- Name: Frederick Courtney Selous
- Age: 57
- Gender: Male
- Appearance:
- Canon, AU, or OC?: AU
- Universe of Origin: Real World/"The Curious Expedition"/Lost World fiction
- Personality: Frederick is a jovial man who is near impossible to dishearten. He's quick to laugh, even when circumstances are tough and the situation seems hopeless. However, this does not mean he is without an inner fire: Frederick is a big game hunter, through and through, and any hint at a sporting hunt will have him on the warpath. He doesn't care much for the consequences of his hunts, but he does try his damnedest to keep civilians and innocents out of harms way: His hunt is between himself and his quarry.
Frederick has one peculiar habit that makes itself known during mealtimes and breaks in hunts: Frederick drinks tea, compulsively. It may seem improbable, or even impossible, for one to become a tea addict, but Frederick is just that: When he goes long periods without it, he begins to suffer adverse affects, becoming irritable and fidgety. He can subdue this tea withdrawal using tobacco or coca leaves, but it doesn't cure it.
- Abilities/Weapons:
Hunt Master: Frederick is capable of tracking a quarry with almost pure instinct. Even the most minute of details, a slightly miscoloured smudge of dirt, a single snapped twig, nothing escapes his notice when it relates to his hunting.
Wealth of the Horn: Frederick is quite rich. Not beyond all belief, but he possesses a fortune enough to fund a small private army or navy, and several independent business ventures to boot.
Hunting Arsenal: An elephant gun, several hunting nets, bolas, a machete, various poisons and toxins derived from the exotica of the unknown lands.
- Backstory: This Frederick Selous' journey diverges from that of the real man late in his life: During one of Theodore Roosevelt's hunting expeditions to the Congo, Selous found himself separated from his hunting party and lost in the jungles. For many lesser men his age, this would have spelled death for sure. But Selous, either by force of will or sheer cunning, instead stumbled upon a marvellous sight: A golden pyramid, glowing with strange runes written in a long forgotten tongue. Making his way inside, Frederick discovered a strange device, large and circular, coruscating with an eerie, alien light. His explorer's spirit got the better of him, and he entered into the circle.
In a moment, Frederick found himself in a new world: Different than his own, but similar: An alternate earth, populated by a strange race of ant-men. Once the initial shock of this total geographic and dimensional displacement wore off, Frederick set about picking up where he left off, hunting big game. The creatures here were different, but no less challenging to hunt: giant arthropods resembling tarantulas, iguanas the size of Model Ts, each target surely felled, a trophy taken for every beast killed. Once he had enough of the excitement of the parallel world, he returned to his own, and quickly set about capitalizing on this strange new device he had discovered. With the help of some of the foremost scientists of the day, including Nikola Tesla, Henry Ford, and Albert Einstein, Selous managed to configure the device not only to allow him to travel between his world and the world of the ant-men, but between all the worlds of the multiverse.
- Faction: Factionless
- Age: 57
- Gender: Male
- Appearance:
- Canon, AU, or OC?: AU
- Universe of Origin: Real World/"The Curious Expedition"/Lost World fiction
- Personality: Frederick is a jovial man who is near impossible to dishearten. He's quick to laugh, even when circumstances are tough and the situation seems hopeless. However, this does not mean he is without an inner fire: Frederick is a big game hunter, through and through, and any hint at a sporting hunt will have him on the warpath. He doesn't care much for the consequences of his hunts, but he does try his damnedest to keep civilians and innocents out of harms way: His hunt is between himself and his quarry.
Frederick has one peculiar habit that makes itself known during mealtimes and breaks in hunts: Frederick drinks tea, compulsively. It may seem improbable, or even impossible, for one to become a tea addict, but Frederick is just that: When he goes long periods without it, he begins to suffer adverse affects, becoming irritable and fidgety. He can subdue this tea withdrawal using tobacco or coca leaves, but it doesn't cure it.
- Abilities/Weapons:
Hunt Master: Frederick is capable of tracking a quarry with almost pure instinct. Even the most minute of details, a slightly miscoloured smudge of dirt, a single snapped twig, nothing escapes his notice when it relates to his hunting.
Wealth of the Horn: Frederick is quite rich. Not beyond all belief, but he possesses a fortune enough to fund a small private army or navy, and several independent business ventures to boot.
Hunting Arsenal: An elephant gun, several hunting nets, bolas, a machete, various poisons and toxins derived from the exotica of the unknown lands.
- Backstory: This Frederick Selous' journey diverges from that of the real man late in his life: During one of Theodore Roosevelt's hunting expeditions to the Congo, Selous found himself separated from his hunting party and lost in the jungles. For many lesser men his age, this would have spelled death for sure. But Selous, either by force of will or sheer cunning, instead stumbled upon a marvellous sight: A golden pyramid, glowing with strange runes written in a long forgotten tongue. Making his way inside, Frederick discovered a strange device, large and circular, coruscating with an eerie, alien light. His explorer's spirit got the better of him, and he entered into the circle.
In a moment, Frederick found himself in a new world: Different than his own, but similar: An alternate earth, populated by a strange race of ant-men. Once the initial shock of this total geographic and dimensional displacement wore off, Frederick set about picking up where he left off, hunting big game. The creatures here were different, but no less challenging to hunt: giant arthropods resembling tarantulas, iguanas the size of Model Ts, each target surely felled, a trophy taken for every beast killed. Once he had enough of the excitement of the parallel world, he returned to his own, and quickly set about capitalizing on this strange new device he had discovered. With the help of some of the foremost scientists of the day, including Nikola Tesla, Henry Ford, and Albert Einstein, Selous managed to configure the device not only to allow him to travel between his world and the world of the ant-men, but between all the worlds of the multiverse.
- Faction: Factionless
