<div class="floatright"><div align="center">(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a91/Redfoxmagi/tumblr_ni10qxOSDw1u3fakdo1_1280_zpsxufioiee.jpg)<br/>(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a91/Redfoxmagi/5cc8f609d61661cf00847e3ee74bada6_zpsbuxrzqhm.jpg)(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a91/Redfoxmagi/NITINCHAUHAN_zpsfagnycat.jpg)(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a91/Redfoxmagi/bildschirmfoto-2015-05-07-um-18-58-56_zps4qxlsjkp.png)(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a91/Redfoxmagi/tumblr_np3v25wQZn1u3fakdo1_1280_zpsm6gnfo1g.jpg)</div></div><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: courier;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Evolved Character Sheet</strong></span></span><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: georgia;"><br/><strong>Character Name:</strong> Dr. Hrithik Patel<br/><strong>Codename:</strong> The Walker<br/><strong>Gender:</strong> Male<br/><strong>Nationality:</strong> American<br/><strong>Sexuality:</strong> Heterosexual<br/><br/><strong>Class:</strong> - 5<br/><br/><strong>Occupation:</strong> Medical Doctor<br/><strong>Education:</strong> Medical Doctorate, Masters in Applied Physics<br/><strong>Wealth Level:</strong> Upper Middle Class<br/><strong>Languages Known:</strong> English, Hindi, Spanish, Japanese (Conversational)<br/><br/><strong>Age:</strong> 27<br/><strong>Height:</strong> 5’11”<br/><strong>Weight:</strong> 188 <br/><strong>Hair Color:</strong> Jet Black<br/><strong>Eye Color:</strong> Dark Brown<br/><strong>Face Claim:</strong> Nitin Chauhan<br/><br/><strong>Physical Description:</strong> Hrithik is generally a handsome enough man, his looks more rugged by circumstance of his profession rather than personal choice.  After all, the life of a medical practitioner is one where the physician’s life is no longer their own.  Their duty is to their patients rather than to themselves.  Because of this, the young Indian man’s facial hair tends to find itself in varying levels of growth, though whatever length it happens to be, he tries to keep it well-kept.  His dark hair has a wavy texture that extends down to his shoulders, clean and long enough that he ties it back when he is at the gym or working on something that requires it out of his face.  However, it is generally kept loose and free, perhaps symbolic of what he believes the Evolved should be rather than hunted or persecuted.  <br/><br/>His physique is well-toned and honed to a fine degree out of an almost obsessive routine that every person coming out of medical school has to some extent.  Going to the gym in the morning is part of what he considers his daily meditation to greet the day and cleanse his mind, and it shows rather well.  The routine started as a method to clear his mind before greeting the rigors of study for the day, but once he became Evolved, it took on a new meaning—survival.  <br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong> Quick-witted and charming, Hrithik is used to the battlefield of social interaction having been raised in the circle of wealthy Indian families.  The name of the game there was in guarding one’s own secrets while learning to read other people’s through their mannerisms, actions, and implications.  However, the young Indian man is not as cutthroat as the society he came from.  Instead, it has taught him to be an avid and sharp listener, and able to offer sage advice and an empathizing shoulder when necessary.  Even if he does not agree with an idea, he is willing to entertain it and consider it, approaching it from all angles before he judges it.  He prefers to understand another person's perspective rather than dismissing them out of hand.  <br/><br/>Though he has an idealist streak for justice, Hrithik is, in the end, a pragmatist.  He is aware that he cannot fight the system alone, and the best he can hope for is to survive whatever is coming.  So, he is less likely to push for a violent course of action in any term, and weighs risk extremely carefully with any plan.  He has survived Tac-6 and the government by hiding in plain sight for eight years since the first of the Evolved appeared due to careful strategy and planning.  There is no need for unnecessary risk in survival.  It is important to note that he does not do this out of fear, but rather a sense of practicality.  <br/><br/>The young Indian man is generally free of stress and tries to live his life with no regrets.  It would seem that someone in his position would be full of negativity, but a good routine of physical activity and meditation has left him with a calm, centered sense of self.  And if he lives his life without any regrets, if something happens to him in the end, at least he can say that he lived a good life.  To him, that’s really all that matters.  <br/><br/><strong>History:</strong> Born to a pair of Indian immigrants that came to America for a chance at a better life for their children, Hrithik’s childhood was easier in some ways, but tougher in others.  It had taken his father many years of hard work to become a physician as was what seemed to be the Indian way.  