Leonard Alderman

2008-12-23T00:35:54Z

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'''Dr. Leonard "Len" J. Alderman''' is the director of medical research at [[LifesBlood Labs]]. He has advocated for better quality of life for all peoples, but it remains unclear whether he actually means it.

==Background==
Though raised in the United States, he completed his undergraduate studies at Oxford, consequently earning his masters in the field of gene therapy from the King’s College London school of medicine. He graduated summa cum laude from the program in 1988. Dr. Alderman’s first work began as an associate doctor for a group office in Boston, Massachusetts, where he specialized in immunotherapy technique. He spent the following two years as a senior associate doctor at Preferred Pediatric, in upstate New York, primarily in experimental family care. Dr. Alderman recently moved to Los Angeles to continue his groundbreaking research on the behalf of LifesBlood Labs LLC. His mission is to serve his patients to the best of his ability with unprecedented technique – technique that will hopefully better the natural quality of life for all peoples.

On August 6th, 2008, Alderman was named in a lawsuit filed by [[Verdus Pharmaceuticals]] that claimed that he, along with several other LBL employees, had stolen several unique patents to claim as their own, when in fact they were developed by Verdus, whom they were originally a part of. However, no mention of the lawsuit has been made aside from the press release on the Verdus website.

Dr. Alderman began spreading word of the work of LifesBlood via [[YouTube]], where he first posted [[Hetlevan is Here|a video]] explaining that during the week of August 22nd, Lifesblood has made their first significant breakthrough in the field of regenerative medicine. He described how a Dutch geneticist has discoved a [[trait positive|unique ribozyme]] that has "the power to cure a million of aliments, anything from the common cold to cancer." LifesBlood is currently synthesizing the cells into a liquid compound dubbed "Hetleven". Almost two weeks later, he posted [[Introducing the Lifesblood Labs Strandbox|another video]] describing how LifesBlood has invented a machine that could perform dialysis more safely and more comfortably. He raved about the benefits in would bring, but it was later [[One Evil with Many Faces|revealed]] by footage obtained by the [[Hymn of None]] that Alderman was reading off of a script, and could honestly care less about what he was saying. His dialogue also implies that he has been on the receiving end of the Strandbox, though the reasons as to why remain unknown. In recent developments, it was revealed by the Hymn of None that LifesBlood Labs was in fact testing it's Standbox on trait positive girls, it has been speculated that it's purpose is to synthesize the trait positive blood in order to create the Hetlevan drug he had promised to release for public use. Almost every girl that had the Strandbox tested on them died with only two survivors, one in a coma, and the other that was healthy enough to continue to live, even to the point of being able to exercise and remain healthy. This trait positive child was [[Maggie]]. She had been able to pass all of the tests that the other girls couldn't survive through. Apparenlty through further research Alderman was able to discover that Maggie was a pure-blood trait positive. It is unknown to what this entails yet.

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Maggie

2008-12-23T00:34:56Z

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'''Margaret Ann "Maggie" Schaeffer''' (also known as '''Patient #212''') is a character in the [[LG15: The Resistance]] video series. She is [[trait positive]], and has been used by [[LifesBlood Labs]] as a blood supply. Her struggles have been seen via security footage posted by the [[Hymn of None]], which has been recently revealed to be her alter-ego.

==Background==
Maggie was abducted on May 14th, 2003 by her primary care physician - [[Leonard Alderman|Dr. Leonard J. Alderman]], who would later become the president of LifesBlood Labs. He discovered that Maggie's body was resilient, and was able to extract her blood several times a day, using a prototype created by [[Verdus Pharmaceuticals]]. While it remains unclear what the blood has been used for, it has been implied that LifesBlood is using it to "conquer death".

===Damsel in Distress===
On September 17th, 2008, The Hymn of None posted information they had gotten during a hack of the [[LifesBlood Labs]] Website. The data included a list of names, Maggie being the only one not dead or in a coma. Further research led to a website called "[[Maggie Come Home]]", and forum members contacted her parents via the site to inform them of what they have found. Her parents updated the website, stating that they have contacted the proper authorities and they hope to see their daughter again soon. Their message entreats all those who have helped to "find your eternal song," indicating most likely that Maggie's parents are members of the Order.

Maggie made her first appearance a few days later in [[Chapter 1: A Call to Arms|archival footage]] from September 2007 posted by the Hymn of None so that her story would live on. She was weakened both physically and psychologically by the procedure, and found comfort only in the thought of being rescued, an idea [[Chapter 2: Bad Decision?|that was fed by]] a young employee of LifesBlood named [[Beaumont]], whom she began to get romantically involved with. However, once LifesBlood discovered the relationship, they demoted Beaumont to the position of Janitor, and told Maggie that he had been transferred to another facility. Maggie was extremely distressed by this, to the point where she threw a powerful tantrum despite having blood taken moments before. Her spirits are lifted when Beaumont comes to see her while mopping the hallway, and assures her through a note that he will save her.

Maggie convinced herself that Beaumont would come through for her, and held out hope, going through torture and blood-draining in the meantime.

===Breaking Free===
With Beaumont's help, Maggie was able to escape from her cell. Unfortunately, the security guards caught up with her and brought her back. She eventually gains the will to escape again by exercising daily apparently for another escape. It is revealed in archival footage that she had been preparing to commit suicide by injecting herself with a lethal amount of lidocaine to end her misery. However the LifesBlood Labs doctors were able to save her, during this time Beaumont had enlisted the aid of an unknown organization and assisted them in raiding the old LifesBlood Labs Headquarters. After he was able to take Maggie away from the doctors overseeing her she attempted to commit suicide again. Beaumont was able to persuade her to instead continue the fight against LifesBlood Labs and that he had allies that could save her. It was revealed that the group that helped him in rescuing Maggie was the Order and that [[Lucy]] was leading the raid. She later betrayed Beaumont, and revealed that her true intent was to return Maggie to the Hymn of One. Lucy ordered Beaumont to place Maggie in the truck of the van. Some time after the escape, the van stopped at an unspecified point in Chicago, when Beaumont ran out of the van he was shot by [[Sarah]], who had accompanied Lucy during the abduction, this gave Maggie an opportunity to escape while Lucy, Sarah, and the [[Watcher]] that was with them were checking to see if Beaumont was dead. At some point later, Maggie founded the Hymn of None. Apparently Dr. Alderman had discovered that Maggie was a pure-blood trait positive, the exact meaning of this has yet to be explained.

==Etymology==
Margaret is derived from Latin ''Margarita'', which was from Greek μαργαριτης (''margarites'') meaning "pearl", probably a borrowing from Sanskrit. Saint Margaret, the patron of expectant mothers, was martyred at Antioch in the 4th century. Later legends told of her escape from a dragon, with which she was often depicted in medieval art. The saint was popular during the Middle Ages, and her name has been widely used in the Christian world. [http://www.behindthename.com/php/view.php?name=margaret].

==Theories==
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