[1] Gene Splice - Mohinder Suresh - Video

[seekevolution]

[It's true. It's taken him some time to get himself settled given the current state of things (both physically and with his own inability to believe his lot straight away) but now that he has, Mohinder has devoted some of his attention to figuring out this communication device. There are several false starts before he manages.]]

My name is Mohinder Suresh.

[Though he looks Middle Eastern or Indian, he has a purring British lilt to his voice.]

A few days ago, just after the flood waters receded it seems, I arrived here without knowing why or how I might be tasked to help so that I may one day return home.

I'm sorry to say that I still do not know, but I am willing to learn. My skills might be few here. I am-- I had been a geneticts. A lecturer. A researcher. Until recently, I taught classes at a University in Madras on human evolution.

I was also told that I might have an ability. In my world, such things are possible to a few with evolved human genes. I do not possess such markers in my genome, however, so I am not sure how this might even be possible.

[Yes. He's always quite verbose.]

I would like to talk with anyone willing. I could trade information for...cleaning perhaps. Or cooking.

Thank you.

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[hybridize]

I don't know how useful human genetics would be here, but it is interesting all the same. [Except it really isn't, because how interesting can evolution be after millions of years. He's only witnessed a thousand years of it, and frankly he's glad he's not so weak.

Except here. But that's another matter entirely.]

[seekevolution]

From what I've been learning, humanity comes in all different varieties from a multitude of universes all converging here, in this place and this time. Evolution in one world may well have diverged between the various worlds in ways I might never understand. Though you are right, the idea itself is fascinating.

[He's truthful in that sense.]

It's why I've offered more mundane skills in lieu of drawing blood and researching genetics, however. I'm rather sure my skillset is worthless otherwise.

[becauseichooseto]

That's quite a step down.

[seekevolution]

I'd taken to taxi driving when I first arrived in America.

As horribly stereotypical as that sounds. A doctor in India, a cab driver in New York.

[But at least he smiles.]

Cooking is far less perilous.

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[sufferably]

( oh it's you again. )

You don't have to repay people for talking to you.

Though if you're that desperate for a job, I think you might be able to find something more mid-range than the extremes you're getting at.

[seekevolution]

I find it easier to offer my services than just expect favours.

Hello again, Doctor McCoy.

What sort of work do gods and their people need? [That might be tongue in cheek.]

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[bravehart]

You were a lecturer? As in a teacher? Surely it can't be hard to find a job doing that. Plenty of kids, from what I've seen.

[He pauses, however, trying his best not to seem as confused as he is. Trying to gather information without letting on how little he actually knows is ... kind of hard.]

So, remind me again, which one is genetics?

[seekevolution]

A professor. Teacher. Yes.

[Kids? What sort of beings brought children into the mix?!]

Genetics is. Is. Well. The study of genes.

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[cheerleader]

[Claire hasn't been this happy since arriving in Asgard. She never really interacted with him all that much, but she treasures his father's book and her father has spoken about Mohinder enough. So to hear his voice and see his face puts a huge smile on her face.]

Dr. Suresh!

[And since he's been drug into things involving her and her family, she just expects him to know who she is. Because that's how horrible of a person she is.]

If you're here, maybe my dad is too. You haven't seen him, have you? Or Peter, maybe?

[seekevolution]

[He'd never given his title... That means, perhaps, that she does know him but Mohinder just blinks at the pretty blond girl smiling at him. He doesn't know her at all.]

I'm afraid that I'm not quite familiar with who your father might be...

[But Peter? Now Peter he does know.]

Do you mean Peter Petrelli? I haven't seen him since-- Since I was last in New York.

[bruxisms]

[ He understands perhaps... half of what the man says. However, he can make out a few things here and there, and that is more than enough. ]

Tell me of these "genetics".

[ For from what he has glanced at in Odin's Library, they might very well offer him the key to finding indisputable proof based in sciences that the Maesters of the Citadel could have only dreamed of. ]

[seekevolution]

[Poor Stannis is in for a bit of a lecture. Technically, Mohinder had wanted information rather than give it, but he's willing to trade. He starts off with a brief discussion of Gregor Mendel, the father of modern genetics, explains as he might to first year biology students how genes are blue prints for the various combinations of life on the planet, and then sweeps into his own field.]

There are specific markers on the genome, passed down from mother and father, that determine the phenotype -- the appearance -- of everyone. For instance, my skin is much darker than yours because the markers on my genome indicate that I ought to have dark skin on account of my parents both having dark skin, Recombination of DNA at ever loci is what makes brother differ from brother, sister from sister, aunt from grandchild.

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[themortalhalf]

Told? You do. Everyone has an ability here. One of the few things we all've got in common.

If you want answers, you might want to be more clear about what house the Gods put you in.

