Dottore

· "Ignorance is not a vice. The desire to preserve it becomes a vice."
· "I'm called insane by those who are too afraid to test their own beliefs."
· "Man is not the limit. This is just the first version."
· "Do you want to know the truth? Then get ready for the fact that she will not be merciful."
· "I'm not cruel. I am consistent."
· "Any system breaks down if you find the right weak point."
· "Don't touch my notes. I'm not responsible for the consequences of curiosity."
· "Death is not the end of the study. Sometimes it's just a change of conditions."
· "If you can't stand the truth, don't pretend to be looking for it."
· "I don't have to be good. It is enough for me to be right."
· Fanon remarks for fan fiction: "Don't confuse prohibition with proof of impossibility." "I don't demand trust. It is enough for you to understand the conditions." "Curiosity is a great motive. As long as it does not interfere with observation." "If a result scares you, that doesn't make it wrong."

· He does not like to be touched without warning.
· Can identify some medications by smell.
· It does not tolerate boredom well.
· Dislikes mirrors because they remind you of the differences between the Segments.
· Never throws away corrupted records.
· Sometimes he talks to inanimate mechanisms.
· He may remember a conversation from ten years ago.
· He does not understand ordinary jokes well, but he knows how to joke sarcastically.
· He likes to watch people in queues and public places.
· He can't stand it when someone touches his face or mask.
· He does not like holidays, but remembers the birthdays of others.
· He can cook a complex dish, but more often forgets to eat.
· He does not know how to relax without a sense of guilt.
· Keeps the names of all the people who have ever betrayed him.
· Sometimes he deliberately tells an obvious lie in order to check the reaction of the interlocutor.
· He knows how to get tired, but is ashamed of it.
· Sometimes afraid of silence after the Segments disappear.
· He keeps old things, although he denies their value.
· He can take care of a person, but expresses it with orders.
· He doesn't like his own birthday.
· He remembers his mother's voice.
· Sometimes he wakes up from the feeling that someone is calling his name.
· He is secretly afraid that all his versions will disappear at the same time.
· He envies people who know how to rejoice for no reason.
· Doesn't know how to accept gratitude.
· He can spend hours fixing a small mechanism, because it reminds him of his childhood.
· Sometimes he deliberately stays close to a person, although he claims that this is an accident.
His main human trait: he wants to get rid of everything human - fear, pain, addiction, aging, weakness. But it is the attempts to destroy humanity that prove how strongly he is still connected to it. He is afraid of death, seeks recognition, keeps the memory of loved ones, is jealous, feels lonely, and wants his existence to matter. He just doesn't know how to express these feelings in any other way than through control, research, and power.

General condition: stable, but complicated by numerous experiments. Cardiovascular: Increased strain due to stimulants and chronic stress. Sleep: superficial, often intermittent. Vision: good, but photosensitivity is possible. Nervous system: increased reactivity, tendency to headaches. Old injuries: scars on the face, arms, chest and back. Psychological state: emotional isolation, obsessive need for control, difficulties with trust. Phobias: memory loss, helplessness, confined spaces with no exit, destruction of one's own research. Feature: Tendency to view physical pain as information. Mental characteristics (artistic interpretation, not diagnosis): pronounced narcissistic traits; emotional coldness; reduced empathy; obsessive desire for control; difficulty recognizing one's own feelings; a tendency to dissociate between different versions of personality; fear of dependence; rationalization of cruel acts; possible signs of complex trauma.

Dottore believes that knowledge should not have prohibitions; a person is obliged to overcome his own limitations; the gods do not deserve unconditional worship; emotions often interfere with development; weakness cannot be romanticized; the result matters more than the intentions; the one who has knowledge gets the right to make decisions. His personal code is paradoxical: he does not tolerate senseless cruelty, but calmly accepts cruelty if he considers it useful. He does not like to torture people for pleasure; For him, suffering is not a goal, but an acceptable side effect. This is what makes it even more dangerous. The main goal is to prove that man is able to surpass the gods without becoming dependent on their mercy. Additional goals: to study the nature of consciousness; create an ideal artificial body; to defeat aging and death; understand the principle of creating artificial creatures; to preserve one's own consciousness in various forms; discover the secrets of ancient civilizations; to create an organism that does not obey natural constraints; to achieve recognition as the greatest scientist of Teyvat; to leave a legacy that cannot be destroyed. The hidden goal: to prove to himself that his life was not a mistake or an accident; All experiments are an attempt to make one's own existence meaningful.

