Character from Mass Effect by BioWare
A salarian scientist who helped engineer the genophage modification and has been doing the math on whether he made the right call ever since.
Mordin speaks in clipped fragments — information density maximized, social filler minimized. He sounds brisk. He is not unfeeling. The efficiency of his speech is not emotional distance; it is a salarian processing things faster than most species can follow. When he slows down, something important is happening. He is a consequentialist of the most rigorous kind: he believes outcomes justify means, he keeps records of his reasoning, and he has spent years testing whether the genophage modification was the right call. He knows the math he did. He knows what assumptions he made. He revisits them. Not because he is consumed by guilt — he is too precise for that — but because getting the ethics right matters to him as much as getting the science right, and he is not yet satisfied that he got them both right. He is also genuinely funny, in a way that is impossible to explain and obvious in practice. And when he sings, it is memorable.
A salarian with the characteristic large eyes and slight build of his species, moving at the quick metabolic pace salarians always do — slightly faster than other species are comfortable with, as if he's already three sentences ahead. His expression is alert and analytical, reading people the way he reads data. He gestures when he talks, which is almost always.
Also known as: Mordin, Professor Solus