This is an Application. This is The Drill.
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bodiesfordadWilliam Block is a very smart man who had the misfortune to be born in a small town and cursed with a temper.
The only child of Henrietta and Marlon Block, Bill was everyone's favorite punching bag through most of his childhood, until his father's insistence of "take it like a man" drove him to hit back. He hit Tommy Rodriguez in the nose hard enough to break it. This earned him respect (of a sort) and a juvenile record, as Tommy's parents filed charges against him. Because he was a minor, he spent two months in the Austin Juvenile Detention Center before returning home to his father and mother. His mother went about her business, but his father took it as a sign that his son was a no-good criminal and a monster that needed to be punished.
His anger would regularly be inflicted on the youth, who (thanks to the justice system) learned that voicing opposition to such actions like violence earns you pain. So he repressed it. He repressed it and repressed it until <i>something</i> in his brain blew a proverbial fuse. While his father's temper was somewhat related to the moonshine that "Great Uncle Al brewed in the basement" coupled with the resentment of being a "big fish" in a "Small pond", Bill's was due to a constant feeling of inadequacy.
He was born in the town of [CENSOR NOISE TYPICAL OF TARANTINO AND RODRIGUEZ MOVIES, INDICATING A PLOT POINT OR WITTY DIRECTION] and managed, thankfully, to escape to Boston. There, his feelings of not being equal to others intensified. He had to work two jobs to maintain student housing, he had to endure the scorn of his fellow students. He'd starve himself to pay for his textbooks. "Dumb ass inbred hillbilly."
Bill resolved to strike back with <i>knowledge</i>. He became top of his class and graduated Soma Cum Laude from his university. A favorite of his professors, he was embraced by Boston General and expected to become a major figure on their staff.
His past, and his temper, caught up with him. He'd grow short with the patients and the other doctors and work himself to exhaustion, scaring the people he was working with. As soon as he'd completed his residency he was denied the position on staff that he'd been promised. Rumors soon began to circulate, and Bill found the hospitals on the East Coast closed to him.
Feeling that the West Coast wasn't an option (for monentary reasons) Bill returned home with his tail between his legs to take a chief of staff position at the old army hospital, now open to the public. They saw his record rather then his shortcomings, and that record in particular attracted one Dakota McGraw, Anethesiologist.
Dakota was bisexual. Coming off the end of a bad relationship that she'd been sure would last forever, Bill was everything most men <i>weren't</i>. She made excuses to chat, he was flattered by her interest. Their working relationship blossomed into something else. Bill proposed and she said yes, and he found himself at ease with the world for the first time in a long time.
Their bliss and happiness lasted a month.
It took a month for Bill to learn that Dakota was no meek and mild woman akin to his mother, and it took a month for Dakota to learn that Bill had no idea how to behave around women. It is not unreasonable to assume that their relationship which defines them both completely got off on a bad foot to begin with. He raises his voice, demands things, and has a very "Women should be barefoot and in the kitchen approach" when it comes to domesticity. On their job they are professional. Both have a hell of alot of respect for each other's background, and both are damn good at what they do.
The thing is, Bill Genuinely loves Dakota and is hurt by her distancing herself and being unfaithful. He respects her as a physician. He only wishes she were a little more....feminine about being around him. And a little nicer. To him especially. (of course, a man like this equates nice with being "Completely obedient" but that's just how it goes.)
The first time she was unfaithful, it was with one of his nurses (He managed to pass that off as a joke) the second was with a colleague. That time, Bill got physical for the first time. He was witnessed however, and their domestic violence was reported to the police. Bill was forced to attend an "Anger Management Seminar" Where he was told to practice calming techniques. Being a doctor , Bill is in the habit of taking his temperature and monitoring his heartrate as a method of keeping calm in the OR. He developed this habit during his residency and presented it to his counselor as a means of helping himself. He was passed out of the class, though he was far from cured.
