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C A N O N   R E L A T I O N S H I P S

U N D E R   C O V E R

DR. JACOB BENTON materials engineer | professional crazy person theme song | ❝ song name ❞ actually a teenage boy in a grown man's body. dr. benton is best described as "aggressively brilliant," although "infuriating as hell" also covers it—and he's in charge of this lab despite his personality, not because of it. and because dr. savage, ironically, hates conflict. he's smart, he wants you to know it, and he also probably wants you to try and punch him in the face before the day is out. that being said, there's no one better to have on your side if you're in a (literal or metaphorical) corner.

DR. CHRISTOPHER SAVAGE condensed-matter physicist | distressingly, neurotically sane theme song | ❝ song name ❞ the human equivalent of one of those tiny shaking purse dogs. dr. savage is very intelligent, and a genuinely nice human being, but it's a bit of a miracle that someone so unbelievably anxious makes it out the door every morning. he does, however, provide a solid, sane counterbalance to benton's aggressive everything—when you can drag him out of his office, anyway. tends to handle both department organization and maintaining points of contact with the nice government people giving them money; benton might be theoretically in charge, but chris makes sure that the office actually runs. (bit of a waste of a doctorate, that one, but he enjoys it.)

DAVOR PAVLOVIĆ postdoc ( materials science ) | mooooom he's touching meeeee. theme song | ❝ song name ❞ sassy gay physics friend. davor and chapel are the dynamic duo of the lab—or the annoying hipsters of the lab, if you ask literally anyone else besides the two of them. he also has an irritatingly obvious crush on chapel, who is studiously ignoring it in favor of pining science. (he's currently adhering very strongly to the "if i don't acknowledge it, it'll just go away..." school of thought on that one.)

CHRISTINA ( YOONJIN ) BAE postdoc ( physics ) | actually likely to be an axe murderer theme song | ❝ song name ❞ one piece of bad news away from going postal. christina's highly-strung on the best of days, and most days in the nanotech dungeon? are not the best of days. the cns probably isn't the best lab for her, in all honesty—she likes structure and order and color-coded calendars, and she'll never, ever get any of those in a lab run by dr. benton—but she's going to stick it out until the end of her term. even if that means committing homicide.

ROHAN GAVASKAR intern ( undergraduate ) | we have an intern? theme song | ❝ song name ❞ a nice kid. probably. chapel actually had no idea he existed until two months into the fall semester. ("don't worry about it," they said, "dr. sinclair's kind of a space cadet.") rohan seems to be the only person in the lab to pass as normal on a regular basis, though, so he gets points for that. plus he's actually good at filling out lab paperwork in a reasonable amount of time. if you get the sense that chapel is taking a rather hands-off approach to having a department intern… well, you'd be correct.

DR. MARIE FABEL dean of physics | TRUSTS NO BITCH theme song | ❝ song name ❞ a much better politician than she ever was a physicist. dr. fabel is essentially in charge of securing funding and running publicity for the harvard physics department, and she took to the vicious, backbiting world of academia like a razor-toothed shark to water. she is also the reason that the center for nanoscale systems even exists, thanks to some very generous department of defense grants (nudged in the appropriate direction by the order, not that she has any idea), and she has no issues with reminding everyone of that little fact when they get… rambunctious.

T H E   O R D E R

NATHAN ( BOSTON ) PIERCE lawyer | let's go with "it's complicated" theme song | ❝ song name ❞ My money's in that office, right? If she start giving me some bullshit about it ain't there, and we got to go someplace else and get it, I'm gonna shoot you in the head then and there. Then I'm gonna shoot that bitch in the kneecaps, find out where my goddamn money is. She gonna tell me too. Hey, look at me when I'm talking to you, motherfucker. You listen: we go in there, and that nigga Winston or anybody else is in there, you the first motherfucker to get shot. You understand?

BETH FIELDING executive assistant | please don't shank me theme song | ❝ song name ❞ Your bones don't break, mine do. That's clear. Your cells react to bacteria and viruses differently than mine. You don't get sick, I do. That's also clear. But for some reason, you and I react the exact same way to water. We swallow it too fast, we choke. We get some in our lungs, we drown. However unreal it may seem, we are connected, you and I. We're on the same curve, just on opposite ends.

WALKER ( RICHMOND ) HANSHAW who the hell even knows | let's race motherfucker theme song | ❝ song name ❞ The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy My brothers. And you will know My name is the Lord when I lay My vengeance upon thee.

ROCHELLE ( MILWAUKEE ) SCHMIDT ??? | ur not my real mom theme song | ❝ song name ❞ You think water moves fast? You should see ice. It moves like it has a mind. Like it knows it killed the world once and got a taste for murder. After the avalanche, it took us a week to climb out. Now, I don't know exactly when we turned on each other, but I know that seven of us survived the slide... and only five made it out. Now we took an oath, that I'm breaking now. We said we'd say it was the snow that killed the other two, but it wasn't. Nature is lethal but it doesn't hold a candle to man.

OLIVIA ( SAVANNAH ) MORGAN something something politics | also banging richmond theme song | ❝ song name ❞ Look, just because I don't be givin' no man a foot massage don't make it right for Marsellus to throw Antwone into a glass motherfuckin' house, fuckin' up the way the nigger talks. Motherfucker do that shit to me, he better paralyze my ass, 'cause I'll kill the motherfucker, know what I'm sayin'?

JOHN ( OXFORD ) BUCHANAN something something politics | also banging cambridge theme song | ❝ song name ❞ You think water moves fast? You should see ice. It moves like it has a mind. Like it knows it killed the world once and got a taste for murder. After the avalanche, it took us a week to climb out. Now, I don't know exactly when we turned on each other, but I know that seven of us survived the slide... and only five made it out. Now we took an oath, that I'm breaking now. We said we'd say it was the snow that killed the other two, but it wasn't. Nature is lethal but it doesn't hold a candle to man.

HALLAH ( ABERDEEN ) TAWSE computers... | spacebros 4 lyf theme song | ❝ song name ❞ Normally, both your asses would be dead as fucking fried chicken, but you happen to pull this shit while I'm in a transitional period so I don't wanna kill you, I wanna help you. But I can't give you this case, it don't belong to me. Besides, I've already been through too much shit this morning over this case to hand it over to your dumb ass.