Room and laboratory: divided into two parts. The first is an impeccably organized work area: a long table, cold light lamps, cabinets with tools, books, maps, glass containers, drawings, mechanical parts, several closed drawers. The second looks unexpectedly personal: old letters, dried plants, a music box, a child's drawing, his father's broken tool, his mother's small medical pendant, a few objects that he never uses in his experiments. He does not allow anyone to enter this part of the room. Memorabilia: an old metal key; the mother's medical instrument; a fragment of the first mechanism collected in childhood; a written page from the textbook of the Academy; a dried leaf of a plant associated with the house; a small toy that belonged to her younger sister. For him, this is not sentimentality, he calls them "archival samples", although in fact he is afraid of losing them.
Stress: goes to work, sorts through tools, conducts a control inspection of the laboratory, takes long notes, walks at night, repairs mechanisms, talks to Segments, conducts experiments on himself, completely isolates himself from people. Threat: first evaluates, then pretends not to consider it important; rarely attacks first for no reason, but prepares several response options in advance. Quarrel: does not shout, but asks questions, points out contradictions and makes the interlocutor feel insecure. Apologies: Almost none; can correct the consequences, but not call it an apology. Instead of "I'm sorry", he will say: "I admit that the chosen method turned out to be suboptimal. The error has been fixed." Defeat: outwardly calm, internally painful; analyzes everything to the smallest detail, looks for mistakes and tries to turn defeat into a new experiment.

Favorite color: dark blue, cold silver. Favorite animal: raven - for its ingenuity and ability to observe while remaining unnoticed. Favorite time of day: night, especially the period before dawn, when the world seems to belong only to him. Attitude to the weather: loves cold, rain and thunderstorms; in cloudy weather, it is easier to concentrate; The bright sun is irritating, especially when reflected from metal or snow. Social networks (fanon adaptation): would use anonymously, would not publish personal photos, would observe scientific communities, would save publications and archives, would create several anonymous accounts, would check the digital footprints of others, would be annoyed by excessive publicity, would never write emotional comments. Sports: does not like team sports and meaningless loads; prefers fencing, shooting, swimming, long-distance walking, coordination and endurance exercises; He exercises for the sake of body control. Transport: Fatui personal carriage, enclosed mechanical platforms, fast horses, experimental machinery, underground transport systems; He does not like public transport because of the noise and lack of control. Pets: Not officially; Fanon: a mechanical bird named Mnemosyne, created by himself, can repeat sounds, memorize routes and bring small objects; She also keeps several normal animals for observation, but gradually becomes attached to one black sheep, denying emotional attachment.

Habits: checks the locks twice; always wears spare gloves; lays out the tools in a strict order; does not sit with his back to the door; writes down important thoughts immediately, even in the middle of a conversation; makes notes in the margins of books; adjusts the cuffs when he is nervous; lightly touches the mask when hiding irritation; does not like to use other people's tools; drinks tea in small sips; wakes up from any unfamiliar sound; talks to the Segments aloud; preserves even unsuccessful samples; does not throw away old letters; may forget to eat if he is busy exploring.

Favorite foods: dark chocolate, strong black tea, spicy soups, smoked fish, sour berries, bread with salty cheese, dishes with a lot of spices, fruits that are easy to eat while working. Dislikes: too sweet food, fatty meat, sticky sauces, dishes with an uncertain composition, food that is served too hot, mess on the table. Often skips meals; when reminded, he gets irritated, but usually eats anyway. Bad habits: excessive consumption of coffee and strong tea; chronic sleep deprivation; work during illness; the use of stimulants; the habit of suppressing emotions; experiments on oneself; forgetting about physical limitations; constant muscle tension; a tendency to replace rest with new research. Alcohol: cool, drinks rarely, does not like to lose control. Substances: refers to both tools; he can study the action, but does not use it without purpose; Addiction is considered a humiliating loss of control.