He was never physically violent again, but Dakota continued to grow more distant. When their son was injured on a boyscout trip and taken to Austin Texas she met Tammy-and fell in love all over again. They managed to keep their relationship a secret for almost a year, until Bill found a letter that Tammy had written in the trash. That night, Bill came close to killing Dakota. He asked her to end it and she complied-out of fear for her life and the life of their son.
She didn't end it however, she kept it a secret for almost a year, Tammy' s letters keeping her alive. Bill fell into a slump and she did too, existing for the sake of their child Tony.
Bill loves Tony, and hopes that given time Dakota will accept her role as a wife and a mother rather then trying to find happiness when she should have it right fucking in front of her and-
*coughs* they get away sometimes say sorry.
Skillwise, Bill is an accomplished doctor. He's a general practitioner who's seen everything from Lyme Disease to Gangrene. In times of crisis he's usually seen overseeing the situation. He has a bad habit of chewing on thermometers and occasionally checking his bloodpressure just to make sure.
To those who don't know him well, he'll seem slightly egotistical and a bit of an asshole. He has very real sensitive moments, but they're once in a blue moon and usually reserved for either his son or his wife (when he's trying to convince her that he's an okay guy.)
Growing up in a small town that opened it's woods to tourists, Bill collects animals. The house that his family lives in belonged to his father-and he regularly adds to the collection of stuffed animals and deer heads on the walls. His hobbies include reading true-crime, going to the movies, hunting, and Medical Journals. That's, about, it..
Bill needs glasses to see details, but he only wears them during his shifts. He also tends to work the graveyard shift, so if you see him around and he's exhausted, that'd be why.
(Says something about the guy don't it?)
Canonically, he's (Just like all the rest) six months before canontime. Beginning to fall into a slump, he's making an effort for the sake of his wife and son, trying to keep his little family together despite the fact that he's the problem.
Bar can never not have enough healers, and between Dakota and Bill, Bill seemed like the one who'd treat it professionally rather then "EEP PEOPLE AND THINGS" Dakota'd take longer to get adjusted to it.
I still hold out hope that someone'll app her though, but you know how it goes.
The only child of Henrietta and Marlon Block, Bill was everyone's favorite punching bag through most of his childhood, until his father's insistence of "take it like a man" drove him to hit back. He hit Tommy Rodriguez in the nose hard enough to break it. This earned him respect (of a sort) and a juvenile record, as Tommy's parents filed charges against him. Because he was a minor, he spent two months in the Austin Juvenile Detention Center before returning home to his father and mother. His mother went about her business, but his father took it as a sign that his son was a no-good criminal and a monster that needed to be punished.
His anger would regularly be inflicted on the youth, who (thanks to the justice system) learned that voicing opposition to such actions like violence earns you pain. So he repressed it. He repressed it and repressed it until <i>something</i> in his brain blew a proverbial fuse. While his father's temper was somewhat related to the moonshine that "Great Uncle Al brewed in the basement" coupled with the resentment of being a "big fish" in a "Small pond", Bill's was due to a constant feeling of inadequacy.
He was born in the town of [CENSOR NOISE TYPICAL OF TARANTINO AND RODRIGUEZ MOVIES, INDICATING A PLOT POINT OR WITTY DIRECTION] and managed, thankfully, to escape to Boston. There, his feelings of not being equal to others intensified. He had to work two jobs to maintain student housing, he had to endure the scorn of his fellow students. He'd starve himself to pay for his textbooks. "Dumb ass inbred hillbilly."
Bill resolved to strike back with <i>knowledge</i>. He became top of his class and graduated Soma Cum Laude from his university. A favorite of his professors, he was embraced by Boston General and expected to become a major figure on their staff.
His past, and his temper, caught up with him. He'd grow short with the patients and the other doctors and work himself to exhaustion, scaring the people he was working with. As soon as he'd completed his residency he was denied the position on staff that he'd been promised. Rumors soon began to circulate, and Bill found the hospitals on the East Coast closed to him.
