Professor Helvetius
Professor Helvetius was a mysterious scientist and traveller, with some kinship to Doctor Omega.
Description
Physical appearance
The version of Professor Helvetius encountered by Jenny Over-There and Dynamite Thor appeared as an “odd-looking woman”, wearing an outfit which “reminded Jenny of either Doctor Omega or Doctor Know”. 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
The version of Professor Helvetius encountered by Jenny Over-There and Dynamite Thor was 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)
Biography
One 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)
Behind the scenes
Professor Helvetius originated in the 1906 science fiction novel Doctor Omega by Arnould Galopin, where he appears as a male colleague of Doctor Omega.
