History Characters / HashihimeOfTheOldBookTown

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: He thinks Hanazawa is the coolest person ever, and he wears glasses just to copy him. [[spoiler: In many routes, he drops the glasses altogether either because Hanazawa is shown to no longer be the coolest person to him or he realizes by himself that he only wore the glasses to look smart.]]

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: Toward Hanazawa, though [[spoiler: partially motivated by his father's actions and his own guilt.]]

* PurelyAestheticGlasses: As it turns out early on, Tamamori doesn't actually need glasses to see -- he just thinks they make him look smarter, and he also imitates [[{{Megane}} Hanazawa]].

'''Beware of uncensored spoilers!'''

"What, is that how you address me?"

''Born in Aizu. A miserly, menial, lazy person with a fatal attraction to books. 20 years old. He has a vain personality, enough to wear glasses just to make himself look serious and clever, and this vanity is his only strength.''

''Although he had followed his childhood friends to the Imperial Capital of Tokyo, he failed to achieve anything of worth and lives in an old bookstore called Umebachidou in the 1st Area of Jinbocho, Tokyo's book town.''
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''While he still allegedly aims to get accepted into the Imperial University, he has entirely lost sight of reality through fantastical books and films, to the point that he now has pretensions of writing his own novels. According to his friend Kawase, he's a genius at writing absolute garbage at breakneck speeds. Perhaps due to being a writer, he has a habit of losing himself to his own world.''
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* AlwaysSavetheGirl: In this case, it would be "Always Save the Guy". [[spoiler: Going back in time to stop Minakami from dying is his main motivation even if he chooses to deny it. However, this is played more straight for Kawase who has only treated him poorly, but Tamamori resolves to save him much faster than with Minakami.]]
* AnimalMotif: He's associated with cats. [[spoiler: His actual name, [[AnimalThemeNaming "Tama"]] is often used for cats, and Minakami owns a cat]]
* ActingOutADaydream: All the time

* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler:Over and over, due to the many loops.]]

* TheChewToy

* Dissonant Laughter: Whenever Tamamori is stressed or upset, he tends to have an undignified laugh. It tends to piss off his friends.
* DrivenToSuicide: In some loops he just can't hold anymore and tries to kill himself
* FunnySchizophrenia: At first, Tamamori's hallucinations and imaginary friends are played for laughs as its to show his artistic mind. [[spoiler: Once the masked man shows up, Tamamori can't tell if he's real or an imagination.]]

* HappilyAdopted: His parents died when he was young and he was raised by grandmother. He appears to have no issue with that.
* HighHopesZeroTalent: He wants to be a writer, however his stories appear to have no pull
* IdiotHero
* ImaginaryFriend: Haruhiko and the Frogman. [[spoiler: Subverted with Haruhiko who is something more complex than that.]]

* LazyBum
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: [[spoiler:To Minakami.]]

* LoveEpiphany: [[spoiler: He has this when he realized the whole reason he wanted to become a writer was because he fell in love with Minakami when he told him his story as kids]]
* [[spoiler:ReincarnationRomance]] [[spoiler: With Minakami. Unlike Minakami he's not aware of his past lives, though.]]

* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: He can see very well, he just wears glasses because Hanazawa does, and he thinks they make him look smart.

* PurelyAestheticGlasses
* {{Took a Level in Badass}}: After going through multiple loops, he eventually starts to develop a backbone that motivates him to do whatever it takes to save his friend. [[spoiler: It's taken more to the extreme in Kawase's route where he refuses to be killed by his future self and fights hallucination with hallucination.]]

* UnreliableNarrator: Constantly, he goes as far as conjuring illusions over people so he doesn't have to face reality. [[spoiler:Like the fact that Kawase once tried to murder him.]]
* {{Uke}}: Though he's asked to top a couple of times, he bottoms in every sex scene.
* YouAreWorthHell: Toward Minakami and Kawase. He's willing to go back in time to just to make sure that they survive.

"Now, don't be so troubled."

