Steinman

* See also ADAM_Medical_Uses
* See also Medical Pavilion
* See also ADAM_Addled
* See also Characters/Personalities
Fontaine's Plastic Surgeon
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Adopted ADAM to assist in his Plastic Surgery profession ( probably to greatly accelerate the healing ). He later ( this could not be before the Kashmir Massacre) became insane and 'obsessed' with what HE perceived as 'Perfection' and applied his skills to attempting to create it.
Is alleged to be involved with Fontaine's physically changing his identity for his 'Death' so to become 'Atlas'.
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Steinman became insane, and had an obsession with creating "perfection" in his Plastic Surgery vocation. We see he had more than a few corpses around his 'Aesthetic Ideals' facility 'ASSthetic Ideals' was a different business that Steinman did. who had been his patients.
Due to "word of mouth", you would expect his patient appointments would have fallen off rather rapidly.
Who would still be going to him after the city was in chaos due to the terrorist attacks is a question.
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Most of Steinman's business in Rapture must have been general surgery. How many people could there really be in the 20000 (est) population to afford 'Elective' procedures ??
Perhaps with ADAM medical developments such 'changes' became far easier/cheaper.
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Hypothesis : Fontaine made sure Steinman had LOTS of ADAM products - virtually ensuring that Steinman would become insane. Reason : because Steinman knew the truth about who 'Atlas' was, and thus was a liability ( a risk to Fontaine and his plans ). Fontaine well knew what all that ADAM would do to Steinman. Steinman was soon talking to 'Aphrodite' and having his delusional obsession.
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On Easy, you can combat Steinman for quite a while and see how he moves around and dogdes. It took a while to get these pictures of him ( screen shot while he wasn't firing his Tommygun at you ... )
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Steinman's Motivation in Helping Fontaine :
Getting paid is always a good reason and likely ego. Fontaine's change into Atlas was fairly extensive - He also did the reverse process on Fontaine's lackey as well. It possibly was a significant challenge to do.
How affected by ADAM disease by that point Steinman was with its mental derangement might add into it - mere months before the terrorism started tearing Rapture apart. The story shows Steinman becoming fanatical in his own pursuits. With the disorder in Rapture later he obviously got worse in his behavior. Fontaine possibly saw an insane Steinman as just another disruption/annoyance for Ryan to have to deal with.
Fontaine did leave Steinman as a 'loose thread' in his big secret identity change, but he may have figured the doctor was already pretty crazy and just kept sending more ADAM to him to incapacitate Steinman further.
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