Ezekiel Hollis

"'I call it Obitus Noctus. A bit dramatic, I know, but fitting...'"Ezekiel is tall with a narrow build, light brown skin, grey eyes, and arched eyebrows. He has dark grey wavy hair just long enough to fit into a ponytail, an aquiline nose, and short sideburns. He gives the general impression of being slightly busy all the time, regardless of what he’s doing. Ez wears a deep green cloak and grey trousers, a tan-coloured waistcoat, a grey tailcoat and a dark blue scarf/cravat/thing(?). His black shoes are always polished to shine, and he wears a white dress shirt beneath his outerwear.

Ez dismisses any respect or admiration put upon him, though he is slightly classist. He is quick to feel emotion but quick to forget it, and will give you some attitude if you upset him. He is reluctant to start fights (verbal or physical). He’ll accept pretty much anything as being normal once someone explains it to him.

At the Society, Ez studies Cryptovirology, or the study of lesser known diseases like vampirism, Petrifold Regression and the Red Death.

Ezekiel taps his foot a lot. It doesn’t necessarily mean he’s bored or impatient, though. Ez is also a reader of old works of poetry or theatre and will often quote lines from them, regardless of whether his company will recognise the reference or not. He keeps in letter correspondence with his university friend Ward, but refuses to tell him his whereabouts.

Biography
Ezekiel was born to a relatively well-to-do family in Dublin and stayed normal and out of trouble until he was 23.

At that point, he left home and went to university (still in Ireland) to study medicine. There, he met his friend Ward Connell, who still lives in Dublin. However, he was fed up with the outdated ideas they taught there and soon began to skip the lectures, reading scholarly works by discredited and ridiculed authors and conducting his own experiments with bacteria and diseases in his quarters.

Things went on in this fashion for three years until one of his fellow students discovered his latest experiment, and fell deathly ill with a sickness none of the college doctors could diagnose. To the others, it seemed to be a completely new disease. Soon, the man died.

Crushed with guilt, Ez packed his equipment and everything he needed to travel and set off for another place, lest someone find out he was responsible for the other man’s death. He left without notice and took a train to London. On the ride there, Ez silently promised himself that he would try to find cures for the diseases he had so obsessively studied.

He heard of the Society through local gossip about the recent fire that took place there.

Story Appearances
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