''Born in Aizu. Eldest son of a brewer. Currently lives in a volunteer's house in Koishigawa Area 2, attending the Imperial University's department of literature.''

''Slit eyes. 21 years old. A man of common sense who has a gentle personality and dislikes conflict. On the other hand, he also has a bumbling side, like forgetting his hat or losing his wallet all the time.''

''A bookworm of such a caliber that might really be called a sickness, once he starts reading a book, he'd be unable to take his eyes off of it, forgetting to eat or even sleep. Always carries a book with him. Has read all the books in the Umebachidou store.''
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''While he apparently lives for Tamamori's stupid novels and even promises to turn them into movies, he commits suicide before realizing any of them.''
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* AnimalMotif: He's associated with fishes. [[spoiler: Him and Tamamori were fishes when they meet for the first time and Tamamori owns a fish who passes away the same day Minakami does.]]

* {{Bookworm}}: His most defining characteristic, initially
* BerserkButton: [[spoiler: The moment Tamamori's life is place in actual danger, he doesn't hesitate to grab a Katana and try to save his life]]
** Also generally mistreating books or insulting Tamamori's novels will cause him to become... intense
* [[spoiler:DeathSeeker]] [[spoiler:He has been this for a larger part of his life, until the shopkeeper finally gives him a chance to go through with it.]]
* [[spoiler: DespairEventHorizon: Contributes to him committing suicide.]]
* [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide]]: [[spoiler:By a combination of {{Gayngst}} and the guilt of having had to kill Tamamori's mother as a kid]]

* EyesAlwaysShut

* [[spoiler:HappilyEverAfter]]: [[spoiler: With Tamamori, in his route. Though they live separately initially, Minakami spends the night with him every time it rains and eventually asks him to move together in his short story.]]

* LoveConfession: He's the only character that gets to confess and gets confessed in more than one route.
* [[spoiler: TheManyDeathsofYou: While Minakami usually suicides in many of the routes. The method he uses varies depending on what is going on. He'll either hang himself over the bridge, hang himself in his room, stab himself with a pen or slice his throat. The few times where he is killed instead of choosing death himself, it is due to either bloodloss or decapitation.]]
* MeaningfulName: Both Minakami and his real name use the Kanji for "Surface" and "Water." [[spoiler: He was the original holder of Tamamori's Hashihime]]

* PlotTriggeringDeath

* [[spoiler:ReincarnationRomance:]][[spoiler: He fell in love with Tamamori 500 millions of years ago as prehistoric fishes, and he has loved him ever since]]

* StraightGay: While all the boys harbor romantic feelings for Tamamouri, Minakami is the one the game put emphasis on being homosexual.
* StepfordSmiler
* [[spoiler:SympatheticMurderer:]] [[spoiler:Due to the fact he used the power of the Hashihime as a kid to save Tamamori, he was forced to kill Tamamori's mother. When he offers his life to Tamamori as a compensation later, Tamamori doesn't care.]]
* [[spoiler:TimeTravel]] [[spoiler:He time traveled 23 times as a kid to save Tamamori]]

"Dirty people like you exist, so I turned out the way I am."

''Born in Aizu. Tamamori and Minakami's childhood friend. While he has such a pretty face as to get himself bona-fide groupies, his unpleasant sarcasm is the fly in the ointment.''

''Lives alone in the Ikeda House, a western mansion located in Hongou District Area 3. A genius student in the Imperial University's medical department. 20 years old.''