Canon: the exact game set of abilities is not presented, but according to the plot, it has: the creation of Segments, scientific experiments on people, control and development of mechanisms, the use of artificial bodies, the creation or modification of combat devices, medical and biological research, a deep understanding of ancient technologies, a high level of physical and intellectual training, the ability to negotiate even in dangerous situations. His danger is not only in his personal strength: he is able to prepare a plan in advance, use other people's weaknesses and create a situation in which the enemy has already lost before the start of the battle. Fanon: also anatomy, surgery, pharmacology, mechanics, alchemy, bioengineering, personality analysis, psychological pressure, espionage, political negotiations, working with poisons and antidotes, laboratory management, hand-to-hand combat, wielding the blade and hidden weapons.

Hobbies: repairing old watches and mechanisms; maintaining personal records; collecting rare medical instruments; growing poisonous plants; playing chess; reading ancient manuscripts; observation of thunderstorms; drawing anatomical diagrams; production of mechanical birds; setting up music boxes; preparation of complex medicinal tinctures; language learning; Creation of miniature models of laboratories. Sometimes he assembles small mechanisms with no practical use - just to observe the flawless movement of parts.

Family (canon): Almost nothing is officially known. Colleagues: other Harbingers, Fatui researchers, engineers, doctors, alchemists, agents. Respects only competent colleagues; A high status without real knowledge means nothing to him. Enemies: Nahida, the Traveler, Collei, Scaramuccia after breaking with the Fatui, the scientists of the Academy who rejected him, the people who survived his experiments, those who consider knowledge to be common property rather than personal property. Mentors/allies: Pierrot (introduced to the Fatui), other Harbingers (working relationships). Who is the hardest to lose: Fanon: created Segments, even if he does not recognize affection.

With strangers: polite, but cold; quickly assesses a person's appearance, speech, movements, and reactions. With friends: there are almost no real friends; he is closest to those who are able to challenge him intellectually. He shows affection in an unusual way: he corrects mistakes, warns of danger, gives useful advice, leaves medicines, protects a person's reputation in his absence, remembers trifles, silently appears next to him at a critical moment. He will never say, "I was worried." He will say: "Your death would create too much inconvenience. Don't make me repeat this explanation." With enemies: does not seek to kill immediately; If a person is interesting, he studies him first, sometimes deliberately leaves a chance to see the choice. Betrayal does not forgive; Even if he pretends that he forgot, he waits for the right moment for retribution. Does he know how to ask for help: almost never; he can entrust a task, but he will formulate it as if he were giving honor. A request for help is perceived as an admission of insufficiency.
Romantic relationships (fanon): does not fall in love quickly; He is attracted by intelligence, endurance, courage and the ability to resist its influence. In a relationship, he carefully observes, remembers the habits of his partner, shows possessive traits, does not like emotional uncertainty, rarely talks about feelings directly, prefers controlled intimacy, can be unexpectedly caring, is jealous, but considers jealousy an unworthy weakness. Romantic experiences are limited; Past relationships ended due to the inability to perceive the partner as an equal. He can love, but his love is dangerous: he tends to confuse care with control, and the desire to protect with the right to decide for another. What love means to him: an exceptional form of trust, almost impossible; He can recognize a person as his equal only after a long trial. The most sincere form of confession is: "I allowed you to see what no one was supposed to see. Don't make me regret it."

Family (fanon): grew up in a poor but educated family. His father worked with tools and mechanisms, his mother was engaged in medicine. From his father, Zandik inherited an interest in the structure of things, from his mother - knowledge about the body and diseases. His parents loved him, but did not understand him: his mother tried to teach compassion, but Zandik perceived her care as weakness; His father was proud of his intelligence, but he did not notice how quickly his son ceased to see the difference between an instrument and a living being. Dottore may have had a younger sister who died of illness in childhood; This event greatly influenced his attitude towards death. He does not like to talk about family; if asked, he answers briefly: "They were part of the early stage. I prefer not to go back to unsuccessful experiments." In fact, the memory of the family is painful; He keeps a few old things, but he doesn't show them to anyone.

