An illustration of a weary male scientist with grey hair and glasses in a dark, cluttered laboratory filled with caged, strange creatures.

a wiry figure in their mid-forties, with sharp cheekbones and a perpetual weariness etched into their features. Their once-black hair has gone iron-grey at the temples, often tied back loosely and streaked with stray wisps. A pair of round spectacles sit crooked on their nose, smudged from long hours of work. Their lab coat, patched and stained with ink, coffee, and faint traces of wyldfauna residue, hangs over practical wool trousers and boots worn thin from pacing between cages and tanks. Their hands are rough, nicked with small scars, and they carry the faint chill of someone who spends more time with beasts and frost than with people. Despite their exhaustion, their eyes—steel-blue and intense—glimmer with a stubborn spark of conviction. See more