Editing Sphere (section)

==History==
===Background===
Born Alan Gramme, a man with a happy childhood and home life.<ref name="I25 e2">Bonesaw speculates[[Interlude 25]]</ref> After triggering he became a tinker specializing in enclosed systems, this led him taking the pseudonym 'Sphere'.

He gained fame and attention as his power allowed to take up Evacuation Earth<ref name=MW>'''Team - Moonwalkers''': Started by the sole cape survivor of the Evacuation Earth project. Then-rookie cape WPK pledged to find a way to continue Sphere's work and managed one of the most noteworthy crowdfunding campaigns in history, with a total amount raised of 316 million, an amount that has increased to an estimated 500 million in the intervening years (actual numbers undisclosed, with some sources positing amounts as high as 750 million - Thoth). Controversial, as the crowdfunding did not seem to evidence real-world results, updates were scarce, with periodic years-long silences. Some were excusable (Mannequin's 2007 attack, killing key staff and team members) and some were not. The Moonwalkers have six core members and two subteams, all based in Chicago. - [[PHO Sunday]], [https://redd.it/h92nm2 Capeball Breakdown: Moonwalkers v. Lich Five]</ref> "a project to build self sustaining biospheres on the moon."<ref name="I11d"/><ref>“Powers don’t work in space,” I told him.  “We’re tethered to the agents and if you move far enough away the power doesn’t feed in.  You wouldn’t get any tinker inspiration.  When Sphere was trying to build the moon base, he had to build on Earth and send stuff up.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/06/25 Excerpt] from [[Breaking 14.12]]</ref> It is stated that "he had ideas on solving world hunger, and building aquatic cities near cities plagued by overcrowding."<ref name="I11d"/> Sphere was attempting to get all of that off the ground when [[The Simurgh]] attacked the site he was living in.<ref name="R1">OniTan:<br/>What would happen if an Endbringer reached their goal? (Noelle, Phir Se, etc.) I don't think we ever see it happen except maybe the head of the CUI on the plane the Simurgh takes down.<br/>What would happen if capes theoretically decided to just evacuate a city and not fight an Endbringer (leaving the civilians to flee on their own)?<br/><br/>Wildbow: <br/>There's also Sphere.<br/>If people evacuated, the Endbringer would keep going until humans put up a fight, potentially continuing until all was lost. - [https://redd.it/3l2glt Comment by Wildbow on Reddit]</ref>

In the Simurgh attack, his wife and children were killed,<ref>Based on [http://worm.wikia.com/wiki/Slaughterhouse_Nine?diff=prev&oldid=4712 Edit] by Wildbow</ref><ref name="17.5">“It keeps happening.  Every time she shows up.  Every time, people who’ve heard this song that’s in our head?  Things go wrong.  They snap, they break, their lives fall apart, or they do something, and it makes something else happen, and there’s a major disaster.  That guy who was supposedly making a clean energy source that could power whole cities?  His wife and kids got killed and he became a supervillain who made it a life goal to murder anyone who tries to better society with their powers.  There were others.  Over and over, every time she shows up.  She never does quite as much damage as Leviathan or Behemoth, not right away, but stuff always happens later.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/01/12/migration-17-5/ Excerpt] from [[Migration 17.5]]</ref> and the years of work he'd done to help fix the problems of the world were ruined. Alan went mad and shut himself off from the world. Literally. Sphere withdrew, crafting a self-contained ecosystem in which he could survive indefinitely, untouchable, unreachable and safe. Sphere emerged under the new name of '[[Mannequin]]'.<ref name="Cast2">'''Mannequin, Alan Gramme (Turned to Glass)''' – Once known as Sphere, a tinker working on sustainable energy and living spaces in hostile environments, including ocean-borne cities and a moon base. Was attacked by the Simurgh, saw his wife and child die, and snapped. Butchered himself and sealed the parts in an impervious, doll-like shell, with ball joints and chains separating the sections and a loadout of various retracting blades, gases and guns. Turned to glass by a bombing run utilizing some of Bakuda’s weaponry. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/cast-spoiler-free/cast/ Cast (In Depth)]</ref><!-- skitter had thoughts in the plague chapters did you get all of them?, add them, also some fan art http://scarfgirl.deviantart.com/art/Mannequin-from-Worm-330279664 

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===Story Start===
He had long become his own antithesis, and targeted those who tried to follow in his footsteps.
===[[Timeskip]]===
While secreted away in her lab, Bonesaw would grow several clones of Gramme for the express purpose of remaking Mannequin. They had none of the original's memories, their personalities were expressly sculpted to recreate the monster that he became. One version was [[Trigger Event|created with his powers]] at a presumably much younger than Alan Gramme originally had been and as such was not a accurate representation of Alan's personality.<ref name="I25 e3">He was muttering to himself, “Wall them in.  Wall myself in.  Wall them in.  Wall myself in.”<br/><br/>“Come on, A.G.,” Bonesaw said.  She reached through the structure and took his hand.  “Out through the door.”<br/><br/>“Not a door.  Trap.  Safest way to ward off attackers.  Used my hair, made a tripwire, tying ends together.  Maximum devastation if intruder breaks perimeter.”<br/><br/>“Through the window, then.  I’ll wall you in.  Promise.”<br/><br/>He nodded.  With excessive care, he climbed on top of the jars that were precariously balanced on one another and slipped out through another aperture in the arrangement, higher up.  He stumbled as he landed.<br/><br/>“This way.  We’ll wall you in.”<br/><br/>He followed obediently.  “Where’s my Catherine?  She’s my…”<br/><br/>“Your mom, silly billy.”  Cognitive dissonance would be bad.  He could lash out.  Not that he was that dangerous, like this.<br/><br/>“I was going to say wife.  And I have two children.  They’re seven and five.  Except I’m…”<br/><br/>“You’re seven.  You’re thinking of your sisters.”<br/><br/>“I’m confused,” he almost mewled the words.  “It hurts, so much of it hurts to think about.  I- I let a lot of people down.  I can feel their disappointment like… like it’s pressing in on me from all sides.  I can’t hide from it and I can’t stop myself from caring.  I-“<br/><br/>“Hush,” she said.  “It all gets better when you wall yourself in, doesn’t it?”<br/><br/>He nodded mutely.<br/><br/>“Walling you in,” she said, as she put him on top of the stand.  A press of the button raised the glass enclosure.  She could see him relax a fraction at that.<br/><br/>A bit of a problem, Bonesaw mused, as the container filled with the nutrient fluid. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/16/interlude-25/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 25]]</ref>