Character Biographies
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The following biographies are not authoritative. They are merely a starting point for the actors and script-writers to key off of. Also, feel free to modify them.
Contents
- 1 Doctor Wesley When, age 43 (Act I and III, Denouement)
- 2 Professor Catherine Chronos, age 43 (Act I and III)
- 3 Young Wesley When, age 18 (all acts)
- 4 Young Catherine Chronos, age 18 (all acts)
- 5 Young Buffy, age 18 (all acts)
- 6 Doctor Wesley When, age 43 (Act II)
- 7 Professor Catherine Chronos, age 43 (Act II, Denouement)
- 8 Ty the Janitor (Act III)
- 9 Buffy the Lab Assistant, age 43 (Denouement)
Doctor Wesley When, age 43 (Act I and III, Denouement)
Doctor When is a somewhat insane inventor, a mechanical and theoretical genius. Unbeknownst to the viewers, his drive to invent and succeed is motivated by an incident at the Science Fair when he was 18, when he was "slimed" by a Science Fair project gone awry. He has a wild look in his eyes and can be a bit intolerant of the failings of others. He tends to run experiments with no regards for controls or careful observations and so his papers have been rejected by the mainstream scientific community. As a consequence he has no respect to them. He has no room for love in his life and sees Professor Chronos as nothing more than an intelligent resource, whose theoretical groundwork was useful in actually creating the time machine.
Professor Catherine Chronos, age 43 (Act I and III)
Professor Chronos is a shy and introverted scientist. Although the world's foremost expert on Tachyon Midi-ether co-keypad ring theory, her work is mostly theoretical. She was somewhat surprised when 10 years ago, out of nowhere, her old high school crush Wesley When had some questions about her work seemingly out of the blue, that showed an strong understanding of the theory she had developed. In the last ten years, Wesley has turned her work and some of his into a seemingly-practical time machine, although she has some worry about whether it will work as well as he says it will. Working closely with Wesley has rekindled her attraction to him, but her overtures are always ignored. She tells herself that maybe he does have feelings for her subconsciously, and that perhaps after this project is over she will try to be more aggressive and get him to find that affection for her. She has helped develop most of the theory of the time machine, but she doesn't understand most of the mechanical and physical devices that has gone into it.
When the time machine fails and When is lost in time, Catherine finds herself scrambling to understand the machine that she only understands the groundwork for.