Feeling that the West Coast wasn't an option (for monentary reasons) Bill returned home with his tail between his legs to take a chief of staff position at the old army hospital, now open to the public. They saw his record rather then his shortcomings, and that record in particular attracted one Dakota McGraw, Anethesiologist.
Dakota was bisexual. Coming off the end of a bad relationship that she'd been sure would last forever, Bill was everything most men <i>weren't</i>. She made excuses to chat, he was flattered by her interest. Their working relationship blossomed into something else. Bill proposed and she said yes, and he found himself at ease with the world for the first time in a long time.
Their bliss and happiness lasted a month.
It took a month for Bill to learn that Dakota was no meek and mild woman akin to his mother, and it took a month for Dakota to learn that Bill had no idea how to behave around women. It is not unreasonable to assume that their relationship which defines them both completely got off on a bad foot to begin with. He raises his voice, demands things, and has a very "Women should be barefoot and in the kitchen approach" when it comes to domesticity. On their job they are professional. Both have a hell of alot of respect for each other's background, and both are damn good at what they do.
The thing is, Bill Genuinely loves Dakota and is hurt by her distancing herself and being unfaithful. He respects her as a physician. He only wishes she were a little more....feminine about being around him. And a little nicer. To him especially. (of course, a man like this equates nice with being "Completely obedient" but that's just how it goes.)
The first time she was unfaithful, it was with one of his nurses (He managed to pass that off as a joke) the second was with a colleague. That time, Bill got physical for the first time. He was witnessed however, and their domestic violence was reported to the police. Bill was forced to attend an "Anger Management Seminar" Where he was told to practice calming techniques. Being a doctor , Bill is in the habit of taking his temperature and monitoring his heartrate as a method of keeping calm in the OR. He developed this habit during his residency and presented it to his counselor as a means of helping himself. He was passed out of the class, though he was far from cured.
He was never physically violent again, but Dakota continued to grow more distant. When their son was injured on a boyscout trip and taken to Austin Texas she met Tammy-and fell in love all over again. They managed to keep their relationship a secret for almost a year, until Bill found a letter that Tammy had written in the trash. That night, Bill came close to killing Dakota. He asked her to end it and she complied-out of fear for her life and the life of their son.
She didn't end it however, she kept it a secret for almost a year, Tammy' s letters keeping her alive. Bill fell into a slump and she did too, existing for the sake of their child Tony.
Bill loves Tony, and hopes that given time Dakota will accept her role as a wife and a mother rather then trying to find happiness when she should have it right fucking in front of her and-
*coughs* they get away sometimes say sorry.
Skillwise, Bill is an accomplished doctor. He's a general practitioner who's seen everything from Lyme Disease to Gangrene. In times of crisis he's usually seen overseeing the situation. He has a bad habit of chewing on thermometers and occasionally checking his bloodpressure just to make sure.
To those who don't know him well, he'll seem slightly egotistical and a bit of an asshole. He has very real sensitive moments, but they're once in a blue moon and usually reserved for either his son or his wife (when he's trying to convince her that he's an okay guy.)
Growing up in a small town that opened it's woods to tourists, Bill collects animals. The house that his family lives in belonged to his father-and he regularly adds to the collection of stuffed animals and deer heads on the walls. His hobbies include reading true-crime, going to the movies, hunting, and Medical Journals. That's, about, it..
Bill needs glasses to see details, but he only wears them during his shifts. He also tends to work the graveyard shift, so if you see him around and he's exhausted, that'd be why.
(Says something about the guy don't it?)
Canonically, he's (Just like all the rest) six months before canontime. Beginning to fall into a slump, he's making an effort for the sake of his wife and son, trying to keep his little family together despite the fact that he's the problem.
Bar can never not have enough healers, and between Dakota and Bill, Bill seemed like the one who'd treat it professionally rather then "EEP PEOPLE AND THINGS" Dakota'd take longer to get adjusted to it.
I still hold out hope that someone'll app her though, but you know how it goes.
