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Kaelan Müller - Kaelan - 04-08-2023
Kaelan Müller
As a child, Kael was annoyed with the constant stupidity around him. After being placed in a gifted program, his irritation for ignorance transitioned to irritation for people themselves. He was gifted a pet snake at seven years old, and he quickly became closer with his reptilian friends than school mates.
By ten he successfully cultivated breeding pairs. Reptiles were particularly difficult to breed. They required compatibility, precise environments, temperature, lighting, humidity and nutrition. Their behaviors had to be noted rigorously to carefully cultivate the animalistic courtships and territory dominance of the male. Kaelan wandered his tanks all night to confirm the matings were successful. The many hatchlings were proof of his devotion.
Kaelan’s childhood hobbies became an eventual profession.
Admission to the Zurich Institute of Technology was highly competitive, and the application process for the genetic engineering program was rigorous. Prospective students were expected to have a strong academic record, particularly in the sciences, and to demonstrate a deep interest and aptitude for genetic engineering.
There, he quickly proved to be a star student, graduating at the top of his class with honors. He was then offered a job at the prestigious Galen Genetics Corporation, where he worked on a variety of groundbreaking projects.
Over the next few years, Kaelan became known throughout the scientific community for his brilliant mind and untraditional ideas. He was responsible for creating a number of new genetically modified organisms, including a plant that could survive in harsh desert conditions and a bacteria that could break down toxic waste, but it was his chimera projects that earned him notoriety of the infamous sort.
It was when he was on the verge of being fired from Galen that he was recruited to Paragon Group.
There, he had free reign and funding to create super-organism combinations. Having combined the DNA of multiple organisms into unique characteristics, he created bacteria and viruses that could survive extreme environments or resist disease. Next, he began to experiment with plant-bacteria hybrids. From this work he created photosynthetic unicellular organisms that can generate their own energy through photosynthesis. These outcomes did not survive more than a few days at most yet he considered the experiments wild successes.
Finally, he proposed the highly unethical creation of animal species hybrids. Where his laboratory combined human and animal DNA to create creatures with enhanced abilities, such as strength, agility, or sensory perception. These were carried out primarily in lower forms of life: insects and rats and laters cats and primates, but he constantly yearned for stronger samples from rarer species.
He was in the laboratory when he first sparked the ability to channel. It was while he was peering long and deep into the eyepieces of a microscope, willing the cells into mitotic division. Something spun from his mind at that moment, and in the feverish willpower that the experiment would work, the cells began to replicate.
Kaelan worked incessantly. The nature of his experiments required constant monitoring. Thus when he took a sudden leave for illness, it captured the attention of his superiors. Soon afterward he came become a subject in the same organization in which he worked.
He signed a contract during the height of fever. It was highly unethical, but Kaelan was not one to be concerned with such things. His patents, intellectual property, and discoveries would forever revert to Paragon. In exchange, he was offered the opportunity to be coached through the sickness by a source Ephraim personally recommended. Kaelan was less concerned with his own health, but he took the deal so that he could resume his time-sensitive experiments.
About:
Kaelan is 30 years old. He is 5’11” and 170 lbs. Psychologically, he exhibits extreme intelligence, narcissism, lack of a moral compass, and obsessiveness.
Reincarnations:
6th Age: Triton, son of Poseidon, father of sirens, tritones, and sea-demons.
2nd Age: Ishtar Korat Muael, a biologist of great renown who is responsible for the creation of the first shadowspawn.
RE: Kaelan Müller - Kaelan - 04-12-2023
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