Similarly, the young boy was introduced to musical instruments at an age close to when most children learned how to run.  For many Indian children it was the piano or the violin, but even at that age he tried to exert his individualism and pushed to learn the flute.  It was not the most masculine of instruments, but it made his mother happy due to its relation to Krishna, one of the incarnations of the god Vishnu of the Hindu religion.  As it turned out, the young boy was a musical prodigy.  The notes and feelings came as easily to him as breathing.  His achievements made his parents proud, though his father only looked at the musical accomplishments as a way to ease the boy’s way into college.  <br/><br/>Home life for Hrithik and his younger sister was rather strict in comparison to their peers due to the fact that their parents were much more Old World than other children in America.  Academics were pushed on them for as long as they could remember, though coming from an upper middle class family had what others considered benefits with trips to other countries that their father called “culture trips” in order to make sure his children were not too “indoctrinated” into the American way of thought.  It was one thing to study about the Pyramids of Giza or the Parthenon in school, but quite another to see them in person and stand where they were to take them in.  <br/><br/>Despite his intelligence, Hrithik had no real desire to apply himself like his father did in school.  He was smart enough that he could do relatively well in his classes without having to actually study hard, and chose to use his time to study music.  His repertoire of instrumental proficiency grew and he began to make his own songs.  The breadth of his hobbies grew and extended to other languages and videogames to blow off steam from when he actually had to work hard from studying for an exam.  Because his father was pushing for Hrithik to enter into a STEM field, the young man studied just enough to enter into a school that had both a good science program as well as a music one in order to not defy his father directly.  He split the workload exactly evenly between music and science, taking just enough medical courses in order to make sure his father would not get on his case about it.  Eventually, he confronted his father about it on the phone while at college, saying that he would continue to do music and give up on medicine since it was not what he wanted to do with his life.  His father, of course, argued that there was no money in music and he would be on the street.  The conversation ended with anger on both ends of the receiver.  It was two years into college.  <br/><br/>All of his hopes and dreams changed the night that he woke up in the middle of the forest outside his apartment.  <br/><br/>He started awake with crushed dead leaves in his shoulder length hair and on one side of his face.  This was not where he had chosen to lay his head the night before.  The sun had not even risen as yet judging from the sky.  And worse, he had not had anything to drink the night before.  Worse, the vision of something indescribable flashed in his mind and the instant nausea caused him to heave on his hands and knees and empty the contents of his stomach onto the forest floor.  Hrithik had seen enough Buffy reruns to know that waking up in the forest under these circumstances was most <em>definitely</em> under the super weird and crazy category.  But, of course, he brushed it off as some sort of prank.  <br/><br/>It took it happening four more times before he started to freak out.  <br/><br/>According to the news, people that the government were calling Evolved people with special powers were beginning to show up.  But, he knew that if these people could do what the government was saying they could do, it would be terrible if they fell under the jurisdiction of the private sector (who would probably do whatever it took for profit regardless of the threat to human life or scientific neutrality) or the government (which would probably mismanage it to hell and back).  If he was one of these people, there was no way he would turn himself in.  So, he did what anyone with his level of intelligence would do in that situation.  <br/><br/>He chose to study it.  <br/><br/>Hrithik’s father never questioned the phone call he received from his son apologizing and letting his father know that he would be finishing a master’s degree in applied physics before going on to medical school.  He was simply overjoyed to know that his son was dropping the stupid music idea and doing something that would put food on his table for the rest of his life.  However, to Hrithik it was now a matter of survival.  It was not that he enjoyed physics or medicine, but he needed to understand what was happening to him and how to measure its growth and contain its fallout effectively.  He needed to experiment on himself in a safe area where he would not get found as easily as other Evolved.  So, he began to apply the scientific method and study himself and the extent of his abilities—at least, the extent to which he could measure them safely.  Eight years later, he is a practicing medical doctor and has kept his Evolved status hidden from inquisitive eyes.  <br/><br/>After all, who would suspect the private practice doctor who does the occasional philanthropic medical voyages to underprivileged countries?  <br/><br/><strong>Likes:</strong> Deep conversations, music, reading books, meditation, the peace of silence, younger sister, games of strategy, videogames, rainy days<br/><strong>Dislikes:</strong> Blazing sunshine, people who resort to violence, strong scents, Christmas time, hate groups, herd mentalities<br/><strong>Strengths:</strong> Quick-witted, calming presence, highly observant/analytical, professional physician and physicist.<br/><strong>Weaknesses:</strong> Doesn’t take orders well, not a risk-taker, claustrophobia<br/><strong>On's &amp; Off's:</strong> <br/><br/><strong><span class="bbc_u">Notes</span></strong><br/></span><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Hrithik logs his power experiments physically into a journal as he doesn’t trust how easily hackable computer data can be.  They are coded with a cypher using a book that is as far from anything he has of interest as possible: a book about how teenage girls should find a boyfriend.</li><li>Despite how overbearing his family tends to be, he has a special relationship with his younger sister.  He dotes on her constantly when she comes by to see him, and he goes out of his way to make sure she has nothing wrong with her life.</li><li>Even though he had given up the path of music as a career, Hrithik is still an incredibly talented musician since he was not able to quite put it down as his father would have wished.  Flute, saxophone, guitar, vocals.</li></ul><br/><strong><span class="bbc_u">Powers</span></strong><br/>It should be noted that Hrithik’s powers run on something called Dimensional Radiation.  While he himself is able to store a limited amount of it, his body functions like a sponge when around a source of it.  This allows him to “refill” his own supply by doing actions like stepping bodily into the fourth dimension.<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li><strong>Two-Dimensional Shifting (6):</strong> By initiating physical contact with a non-organic object, Hrithik can shift its state into a two-dimensional version of itself.  Objects with mechanical parts like firearms are rendered useless for the duration they are shifted as their mechanical parts cannot function correctly within a two-dimensional space.  This also could allow Hrithik to create an infinitely thin weapon out of an object like a ruler as he can still hold onto the object despite himself being three-dimensional due to his ability.  Currently, he can shift the approximate mass of a car.  Objects cannot be partially-shifted and must be shifted en masse.  </li><li><strong>Four-Dimensional Shifting (6):</strong> Despite this version of his Dimensional Shifting ability being much more complex, Hrithik has spent more time learning how to control it to the extent that he can use it on himself.  He is able to literally step into the fourth dimension, therefore becoming something similar to a fourth-dimensional being.  What this means in essence is that objects in the third dimension no longer affect him in this state, resulting in an effect similar to teleportation.  He simply takes a step and “walks” to a different location a short distance away.  However, the process is in truth more complicated than that.  This can only be done in conjunction with fourth-dimensional sight which allows him to see the third dimension similar to how we as third-dimensional beings look at a two-dimensional map.  This results in being able to see people hiding behind objects.  In terms of his “Walking,” being able to see with fourth-dimensional sight allows him to see where he is going in the fourth-dimension.  Otherwise, it is possible he would be lost forever.  This power can also be used in a similar way to Two-Dimensional Shifting on objects to put them into the fourth dimension, thus making them seem to disappear and reappear in a different location.  As with the previous power, he can currently shift the approximate mass of a car, and objects cannot be partially-shifted and must be shifted en masse.  He has not currently taken people with him while “Walking,” as he fears the effects his powers would have on an organic being—for good reason.</li><li><strong>Dimensional Cascade (2):</strong> This particular version of Hrithik’s power is why he fears the effects his powers would have on an organic being.  While he has the ability to absorb Dimensional Radiation, and trace amounts of it are not harmful to organic beings, large amounts of it can be quite damaging to others.  When performing a “Walking,” the young Indian man simply steps into the fourth dimension like a person would step into a swimming pool.  However, he once experimented to see what would happen if he tried to physically open a tear into the fabric of whatever it was that he was stepping into.  The results were a rather large amount of Dimensional Radiation.  The process was draining to begin with, and he was only able to close it by standing in front of the resulting rift and absorbing the radiation to close it.  It is extremely difficult to control and not a process he wishes to repeat.  </li></ul>