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Baxter was his surname, or something close to it, on Earth; he never saw the point of taking a completely new name, so he didn't, but he prefers this to his given name.
Died in 1910, at the age of 32. He's nearly 150 years old at this point, adding in the years he's been a Sinner.
4 foot nothing not counting the lure, and he weighs a grand total of 60 pounds.
Bisexual, bilingual, ambidextrous, amphibious. There's something not exactly binary going on with him gender-wise too but he isn't actually too aware of that yet. Why would that even be important to unpack. He's barely even started to unpack the bisexuality part, give him time.
Most of the time uses a sleep mask to avoid the light of his own lure. That and his bioluminescent markings never fully stop glowing, and he can't control the level of glow very well; they respond more to his emotions than what he actually wants from them, which is annoying.
Might not actually be outright alexithymic, but he's definitely bad at recognizing most of his own emotions and even worse at dealing with them. Definitely autistic.
Worked at a hospital in life and was very interested in medical science, particularly bioscience, and stole some corpses from the morgue of the hospital he worked at to dissect and examine... and maybe committed one or two angel-of-mercy acts on some patients who were terminal anyway, to examine them too.
Hopped on a boat hurriedly when he realized some of his coworkers were getting suspicious. The ship sank, and he died by drowning.
Liked boats and swimming before that! Now not so much. He can breathe underwater now but his feelings about that are complicated; he has a clear, warm tank of freshwater in his lab that isn't incredibly deep that he enjoys just chilling in sometimes, it's a great decompression space, but dark, deep, cold, and/or salty water is an absolute no and he will NOT set foot on a boat anymore.
Him not drinking has nothing to do with that, he's just never liked how getting even tipsy makes him feel, and he prefers sweet tastes to bitter. Husk's made him a couple mocktails he really likes, though.
Met Pentious early on in his time in Hell, and was lab partners with him longer than he was actually alive on Earth. Considered Pentious a friend back then, but at this point he won't admit that. He also absolutely won't admit how much Pentious leaving hurt, in part because he doesn't actually realize how much it hurt.
Stopped making the Egg Boiz and experimenting on them as soon as Pentious left, never had another lab partner, and pretty much stopped making friends for decades, because obviously all that was more trouble than it was worth.
Due to winning that competition, got a very beneficial contract with VoxTek, being able to work remote unless he's absolutely needed to be in the building or called in for a meeting, getting full benefits, and having it written clearly into his contract that if he's fired he gets his soul back, which is not always the case for VoxTek employees. In the meantime, though... yeah, Vox absolutely does still own his soul.
Has come to deeply care about the hotel crew and consider all of them his friends. Vaggi and Niffty are best friend status; Husk and Angel and Cherri come after that; he's least friendly with Charlie and Alastor since he never really got the chance to get to know them, and he's never actually met Lucifer at all.
He's still not actually convinced that redemption is possible; in his eyes, it hasn't been confirmed that something unusual didn't happen to get Pentious to Heaven, possibly to do with so many angels including Adam dying in the battle, and he doesn't consider redemption to be a proven hypothesis unless it's replicable. He hasn't brought it up quite yet because it hasn't seemed like the right time, with the terror and brewing war and then near-mass-death and then celebrations.