OOC: Healing Heart?

[fallenpips.livejournal.com]

I've been considering the possibility of taking up a grouchy old surgeon in the Hearts suit for a second card. Is there any particular Hearts history for my gnome to be aware of, or for me to be aware of as I make him?

Currently, my ideas are centered around a bitter nudgenik who'd rather deal with stuffy noses and such than backstabbings--oy, does he kvetch about the backstabbings! It'd be a more humorous character than Isadore, but in some ways a sadder one. There'd be room for background ties--Elisha, for example, would have someone to speak Hebrew around, as Itzhak Operman came into my head as reminding me of a Jewish uncle of mine.

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[lowtohigh.livejournal.com]

...I have nothing useful to add. I just needed you to know that reading "oy, does he kvetch about the backstabbings" made me spit milk tea on my keyboard. In a good way, of course.

[fallenpips.livejournal.com]

I hoped someone would enjoy it.

[lowtohigh.livejournal.com]

It was meee. I was that someone. Also probably other people.

Also, this is just generally a fantastic idea. He'll be a pleasure to have around!

[fallenpips.livejournal.com]

Please, please tell me Eileen would call him Uncle Itchy.

[lowtohigh.livejournal.com]

...what.

What.

Yes.

It will probably start out Dr Operman and then devolve from there.

[fallenpips.livejournal.com]

The name is in part to pun off the username, which will be some form of cardiosurgeon (card, I.O., surgeon?), and partly because I intend to use Anthony Stewart Head as a PB.