Zachery Miller

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Name	Zachery Miller	Aliases
Status	Unregistered Evolved	Ability	Anatomical Intuition

Gender	Male	Race/Eth.	English
Birthdate	20th of October 1975	Age	35

Height	6"	Build
Eyes	Brown	Hair	Brown

Residence	Le Rivage Apts
Employment	N/A

Parents

Lawrence Miller, Madeline Skelton-Miller

Siblings

Damian Miller

Marital Status

Children

N/A

First Seen

A Recent Death

Last Seen

N/A

Profile

Someone with a love for moral ambiguities and an ability to know just what's causing those aches of yours. Unless it's a proverbial heart ache, then you're on your own.

portrayed by

Callum Blue

Zachery Miller and his identical twin brother Damian were born in Surrey, England. The two attended separate private schools. Despite this, both the boys grew up with an increasing interest in their father's line of work. He was a surgeon in the local hospital, and though his parenting was a little more than strict, his stories were the best. Slowly but surely the two boys became set on having a career in the same area of expertise, but even though both the brothers spent an equal amount of time and effort on studying and trying to make this dream come true, only Zachery eventually succeeded in getting a PhD. For reasons he wasn't aware of at the time- after all, neither him nor his brother were especially talented or exceptionally intelligent, yet Zachery exceeded far beyond the rest of his age group when it came to the practical parts of the tests.
When he figured out it was his ability that had helped him through some of his education, he decided to keep it quiet even from close relatives. This had to be kept a secret. It was still HIS doing, so he deserved the credit! The ability inspired him to work even harder, and by the time he was 29, he'd found a new goal to work toward: after moving to study abroad, he'd scored himself a law degree, which allowed him work as a deputy coroner in New York. After all, why would you work with boring injured people who can tell you what happened to them when you can work on real mysteries?
Unfortunately, the surgeon's son ended up biting off more than he could chew. A lack of social skills was made up for by sheer determination and perseverance, but this in itself resulted in Zachery working day and night to keep his job. The lack of sleep and a general seclusion from the rest of the world caught up with him eventually, when his conscience took a bit of a hit after spending a good while working together with a serial killer. That's not even mentioning the fact that he suspected the aforementioned killer might just murder him as well. Eventually, he saw no other way out but an old and decidedly bad habit- Alcohol took the edge off of his issues for a little while, but fixing one problem with another did him few favours. Perhaps unsurprisingly, he was ultimately fired from his cozy government funded job. And while he found a new job to tide him over fairly quickly (temping at a book store of all things) he also found himself a new killer in the progress. Joy of joys. Though he somehow (and miraculously) managed to talk himself out of any direct danger a second time, he has since only been sinking deeper into a more chaotic and resentful state of mind.

Appendices

Zachery: "Drinking and smoking. Yeah, life's too long, anyway." Sonny: "Well. If it isn't the rat bastard." Zachery: "They say there's ten rats for every human on the planet. Must be doing something right."

"When I still worked at the hospital, I once had to tell a patient he had terminal cancer. He had one year left to live. The man panicked for two weeks, and then promptly dropped dead. Panicking begets mistakes, mistakes beget a shorter lifespan. It's all very simple. Would you rather I run around in panic and get nothing done?" When first meeting Sylar.

Timeline

January 7th - Unconventional Recruitment with Martin and Paulson

August 8th - Invasion of Space with Peyton

Contacts

	Ms. Abigail Beauchamp's a strange one. Somehow she and Zach kept bumping into each other a while ago, and he remained puzzled by the young woman. Although it was never terribly likely that he'll ever get to know her beyond smalltalk, he's fascinated by how honest and optimistic she seemed to be, no matter when. But - with Zachery being the person he is - that also means he had a hard time relating to her.
	Ms. Ichihara. Who is this? Despite her once having been his employer at a book store, Zachery doesn't have a clue who she is. Ever since their first meeting, his opinion of her has been neither here nor there. Or maybe just everywhere. She's a hard one to pin down or talk to without underlying suspicion. Something told him she may not want to know whole truth, anyway.
	A former colleague from when Zachery still worked at the Harlem Morgue, and what some people may consider a drinking buddy at some point. It helped getting Zach outside, but they were never close and haven't spoken in months now.
	Ms. Ygraine FitzRoy. Though they met on several occasions, Zachery never really got to know Ygraine beyond knowing she's generally a nice person. He hasn't seen her in a while, unfortunately.

Icon unavailable.	Dr. Astrid Ross is, perhaps, one of the few people to have ever gotten a proper conversation out of Zachery. On a regular basis, too! He may not have always told her the full story, but what stories he did share were true. Mostly. Probably. He likes Ross. Like a sister who occasionally gets in your way, being right all the damn time. Infuriating, but a good somethin' to lean on.

	Diogenes is infuriating to be around, mostly because he elicits almost equal amounts of hatred and fear. As far as Zachery is concerned, the man ruined his chance of trying to live a relatively normal life again, and being treated like a pet chihuahua didn't exactly help. That's not to say Diogenes is not an… intriguing person. From a distance.

	The memories of his meetings with Sylar are hard ones to get rid of. Striking a deal with Sylar was a necessity, and (if you were to ask Zachery) so were the morgue's bodies he then proceeded to start trading for his own life. Zachery reluctantly considers himself lucky to have seen neither hide nor hair of the man for several months now, though the encounters may have left him… twitchier than before.

Miscellaneous facts

Having practiced as a surgeon for several years, Zachery has long earned his PhD in medicine. He's worked as a Harlem district coroner for over five years, giving him further chance to practice his acquired skills. He knows the human anatomy about as well as a human possibly could.
He has a sound knowledge of the law and the workings of court procedures, enough to be considered qualified to practice as a lawyer. His emphasis was on malpractice.
He knows the basics of a handful of languages (French, German, Spanish, Latin), but the latter by far the best.
Zachery is proficient in the use of the equipment required to perform surgeries from the simplistic to the highly sophisticated. His use of the tools required for autopsies and his other duties as district coroner borders on artful to those who understand what he did. To those who don't, it might do more than border on slightly creepy.
As of the 30th of October, 2009, he owns a second hand 1967 Cadillac Hearse, lovingly nicknamed "The Bone Wagon". It's completely black and old fashioned looking, save for the long, stylized red flame painted on either side. They were already there when he bought the vehicle. Zachery claims he will get them removed at some point, but just hasn't gotten to it yet.