Lorel Neilheart

Lorel Neilheart is a Doctor aboard the U.S.S Hephaestus, previously working for Doctor Miranda Pryce at Goddard Futuristics.

## Biography

Neilheart was born in Seattle, Washington State before moving to London, England with her ex-boyfriend, Nick. Before working for Goddard, she held up her chin as science teacher to numerous schools. She considers herself lucky to have been able to work there from the age of 21, having faced 4 years of prison for homicide when she was 17 on February 14th 2006. She committed a similar crime when at the age of 11 on the same date, yet never got caught. They hadn't presumed much, but still claimed her guilty under all accusations given, hence the short amount time she spent there. At the age of 25, she gave birth to her only son, Rhys Neilheart. It further escalated by giving her more stress from being out of jail and losing her job as teacher. She lost it by the staff being uncomfortable with her teaching methods, being a 'nuisance' to the children and the people around her. She later on got fired by the principal, no longer able to raise her newborn. Nick was toxic in the relationship, blaming Neilheart and refusing to be a good father, claiming that she never put in the effort.

She did not have such a bright childhood. Most memories consisting of domestic abuse, homicidal tendencies and acting morally grey towards her relatives and friends. She mentioned lying ever since she began knowing how naive her family was, having tremendous amounts of abandonment issues throughout the years. Her parents left her to die on the streets when she 14, and she bunked at her friends' houses until she was old enough to afford her own place.

She struggled a lot for a year, and tried her best to get other jobs in order to maintain financial problems and doing whatever she could to make Rhys happy. Unfortunately, all her applications got rejected, and she was only able to work as a bartender for minimal money, nearly losing her house.

Sooner or later, Cutter was able to recruit Neilheart and convince her to join Goddard, claiming to help her fix her family financially, in exchange for work. She agreed, and said goodbye to Rhys, keeping him in the hands of Nick until she came back home.

Neilheart's job aboard the Hephaestus is to study the potential cloning of alien life. She is able to use small amounts of genetic engineering from her previous mission, her alias being 'Doctor Klara Hawker'. Her strange nature around the crew mostly creates fear towards her, sometimes acting relaxed and chaotic, or causing useless tension between herself and her friends. She sometimes pushes people away, not being able to properly talk about what she's afraid of. She acts reckless and reacts insensitively to violence. She doesn't like being bossed around, coincidentally being very bossy herself. She still has hope for Cutter, knowing him for such a long time basically knacks her brain around. She still believes there's something between the two of them, and would most likely take a bullet for him, even after witnessing command for elimination.

She mostly told everyone about old tales of her working at Goddard Futuristics, keeping old logs of her friends and mumbling about the pranks she pulled when people annoyed her.

Lorel Neilheart died on August 13th 2020. She commited suicide by using a pipe she found, and stabbed herself. She strangled Eiffel, and had hallucinations that he was her father, making him pass out. She thought to have killed her best friend, and kicked herself for that, regretting whatever she had just done. Due to the immense guilt, regret and sadness she felt, she decided to end her life knowing that it was the best thing to do.

A day after, The Dear Listeners found her body floating out in space, Eiffel having airlocked her and keeping quiet until the crew noticed. The Dear Listeners bought her back, giving her a second chance to be a better version of herself. They mentioned that she had to improve on her past mistakes; essentially erasing her memories and using her as a puppet for fun. Hera made a deal with them, giving away the station's commands in order to save Neilheart and bring her back. Doing that caused the crew to nearly witness their death, The Dear Listeners shutting off the engines for approximately 10 seconds. The Dear Listeners were not sincere with their deal, and carried on, making the crew have to shut down Hera. They came back to Neilheart, complaining, and Eiffel had to threaten to kill humanity. This made them give up Neilheart, and she was able to come back to them.

## Relationships

#### Doug Eiffel

Neilheart and Eiffel had a very rough time together. He is most likely her building block into getting better out of life, always giving her a second chance and knowing when and where she went wrong. Eiffel was the first person to introduce her to everyone, being her first friend as she boarded the station. They were best friends, and spent a lot of time with each other; Eiffel tried his best to make her comfortable and get her settled in. Their friendship was rocky, Neilheart admitting that she would lie a lot to escape from her fear of reality, basically losing his trust. She did that for a while, and also did the same for Maxwell, both of them feeling betrayed by Neilheart. It took time to mend her mistakes, but she got better. Eiffel began growing wary of Neilheart, after having witnessed Neilheart tell him about her childhood. This caused problems, and also made the crew grow scared. They were able to get back to each other in the end, now happily able to talk about their problems without worry. He helps her make better choices, and Neilheart admits she has never received *this* many hugs before. He helps her take it down a notch, and she couldn't be more grateful. They promised each other they would get back to earth safe and sound, and create new memories further on.

