The Jeffinator
Captain Manbeard
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I'm thinking of doing an RP inspired by Rick & Morty, but of course in a more serious setting with custom characters. But the overall tone would be similar, as in our characters jump through portals all over the Multiverse in a very adult setting, kind of like a mature version of DC's Legends of Tomorrow, sorta. Here's what I was thinking:
Morgan Schrow is what many would consider a mad scientist. I will me using Jeffrey Dean Morgan (John Winchester, Negan) as this character's image. Morgan Schrow was very gifted from birth, learning to read, walk, and talk before his second birthday. He earned his High School Diploma at age eleven and was granted a scholarship to M.I.T. By the time he reached eighteen, he had earned a PhD in Physics, plus Masters in Computer Science, Robotics Engineering, and Nanotechnology. He would often take multiple courses of study at a time and began relying on drugs to keep him up and aware for longer periods of time to fulfill his almost unhealthy thirst for more knowledge.
At his graduation ceremony for his PhD, he met a beautiful young woman who, like him, was a genius. She was eighteen too, and she was quite the prodigy in the fields of Biology and Genetics. Her name was Isabelle, and Morgan instantly fell in love with her. He found the will to stop the drugs, and became a much happier person. The following year they were married, and the year after that, Isabelle gave birth to a son named John.
When John was still a boy, Isabelle died in a horrible car accident. This destroyed Morgan's heart, and he took his son and moved out to California to get away from the memory of his wife. He transferred his job to a researching position at Caltech, and began using drugs heavily again, as well as severe alcoholism. He managed to hide it for quite some time -- to the outside world, he was a genius inventor and public science speaker, always pushing his education forward and learning new fields while mastering the ones he already knew.
By the time John reached adulthood and went off to college to become a lawyer, Morgan had earned access to a joint-research program between Caltech and the U.S. Air Force to investigate astronomical phenomena and technologies. With John no longer living at the family home in Pasadena, Morgan decided to take advantage of a new job opportunity and signed a contract with the U.S. Air Force that officially made him a government scientist. He spent some time working with NASA and was then stationed at Groom Lake, Nevada, more commonly known as Area 51. At this top secret facility, he gained access to alien technology that had thus far been a complete mystery to researchers, who had spent countless hours trying to figure out the extraterrestrial vessel, which was collected in 1947.
Morgan was the first person to make a breakthrough, when he deciphered enough of the foreign language to unlock the computer console. However, once active, the system released a drone that flew into the room and latched itself to Morgan's head and unfolded around him like a VR helmet. Suddenly his consciousness was flung out of his body and seemingly out into the universe, across space. His mind formed a duplicate body within a realm he called the Nexus, which was apparently a crossing point where millions of parallel realities all intersected.
Morgan's dimensional avatar remained ageless as he embarked on hundreds of adventures across space and time over what seemed like centuries. He learned the history, culture, and technologies of billions of different worlds across multiple realities, but then like a rubber band, his consciousness was snapped back into his own body. When centuries-worth of new memories came flooding into Morgan's brain after returning to his body, he began to thrash violently and started bleeding profusely from his nose. He was then in a coma for a week and when he awakened, he wasn't quite the same anymore. A little more crazy than usual.
Morgan developed an obsession with recreating the alien technologies seen in his long quest, but everyone else said he was only attached to the alien helmet for a few seconds and that he hallucinated the entire thing. Ultimately his obsession cost him his security clearance and his post, being written off as a raging mad scientist. Depressed but still obsessed, Morgan returned to the family home in Pasadena, spending the next decade trying desperately to recreate the wormhole technology he witnessed in his extra-dimensional travels.
At the start of our story, Morgan's grandson and John's son, Kevin, has spent his senior year living with his grandfather while his father travels the world on a series of cases as a corporate attorney for a major international holding company. Kevin has now turned eighteen, and his senior year of high school is only weeks away from being completed. He invites some friends over for a house party one Friday evening, while Morgan continues to obsess over his wormhole technology in the basement.
However, on this night, Morgan actually succeeds in creating a wormhole, but it is so large and unstable, it rips down the floor above it in a swirling vortex of light and wind, pulling in Morgan, Kevin, and a handful of Kevin's friends from above. They fall into the portal and are transported to a dinosaur-like jungle planet, followed by the collapse of the wormhole, trapping them there. So together they must use Morgan's Portal Gun -- once he fixes the glitches so it opens stable wormholes -- and explore multiple realities in an attempt to get back to their original universe.
