The Repairer of Reputations was an individual whom the Great Higher-Ups decided to send to the 925th Universe's M.F.S. office to repair its reputation after the Man in Grey compromised it at the Interdimensional Pride Parade in 2022. (PROSE: Workplace Reunion) Initially meant to drop in in August, the Repairer had to delay it multiple times, and by December 24th, the Man in Grey realised the visit had been postponed indefinitely. (PROSE: A Very Jenny Over-There Christmas)
Behind the scenes
The character orginated in The Repairer of Reputations, a short story by Robert W. Chambers which is part of The King of Yellow and, as such, related to the partially-retrospective “Cthulhu Mythos”. In the story, his name is given as “Mr Wilde”. He is a strange man with an abnormal skull shape, missing his ears and several fingers, who convinces the mentally-unstable narrator that he holds powerful men under his sway via a vast blackmailing organisation, and also that he can get him, the narrator, crowned as King of America by proving he is descended from an alien dynasty. At the climax, snapping completely, the narrator ends up accidentally killing Mr Wilde while trying to kill his cousin, whom, in his delusion, he took to be a rival for the throne.
Because the narrator is mentally unstable, some interpretations of the story are that Wilde's claims, or at least the more fantastical ones, may never have existed even as lies, and even that he may not have been killed, or may never have existed outside of the narrator's imagination; however, the context of the character's name-drops in Jenny Over-There: The Nine-Two-Five Universe do suggest that for Callum Phillpott's purposes he was a genuine individual, and potentially genuinely supernatural or connected to the supernatural.
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