Full Name: Cordelia Antoinette Gable
Nicknames/Aliases: Dr. Gable (though her doctorate status is questionable at best), Del
Age: 23
Gender: Female
Occupation: Researcher/Scientist
Project Aim: (Only applicable to subjects, what were they created to be?)
Description: Standing at 5’5” even, Cordelia is a twiggy, androgynous thing. She lacks curves, and could pass for a pretty young man without much effort. However, due to the fact she often braids or puts her shoulder-blade length blond hair up into a bun, dresses in almost exclusively pastel colors, and fancies skirts and dresses often on her days off, it puts some of that doubt out of mind. When working, she tends to wear a lab coat over pastel scrubs, many of which have charming little designs, like blobfish or rabbits, on them.
She’s light skinned, and the most notable feature about her (aside from all the pastel) are her eyes. Not only are they a bright gold in color, but as she suffers from a condition called polycoria, one of her eyes has two pupils instead of one. Cordelia wears glasses to accommodate for this.
Personality: “A little odd” would be the polite way of talking about Miss Gable and her mannerisms. She’s pleasant enough, speaking softly and always minding her p’s and q’s. She always provides for the community potlucks, is more than happy to collaborate with her fellow researchers, and never seems to get mad or stir the pot (even passive aggressively! Astounding!). However, when spoken with, it’s easy to get the impression that Cordelia doesn’t exactly have all her marbles in order. In fact, it’s even easier to assume that she’s perpetually high off some strange drug, given her usual behavior. She drifts from one topic to the next in the middle of conversation, brings up peculiar talking points, and when not in the middle of work, it isn’t out of the question to see her wandering around with a dreamy smile on her face.
She makes up for her seemingly absentminded nature with a burning curiosity, a sharp genius, and a complete disregard for silly things like “ethics” and “morality” when it stands in the way of what she wants to know.
Skills:
- Highly intelligent, with a deep understanding of human anatomy, surgical procedures, and energy flow, among other such things.
- Can put this knowledge to use, of course, able to perform first-aid, to...genuinely disturbing, and often confusing, experiments.
- Her strange manner of thinking can lead her to interesting results.
Weaknesses:
- Given the fact she has spent so little time interacting with the outside world, her knowledge of how it works is limited.
- She also has the social skills of a doorknob, but one of those doorknobs that don’t seem to open right away, and you have to twist it around and jiggle it a little for it to finally open GOD DAMNIT
- Casually paranoid, and not athletic in the slightest.
Brief History: Even before her arrival at Brightside, Cordelia didn’t go out much. Though sickly as a young child, what kept her inside was largely her father’s sense of paranoia towards the outside world. He managed to keep a lid on the worst of it when working as a researcher in his own right, but outside of it, he swung between manic fear and fawning obsession for his higher ups. As a result, Cordelia spent plenty of time at home, which gave her plenty of time to pursue her interests.
Her interests being medical textbooks, research, and, oddly enough, poetry.
This led to some somewhat clumsy experimentation on her part, and after an incident involving a rooster, some iron piping, and a violin, Cordelia was discovered by her father’s workplace and plucked up into their ranks. While she is on the younger side of the staff, Cordelia is eager to pursue the ideas that would have been nothing but a fever dream without Brightside’s help.
Other: Great at brewing tea and making sweets, and is an avid poet.
She also adores tea parties.
