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| species= [[Cyclock]] | | species= [[Cyclock]] | ||
| gender= | | gender= Non-binary; variable presentation | ||
| residence= [[Crieff]], [[Scotland]], [[925th Universe]] | | residence= [[Crieff]], [[Scotland]], [[925th Universe]] | ||
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| first_seen_in= [[PROSE]]: ''[[Open Sourcing (short story)|Open Sourcing]]'' | | first_seen_in= [[PROSE]]: ''[[Open Sourcing (short story)|Open Sourcing]]'' | ||
| also_seen_in= [[PROSE]]: ''[[Good Crieff - The Tribulations of the Scottish Division (short story)|Good Crieff - The Tribulations of the Scottish Division]]''<br>[[PROSE]]: ''[[Annals of the Jen: One Year of Jenny Over-There (novel)|Annals of the Jen: One Year of Jenny Over-There]]'' | | also_seen_in= [[PROSE]]: ''[[A Series of Queer Events (short story)|A Series of Queer Events]]''<br>[[PROSE]]: ''[[Good Crieff - The Tribulations of the Scottish Division (short story)|Good Crieff - The Tribulations of the Scottish Division]]''<br>[[PROSE]]: ''[[Annals of the Jen: One Year of Jenny Over-There (novel)|Annals of the Jen: One Year of Jenny Over-There]]'' | ||
| copyright= Open Source | | copyright= Open Source | ||
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}}The [[925th Universe]]'s '''version of [[Tetra-None Hepta-Oct]]''', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Good Crieff - The Tribulations of the Scottish Division (short story)|Good Crieff - The Tribulations of the Scottish Division]]'') whose name was sometimes rendered as '''0000-8888888''', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Open Sourcing (short story)|Open Sourcing]]'') and often called simply '''Tetra''', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Annals of the Jen: One Year of Jenny Over-There (novel)|Annals of the Jen: One Year of Jenny Over-There]]'': ''[[Happy Birthday, Jenny Over-There! (short story)|Happy Birthday, Jenny Over-There!]]'', etc.) was a [[Cyclock]] who became an employee of the [[Multidimensional Finders Service]]'s [[M.F.S. Scottish Division|Scottish Division]] in the [[925th Universe]]. | }}The [[925th Universe]]'s '''version of [[Tetra-None Hepta-Oct]]''', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Good Crieff - The Tribulations of the Scottish Division (short story)|Good Crieff - The Tribulations of the Scottish Division]]'') whose name was sometimes rendered as '''0000-8888888''', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Open Sourcing (short story)|Open Sourcing]]'') and often called simply '''Tetra''', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Annals of the Jen: One Year of Jenny Over-There (novel)|Annals of the Jen: One Year of Jenny Over-There]]'': ''[[Happy Birthday, Jenny Over-There! (short story)|Happy Birthday, Jenny Over-There!]]'', etc.) was a [[Cyclock]] who became an employee of the [[Multidimensional Finders Service (925th Universe)|Multidimensional Finders Service]]'s [[M.F.S. Scottish Division|Scottish Division]] in the [[925th Universe]]. | ||
== Description == | == Description == | ||
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=== Powers & abilities === | === Powers & abilities === | ||
As a [[Cyclock]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Good Crieff - The Tribulations of the Scottish Division (short story)|Good Crieff - The Tribulations of the Scottish Division]]'') she had the ability to see through time, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Open Sourcing (short story)|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 (short story)|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]]: | As a [[Cyclock]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Good Crieff - The Tribulations of the Scottish Division (short story)|Good Crieff - The Tribulations of the Scottish Division]]'') she had the ability to see through time, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Open Sourcing (short story)|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 (short story)|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]]: ''[[Annals of the Jen: One Year of Jenny Over-There (novel)|Annals of the Jen: One Year of Jenny Over-There]]'': ''[[Tetra-None Hepta-Oct and Doctor Know-It-All Talk it Out (short story)|Tetra-None Hepta-Oct and Doctor Know-It-All Talk it Out]]'') | ||
On one occasion, [[Jenny Over-There (925th Universe)|Jenny Over-There]] also got the sense that Tetra was absent-mindedly trying to initiate a psychic connection with her before belatedly realising her human conversation partner couldn't reciprocate this form of communication. ([[PROSE]]: [[A Series of Queer Events (short story)|''A Series of Queer Events'' (2024 reedit)]]) | |||
=== Personality === | |||
Tetra had trouble acclimatising to human life, as her homeworld's culture didn't include various human concepts ranging from “living in linear time” to gender, with the closest equivalent to the latter being [[time signature]]s. However, she was excited to learn about human lifestyles, notably being determined to try out all gender presentations at a leisurely pace. ([[PROSE]]: [[Open Sourcing (short story)|''Open Sourcing'' (2024 reedit)]]) | |||
== Biography == | == Biography == | ||
=== Early existence === | === Early existence === | ||
As a [[Cyclock]] | As a [[Cyclock (925th Universe)|Cyclock]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Good Crieff - The Tribulations of the Scottish Division (short story)|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 (novel)|Annals of the Jen: One Year of Jenny Over-There]]'': ''[[Tetra-None Hepta-Oct and Doctor Know-It-All Talk it Out (short story)|Tetra-None Hepta-Oct and Doctor Know-It-All Talk it Out]]'') with the species having been “hand-crafted” by “the [[Guardians of Time (925th Universe)|Guardians of Time]] themselves” to “watch over the timelines of many universes”, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Good Crieff - The Tribulations of the Scottish Division (short story)|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 (novel)|Annals of the Jen: One Year of Jenny Over-There]]'': ''[[Tetra-None Hepta-Oct and Doctor Know-It-All Talk it Out (short story)|Tetra-None Hepta-Oct and Doctor Know-It-All Talk it Out]]'') On [[Cyclock homeworld (925th Universe)|their homeworld]], Tetra-None Hepta-Oct didn't exist in linear time, a concept they would later find fairly befuddling. ([[PROSE]]: [[Open Sourcing (short story)|''Open Sourcing'' (2024 reedit)]]) | ||
