Okay, how 'bout him being largely skeptical, but a solid scientist. He knows his father died investigating this stuff, so when he goes to New York to clear out his apartment, he figures, what the heck, he'll check out some of the reports, perhaps to apologize to the random people the man had quite possibly been harassing.
He comes across more than one case of undeniable awesome. He takes a purely scientific bent to it (while going OMG WOW inside) and records everything carefully -- including digital offsite backups, not just a DNA sample and scribbles in a notebook. And once he has sufficient data to form a research base, he returns to India where he has enough contacts to get a good job where they won't fire him if he completes all his work early and uses the extra time on his pet project. Possibly investigate a few cases around India. Most of the stuff with the States can be done remotely, like contacting the suspected Heroes via phone or email or what have you, and further studies involving travel could wait until he'd gathered enough data to carry legitimacy (since there's a difference between "There could totally be people who can fly" and "So here's documented evidence of people who can fly") and earn a grant.
And he works out on a regular basis so we get some nice shots of him without a shirt. Mmmm.
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Date: 2008-10-11 12:03 am (UTC)He comes across more than one case of undeniable awesome. He takes a purely scientific bent to it (while going OMG WOW inside) and records everything carefully -- including digital offsite backups, not just a DNA sample and scribbles in a notebook. And once he has sufficient data to form a research base, he returns to India where he has enough contacts to get a good job where they won't fire him if he completes all his work early and uses the extra time on his pet project. Possibly investigate a few cases around India. Most of the stuff with the States can be done remotely, like contacting the suspected Heroes via phone or email or what have you, and further studies involving travel could wait until he'd gathered enough data to carry legitimacy (since there's a difference between "There could totally be people who can fly" and "So here's documented evidence of people who can fly") and earn a grant.
And he works out on a regular basis so we get some nice shots of him without a shirt. Mmmm.