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Marie Dumont

Marie DumontDate of Birth: March 23, 1984
Discipline: Information Studies (2nd year Ph.D.)
Davies Status: 4th-year Junior Fellow; 1st-year non-resident

Marie thinks of herself as a very ordinary person.  Undistinguished-looking, fairly average-sized (well, perhaps rather less than average on the height scale), and neither particularly chatty nor particularly reticent, she tends to fade into the social background.  She is notable mostly for her perpetually worried look and the fact that she is always buried in work.

Yet Marie is not as ordinary as she seems.  Her sense of irony is quite highly developed; she is observant in a detached sort of way and is able to step far enough back from existence at Davies to figure out a bit about how it actually works.  When she hasn’t had enough sleep, she completely loses her mind.  In fact, lack of sleep affects her much more obviously than alcohol does.  She may be anxious about many aspects of her life, but she does not appear to be afraid of much.  Even Barbara fails to intimidate Marie.

Marie’s parents, who used to live in Vancouver, died in a fire in 2003.  Marie originally masqueraded as sheltered and inexperienced in order to avoid questions about her family, but after a Junior Fellow found an article about the fire (and Marie's own part in it) online, she dropped the pretence.  On July 18, 2007, Marie--to the bafflement of her friends--spent the day huddling wordlessly in Casey's bedroom; on the same day in 2008, she seemed to become catatonic, and on the same day in 2009, she experienced a psychotic episode and had to be taken to the hospital.  She refuses to explain these episodes.  Rahim has gently attempted to get her to open up about her past, and she has very, very cautiously begun to do so.

Until September of 2008, Marie had a crush on Casey Mulligan, her best friend, though she was struggling ferociously against it.  Then Casey kissed her, or possibly vice versa.  Casey followed the kiss with the comment, "I don't think so," then walked out of the room.  He refused to acknowledge that anything happened at all, and he spent nearly a year being very cruel to Marie, implying that she is crazy and picking fights with her for no reason.  In the summer of 2009, he admitted that he still liked Marie and had staged the fight because he was afraid a relationship with him would be bad for her.  This strange and rather flimsy explanation has not prompted Marie to forgive him.

This year, Marie is co-chair (with Paul and Stella) of the DEF.


Casey Mulligan

Casey MulliganDate of Birth: Unknown
Discipline: English (4th year Ph.D.)
Davies Status: 4th-year Junior Fellow; 1st-year non-resident

Casey is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma, adrift in a sea of unanswered questions.  He is gorgeous (but apparently unaware of the fact), kind, funny, observant, musically talented, imaginative, and extremely intelligent, though he is able to hide the last of these qualities somewhat behind a frequently occurring dopey expression.  Almost everybody likes him.  Many of the Davies women have fierce crushes on him.

In other words, there is clearly something wrong with Casey.  No one has been able to ascertain what.  Barbara’s theory–expressed ad nauseam–is that he is Satan.  She has presented no concrete proof to bear this theory out.  However, strange things do tend to happen around and/or be associated with Casey.  He has been overheard discussing strange subjects (including tentacles) with his mother on the phone.  One of Frankie’s take-home law exams apparently burst spontaneously into flame when Casey looked at it...as, later, did her laptop and, on a third occasion, some papers she was carrying.  Casey is never too cold or too hot and, in fact, doesn’t seem to own a coat (he does have at least one suit jacket, but he wears it only when he has to and seldom keeps it on for long).  In August of 2007, 2008, and 2009, he let Marie witness his mysterious meetings with a woman named Ursula who seemed to have some kind of strange bet going with him.  At one point, he appeared to interact with Evil Marie, Marie's apparently hallucinatory doppelgänger.  He may also have brought a mouse back from the dead.

Casey is a congenital amputee; his right foot is a stump.  He walks with a pronounced limp and carries a cane when he knows he is going to be on his feet for a fair amount of time.  He is very sensitive about his handicap.  When it was first accidentally revealed to the Davies community, Casey lost his temper publicly for the first time (though as he has revealed to Marie, he is constantly struggling against a naturally quick temper that he is usually able to master).  Lately, to his chagrin, he has been losing his temper more often.  He seems to prefer the colour green, as most of his clothes contain this colour.  He has some family in Ireland and goes there every year for Christmas.  In early 2009, he started a folk band with Steve, Wendy, Barbara, Tom, and Reg.

