App Scratch
Name: The alias she most commonly uses is Annelise Kaufmann (the name her second doctoral dissertation was published under), but to her colleagues she's just Dr. K., because that's not her birth name and legally she doesn't exist.
PB: Jaime Murray
Age: 41
Appearance: Dr. K is a rail-thin, extremely pale woman. She stands about 5'7" and her left arm is missing just above the elbow, replaced with a polymer prosthetic that ends in a stainless steel split hook. She has shoulder-length black hair that she generally wears down when she isn't working, and dark eyes that are usually surrounded by almost equally dark circles. She has a number of small shrapnel scars on the remaining portion of her left arm, a large chemical burn scar on her right ribcage, with a few smaller splash marks on her stomach and hip, and two tiny, faded scars on her abdomen from a tubal ligation. Needless to say, she doesn't do swimwear a lot.
World: Dr. K comes from an alternate version of Earth (specifically, the year 1978) where the fabric of reality has become increasingly permeable, allowing objects and entities from other universes to cross over into it - some relatively benign, some more dangerous, and even a few that could prove to be a threat to all life on the planet. Organizations have sprung up worldwide to study, contain, or destroy these things - mostly the last one, but the group Dr. K works for, the Habakkuk Foundation, is focused primarily on the other two, as they believe that the nature of these objects might provide some clues as to how to stabilize the fabric of reality before the damage spreads further. Already, though, there are entire areas that are uninhabitable due to said damage, and at least one major city that has had to be evacuated and quarantined by the Foundation.
For the most part, all of this has been kept secret from the public - in the U.S., their quarantine operations are performed with support from the CDC, which includes the loan of equipment, uniform patches, and falsified credentials.
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PB: Jaime Murray
Age: 41
Appearance: Dr. K is a rail-thin, extremely pale woman. She stands about 5'7" and her left arm is missing just above the elbow, replaced with a polymer prosthetic that ends in a stainless steel split hook. She has shoulder-length black hair that she generally wears down when she isn't working, and dark eyes that are usually surrounded by almost equally dark circles. She has a number of small shrapnel scars on the remaining portion of her left arm, a large chemical burn scar on her right ribcage, with a few smaller splash marks on her stomach and hip, and two tiny, faded scars on her abdomen from a tubal ligation. Needless to say, she doesn't do swimwear a lot.
World: Dr. K comes from an alternate version of Earth (specifically, the year 1978) where the fabric of reality has become increasingly permeable, allowing objects and entities from other universes to cross over into it - some relatively benign, some more dangerous, and even a few that could prove to be a threat to all life on the planet. Organizations have sprung up worldwide to study, contain, or destroy these things - mostly the last one, but the group Dr. K works for, the Habakkuk Foundation, is focused primarily on the other two, as they believe that the nature of these objects might provide some clues as to how to stabilize the fabric of reality before the damage spreads further. Already, though, there are entire areas that are uninhabitable due to said damage, and at least one major city that has had to be evacuated and quarantined by the Foundation.
For the most part, all of this has been kept secret from the public - in the U.S., their quarantine operations are performed with support from the CDC, which includes the loan of equipment, uniform patches, and falsified credentials.
( Nothing under here is complete. Move along, nothing to see here... )