André Stream

:"Still, Stream languishes in a panicked, restless sleep; he roils, grapples, with the thing that stole Ellie's face, both half-lucid and nearly lost." - Incredible Threats, Chapter III: The Virus
André Stream is an ecologist and programmer working for Sunflower Labs. He is currently in a comatose state following an attack from an infected Eleanor Trixheap.
==Character==
===Appearance===
André is a tall, wiry man with brown skin and short black hair. He has one bright green dyed streak. He wears large square glasses, the left arm of which is held on by tape. He wears a white shirt with red grid check, a thin red tie and grey slacks. He is often seen wearing green slippers or sandals, and wears a silver watch. Following the incident with Trixheap, he has a scar running from his left temple in a hook shape around his jaw and ending at the right side of his chin, a crooked nose, and partial skin grafts to his face and arms.
===Personality===
André is intelligent and funny, somewhat of a joker, and likes to be the heart of large groups - often by bringing smaller groups together with him as a shared friend of everyone. He enjoys playing matchmaker, is an avid chess and checkers player, fidgets with a cup and ball toy when checking code, and is slightly obsessed with Minesweeper.
===Skills & Abilities===
Highly smart, he is witty, socially adept and has a sharp mind for improving others' ideas, although he struggles to provide concrete ideas himself. He tends to be more follower or supporter than leader, but he makes up for this with his keen improvisation and ability to juggle projects.
==History==
Hailing from Sunnyburg, André studied ecology and conservation with a minor in business, and got an internship at Sunflower Labs. Immediately, he was an extremely promising and attractive candidate, both due to his charming interviews and his readiness to improve on the ideas of others without being intimidated by senior researchers. He was quickly paired with Trixheap for the program, with her intense drive for change working compatibly with his willingness to take her ideas and run with them.
However, between his friendships with the usually-guarded Trixheap and Sunflower business boy Virgil Mona, there was some tension after the destruction of Trixheap's thesis work due to a virus. Although he was willing to try and help her recover the data on the Trixheap Mechanism, the fact that she'd ignored his warnings about the virus drove a wedge between them, and prior to the disastrous infection event Stream was reported to have confided in Mona that he felt that he may have to put his foot down and distance himself from the frantic Trixheap for his own mental wellbeing.
André was in the lobby of the Sunflower Labs Research Building with Mona and other interns when Trixheap, overwhelmed by the influence of the Ophiocord.exe, slumped through the sliding doors with an intent to infect. A panicked André attempted to reason with Trixheap while the lobby was evacuated by reception workers, and after a futile attempt to fend off the hulking mass with a fire extinguisher, Stream was overwhelmed and attacked nearly to the point of death. However, Trixheap regained control for a brief moment, and was able to tear her infected body away before the virus finished André off.
Wounded, André was taken to the nearest hospital and was found to be stable, though he'd remain in a comatose state for the forseeable future, additionally requiring surgery to reconstruct parts of his face.
==Relationships==
===Eleanor Trixheap===
:“Ellie, you can't just stop listening to me because I'm not telling you what you want to hear!"
Although the two got along well, with André feeding Eleanor's need to have her ideas be listened to and taken seriously, they butted heads when things went wrong due to André's reluctance to take control while Eleanor became defensive when critiqued. They were close, if somewhat tense, prior to the incident, and Trixheap inwardly valued Stream's criticisms even more than his praise.
===Virgil Mona===
:"My main man, Gil - let's tear up the chess club, silver fox!"
Two outgoing, charismatic young men, Virgil and André made a powerful pair around the labs. Despite this, their friendship was mostly surface-level, as the two's personas mixed well on the outside but didn't allow much for deeper interaction - especially after future chances of getting closer were dashed by the incident with Trixheap. André's first and last time opening up to Virgil was to vent about the rift between him and Eleanor.
==Trivia==
* His name, and Trixheap's, are a reference to the science fiction novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? , with 'André Stream' audibly mimicking 'androids dream', and 'Ellie Trixheap' a soundalike for 'electric sheep'.
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