Casey was good friends with Marie until the kissing incident; afterwards, he broke with both her and Rahim, though not with Barbara.  His increasingly bizarre behaviour in 2008 and 2009 was explained in the summer when he confessed that he had deliberatedly driven Marie away, apparently in order to save her.  He wants to resume his friendship with Marie, who is reluctant to forgive him, as is Rahim.


Barbara Mickel

Barbara MickelDate of Birth: January 12, 1977
Discipline: English (9th year Ph.D., albeit on the verge of defence)
Davies Status: 1st-year Alumna; was a Junior Fellow for 4 years

Barbara has been a grad student for just a little bit too long.  She has moved past the “harried and irritable” phase into what seems to be utter insanity...though it is certainly possible that Barbara is not quite as insane as she makes herself out to be.  Exuding an air of dottiness, she charges madly through life at Davies, avoiding her work, antagonising her neighbours, and infuriating everyone she meets by always telling the blunt truth about everything (except possibly in the matter of Casey).

Barbara has come to terms with and, indeed, embraced her own eccentricity to such an extent that she appears to have no social skills at all.  She also has no filter; she says what she thinks, and what she thinks does not always please whoever hears it.  Despite, or perhaps because of, this entirely uncalled-for honesty, Barbara has a certain Hamlet-like charm.  Few people truly like her, but many are amused by her, and the more discerning ones recognise that behind the bizarre exterior is a smart, creative woman whose mind simply does not work like other minds.

Barbara claims to believe that Casey is Satan.  Her scattered evidence thus far includes his looks, his tolerance of the cold, his apparent immolation of Frankie's belongings, his skill on the violin, his enrollment in an English class on the devil, a certain odd phone conversation he once had with his mother, and his apparent skills in mouse resurrection.  Casey is quite fond of Barbara, who constantly abuses him publicly.  However, she has also tried to save him from himself by urging him not to go into English, the discipline that has destroyed her sanity.  Though Marie is often irritated by Barbara, the two have become friends.

In the fall of 2008, Barbara began to teach herself to juggle.  Though she counselled Rahim not to interfere in the Marie/Casey snafu, she herself lauched an investigation into the mystery of Casey's recent behaviour...as Sherlock Holmes, no less.  It does seem that her ultimate (failed) purpose was simply to get Casey to open up to her.  She plays the accordion in Steve's folk band.

Barbara has finished writing her thesis but is having problems getting her supervisor to approve it.  Because of his negligence, she will have to pay fall tuition and convocate half a year later than she thought she would.


Rahim Khan

Rahim KhanDate of Birth: September 3, 1974
Discipline: Nursing (5th year Ph.D.)
Davies Status: 5th-year Junior Fellow; non-resident 1 year, resident 3 years, and now non-resident again

Rahim is a good deal older than many of the other Davies Junior Fellows; he has also been out in the workforce as a professional nurse.  His major approach to life seems to be via cynicism, along with a healthy dose of dark humour (although he can rarely be caught smiling unless he is alone in a room with someone he knows well).  Rahim has the ability to keep his head in a crisis.  He strikes many people as cold and unfeeling, but the truth is that he is simply rather reserved.

In 2006-2007, Rahim co-chaired the DEF with Wendy.  It is still not entirely clear how two people with such diametrically opposite approaches to, well, everything ended up heading a social committee together.  Rahim obviously loathes Wendy and everything she stands for, and he has almost no patience with the activities of the DEF.  He gets along well with both Marie and Casey (or did until the fall of 2008), and he has a contrary sort of liking for Barbara, but he and Frankie are not particularly good friends.  Rahim became especially unhappy with Frankie after her behaviour at the 2007 Winter Ball.  His friendship with Marie is currently deepening and growing in complexity.  In the spring of 2008, he came close to acknowledging to Barbara that his feelings for Marie went beyond friendship; however, the difference (ten years) in their ages bothers him, and he has, thus far, kept silent.  Marie's recent problems with Casey have led to Marie and Rahim spending more time together.

In the 2007-2008 academic year, Rahim was Davies' Don of Hall (the head of student government who acts as a liaison between the administration and the Junior Fellowship).  He ran for the position mostly because he wanted to stop Frankie from being Don, and he was not happy to have won the election.  He has since taken on no elected position.

On Christmas Eve of 2008, Rahim slipped on black ice and broke his leg.  The leg took an unusually long time to heel, but Rahim is now once again walking without assistance.