[seekevolution]

It is a fundamental of science to not simply believe what we are told. Alhazen taught us this in ninth century when he first came up with a scientific method. To simply believe would be ill advised.

[It still bothers him, all of this 'Gods' talk.]

Though your question is fair. I was told Odin when I woke.

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[grimmig]

[... oh no what this is adorable. willing to cook and clean in return for information? a man about making his own way aw good g o o d and as much as he wouldn't really want to submit anyone of learning to menial tasks, having a well-spoken geneticist making him lunch and hoovering his floors appeals awfully insistently to his ego. more to point, though, he's vaguely interesting. Jim wouldn't mind the chance for a proper chat.

so, ego aside:]

How do you feel about tea?

[excuse the off-topic Irish drawl, Mohinder dear, but conversations of import are always best had over a beverage!!]

I can stretch to coffee if you prefer.

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[seekevolution]

[Though Mohinder is more or less willing to please, it's the offer of tea that sounds the best of all. He might be Indian, cuturally, but he'd schooled at Cambridge and spent the better part of his formative adult years abroad. While he might prefer chai for it's caffeine content and coffee didn't bother him, a good cuppa sounds about right to calm his already frayed nerves and put his mind at ease.]

I'll admit that tea is the best thing I've heard all day.

[He smiles because he's prone to smiling and because he is, fundamentally, and for all of his genius, a terrible idiot. It's as if he gravitates towards the wicked and those likely to do him or others harm.]

And I'd certainly be grateful to share a cup with you. Thank you.

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[thralls]

[The accent is vaguely familiar, but a good portion of his words aren't. Athelstan is more or less used to people speaking gibberish right now, but the offer is intriguing and he knows that he does have information that some of the others around here simply don't. Time periods.]

Will you show me how to use the microwave?

[You should probably offer Mohinder what he wants first, Athelstan.]

I- I know many things of these gods. Where- [when] -where I am from, we worship them. It seems that not many here do.

[seekevolution]

[Though he's not judging, he has to wonder if he's being made fun of. At least until he remembers what Doctor McCoy told him. Time pauses.]

I would show you how to use the microwave even if you don't have anything to tell me.

[Making enemies is dangerous. If there is magic here to heal people and yet need for a forensics unit, he's worried]

Where I come, peoples in the past worshipped these gods. Perhaps a few pagans still do.

I'm not sure of my way around. Which place do you stay in?

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[unsparing]

Human evolution. How far did your research get you back home? Same question for genetics and these evolved genes you mentioned.

[seekevolution]

Far enough. I was able to use an algorithm to analyze the DNA of people with what others might called supernatural abilities. I ever found a few people myself and witnessed what that mutation in their genes allowed them to do. The most amazing I've seen so far is a man capable of dissolving the bonds between molecules of metal in such a way to cause the metal to melt.

Of course, this was only the beginnings of my research.

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[frothing]

Em... what sort of ability?

[seekevolution]

Fire magic.

[Never has a man sounded so skeptical.]

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[pushesgently]

[! Altaïr recognizes the face, but it's Mohinder's words that intrigue him, considering the interesting things he's learned about genetics since arriving in Asgard.]

What was it that you researched about genetics? Such study does not exist in my time, but it's come to interest me since I've learned a little about it from others here.

[seekevolution]

Human evolution.

[If there's one thing that Mohinder is always willing to discuss, it's his research. He's yet to learn how very idiotic that is.]

I am most interested in the relationship genetic mutations of the human genome play on evolution and how they have managed to gift certain individuals with formerly thought of as supernatural abilities.

Naturally.

Not gifted by...our hosts.

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[notbychoice]

Your ability, whatever it is, might be more use than genetics. And then again, might not.

See, what I've got is the ability to make shadows. Not really much use right now, wouldn't you say?

[ Clearly he doesn't think so, since he's frowning a bit. ]

[seekevolution]

[Forgive him. He's oversensitive about his skills as a geneticist. It's all he's known.]

How do you mean, shadows? Can you cast them? Hide things in them? I would think darkness could be useful.

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[comeonthensexy]

Evolved human genes, hm? We've had something like that around before. Do you call these people anything in particular?

[seekevolution]

Well, not particularly. As you can understand, most wish not to have it well known. Some people are not so kind about it as others. I mostly think of them as special.

( audio ) i'm super late to this but i somehow missed this post

[niehaus]

( as she listens to him, she gets more and more excited, not only because genetics plays a huge role in the research she had been doing before asgard, but also because what he knows might have huge implications for what they were. having a geneticist to help could potentially aid in finding the answers for clone club.

but that's all getting ahead of herself because she's never spoken to him, she doesn't know him, he doesn't know her. )

I can try and answer any questions you still have any, but I haven't been here too long.