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Eric, better-known as Professor Awesome, was a mischievous thirteen-year-old mad scientist who lived in the same apartment building as Jenny Everywhere in one universe.
Description
Physical appearance
Eric was a “gangly” teenager. As Professor Awesome, he wore a lab coat. (PROSE: Pit Stop)
Powers and abilities
Eric was particularly skilled at robotics. Despite his scientific leanings, he didn't have much of a head for straight-up mathematics, finding calculator apps sufficient for his purposes. (PROSE: Misunderstandings)
Biography
At the age of nine, Professor Awesome built a robot cat. He later built the Time Pestle. (PROSE: Pit Stop)
Jenny first thwarted Professor Awesome's efforts at supervillainy when he was thirteen. He had been using a de-pants-icator to wreak mayhem. Awesome had also built a Robot Toaster for unknown reasons; Jenny took it home after she'd stopped the Professor. (PROSE: Paying It Forward)
However, a little while later, they appeared to be on good enough term that Jenny took him to a parallel universe so that he could collect some live trilobites to bring to his science teacher, Mr Hernandez. When it transpired that Hernandez had only wanted fossil trilobites, and the numerous trilobites he'd brought got free and caused mayhem in the school, he was asked to go home early. Later in the day, Jenny went to him for help to repair the broken-down dream spinner, the dimensional vehicle of one of her counterparts. To his surprise and glee, she knocked at “Eric”'s door and asked him to take on the mantle of “Professor Awesome” once again.
After he successfully repaired the device with Kim's help, they shared some pastrami sandwiches from Morrie Greenberg's and said their goodbyes. Before leaving, Genevieve repaid Eric with a large gold coin. Kime offered to help Eric translate that gold into modern money and to take him to the hardware store so that he could spend these “wages” on new equipment and parts. She explained that she was already all set to sell some gold, as she had to make something of a chest of pirate gold Jenny had brought back from a recent adventure. Before they could do so, an Angel appeared with much fracas in the very same parking lot, heralding yet another crazy adventure. (PROSE: Pit Stop)
Some time later, Eric got into an argument at school with Judy, a girl with whom he'd become somewhat acquainted, because she wanted to put together a robotics project. Eric felt mildly jealous that she was getting into his own area of expertise, and also tried to dissuade her by telling her that as he was a mad scientist while she was just “an ordinary smart person”, he had a natural advantage and it would be unfair of him to let her try and fail to beat him — something which, obviously, she did not take very well. Going home, Eric tried to talk about it with his Mom, who mistakenly assumed, upon hearing that Judy was a girl, that Eric had some kind of romantic interest in her. Their talking at cross purposes did nothing for Eric's mood and he dropped in on Jenny and Kim, only for them to make the same mistake, delivering to him a long and rambling collection of dating advice. After the women realised their mistakes, however, Kim agreed to help Eric with his math homework. (PROSE: Misunderstandings)