Editing Doormaker

{{quote|I can’t… too much to look at.  So many worlds at once.<br><br>I know.  We’re going to do what we can, okay?<br><br>I’m… I’m pretty scared.|Doormaker and [[Contessa]]|[[Interlude 29]]}}
{{Infobox character
| name = Doormaker
| gender = Male
| alias = Zero-Twenty-Three<ref name="I28 e1" /><ref name="I21" /><br>Portal man (By [[Khepri]])<ref>I could see my blonde friend with the portal man, talking to people.  Talking to… what was his name?  The one who gave thinker powers.  ''Teacher''.<br><br>He’d given the portal man the ability to talk.<br>[...]<br>The portal man would explain what he’d seen.  With luck, my brilliant friend would be able to connect the dots. - [[Speck 30.6]]</ref>
| age = 30s <small>(A boy around 1982,<ref name="29.I e1" /> a young man in 1988<ref name="15.z e2">She turned to the girl in the suit and the young man with the thousand-yard stare.<br><br>“You know where to take us.”<br><br>The girl in the suit placed her hands on his shoulders, tapping one twice.  In response, the boy raised his hands, bidding the back wall of the room to fold out into an area that shouldn’t have been there.  Bright sunlight streamed down around them, a salt-scented wind blowing in their faces.<br><br>“My god,” Legend said. - [[Interlude 15.z]]</ref>)</small>
| post-timeskip = Thirty-something<ref name="appearance 29.7"/>
| family =
| occupation =
| classification = [[Mover]], [[Shaker]] (Speculative)
| unique = [[Noctis Cape]]<ref name="29.1 e1" />
| alignment = [[Villain]]
| status = Deceased
| team = [[Cauldron]]
| previous team =
| base of operations = [[Cauldron Compound]]
| web serial = [[Interlude 14.y]] (Mentioned)<br>[[Interlude 15.z]] (Flashback)<br>[[Interlude 21.x]]
| ward = [[Dying 15.a]] (Mentioned)
}}
'''Doormaker''' was a core utility of [[Cauldron]].

==Personality==
He was almost always accompanied by the [[Clairvoyant]], whose power he made constant use of.

==Appearance==
Doormaker was a pale-skinned,<ref name="appearance 29.7">At the very back of the room, separate from the group, were two pale young men, laid out on desks that sat on either side of a reinforced door.  A twenty-something guy with flat skin stretched over where his eyes should be, and a guy that was maybe ten years older, with enough bloody bandage around his head and face that I couldn't make out his features.  Doormaker, I could assume, based on what I'd heard upstairs, along with the clairvoyant the Doctor had mentioned in the past. - [[Venom 29.7]]</ref> plain-looking, and thin young man who did not wear a cape costume.<ref>The other two – I recognized their powers.  A man with access to many powers at once, a fluctuating, flexible thing, and an thin, plain looking man with no costume, head hanging, with the power to make doorways. - [[Speck 30.7]]</ref> He had a blank and unfocused gaze.<ref name="15.z e2" />

==Abilities and Powers==
===Primary Ability===
Doormaker can open and close [[portal]]s<ref name="29.I e1">And the last… a boy, staring off into the distance.<br><br>She asked her power, and she got her answer.<br><br>He could make doors.<br><br>He could also close the other doors, the gaps left around the other entity.  It would minimize the chance that the golden man could find them. - [[Interlude 29]]</ref> between places he has sensory awareness of, including between [[Earths|dimensions]]. He has some degree of clairvoyance as he sees into other worlds to an extent.<ref name="29.I e2" /><ref name="15.z e3" />

