Paresh Ashok Gupta

[PARESH ASHOK GUPTA]

Paresh Ashok Gupta

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You've Got to Fight Just to Make It Through
Because I Will Be the Death of You
This Will All Be Over Soon
Pour Salt Into the Open Wound

Basics

Birth name: Paresh Ashok Gupta
Codename: Insight
Nickname(s): Ash
Alias(es): None
Canon or Original: Original

Age: 28
Gender: Male
Species: Mutant
Ethnicity: Indian
Birth date: April Ninth, Nineteen Seventy-Eight
Accent: British, slight Indian
Orientation: Meh...
Occupation: Taxi driver

Appearance

Eyes: Deep brown eyes that appear to be peering into your soul
Hair: Shorter, curly brownish-black hair
Height: 5'11
Weight: 179
Body Type: Paresh is slightly muscular, but rather skinny
Markings: None
Appearance: Paresh has more of a "in the background" way of carrying himself. He is less talkative than his brother, but can engage in lengthy conversations, and hold his own. He wears lots of button-up shirts in a casual manner, Slacks, and sneakers. He will occasionally wear a suit and tie, but not very often
Play by: Sendhil Ramamurthy

Abilities

Powers: Paresh has the ability of empathy. He can sense others' emotions, and attempt to project certain feelings onto others. The "recipient's" mental capacity determines how much he can project onto them. He tends to use his powers more than Naresh, but also understands that it is a violation of someone's personal boundaries, so tries to restrain use for certain situations.
Power Flaws: His powers tend to cause him migraines, especially after extensive uses. As previously mentioned, His abilities are dependent on a person's mental capacity. If a person is a telepath, or has the power of mind control/manipulation, it is harder for him to use his empathic transference on them. He has a moderate control over his powers, but if a room is too "crowded" for him, he will sense a flood of emotions, and cannot quite block it out.
Weapons:
+ A Hunting Rifle
Past Affiliations: X-Student
Current Affiliations: The Brotherhood
Thoughts on The Cure: Why should I do something to fit in, when differences have always been what keeps the population going, and entertaining. We are not a disease to be eradicated. We are simply the next step in evolution.
Mutant Class: Level 3

Personality

Secrets:
+ When Naresh's powers first developed, He had jokingly told Paresh, through his thoughts, to kill himself, which Paresh actually tried to do.
+ Paresh does pity the humans, but his anger over the treatment of mutants outweighs his pity
Likes:
+ Bananas
+ Music from the 20's, 30's, and 40's
+ Organization
+ Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream
+ Mutant Domination
+ Tea
+ Musicals
+ "Underdog" Movies
+ The Scent of Vanilla and Clean Linens
+ Tabloids (he finds them amusing
Dislikes:
+ Lady Gaga (too techno-sounding)
+ Hanging from ceilings
+ Being treated as something lesser purely because he's "different"
+ Valentine's Day
+ Grape Soda
+ Lots of noise
+ Justin Beiber
+ Twilight
+ Daniel Radcliffe
+ Women who claim to love men with British accents, yet refuse to sleep with him. Especially after they have said that they really like him.
Habits:
+ Bites his tongue
+ Scratches his temple when deep in thought
+ Bites his nails when he's worried
Obsessions:
+ Old Science Fiction shows
+ Learning more about the origin of the X gene
+ Everything having a set place
Hobbies:
+ Botany
+ Researching the X-genome
+ Pacing his room while listening to Jazz
Phobias:
+ Atelophobia (Fear of Imperfection)
+ Fear of Hanging Upside-Down
Favorite Words:
+ "Intriguing"
+ "Triscuit"
Overall Personality: Paresh is a quiet man, prefering to listen to body language than words. He tends to stand in the background, so as to read movements without being noticed. He is more passive than his twin brother, Naresh.
Paresh is an instinctual man, prefering to make choices based on his emotions, and of those around him. However, he is not impulsive. He is a man who follows his emotions, but there is thought and reason behind every action. But, if provoked, he can become dangerous.

History

Birthplace: New Dehli
Parents: Ishana Gupta, Mother, 52, Seamstress, Telepath
Devesha Gupta, Father, 51, Neurosurgeon, Forcefield Generator
Siblings: Naresh Gupta, Twin Brother
Spouse/Partner: None
Children: None that he is aware of
Other Relations: None
Overall History: Paresh was born on April 19, 1979 to Ishana and Devesha Gupta, along with his twin brother, Naresh. In their chilhood, Paresh and Naresh were almost inseperable. Once puberty hit, though, problems began to arise, as Naresh's powers began to develop. After an incident which neither twin would care to talk about (Naresh made a joke, which, due to Naresh's power, Paresh took seriously) they became seperated for a few years. Naresh went to Xavier's institute, while Paresh went to a boarding school in Britain. They were thirteen at this point.
Two years after enrolling in boarding school, Paresh's power of empathy started to develop. Because he didn't know what was going on, or how to control it, he at times succumbed to fits of rage, or bouts of depression, for no given reason. After a rather nasty incident, in which he forced two fellow students into a fury and became incapacitated by a migraine due to the incident, his parents determined that the boarding school was not the place for him, and transferred him to Xavier's institute as well, at the age of fifteen.
While at Xavier's Institute, Paresh showed an acute understanding of genetics, and had started to discover the predjudice the world held him in due to his differences. After he left the institute, he was offered an internship with Worthington labs. He was there for only a few months when he discovered that the pharmaceutical company was working on a "cure" for the X gene. After this discover, he dropped the internship, and joined his brother, who was a member of the brotherhood, and has never left.


Out of Character

Alias: Jez
Age: 18
RP Experience: still kind of new at it
Characters:
Sample RP:

As he paced his room, Paresh was deep in thought as he contemplated what he had just felt. Darkness, silence, yet turmoil wound so far in, it had become part of the very fibers that created him. He was bitter at the world, yet had every right to be so, considering what he had gone through in his early years. Being captured, tagged, and thrown behind bars, just for the amusement of lesser beings who didn't understand that just because he was different, it didn't mean he didn't have emotions as well. Paresh walked over to his desk, lit a candle so that the scent of vanilla wafted through the air, and started nibbling on a banana, contemplating the deep irony of it all. Throwing the peel in the compost bin, he traveled down the hallway. "Stupid bonabo monkeys," he muttered to himself. "I've got to stop traveling to the zoo on my days off."

[PARESH ASHOK GUPTA]

FINISHED

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