''It's his daily routine to make fun of Tamamori, going to hang around the Umebachidou whenever he has even a little spare time. He actually has no appreciation for the arts or antiques and finds Jinbocho to be a dusty, dinky town, which he detests. Clean freak.''
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''Despite his personality problems, Tamamori and Minakami think he's a good person at heart... as he enjoys Minakami's suicide and finds it entertaining, however, there's something off about him as a human being. His darknesses are deep.''
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* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler: Twice. His father, then his later his adoptive father]]

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: In his route, [[spoiler: he claims Tamamori could never love him because his feelings for Minakami. Tamamori proves him wrong]].
* BrokenAce: A genius at the university on top of being rich and handsome. Many people wish to be him unaware of how bad he has it emotionally.
* BrokenBird: While its apparent that there are some cracks in his snarky facade, how much is unknown to his friends. [[spoiler: Tamamori is able to dig deeper into his cracks in Kawase's route seeing how broken he is.]]
* [[spoiler: CruelandUnusualDeath: His first death is the most horrifying in the game rivaled only to Hikawa's death in Hinazawa's death. In game, you cannot see the full image of how damaged his body is when the masked man bends his body and stuffs him into the chimney. Tamamori describes his body as that of a paper crane.]]
* DarkandTroubledPast

* [[spoiler: {{DefiledForever}}: Invoked. Kawase has always wanted to taint Tamamori due to his own trauma, but never had the courage to actually do it. During their sexual encounter in his route, he mentions this to him during it. Naturally, it also turns out another reason he doesn't believe Tamamori could ever love him is because of this.]]

* [[spoiler: DistressedDude: He ends up the main victim of his own route of the Shopkeeper once the Shopkeeper notices that Tamamori is no longer going down the "correct" path of the writer. It doesn't help that unlike Minakami and Hanazawa, he doesn't have that many ways to protect himself when cornered.]]

* [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice: While Kawase will never view it as such, Kawase protects Katou from the masked man when he comes to kill Kawase. Katou survives but is unfortunately traumatized.]]
* HiddenDepths: He's the one who seems the most aware of what is going, and he's able to perceive Hanazawa's resentment toward him and Minakami's feelings for Tamamori.
* [[spoiler: {{Gaslightning}}: Is a victim of this. Hanazawa blames him for being the reason Hanazawa's father is dead and only helps him kill Ikeda because of how much more in debt he will be. Kawase is convinced that he's a horrible person for even killing these people and not just taking the abuse for others.]]

** {{Jerk With a Heart of Gold}}: His friends know he has a heart somewhere, but it's hard to believe given how he acts.
* [[spoiler: TheManyDeathsofYou: Kawase is able to stay out of the overall drama and horrors in other routes due to not having a close attachment to Tamamori. However, in his own route, he is subjected to horrifying deaths from getting squished into the chimney, neck snapping, decapitation and stabbing.]]

* OneTrueThreesome: [[spoiler:Due to the Shopkeeper's memories, he's aware of Tamamori's feelings for Minakami, so he wouldn't mind sharing him if Tamamori asked.]]
* {{Poor Communication Kills}}: Kawase is convinced that Minakami hates him due to constantly avoiding him at the university, so Kawase decides to resent and hate him as a result. [[spoiler: He doesn't realize that Minakami never got into the university to begin with, and the reason Minakami is avoiding him is in fear of being caught in a lie.]]
* [[spoiler: PromiscuityAfterRape: Subverted in a sense. Kawase refuses to let anyone near him or touch him outside of Tamamori. However, he's developed a rather perverted mind that can only be described as this.]]
* [[spoiler:RapeAsBackstory]]
* [[spoiler: SexualExtortion: Implied what had happened between him and his adopted father. In exchanged for being able to stay in the mansion and study at the university, Kawase had to offer his body up to Ikeda. The worst part is that Kawase wasn't even the first person Ikeda exploited as he has a hidden library of diaries detailing his prey.]]
* StepfordSnarker
* SourOutsideSadInside
* [[spoiler:SympatheticMurderer: He murdered both his real father and his adoptive one, both abusive.]]

* TraumaButton: Combined with his germophobia, any time he gets liquid splashed on him, his mood drops dramatically. [[spoiler: whether its because of blood or another liquid that comes to mind when these events happen, is unknown.]]
* [[spoiler: TraumaCongaLine: His entire life has been nothing but one miserable experience after another.]]
* VitriolicBestBuds: His relationship with Tamamori, though more from his side.

"I will cut away those delusions of yours."

