John Parry/Jopari/Stanislaus Grumman is truly the character of all time.
Gets hired as basically glorified muscle for a science research expedition.
Accidentally walks into another world during a blizzard, where his travel companions promptly got spiritually lobotomised by mystery ghosts in front of him.
Managed to get to a second new universe, met his daemon and at the same time managed to get her to separate in a way that most of this new world doesn't know or understand as being possible.
Immediately rocks up to a university with a paper so good they ask no further questions about who the fuck he is and where he came from, just start throwing money at him to go do more research.
Finds out this new world has literal actual real magic and dedicates himself to learning it.
Finds a plant that can heal basically any flesh wound and goes "okay... I obviously i need to find a way to make that into a medical cream".
Gets his head trepanned because he, when in Rome I guess.
Refused the love of a witch because he still loved his wife and kid back home even though he knew he would almost certainly never see them again.
Also literally everyone who has ever met him has a different story of how he has horrifically died.
Is well known enough that Asriel lied about finding his decapitated head, maybe because he just hasn't faked his death enough times already i guess?
Knows a whole bunch of magic, including summoning a person he's never met with a ring, controlling the weather, him and his daemon summoning all the birds in a forest to attack a zeppelin (even to the point of suicide for some of the birds) but also knows... sometimes ya just gotta use matches to start a fire.
Like yeah he was a twat for going back on his promise to Lee, but he lucked out that Will was already down bad for Lyra. But all other things considered, bad ass mother fucker, no one else is doing it like him.
