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★ Character Information ★
Character Name: Dr. Senku Ishigami
Character Age: 3752 (looks 27)
Character Species: Human
Current Health: Excellent
Outfit: Senku is wearing dress shoes, slacks, button down, tie, labcoat, his science cape and his familial rope, wound around his ankle.
Character Canon: Dr. Stone
Link to History: Wiki Link
Canon Point: Post-canon/Chapter 232
Canon Iteration: Canon
Canon Iteration Explanation: Original manga canon.
Character Age: 3752 (looks 27)
Character Species: Human
Current Health: Excellent
Outfit: Senku is wearing dress shoes, slacks, button down, tie, labcoat, his science cape and his familial rope, wound around his ankle.
Character Canon: Dr. Stone
Link to History: Wiki Link
Canon Point: Post-canon/Chapter 232
Canon Iteration: Canon
Canon Iteration Explanation: Original manga canon.
★ Folkmore Roles & Attributes ★
Skills:
* Scientific Encyclopedia - Specializations include but are not limited to: Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Cosmology, Geology, Aeronautics, Meteorology, Scientific History, Computer Programming, Hacking and Medicine.
* Mythology Afficionado
* Multi-lingual - Completely fluent in Japanese and English, some fluency in Russian.
* Cryptography/Morse Code/Uesugi Cipher
* Proficient in pottery making and glass blowing
* Baking/Cooking
* Teaching
Canon Abilities:
* An exceptionally high IQ
* Brain Partitioning: Not unlike a computer, Senku can run multiple processes in his mind, something he discovered as a kid and refined it until he can accomplish at least three. This was useful while he was counting for thousands of years.
* Eidetic Memory: Senku remembers everything, which is why he is essentially an encyclopedia of the modern world.
Role: Legend
Role Qualities/Attributes: Wings, halo, eyes that change colour with his emotions, and for a change, some sturdiness!
Role Reasoning: Despite the fact that Senku is the least conventional of Legends with his tsundere nature and his devious streak of being a total troll when the mood strikes him, he's at heart, a humanist. He believes in humanity as a collective and to that end each and every person is not only to be cherished and valued, but provides a unique set of skill that can be beneficial for the good of everyone. Senku has sacrificed thousands of years counting for an accurate date, and after he was up and running again he proceeds to sacrifice the rest of his life thus far to rescue each and every person who fell to the tragedy of the petrification, and he will not stop until he has rescued all 7.8 billion people. His invention of the revival fluid is the single most important invention in the history of mankind to ensure the survival of the species. His rescue count so far likely hovers somewhere between 4-5 billion people, worldwide.
★ Personality ★
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One would think that being turned into a statue, awake in total sensory deprivation would be the most traumatic of experiences for Senku, but that isn't true. The most traumatic experience happened after that. Senku found himself waking up on an empty, seemingly deserted planet. While that was not entirely true, that's what he believed. He would spend just over six months with zero social interaction at all while he fought tooth and nail to survive every day. During this time period, he had no comforts unless he made them. He needed to learn to make fire, catch food, build shelter and create clothing by hand with nothing but rocks and sticks at his disposal. It was a difficult time.
Prior to the collapse of civilization, Senku was not the most social person. He wasn't that friendly, he could be kind of a jerk. He was far more arrogant. He was far more willing to hold his intelligence above other people. He was namely, a typical teenager in a lot of ways. The experience deeply humbled him and made him far more inclined to reach out to people with some significant boundaries, but he finds himself no longer able to be alone for long periods of time. He experiences flashbacks and nightmares from this time. He learned that as smart as he is, it didn't mean anything when it came to the world ending. He became far more focused and determined, learning from each failure until he hit success.
The most important relationship that Senku had was with his father, Byakuya Ishigami. Senku was not an easy kid to raise, for a lot of reasons, but Byakuya seemed to know where to meet him in the middle, and how to relate to his kid. The fact they aren't related by blood is not anything that he ever considered to be anything more than a footnote. Byakuya didn't try and temper Senku in any way or hamper his genius, but rather tried to instill some very basic rules and principles into him, such as being able to understand that fun is required for people. Relaxation and rest are incredible needs and it rubbed off on Senku in a big way.