On one occasion, “she was handed the legendary [[Rubix Configuration]] that imprisoned the [[Celebite]]s, 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 (short story)|Good Crieff - The Tribulations of the Scottish Division]]'') | On one occasion, “she was handed the legendary [[Rubix Configuration]] that imprisoned the [[Celebite]]s, 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 (short story)|Good Crieff - The Tribulations of the Scottish Division]]'') Tetra hadn't realised what would happen when she solved the Configuration, unaware that the Celebties had been “contained” within the Configuration for “centuries”. After being freed, the beings “went on to cause a very chaste brand of havoc across the universe”, for which reason Tetra avoided bragging about her intellectual feat in solving the puzzle, no matter how remarkable it was. ([[PROSE]]: [[Good Crieff - The Tribulations of the Scottish Division (short story)|''Good Crieff: The Tribulations of the Scottish Division'' (2024 reedit)]]) | ||
=== Hiring at the M.F.S. === | === Hiring at the M.F.S. === | ||
Having been compelled to leave [[Cyclock homeworld (925th Universe)|her homeworld]], ([[PROSE]]: [[Open Sourcing (short story)|''Open Sourcing'' (2024 reedit)]]) she was one of the candidates interviewed by [[Jenny Over-There (925th Universe)|Jenny Over-There]] and [[The Man in Grey (925th Universe)|the Man in Grey]], hoping to get a position at the [[Multidimensional Finders Service (925th Universe)|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 (925th Universe)|Doctor Know-It-All]], [[Talbot Molossus]] and [[the Hydrant]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Open Sourcing (short story)|Open Sourcing]]'') | |||
The newly-hired Scottish Division team also attended the Pride party organised by Jenny Over-There and [[Dynamite Thor (Fox universe)|Dynamite Thor]] in [[Professor Helvetius's Convenient Pride Decorations Shop]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Series of Queer Events (short story)|A Series of Queer Events]]'') Tetra and Jenny soon agreed that loud, crowded merriment wasn't their thing, and went off to get a pizza together. ([[PROSE]]: [[A Series of Queer Events (short story)|''A Series of Queer Events'' (2024 reedit)]]) | |||
=== Working for the Scottish Division === | === 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 (925th Universe)|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 Molossus|Talbot]] and [[the Hydrant]] were largely useless, with Talbot acting as team leader and the Hydrant as his moral support; [[Doctor Know (925th Universe)|Doctor Know]], thanks to [[Doctor Know's computer|his magical computer]], was more capable, but he also frequently deserted his duties. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Good Crieff - The Tribulations of the Scottish Division (short story)|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 (novel)|Annals of the Jen: One Year of Jenny Over-There]]'': ''[[Happy Birthday, Jenny Over-There! (short story)|Happy Birthday, Jenny Over-There!]]'') | After they got settled in their new HQ in [[Crieff]], Tetra, now alternating she/her and they/them pronouns, ([[PROSE]]: [[Good Crieff - The Tribulations of the Scottish Division (short story)|''Good Crieff: The Tribulations of the Scottish Division'' (2024 reedit)]]) soon proved the team member most able to fill in for [[Jenny Over-There (925th Universe)|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, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Good Crieff - The Tribulations of the Scottish Division (short story)|Good Crieff - The Tribulations of the Scottish Division]]'') though she continued to find “Earth-speak” somewhat challenging. ([[PROSE]]: [[Good Crieff - The Tribulations of the Scottish Division (short story)|''Good Crieff: The Tribulations of the Scottish Division'' (2024 reedit)]]) | ||
In contrast, [[Talbot Molossus|Talbot]] and [[the Hydrant]] were largely useless, with Talbot acting as team leader and the Hydrant as his moral support; [[Doctor Know (925th Universe)|Doctor Know]], thanks to [[Doctor Know's computer|his magical computer]], was more capable, but he also frequently deserted his duties. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Good Crieff - The Tribulations of the Scottish Division (short story)|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 (novel)|Annals of the Jen: One Year of Jenny Over-There]]'': ''[[Happy Birthday, Jenny Over-There! (short story)|Happy Birthday, Jenny Over-There!]]'') | |||
In the spring of 2023, she got a call from [[Dynamite Thor (Fox universe)|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 (novel)|Annals of the Jen: One Year of Jenny Over-There]]'': ''[[Peter Thor's Day Off (short story)|Peter Thor's Day Off]]'') | In the spring of 2023, she got a call from [[Dynamite Thor (Fox universe)|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 (novel)|Annals of the Jen: One Year of Jenny Over-There]]'': ''[[Peter Thor's Day Off (short story)|Peter Thor's Day Off]]'') | ||
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[[Category:Individuals]] | [[Category:Individuals]] | ||
[[Category:Non-Binary Individuals]] | |||
[[Category:Females]] | [[Category:Females]] | ||
[[Category:Dimensional Travellers]] | [[Category:Dimensional Travellers]] | ||
[[Category:M.F.S. employees]] | [[Category:M.F.S. employees]] | ||
[[Category:925th Universe individuals]] | [[Category:925th Universe individuals]] | ||