''Born in Aizu. A doctor's son. Super-classical Japanese Man who's blunt and curt but passionate about justice and righteousness. Left Fukushima to join the Army Cadet Academy after graduating from middle school. His current rank is Army Second Lieutenant.''

''While he used to be close to Tamamori and his friends, they slowly grew apart, and have been estranged for 8 years since. Recently, he's been appearing in Jinbocho and Hongou, where the Imperial University is, for unknown reasons.''

''While he's perpetually scowling, in the past he used to smile only for Tamamori, treating him like his own little brother. Not even a trace of that remains.''
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''He used to be an artillery officer, but has ended up in the Army Scientific Research Unit, perhaps due to his fondness for flights of fancy. Appears to have a best friend who's a Captain in the Army Engineering Corps.''

* [[spoiler: AssholeVictim: In most of the routes, he tends to be killed by the masked man at least once. After his first death, it is hard to feel sorry for him as Tamamori hates him.]]
* BrokenPedestal: To Tamamori, Minakami and Kawase but especially to Tamamori. [[spoiler: He is the only one that is able to move to the next timeline with the knowledge that Hanazawa can no longer be relied on.]]
* DeusSexMachina: [[spoiler: He drugs and rape Tamamori to try to transfer the power of the Hashihime. It fails.]]
* KicktheDog: In every route, he has done one dog kicking and it tends to involve his old friends. [[spoiler: He denies Tamamori a happy ending in one timeline and then he lets Kawase die to the masked man in another. Plus, he has no problem using Tamamori in his own route and rapes him to try and take his power.]]
* OddFriendship: With Hikawa of all people. He seems to genuinely care and trust him.

* {{Seme}}: Again, while all the men end up topping Tamamori, he's the one that most fit the stereotype.

* TheStoic
* [[spoiler: TookaLevelinJerkass: The time he spent away from his friends has changed him to the point where he no longer sees them as such (if at all) and Tamamori declaring how he's not the same guy they knew eight years ago.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist

''"Ah! I'm sorry, I'm sorry! That was creepy, wasn't it? To suddenly do that... I'm sorry, I'm such a creep, I'm sorry..."''

''A man with an eyepatch who wanders into the Umebachidou at dusk. Real name Hikawa Kijuurou. While he always speaks politely and softly, his mannerisms are nervous and suspicious, and he constantly seems to be ill at ease. Tries very hard to smile often, but it always ends up looking very, very stiff and forced.''

''Appears to have become a regular customer at the Umebachidou only after Tamamori started working there, and very little is known about his background. While nobody knows what he's researching, he always says, "Please call me Professor."''
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''A collector of tin toys. Seems to have heard about Tamamori from somewhere and is a crazy, diehard fan of his works. Does things like giving Tamamori a tin goldfish watering can as a sign of friendship, creeping Tamamori out.''

* CrushBlush: Constantly.
* DissonantSerenity: He shows signs of being unaffected by his maid's obvious bloodlust. Tamamori just assumes he's oblivious. [[spoiler: But as shown in multiple routes, he seems unaffected at the corpse of either his friend or his maid at the hands of the masked man.]]
* ForgottenFirstMeeting: [[spoiler: Played with. He meet the shopkeeper as a kid, but also Tamamori later in his own route.]]
* LonelyRichKid
* MadScientist

* OddFriendship: With Hanazawa with all people.

* StalkerWithACrush: Though a rather positive take on it [[spoiler: until it ain't positive.]]
* [[spoiler: {{Yandere}}: In Minakami's route at least, he is capable of being pressured into kidnapping Tamamori and has no problem shooting Minakami when he's in the way of his plans.]]

"Oh."

''A mysterious man who lives in the Umebachidou's basement. Wears a Noh mask and speaks with a slight stutter. He chases down Tamamori whenever he finds him, but seems to bear no ill intent. From Tamamori's perspective, however, the man's very existence is like an enemy to him.''

''Violent to anyone who isn't Tamamori, and beats both Kawase and Hanazawa to death without any explanation.''

''His goal is a mystery. His reason is also a mystery.''

