CHARACTER SURVEY

CHARACTER SURVEY May 1, 2012 16:52:20 GMT -8

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Cameron Bridges, Age 21, Forensic Analyst

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• What do you consider your greatest achievement?

I have a Masters in Forensic Science, which I acquired at 18 years old

• What is your idea of perfect happiness?

Holding a conversation with a colleague from a similar field who has valid and new points to bring to the discussion, and winning said debate.

• What is your current state of mind?

I am unhappy. I am being forced to go to a public high school and pretend to be a seventeen year old boy so that the homicide detectives in Central Toronto can try and find out who this serial killer is. My talents are clearly being underappreciated, and my intelligence is severely underminded. I have never had an experience in public school, because my parents, while less intelligent than I am, had enough sense to offer me a reprieve and home-school me until I was old enough to attend college. And I certainly do not think that the most important asset to their entire investigation should have his resources wasted on acting. I wonder if the forensics team who work with Novac and Wood are hiring.

• What is your favorite occupation?

The occupation I currently have; that is, when I am allowed to do my job instead of being forced to deviate from it and perform a ruse.

• What is your most treasured possession?

I have the entire collection of Star Trek action figures, first editions in mint condition.

• What or who is the greatest love of your life?

Zoe Washburne from Serenity

• What is your favorite journey?

My favorite journey comes from, not going outside and embarking on what others perceive as adventures by climbing rocks or driving countless miles, but on finding papers on unsolved homicides, and then using my skills to solve the crimes. I have even submitted letters to different cities, explaining the crime and offering my findings.

• What is your most marked characteristic?

I've never understood the concept of quirks and habits defining you as a person. However, if you must know, I have an extreme case of germophobia, and will actually lecture a person who serves as a carrier for any disease. I also cannot stand fighting, and will simply walk away and find a good comic book store if anyone fights around me. I've been told that I take things too literal, but in my opinion, everything that I don't understand, I don't need. It's also been said that I'm a bit of a know it all, but I highly disagree. I do not know it all, I simply know all of what is worth learning.

• When and where were you the happiest?

I was the most happy when I was given the rare opportunity to meet Bill Gates when I was six years old. We got into an argument with his latest technology, and I pointed out some severe flaws in it. It got recalled and improved upon six months later.

• What is it that you most dislike?

I do not like eating food that is not authentic. For example, if I call a pizza place, but the restaurant owner sounds suspiciously Chinese, I am not about to order a pizza from them. Likewise, I will not eat chili if it has beans in it and yet the cook insists that is what it is called. To me, that is utter madness and I will not partake in it.

• What is your greatest fear?

I must admit, working in the forensics field has made me aware to a lot of dangers that I didn't really realize were there before. And, of course, already, I had my lists of fears. However, no matter how horrifying my fears, the worst of all has to be the fear of being replaced by a robot. I love being needed, and I love having superior intelligence to 97 % of Toronto. If I were replaced, it would make my life meaningless, and that is scarier than any serial killer could be.

• What is your greatest extravagance?

I would probably have to say the methods I go through to try and prevent myself from getting sick when I know I've been exposed to a virus or bacteria. Throat cultures, stool samples, I have a lab in my apartment that allows me to do the same tests that a hospital does, only with more efficiency. Of course, if I get sick, then it's up to my sister to bring me tea and soup and sing soft songs to me while I try to sleep. Oh, and rub vapor rub on my chest. What?...I like staying healthy.

• Which living person do you most despise?

That would be the person who casted Ryan Reynolds as the Green Lantern. I understand it's been several years, but I still cannot believe that they thought that was the best they could do. I for one am looking forward to another version of the movie; any actor they could possibly get for the main character has to be better than Ryan Reynolds.

• What is your greatest regret?

My greatest regret would be failing to present my findings in a 2020 homicide case, which as a hobby, I followed and conducted my own experimentation and investigation. The findings were essentially the same, but my research would have pointed out some severe errors in the forensic analyst's work. I think he would have been interested to know where he went wrong, so he could improve in the future.

• Which talent would you most like to have?

Since I like to avoid social interactions, especially in places such as grocery stores, where pathogens can easily be spread and picked up simply by touching a grocery cart, I would like to be able to grow my own food. It's practical, and it would keep me from having to actually leave my home to buy food and risk picking up a disease. However, I am unfortunately much too busy with my career to grow anything. But someday...

