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ptahrrific) wrote2009-03-20 03:19 am
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Fake News: Expectingverse - The OCs
The original characters who fill out the background of the Expectingverse.
(Under heavy construction.)
This group of ironically-named medical miracle-workers is based at RYT Hospital-Dwayne Medical Center, the institution behind this fictional project.
Phoebe Moreau
The leader of the team, the driving force of the project, the all-purpose media liaison, and Stephen's primary care physician. With an alphabet-soup list of degrees (none of them honorary, not even the Doctorate of Fine Arts) and a gift for managing people, she is uniquely prepared not only to supervise the first male pregnancy, but to supervise Stephen's pregnancy.
Despite the gifts that she uses to manage Stephen, Dr. Moreau is far more interested in the technical side of medicine than the human side. She got into this field mostly for the thrill of discovery (with a side of fame and fortune). She does eventually come to value Stephen as a person rather than just a subject, but it takes a while. In the meantime, she's very good at faking it.
Dr. Moreau is herself an unmarried mother of one (Heather Moreau Terese), with an eight-year-old granddaughter (Phoebe Terese). She's also approximately 1/13 Chickasaw, and her one visible quirk is her penchant for strange earrings.
She does not own an island, and is getting a little tired of people asking.
Rick Watson
A hormone specialist, an Ivy League graduate, a fly-fishing enthusiast, and a Strangers with Candy fan. Has two PhDs, but makes up for it with a lack of people skills.
Dr. Watson's job is to keep Stephen's pregnancy healthy (and his mood stable) by keeping his body chemistry in a proper balance. Of course, this is such new territory that he can only make an educated guess as to what "a proper balance" means.
He declined an offer to be Stephen's new black friend, on the basis that he is in fact biracial.
Mei Lin Dolittle
Moved from Hong Kong to the United States when she was four, and went on to live a version of the American Dream that included an MD, a PhD, a DPT, and both variations of the Albert Lasker Award.
What she does is never specified, but it's important.
Puja Livingston
Her field is infant health and development. During the pregnancy she has a largely observatory role, but she's the one who will give the baby his first bath and first checkup, and as his pediatrician she will eventually have the most active role.
Puja is a tiny, tiny person. This is probably what spurred her to work with kids in the first place.
Casey House
Already a Nobel prizewinner. For a long time, considered the odd one out in a hospital staffed by people with the names of famous doctors. Then House, M.D. hit the airwaves.
I don't actually know much about this one. I think he's the token white guy.
Names of the actor's family members are used when the character has referred to them, but any similarity to the real persons is purely coincidential.
From Stephen's First Marriage
(Hat Tip to Colbert University for filling in details.)
Lorraine McGee, formerly Lorraine Colbert: Stephen's ex. (Named here; her maiden name is from the actor's wife.) After the divorce, got all four of their kids (aged 5, 8, 11, and 12 at the time), plus the dog. Then hooked up with Tina Fey, because apparently she has a thing for snark and glasses.
John Paul, '02: named after the Pope. (Mentioned in episode 1028.)
Sally, '99: Stephen missed her first steps during TDS' 24-hour coverage of the 2000 election.
Mary, '96: interviewed by Stephen on TDS here. Named in this Formidable Opponent, in which Stephen refers to his kids as "Mary and little Stephens 1 through 14".
Stephen Tyrone Colbert, Jr., '95: exaggerated as "Stephens 1 through 14" here. John Paul is Stephen's second son, so there has to be a first; and of course Stephen would name his firstborn after himself. Now insists on going by his middle name.
Charlene Ophelia Colbert
Stephen's ex-stalkee, first cousin, and second wife.
As kids, the two of them were best friends, bonding over common interests like dogs, googley-eyed clams, and not being alone. When the pressures of young adulthood and increasing homophobia began to add up, they reacted in fundamentally incompatible ways: Stephen by getting controlling and possessive, Charlene by fleeing the country.
After bouncing around Europe, where she picked up mad cooking skills, a host of adventures, and a list of celebrity encounters as long as Stephen's own, she's returned just in time to find a Stephen who can admit to being gay in private (if not so much in public). Not only that, she ends up hooking up with his new boyfriend's hot wife, in a polyamorous quadrangle that actually ends up messy and complicated but sure sounds convenient on paper.
Charlene's trying to rebuild her relationship with her cousin, while giving him and his new baby the support they need on a day-to-day basis. Trouble is, Stephen has more issues than he's letting on, even to himself. All of which leaves Charlene struggling over whether she'll be able to settle down somewhere for the first time in her life, and whether it's a good idea to try.
George William Colbert
Half Korean, half Brazilian, all American, and all Stephen's.
Spends most of Expecting unborn, and most of State of Grace as an infant, which means he doesn't do much besides eat and sleep and cry and coo. (This is more than enough to make him, in Stephen's eyes, the most wonderful baby in the world.)
Under the wings of a devoted extended family, he grows up with everything they can manage to pass on, from Charlene's skill in the kitchen to Esteban's moves on the dance floor to Jon's deep sense of Zen. He's eighteen when he first runs into Seamus Noblet, and spends the next couple of years in a roller-coaster relationship that turns into a marriage. To everyone's surprise but his own, it lasts.
(Under heavy construction.)
