Adam Stellis

"Everything has a cause, even if it is hidden. This is true with the strange anomalies I come across and my own dumb decisions." -Adam Stellis

Adam Stellis, usually known as Dr. Adam (he prefers his first name in the Doctor title), is a human Astrophysicist who travels through timelines researching anomalies. He's very reckless in his studies with very little self preservation when dealing with anomalies that fascinate him particularly well. However, he's somehow survived every encounter with every anomaly he has come across despite this. Whether it is an ability or dumb luck, nobody has really figured out.

He doesn't know his original timeline due to his lack of navigational systems and temporal coordinates when he first learned how to time travel, which was accidental. He is currently trying to figure it out but because of the Cosmic Aether incident, he doesn't remember many details of his timeline as of now.

Personality
Adam is really intelligent for his field, he did expand the boundaries of theoretical physics and general relativity in his time line after all, but he for sure isn't wise. He can tell you how nuclear fusion works down to the fundamental forces but if he finds something that really intrigues him, he'd jump right in then and there without caring about his own safety. He loves things in his field of work that he can't explain, as those are quite rare to him, the thought of figuring out some new physics or actually finding a new thing that could change the Chronoverse is like crack to him. If he could, he would hop right out of the boundaries of reality just to see what things can be researched and gained.

He is quite anti-social, always trying to avoid a lot of unneeded talking or social interaction. He is apathetic to many people and honestly dislikes many of them, however he does try to treat everyone as human beings. He'd rather not spend the energy to make many meaningful social connections, the rules underlying reality are easy to understand, human brains are completely beyond him. When times get tough like a disaster, he prefers to stick to more underground methods so it doesn't effect him as much. He has a constant fear of being watched, usually very justified considering the data he carries. Overall, a very socially paranoid man.

His outward persona is very, childlike per-say. Very curious and upbeat, looking for things that intrigue him. Always talking about the next discovery or lead he found, always hoping to find a potential breakthrough in god knows what. He sees the world not as something filled with broken rules, he simply sees it as a world with misunderstood rules, and he wants to figure out what those rules are, the building block of reality. The world is a giant lock to him, and finding the keys to the lock is what he wants to know. For what purposes? Likely just trying to find a meaning in life. Maybe a twisted feeling to get back at reality that put him in the situation.

On the inside he is a very cold person comparatively. Decades of his life spent alone with his studies has taken a toll on him, he feels distant and lonely to even the closest of people. Very hopeless to himself, seeing his situation as something he is stuck with for the rest of his life, lost among the timelines, no populated places to really call home. Deep down he thinks of the time travel he's discovered is a curse, it has trapped him to wander the Chronoverse forever more. Yes there were more things to see, but what's the point of scientific innovation when nobody can really hear about it. Whenever he wanders into a brand new anomaly site, he wishes that this one would finally be the one to wipe his existence, but it never does.

Now with the whole Cosmic Aether incident, he's starting to feel that not only is he losing his purpose, but himself. The affliction has made all of his memories fuzzy and despite knowing details, now never knows a life beyond the pool. Adrift in spacetime, forever to be unanchored and distant, thats how he feels of his situation. He contemplates if his self even existed at all, the spiteful yet curious self, a distant memory that seems to get more fuzzy as time goes on. His very past snuffed out in an existential crisis at the wrong time and place, now he doesn't know what to do other than what he's always known. He just goes along with what people are saying because he is expected to. He has been able to cope with his new lack of identity thanks to pointers from Librarian, but he's still lost about who he is. Although the Adam that existed before the incident, he still exists, just silently, unknown by him. The memories are still there, just unreachable.

Backstory
He doesn't remember many details nowadays, he generally knows some of how his life went. Nowadays he generalizes these as a different person's doing to not confuse his mind, that is if he remembers them at all.

Early Life
Adam's timeline was pretty much a space dystopia. The problems of the 21st century were only dragged into the future, despite being a similar timeline to the Opifex's. Early in his life he began looking to the stars rather than home, because his society was pretty much about to collapse and he definitely knew that. Ever since he got his first telescope, he began studying the workings of physics and space itself. In college he worked himself up to a a Doctorate and multiple PhDs about the potential workings of theoretical celestial objects. Proving the potential existence of Quasi-stars, Thorne–Żytkow Objects, and even the concept of time travel.

Many years after, his Earth got destroyed by an unknown cosmic entity that looked like a mass of tentacles. Afterwards, his knowledge in theoretical astronomy got him into a job with his timeline's government, the Terran Alliance, who were trying to weaponize anomalies, which he highly disliked. He was assigned to a planet that was acting very strange, along with a few other squads of scientists and soldiers. Everyone died within a month, except for him, who tried to fix up his own ship, which caught a fuel leak and couldn't go anywhere. He was stuck there for another month trying to find something that could replace his fuel. Eventually he found a strange blue fluid that showed all of the signs of a working fuel for his FTL drive. He loaded it up and attempted to travel back to Mars. When he got there, mars was Green, not with plants, but with copper.

Post Time Travel
Upon realizing things, he saw that he had time travelled over 1000 years in the past, as well as being in a different timeline. He was lost in time and space, so he began trying to jump again, again, and again. Until he found a timeline that Mars had supported life, he landed, seeming like a total unknown, his ship design was different to everyone, the emblems on his lab coat meant nothing. While wandering for awhile, he encountered a strange man in a lab coat, who asked quite bluntly if he was a time traveler. He was led to his shop, he was known as Valian Melena, a man who collects strange objects, and was a time traveler himself. He told Adam how things worked, seeing that he was a lost new one, and helped him install a new nav-system into his ship that allowed him to finally control where he went. The strange objects in his store intrigued him, so he decided to try and research how they are made in the first place.

For 10 years he went onwards discovering new anomalies of his own, collecting objects and marking down locations of places to research. He wasn't very good at it, but he was able to mark them down and conduct basic experiments on them. It was the only thing keeping him going in this uncertain time of his life. Finding anomalies from rumors and readings, selling field samples to Valian, and generally just wandering. From many conversations he heard of this organization called the TTN, he was wondering what sorts of information he could potentially find there, so he joined up.

Powers & Abilities
Adam's abilities are very recent, as he got them during the Cosmic Aether incident. He doesn't know the potential his new abilities hold, as he hasn't had much time to test them out. They are much more versatile than Adam thinks.

The downside is that his body is a lot more frail than before he has: less energy, less physical strength, loss of his left eye, feeling weak a lot of the time. So he definitely pays for it.

Extra-Dimensional Sight
Adam can see into 4D-6D. Higher dimensions appear spectral to him, dimming every extra dimension. However, unlike a lot of others with this ability, he cannot turn it off. So, he can't exactly not see things he doesn't want to see, which isn't good for mental health.

Spacetime Sense
Adam can see and feel the fabric of spacetime itself. Being able to sense warps and holes around him. If anything warps spacetime whether it be a planet, FTL speed ship, or an eldritch being trying to enter this plane, he'll be able to sense it.

Spacetime Manipulation
An incredibly strong ability for what its worth. Being able to manipulate the 4D fabric allows the user to warp space itself, able to manipulate gravity, move things incredibly quickly without actually moving them, make things from spacetime itself, and potentially create wormholes. While these are incredibly powerful, they are incredibly energy and focus intensive, so much that most of these are impossible without something else giving Adam the energy to do them. So it can be very tiring when used in succession, especially considering the state Adam is in.

He mainly uses these powers to move items telekinetically and make himself float. He's only really figured out the gravity manipulation bit.