Raphael Sharpe/Hooks

Black Market Doctor: Don't have insurance? Don't want the authorities to ask how you got those injuries? Drug overdose? Need to change your face - permanently? Raphael can help.

"Disturbingly Informed": Raphael works as a tour guide at the Mütter Museum, only a block or two from Rittenhouse Square. He would like nothing better than to show you all the coolest and creepiest medical history and oddities.

Charm City: Raphael is only recently arrived from Baltimore. If you were in Baltimore the last few years, or 1870-1895, let's talk ties.

The Byronic Ideal: With the languid, too-slender beauty of a fallen angel in an opium den, and an alluring edge of danger, all wrapped up in a neat Victorian package, he lives and breathes this trope. Yes, of course he's queer and kinky, as well as decidedly extra.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Raphael is usually compassionate (aside from his delight in his very Autumn job of imparting disturbing medical history to museum-goers), prone to blushing and even swooning at innuendo, and delicately cautious with his hands . But call on him for surgery or threaten the people he cares about, and he becomes the human embodiment of a scalpel blade: steely, keenly precise, and vicious. Perhaps most alarmingly, he can switch to this mode almost between heartbeats. He's got an uncanny tendency to evoke or echo various characters out of the Victorian Gothic canon, whichever mode he's in.