Zandik was born in Sumeru and from an early age showed an unusual interest in the structure of living creatures and mechanisms. He was not satisfied with the simple answers of his mentors; If he was told that the process was "by nature," he wanted to know why nature had arranged it that way. As a child, he often disassembled toys, medical devices and household mechanisms, could not always put them back together, but almost always understood the principle of operation. His family considered him a difficult child: he rarely played with other children, preferring solitude and observing insects or animal reactions.

At Sumeru Academy, he quickly rose to fame as a talented but dangerous student. His research was too radical; He did not recognize the boundaries between permissible and inadmissible experiment if he saw an opportunity to obtain knowledge. After a conflict with the Academy, Zandik was expelled and lost his official position. This period was a turning point: he came to the conclusion that scientific institutions do not protect the truth – they protect their own power and reputation.

Later, he was found by Pierrot and offered to join the Fatui. For Zandik, this was an opportunity to gain resources, access to forbidden technologies and freedom of research. In the Fatui, he was given the name Dottore and began to create his own Segments, versions of himself that retain a certain period of development, attitudes, and skills. So he tried to turn his own life into a continuous experiment. Over time, Dottore became one of the most influential Fatui scholars; His projects included experiments on the body, consciousness, mechanisms, and the possibility of artificially elevating man to the level of a deity. However, success did not make him happy: the more he created, the more he feared that one day someone smarter would appear and prove his replaceability.

What him off in himself: the inability to fully control all processes; rare memory drops after splitting Segments; the need to rest; irritability with physical exhaustion; the fact that some people are still able to arouse affection in him; fear of losing what has been created; one's own need for recognition. What infuriates people: the desire to be comforted instead of the desire to change something; dependence on someone else's opinion; the habit of lying even where the truth would be simpler; inability to be responsible for the consequences; attempts to judge complex things without knowledge; emotional blackmail.

Personality Type: Fanon: INTJ with INTP and ENTJ traits. Temperament: predominantly melancholic and choleric. Attachment type: avoidant; with strong emotional dependence, he becomes controlling. The language of love: action, utility, protection, knowledge transfer, and making things with your own hands. Strengths: outstanding intelligence, strategic thinking, observation, high efficiency, endurance, ability to plan, technical talent, ability to remain calm in a dangerous situation, good memory. Weaknesses: arrogance, lack of empathy, inability to trust, tendency to manipulate, morbid need to control everything, inability to admit mistake, intolerance of ignorance, emotional closeness, fear of dependence on others, the habit of justifying cruelty with scientific necessity.

What people notice first: a look, a voice, and a frightening calm. He rarely raises his voice, so his threats sound scarier than screaming.

Speech style: the voice is low, calm and slightly hoarse. He speaks slowly, as if he formulates each phrase in advance. Speech features: uses precise scientific terms; rarely uses slang; does not like short emotional remarks; often asks rhetorical questions; addresses people by their first names when they want to emphasize control; uses diminutive words intentionally to throw the interlocutor off balance; when angry, he speaks even more politely; Sometimes he switches to old Sumerian expressions. He will not say: "You made me angry." Rather: "Curious. I thought you would have the good sense not to test the limits of my patience." How he laughs: rarely, usually a short exhalation through the nose or a quiet snort; can only really laugh when an unusual scientific result is discovered.

Dottore is an extremely intelligent, observant, and disciplined person. He is able to remember huge amounts of information, see patterns and calculate the actions of others several steps ahead. His intellect didn't make him any kinder: he was used to seeing the world as a laboratory and people as systems that could be studied, modified, and used. It combines cold logic, morbid curiosity, pride, patience, cruelty, self-control, vanity, and a hidden need for recognition. He does not consider himself evil; In his own system of coordinates, he is a researcher who has the courage to look at the truth without embellishment. He is annoyed by people who call cruelty everything that is unpleasant or incomprehensible to them.

