Chad (40k)

**name:** Chaddewick Julián Q Rodriguez, with a couple medical letters afterwards

**aliases:** Chad, Dr Rodriguez, Oh It's You Again, WifeGuy69, "my dear" if you're pápi

**homeworld:** he usually says he's from Los Arbites, a megacity, even though his parents raised him in the suburbs

**age:** late 30s

## a physical description?

Chad is 5'10 and usually has his hair dyed some pastel color; it's been consistently cotton-candy pink long enough that it's listed as such on his most recent Praxis ID card, but that kinda means he needs to change it up soon, doesn't it? He makes little changes all the time so he doesn't get bored of seeing himself in the mirror. He always has a goatee, but sometimes it connects, sometimes it doesn't, and he trims it differently on different whims. Sometimes he crimps his hair, or curls it, or gets a perm done and then decides he isn't comfortable with that level of commitment and has it chemically straightened again, and it's kind of surprising his hair is as long as it is and doesn't just get burned off in clumps.

Every morning he wakes up and open palm slams his clothes off his bed and onto the floor and starts assembling the weirdest possible outfit he can think of, out of a pile of cosplay ingredients, homemade gothic lolita shit done up in novelty fabrics, and the dumbest possible items he could find at the Imperium's thrift stores.

## biography

### early life

Chad was raised, as mentioned, in the suburbs outside Los Arbites, where he attended a school for the gifted & talented; during fire season he sometimes found himself sent in to LA proper to stay with his Rodriguez cousins - you know it's bad when the air inside LA is better than the smoke in the suburbs. After high school he deferred conscription by going to college, where he switched majors six times and then flunked out. He worked in a Taco Bell for a while, then a few other places, never lasting long at any job, and then he got conscripted after all; he was sent off to be a janitor at a VA hospital-world.

It was here that he took advantage of his homeworld's Guardsman education and training program to get a medical degree by mail, as a joke, the punchline of which cannot be explained at this point since it only made sense to one other person, his boyfriend at the time. Unfortunately his boyfriend didn't think it was funny (presumably he felt that the joke was on him), and when Chad continued not to use this medical degree to become a useful adult human being, they broke up.

Chad had major substance abuse issues starting in, like, high school; after the breakup he got sober but he insists the two things are unrelated.

### praxis event

Duck (the Sister of Battle in charge of Medicus) was hiring and Chad was looking and lo: he got hired!

### on the praxis

Chad does things. Oh he loves to do things. He works in the clinic and he runs a muppet show to introduce new recruits to health & safety issues (like "don't get weird STDs, it's funny to me but it won't be to you"). He has an older boyfriend to whom he brings pastries at 10 or 10:30ish every day as if it's a running joke, because it is even though it's also just bringing his boyfriend a pastry every day. He has side projects. He makes his own clothes. He once built a marble ramp that went most of the way through the Inquisition areas of the ship starting up in the choir loft over the basilica, and most of it is still in place (Facilities has slightly relocated some pieces, but everything was on there with magnets so it was fine). He once built a replica of part of a convenience store out of one of his favorite animes in a disused breakroom area in back-of-house. He has constructed two separate restaurants to take his boyfriend out to dinner. He built Fort Box. He loves to do things, and he no longer does cocaine, so he does all this other shit instead!

### see also

* chad's quarters
* fort box