Frankie Drake

Frankie DrakeDate of Birth: September 29, 1981
Discipline: Law (articling), but transferred from Sociology (2nd year Ph.D.)
Davies Status: 1st-year Alumna; was a Junior Fellow for 5 years

Frankie is a driven sort of Junior Fellow.  After two years of a sociology degree, she quit to pursue a career in law.  She celebrated her acceptance into the programme by dyeing her hair bright blue.  She is calmly planning to go into corporate law, and she shrugs off any criticism of this decision.

Frankie has been rather strikingly attractive for most of her life.  Unlike Casey, she is aware of her own beauty and not averse to using it to get her way.  She pays a great deal of attention to her physical appearance.  Yet she is not always manipulative; most of her impulses are generous ones, and if she sees someone being oppressed or downtrodden, she will fly immediately and seemingly unconsciously into attack mode.  She becomes especially angry when she sees women simpering over good-looking men, though admittedly, she enjoys the sensation of having good-looking men simpering over her.  She was initially not so sure that she liked Baldwin Wing's direct approach to seducing her; Frankie didn't see Baldwin as her type and reacted to him with a strange mixture of acute annoyance and reluctant flirtation, right up to the point they started dating.  She considers herself high-maintenance and is oddly unaware of her own generosity of spirit.

She originally liked Marie well enough, but a comment Marie made to Frankie during the Murder Game turned Frankie against her, leading to an incident at the Winter Ball where Frankie apparently attempted to seduce Casey in order to make Marie jealous.  Barbara Frankie generally ignores.  She tends to snipe at Rahim and then feel uncomfortable about it later; there is something about him that gets under her skin.  She was coming to like Casey quite well until he apparently set her take-home exam on fire with his mind.  She has since been reconciled with both Marie and Casey and, in fact, kept the secret of Marie's parents' deaths for nearly a year without being asked.  She sided with Marie against Casey in the recent rift.

Frankie finds it very, very difficult to forgive people who have hurt or offended her.  She is not above taking revenge on them, either.  However, when she is truly wrong about something, she will eventually admit it and apologise.  When her ex-boyfriend, Steve, came a little too abruptly out of the closet, she blew up at him in public but later accepted his private explanation for the fact that he hadn't talked to her about it yet.

She ran for the 2008-09 Donship but was beaten by Baldwin, her boyfriend.  Though their relationship survived, Frankie's trust in the Junior Fellowship did not; she now regards it as distinctly sexist.


Wendy Black

Wendy BlackDate of Birth: December 30, 1982
Discipline: Music (2nd year Ph.D.)
Davies Status: 5th-year Junior Fellow; 2nd-year non-resident

Wendy was born to be a cheerleader; she has Bright and Perky down cold, and she spends most of her time urging people to be enthusiastic.  In 2006-07, Wendy, as the less cynical of the two DEF co-chairs, set out to become the heart and soul of Davies.  The fact that she really only succeeded in being a major irritant to every single member of the community completely escaped her attention.

Wendy’s limitless energy gives her a certain shrill bounciness that sets everyone cringing every time she enters a room.  She often seems so tightly wound that she is on the verge of taking flight.

Wendy wished to run again to be the 2007-08 DEF co-chair, but Rahim was resistant to her pleas for a continuing partnership.  Surprisingly (to some), she quite graciously allowed the subject to drop and concentrated her boundless enthusiasm on (many) other activities that year.  She is now living off-campus, but she still hangs around Davies frequently.  She has a beautiful voice and sings soprano in Steve's folk band.


Evil Marie

Evil MarieDate of Birth:  Unknown
Discipline:  Unknown
Davies Status:  Unknown


Evil Marie first appeared as an apparent figment of Marie's imagination when Marie was in bed with the flu in the fall of 2007.  Though very similar in appearance to Marie, Evil Marie does tend to wear tight black leather outfits (in which Marie would only be caught dead at, say, Hallowe'en) and sunglasses rather than clear glasses.  Unlike Marie, Evil Marie is brash, unreserved, and perpetually angry.  She speaks her mind--mostly in order to criticise Marie--and tries to convince Marie to speak hers as well.  She is especially concerned that Marie's refusal to tell her friends what happened to her parents is eventually going to come back to haunt her (or them).

Near the end of Evil Marie's first visit, Casey appeared to enter the room and interact with her.  Marie is still not sure whether or not Casey was really there and/or saw her doppelgänger.

Evil Marie has since turned up occasionally, generally when Marie is ill, injured, or experiencing emotional turmoil.