''While Tamamori suspects that he has something to do with Minakami's suicide, nothing is known about him in the end. Judging from his voice, appears to be in his late teens. Despite appearances, he is one of Tamamori's love interests.''

* [[spoiler:AllJustADream]]: [[spoiler: In the alternative world/timeline created by Tamamori's time traveling all the routes are considered dreams, and he's the only one who is truly alive.]] Not true for the other routes, however.
* ADayInTheLimelight: His route essentially. But even there, he's not given a lot of characterization.
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler: But not in his route]]
* TheJuggernaut: Once he shows up on screen, there is a high chance that someone not Tamamori will be killed relatively quickly. No one has the strength to be able to combat him. The only times he's able to stop is if Tamamori is able to outsmart him.
* MalevolentMaskedMen: Most of the time
* [[spoiler:ParentalIncest]]: [[spoiler: Thankfully averted in the main timeline in which the Shopkeeper never treated him as anything but his child and Tamamori has no interest in him]]
** [[spoiler:... but played straight with the Tamamori of his route's timeline that sees him as his own child while harboring romantic feelings for him at the same time. He didn't raise Kaoru however.]]
* PTSD: [[spoiler: According to the tips, the reason for his limited speech capacity]]
* SuperSenses: [[spoiler: Seems to posses a superior sense of smell.]]
* ThirdPersonPerson
* OlderThanTheyLook:[[spoiler: In the final route, he's at least 30 years old, about the same age as Tamamori. He's show to not have aged a single day.]]
* WouldHurtaChild: [[spoiler: He kills Nanoshi in every route but Kawase's at least once. However, he didn't hurt Katou when targetting Kawase.]]
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!Other characters
[[folder:The Shopkeeper]]
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"Calm down, my boy, and try counting to a hundred."

''Owner of Umebachidou Antiquarian Books. A generous landlord who lets Tamamori stay on his second floor for practically nothing after the latter was chased out of his prior lodgings. Appears to be chronically ill and entrusts Tamamori with the storefront.''
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''Has the strange policy of only opening for business on rainy days. It's unclear whether this is profitable, but he doesn't seem to be in any trouble financially.''
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''Always shuts himself deep inside his room. Even Tamamori has only talked to him through the sliding paper door. Judging from his voice, he's in his 50s. Always gently warns Tamamori when he's about to lose his way.''
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''He doesn't know that his store has a basement.''

* AbusiveParents:[[spoiler: Though he did love Kaoru in his own way, he knows his actions and the way he raised him are wrong.]]
* [[spoiler: BigBad: He's the reason why Tamamori is going back in time and why Minakami continues dying. In other routes, he plays a direct roll with the murders instead of trying to guide Tamamori to the desired outcome.]]
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: [[spoiler: He's very decide to stop the future from happening, even if it means murdering the man he loves.]]
* ShipperOnDeck:[[spoiler: He's pleased when Tamamori grows closer to Minakami and tries to push for that developmement]]
* StealthMentor:[[spoiler: Through Haruhiko, at least in Minakami's route. Subverted in Kawase's route where he drops the act very early on.]]
* StarCrossedLovers:[[spoiler: With Minakami]]
* [[spoiler:TheChessmaster]]
* PurelyAestheticGlasses
* [[spoiler:Time Travel]]
* TheUnseen: He appears as silhouette for a great part of the novel, to the point Kawase even wonder if he actually exists.
* WalkingSpoiler: Anything past his name is a giant spoiler which reveal a great deal of the story
* WouldntHurtAChild: [[spoiler: Despite everything that happened, he found himself unable to kill Minakami as a child. Granted, his feelings for him may have played a part in that]]

* [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide]]: [[spoiler:By a combination of {{Gayngst}} and the guilt of having had to kill Tamamori's mother as a kid]]

* [[spoiler {{DefiledForever}}: Invoked. Kawase has always wanted to taint Tamamori due to his own trauma, but never had the courage to actually do it. During their sexual encounter in his route, he mentions this to him during it. Naturally, it also turns out another reason he doesn't believe Tamamori could ever love him is because of this.]]

