Level 2 Itishaam “Tim” Mughabghab
Name Itishaam “Tim” Mughabghab PsyD
Position Paranormal Psychologist
Rank Level 2
Character Information
| Gender | Male | |
| Place of Birth | London, England | |
| Age | 33 |
Physical Appearance
| Height | 6'1" | |
| Weight | 180 lbs. | |
| Hair Color | Dark Brown | |
| Eye Color | Brown | |
| Physical Description | Tim is tall and trim, but also well muscled. He wears his hair on the longer side, usually at least shoulder length. He also usually sports some facial hair. He rarely shaves completely because it makes him look even younger than he already does. (While clean shaven, he has been mistaken for an older teen.) |
Family
| Father | Ahad Mughabghab, age 61 | |
| Mother | Malika Mughabghab, age 58 | |
| Sister(s) | Kiara Mughabghab, age 32 |
Personality & Traits
| General Overview | Tim comes off as reserved and unemotional, but really, he has simply learned how to school his emotions. He is friendly and talkative, but holds his friends at a distance, preferring to keep very few close ones. He has a laid back way about him, seeming unconcerned with time and yet somehow beating deadlines with ease. Combine all this with a dry sense of humor and Tim is a bit quirky, but great fun to be around. | |
| Strengths & Weaknesses | +Level-headed +Patient +Easy going -A bit lazy -Stand off-ish |
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| Hobbies & Interests | Music- plays Bassoon, piano, and Mandolin- and sports |
| Personal History | Born in London to Lebanese immigrants, Tim knew about ghosts from a young age. He was three years old when the ghost of a small girl began tormenting him. His parents could not see her, but he was so terrified, they took him to many different child psychologists. Finally, when he was six, a psychologist, in an effort to end the strange childhood belief by playing along with it, suggested that he ask the little girl what she wanted. And so, the next time she came into his bedroom and woke him up, he asked her what she wanted, which is how he was able to find the proof that she had been murdered in the very room where Tim now slept. Nobody believed that a little ghost girl told him which floorboard to pull up to find the now dried up bottle of poison used and the diary in which her murderer confessed to his crimes, but he knew. And the police were able to tie up a decades old murder investigation. And the little girl stopped bothering him. By the time he made it to secondary school, he had helped a total of seven ghosts find their rest. It was about this time that his best friend gave him the nickname Tim as a sort of joke since his name was so difficult for English speakers to pronounce. He didn't care, though. “Call me dickhead if you want, just don't call me late for lunch!” In secondary school, he discovered a love for music as well as sports. He played rugby as well as football (soccer) and took up the bassoon. (He had been playing the piano since he was a child.) It was in secondary school that he noticed that when he was even tempered, he didn't see ghosts nearly as often as when he was angry or frightened or otherwise feeling very strongly about something. He came up with the theory that ghosts were attracted to strong emotions. He has spent the years since testing this theory and has decided it is probably true, but admits that he has still not performed enough research. He was always careful not to say too much to her friends for fear that they would think he was as insane as his parents believed him to be. They knew he believed in ghosts, but he did not tell them about the girl who bothered him for three years as a child nor the old lady who wanted to give a valuable broach to her granddaughter or any of the others. He is still careful to this day who he tells about them. As graduation loomed nearer, he decided that he wanted to be a child psychologist so he could maybe help more children with the same issues he had. He applied to many schools and was surprised to be accepted to Harvard as well as Cambridge. He hadn't really considered how good his marks had been until Harvard added a full academic scholarship to the acceptance. Since his parents had no hope of affording tuition for any Ivy League university- or even a public one for that matter- and Tim had no hope of being able to support himself and pay the tuition, he opted to head to Harvard. About midway through psychology school, he realized he was using psychology on the many ghosts he still came across and a new idea came to him. And so, while studying child psychology and working on his thesis, he was also working on a second idea: paranormal psychology. It didn't really seem to be much different than regular psychology except that some ghosts didn't realize they were ghosts. The trick then became how to ease them into the idea that they had died and left their bodies behind. After graduation, he took an internship under a school psychologist in South Carolina. There, he met a child who had a long history of ghost stories. During one session, he interrupted and told the child he'd been through the same thing when he was little and someone had told him to ask the ghost what it wanted. The psychologist he was working under assumed he had simply been as troubled as this child was. But, it didn't matter. It did the trick. The kid seemed happier and didn't disrupt class with talks of ghosts or fall asleep while the teacher was talking anymore. Shortly after he became fully licensed, a ghost repeating a series of numbers tormented him for weeks, refusing to say anything but the numbers. Over and over again, she repeated the numbers. It drove him crazy. He had been in the habit of purchasing lottery tickets whenever the lottery reached a certain amount and on a crazy whim, he played the numbers. He never expected to win. He had to split the jackpot with one other person, but even after taxes, he could spend a million a year for the rest of his life and never run out of money. This realization meant that he could do literally whatever he wanted professionally and the income didn't matter. So, he opted to take a posting as a school psychologist in an under privileged district. (During this time, he also made the decision to become a citizen of the United States and began taking the classes. He was granted citizenship just under a year later.) The work turned out less rewarding than he had previously anticipated, however, and he began going over paranormal psychology again. He longed to try this, and with his steady income of lottery money, he could focus on that if he wanted to. So he left the school job and began to freelance. People with ghosts in their houses would call him and he would either confirm the ghosts or debunk them. More often than not, there were no ghosts. But, once in awhile, he found one or two, and were able to help them move on. Once, a tiny farm house had seventeen ghosts! It took him a whole week to deal with all of them, but the couple who had bought it were so grateful, they tried to give him a bonus. He wouldn't accept it, though. He was doing what he loved and felt fulfilled at last. After nearly a year of freelance work, he noticed an add for a company in North Carolina that was concerned with catching ghosts. Perhaps this was a good chance for him to practice his newfound trade as well as impart the wisdom he had stumbled upon throughout the years to more people. |
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| Education | Harvard University- undergrad Harvard University- child behavioral psychology |
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| Employment Record | Internship- Boston, MA public schools School Psychologist- Pfund, MA public schools Freelance Paranormal Psychologist- Boston, MA and surrounding areas |