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|title1= Doctor Curious | |title1= Doctor Curious | ||
|image1= Doctor Curious.png | |image1= Doctor Curious.png | ||
|caption1= | |caption1= | ||
|aka= | |aka= Joan Gary | ||
|born= | |born= | ||
|died= | |died= | ||
|species= | |species= | ||
|gender= Male | |gender= Male | ||
|residence= [[Jynx Dimension]] | |residence= [[Doctor Curious's Castle]], [[Jynx Dimension]] | ||
|occupation= | |occupation= Prince<br>[[Mad scientist]] | ||
|romantic_partner(s)= | |romantic_partner(s)= | ||
|creator(s)= | |creator(s)= | ||
|parents= | |parents= | ||
|children= | |children= | ||
|first_seen_in= | |first_seen_in= [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Companions of Doctor Curious (short story)|The Companions of Doctor Curious]] | ||
|also_seen_in= [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of Evil (short story)|The Book of Evil]]''<br>[[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'' | |also_seen_in= [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of Evil (short story)|The Book of Evil]]''<br>[[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'' | ||
|copyright= | |copyright= [[Lillanus Evezan]] | ||
}}'''Doctor Curious''' was an eccentric mad scientist from the [[Jynx Dimension]]. Originally the crown prince of [[Triskadeckia]], he became a mad scientist and, after experimenting on himself and mutating into a strange snake-headed man, had to run away from home, breaking off his engagement and forsaking his right to the throne. | }}'''Doctor Curious''', civilian name '''Joan Gary''', was an eccentric mad scientist from the [[Jynx Dimension]]. Originally the crown prince of [[Triskadeckia]], he became a mad scientist and, after experimenting on himself and mutating into a strange snake-headed man, had to run away from home, breaking off his engagement and forsaking his right to the throne. He had several run-ins with the [[Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]], though they did not consider him a serious threat. | ||
== Description == | |||
=== Physical appearance === | |||
Doctor Curious appeared as “a man in tights” with the torso and legs of a human but the head of a snake, “resting on top of a neck that was three times too big”. He wore a fancy suit, tights, and polka-dotted top hat. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Companions of Doctor Curious (short story)|The Companions of Doctor Curious]]'') | |||
In December | === Personality === | ||
Obsessed with “making” friends (from spare parts, à la [[Baron Frankenstein]], and not too fussed about borrowing from living “donors”), Doctor Curious was a dangerous individual, although he was often too incompetent and trusting to actually pose a serious threat to an informed opponent. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'') He was prone to bouts of genuinely deranged thinking, such as planning to kill two Cupids so that he could create a “hybrid” with “the body of a Cupid and the brain of a Cupid” from their remains, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Companions of Doctor Curious (short story)|The Companions of Doctor Curious]]'') or cheerfully giving accurate directions to [[Imperial Castle|a place]] which he claimed in the same breath not to know how to find himself. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'') | |||
== Biography == | |||
=== Early life === | |||
As Joan Gary ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Companions of Doctor Curious (short story)|The Companions of Doctor Curious]]'') he was originally the crown prince of [[Triskadeckia]] in the [[Jynx Dimension]], but had to leave home after one of his experiments caused him to mutate into a strange snake-headed man. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'') He came to live in a [[Doctor Curious's Castle|strange castle]], protected from interlopers by a system which made it invisible unless one was standing less than twelve feet from it. From further away, trespassers would only see a small, sickly-looking thicket where the castle actually was. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Companions of Doctor Curious (short story)|The Companions of Doctor Curious]]'') | |||
=== First travels in the Multiverse === | |||
At some point in his life of exile, Doctor Curious realised he felt lonely and decided to seek out companionship in [[the Multiverse]]. He learned of the [[Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]] and, hearing of their [[romanticisation]] mission, decided they must be kindred spirits, becoming set on having a Cupid for a friend. He kidnapped one, but this unfortunately was none other than [[Pessimist-242]], who made for dreary company. Inspired by “[[Frankenstein (book)|a book he'd read]]”, Curious got the idea to literally ''make'' a friend by finding a dead [[Clockwork Cherub]] and reprogramming its brain with Curious's ideal personality for a companion. Using [[Pessimist's Fog Ship]], he eventually found contacts at the [[Interdimensional Black Market]] who sold him the coordinates where the body one of the few Cupids who'd ever died could be found. While at the Black Market, he also bumped into a “[[Collective of the Retconning Crocodiles|pompous crocodile scientist]]” and stole the [[Story Rewriter 30000]] from him. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Companions of Doctor Curious (short story)|The Companions of Doctor Curious]]'') | |||
=== Enemy of the Cupids === | |||
[[File:Doctor Curious in The Companions of Doctor Curious.png|thumb|left|Doctor Curious in his laboratory shortly before activating [[Doctor Curious's Monster|his Monster]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Companions of Doctor Curious (short story)|The Companions of Doctor Curious]]'')]]After 53 failed attempts spanning multiple weeks, during which he successfully created a [[Robot Waiter]] but remained unable to revive the dead Cupid, the Doctor eventually felt ready to activate his creation. By coincidence, [[John-181]] and [[Tom-176]], another pair of Cupids, crash-landed near [[Doctor Curious's Castle|his Castle]] and wandered in just in time to witness the experiment, which succeeded. Elated by how well [[Doctor Curious's Monster|the Monster]] had turned out, Curious immediately decided he wanted to make another one, and, after throwing a banquet to celebrate, “drugged” John and Tom's food with capsules that released an electromagnetic pulse to knock them out. He then infected them with a virus he'd developed to corrode a Cupid's circuits over a period of 15 hours so long as the Cupid was kept in close proximity to the virus's control computer. | |||
He transported the two Cupids to the ballroom and tied them to chairs while he waltzed hideously with the Monster. When he learned of his master's plans, however, the Monster decided to turn against him, destroying the computer and then, after Curious unveiled the [[Story Rewriter 3000]] and tried to use it to turn the situation to his advantage, tossed it to Tom so that he could use it to allow all the Cupids to escape safely in their [[Fog Ship]]s, now miraculously repaired. As they fled, blasting a hole through his castle's wall in the process, Curious swore revenge on them, though he was unsure of how he'd find the [[Cupid Homeworld]], or indeed make the virus anew. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Companions of Doctor Curious (short story)|The Companions of Doctor Curious]]'') | |||
=== Later events === | |||
By 2020, [[Pythagoras-858]] stated that he had “a dictionary-sized case file” in the [[Cupid Homeworld]]. | |||
In December, having learned of [[Christmas]] on his extradimensional adventures, Doctor Curious decided to try and tell [[Sebastian Steer|Emperor Steer]] about it, hoping this would be the beginning of a friendship between the two of them. However, after travelling to [[Darkborough]], he was somehow unable to make his way to the [[Imperial Castle]] despite it being located on [[Killmage Hill|a tall hill]] in the exact middle of the City. He encountered [[the Clown Emperor|the Clown]], who asked him for directions to the Castle, which he somehow gave him despite not being able to find it himself. An hour later, he was still lost when Pythagoras, [[Sherlock Holmes#In the Prime Universe|Sherlock Holmes]] and [[Wendy VII]], hot on the heels of the Clown, bumped into him. After a brief chat during which he confirmed that he had met the Clown, they parted ways once more. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'') | |||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
