sameer vyasa /d13 cb

He makes stardust out of reactions, frequent flyer of the restricted area in District Thirteen's labs, Sameer is a brain that the district is lucky to have.

Showed up nearly twenty years ago at the entrance to the district in the middle of the night, all alone, just nine years old and shaking like a leaf. Starlight seemed to reflect off the whites in his eyes, so glassy and wide with fear. Sameer was taken and questioned but he had little to say.

Just that his mother and father had gone in the sky.

He couldn't remember much else. In the dark beneath the ground, his smile bloomed all the same. Naturally cheerful, he blossomed and the memories of his journey, the trauma was tucked away. After a few months, they gave him to Althea who not only raised him but taught him everything he knows about nuclear physics.

But everything he knows isn't enough.

He craves more, the green, all that green from his journey. Sameer dreams of the moss beneath his cheek, the rain water falling off the canopy, to the ferns, to his head–

to collect behind his eyes, a swirling eddy.

He has always lived far away, a piece of his heart out in those woods between home and where he came from. In the night, between shifts of developing district-shattering weapons, Sameer creates life. Pine tree spliced with dandelion genes and raspberries cut with blue, he plays god.

And he's very, very good at it.