
- High Pain Tolerance
- Strong Lungs
Day to Day Belongings:Whatever you carry with you and refuse to leave the house without!
- Classical Zippo, matte black casing.
- Brass Pipe Tool (3-in-1, Reamer/Tamper/Poker)
- Automatic OTF Pocket Knife (Spring Loaded Out-the-front knife)
- Wallet (Keys, Cards, Cash, etc.)
- Cell Phone
- "Pipe Pouch" (Holds a Pipe, a bag of tobacco, a handful of pipe cleaners, and a box of matches)
- Soft-Pack of unfiltered cigarettes
- Inscribed Pocket-Watch (Inscribed with "Mangiare il pane")
Home:Supplies, things of note, special belongings—things beyond basics (ie things like butterfly collections, shot guns, bibles, computers, and so forth)
- Laptop (Lenovo Thinkpad T460)
- Portable Mini-Bar Stocked with four bottles of aged whiskey.
- "Pipe Box" Contains a small handful of various pipe bowls and stems, as well as multiple tins of pipe tobacco.
- Three Cartons of Lucky Strike Cigarettes
- A small suitcase with three identical outfits and a second pair of shoes.
- A Self-Written Encyclopedia of mythological figures and symbols.
Life Before The Apocalypse Born and raised in one of the largest cities in Iowa, Joel was instilled with traditional, midwestern values. Hospitality, warmness, and integrity were traits he was taught to exude at all times. Joel excelled in school, with reading levels above high school standards by 5th grade, he was often seen as a "Teacher's pet," due to conditioned traits and an eagerness to learn. But in contrast, he was rarely liked by his peers, primarily because of his disinterest in common fascinations that preoccupied the adolescent mind. While young, he displayed an enormous amount of interest in mythology, cryptids, and things of similar content. Often sitting alone contently, Joel would spend hours upon hours reading through anything he could find that made even the slightest reference to things of mythological nature.
In his freshman year of highschool, he and his family were forced to move to New York City. Joel often considers it to be a bittersweet experience, as it gave him enormous amounts of resources to further explore and develop his understanding of mythology; but it also provided a rather harsh insight into human socialization. Being the traditionalist he was, as well as a blooming historian, he was introduced to a quiet organization that taught its members the ways of a reactionary, which helped forge the way for him to develop an intense interest in sociology.
In '88-'90, he received multiple scholarships, as well as several grants, which paved the way for him to eventually attend Cornell, and after eleven years of incredibly impressive study, became a proud member of the faculty. After receiving a Ph.D in mythological history and symbolism, Joel spent another Eight years to academically study sociology, during which he climbed the heights of Mythological study to the position he holds proudly and quietly today, as one of the highest authorities of Mythological Research.
Life Leading Up To the Apocalypse // What Brings You to Altsoba Though He had remained rather silent in regards to Media and the public eye, Joel continued to further his research through the involvement and leading of research teams to uncover and inspect archeological sites of interest, leading to enormous findings of ancient symbolism and paganistic deities. Although he refuses to acknowledge his findings as facts, and often refers to them as musings of an old mind, his most iconic form of research involves the publishment of personal deductions and contemplation of things that could have inspired many iconic symbols and heroes of mythology.
Being such a highly respected member of mythological research, at the beginning of the apocalypse Joel was called upon to use his knowledge of mythology to attempt and find a possible cause of the apocalypse, and hopefully to determine a way to avoid it. While Joel does not personally believe it is anything humanity could deter, he understands that if the possibility exists it would comfort many to know that he is present and helping.
Theme Song: Fehu - Wardrunna
Deviances: An uncanny ability to vaguely translate/decipher meaning from symbolism of any sort.
Extra Information:"What use does the proverb "The Turtle and the Hare" hold for humanity? We are not mere quadrupeds racing, how does it apply to us?"
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