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Dr. Hendricks

Basic Information

  • Full Name: Dr. Emily Hendricks (possibly not her real name)
  • Age: Late 20s to early 30s (appears younger than her expertise would suggest)
  • Occupation: Supernatural Entity Specialist/Dimensional Resonance Expert for SIU
  • Location: Underground containment facility beneath Whitehall government building

Physical Description

  • Height: Petite, around 5’3”
  • Build: Slight, almost frail-looking
  • Hair: Jet black, often in elaborate gothic styles (braids, Victorian updos)
  • Skin: Pale, almost translucent — rarely seems to see sunlight
  • Eyes: Unusually dark, pupils often difficult to distinguish from iris
  • Style: Professional goth — dark suits, vintage jewellery, always perfectly put-together
  • Accessories: Antique silver jewellery with unusual symbols, vintage pocket watch
  • Presence: Moves with unsettling quiet — footsteps barely audible

Personality & Demeanour

Professional Behaviour

  • Calm Authority: Never seems rattled by even the most disturbing supernatural entities
  • Academic Precision: Speaks with clinical detachment about horrific supernatural phenomena
  • Unnaturally Knowledgeable: Understands entities better than someone her age should
  • Patient: Can spend hours with dangerous demons without showing stress or fatigue
  • Methodical: Approaches each case with scientific rigour and disturbing enthusiasm

Interpersonal Style

  • Polite Distance: Professional but never truly warm or accessible
  • Dry Humour: Occasional dark jokes that make others uncomfortable
  • Intense Focus: When interested in something, gives it complete, unblinking attention
  • Unsettling Insights: Sometimes knows things about people she shouldn’t know

Background & History

Official History

  • Education: Multiple advanced degrees in fields that don’t quite exist officially
  • Recruitment: Appeared in SIU files eighteen months ago, after the unit had been struggling with containment issues
  • Credentials: Perfect documentation that somehow never quite answers where she came from
  • Previous Employment: Records are curiously vague about her work before joining SIU
  • Impact: Helped develop the binding restraints, containment protocols, and banishment procedures currently in use

Mysterious Elements

  • Age vs. Experience: Appears too young to have the depth of knowledge she demonstrates
  • Source of Knowledge: Understanding of supernatural entities seems experiential rather than academic
  • Grayson’s Connection: How the Superintendent found her remains unexplained
  • Living Situation: No one knows where she lives or what she does outside work hours

Supernatural Expertise

Entity Interaction

  • Dimensional Resonance Mapping: Can determine an entity’s realm of origin with unsettling accuracy
  • Banishment Protocols: Designs specific rituals for returning entities to their native dimensions
  • Entity Psychology: Understands motivations and fears of supernatural beings
  • Communication: Can often communicate with entities that refuse to speak to others

Unsettling Abilities

  • Entity Recognition: Instantly knows what type of creature she’s dealing with
  • Power Assessment: Can gauge an entity’s capabilities without testing
  • Weakness Identification: Identifies vulnerabilities with disturbing precision
  • Fear Response: Even dangerous demons seem uncomfortable in her presence

Relationship Dynamics

With Mick Hargraves

  • Mick’s Discomfort: Senses something fundamentally “off” about her
  • Supernatural Sensitivity: His enhanced perceptions pick up wrongness others miss
  • Professional Respect: Acknowledges her effectiveness despite personal unease
  • Growing Suspicion: Increasingly questions her background and true nature
  • Marchosias’s Response: The demon finds her… interesting and potentially familiar

With Diana Reeves

  • Professional Appreciation: Reeves sees her as quirky but brilliant
  • Practical Focus: Values results over concerns about personality
  • Defensive: Tends to dismiss Mick’s discomfort as paranoia
  • Collegial Respect: Views her as essential team member

With Superintendent Grayson

  • Mutual Understanding: They clearly have a deeper relationship than officially acknowledged
  • Shared Secrets: Both know more than they reveal to the team
  • Perfect Recruitment: She was exactly what he needed, exactly when he needed her
  • Unspoken Agreement: Some kind of arrangement that benefits both parties

