Physical Description

Height: 6'
Weight: 150
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Blue

Distinguishing Features:Dimples, tribal tattoo circling right arm.

Personality:David is an extroverted person. He loves talking to people, even complete strangers and he has a habit of often jumping to conclusions with little data. The really annoying thing is he's often right. He's considerate of other people's feelings and will often make judgments considering what he knows/feels of people's characters rather then depending on logic.

He's a bit chaotic in his work. Often running several projects at once. And his office? Completely cluttered. It's a frightening mess of books, projects and papers scattered on every available surface but there must be some sort of organization to it. Defying all logic, if he's asked to find a specific item in that mess, he can find it within moments. David loves listening to music, cranked up high, while working, resting, exercising.. Etc.. In regards to his father,

David doesn't have a very easy relationship with the man. He's still a bit bitter about his father all but abandoning him and his sister after their mother died.

Personal Quirks:Likes to drum on things when thinking, hates turnips, needs to read before he can fall asleep, enjoys listening to music and singing along while working. Always has an EpiPen on hand.

History:The first of Michael and Ellen's two children, David was born on Feb 14. A precocious and curious child, David ruled the family home as the only child for five years before his sister Lilith was born.

Years later, his parents were still laughingly telling the story to friends about the time they caught David trying to stuff his then two year old sister into a box addressed to his pen pall in Canada. It took some work, but eventually they managed to get David over his jealousy over having a new kid in the house.

David was only 12, his sister 7 when there was an accident at the lab. One of the new lab technicians wasn't paying proper attention and mixed the wrong chemicals.  The resulting gas cloud was toxic and Ellen was one of the Techs who was killed before she could get away.

As hard as it was on him to lose his mother, it was harder on David's father. Michael buried himself in his work, spending more and more time away from his children. As a result, David and Lilith didn't just lose their mother; they lost their father as Michael spent less and less time with them. Leaving them to the care of his mother-in-law.

Grandmother Alison did what she could for her daughter's children. She was there with her video camera for all of Lilith's soccer games and practices and David's track races and practices. She was taping when Lilith scored the winning goal in a game when she was 9. Was there when David won his first race when he was 13.

She was at the hospital to comfort David when he broke his arm slipping on ice. She was there to hold Lilith when she suffered her first broken heart. Through every hurt and triumph in her grand children's lives, Alison was there while Michael was to busy burying his grief and loss in his work.

A highly intelligent child, David had skipped a couple of grades in school. He even attended an elite school for gifted children and at the 'ripe' age of 16, David began his first year of college.

Again, his father was absent from this major event in his young life. David was 20, his sister 15, when Grandmother Alison passed away. Having to leave his work to attend the funeral, Michael, for the first time since his wife had died really took a good look at his children and was shocked by what he saw. David and Lilith had been children the last time he'd really paid attention to them. Now his little girl was on the brink of womanhood and his little boy was a young man.

When he went home that night, he pulled out all the videotapes Alison had kept sending him over the last 9 years. Watched all the events he'd missed. The triumphs, tears and birthdays he hadn't been there fore. Finally began to understand what Grandmother Alison had kept trying to tell him about what he was losing.

But now that he was suddenly willing to be in his children's lives again, he found that it wasn't that easy. David especially was unwilling to make time in his life for a father that suddenly wanted to be there again. Lilian still being underage didn't have quite as much choice as David did.

At 21, David graduated from college top of his class in computer systems and programming. With his skills, he was snapped up by NASA, especially as Michael had made sure that they got a copy of his grades and IQ tests. Michael even pointed out that he could be a great help with the computer systems being used on the Mars project.

Turned out his father was right. A month after getting into the program, David was able to figure out a problem and rewrite the programming to get one of the systems working properly.  He has an almost intuitive feel for computers and how to make them work. Definitely proving his worth time and again on the project, when it was time to begin building the base on Mars, David was among those chosen to go to install the computers and set up their systems.