Dr. Dabney Bell Halloway
Full name: Dabney Bell Halloway
Age: 68 years old.
Birthday: November 11th
Pet: Brinley the Border Collie
Personality
Patron Arcana: Heirophant
Upright: Traditional institutions, traditional values, conventional, conformity, marriage, commitment, religion, beliefs, knowledge sharing
Reversed: Challenging tradition, unconventional lifestyles, unconventional relationships, reversed roles, non-conformity
Favourite food: Jomhom and Colcannon
Favourite drink: Embrish Breakfast Tea with goat's milk
Favourite flower: Azalea
Appearance:
Born to an Embrish family with Runnlandic ancestry, Dabney took on traits of both the highland people and the people of the local Embrish regions: sandy blond hair, a pronounced browbone, and a strong, narrow chin, which protrudes slightly due to Dabney's stubborn underbite. His nose is a mix of his father's and mother's. Angular with a bump on the bridge and a slightly downturned tip, it contributes to his striking profile. His eyes are a subdued green, and his gaze has been described as inquisitive and keen.
Dabney is quite tall, standing at six feet and three inches, and has always been thin compared to the common Runnlandic man. He has an air of unconventional charisma, and though some considered him odd, he could charm almost anyone. With his long blond hair and tongue-in-cheek temperament, he was quite handsome and well-liked in his younger years. He's grown to be, in his own words, an "acquired taste" in his twilight years, but is generally still received well by those who meet him.
A brief look into his life.
Occupation: In short, Dabney Halloway was a world renown medical and intellectual prodigy that lived an unconventional life. In his twenties, he served as a combat medic for a short time in the Northern War before returning to Embry to finish his doctorate coursework. Beyond that, he's done research and residencies, working in hospitals and universities all over the world including Curdan, Tavina, Maeth, Sabra and Runnland. He's done several stints of travel with collegiate and professional programs, lending aid and conducting research in many remote parts of the world, specifically in the oceanic region of Bulir. His long-term career was in Embry as Head of Surgery at Abbottsford General and a professor and board member at the Medical College of Saint Germaine. After losing his wife, he takes a leave of absence and lends his services as a naval surgeon aboard several different charter ships. In his fifties, he finds himself contracted as the ship doctor for a band of Curdic mercenaries based in Bata. After a falling out, he returns to Embry to open a private practice , where he worked with his daughter until his death.
Love interests:
Bethany Duke
Scarlett Ellington
Galiere Zieragh
Ona Tsiba, soulmate and wife
Family and friends:
August Halloway, father
Lucille Halloway, mother
Evelyn and Clara Halloway, sisters
Gretchen Fitzpatrick, maternal grandmother
Kenneth and Doris Fitzpatrick, cousins and friends
Ferdinando and Allegra Conti; Bethany Duke, Winston Fairfax; Maximus Beauchamp, classmates and childhood friends
Peter Henley; Quincy Barnett; "Rake" Abrams; Roan Reeves; friends and brothers-in-arms
Dr. Abraham Schwartz; Dr. Angelo "Monty" DeNiro; Dr. Dallas Hoffman; Dr. Seymour Mans, friends and collegiate colleagues
Dr. Bryn Dudley, colleague, research partner, longtime best friend
Orion and Liraz Tamas, close friends (godparents of his daughter)
John Taylor, close friend
Dr. Bruce Tremblay, research manager and close friend
Kutu Tsiba, mentor and teacher
Utumbe Tsiba, brother in law and friend
Salice Halloway, daughter
Miscellaneous facts:
Dabney was an exceptionally bright student and due to his family's wealth, was able to focus entirely on his intellectual pursuits. It was never his passion to be a doctor specifically, but he was so much of a natural at it that, at the insistence of his teachers and mentors, he pursued the occupation anyway. It was a vehicle that enabled him to practice his core statutes: endlessly pursuing knowledge and helping others.
Dabney and his younger sister Clara were very close. While he was at war, she had struggled with her psychological health and was admitted to a psychiatric hospital in Lennox. She returned home and shortly went missing during one of her supervised wellness strolls on the trails of their estate. Clara was found months later with no memory of where she was or what had happened. After Dabney's return, she gradually recovered, but was never the same. His family was very secretive about Clara's disposition, leading him to believe they were hiding some kind of fault. The two remained close until her passing.
Whilst travelling abroad, Dabney studied the medicinal value of many different plants and believed in the healing properties of holistic medicine. While in Bulir, he studied and worked in under a shaman to learn their methods of spiritual healings. He later went on to serve the community as a doctor for just under two years, during which, he married the shaman's niece, Ona.
Whilst contracted as ship doctor by the mercenary group headquartered in Bata, Dabney encountered one of the Elsmaic all-daughters who had they had captured and kept as a slave on their ship. During the voyage, he had become her caretaker, much to the disapproval of the oppressive first-mate, Dietrich Maus. In the subsequent weeks, Dabney discovered Maus' plan to traffic the Elsma girl to buyers in Bata. He knew he couldn't trust the captain or the crew to intervene. Because of this, tensions between Dabney and Dietrich became impossible to ignore leading to talks of the captain terminating Dabney's contract without pay. Once this came to Dabney's attention, next time they made landfall, Dabney took the girl from their custody and fled. Once back in Embry, he falsely claimed the girl as his daughter with his late wife to conceal her identity. The father and daughter became inseparable, even opening a private practice together. This is where she apprenticed under him, earning her physician's certificate and co-practiced with him until his passing.
Dabney was the last surviving member of his immediate family. As their firstborn son, his parents had left him a large portion of the property and surrounding acreage, which he visited most within the final decade of his life while raising his daughter. In his will, he leaves the entire estate, as well as the surgery center, to his daughter, Salice.
Dabney and his older sister Evelyn were estranged. While they were close in their childhood, Evelyn's lack of transparency concerning Clara's incidents drove a wedge between them. Dabney did not agree with Evelyn's collusion and her defense of the family's secrecy surrounding the scandal. This, as well as her personal relationship decisions, Dabney recognized she could not be trusted. They had stopped speaking completely by the time they were in their thirties and only saw each other occasionally when the family gathered together at home for holidays. Evelyn's disapproval of Dabney's wife Ona was the final straw in their relationship, causing a fall-out between Dabney and his family. The next time he returned home was for the will-reading and the funeral of his parents. The time after that, for Clara's. Dabney was notified by mail of Evelyn's passing, and he and his daughter briefly attended her burial in Levinson, Embry, where she lived with her husband and two children.
While serving in the Northern War, Dabney met a woman named Scarlett Ellington, a nurse on the front who he assumed a relationship with. She was nine years his senior, and the two shared an unorthodox, private, and lascivious relationship. During this time, he had discovered she was married and lived in southern Curdan with her husband before enlisting in the Allied Medical Division. Upon learning this, he chose to continue the relationship until the war ended. He and Scarlett exchanged only a few letters after returning to their homes. A few years later, they met once while Dabney was studying in Alairton. They shared a few nights together steeped in heated passion before never speaking again. Dabney largely considers Scarlett his first heartbreak, but declines talking about her in any capacity.
In the years of his private medical practice, civil unrest broke out on Embry's eastern border, commonly referred to as the Guile Border Crisis. As an able-veteran, Dabney had registered himself to aid in medical services just outside the combat zone, less than a day's journey away from Abbottsford. His daughter, seventeen at the time, was his co-practitioner and had gone with him to assist in providing medical assistance to those impacted by the conflict. They stayed four months, and saved over a thousand lives by their service. There is a statue and memorial in Queen's Park, Abbottsford honoring non-combat medical service members for their contribution during the crisis, where Dabney and his daughter are named.
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