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[clockwork_doc]

Name: Dr. Emmett "Doc" Lathrop Brown
Age/Birthdate: 65/October 22nd, 1920
Species: Human/Changeling, Wanderer
Type: Doc was already warped before falling into the Rift – this version was captured by the Fae and turned into a Changeling. The trip through the Rift granted him control over the weather around him, at the cost of stripping him of most of his Fae Contracts. Only the first few levels of the Contracts of Artifice (Brief Glamour of Repair, Touch of the Workman’s Wrath, Blessing of Perfection) remain for Doc to use, since those are so closely tied with the Fae magic that made Doc what he is, and even those were pretty weakened. Doc really has to concentrate to use them. By contrast, his weather-controlling powers respond almost automatically to his emotional state – thunder roars above him when he gets angry, and he can cause a personal rainstorm if he’s sad. In addition, the Rift changed his memories – when he ran through, he was partially amnesiac. Coming out on the other side, he found all his memories suddenly crystal clear from his birth to the moment he entered the new world.
Canon: Back To The Future mixed with the Changeling: The Lost RPG
Journal: clockwork_doc
Played-By: Christopher Lloyd
Icon: Default, as seen here
Appearance: Doc’s six feet one inch tall, though he doesn’t often look it since he has a tendency to hunch. He’s on the thin side, with medium-length white hair falling to about midneck, and dark chocolate brown eyes. His skin has a bit of a rubbery look to it, and he has metal teeth, clockwork gears sticking out of his joints (specifically the backs of his elbows and knees, and out of his knuckles), and small steam vents jutting out of his elbows and his tailbone. If you were to cut him open, you’d find a skeleton made of metal and clockwork merged with bone and muscle, a furnace for a stomach, and a steam engine for a heart. Doc’s taste in clothing runs toward brightly-colored Hawaiian-style shirts, pants with lots of pockets, and long coats to hide his body modifications. He also always has at least one watch on him – most commonly, he wears a wristwatch on each wrist. He came through the Rift in a tattered, oil-stained labcoat, a blue-and-white checked collared shirt, and brown pants.
Personality: More cautious and guarded than the Doc we know from canon. He prefers to keep to himself a lot, though he’ll speak if spoken to and remain reasonably polite. Secretly, he’s desperate for the company of actual humans, but finds it hard to trust anyone anymore. When he makes a friend, he’ll remain loyal to the end, often risking his own life to save those he loves. Try messing with his mind, however, and he’ll turn on you like a pitbull. His love of invention hasn’t waned, and he has a tendency to drift off to the land of Science at less-than-useful moments. He’s highly uncomfortable with the modifications made to his body by his Keeper – he really prefers to hide them so he doesn’t have to think of himself as being "less than human." He’s prone to nightmares about his time in Arcadia, which results in periods of depression.. He also has a fierce, vindictive hate of anything to do with faeries (which could cause problems if/when he learns what’s behind the Rifts opening up). And God help you if you attempt to harm his best friend Marty – Doc credits the kid with saving him from an eternity of hell in Arcadia, and will do ANYTHING to protect him.
History: Doc Brown grew up in the small California town of Hill Valley. Keenly intelligent, he discovered the writings of Jules Verne when he was 11 and devoted his life to the pursuit of science. He graduated high school at the age of 14 and college at 18, spending years both at MIT and the University of California in Berkeley. Awarded an early Ph.D. in quantum physics (his teachers figuring he was going to earn it anyway), he set out on a life of invention and experimentation, planning to make the world a better place. Most of his inventions failed due to his ideas outstripping the level of technology he had to work with, but he kept at it, determined one day to do something incredible.
In 1955, at the age of 35, Doc came up with the idea of the flux capacitor – a device that would let the user travel through time – as the result of a clock-hanging accident in his bathroom. Thrilled by his success, Doc started work, coming up with many preliminary designs and sketches and starting work on a crude time machine in his garage. He knew it would take him many years to see his project to fruition, but he was sure that he’d get it some day.
Unfortunately, he was wrong.
Unbeknowst to Doc, he lived in a world where Faeries would come and spirit people away to be their slaves in the realm of Arcadia. And in 1965, he became one of the unlucky ones. A Fae posing as a student of his named Andrew Sparks tricked Doc into entering his home in Arcadia and subsequently trapped him there to build his inventions for the Faerie. He also considered Doc a personal project, forcing him to build replacement limbs for his own body – then operating on the scientist to try and turn him into a being that didn’t need to sleep or eat. Doc attempted to escape early on, but got lost in the Hedge that separated the real world from the faerie one. The thorns there ended up ripping his memory away from him entirely, and Doc ended up spending years as Andrew’s slave, building and being operated on, answering to the title "Professor."
Then one of Andrew’s fae friends, Carlos, brought over his own slave to request a microphone – a young man named Marty McFly. Doc, desperate for human company, ended up forming a friendship with the young boy, helping and protecting him from their captors. In return, Marty helped restore a few of Doc’s memories, starting with his real name. Eventually, the pair decided to try and escape again, and bolted into the Hedge one day while their Keepers were distracted with another Fae. After a running into a pack of briarwolves, Doc was separated from Marty. While desperately looking for the boy, he stepped into a dark crack –
And emerged from some bushes in Grant Park, running headlong into a tree.

Writing Sample:
The heart was finished.
"Professor" looked at it, turning it over in his hands. It was a complicated mechanism, made up of many pistons and pipes, shaped to look exactly like a human heart. He’d spent – he didn’t know how long welding and warping metal, riveting and soldering bits and pieces. But now – every piece was in its place, every part oiled and polished. He poured in some water from a nearby pitcher and watched as it set to work, the mechanics spurting the liquid from the pipes as the heart "beat." It was perfect.
He hated it.
He put the mechanism down and put his head in his hands. He’d tried to drag things out as long as he could. He hadn’t wanted to finish. He’d wanted to fail, to somehow find that the invention was impossible – but nothing was impossible here, was it? And now that the heart was finished – Andrew was going to want to test it. That meant another operation.
Professor’s entire body shuddered. He didn’t want another operation. He didn’t want to be clamped onto that table again, having to feel everything as Andrew cut him open and replaced yet another piece of him with something mechanical. He didn’t want to have to watch as another part of his humanity was stripped away, making him more like – like –
"No more," he whispered to himself, a few tears dripping down his face. "Please, no more. Let me die this time. I can’t take this anymore."