Canyon App

[vanreyk]

PLAYER INFORMATION

✘ Name: Maus
✘ Age: 35
✘ Contact: PM or Ronsencock
✘ Character(s) currently in game: Nada
✘ Favorite horror tropes/events: Mind fuckery, but also just general suffering. Not helpful I know.
✘ Limits/Triggers: Nothing really. If I don't like something I just won't engage with it.
✘ Invited by: uwu mod invite

CHARACTER INFORMATION

✘ Name: Simon Van Reyk
✘ Canon: Harrow
✘ Canon Point: Very end of S2 E4

✘ Age: 27
✘ History:

Not much is known of Simon's early life, he's one of two children, having a sister named Karina. When he was a young boy he was diagnosed with epilepsy which he's dealt with through proper medication. Around the age of twenty-three he started training under and assisting Daniel Harrow at the Queensland Institute of Forensic Medicine (QIFM). For four years and some odd months he's trained under his guidance to become a pathologist, a job that he absolutely loves and pours much of his time into. A job that from day one he writes about in a journal, every single day. Though if we're being honest, it's him writing about Harrow every single day, but that counts as work.

Some where in that mix Simon is living with and dating his boyfriend David, though his drive for work does at some point put a wedge in that. No reason is ever given for their separation, but it can be assumed that much like Harrow, he puts his work before the living more often than not. When Simon isn't working at OIFM he's putting in extra time at the hospital or studying for exams. Constantly at 100%, work work work. He takes after his boss in more ways than one, shown through both seasons 1-2 as he plays at detective just as much as Harrow does.

Season 1 has him trying to figure out the story behind bones that are found in concrete in the river, chipping away, literally and figuratively, at it for all ten episodes. He's not one to give up either, just as stubborn as Harrow about finding out the why behind things. It only becomes an issue when the more he keeps looking, the more it seems like the evidence is pointing towards Harrow as the culprit for the murder. Cumulating in Simon getting caught by Harrow snooping around and finding the piece of evidence that links him to the murder, a missing pair of shears in a gifted surgeon's kit. Shears that were used to cut the ring finger off the man Harrow killed. Missing because he dumped them along with the body, though the shears were never found. He listens to why Harrow did it, an act of self defense against a man who hurt his ex-wife and his daughter, both people Simon knows and cares about too.

Harrow just wanted to be able to be there for his daughter now that he knew what that man had done to her and the possibility of going to jail would have stopped that. So he did what he did, dumped the body and hid the evidence. Simon still shocked by all of this can't look past the man he respects and adores having done all of this, but in the end he'll risk everything to fix things. "Borrowing" a pair of shears from another surgeon's kit to replace them in Harrow's. Among a few other pieces that fall together, it takes Harrow off the suspect list for murder, making Simon an accessory by default. Much to the chagrin of Harrow, who laments that Simon is too good a pathologist to risk it for him. Which Simon insists he say again, because it's very rare to get any sort of praise from Harrow, which he will. Now they're in it together.

Season 2 starts off with Harrow recovering from being shot and almost dying. Some where around all of that Simon's relationship with David ends. Through the next handful of episodes it's much the same as always, Simon working along side Harrow to find out the whys of the people who end up dead in their labs for post mortems. Underneath that is Harrow trying to figure out who shot him and why, even though the man who did was arrested and seemingly died in custody. Too neat. Too convenient. Doesn't feel right. Simon finds out about his uncertainties and theory at one point, saying Harrow he should let him help, he's helped before. Harrow tells him to leave it, because how could a dead man be the one who tried to kill him? A very dangerous criminal who seemingly burned to death in a freak fire accident in jail months prior.

Unfortunately for Harrow, Simon is too much like him and learned from him to find out the why. Also Harrow is never wrong, so that bothers Simon as well, that he would just. Give up. On his own he goes off to look into things, snoop around and try to piece anything together, which he does. Connecting dots that lead right up to Francis Chester, the man who is apparently dead. On a ferry heading back to the mainland, Simon tries to call Harrow to let him know what he's found, but gets his voicemail so he'll leave one, excited. Finally it seems like they'll get answers-- until Francis Chester attacks Simon on the ferry, injecting him with a paralytic and dumps him overboard into the water where he drowns to death.

Alas. Simon did not have main character protection like Harrow.

✘ Personality:

You're assigned a group project. What role do you end up taking?

Everything the lead doesn't want to do. Note taking, drawing up diagrams and doing most of the research. Definitely end up pulling a couple all-nighters. The usual.

You have the chance to anonymously send a letter to someone who's wronged you in the past. What does it say?

Taking me out of the picture won't cover up your tracks. He'll look harder to find you now, because you've made it more than personal. When he finds you I hope you rot in a cell properly this time.

Someone you admire very much has just done something you find reprehensible. How do you deal with the situation?

Do what they taught me to do, find out why. After that... it depends on what they tell me. What the evidence says. Still might not approve of what they did, but I understand why and I want to protect them, protect the person they did that for.

So maybe I become an accomplice to this theoretical thing that happened. It's all speculative right?

If you could achieve all your goals right now, what would your life look like?

Wouldn't be dead for starters. I'd have finished all my exams and become a senior pathologist, probably take over for Harrow. Become the lead pathologist at QIFM if Fairley doesn't try to wrestle it from me, though he'd rather take over for Maxine so maybe he wouldn't... guess I'll never know now.

Someone tells you all your flaws. What did they tell you, and are they right or wrong?

Wait you want me to guess what people would say are my flaws? Um, well... okay. I know a couple at least, work too much, don't spend enough time with family. Stuff like that. Mm... try to take after my boss maybe a little too much.

Can't argue about either of those I guess, but it's hard when I love what I do. Put a lot of hours into that and it's what I wanted to do for the rest of my life y'know?

✘ Type: Beastial
✘ Powers:

Power 1: Flight - limited mostly to hovering or gliding for short stretches, his wings won't be large enough for full on flying.
Power 2: Night Vision - what it says on the tin, can see better in the dark than a normal person would.
Power 3: Enhanced Agility - he'll be able to run faster and jump higher/further, but at a cost to stamina. Doing so for an extended amount of time will tire him out quicker than normal, as a trade off.

✘ Inventory: The clothes on his person and a smart watch.
✘ Sample: Sample 1 and Sample 2!