Baldwin Wing

Baldwin WingDate of Birth:  February 27, 1983
Discipline:  Computer Engineering (3rd year Ph.D.)
Davies Status:  3rd-year resident Junior Fellow


To describe Baldwin as "a bit of a spaz" would probably count as a substantial understatement (Rahim has dubbed him "Mr. Spaztastic," actually).  Baldwin is the sort of person who is polite and anxious to please when he is first becoming comfortable in a community; once he settles in (which takes him all of five or six minutes), he explodes into mischief.  He is usually cheerful and almost always looking to stir things up.

Baldwin decided early on that he was going to seduce Frankie.  It took him several months, but the two of them began dating soon after their rivalry during the Murder Game had left Marie with a concussion and Baldwin himself with a broken arm.  Later, Baldwin antagonised Frankie (again) by running against her for Don of Hall and winning.  As he is not really a Don type of person, Frankie has become convinced that many Junior Fellows voted against her because she was a woman.  However, her relationship with Baldwin has survived.

Baldwin's Donship has now ended, leaving him free to concentrate on undermining, rather than representing, authority.


Steve Maverick

Steve MaverickDate of Birth:  February 2, 1981
Discipline:  Education Psychology (2nd year Ph.D.)
Davies Status:  2nd-year resident Junior Fellow


Steve, a self-described "vegetarian Wiccan raised on Vancouver Island by folk-singing nomadic goatherds," is an easy-going, musically talented Junior Fellow with a good sense of humour and very little sense of tact.  Half a decade ago, he and Frankie broke up after a few years of highly dysfunctional dating.  Frankie bears a grudge; Steve doesn't, but when Frankie attacks him, he is happy to fight back, mainly by means of jokes.  He was a bit bemused by Davies at first but has since settled in, becoming good friends with Baldwin and starting a folk band with Casey, Barbara, Reg, Tom, and Wendy.

Steve was technically out of the closet (to his old friends and his family) when he moved to Toronto, but he told no one at Davies but Baldwin that he was gay until he turned up at the end-up-year barbecue in the spring of 2009 with his boyfriend, Xander.  The incident provoked the Official Davies Annual Scandal, as Frankie pushed Steve (and later, randomly, Casey) into the pond in reaction.  She later accepted his apology for springing the information on her without warning.

Despite his inability to keep his mouth shut at crucial moments, Steve gets along with almost everyone.


Wolfgang Amadeus

Wolfgang AmadeusDate of Birth:  July 2, 1984
Discipline:  Art History (4th year Ph.D.)
Davies Status:  3rd-year resident Junior Fellow

Wolfgang is the walking, talking definition of the term "anal-retentive."  He has absolutely no sense of humour and tends to gravitate towards tedious committees of which he can seize control via mountains of paperwork.  He has memorised the contents of Robert's Rules of Order and is fond of trotting them out at every opportunity.  In 2007-08, he was on the College House Committee, of which Rahim was the chair; he ensured that every meeting went on for hours and was fond of deluging Rahim with stuffy e-mails in which he demanded that the Don fix problems that were completely outside his jurisdiction.  He ran for the 2008-09 Donship but was beaten by the much less serious Baldwin, whom he annoyed daily throughout 2008-09.

Wolfgang also has a hard time picking up certain social cues.  For instance, he has no idea that he has offended Casey when he congratulates him for passing his special field exam and thus rising above his (physical and therefore completely irrelevant) handicap.  He is not a naturally unkind person, but his tendency to assume that he is right about everything prompts many to regard him as one.  He sees women as inferior to men and would be honestly surprised if someone expressed anger at his views.


M. Morgan

M. MorganDate of Birth:  April 6, 1975
Discipline:  Classics (graduated; currently works as a roving instructor at various institutions)
Davies Status:  6th-year Alumna; was a Junior Fellow for 5 years

Morgan, who prefers to be known by her last name, is still a rather mysterious figure.  She and Barbara were once friends; Barbara applied to live at Davies because it was recommended to her by Morgan.  However, a fight (at the end-of-year barbecue in the spring of 2006) apparently put an end to their friendship for good.  Morgan was asked by the college administration to stay away from Davies for about eight months after the fight, but she has now returned.

Morgan alternates between being fairly quiet and overbearingly, tempestuously loud; she has a quick temper and is not afraid to express her opinions, even to people she does not know well.  She smokes and is scornful of those who criticise her for doing so.  Davies Junior Fellows regard her with a kind of superstitious dread, as they remember the uproar that followed her fight with Barbara and fear (or hope) that she will initiate another scandal.  Barbara and Morgan interact with semi-polite hostility, and neither shows signs of wanting to make up with the other.


