Dr. Duquein Thompson

This article contains information on a **Non-playable Minor Character**.As these characters are often only mentioned in passing, all information is gathered from various canon sources then compiled here. Due to this nature, some **assumptions and theories** may be included and will be updated as more sources and information is revealed or discovered.

## Story Details

### Connected Characters

Major:* Yidhra
* Luchino Diruse

Minor:

* Darren Berlgund

**Dr. Duquein Thompson** is a minor character mentioned in the character deductions of Luchino Diruse and Yidhra. He is a colleague and fellow Biologist of Luchino Diruse.

## Character Details

### Events Before Identity V

Professor Thompson was a wealthy and reputable researcher who worked within a university laboratory. He seemed to originally be in a different lab, but was "relocated" to the university, which he was not happy about. He was later joined in the laboratory by the younger Professor, Luchino Diruse, who worked separately as he studied reptiles, specifically their venoms and poisons and how it affected other living things.

He put out a request and bounty for any unusual and/or "exotic scaled animals" in order to further his research, and received many new and interesting reptiles in response. The janitor (most likely Darren Berlgund) also took advantage of this notice and submitted a reptile he found in his room, a snake which grew four legs, and which Professor Thompson accepted with a "strange look on his face."

Duquein invited Luchino to join him in researching the new reptile, which Luchino accepted even though he was suspicious of Professor Thompson's intentions, as the potential of discovering a new species was something he couldn't say no to. Professor Luchino later went missing from the university laboratory, but what happened to Professor Thompson is unclear as he is no longer mentioned.

### Further Potential Details

* Apparently, he also had a "matchmaking business" according to Luchino.
	+ "Matchmaking", in this sense, does refer to the referral of potential spouses to the client in both English and the game's original language, Chinese.
	+ Luchino worried that he had been a contributor to this business' failure, and which may be why Professor Thompson "entrusted" him with a dangerous and unknown reptile, knowing Luchino tested reptile bites on himself.
* He is a Biologist, but it is not confirmed if he is specifically a Herpetologist like Luchino.
* Professor Diruse worried that instead of researching these new reptiles, Professor Thompson would turn them into "exhibits". This hints that rather than his focus being on research and furthering science, Duquein is more interested in fame and/or profit.

## Mentions

### Deductions

* Dream Witch's Deduction Quests (4, 8 & 9)
* Evil Reptilian's Deduction Quests (3, 5 & 8)
* Professor's Deduction Quests (3 & 8)

## References

1. ↑ see Dream Witch Deduction Quest #4 - "...Professor Thompson looks very upset. I believe this is related to the previous lab relocation."
2. ↑ See Evil Reptilian's Deduction Quests, which detail his experiments with reptiles, notably on how their venom would affect first a rat, then a human (seemingly using himself as the test human)
3. ↑ Gathered from Dream Witch Deductions, most notably:

	1. 8 Collection - "Notice: Great rewards for finding exotic scaled animals, by Dr. Duquein Thompson."

	1. 9 Transaction - Professor Thompson marvelled at the evil snake. I told him everything, including the four newly grown legs. He had a strange look on his face, but he took the snake away.
4. ↑ See Luchino's Letter (2020)
5. ↑ Evil Reptilian's Deduction #3: Social
6. ↑ See Evil Reptilian Deduction Quest #5, "Shortcut: Can money buy everything?" suggesting that it was Professor Thompson's money that allowed him to obtain more reptiles very quickly and further either his research or to create "exhibits"