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Name: Ford Prefect
Canon: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Book/Movie/Television/Comic/Video Game/Radio Series
Entered hotel: Just after the Vogon invasion, when Ford attempts to hitchhike his and Arthur's way to safety.

Description: Ford is a somewhat short man with questionable fashion taste, red hair, and purple eyes. He is currently wearing what would appear to be a red zoot suit with plaid pants and a yellow shirt. He has his satchel with him.

History: Ford Prefect, born on Betelgeuse 5 (although his parents were from Betelgeuse 7, tragically destroyed by a collapsing Hrung), grew up with the childhood taunts I'm sure we all remember fondly, being called Ix (which, in the praxibetel dialect, means 'Boy who does not know what a Hrung is, nor why it would choose to collapse on Betelgeuse Seven'. His father died of shame when Ford was unable to learn how to pronounce his name. At he age of seven, Ford was given his first towel, a turning point in his life. It was then that Ford decided he wanted to travel for a living, and eventually became a researcher for an intergalactic guide-book. For a while he spent his time hanging out on beaches with his friends, getting drunk, but then wanderlust got the best of him and he has travelled the galaxy since (for thirty alterian dollars a day). More recently, Ford travelled to Earth, where he has been for fifteen years, slowly going mad. He adopted the name he currently goes by (after mistaking the dominent species on the planet and thinking the name would be nicely inconspicuous), befriended an Earthling, and has remained consistently drunk since.

Personality: Ford Prefect is what is commonly known as an insufferable know-it-all. He cannot stand being wrong or being in the presence of someone smarter than him, and will usually surround himself with easilly amazed people of less than average intelligence. Unfortunately, he also hates when people don't understand him and will occasionally seek out someone on his level (which is probably lower than he would like it to be, but whose isn't?) and engage them in conversation. He tends to entertain himself by poking fun of astrophysicists, but if he can't find any, he'll amuse himself by drinking and partying with other people who like to drink and party as well, or he will attempt to find something he can take apart to figure out how it works, occasionally even putting it back together afterwords. He also enjoys wandering and will become restless if kept in one place for very long (some backwater planet for fifteen years, for example), and this is likely how he became such a persistant alcoholic in the first place. Ford enjoys puzzles, travel, and writing as well as his enjoyment of alcohol. He is also afraid of heights and water, is a bad singer, and has an irrational hatred of geese.

Inventory: Brown leather satchel (which Ford habitually wears over his shoulder)
Inside of which is:
Sub-Etha Sens-O-Matic
Dog-eared scripts
Electronic Thumb
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
A few ballpoints
A notepad
A largish bath towel
A bottle of some form of alcohol

A note: I do not own Ford Prefect, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, or anything Hitchhiker's related. I am using Ford Prefect for non-profit purposes only.

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