* Their motto is "The Double D's! Doc & Doug!"
* Eiffel is part of the Anti-Mushroom Trio

Miranda Pryce

She was previously very close to Cutter and Pryce, her main project being Project 596; An experimental clone made to essentially mess with the crew, (although not mentioned to Neilheart) by sending up a robot that looked like Eiffel to the Hephaestus. One night, Project 596, in other words 'EIF', started glitching badly, raising awareness to everyone around it. Pryce was able to open a comms line and talked to the crew. She hinted she knew what was going on, teased them, and Minkowski shot it. Afterwards, Pryce decided to send Neilheart to the station instead, solely to keep an eye on the crew.

Neilheart felt safe throughout working with her. Numerous gestures from Pryce said otherwise though, Neilheart mentioning to Maxwell that she involved in strangulation for not following orders, yet passing it off as a warning. These were obvious bad signs, but Neilheart claimed indifferently.

Afterwards, Neilheart finds out about how 214 was made in the first place, discovering that they essentially messed with her program altogether. 214 shows a pre-recorded message by Pryce, giving her severe flashbacks to all the mistakes she actually made. She later on loses her trust for Pryce, agreeing and promising that she would kill her once she gets back to Earth.

#### Marcus Cutter

Just like Pryce, Neilheart and Cutter's relationship started off well; Neilheart has her complete trust in him after he was able to help her son. Cutter feels neutral on her, but doesn't mind the buddy-buddy personality they share together. She is fundamentally another version of him, Cutter seeing bits of himself reflect Neilheart. This was another reason why he chose her, knowing that she would fit very well in this kind of environment. Neilheart still currently trusts him, even after realising he was the one commanding elimination, marking her and the crew as deceased. However, the Hephaestus are not aware that she still feels that way about him. Some of Neilheart's logs include her and her old friends throwing Cutter birthday parties, which mainly caused him to be annoyed at her. She ignored him most of the time, knowing he didn't actually mind them and only acting so hyper during those parties. Of course, she was back to being serious during work and never wanted to disappoint.

214

214, otherwise known as Hera's clone, was created by Neilheart. Neilheart fell in love with her ever since Hera's malfunction, 214 being the only one tolerating her. She ended up copying her, and storing her in her lab. The first person to know was Maxwell, and little by little, Eiffel ended up knowing, such as the whole crew. Rowan Langford, an intern sent by Command, made her a body in order to function better. 214 and Neilheart are currently girlfriends.

#### Alana Maxwell

Maxwell and Neilheart also have a very complicated relationship, both developing crushes on each other as soon as they've met. They shared their first kiss one night in Neilheart's laboratory and were dating for a while, before getting into a heated argument about Project 596. Neilheart was not aware that he was being used as a puppet. They initially broke up after their fight, staying very distant from each other until they made up, and Neilheart apologised. Furthermore, Maxwell caused a similar problem with Hera, and Neilheart was the only one there who was able to support her. While she didn't agree with her actions, she managed to calm her down and help her fix her mistakes. Maxwell promised Neilheart she would do whatever she could to get her to see her son again, one of the options being murder. Neilheart agreed, thanking her for everything, and giving her a second chance to be her friend again. They still had something there, yet were too afraid to say anything again. Nonetheless, they both cared very much for each other and continued to tease each other throughout the time they spent on the Hephaestus.

* They love to talk at night, staring into each other's eyes. They normally hold each other's faces a lot, and Maxwell enjoys playing with her hair.
* Neilheart tends to place her head in Maxwell's laps to look up at her, she feels safe with her around.

Victoire Fourier

Previously known to be on Lovelace's crew, and now a ghost on the Hephaestus, Fourier took a liking to Neilheart. They interacted a lot during their days spent on the station, being each other's distractions and wip!!

#### Mace Fisher

First ever ghost friend to be made, soon to be made best friends and chaotic buddies. They met when Neilheart found out about Lovelace's crew and she was in a bad mood. She thought she could somehow stab a ghost... which clearly didn't work. Fisher and Neilheart joke around a lot, and he acts like an older brother figure to her. She got reminded a lot of her previous friends back on earth; Peter Klaus being one of them. He was her closest friend while she worked at Goddard. Fisher helps her... *not* make bad choices, just like Eiffel. They fit together like puzzle pieces. He was part of the making of the Anti-Mushroom Trio, an argument they had with nearly all of the Hephaestus about how bad they were.

Isabel Lovelace wip!!

Daniel Jacobi

Neilheart and Jacobi started of complicated. Upon knowing that she was able to clone people, this caused Jacobi to momentarily scare himself after what happened to Project 596, which led to the destruction of her lab first day notice. Due to his anger going off the rails, he started throwing different chemicals around as she was trying to calm him down; this resulted in half her face being burnt off. She later on gets new cybernetics from Maxwell, gaining a robot face. They begin to grow a solid relationship after that accident, helping her through the mess and carrying her to the med bay. They show something stable and consider themselves 'frenemies'; playing a handful of chess, cards and more board games to show off their competitive sides. It mostly ends up in screaming from both of them, but nothing's serious.

## Trivia

* Neilheart despises mushrooms and is prepared to shoot one.
* She is the founder of the Anti-Mushroom Trio.
* She's a very good liar, and has a lot of fun imitating accents and people.
* She remembers just about every face she's ever seen and every name she's heard.