Jackie Keef

Jackie KeefDate of Birth:  January 8, 1981
Discipline:  History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (graduated)
Davies Status:  1st-year Alumna; was a Junior Fellow for 5 years


Jackie is quite a bubbly person on the outside, though she often feels less bubbly than she seems; she approaches life with a certain intensity and ties it all up with a big turquoise bow.  As the 2007 and 2008 Davies summer rentals coordinator, she has demonstrated some of her less happy-go-lucky characteristics:  in particular, her tendency to become extremely stressed out when someone seems to be trying to sabotage her working efficiency.  While Jackie rarely loses her temper, she does sometimes need to let off steam by venting to her friends or, in fact, any random people she happens to encounter.

Jackie has a cheerful and not particularly serious crush on Casey.  She has announced this crush to the world in general and grows rather puzzled when people take her at her word.  She is fond of beer and dancing and finds that they mix quite well at times.

Jackie successfully defended her thesis in the spring of 2009.  In 2009-2010, she will be working as a postdoc at Stanford.


Kenneth Graham

Kenneth GrahamDate of Birth:  February 2, 1956
Occupation:  Davies College Porter
Davies Status:  Ditto


Kenneth is a cranky middle-aged Brit with the inborn ability to terrify the hell out of everyone he meets.  He is rumoured to be a retired paratrooper and has certainly been involved with some sort of army in some sort of capacity.  Within days of being hired, he earned the enmity of nearly every Junior Fellow.  He and Baldwin are mortal enemies and have been waging a ferocious war over Baldwin's inability not to lock himself repeatedly out of his room.

However, at the 2008 end-of-year barbecue, he allowed a clearly traumatised Marie to hide under his desk for hours after Darren had slandered her in public.  Kenneth lied to her friends about her whereabouts, brought her ice cream, and, when it was time for him to lock up for the night, provided her with the number of a therapist who specialised in PTSD.  Though most of the Junior Fellows still see Kenneth as a fiend in human form, Marie has become rather fond of him.


Darren Warren

Darren WarrenDate of Birth:  November 1, 1980
Discipline:  Civil Engineering (4th year Ph.D.)
Davies Status:  5th-year Junior Fellow; 2nd-year non-resident


Darren is a bit of a jerk; he knows it and doesn't particularly care.  In high school, he would have been a bully; in grad school, he is simply someone who knows what he wants and doesn't care who gets in his way.  He tends to gravitate towards harmful gossip, true or false.  Like Baldwin, he can't resist stirring up trouble; unlike Baldwin, he doesn't mean particularly well.  When he found an article implying that Marie had killed her parents, he did not dig deeper but simply denounced Marie in public as a murderer; he was later forced to apologise, which he did with little grace.  He is friends with the much gentler Tom.


Tom Fukiyama

Tom FukiyamaDate of Birth:  August 10, 1982
Discipline:  Medieval Studies (5th year Ph.D.)
Davies Status:  5th-year Junior Fellow; 
non-resident 1 year, resident 3 years, and now non-resident again

Tom is a fairly quiet Junior Fellow who really only gets worked up about the Ph.D. Latin exam, which he has now passed after numerous tries.  He plays the guitar (and sometimes ad libs satirical songs on it) quite well, though he never signs up for Coffee House.  He is friends with Darren, who sometimes nudges him into acts of uncharacteristic cruelty.  He has joined Steve's folk band as a tenor and an occasional guitarist.


Felicia Mark

Felicia MarkDate of Birth:  March 22, 1983
Discipline:  Astrophysics (5th year Ph.D.)
Davies Status:  1st-year Alumna; was a Junior Fellow for 5 years

Felicia is an outspoken Junior Fellow who is friends with Jackie.  She likes to gossip but is not as cruel about it as Darren; while she too found the online article about Marie, she was never tempted to announce its contents in public.


Stella Anderson

Stella AndersonDate of Birth:  June 1, 1985
Discipline:  French (2nd year Ph.D.)
Davies Status:  2nd-year resident Junior Fellow


Stella tends towards sarcasm when she speaks at all, which she does only when she has to; she doesn't dislike talking, but she does dislike talking to no purpose.  Some people find her a little scary, though when this is pointed out to her, she is always surprised to hear it.

In 2009-2010, Stella is co-chairing the DEF with Marie and Paul.


Regina ("Reg") Fitzpatrick

Reg FitzpatrickDate of Birth:  June 4, 1984
Discipline:  Chemistry
Davies Status:  3rd-year resident Junior Fellow


Reg did not have much contact with Marie et al until the spring of 2009, when she joined Steve's folk band as an alto.