On May 1st, 1988,<ref name="15.z e1">'''May 1st, 1988'''<br><br>“Alexandria,” the Doctor called.<br><br>Alexandria waited patiently as Contessa adjusted her cape, then strode through the door.  The Doctor was there, of course.  Professor Manton, too.  The boy with the math powers was there, standing next to a boy who was staring off into space. - [[Interlude 15.z]]</ref> he in combination with [[Contessa]]<ref name="15.z e2" /> created portals to [[New York]], [[Chicago]], and the [[Cauldron Compound]].<ref>Eidolon and Hero advanced to the edge of the window, staring out at a landscape of tidy concrete buildings and overlarge trees.  There was a coast there, too.<br><br>“I will be locating my operations there in the future.  Doormaker will shuttle you to and from my base in the future.”<br><br>“Where is it?”<br><br>“Another Earth.”<br><br>“Like Earth Aleph?  The one Haywire opened the portal to?”<br><br>“In some respects, yes.”  The Doctor gestured, and Contessa squeezed the boy’s shoulders again.  The portal shut.  “My assistant will hand you the booklets Alexandria prepared for her project.  Doormaker will then take each of you home in turn.  Thank you.”<br><br>One by one, the others departed.  Legend was first through the doorway Doormaker created, taken to New York.  Both Eidolon and Hero made their way to Chicago.  Professor Manton and the others left. - [[Interlude 15.z]]</ref>

In combination with [[Clairvoyant]], Doormaker normally used his power to transport members of [[Cauldron]] wherever they needed to go and was effectively the gatekeeper to [[Cauldron Compound|their facilities]]. His power allowed Cauldron to pick up test subjects, that would become [[Case 53]]s, from everywhere, but Earth Bet, and dispense them in desired locations after the transformation.

====Vulnerabilities====
Doormaker unfortunately perceives too many worlds at once, which negatively impacted his life.<ref name="29.I e2">“I can’t… too much to look at,” he said.  “So many worlds at once.”<br><br>“I know.  We’re going to do what we can, okay?”<br><br>“I’m… I’m pretty scared.”  There was a tremor in his voice. - [[Interlude 29]]</ref><ref name="15.z e3" /> By May 1988,<ref name="15.z e1" /> he was functionally blind and deaf.<ref name="15.z e3">“He gained a ''very'' valuable set of powers, but there was an unfortunate effect on his perceptions.  He sees too much at once.  He’s effectively blind and deaf.  He agreed to work for me in exchange for care and comfort.” - [[Interlude 15.z]]</ref> [[Legend]] speculated this was because of too much exposure to [[Clairvoyant]], who had great synergy with Doormaker.<ref name="29.3 e1">“Closed.  They’re created by a parahuman called Doormaker.  The Doctor told me he was blind and deaf to his surroundings, but I think it’s far more likely that it’s to do with another parahuman she partnered him with.  Someone who grants sensory awareness.  I think the Doctor gave Doormaker too much exposure to this parahuman and destroyed or atrophied his other senses.  One of those nagging doubts I never acted on.” - [[Venom 29.3]]</ref>

He cannot move or drift his portals as they are anchored to the rotation of the planet.<ref name="30.3 e1">An exercise of Doormaker’s power let me experiment with the portals.  They couldn’t move or drift, excepting the way they were anchored to the rotation of the planet as a whole.  Instead, I opened and closed new portals, timing it so the opening of one was a fraction of a second before the prior one closed.  I surrounded myself with them, a shifting, shuttering array of portals. - [[Speck 30.3]]</ref> Doormaker's power appears to be confined to the limits of [[Space#Upper_Atmosphere|Earth's atmosphere]].<ref name="30.4 e2">My ranged capes aimed for portals once again.  This time, I put the exit portals against Earth’s atmosphere, aiming for the general direction of a satellite.<br><br>It took thirty seconds of sustained fire before Shén Yù’s power stopped telling me it was a weak point.  Other thinker powers in my range were giving me similar feedback.  A cape with perfect eyesight was telling me it could even see the explosion. - [[Speck 30.4]]</ref> If Doormaker dies or the well of energy he drew from ran dry, then his portals would start winking out of existence.<ref name="29.3 e2">“If it helps,” Legend said, “I don’t think Doormaker is dead.  There have been two interruptions in his power, to date.  One followed an earthquake.  He was unhurt, but his partner… well, it was a clue that a partner existed.  His doors all went down simultaneously the moment the earthquake hit the facility.  I don’t think his power is the type that would outlast him after death, if it was so easily interrupted while he was alive.” - [[Venom 29.3]]</ref><ref name="30.1 e1">Tattletale shook her head.  “If Doormaker dies, she’s stranded here, all alone, more than a little borked in the head and in the heart.  Possibly for the rest of her life.” - [[Speck 30.1]]</ref><ref name="30.5 e2">It was when I was opening my door that the portals started winking out.<br><br>It was like watching a blackout take hold over a city.  Lights going out, sections of apartments at the same time, then buildings.  Not all even, not quite logical in flow, but close.<br><br>And with every other light that went out, I lost a member of my swarm.<br><br>The portals shut en masse, ten by ten, a hundred by a hundred, the furthest one first.  The ones next to me would disappear in seconds.<br><br>I looked at Doormaker, who was staring into empty space.<br><br>The realization dawned on me.<br><br>I’d spent it all.  Too much, pushing it too far.  The well Doormaker drew from in using his power had just run dry. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/speck-30-5/ Excerpt] from [[Speck 30.5]]</ref>

