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Dr. James Wilson | House M.D.
Name: mippins
Age: 25
Contact Info:
Other Characters: Charlie Kelly (Always Sunny)
Character Information
Name: James Wilson
Canon: House M.D.
Age: 41
Gender: Male
Canon Point: End of season 5 episode 4
Background Link: Here. In the "Series" section, I'm pulling Wilson from season 5 right after he and House reconcile and Wilson returns to the hospital.
Inventory: He's wearing this, so he's coming to Norfinbury with some dress clothes and his doctor labcoat. In his pockets, he has: his Princeton-Plainsboro ID badge, two pens, a penlight, his prescription pad, his wallet, his cellphone, and his house/car keys.
Personality: At first glance, Wilson is possibly the most caring, kind, selfless individual on the planet. He's an oncologist, which means he deals pretty much exclusively with cancer patients, and he has a reputation for his patients thanking him after he tells them they are dying. Wilson tries extra hard to be gentle and loving, and thus he has amazing bedside manner and seems to always know the exact right thing to say to someone. That said, his bleeding heart doesn't come without a price. Though he genuinely is as caring and kind as he seems, there's also a lot of darkness and sadness buried under it. In a lot of ways, Wilson is the very antithesis of his best friend Greg House, but they also aren't all that different. Wilson and House's friendship is pretty integral to Wilson's characterization, but I'll get into that later.
Wilson cares a lot about other people (whether or not they deserve his care), often at his own expense. He derives his sense of self worth from his ability to help others, which means he often goes far, far beyond any realistic expectations for his kindness. He has donated money, personal time, blood, and even organs to his patients when they were in need. In the rare occasion where he isn't willing to help out or is for whatever reason unable to, he takes on a tremendous amount of guilt and responsibility. Even though he already goes above and beyond to take care of others, because his expectations for himself are so high, he still doesn't think all that much of himself. Intellectually, he does understand that his "bare minimum" is everyone else's "overkill" but he has a difficult time applying that logic to himself. If someone comments on his knack for human connection and his kindness, he tends to wave it away as if he's not doing anything special. He comes off as quite humble because of this, but really, he just doesn't think that highly of himself.
Because of his higher-than-average empathy and his willingness to run himself into the ground to take care of people, he spends a lot of time wrestling with his need to help and his own happiness. He hasn't yet figured out how to balance the two. Instead, he's either 100% selfless and ends up burning himself out, being taken advantage of, or resenting others for not returning the compassion; or, he takes a stab at trying to put his needs before others and ends up racked with guilt and unable to fully appreciate his chance for happiness. Likewise, he also has trouble finding the balance between tough love and enabling. Wilson has a difficult time employing tough love because he generally believes that people should make their own choices and be in charge of their own lives, even if they don't make the best decisions for themselves. When his beliefs, ideals, thoughts, etc. are in opposition of someone else's, Wilson tends to relent too easily so as to avoid upsetting the other person. This leads to him keeping his opinion quiet and bottling up his feelings until he does something rash out of resentment.
This is all especially relevant when it comes to Wilson's relationship with House. Even though House tends to treat Wilson pretty badly, Wilson still considers House to be his best friend because he's the only person that really gets Wilson. It's also worth noting that Wilson's canonpoint is right after he tries to distance himself from House's bad influence after the death of Wilson's girlfriend, but he soon realizes that the distance doesn't help him to cope with the loss. In his lowest moments, Wilson tries to blame House for being the root of his problems, but really, House is usually just a scapegoat. Despite most of their interactions frustrating and upsetting him, Wilson still has a lot of fun with their relationship. Their conversations are nothing if not interesting, they share some niche interests (monster truuuucks), and they play a lot of dumb games and pranks on each other that keep Wilson's life a little more exciting. Messing around with House gives him a good outlet to get away from the stress and drain of his job, even if it's only temporary and may ultimately make things worse in the long run.
House also doesn't baby Wilson and doesn't feel compelled to treat him with kindness just because he's kind to others. In a lot of ways, this frustrates Wilson, but it's also refreshing to have someone around with whom he can be sarcastic and blunt. He feels comfortable with House because he doesn't have to censor himself. He can be his naturally sassy and "fed up with everything" self.
All in all, Wilson is a good guy with a lot of shit going on under the surface. To him, his best is never good enough, and he readily takes responsibility for others even when there's no reason that he should.
Flavor Abilities: None. Wilson's just a regular guy.
Suitability: Survival horror snowhell will definitely be pulling Wilson out of his element, but he'll have a leg up with House being able to catch him up to speed. Wilson is able to keep a level head even in the worst situations, so once he gets over the initial shock of waking up in Norfinbury, he'll quickly bounce back as long as he has some kind of goal to keep his mind busy. As long as he's moving forward and doing something productive, he'll be able to bury the panic and helplessness he feels about being torn away from his home. I imagine that he'll join up with whatever House is currently up to at first, and once he gets the hang of the situation, he'll work with the other citizens to search for a way home. It's also worth noting that Wilson will try to believe that they have just been kidnapped and are playing some kind of strange and cruel game (point being that he believes this situation is only temporary), but his depression will likely make it more and more difficult to believe in a way out. Even still, he'll do what needs to be done to help the other residents, even if just to get his mind off of things.
Also, because of his canonpoint, Wilson will start off on awkward terms with House. From his point of view, they're just starting to rekindle their friendship and Wilson's still a touch skeptical as to whether or not this is a good idea. Plus, unsurprisingly, he'll want to avoid getting lumped in with House in Norfinbury. He doesn't want to just be "House's friend" because that comes with a whole set of assumptions he doesn't want to deal with.
RP Samples: Big ol' log
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A two-story A-frame house. The first floor has a living room, dining room, kitchen, bathroom, and two bedrooms. The second floor has a master bedroom, master bathroom, and balcony. It looks like all of the windows were smashed in with something like a bat, but they didn't smash all the way and instead left countless spiderweb-like cracks in the windows, making it difficult to see out of them.
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