Merrill Wilkinson
From RPGS surrounding the Labcats
First appearance: Retrieving Merrill Wilkinson aka
Relationship: Sophronia Wilkinson;Creator and Father;Oblivious of how much she wants his affection and approval
Merrill Wilkinson
Aspects
- Archetype: Anachronist: I Did Not Write the Book on Clockwork -- I Wrote the Library
- Class: Upper Middle:
- Conviction: Accept Nothing Less Than Perfection
Skills
- Clockwork Genius: Craft, Dismantle, Information, Repair, Treatment (Physical), Research, Variable (scene x3) = 21 points + skill, - drawback
- (Alternative: Variable (session x7) = 14 + Variable (scene x2) = 8 = 22)
Inventions
- Coffee Machine
- Psychic Strange Detector ala Cerebro? But it has to go on the Strange Person, and it Isn't Perfect?
Five Questions
- Humble Beginnings: Born to a shop owner -- textiles, industry father?
- Follies of Youth: Fell in with Leon, Anarchists?
- First Awakenings: Perhaps his first inventions to make live easier were destroyed because they put textile workers out of a job. With or without his consent? If so, is this where the desire for a certain type of perfection or useless art came from? It isn't perfect if it doesn't make arrangements for lost livelihoods? It isn't a threat if it's Merely Art, ala Wilde?
- Mysterious Origins: Well, that's just it -- He never actually passed. We pretended that he was a prisoner who'd be freed if he created for us a great marvel -- and then another, and another... We expected he'd try to escape, perhaps using some of his creations. Eventually, we realized that he never would, and we dropped the pretense. I'm not sure he noticed. I suppose we should have declared failure, but... they _are_ marvels, aren't they? And, we'd gotten used to having him around.
- Greatest Failure: Well, that would be you, dear Sophronia, wouldn't it? Selling himself to the fae for Sophronia's wings, not realizing how this crushed his ward and cut short an otherwise brilliant career -- or damned it by giving it over to the service of the fae?
