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Character name: Dr. Gregory House, MD
Canon: HOUSE, MD
Race: Human

Appearance: Greg is a slim older man in his late forties. With thinning brown hair, a somewhat unkempt and haggard appearance due to his lack of care for social convention, he seems less like a doctor and oft times, more like a rebel. Refusing to wear labcoats at work, often wearing t-shirts and jeans instead of business wear, House refuses to obey social standards from his mode of dress just like he refuses to obey convention in medicine or socially acceptable behavior. He has a problem with his leg -- he walks with an extreme limp and needs a cane for better mobility.

Personality: Greg House is not a quiet man. Outspoken to the point of viciousness, he is an angry man with a lot of bitterness; however this can't be traced to the blood clot that killed the muscle in his thigh and destroyed his ability to function as a normal man or live without pain -- after all, he did that mostly to himself and knows it. No, House has been an egocentric genius way before the infarction made him a resentful, angry man who lost his lover, his mobility, and a chunk of his self-image when he couldn't succeed in keeping his leg in one piece.

History: Greg was the son of two very devoted parents and an only child. This is because his father was a military man and traveled the world extensively, dragging his son and wife with him. Acros the country and then the world, from Egypt to Ohio, Greg saw it all. This lead to a little social dysfunction, especially in such a bright child -- left to his own devices, Greg never really learned a lot of social graces, and soon learned to buck against authority. His father was a harsh man and was not the type to give love easily, and Greg grew up similiarly, only in a different direction. He was a harsh doctor, who wanted to solve the puzzle rather then nuture the human connection and healing.

He loved music growing up, and played socially through collage. He was something of a wildcard throughout his life -- even Lisa Cuddy, who went to the same school though years after, knew House as a sort of legend for the risks he took and he genius he displayed. With a double speciality in nephrology and diagnostics, he quickly rose in the medical world, but taking risks and short cuts got him in to trouble. He lost an internship at the Mayo clinic due to cheating (and getting the wrong answers, no less) and blames the student who ratted him out rather then himself for his fall from grace.

Either way, he made it out of med school eventually, and worked as one of the best diagnosticians -- though he had trouble staying at a single hostpial until he worked under Lisa Cuddy, years later. He had a life; a girlfriend he loved (though he did not marry; they cohabitated for many years-- House didn't like the idea of marriage, despite or maybe because Stacy was a devout catholic) and they were happy. He was abrasive, but she knew how to maange him, and it was all pretty great... until the infarction.

Muscle death occured. He tried everything to keep his leg; but the pain came close to killing him. When he had himself put into a chemically induced coma to wait out the pain, Stacy overrid his wishes as medical proxy, and allowed Cuddy to take the 'middle ground' between his desires and total amputation of the leg. They removed the dead tissue, and House never really forgave her.

She left him a few months later, and five years later walked back into his life.

In the mean time, House was even more angry, bitter, and had a new pill-popping habit. Addicted to his painkillers to keep him from having to deal with his life. Still working at Princeton-Plainsboro, he eventually set up a team that would learn diagnostics from him -- three doctors were chosen. Chase's father had connections, and so the rich Aussie got a spot. Allison Cameron was beautiful and damaged, and so she got a spot, Eric Foreman had a dubious youth history, and so was suited for House's -- rather invasive techniques -- he was the most recent addition to the team.

Together, they fight crime-- oh, no. They battle disease and injury, argue about the human condition and face ethical quandries and each other's clashing personalities.


[He is also not mine; he belongs to Fox TV and all the wonderful people involved in creating the show; I merely play him for enjoyment in apharsites, transmigration9, street_eden and in_purgatorio; no profit is being made off that beyond my happy tingly feeling at playing a right bastard on the internet.]

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