• Where would you like to live?

I think I would like to go to the United States, live in New York, or Washington. However, I don't think I'd be able to bear leaving this city. Toronto is my home, and it always has been. I have never lived anywhere else. I think that if I left, even to go to a superior location, I would be very homesick. So while living in Washington is a whimsical fantasy that I occassionally entertain, I would never actually move there.

• What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?

That would be if my Nana died. I believe that there is nothing more special than the relationship a boy has with his grandmother. In fact, my grandmother makes the required social convention of seeing my family for holidays tolerable. If anything were to happen to her, I would be very inconsolable. In fact, I don't even want to think about that.

• What is the quality you most like in a man?

I have often admired the quality of brute strength in a man. While I have never possessed any amount of strength myself, I marvel at the things a man can accomplish, just by calling upon the physical durability that evolution has granted him. Strength is what separates the alpha males from the betas.

• What is the quality you most like in a woman?

I have often thought that the genetic disposition to awake to higher pictches is astounding in a woman. Evolution has them taylored to becoming mothers and breeding the next generation. Naturally, anytime I want to avoid waking a woman up, I make sure to speak in a low tone. Then again, that's never really been a predicament for me. The only time I have ever had to keep from waking a woman, was when I snuck into her apartment in the middle of the night to clean.

• What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?

I have this incessant need to bow to social pressure. For example, if I walk up to a group of people, and each of them say 'hey', I feel the need to say 'hey' in return. And hey isn't even a word I use. I simply do it because of the pressure exerted upon me by the use of the word by the group majority. I pride myself in being my own person, but I do wish I wouldn't do things just because others did them. I've heard there's a saying that asks if one would lunge off a bridge just because the social majority is perpetrating the act. It was never said to me growing up, but I think if it had, it might have saved me from the embarrassment of saying hey.

• What is the trait you most deplore in others?

What really bothers me is the arrogant refusal to be wrong. If someone who is smarter than me, done the same research that I have done only better, more throroughly, and in affect, more efficiently, I would humbly accept that there is a possibility (however minute) that I could be wrong. I might even be grateful to the person who has extended me the courtesy of showing me where I went wrong in my work. Yet, when I attempt to extend the same courtesy to others, the vast majority tends to respond with a sigh of exasperation. How are we as humans supposed to evolve if nobody is proven wrong every once in a while?

• What do you most value in your friends?

I can't really say that I have friends...I have a few colleagues that I rarely see outside of work, yet who I do like to engage in semi-interesting conversation. My parents always said that friends would just hold me back, which academically speaking is clearly correct, because there are seventeen year olds still in high school. Even when I was a small boy, I didn't have imaginary frends. I had imaginary colleagues. And we worked splendidly together...until the incident in 2006. I'm sorry, what was the question?

• Who is your favorite hero of fiction?

I think that would have to be the flash. You know, growing up, my parents never really taught me much because of my being more evolved than they were. But the one thing my mother did teach me was that if I ever came to a problem, don't try to fight, just walk away...or run, if the situation demands it. And I do have to say, if one must run away, what better way to do with than with the Flash's speed?

• Whose are your heroes in real life?

Well, none that are still alive. Although, I do have to say, I admire Dr. Erwin Schrodinger. In 1935, he designed an experiment with quantum mechanics, using a cat, and a flask containing a poison and a radioactive force, which were put in a box. If an internal Geiger counter detected radiation, the flask would be shattered, releasing the poison and killing the cat. He theorized that until the box was opened, the cat was simultaneously dead and alive. Dr. Schrodinger was my research target when I was completing my Bachelor's. His theories are held dear to my heart.

• Which living person do you most admire?

Myself. I admire myself. I am a highly successful, highly intelligent 21 year old. I am working on the most high-profile case in Toronto. Of course, my life will get even better when I start preparing for my doctorate. But as of right now, I admire myself deeply, and others would do well to do the same.

• What do you consider the most overrated virtue?

• On what occasions do you lie?

• Which words or phrases do you most overuse?

• If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

• What are your favorite names?

• How would you like to die?

• If you were to die and come back as a person or thing, what do you think it would be?

• What is your motto? [/blockquote]

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