Fenntz Etheus

* Pre-Godtier
* Post-Godtier

**Fenntz** has always been a prodigy child. He's incredibly taken with science, and has been teaching himself quantum theory ever since he could pick up its textbook (with the help of his online friend). He was employed by the fuchsia ruler of Oquibia to try to create *synthetic time travel* with the STMD project, and has been happily at work with it for several sweeps. He's very absentminded and always has his head in the clouds, but is a genuinely cheerful and friendly individual that's hard to dislike.

## Description

### Appearance

Pre-godtier, Fenntz is a tall cerulean (topaz) troll, standing at 6'5" or 195 cm, excluding his horns. Including his horns, he is 6'10" or 208 cm. He wears his most of his semi-long hair in a ponytail, some covering parts of his face as bangs. His skin is splotched with discolored or paler patches where he had been chemically burned by experiments he had been too hasty performing, creating patches of light cerulean all over his face, arms, and chest. Due to a blown fuse, he is missing his ring finger on his left hand. He wears a pair of rectangular glasses, a pale orange lab coat, bright orange rubber gloves, jeans, sneakers, a black shirt, and (most prominently) a bright purple-pink belt with his symbol on the buckle.

Post-godtier, Fenntz's burns have turned a brilliant pulsating gold rather than their off-blue color, and his hair a brilliant white. His skin has also been marked with swirling golden and white lines, as well as little scales along his arms tipped in white. He grows cerulean plates similar to his stegosaurus lusus along his spine that trail off into a tail with 4 spikes at the end. He also gets the standard Heir uniform; orange pants, blue shoes, a long, red-orange cape. He also gets an orange t-shirt with a bright yellow symbol of light on the front.

### Personality

Fenntz is incredibly cheerful and difficult to discourage, sharing a lot of enthusiasm for projects and experiments he may be working on, most particularly the STMD. He is more focused on his work than anything else in his life, and he's happy this way! Because of his intense love for science, he seldom gets more than a couple hours of sleep (if any at all) and drinks enough caffeine that if he were to enter a pool for too long there's a good chance his heart would simply stop beating. He's popular among his peers for his optimism, kindness, diligence, and sense of humor, making him hard to dislike.

## Main Story

### Act 1

#### TRANSIT

Fenntz Etheus, after lying in wait for his alarm to go off for hours, leaps out of bed due to his uncontrollable excitement over his sweeps-in-the-making machine, the Space Time Modification Device (STMD), being put to use for the first time later that day. He says goodbye to his lusus and sprints out the door. He fails to recognize that his shirt is buttoned incorrectly, his hair is a mess, he is only wearing 1 shoe, and it is 3:40 AM. Rather, he doesn't care. Fenntz leaps onto the train headed for his workplace, grinning maniacally at another passenger, who seems rather "out of it." He doesn't give them another thought as he races to his lab, letting himself in by typing a code to get through a back door since no one else was there.

In the testing room, he encounters Calibu Tahira, who is cleaning the floor during her night shift. He rambles to her ecstatically about the STMD, and she is very supportive of his excitement. This is when Bernie Becket enters the room, asking the two of them in an accusatory manner why there was no one else at the workplace. He is seemingly unaware that it is 4:00 AM due to sleep deprivation. He makes an offhanded comment about reporting Fenntz to HR before talking awkwardly with Calibu. In order to posture to Calibu, he orders Fenntz to "run the examination checks." To appease him, Fenntz flips some switches and pushes some buttons, and the STMD is turned on. It welcomes Fenntz, and he greets it back. He, inspired, suddenly gets the grand idea to activate the device despite it being scheduled to be used later that day. He grabs both Bernie and Calibu and the three of them are transported back in time.

The three land in front of the Wrumore crowd, followed by the rest of the Player Characters. As several of the others are seized by guards or threatening elders, Fenntz is left absolutely delighted by the inexplicably strange people they've found here, as well as the fact that his STMD worked without a hitch. He, along with the 10 other PCs, are then pushed into a blue and green glitching rift that was opened by an elder using a pair of giant, important-looking scissors.

#### ASCENSION

Fenntz awakes in the second couple of trolls on a soft bed alongside PC9, wearing a golden-colored dress that goes does to his ankles and has short sleeves. He, seeing PC9 awake, immediately rushes over to her in search of answers to all his questions about what has happened, who they are, and how they arrived here. She, unable to speak any form of language, growls at Fenntz and darts away toward a gaping hole in the gold and purple walls. He pursues her, trying to introduce himself, before she is stopped in her tracks by an tall, unknown troll in a casual white blouse and black leather pants. She comments on how feisty PC9 "used to be," and greets Fenntz positively as if they had met before. He welcomes her back, asking her a series of questions she does not answer before sending him toppling towards a stone bed with the sigil he wears on his belt buckle painted onto the top. After setting him down on a bed parallel to his, she coos at him for a second before ripping her signature chainsaw through his head. PC9 is killed in a similar fashion, down the middle. She bleeds white blood, which is commented on as being strange. The two corpses rise into the air and stitch themselves back together as they ascend to godtier and gain their powers, Fenntz laughing in delight the entire time. The two of them vanish, reappearing in Wrumore.

## Trivia

* Fenntz is the most literate Cloverleaf PC, despite not being the brightest one.
* Naturally, Fenntz would join science club in high school.
* Fenntz's assigned Sguide deity is Eyja.
* Arospec king

## Quotes

* *"Oh! I blew a fuse and lost one of my fingers, but the burger I had afterwards was really good, so my day's been alright."*