Work Methods & Procedures

Interrogation Techniques

  • Psychological Pressure: Uses entity’s own nature against them
  • Patient Persistence: Can outlast supernatural beings’ resistance
  • Strategic Knowledge: Knows exactly what questions to ask
  • Uncomfortable Familiarity: Treats entities like old acquaintances

Banishment Rituals

  • Custom Protocols: Designs specific rituals for each entity type
  • High Success Rate: Almost never fails to achieve banishment
  • Dimensional Precision: Sends entities to exact correct realm
  • Minimal Blowback: Her rituals rarely have negative side effects

Warning Signs & Red Flags

Behavioural Anomalies

  • Temperature Drop: Rooms get noticeably colder when she’s present for extended periods
  • Electronic Interference: Equipment sometimes malfunctions around her
  • Animal Reactions: Service dogs and other animals avoid her
  • Reflection Issues: Mirrors sometimes seem to show her differently than expected

Knowledge Concerns

  • Too Much Information: Knows details about entities she shouldn’t have access to
  • Historical Awareness: References events from before her apparent birth
  • Cultural Knowledge: Understands supernatural customs from multiple traditions
  • Language Skills: Can communicate in tongues that aren’t officially languages

Theories About Her True Nature

Mick’s Suspicions

  • Enhanced Human: Possibly modified or affected by supernatural exposure
  • Academic Cover: Real background might be in mortuary science or necromancy
  • Government Asset: Could be result of classified supernatural research programme
  • Something Else: Increasingly suspects she’s not entirely human

Possible Explanations

  • Supernatural Heritage: Part-human, part-something else
  • Previous Exposure: Long-term contact with supernatural entities changed her
  • Academic Obsession: Devoted her life to supernatural study at personal cost
  • Government Creation: Product of classified research into supernatural phenomena

Key Quotes & Dialogue Patterns

  • Clinical Detachment: “The entity’s dimensional resonance suggests origin in the lower Infernal realms, specifically the decay-focused territories.”
  • Unsettling Familiarity: “Oh, this one’s interesting. I haven’t seen a sewer-dweller this old in… well, quite some time.”
  • Dark Humour: “Don’t worry, Mr. Eccleston. The banishment process is relatively painless. For me, anyway.”
  • Professional Efficiency: “I’ll need approximately six hours to map its dimensional signature. Please ensure it remains properly restrained during the process.”

Future Development Potential

Character Arc Possibilities

  • True Nature Revealed: Eventually discover what she actually is
  • Loyalty Questions: Whether her allegiance is to SIU or something else
  • Power Growth: Her abilities might be increasing over time
  • Past Connections: Links to other supernatural entities or organisations

Plot Integration

  • Team Dynamics: Growing tension between Mick’s suspicions and Reeves’s acceptance
  • Supernatural Politics: Her knowledge suggests connections to otherworldly powers
  • Grayson’s Secrets: Key to understanding the Superintendent’s larger plans
  • Entity Relations: Some supernatural beings might recognise her

Notes for Writers

Writing Hendricks

  • Always Professional: Never breaks character, even in extreme situations
  • Subtle Wrongness: Details that make readers uncomfortable without being obvious
  • Knowledge Dumps: Use her expertise to provide supernatural exposition naturally
  • Contrast Tool: Her calm in supernatural situations highlights others’ stress

Interaction Guidelines

  • With Mick: Always polite, never defensive about his suspicions
  • With Entities: Treats them like specimens or old acquaintances
  • With Reeves: Professional colleague who appreciates practical results
  • With Unknowns: Immediately assesses supernatural potential and weakness

Atmospheric Impact

  • Environmental Changes: Subtle temperature and electronic effects
  • Supernatural Discomfort: Even demons seem uneasy around her
  • Professional Mystery: Perfect credentials that don’t quite add up
  • Temporal Inconsistency: Knowledge that doesn’t match her apparent age