crypto-paleontologist / environmental geologist in his 30s who quit a very sensible job after his divorce to pick up searching for the cryptid his late mentor spent her life's work tracking down
✔ more blue collar than he comes off
✔ survives on dry cereal almost exclusively
✖ anathema to technology
✖ no you cannot have a nip from his cane flask
✖ please no nicknames (unless you're his ex-wife)