Doctor Richard Nicholas Edward Prince

"'I am always trying for greatness. I seldom succeed, but the adventures and people I find along the way are, quite often, much more enlightening.'"Ričardas Niccolò Edoarado Princo otherwise known as Doctor Richard Nicholas Edward Prince. Hiding under his trusty hat is a mop of reddish-chestnut curls, occasionally (but not often, given his absent-mindedness) tied back to prevent it from getting in the way of his work. His skin is somewhat tan, maybe considered olive. The colors of his left eye are best described with the greens and golds of aspen leaves, and his right eye is obscured by a crystalline monocle-looking device that hides the prototype false eye he's made. A well-worn and patched periwinkle scarf is perpetually fixed around his mouth and neck, even in the warmest of weather. Most of his thinly striped black and grey dress shirt, grey waistcoat, and similarly striped pants tucked into tall, brown leather boots are hidden under a leather apron that seems to be falling apart by the seams. His hands are constantly covered by a pair of silk or leather gloves. Occasionally he's seen with a pair of goggles. Both of his arms (his right from the elbow down, his left from the shoulder down) and his left leg (from about two inches above the knee down) are prosthesis he's designed and updated on his own as need be. They're prone to losing bolts sometimes, however. He does his best to hide those from everyone. His face is also covered for a reason, but he's even less likely to share those marks.

Richard is a bit odd, even by the lax standards of his fellow lodgers. A man of dual natures, he's likely to jump at every loud noise and stutter profuse apologies while tripping over his feet, then leap and dance around a room in excitement of an experiment gone to plan. He'll be quiet and stumbling through heavily accented English one moment, then singing jovially in Italian or Lithuanian the next, and he'll be shy and reclusive one day, then helping anyone and everyone with anything and everything on the morrow. He thrives off making others happy, and is extremely sensitive to feelings of anger, grief, and bitterness in the air. For all his wit, sarcasm has a tendency to fly over his head when spoken in English, and he'll often wander between two or three languages in a sentence when not focused. This, combined with his fondness for clockworks and gadgets over people and their unpredictable responses, leads him to spend most of his time in his room, or exploring the Society's halls in the quietest hours of the morning.

What's their backstory before they came to the society? Richard's past is one shrouded in grief and mystery, given that he won't speak of it at all really, but it is known he was born in Lithuania, left to live in Italy at some point during his teens, traveled across Europe before going to Wales when he was twenty-three, then meandered around the British Isles until just after his twenty-seventh birthday, where he stayed in London and was invited to the Society after meeting Dr. Jekyll while trying to sell some of his work to make extra money.

Narrator--Tairais

Biography
Richard's past is one shrouded in grief and mystery, given that he won't speak of it at all really, but it is known he was born in Lithuania, left to live in Italy at some point during his teens, traveled across Europe before going to Wales when he was twenty-three, then meandered around the British Isles until just after his twenty-seventh birthday, where he stayed in London and was invited to the Society after meeting Dr. Jekyll while trying to sell some of his work to make extra money.

He has a very realistic looking toucan-cane he calls Stephan and accidentally made a semi-sentient teakettle he dubbed Gerard. He's demiromantic and demisexual, loves the rain and autumn, has severe claustrophobia, smells like ozone, oil, and woodsmoke, and has an Italian/Lithuanian accent with a hint of an Estuary English accent.