Character Profile - Quintus "Numbers" Painter

Quintus “Numbers” Painter

Gender: Male. 

Hair: Ragged and almost long.
Eyes: Piercing and steady, like laser sights. 

Height: 5’ 6”

Weight: 130 lbs. 

Build: Heavy and hard-bodied.

Handedness: Left. 

Clothing: Wears shirts with collars and hats with brims. Wears bright colors sparingly; a scarf or a hat or a pair of gloves, or maybe a shirt, but not usually. 

Personality: Prone to tangents. Calm sometimes, and frantic others. Perpetually calculating; perpetually cautious. 

Age: “Wasn’t born yesterday.”

Nationality: Born and raised in the third Mars colony by an ex-policeman and a freighter captain. 

Occupation: Pilot and Mathematician. 

Aliases: Numbers to his teammates, Simon to his parents.

Likes: A challenge. Docking maneuvers. 

Loves: EVA work. Finite mathematics. 

Dislikes: Complications. Conversational subterfuge. Terms like conversational subterfuge. Doctors. 

Hates: People talking all at once. Improvisation. 

Wants: To meet a “nice girl” in the Venusian Orbital Colony, and “settle down and never go into interplanetary space ever again.”  

General: Quintus is intense, and he often concentrates much harder on simple tasks than would normally be necessary. He’s an excellent pilot though, and gets much more out of they’re ship’s fuel reserves than a more zealous pilot might. If he were more well known, he might be a byword for efficiency and precision. Speaks Spanish when under stress. Prone to hysterical outbursts about nothing.