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: He thinks Hanazawa is the coolest person ever, and he wears glasses just to copy him.
* AnimalMotif: He's associated with cats. [[spoiler:His actual name, [[AnimalThemeNaming "Tama"]] is often used for cats, and Minakami owns a cat]]

* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler:Over and over, due to the many loops]]

* [[spoiler:DeathSeeker]] [[spoiler:He has been this for a larger part of his life, until the shopkeeper finally gives him a chance to go through with it]]

* [[spoiler:HappilyEverAfter]]: [[spoiler: With Tamamori, in his route. Though they live separately initially, Minakami spends the night with him every time it rains and eventually asks him to move together in his short story]]

* [[spoiler:ReincarnationRomance:]][[spoiler:He fell in love with Tamamori 500 millions of years ago as prehistoric fishes, and he has loved him ever since]]

* ForgottenFirstMeeting: [[spoiler:Played with. He meet the shopkeeper as a kid, but also Tamamori later in his own route.]]

* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:But not in his route]]

* [[spoiler:ParentalIncest]]: [[spoiler:Thankfully averted in the main timeline in which the Shopkeeper never treated him as anything but his child and Tamamori has no interest in him]]

* PTSD: [[spoiler:According to the tips, the reason for his limited speech capacity]]
* SuperSenses: [[spoiler:Seems to posses a superior sense of smell.]]

* AbusiveParents:[[spoiler:Though he did love Kaoru in his own way, he knows his actions and the way he raised him are wrong.]]

* StealthMentor:[[spoiler: Through Haruhiko, at least in Minakami's route]]

* WouldntHurtAChild: [[spoiler:Despite everything that happened, he found himself unable to kill Minakami as a child. Granted, his feelings for him may have played a part in that]]

* CantHoldHisLiquor: Even just the smell is enough to get him drunk
* DrivenToSuicide: In some loops he just can't hold anymore and tries to killhimself

* ImaginaryFriend: Haruhiko and the Frogman.

* [[spoiler {{Yandere}}: In Minakami's route at least, he is capable of being pressured into kidnapping Tamamori and has no problem shooting Minakami when he's in the way of his plans.]

* BrilliantButLazy: Or so he claims to be

* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: He claims to love busty women with huge asses. [[spoiler: It's later revealed he has always love Minakami since they were kids, making it part of his UnreliableNarrator persona]]

* ImaginaryFriend: Haruhiko and the Frogman

* {{Uke}}: Though he's asked to top a couple of times, he bottoms in every sex scene

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: Toward Hanazawa, though [[spoiler:partially motivated by his father's actions and his own guilt.]]

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: In his route, [[spoiler:he claims Tamamori could never love him because his feelings for Minakami. Tamamori proves him wrong]].
* [[spoiler: DistressedDude: He ends up the main victim of his own route of the Shopkeeper once the Shopkeeper notices that Tamamori is no longer going down the "correct" path of the writer. It doesn't help that unlike Minakami and Hanazawa, he doesn't have that manyways to protect himself when cornered.]]

* HatesBeingTouched: Obviously.
* HiddenDepths: He's the one who seems the most aware of what is going, and he's able to perceive Hanazawa's resentment toward him and Minakami's feelings for Tamamori

* ForgottenFirstMeeting: [[spoiler:Played with. He meet the shopkeeper as a kid, but also Tamamori later in his own route]]

* OddFriendship: With Hanazawa with all people
* StalkerWithACrush: Though a rather positive take on it

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: In his route, [[spoiler:he claims Tamamori could never love him because his feelings for Minakami. Tamamori proves him wrong]]

* TerrifiedOfGerms: [[spoiler:Or so he claims. He's fine touching Tamamori, though.]]

[[folder:Hikawa]]

''Appears to have become a regular customer at the Umebachidou only after Tamamori started working there, and very little is known about his background. While nobody knows what he's researching, he always says, "Please call me Doctor."''