I would love to adopt Futurist for a scientist idea I have in mind! Amazingly, steampunk works best as the scientist is an underground revolutionary, who’s creating an organic life form (I haven’t exactly planned what it will be) in this time period, that might be superior to humans. Underground because people are wary of his ideas and he does not want to be in the limelight till he achieves something substantial.
Sorry I haven’t worked out everything but that’s the tiniest gist of it. Good luck either way though; Futurist is amazing!
that actually sounds really cool! do you mind if i give it a while more before deciding? i really do like your idea though