The Doctors
This group of ironically-named medical miracle-workers is based at RYT Hospital-Dwayne Medical Center, the institution behind this fictional project.
Phoebe Moreau
The leader of the team, the driving force of the project, the all-purpose media liaison, and Stephen's primary care physician. With an alphabet-soup list of degrees (none of them honorary, not even the Doctorate of Fine Arts) and a gift for managing people, she is uniquely prepared not only to supervise the first male pregnancy, but to supervise Stephen's pregnancy.
Despite the gifts that she uses to manage Stephen, Dr. Moreau is far more interested in the technical side of medicine than the human side. She got into this field mostly for the thrill of discovery (with a side of fame and fortune). She does eventually come to value Stephen as a person rather than just a subject, but it takes a while. In the meantime, she's very good at faking it.
Dr. Moreau is herself an unmarried mother of one (Heather Moreau Terese), with an eight-year-old granddaughter (Phoebe Terese). She's also approximately 1/13 Chickasaw, and her one visible quirk is her penchant for strange earrings.
She does not own an island, and is getting a little tired of people asking.
Rick Watson
A hormone specialist, an Ivy League graduate, a fly-fishing enthusiast, and a Strangers with Candy fan. Has two PhDs, but makes up for it with a lack of people skills.
Dr. Watson's job is to keep Stephen's pregnancy healthy (and his mood stable) by keeping his body chemistry in a proper balance. Of course, this is such new territory that he can only make an educated guess as to what "a proper balance" means.
He declined an offer to be Stephen's new black friend, on the basis that he is in fact biracial.
Mei Lin Dolittle
Moved from Hong Kong to the United States when she was four, and went on to live a version of the American Dream that included an MD, a PhD, a DPT, and both variations of the Albert Lasker Award.
What she does is never specified, but it's important.
Puja Livingston
Her field is infant health and development. During the pregnancy she has a largely observatory role, but she's the one who will give the baby his first bath and first checkup, and as his pediatrician she will eventually have the most active role.
Puja is a tiny, tiny person. This is probably what spurred her to work with kids in the first place.
Casey House
Already a Nobel prizewinner. For a long time, considered the odd one out in a hospital staffed by people with the names of famous doctors. Then House, M.D. hit the airwaves.
I don't actually know much about this one. I think he's the token white guy.
The Colberts
Names of the actor's family members are used when the character has referred to them, but any similarity to the real persons is purely coincidential.
From Stephen's First Marriage
(Hat Tip to Colbert University for filling in details.)
Lorraine McGee, formerly Lorraine Colbert: Stephen's ex. (Named here; her maiden name is from the actor's wife.) After the divorce, got all four of their kids (aged 5, 8, 11, and 12 at the time), plus the dog. Then hooked up with Tina Fey, because apparently she has a thing for snark and glasses.
John Paul, '02: named after the Pope. (Mentioned in episode 1028.)
Sally, '99: Stephen missed her first steps during TDS' 24-hour coverage of the 2000 election.
Mary, '96: interviewed by Stephen on TDS here. Named in this Formidable Opponent, in which Stephen refers to his kids as "Mary and little Stephens 1 through 14".
Stephen Tyrone Colbert, Jr., '95: exaggerated as "Stephens 1 through 14" here. John Paul is Stephen's second son, so there has to be a first; and of course Stephen would name his firstborn after himself. Now insists on going by his middle name.
Charlene Ophelia Colbert
Stephen's ex-stalkee, first cousin, and second wife.
As kids, the two of them were best friends, bonding over common interests like dogs, googley-eyed clams, and not being alone. When the pressures of young adulthood and increasing homophobia began to add up, they reacted in fundamentally incompatible ways: Stephen by getting controlling and possessive, Charlene by fleeing the country.
After bouncing around Europe, where she picked up mad cooking skills, a host of adventures, and a list of celebrity encounters as long as Stephen's own, she's returned just in time to find a Stephen who can admit to being gay in private (if not so much in public). Not only that, she ends up hooking up with his new boyfriend's hot wife, in a polyamorous quadrangle that actually ends up messy and complicated but sure sounds convenient on paper.
Charlene's trying to rebuild her relationship with her cousin, while giving him and his new baby the support they need on a day-to-day basis. Trouble is, Stephen has more issues than he's letting on, even to himself. All of which leaves Charlene struggling over whether she'll be able to settle down somewhere for the first time in her life, and whether it's a good idea to try.
George William Colbert
Half Korean, half Brazilian, all American, and all Stephen's.
Spends most of Expecting unborn, and most of State of Grace as an infant, which means he doesn't do much besides eat and sleep and cry and coo. (This is more than enough to make him, in Stephen's eyes, the most wonderful baby in the world.)
Under the wings of a devoted extended family, he grows up with everything they can manage to pass on, from Charlene's skill in the kitchen to Esteban's moves on the dance floor to Jon's deep sense of Zen. He's eighteen when he first runs into Seamus Noblet, and spends the next couple of years in a roller-coaster relationship that turns into a marriage. To everyone's surprise but his own, it lasts.
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...Although I am quite astonished that you were able to restrain yourself from adding a Doctor Who to the list. Guess it didn't quite fit. Still, would have been tempting. : D
Hey, look at me, only one comment box this time! Brevity's a *good* thing.
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