Large amounts of energy can disrupt Doormaker's portals, including [[Ash Beast]]'s power.<ref name="30.5 e1">When working with power on this scale, chaos had a way of trumping order.  Too much energy disrupted the portals. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/speck-30-5/ Excerpt] from [[Speck 30.5]]</ref> His portals collapsed when the edge made contact with lava.<ref name="30.4 e1">I began opening a portal beneath a flow of lava, a trickle on Earth Bet, at the mouth of a cave system.  The lava met the edge of the portal, and it winked out of existence.  A splash of it passed through the portal, touching Dragon where her ‘neck’ met her body. - [[Speck 30.4]]</ref> Significant disruptions to his portals can cause Doormaker to experience pain.<ref>The beam hit the surface of the portal, and only a fraction passed through to strike Scion from behind.  Enough to kill someone, enough to kill ''me'', if the beam had happened to touch any of my control portals, but even so, the portal itself took the brunt of the impact.<br><br>Doormaker staggered beside me. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/speck-30-5/ Excerpt] from [[Speck 30.5]]</ref>

===Other Abilities===
Doormaker was considered to be a [[Noctis cape|Noctis type cape]]; he does not need to sleep and can function without any significant detriment.<ref name="29.1 e1">Tattletale went still, “Doormaker doesn’t sleep.”<br>[...]<br>Others have only been marked down as guesses.  Doormaker and Contessa were among them, they said, going by the times the ‘bogeyman’ was showing up. - [[Venom 29.1]]</ref>
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Doormaker talks twice during the story, once to Contessa in Interlude 29 and once about the Irregulars' attack in Interlude 28. But Khepri says that Teacher has to give him the ability to talk. Is he mute or not? Was being forced to spam doors during Golden Morning put him even more out of it than usual? (Is this author error, with Clairvoyant being supposed to be the mute one?) 

Fossillord: mention him whenever a door is used
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==History==
===Background===
Doormaker was one of Cauldron's first successful [[Cauldron vial|vial]] imbibers.<ref name="I28 e1">Doormaker was beside [[Doctor Mother|her]].  His voice was one of the voices she’d heard.  Number twenty-three.  One of her first true successes. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/09/17/interlude-28/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 28]]</ref><ref name="I21">Zero-twenty-three, with a placard beneath.  ‘Doormaker’. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/04/27/interlude-21-donation-bonus-1/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 21.x]]</ref>

===[[Gold Morning]]===
[[Khepri]] used Doormaker to make her [[Rise of Khepri|apotheosis]] possible and to bring the fight to [[Scion]].

Once his power stopped working, the well of energy that his shard drew on having run dry, Khepri released him. [[Teacher]] gave him a power that allowed him to communicate, so he could explain what he had seen while tied into the Clairvoyant alongside Khepri. [[Glaistig Uaine]] killed Doormaker and began using his power for herself.<ref name="30.6">[[Speck 30.6]]</ref>

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