Professor Haywire

<infobox> <title source="name"><default>Professor Haywire</default></title>

<image source="Image"></image> <image source="image"></image> <group><header>Basic Information</header> <label>Civilian Name</label> <label>Aliases</label> <label>Gender</label><default>Unknown</default> <label>Death</label> <label>Age</label><default>Unknown</default> <label>Post-timeskip</label> <label>Ward start</label> <label>Relations</label> <label>Family</label></group> <group><header>Professional Status</header> <label>Occupation</label> <label>Classification</label> <label>Unique Features</label> <label>Alignment</label>

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Deceased

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<label>Location</label> <label>Teams</label> <label>Previous Team(s)</label> <label>Base of Operations</label></group> <group><header>First Appearance</header> <label>Worm Debut</label> <label>Ward Debut</label></group> </infobox> Professor Haywire was an early Tinker who is best known for creating interdimensional portals between multiple alternate Earths.

Abilities and Personality

Professor Haywire was a Tinker specializing in "interdimensional tech." He created general tinker-tech creations of power suits and laser rifles that he would outfit himself and his minions with whenever he needed to secure the funds and materials needed for his experiments. Haywire also created things like 'tag' ammunition that temporarily shunted the victim into another reality, along with ammunition that could sink into one reality to get around an obstacle and surface in the original reality to strike its target. Some of his enduring creations were viewing lenses to see what was occurring in other realities and multidimensional portals that could be used to travel between realities.<ref name="R1">Interdimensional tech. Multidimensional projectiles, guns that fired 'tags' that shunted people into other realities for a time, created doors between realities, a lens that could be tuned (like a radio station) to peer into different realities. He could also build basic tinker stuff (power armor, ray guns) - All of this came with costs - the inter-reality stuff was expensive to build, and all the while, he had to endure multiple personalities. Not so much one head with different personalities taking turns, but three conjoined (in a manner of speaking - they were connected between realities, not physically) heads with constant communication between. A little crazed as a consequence. - Wildbow on Reddit</ref>

Because of his powers he was in constant communication with two other versions of himself on alternate Earths. This presumably helped him to set up much of his inter-dimensional technology in the first place. His behavior was influenced by his passenger, forcing him to take risks and enter conflict where he may have been content to stay in a lab.<ref name="R2">Keep in mind, also, that the shards aren't inclined to let people sit around and spend months of time working on side projects without getting any dose of conflict. What happens is you get Spheres and Professor Haywires and Leets. - Wildbow on Reddit</ref>

History

Background

Professor Haywire tore a hole between realities sometime before 1988. He was stopped from completing his plans.<ref>Interlude 15.z</ref> His actions revealed the existence of several alternate Earths to the public<ref name="3.4">Agitation 3.4</ref> and some classified by the authorities.<ref>Lausanne RP</ref>

He died well over two years before the story started.<ref name="17.6e1">A vault holding the equipment of now-deceased supervillain ‘Professor Haywire’ was accessed by the Simurgh. - Excerpt from Migration 17.6</ref>

Legacy

The Portals that were created by his technology played a large part in how society would develop in later years.

The Simurgh used some of Haywire's technology (stored in a vault) during her attack on Madison, Wisconsin. This technology was what brought over the Travelers into Earth Bet.

The Wardens appropriated Haywire's tech for interdimensional communication and as a counter-measure for the Simurgh's interference.<ref name="II20.a">Last 20.a</ref>

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