5: Pascal Raderecht

© Florian K., since 2014


It was too easy to come up with the design for this character. Usually this means that there's already a character that almost looks like this — but I don't remember it.

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• BEWARE: Poor English!
The character description is for hardcore geeks only!


PASCAL RADERECHT
pronunciation: paskal radərɛçt

Age: 16
Sex: male
Birthday: 10th July
Height: 1.66 m
Nationality: German
Status: student at S.E.S.A. Kaltesch*
Siblings: one older brother
Eye color: blue
Hair color: dark brown

Positive: intelligent · ambitious · focused
Negative: egocentric · loves to fib · overly complicated


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Likes:
integral calculus · evolutionary systems · artificial intelligence · stochastic calculus · foreign languages · mythology · philosophy · psychology · cosmology · medical studies · sports · special effects · magical tricks · looking scheming and making people nervous

Hates:
stairs · restrooms that aren't accessible for wheelchairs · people who talk without saying anything · pointless conversations · unorganized actions · eggs if they're served as a dish · cooking

About him:
He's the most intelligent student in school and ‒ surprisingly ‒ the best sportsman. He's paraplegic, but the fact that he's bound to a wheelchair doesn't seem to hinder him ‒ it seems to give him superpowers. He's always the first who arrives, the first who finishes a task and the first who knows the correct answer. He can be a bit creepy, because he only talks if there's no other way of communication (he loves to invent symbolic systems for non-verbal communication) and he seems to be everywhere at any time knowing everything, even stuff nobody asks about. He only helps people if he feels their inquiry is honest in nature and he can be brusque to those who try to use him like a library. He also likes to make up perfectly coherent and extremely eloquent stuff that's completely fictitious and keeps track of how long people take to finally get it (that can be very frustrating for people if they actually look for real answers). Kai is the only person who seems to see through this made up stuff and frowns at it ‒ or Kai simply frowns much, but anyway, good game.

Life:
Pascal has always been highly intelligent and interested in various weird things. The accident that bound him to a wheelchair was able to crush his legs and spine, but it wasn't able to crush his will to learn and his perfectionism ‒ to the contrary, it boosted his will to be perfect in everything. He started to be interested in stuff he never thought about in the time he was healthy (like sports) and wanted to prove (mainly to himself) that he cannot be hindered by his condition. The mind prevails over the body!

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USELESS FACTS

Favorite Color: slate blue and steel-gray
Favorite Music: overtures · arias · avant-garde music · extremely fast electronic stuff · dark and frightening drone music · music played on a theremin
Favorite Food: chips with salt and sauce hollandaise · peppermint ice cream with hot caramel or honey · black tea with chocolate syrup · rare flavors of vinegar and mustard
Conditions: paraplegia


Relationships and affiliations:
member of local wheelchair basketball team · member of biology club · member of math club · member of council for innovative technologies · member of school's book club · member of the representative department for highly talented students · brother of Simon

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* INTERNAL REFERENCES

S.E.S.A. Kaltesch:
Staatliche Erweiterte Schule Ansfurt (Extended Public School Ansfurt), also Kaltesch Schule Ansfurt (Kaltesch School Ansfurt) – a German high school located in Ansfurt. It's dedicated to the Habsburg-Muscovite nobleman and philosopher Wilhelm Andrej Kaltesch who was executed because of his opposition to the absolutist Catholic Church and the rule of Emperor Ferdinand II.

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Students:

└ Protagonists:

/// Kai
/// Kai (alternative version)
/// Win
/// Cem
/// Maya


└ Bullies:

/// Kevin
/// Georg
/// Zahir
/// Nea


└ Supporting:

/// Student Council
/// Ari
/// Martin
/// Fin

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Teachers:

/// Mr. Kautsky
/// Mr. Hagelkorn
/// Mrs. Sonnenfeld
/// Mrs. Rombach


Supporting:

/// Daniel + Otto
/// Katja
/// Nathan


Creatures:

/// Husk
/// Wrath
/// Arum

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/// More about the main story
/// Corresponding journal entry

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GEEK FACT: NAME

The first name Pascal is a Jewish name and comes from the Paschal festival. It means "the Eastern".
The last name Raderecht comes from the Middle High German words "rade" ("advise") and "reht" ("good/correct/right") and means "good advice".

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RANDOM MUSICAL PICK OF THE WEEK

Zero Wing OST — Natols

The arcade game Zero Wing is famous for its bad translation and the meme it spawned, but if you take a closer look at it you'll find some of the catchiest 16-bit music ever created.

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