Dr Riley Browne
Doctor of Emergency Medicine, Princeton Plainsboro
Rating position
Journal created:
on 18 May 2008 (#15627873)
Updated:
on 23 March 2010
Birthdate:
6 June 1983
Location:
Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Full name: Dr Riley Paris Browne Birthdate: 6th June 1983 Marital Status: Married to Evie Miller Sexuality: Bisexual Location: Princeton, New Jersey Occupation: Doctor of Medicine, Emergency Medicine and Intensive Care Place of work: Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital Family: Parents in Long Island, fraternal twin sister Tabitha London Browne, wife Evie Browne, infant twin son and daughter Alex and Catherine, and grandparents in London Riley is one half of a fraternal twin set with his sister, Tabitha. Riley’s full name, which he hates, is Riley Paris Browne, his parents sticking with their city name fetish furnished him with a middle name of the place he was conceived and Tabitha scored the middle name of London for their birth place. He was born three minutes earlier than Tabitha and although they are like chalk and cheese in both looks and personality, they are lucky to say they are very close and always have been. This isn’t to say they don’t fight like cats and dogs when needed and they continuously tease and snipe at each other. At opposite ends of the scale, Tabitha is through-and-through ‘rock chick’ having grown up with a love and talent for music her whole life leading her to being a musician and singer for a club band in New York, where Riley, the more serious and studious of the pair, chose the completely different route and became a doctor. Riley’s choice to become a doctor unfortunately didn’t stem from any childhood hopes and dreams like his sister’s career began. In fact, Riley grew up wanting to be a vet and his best friend through his early school years was the family dog, Cooper. When he was 16, Riley made one of the biggest mistakes of his life during a brief period of rebellion from his parent’s strange notions of life – he got into a car with a drunk driver. The car crash was horrific; the driver was killed and Riley and his other friend nearly lost their lives too. Riley suffered a head injury and had to have his spleen surgically removed. To this day, he can still be victim of terrible migraines resulting from the head injury, though he is thankful every day he still has his life. It led to his decision to become a doctor when he became overly curious about the career path during his recuperation in hospital following the accident. Although beginning med school at New York University, Riley was soon offered a scholarship to one of the top medical schools in the world, Edinburgh University. After working his butt off to consistently top his classes, Riley snapped the opportunity up and studied the last two years of his MD in Edinburgh, followed by a one year internship at the Royal Edinburgh Infirmary in Intensive Care. He has now come to Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital to complete a four year residency in Emergency Medicine, finally bringing him back closer to his family and his twin sister, who he missed terribly in the three years away. During his stay in Edinburgh, Riley met Lachlan Campbell on a pub crawl one night two and a half years ago. Lachlan shared stories of his own time at Edinburgh University and they became friends. Lachlan had been working at the Infirmary when Riley was due to begin his internship, but just after he started, Lachlan packed up and moved to America when he was offered a job in Princeton. They kept in touch and it was Lachlan who told Riley of the vacancy in the Princeton Plainsboro’s Emergency Department, opening the opportunity for Riley to return to America. He returned barely a day before Lachlan married his fiancée, Tara and was able to attend the wedding at short notice. A year and a half after arriving in Scotland, Lachlan decided to take it upon himself and play cupid for Riley. He introduced him to childhood friend (and brief high school sweetheart) Beth Anderson. After spending the night making eyes at each other across the pub, Riley and Beth shared a kiss in Prince Street Gardens and spent the night together. This was the start of a wonderful year-long romance which led to Riley deciding to propose to Beth. It was never meant to be, however. They broke up following an argument when Riley told Beth he wanted to move back to America. In July 2008, whilst on a shift in the ER at PPTH, Riley encountered a mentally ill, drug addicted patient who presented wanting drugs. He became violet and forced Riley to the ground at the end of a used IV needle. He stabbed Riley in the throat with it, and that night was the start of some extremely painful and difficult times for Riley, fearing the needle had been infected. He was dosed with massive amounts of post-exposure antibiotics and began the excruciating three-month wait for the results of his HIV test. Riley's luck was against him, however, and with the removal of his spleen following the car crash in his teens, he was at a higher risk of infection and received the bad news that he was HIV Positive in September 2008, which sent Riley's world crashing down around him. He managed to see through the dark times, however, with the aid of Evie Miller, an Oncology Nurse at PPTH, whom he met shortly after his needlestick injury. The couple began to date and although Riley tried to push her away to protect her, they got through it together and on New Years' Eve, 2008, Riley proposed to her, and she happily accepted. For a detailed timeline of Riley's life, see THIS POST Riley comes across as a mostly quiet and studious person, although he has a cheeky and mischievous streak that comes out through his sharp sense of humour. He likes to have a good laugh and joke, though when it comes to his work, he is professional, committed and reliable, often working ridiculously long hours without complaint. His quiet and relaxed nature is often mistaken as him having an air of shyness, though it’s deceiving in that he’s deeply confident in himself and will speak his mind if he feels strongly enough about something. Riley is bisexual, though Tabitha likes to tease him about being gay. Although he occasionally partakes in casual sex, it’s not really his cup of tea, preferring to date a person first before sleeping with them. He has had a couple of serious relationships during his time, even coming close to proposing to his ex before they had a huge row about him wanting to take a job in America and ended up splitting rather messily. His looks assure that he never really struggles to find a date, often attracting the women who have a soft spot for the studious types or men in glasses. Of course, being a doctor who spends his days in scrubs also helps. Riley mostly hopes to continue to achieve in his career, but also to meet someone and settle down with a family of his own – and not name his kids after cities of the world.  Holly Holliday, fifteen years her junior. He was a completely unexpected and unplanned accident of their parents, and unfortunately the nail in the coffin of their already failing marriage. When Riley was born, he and Holly's father skipped out on their mother. Holly never saw him again and Riley has never met him... and he doesn't care either. The estrangement of their parents is what kept the two siblings extremely close, despite their age gap. Holly basically helped her mom raise Riley and they have remained close ever since. Holly changed her name from the lacklustre family name of Browne when she had her epiphany about being a cool teacher and connecting with her students rather than being bland and beige, but even if Riley got a little shitty about it initially, he couldn't blame her for it at all.Riley is had now just passed 30th birthday and has been living in Sydney, Australia for the past ten years. He was awarded a prestigious scholarship to study medicine there after high school and when he met a girl and fell in love with her, he decided to stay there once he graduated. He's not a fully qualified doctor with a specialities in Neurology and Emergency Medicine, but after the abysmal end to his engagement where his fiancée cheated on him, Riley has decided he's just too homesick and wants to be close to his sister. He turns up in New York, and it soon comes to light that both siblings may well have been fabricating the truth to each other in the chivalrous move to not worry each other... Out-of-character or in-character message can be left for pullmysteth or his mun at THIS POST.This is an RPG journal for character Dr Riley Browne, an original character written in the House, M.D. fandom. All rights and written entries by pullmysteth is original work and owned by his creator. Neither Riley or his creator are in any way affiliated with House, M.D. or it's creators and no profit is being made. Journal and character is for roleplay and enjoyment purposes only. Riley is portrayed by actor Hayden Christensen and is in no way affiliated to Hayden Christensen. |
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