Beyond this, not pushing Senku to do things in a more 'normal' way allowed him to flourish and blossom. He and Byakuya shared a deep love and trust and worked together as a team. Senku worked to get Byakuya into space, Byakuya worked to leave what he could behind, believing wholeheartedly that Senku would wake up and save the world one day - a belief that was not at all misplaced. Because of this approach which likely Byakuya got a lot of complaints about, Senku was able to feel safety and security in his home and family.
I think it's very notable that Senku is extremely hard coded as autistic. It's not subtle, he doesn't mask it very well, if at all, and he demonstrates symptoms that are beyond just the basic impressions of someone on the spectrum. Yes, Senku does not pick up on social cues, and he needs to be reminded of things like scheduling and that people need to stop working for the day. He also has sensory issues, can stand very little touch, hyperfixates to the extreme, can't tolerate people in his personal space, rarely makes eye contact and is extremely reckless - without understanding how his behaviour affects people. It always surprises him. He can't predict how people will react to what he says and does and when he worries them it's always bewildering to him.
They don't call it this by name, but rather characters just decide 'Senku is Senku'. That goes for all the social norms that he completely threw out including honourifics, gender roles, the rules around politeness...it's as though he was given the chance to dump anything he didn't care to understand and the world is not worse off for it. It's only in the most recent of years that these social norms are back and he's forced to adhere to them, but honestly he doesn't understand it. The village benefits from his hyperfixations and knowledge, he's done some truly incredible, amazing things. He gets help in the areas in which he's weak and as a character who could be considered flawed in some other series - he rises to the occasion and, most importantly, is accepted for being who he is.
It's truly an impressive depiction as someone who is very likely on the spectrum who shines, is incredibly capable and is even charismatic - even if it doesn't look like how everyone else would do it.
Senku has a very strict moral code, albeit one that surrounds what rules he thinks make sense and what rules don't. He had no problem hacking into the university supercomputer to do his calculations, because he didn't see there being any harm to doing that - but when it comes to matters of assault or murder, he's strictly against those things. He also thinks taking resources for the greater good is just as moral an action, despite the way he may step on toes in the process.
It can cause friction with others, but he mainly operates under what he believes is right and will actively campaign to change the minds of those around him who have a problem with it. He's not above bribery to get what he wants and the benefit to being Senku, is that he can essentially make anyone anything they want. It didn't take any arm twisting to get him to agree that murder was to be forbidden and this rule was strictly adhered to throughout the rest of the series, no matter what they were up against.
And yet, this high level overview also allowed him to make the call to ask people to temporarily toss their lives aside for him in an effort to lose the battle to win the war. They did win, it was a calculated risk that happened to pay off - but it's a call most people would not make. Senku is not afraid to make those kinds of massive, impactful decisions, which was partly what made him such a good leader.
It's worse - Senku is completely incapable of holding a grudge, even if it's so very well deserved. Senku is not very good at expressing his emotions. He has them, he's not a robot, but he has a very deep well of patience and self-control. He chooses completely to not act on emotions such as anger or despair because he doesn't understand the point. Yelling when he's angry might feel better, but what does it accomplish?
This leaves Senku in a position of forgiving everything. As long as someone is not actively killing him, he's perfectly fine with them, even if ten minutes before they tried to murder him. He even forgave Whyman for petrifying him for thousands of years. He's more interested in understanding why than being angry about it. It's another social interaction he doesn't quite understand. He can't fathom why anyone would hold a grudge and hang onto anger when it's a waste of time and is entirely unproductive.
It really does appear that there's nothing that can be done to Senku that would change his mind on this, he seems rather intent on offering total, unconditional forgiveness.
★ Player Information ★
