Ok, so here's my character complete with acedemic tie-ins!<br/><br/>Edwin Goodchilde<br/><br/>Edwin's a reasonably fit man of 29 years.  Tall, with well trimmed prematurely white hair and deep grey eyes, he's a fairly handsome man.  He has the high cheekbones and frame of an English blueblood, and while his family line was once exactly that the Goodchilde's have lived in America for several generations now.  His choice attire is fashionable suits and a walking stick.<br/><br/>Nine years ago, Edwin was a normal and happy medical student enrolled at Duke University.  During spring break, he and his parents were involved in a terrible accident.  Edwin was co-piloting his father's Cesna on what should have been a simple trip.  They encountered a freak thunderstorm and the single engine plane went down after being struck by lightning.<br/><br/>Both of his parents died in the crash, but miraculiously Edwin was not only alive but practically unharmed.  The only permanent evidence of the crash being his shock white hair.  He inherited the small but comfortable family wealth and returned to continue his studies after burying his parents in the family plot.<br/><br/>However, the crash had changed him in another less visable way.  He found himself subject to odd flashes upon contact with some places and people.  At first he feared some undiagnosed mental damage, but as more and more of his flashes proved to be factual insights into the past of the person or object in question and in one instance an actual glimpse of something that happened hours later he found himself unsure.<br/><br/>In the end, his attempts to discover what was happening to him brought him to the parapsychology department.  At first as an interested party, then as a volunteer in experiments, and finally as a student.  Two years ago he finished his doctoral thesis on psychometry and gained his PhD.  However, he has no interest in teaching.  He's learned all he feels he can about his odd 'talent' in academia and has set out to try and discover more actual paranormal phenomina.<br/><br/>His search has led him to nothing but cons and hoaxes so far.  And while his ability is erratic and unpredictable it has so far given him the clues to debuke them.<br/>