Doctor Dogbrain

:"That's DOCTOR Dogbrain!!" - Response to being derisively called 'Dogbrain'.
Doctor Dogbrain is an UNWD agent and genetic anomaly. The result of a chain of brain and head transplants between humans and animals, he is now one of the UNWD's most prized inventors, supplying numerous useful (and non-useful) gadgets.
==Character==
===Appearance===
Dogbrain has the body of a fair-skinned man, somewhat shorter than average, who often wears a UNWD v-neck and wine-red joggers with a labcoat. He has the head of an Irish wolfhound with shaggy greyish-brown fur. He usually carries a hefty metal backpack stuffed with tools and gadgets.
===Personality===
Intelligent and aware of it, Dogbrain is highly confident - sometimes to the point of being self-absorbed. He prioritises discovery and glory highly, sometimes getting in the way of his job or annoying other agents. He dislikes being told to hurry, and dislikes others not hurrying when he tells them. However, he is protective of other agents and will always lend them a gadget or gizmo to aid them.
===Skills & Abilities===
Sharp as a tack, Dogbrain has a vicious wit and an extremely impressive technical brain. He is capable of quickly whipping up bizarre and innovative inventions, or improvising solutions with what little he's given. He's a very lateral thinker and will often come up with plans that no enemy would prepare for; he's also fairly physically sturdy and can hold his own in a fight.
He is somewhat a jack of all trades, creating single-use highly-situational gizmos that can sometimes be unpredictable (and, less rarely than he'd like to admit, unreliable). Despite this, his strength lies in infiltration gadgets over combat, since "any bird-brain can win a fight, but it takes a Dogbrain to solve a puzzle!".
==History==
In the 50s, an experiment took place to swap the brains of a convict and a recently deceased neuroscientist, at the neuroscientist's request. Although the results were destroyed in a freak laboratory fire, both brains were preserved and one of them - although it's uncertain which - was placed in the body of a standard poodle as part of another experiment. The poodle was dognapped from the facility by an unknown group and its brain was liberated, preserved in a jar.
Years later, the brain was found and placed in a fresh cadaver, which miraculously woke. The body, not desiring any more brain-swapping, fled but died a few months later having become stranded in the alps. It was then found by one Yakob Cascabel, who was grieving the loss of his pet alligator days prior, and Cascabel placed the frozen brain in its body. The alligator lived for several more years.
After the pet's eventual demise, Cascabel gifted the brain to his niece Valerie, who put it in an automaton. However, this automaton, realising the family's evil nature, escaped the laboratory and went on the run. It is unknown where it went from there, but it eventually culminated in the automaton acquiring both a human body and a dog's head, which left Doctor Dogbrain - a self-chosen moniker- where he is today.
He became an agent of the UNWD after reports of a dog-headed man proudly selling weird inventions on the internet reached the commissioner's ears. Hearing of the UNWD's stash of unique technology, he leapt at the opportunity and signed up.
During the London invasion, he aided in the post-explosion chaos by using demolished machinery (Zopran and otherwise) to improvise new gadgets - primarily for finding survivors in difficult places and stabilising them until medical assistance could arrive, or destroying any other Zopran explosives that could exacerbate the situation. Other agents have expressed discomfort in Dogbrain's sudden shift in nature, turning icily serious in his first dire situation as an agent.
==Relationships==
===Cassandra Cobra===
:“I say, you're familiar, girl... a little too familiar.”
Having lived with both Yakob Cascabel and Valerie Viper, he has suspicions about the glasses-wearing wild-haired scientist. Although he's often tasked with working alongside her on various technologies, he keeps her at arm's length. In turn, Cobra has her own suspicions that Doctor Dogbrain may blow her cover if he realises her true affiliations, and has plans to dispose of him before he becomes a problem.
==Trivia==
* He has expressed some memory of his 'previous lives', being the various other vessels his brain has been switched into. However, his primary concern is the memories he doesn't retain, giving him an uncertain sense of identity.
* He does not go by a first name, by choice, introducing himself as "Doctor Dogbrain, you don't get my first name".
** Despite this insistence, he has also gone by 'DJ Doctor Dogbrain', but this does not allude to his name, rather his penchant for dubstep.
Category:Males
Category:Animal-People
Category:UNWD
Category:Scientists