Paul Adler

Paul AdlerDate of Birth:  December 4, 1986
Discipline:  Electrical Engineering
Davies Status:  2nd-year resident Junior Fellow


Paul is a rather shy Junior Fellow who, despite his shyness, is good in a crisis.  In 2009-2010, he is co-chairing the DEF with Marie and Stella.


Shelly James ("Bleachy")

BleachyDate of Birth:  October 27, 1979
Occupation:  Between jobs; believed to have worked at something law-related
Davies Status:  Summer resident (2007)


Shelly (or Bleachy, as the Daves call her behind her back) was, in 2007, the summer resident from hell.  Davies summer residents stay at the college for a variety of reasons--some are at conferences, some on holiday, some visiting friends--but Bleachy's purpose in renting a room at Davies was unclear.  She hated every aspect of the place, couldn't stand the student residents, and generally went out of her way to prove herself the most obnoxious and offensive human being ever to grace the face of the earth.  As far as anyone could tell, she had no redeeming characteristics.  She did not seem to realise that she was, in fact, a complete caricature and that the Junior Fellows, their differences temporarily forgotten, loathed her as one.

Bleachy's fake tan, bad dye job, and hideous make-up could be seen almost everywhere around Davies in the summer of 2007; though she despised the college, she rarely left it.  She made Jackie Keef's life a living Hades and actually called the cops on a group of Daves for talking in the quad on a Saturday evening.  She has now left the college, ideally forever.


Weird Beard

Weird BeardDate of Birth:  December 5, 1950
Occupation:  Astrophysicist
Davies Status:  Summer resident (2008, 2009)


Weird Beard (actual name unknown by anyone but Jackie, who so far hasn't told) was the strangest summer resident at Davies in 2008 and 2009.  Some believe that he may actually have been weirder than Barbara, though Barbara herself disagrees.

A cheerful older man, Weird Beard--who does, in fact, have a weird (or at least fairly bushy) beard--likes interacting with the Junior Fellows.  The women of the College believe that he likes interacting with them a little too much; the men do not notice any creepiness and regard Weird Beard as a harmless eccentric.  He is nosy and sometimes behaves quite inexplicably, but he can also demonstrate an oddball variety of class, as he did when he found out that Casey was polling the Fellowship on whether or not he was creepy.

Weird Beard apparently lives in Sudbury; it is unclear why he spends his summers at Davies.  He has taken an interest in the rift between Casey and Marie and enjoys giving (unwanted) advice to both parties.


Ursula

UrsulaDate of Birth:  unknown
Discipline or Occupation:  unknown
Davies Status:  none


Ursula is a young woman who has met Casey in Tim Hortons (a coffee-and-doughnut shop) in late August for at least three and as many as six years running.  The meetings have all taken place at noon.  Casey has allowed Marie to observe them, but he has not explained what is going on or who Ursula is.  She and Casey seem to have made some sort of bet, but its nature is unclear.  Marie generally refers to her as "the girl in the green jacket."


Fred Caldarella

Fred CaldarellaDate of Birth: August 12, 1980
Discipline: Physics (6th year Ph.D.)
Davies Status: 1st-year Alumnus; was a Junior Fellow for 5 years

Fred is an easy-going Junior Fellow in a long-distance relationship; he gets along fairly well with most people.  Though he is occasionally a little taciturn with strangers, he has, unlike Rahim, avoided being labelled cold or stuck-up.  He is friendly, though not really good friends, with Marie and Casey.


Elisa and Athar

Elisa and AtharDates of Birth:  don't really matter
Occupations:  Doctor (Elisa) and Lawyer (Athar)
Davies Status:  Alumni


For two years running, Frankie and Baldwin have attempted to film a welcome-to-Davies video starring Elisa and Athar.  For two years running, Frankie and Baldwin have failed.  Inquiring minds want to know why they don't move on to interview subjects less likely to be diabolically evil, but it is suspected that it is just one of those things.


Master D. Ramsay

Master D. RamsayDate of Birth: lost in the mists of time
Occupation: Journalist
Davies Status: has been Master since September of 1995

Master Ramsay has only “appeared” a few times thus far, but it is safe to say that he will be back, if only as a puff of air and some whooshing noises.  The Master of Davies is always extremely busy and deals with this busyness by never ever standing still.  He also talks very quickly.  He has the ability to remember every name he has ever heard.  However, few people have seen him clearly (they do see the vapour trail as he breezes by).