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Basic Info| Name: | Dr. Tenenbaum |
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| Birthdate: | 1925 |
Bio{{ RP journal. }}
Dr. Bridgette Tenenbaum was the perfect scientist... at least, up until she discovered her humanity. Brilliant, dedicated, brimming with ideas insatiably curious, she has used her gifts to obtain some of mankind's most valuable knowledge via some of mankind's most inhumane methods. A pragmatist in belief but an artist in practice, Tenenbaum would have liked to be able to say that she worked exclusively for the greater good, but this was not so: she laboured for love of science.
Perhaps it is because she knew the worst of human brutality from a young age that she became able to brutalize, herself. As a young teen, Tenenbaum was interned in a concentration camp because of her Jewish ancestry, assisting "doctors" in their scientific experiments. She had no love for the Nazi's goals, but resented them more for squandering their opportunity than for the cruel human experiments they performed in the first place.
What drew Tenenbaum to the underground city, Rapture, was Andrew Ryan's promise to free the scientist from "petty morality." Still a fairly young woman with the war less than a decade behind her, Tenenbaum was accustomed to this way of working. Ryan's Objectivist ideals were also appealing to her, and though she found him at times as zealotous as the religious men he claimed to hate, complete liberty seemed inarguably good. She noticed the superficial differences between Ryan's promise of a capitalist utopia and the practical application, but spent little time examining society as she made her most important discovery: ADAM.
It was only in retrospect that Tenenbaum truly understood how she had helped to shape the downfall of Rapture, and while she regrets her alliance with Fontaine, the whole situation was not unlike the rest of her life: she did whatever it took to get the job done and destroyed countless lives in doing so.
Though she is certainly a changed woman, she does not present much differently than she used to. She is still a brilliant woman of incredibly conviction and determination, still softspoken but liable to snap impatiently at those who disobey or can't understand her, as disinclined to socialize and as quick to judge. The difference is that she has tempered cold, scientific objectivism with newly-found compassion. There is an irony to be appreciated in that she has spent much of her life studying humans and trying to further their existence without ever becoming truly aware of their consciousness. Now, she is less careless and has been awakened to the value of human life.
While she seeks to moderate herself, she knows in her core what she is capable of. She continues to be haunted by sins of the past, and while she means to fight her fate, believes that she is doomed to repeat them in the future. Keeping the Little Sisters close at hand gave her hope for her own future and strength to continue with her personal reformation and realign her moral compass. Though she has done much to repent and she is far from tormented and unstable, seperation from her "children" will certainly have a profound effect on her.
Dr. Bridgette Tenenbaum was the perfect scientist... at least, up until she discovered her humanity. Brilliant, dedicated, brimming with ideas insatiably curious, she has used her gifts to obtain some of mankind's most valuable knowledge via some of mankind's most inhumane methods. A pragmatist in belief but an artist in practice, Tenenbaum would have liked to be able to say that she worked exclusively for the greater good, but this was not so: she laboured for love of science.
Perhaps it is because she knew the worst of human brutality from a young age that she became able to brutalize, herself. As a young teen, Tenenbaum was interned in a concentration camp because of her Jewish ancestry, assisting "doctors" in their scientific experiments. She had no love for the Nazi's goals, but resented them more for squandering their opportunity than for the cruel human experiments they performed in the first place.
What drew Tenenbaum to the underground city, Rapture, was Andrew Ryan's promise to free the scientist from "petty morality." Still a fairly young woman with the war less than a decade behind her, Tenenbaum was accustomed to this way of working. Ryan's Objectivist ideals were also appealing to her, and though she found him at times as zealotous as the religious men he claimed to hate, complete liberty seemed inarguably good. She noticed the superficial differences between Ryan's promise of a capitalist utopia and the practical application, but spent little time examining society as she made her most important discovery: ADAM.
It was only in retrospect that Tenenbaum truly understood how she had helped to shape the downfall of Rapture, and while she regrets her alliance with Fontaine, the whole situation was not unlike the rest of her life: she did whatever it took to get the job done and destroyed countless lives in doing so.
Though she is certainly a changed woman, she does not present much differently than she used to. She is still a brilliant woman of incredibly conviction and determination, still softspoken but liable to snap impatiently at those who disobey or can't understand her, as disinclined to socialize and as quick to judge. The difference is that she has tempered cold, scientific objectivism with newly-found compassion. There is an irony to be appreciated in that she has spent much of her life studying humans and trying to further their existence without ever becoming truly aware of their consciousness. Now, she is less careless and has been awakened to the value of human life.
While she seeks to moderate herself, she knows in her core what she is capable of. She continues to be haunted by sins of the past, and while she means to fight her fate, believes that she is doomed to repeat them in the future. Keeping the Little Sisters close at hand gave her hope for her own future and strength to continue with her personal reformation and realign her moral compass. Though she has done much to repent and she is far from tormented and unstable, seperation from her "children" will certainly have a profound effect on her.
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