Gearhead Gary
From Changeling Venue
| Seeming | Elemental Manikin |
|---|---|
| Court | Autumn Court •• |
| Freehold | Lawrence, KS |
| Player | cording1@ku.edu |
Contents |
HARD HAT AREA (UNDER CONSTRUCTION)
Specifications:
Other Model Names: Gearhead, Gadgeteer, Gary
Original Model Name: Gerhardt Pollux Midvale
Locale: Lawrence, Kansas
Copyright: >20, <30
Seeming: Elemental
Kith: Manikin
Court: Autumn
Features: artificer, tinker.
Model Description: Gerhardt Pollux Midvale is a very regular-looking, bespectacled, fair-haired, young man, albeit a bit... off. He is usually dressed in outdated suits and soft colors. He seems to have some trouble with making appropriate emotional responses, and his movements all seem slightly scripted. Almost mechanical.
To other Lost, Gearhead is a bit spacey and aloof, its skin like low-quality ceramic, its hairs specifically placed like a doll's hair, all of its joints seem to creak very quietly. Its eyes are attentive, but there always seems to be mechanics turning behind them, and a constant ticking noise accompanies it wherever it goes.
Gary has just come off of three years of parole after eight years of a ten year sentence served for manslaughter. The exact story behind his imprisonment has been mutated with too many tellings, though the death of a sophomore girl at Oliver Residence Hall at the University is always an element in any telling. The kind, even-tempered man has returned home to his workshop, fixing and making clocks, music boxes, victrolas, and some musical instruments in his and his brother's shop/home. His fellow changelings know he also makes various gadgets of significantly more sinister intent. A barrel organ with a crank-operated gattling gun inside, music-box timer bombs, razor-wielding jacks-in-the-box; all have come off his workbench.
Current Operating Instructions
Gary doesn't acknowledge its durance in the least. Its denial has obviously had its effect. It doesn't understand mortals, and has difficulty relating to its fellow Changelings and their bizarre obsessions. Its biggest complication is with Charles Kastor Midvale, its fraternal twin and housemate.
It's said that Charles and Gary were taken at the same time, but while Charles resisted and opposed and became the proud Fairest he became, Gary buckled immediately, becoming subservient and submissive to its Keeper's whims. Charles was holding Gary's hand, pulling him along, when they were born, and it seems Charles dragged Gary with him when he decided to escape. Gary sided with the Autumn Court quickly, with the encouragement of the Baron, putting its loyalty, attention to detail, and unwittingly frightening behavior to good use. Charles remains, to this day, unsworn to any court, but never begrudged his brother's choice until the Oliver Hall incident.
Gary passes the time making odd clockwork contraptions and spring-loaded gadgets, including its wrist ejectors, typically equipped with a pen, a hankerchief, a small notepad, a screwdriver, a small knife, a snubnose revolver, and a straight razor, and has also built its own wheeled shoes, interrogation devices like the heart metronome and the hot seat, and its eerie spectacles.
Current Activities:
- Court Worker
Associates
From the Speaker
Yes, absolutely, right away, your Majesty.
Why?
No one goes there, anymore. We invented an Urban Legend to keep folks out of that room. Had to invest heavily in stray dogs and cats, but time and money well spent, I think.
"Show her what you've been practicing, why don't you?" Charles prodded his brother.
A slow, hesitant smile cracked across Gary's face and he tilted his head in what he thought was an charming angle.
"See, was that so hard?" Charles laughed as the woman retreated with some haste.
Rumors
Gearhead is not just aloof. He is completely insane, all but convinced that he is the clockwork tinker he was made into.
Gearhead's willingness to cooperate with Loyalists to achieve a goal has cost him the trust of many of the Lawrentine Changelings. Only the Baron, convinced of Gearhead's ultimate harmlessness, trusts Gearhead entirely.
Gary's recovering its identity. He's stoped refering to himself as an "it," for the most part, and its developing a sense of humor, albeit a dry and dark one.
