Laura Drake (775th Universe)
The 775th Universe's version of Laura Drake lived on Mystepolia alongside her girlfriend Jenny. A trailblazing physicist, she built a device which summoned Lord Grallyx to Mystepolia and also kickstarted Jenny's discovery of her powers as an incarnation of Jenny Everywhere. This was fairly typical of Laura's experiments, despite her desperate insistence that she was not a “mad scientist”.
Description
Physical appearance
Like the other humans of this universe, she had four fingers on each hands. She appeared as a young, short woman with pale skin and big curly red hair. She wore thick round rimless glasses and golden earrings, as well as a mauve version of a classic Howie-style labcoat. (COMIC: The Demon and the Butterfly)
Personality
Laura was a highly creative individual, switching on a dime from extreme self-confidence to bouts of anxiety about whether her projects would work out. She was insecure about the idea of being a “mad scientist”, taking pains to maintain safety and control in all her experiments despite destiny's best efforts to make everything go wrong. She was genuinely enamoured with Jenny, but there was an unhealthy tinge to their relationship, with Laura knowingly playing with Jenny's downright desperate level of attachment to her. Jenny was aware of this to a degree, and feared Laura viewing her as more of a test subject than a partner, leading to her keeping her powers secret from Laura. (COMIC: The Demon and the Butterfly)
Biography
Youth
Laura and Jenny met when the two were around sixteen. At the time, Jenny was dabbling in urban exploration, and found her way to Drake Manor, mistakenly believing it to be abandoned. Climbing in through a window, she soon found herself face-to-face with Laura, who'd just been just about to go to bed. Laura later described the scene as “very Peter Pan”. The two became fast friends following this incident, although it would be some time yet before they started dating. (COMIC: The Demon and the Butterfly: Special Q&A)
Primarily a physics graduate, Laura spent five years working on the Triangular Bisector before she organised an official demonstration of its powers, during which she also designed the Bubblecopter, and tested the Bisector multiple times without incident. Despite her stylings, she was keen not to be perceived as a mad scientist or a danger to others, but her faith in herself was fragile, and was once shaken by someone called Doctor Cartwright. (COMIC: The Demon and the Butterfly)
The demo
As the endpoint of five years of research, Laura eventually completed the Triangular Bisector. By that point, she was dating Jenny. It was intended to open a small portal to the heart of an alien sun in another dimension and safely funnel powers from it. It wasn't designed to allow physical beings to travel between the dimensions. However, when Laura organised an official demo at the Museum, Lord Grallyx, a demonic being who had been imprisoned in the heart of the star Laura had selected, pushed his way through, damaging the Bisector in the process. Jenny quickly climbed onto the stage, helping to steady Laura, who was spiraling into irrational guilt. After calming her down, Jenny tried to use the Bisector again to summon the Disciples of Golden Light so they could trap Grallyx again, but it backfired and she received a blast of shifter energy which briefly knocked her out. However, she quickly woke up, newly-infused with the energy, which allowed her to start shifting objects from other universes into her grasp.
Jenny and Laura chased after Grallyx in Laura's Bubblecopter, whereupon they got Grallyx's attention and Jenny used a great discharge of shifter energy to summon a huge amount of water atop Grallyx, which doused him and extinguished his fire, leaving only a small and very confused lizard. Some time later, they went over the event back in Laura's room, with Laura explaining that the news coverage of the incident had actually gotten her more investors to further develop her invention, and also pointing out that they had received thanks from the soldier whom Grallyx had been about to kill when Laura and Jenny swept in. Jenny continued to claim to Laura that her powers had completely faded after the large discharge of energy she used to defeat Grallyx, which was secretly not the case. (COMIC: The Demon and the Butterfly)
Playing with the Interdimensional Ham Radio
While work on repairing the Triangular Bisector was ongoing, Laura resumed “playing” with an old, more rudimentary invention: the Interdimensional Ham Radio. She started to get messages from “interdimensional busybodies” who'd apparently been watching her and Jenny, and agreed to answer their questions to keep them talking, also talking Jenny and Jimmy into answering any questions directed at them. (COMIC: The Demon and the Butterfly: Special Q&A)
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