Morgan Schrow is what many would consider a mad scientist. I will me using Jeffrey Dean Morgan (John Winchester, Negan) as this character's image. Morgan Schrow was very gifted from birth, learning to read, walk, and talk before his second birthday. He earned his High School Diploma at age eleven and was granted a scholarship to M.I.T. By the time he reached eighteen, he had earned a PhD in Physics, plus Masters in Computer Science, Robotics Engineering, and Nanotechnology. He would often take multiple courses of study at a time and began relying on drugs to keep him up and aware for longer periods of time to fulfill his almost unhealthy thirst for more knowledge.
At his graduation ceremony for his PhD, he met a beautiful young woman who, like him, was a genius. She was eighteen too, and she was quite the prodigy in the fields of Biology and Genetics. Her name was Isabelle, and Morgan instantly fell in love with her. He found the will to stop the drugs, and became a much happier person. The following year they were married, and the year after that, Isabelle gave birth to a son named John.
When John was still a boy, Isabelle died in a horrible car accident. This destroyed Morgan's heart, and he took his son and moved out to California to get away from the memory of his wife. He transferred his job to a researching position at Caltech, and began using drugs heavily again, as well as severe alcoholism. He managed to hide it for quite some time -- to the outside world, he was a genius inventor and public science speaker, always pushing his education forward and learning new fields while mastering the ones he already knew.
By the time John reached adulthood and went off to college to become a lawyer, Morgan had earned access to a joint-research program between Caltech and the U.S. Air Force to investigate astronomical phenomena and technologies. With John no longer living at the family home in Pasadena, Morgan decided to take advantage of a new job opportunity and signed a contract with the U.S. Air Force that officially made him a government scientist. He spent some time working with NASA and was then stationed at Groom Lake, Nevada, more commonly known as Area 51. At this top secret facility, he gained access to alien technology that had thus far been a complete mystery to researchers, who had spent countless hours trying to figure out the extraterrestrial vessel, which was collected in 1947.
Morgan was the first person to make a breakthrough, when he deciphered enough of the foreign language to unlock the computer console. However, once active, the system released a drone that flew into the room and latched itself to Morgan's head and unfolded around him like a VR helmet. Suddenly his consciousness was flung out of his body and seemingly out into the universe, across space. His mind formed a duplicate body within a realm he called the Nexus, which was apparently a crossing point where millions of parallel realities all intersected.
Morgan's dimensional avatar remained ageless as he embarked on hundreds of adventures across space and time over what seemed like centuries. He learned the history, culture, and technologies of billions of different worlds across multiple realities, but then like a rubber band, his consciousness was snapped back into his own body. When centuries-worth of new memories came flooding into Morgan's brain after returning to his body, he began to thrash violently and started bleeding profusely from his nose. He was then in a coma for a week and when he awakened, he wasn't quite the same anymore. A little more crazy than usual.
Morgan developed an obsession with recreating the alien technologies seen in his long quest, but everyone else said he was only attached to the alien helmet for a few seconds and that he hallucinated the entire thing. Ultimately his obsession cost him his security clearance and his post, being written off as a raging mad scientist. Depressed but still obsessed, Morgan returned to the family home in Pasadena, spending the next decade trying desperately to recreate the wormhole technology he witnessed in his extra-dimensional travels.
At the start of our story, Morgan's grandson and John's son, Kevin, has spent his senior year living with his grandfather while his father travels the world on a series of cases as a corporate attorney for a major international holding company. Kevin has now turned eighteen, and his senior year of high school is only weeks away from being completed. He invites some friends over for a house party one Friday evening, while Morgan continues to obsess over his wormhole technology in the basement.
However, on this night, Morgan actually succeeds in creating a wormhole, but it is so large and unstable, it rips down the floor above it in a swirling vortex of light and wind, pulling in Morgan, Kevin, and a handful of Kevin's friends from above. They fall into the portal and are transported to a dinosaur-like jungle planet, followed by the collapse of the wormhole, trapping them there. So together they must use Morgan's Portal Gun -- once he fixes the glitches so it opens stable wormholes -- and explore multiple realities in an attempt to get back to their original universe.
