Mohinder Suresh

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Basic Information

Name: Mohinder Suresh

Age: Thirty-four

Race: Indian

Sexuality: Heterosexual, but needs to have a lot of interest first

Occupation: Genetics researcher/college professor/scientific lecturer/hopeful author

History

Mohinder was born in Madras in the early seventies to parents with very different worldviews: his mother was a very traditional Hindu woman, but his father was an athiest man of science who wore Western-style clothing and read Western books. Unknown to Mohinder, he was actually their second child; his older sister Shanti had died a few months before his birth of an unknown but deadly virus. He'd been conceived as a possible antidote to the virus; his father's plan had been to use his genetically compatible antibodies to fight the infection in his sister, but Shanti died before the plan could come to fruition.

Chandra Suresh had loved his daughter more than anything in the world, and he came to view Mohinder as a reminder of her death every time he looked at the boy. Mohinder grew up in a loving yet disciplined household, always trying to reach for his father's approval but never quite managing to attain it, even when he discovered an interest and talent in his father's life's work with genetics. He ended up entering the field, not only because he found the subject fascinating and intellectually stimulating, but also to try and gain his father's approval.

However badly Chandra fared as a father, he was a top-rate scientist, and Mohinder followed in his footsteps. Chandra didn't exactly keep his belief in the next stage of human evolution a secret, but Mohinder came to be one of the very few to believe him almost without question, wanting to help him. He earned his bachelor's, masters, and doctorate quickly, gaining a professorship at the University of Madras after his father left the same position to move to New York and find his new humans. University support wasn't entirely on Mohinder's side, though; his father could get away with preaching about "superpowers" in his classes because of his long tenure and everyone would just think he was a bit cracked. But as a junior professor, Mohinder risked being let go for talking about the same subjects.

He did it anyway.

In September 2006, he received word that his father had been murdered in New York not a year after he'd gone there to begin the search. Desperate for answers, Mohinder followed him and almost immediately got swept up in a global conspiracy of known and unknown facts about the next step of human evolution and the lives of the people themselves. Working with his neighbor Eden, a friend of his father's, Mohinder learned that Chandra had been murdered by a patient of his named Sylar, "Patient Zero." He divided his time between trying to locate Sylar and trying to crack his father's research, learning Chandra had finally developed a comptuer program to find these evolved humans and trying to pick up where he left off.

Personality

He is a kind man and one of the few genuinely good people with any sort of innocence left in the world; he always wants to do what's right and will very, very rarely say the ends justify the means. Mohinder can get angry and snappy, has attempted revenge murder, and possesses a sense of humor that can be rather sarcastic and sardonic, but for the most part he is trying to do some good for this world and bring people answers and closure about their sudden powers.

It's very hard for Mohinder to hide what he's thinking. He's never entirely learned to control his facial expressions, meaning that even people who don't know him well can usually tell what's on his mind. He's cultivated a fairly good "concealment face," but it's incredibly obvious he's using it and it always indicates he is concealing something.