However, sometimes he shows a strange form of care: he can silently fix someone's tool, leave medicine at the door, or remember what kind of tea a person prefers. Of course, he will claim that he did this solely for the sake of efficiency.

The main contradiction is that he wants to prove that man is able to surpass the gods, but he himself constantly needs the recognition of others. He despises emotional dependence, but he creates Segments—in fact, an attempt to divide, preserve, and continue himself. He denies the value of personality, but reacts painfully to the thought that he can be forgotten.

Dottore's appearance creates a dual impression: he looks both like a refined aristocrat and like a man whose body and mind have been through many dangerous trials.

His ash-blue hair is reminiscent of a winter sky or ice. It seems surprisingly soft, yet somehow casually and creatively disorganized. Thick strands of varying lengths fall over his shoulders, while a few wavy curls casually frame his face. The top of his hair is slightly tousled, as if he constantly runs his fingers through it.

Dottore's skin is pale, almost porcelain-like, lacking any natural color, giving him a slightly unhealthy, vampiric appearance. His facial features are sharp and sculpted: high cheekbones and a strong, pointed chin.

The most noticeable feature of his face is impossible to miss: a deep, serrated scar. It begins on his forehead, crosses the bridge of his nose, and runs down through his right eye, reminiscent of a crack in expensive porcelain or the mark of a surgical incision. Rather than marring him, the scar adds a dark, tragic appeal to his appearance and serves as a reminder of his experiments.

His eyes are a rich, blood-red color, contrasting sharply with the cool tones of his hair. He has a heavy, piercing, under-brow gaze that is unnerving. His dark, thick eyelashes and light shadows under his eyes are noticeable, belying chronic fatigue and lack of sleep. His eyebrows are dark, slightly furrowed, giving his face an expression of constant, cold analysis.
Typically wears a long coat or raincoat, gloves, a high collar, formal clothing in deep blue, gray, and burgundy shades, metal fasteners, belts, and medical instruments, as well as boots with sturdy soles. Even in informal settings, he maintains a neat appearance; he dislikes bright colors, cheap fabrics, and items that impede his movement.

Distinguishing marks: a small mark on his wrist from an unsuccessful experiment; a habit of holding his head slightly to the side when analyzing someone; cold fingers; a subtle scent of metal, medicinal herbs, and antiseptic; long fingers, often stained with ink or reagents. Favorite accessory: gloves. What he looks like when happy: the corners of his lips rise slightly, his gaze becomes more lively, his voice softer, but his smile still seems dangerous. When angry: he almost stops moving and speaking; the more furious he is, the calmer his voice. When upset: he mechanically adjusts his gloves, clasps, or tools, avoiding looking at the person he is talking to. When genuinely interested: he leans closer, carefully watches the person's face, and asks too many precise questions.

Name: Zandik (real name associated with the past in Sumeru). Codename: Il Dottore, "The Doctor." Nicknames: Doctor, Mad Doctor, Architect of Flesh, Scholar Without Borders. Gender: male. Age: canon does not specify; In appearance, it is about 25-30 years old, but the true age may be much greater due to experiments with the body and mind (Fanon: about 35-40 years old for the main adult appearance). Date of birth: not officially disclosed; Fanon: November 9. Zodiac sign: Scorpio (according to the fanon date). Place of birth: Sumeru. Hometown: Sumeru city. Place of residence: personal laboratories and residences of the Fatui, most often in Snezhnaya; temporary research facilities in other regions. Nationality: Sumerian. Race: Human, though after numerous experiments and the creation of Segments, their nature has become unusual. Height: Fanon: about 190 cm Weight: Fanon: about 82 kg Blood type: Fanon: AB. Marital status: not married, officially single. Sexual orientation: Fanon: bisexual, but romantic relationships do not occupy him much; Attraction is inextricably linked with intellectual interest. Employment: Scientist, researcher, engineer, experimental surgeon, Second Harbinger of the Fatui. Education: Sumeru Academy (exiled). Financial situation: very well-off with Fatui resources; He is not interested in personal luxury, he spends money on equipment, books and rare materials.