Odetta Bloxham

:"Open wide and say ah, poppet. Think about how much more efficiently you can slander my work with a mechanical tongue." Bloxham scaring off a journalist.
Dr. Odetta Bloxham is a scientist and roboticist working in radical transhumanism. Her highly controversial research mostly concerns expanding the human lifespan.
==Character==
===Appearance===
She is very tall and broad, with dark skin and short, blonde hair. She has metal arms, one metal leg, and metal plates on either side of her head. Her mouth is full of huge, metal teeth and her fingertips can switch out for small blades, hooks and other tools. She has deep-set yellow eyes, similar to a hawk's.
She dresses fairly formally, typically seen in a straw yellow sweatervest, grey pencil skirt and grey dress shoes. Her shirts and jackets are sleeveless to prevent any threads or scraps from getting caught in the fine mechanical parts of her arms.
=== Personality===
Self-assured and confident, she has a leering smugness to her that can seem a little creepy. She's disinterested in the feelings and preconceptions of others, caring more about progress in the long-term than short-term setbacks. She has somewhat of a mean streak, prefers machines to people, and can be a bully according to former lab partners. Though not quick to anger, she can become explosively aggressive if her work is jeopardised.
===Skills and Abilities===
She is superhumanly strong and resilient, due to her enhanced body parts, and despite her enormous hands her ability to attach custom fingertips for the special requirements of certain jobs gives her a lot of dextrous versatility. She is a skilled roboticist and surgeon, with an excellent mind. Her size and intense personality also give her excellent intimidation skills.
==History ==
Much of her past and backstory are unknown, but are implied to be dark. Her history of research is described as "Disturbing at best, and downright horrific at worst", while there is much controversy over her cyborg minions known as her "Brood".
Her initial character profile document by creator Bryn H describes her history of self-modification:
"Bloxham herself is not all human either, having long ago replaced both her short sighted eyes with ones modelled off predatory bird eyes and her teeth with larger, stronger titanium teeth that barely seem to fit in her head and glint menacingly in harsh laboratory light when she smiles. Her hands and arms have been artificially augmented so as she can better perform precise surgeries requiring steady hands for long durations of time and parts of her leg muscles have been subjected to a new process she is developing."
She was also, in the past, affiliated with Dr. Mikaela Holzmann, but the two parted on unsteady terms when Holzmann was disfigured by an accident in Bloxham's laboratory. She also worked for some time with the ProsTechnic Prosthetics Laboratory, alongside Dr. Harkimo, however she quit before Dr. Periwinkle's mental break, and thus did not walk the plank with much of ProsTechnic's other leading staff.
==Trivia== 
*Her initial design was described as 'short, with a brightly-coloured bob'.
*Bloxham has an estranged daughter named Roxanne, who was put up for adoption. It is unknown who Roxanne's other parent is, or if Bloxham created her unconventially (i.e. via lab, as some scientists are known to do), but the two are on okay terms, despite Roxanne having not known her mother for the first twenty years of her life.
Category:Females
Category:Scientists
Category:Cyborgs