Harlin Melman:: D-Caf

What's in a name?:

     "And D-Caf was honest about himself enough to know he had never been an easy kid to handle. He was a daydreamer, a spacer, a person for whom ordinary life seemed dark and dull and slightly threatening. He spent his days reading, playing by himself, wandering away on long walks by the bay, watching sailboats, forgetting homework, times, dates, duties. He would gladly have spent from sunrise to long after sunset with his face buried in a book, living a vicarious life.
     When he was around people, in school, at church, at the summer camp his brother forced him to attend each year, he switched personalities entirely, becoming hyper, chatty, nervous, like someone on his tenth cup of coffee. (Hence the name D-Caf.) He made bad jokes. Too many bad jokes. People made him tense, and tension made him jumpy. The presence of other people had a sort of toxic effect on D-Caf, like they were a drug that altered his sense of himself, turning him into someone he himself could not stand." -The Mayflower Project, p. 23

Physical Description:

     "D-Caf and his brother were like a before and after picture. The younger brother was fighting a weight problem, the older, Mark, looked like a guy who might not have exactly won that battle but had at least avoided losing it.
     D-Caf had dark hair, dark eyes, teeth that would need correcting. He was already as tall as Mark and on his way to being taller. But he concealed this advantage by his habit of walking a little stooped forward. He had been tested in the usual ways and was, in fact, a bit more intelligent than Mark. But this was another advantage D-Caf could never exploit. Mark was his parent and his brother, and their relationship depended on an assumption of superiority for Mark. D-Caf had no interest in challenging the only real relationship he had." -The Mayflower Project, p. 25-26

Who is he?:

D-Caf is a quiet not-quite-normal person, who made the mistake of accidentally shooting the Mayflower's co-pilot and branding himself a murderer. Yago took him in as one of his cronies, but D-Caf always had a will of his own, although he was smart enough to know where he was needed the most. He noticed things nobody else did, and at one point even detrayed Yago and ran off with Tate and Rodger Dodger, there getting his first taste of pride in himself.

Chapter by Chapter:

The Mayflower Project (1):
Chapters: 3

Destination Unknown (0):
Chapters: None

Them (0):
Chapters: None

Nowhere Land (1):
Chapters: 5

Mutation (0):
Chapters: None

Breakdown (0):
Chapters: None

Isolation (2):
Chapters: 7, 12

Mother, May I? (1):
Chapters: 5

No Place Like Home (1):
Chapters: 7

Lost and Found (2):
Chapters: 5, 9

Factoids:

Introduced?: The Mayflower Project, Chapter 3.
Family?: Brother, Mark Melman, killed by Tamara Hoyle while stowing away on the Mayflower.
Got berth?: D-Caf's brother Mark hatched a plan to get them onto the Mayflower. They hid in some spare spacesuits, but it went wrong. In short, Tamara Hoyle got shot in the shoulder, and Mark and the shuttle co-pilot died, but in the end, D-Caf was stowed away in crew berth #2.
Age?: 515, born in 1996.
Friends?: Toadie with Anamull for Yago.