Tetra-None Hepta-Oct (925th Universe)
The 925th Universe's version of Tetra-None Hepta-Oct, (PROSE: Good Crieff - The Tribulations of the Scottish Division) whose name was sometimes rendered as 0000-8888888, (PROSE: Open Sourcing) and often called simply Tetra, (PROSE: Annals of the Jen: One Year of Jenny Over-There: Happy Birthday, Jenny Over-There!, etc.) was a Cyclock who became an employee of the Multidimensional Finders Service's Scottish Division in the 925th Universe.
Description
Physical appearance
Tetra-None Hepta-Oct had a single eye, “skin similar to that of a boiled egg”, and silver hair. (PROSE: Open Sourcing)
Powers & abilities
As a Cyclock, (PROSE: Good Crieff - The Tribulations of the Scottish Division) she had the ability to see through time, (PROSE: Open Sourcing) meaning she could gaze into the future to determine where someone would eventually locate a missing item, and tell them early. (PROSE: Good Crieff - The Tribulations of the Scottish Division) She sometimes had visions about her own future, which she subsequently felt compelled to carry out. (PROSE:
Biography
Early existence
As a Cyclock, (PROSE: Good Crieff - The Tribulations of the Scottish Division) she was “formerly an entity an entity in charge of keeping Time itself together”, (PROSE: Annals of the Jen: One Year of Jenny Over-There: Tetra-None Hepta-Oct and Doctor Know-It-All Talk It Out) with the species having been “hand-crafted” by “the Guardians of Time themselves” to “watch over the timelines of many universes”, (PROSE: Good Crieff - The Tribulations of the Scottish Division) although the Guardians seemed to be specifically native to the 925th Universe. (PROSE: Annals of the Jen: One Year of Jenny Over-There: Tetra-None Hepta-Oct and Doctor Know-It-All Talk It Out)
On one occasion, “she was handed the legendary Rubix Configuration that imprisoned the Celebites, said to be impossible to solve”, and “solved it in seconds” such that “the Celebites hadn’t even finished putting on their chastity gear by the time they were freed”. (PROSE: Good Crieff - The Tribulations of the Scottish Division)
Hiring at the M.F.S.
She was one of the candidates interviewed by Jenny Over-There and the Man in Grey, hoping to get a position at the Multidimensional Finders Service. With her talents being among the ones that best dovetailed into the organisation's workings and purpose, she was accepted without fuss, and was sent to Scotland to set up the new M.F.S. branch alongside Doctor Know-It-All, Talbot Molossus and the Hydrant. (PROSE: Open Sourcing)
Working for the Scottish Division
After they got settled in their new HQ in Crieff, Tetra soon proved the team member most able to fill in for Jenny Over-There's usual duties, as she could use her temporal omniscience to see where the object had been lost or where it would be found in the future. In contrast, Talbot and the Hydrant were largely useless, with Talbot acting as team leader and the Hydrant as his moral support; Doctor Know, thanks to his magical computer, was more capable, but he also frequently deserted his duties. (PROSE: Good Crieff - The Tribulations of the Scottish Division) She maintained a vague long-distance friendship with Jenny Over-There herself, with the two sending each other funny pictures with some regularity. (PROSE: Annals of the Jen: One Year of Jenny Over-There: Happy Birthday, Jenny Over-There!)
In the spring of 2023, she got a call from Dynamite Thor, being surprised to learn that he had actually been hired as an intern at the main Wales-based M.F.S. office despite his poor showing during the hiring process. When he asked for the location of crimes for him to foil, Tetra had the presence of mind to ask him what he would do about even a very minor crime, and, when he blithely described his dynamite-based way of dealing with any situation, she elected to lie and tell him that there were currently no crimes to be found anywhere on the planet. (PROSE: (PROSE: Annals of the Jen: One Year of Jenny Over-There: Peter Thor's Day Off)
Later, during a low ebb in incoming calls, Tetra idly scanned her own future and saw that she was supposed to have a conversation with Doctor Know. Going over to do so, she found the Doctor playing a game on his computer. They made awkward small talk until the Doctor was interrupted by a phone call from his artificial son, Professor Wogglebug, which informed Doctor Know that Wogglebug was now dating the Man in Grey (925th Universe). His mind boggling at the revelation, the Doctor went off to process it, leaving Tetra to sneakily take advantage of his unlocked, unmanned computer to try out the game for herself. (PROSE: Annals of the Jen: One Year of Jenny Over-There Tetra-None Hepta-Oct and Doctor Know-It-All Talk It Out)
Behind the scenes
The design of Tetra-None Hepta-Oct was created in Spring 2013 as part of the “Fanpro” project, a Tumblr compilation of unnamed character designs that were all released as open-source. Receiving the designation #0000 (hence “Tetra-None”), the otherwise-uncontextualised one-eyed design was the subject of plentiful fan art. The Fanpro fandom principally referred to the character as “Zero”. Their gender was unclear depending on headcanons and interpretations.
Created on June 2nd, 2013 and updated until January 4th, 2015, 0000's page on the Fanpro Wiki listed a number of possible, contradictory headcanons about the character; some of them contextualised 0000 in purported shared Fanpro world where the different designs all existed as individual characters, referred diegetically by their real-world numbers for one reason or another.
On November 4th, 2014, Brandon Longstreth reposted the artwork on his DeviantArt page under the title “0000 Cyclocks” and created additional open-source characterisation for the character, which went on to inspire the character's depiction in Jenny Over-There: The Nine-Two-Five Universe, with the caveat that Callum Phillpott reverted their take on Tetra-None to a “she” whereas Longstreth's blurb used “they”.
| Hepta-Oct is a Cyclock born to the House of Tetra-None. Tetra was tasked at birth with guarding their designated portion of the timestream and multiplying the Cyclock race. While they had always been a trusted guardian, upon maturity Tetra discovered they were asexual and refused to breed with their assigned mate. Tetra was judged and found guilty of breaking one of the ultimate tenets. She was sentenced to be quelled and merged as part of the timestream but was saved with help from their former mate. Tetra is currently hiding from their people in the present day on Earth. Despite Hepta-Oct being their actual designation, they prefer to use the House name Tetra or Tetra-None. Tetra requires oxygen only for speech as they spent long periods of time in the vacuum of the timestream during repairs. Tetra is a formidable fighter and has some vastly advanced technology that was smuggled out of the timestream. Tetras eyes and brains are specially designed to see changes made to the timestream. They can also 'read' the future before it happens. |
| —Brandon Longstreth |
