Eugene Bender

Eugene Bender was a member of Heavenstation, being their Research Director for a non-insignificant amount of time until his death was reinstated as a past event.

Appearance
Eugene was a fairly tall and well-built man, with genetically blue hair with a strand hanging over his forehead, as well as a goatee in the same color. A pair of bottom-rimmed purple glasses covered his blue eyes. He wore a purple turtleneck with brown pants, occasionally wearing his purple HEV suit over these. His left arm was missing, having been replaced with a dark metal prosthetic.

Personality
Eugene Bender was a man who did not think about the price to pay for his actions. As far as he was concerned, the most important thing was to achieve his goals, no matter the cost. If he believed the net gain of his actions were more positive than the cost, then you could expect him to do some nasty shit.

Past
Eugene Bender grew up and lived a majority of his life in his parents’ cottage on the planet of Greatest Britain, where monarchical rule had retaken its place as the governmental system.

Not only have monarchies returned in full force, but the entire quality of life could easily reflect that of the Medieval British Aisle, however with far more lasers.

Eugene spent his days on his family’s farm, tending to the crops and animals. He took particular interest in the medical treatment of their animals, becoming somewhat of the family’s personal vet.

Spurred on by this newfound interest, Eugene took to reading any and all books about science and medicine that he could get his hands on. His father did not approve of this, although as long as Eugene stayed on the farm he didn’t care what his son did.

Using this knowledge, Eugene used an abandoned shed on their property as the base of his operations, creating a makeshift genetics lab based off the models in the books. While outdated, the equipment he created allowed him to semi-efficiently study genetics firsthand, with some smuggled monkey cubes allowing him the test subjects he required. Without any other true test subjects to practice on, he first tested on himself, leading to losing his arm as well as some of his eyesight, however gaining strength as well as discovering a way to elongate non-human creatures to human lifespans.

Eventually, around the age of 21, Eugene grew tired of his life on the farm, and wished for a life where he could freely practice and study the science he had read so much about. His mother took pity on him, and placed him inside of a crate to be mailed to a Nanotrasen station. By the time his father had found out what his mother had done, the supply shuttle was already blazing through the stratosphere in a cloud of new hopes and antique gunpowder.

Nanotrasen was clearly not amused with the fact that a human being appeared in an exotic seed supply crate, but upon finding out his relatively surprising scientific knowledge, they hired him as an intern to have him pay off the price of the missing seeds.

By the age of 32, he had been granted an honorary doctorate and moved up to the Research Director position.

Tay Nachure
Eugene felt a hint of respect towards Tay for his rise to his position despite his mortal shell, though he felt that Tay was far too lenient when it came to forgiving those who wronged him.

Guirec Raaz
Eugene held a particular amount of hatred for Guirec, believing him the reason he couldn't return back home to his family. His understanding that Guirec was pretending to be a human made him particularly suspicious of him, believing that someone needing to hide that much about themselves could only have ill intentions.

Ratvar
Eugene despised Ratvar for similar reasons to his hatred of Guirec, mainly due to the fact that they shared a body. Finding out Guirec was housing a literal time deity kinda supported his previous suspicions after all.

Lawrence Malheur
While Eugene didn't despise Lawrence, his understanding that he too was some form of god made him less willing to speak with him, as he believed that there was no way for someone of a "higher plane" to empathize with the plight of a mortal. He further believed that they were far too lenient with their use of their 'divine powers' to deal with situations.

Rose Vulpe
Eugene's adoptive daughter, he felt an inexplainable urge to protect her when he met her, and through his help she managed to be released from her captivity and make her way to being a normal citizen, under the condition that she suppress her magical abilities in order to protect those around her. If she were to make one mistake, he would be executed for treason. Luckily he managed to skip the trial on that one.

Trivia

 * Under heavy stress, he was prone to calculating his own pulse. This was usually an indication that he was starting to go insane.
 * Yes, he was very interested in the scientific possibilities of nanites. Most of the books he was able to get his hands on were about nanites, so it’s not that big of a surprise.
 * Would likely have some amount of eye damage from welding his own arm without a welding mask.
 * 10% chance of burning alive in toxins, 5% chance of toxin overdose
 * Could and would teleport into space due to the teleportation vest. This was not intentional, however this did not make it any less funny.
 * Was quite fond of foxes