Professor Helvetius (925th Universe)

Professor Helvetius(925th Universe)
Character Information
Species	Evaluator
Gender	Genderfluid
Siblings	Doctor Omega
Behind the Scenes
First seen in	PROSE: A Series of Queer Events
Also seen in	PROSE: Family Business (mentioned)

The 925th Universe's incarnation of Professor Helvetius was the genderfluid sibling of Doctor Omega, and, like him, a member of the mysterious Society of the Evaluators, as well as the owner and operator of Professor Helvetius's Convenient Pride Decorations Shop.

Description

Physical appearance

As encountered by Jenny Over-There and Dynamite Thor, Helvetius appeared as an “odd-looking woman”, wearing an outfit which “reminded Jenny of either Doctor Omega or Doctor Know”, (PROSE: A Series of Queer Events) consisting of a “gaudy highlighter-green crushed velvet suit” complementing a “messy ginger updo” which “seemed to perfectly mimic a mushroom cloud”. (PROSE: A Series of Queer Events (2024 reedit)) During Pride Month, she wore a pin on her collar with the colours of the genderfluid flag, but it was not clear whether this was part of their usual outfit. (PROSE: A Series of Queer Events)

Personality

This version of Helvetius an eccentric business-owner. She was strongly invested in queer issues, refusing to charge for Pride decorations during Pride Month, though she did make it up to her bottom line by charging outrageous prices for carrier bags, (PROSE: A Series of Queer Events) which she seemed to do as a prank rather than out of genuine greed. She had a kind of patronising fondness for Doctor Omega, and seemed very proud of her status as a member of the Society of the Evaluators, for which she attempted to proselytise. Helvetius was additionally aware of the rotations of the wheel, and prone to launching into metaphysical digressions on the topic which left those around her mystified. (PROSE: A Series of Queer Events (2024 reedit))

Biography

In the 925th Universe

See main article: Professor Helvetius (925th Universe)

The 925th Universe's version of Professor Helvetius was genderfluid. They owned and operated Professor Helvetius's Convenient Pride Decorations Shop, a mysterious shop that was bigger on the inside and existed in multiple reality at once. Helvetius apparently had the ability to alter its interior arrangement at will. During Pride Month in 2022, Jenny Over-There and Dynamite Thor accessed the Decorations Shop from the 925th Universe and acquired a number of flags and other decorations for the M.F.S. office, meeting Helvetius for the first time; at the time, she was presenting as a woman. Later, after the Man in Grey changed his mind about letting them doll up the office for Pride, Helvetius agreed to let them hold a party in the Decoration Shop using all the apparatus they'd bought. To Jenny's surprise (and mild disappointment), when Jenny and Thor arrived at the Shop, they found that the interior had reconfigured itself into an empty dancing hall, with the large stock of decorations nowhere in evidence, meaning they had to redecorate it from scratch. (PROSE: A Series of Queer Events)

These events were the subject of minor alterations with each further rotation of “the wheel“, something of which Helvetius was aware. During a later rotation, she spoke at greater length to Jenny and Thor when first meeting them in the shop, with them being confused as to what she was talking about when she began to digress about the metaphysics of these events repeating; Jenny would later come to believe that Helvetius had simply been waxing metaphorical about the ordinary experience of being stuck in a routine. Helvetius also gave Jenny a card for the Society of the Evaluators, trying to coax her into joining, and, when Jenny mentioned Doctor Omega, Helvetius acknowledged him as her brother before giving Jenny a message for Omega, charging her with reminding Omega that he owed an unspecified debt to the Society. (PROSE: A Series of Queer Events (2024 reedit))

Incarnations of Professor Helvetius
925th Universe