Lance X. Penguin

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* Pocket Watch
* Chrono
* Classic

"*The fragility of time is what makes it so necessary to warrant a Bureau of its own. It's like pottery, almost. Malleable at first, but delicate the more time passes.*"
—**Lance X. Penguin**

**Lancaster Xavier Penguin** is a time traveler, dimension hopper, as well as both a founding member and the leader of Pocket Watch. He is the captain of the *Neptunus*, and the former owner of the now destroyed Time Trekker 30K.

## History

### Early Years

Lance was hatched to a pair of Puffish spacefarers (Farah and Lancaster H. Penguin) on the distant, warm planet of Tepidus Terra, a world colonized by penguinkind, presumably sometime shortly after hyperspace was fully utilized. At some point during his later teenage years, both of his parents passed away of unknown causes.

Lance decided to take up engineering around the age of 17, working in a workshop. At some point, he traveled to visit Antarctica back on Earth, only to discover that it had largely regressed into a state of disrepair, with its remaining inhabitants subjugated to the rule of Flywish's descendants.

### Time Traveller

After discovering and repairing a run-down Time Trekker 30K, Lance discovered its time traveling capabilities. He spent numerous months learning about time travel and its repercussions, and managed to install his personal artificial intelligence, JOSHUA, into the trekker's computers, before time traveling five months into the past as a test. He then time traveled back in increasingly larger increments of time, first a few years, decades, centuries and then millennia. He eventually landed in Club Penguin on October 8, 2012, and was immediately confronted by members of the EPF and the Time Agency for creating minor disruptions throughout history.

Realizing that Lance had become well-versed in the mechanics of time travel, the agents decided not to arrest him, and instead recruited him to the Time Agency, since they were also in need of additional staff.

## Equipment

### Current

* **Golden goggles** - Lance owns a pair of buckled golden goggles, which he was believed to have owned since his mechanic career. Lance's goggles were later damaged after his Time Trekker 30K was destroyed in a standoff between him and Dr. Chrono. After Lance founded Pocket Watch, his goggles were repaired, given new frames, as well as several upgrades and implants, all of which were integrated by Jiffy and Dr. Hazard.
	+ **Nanotech mask** - Lance's goggles have a special mask integrated into it, specifically to fit Lance, woven together with nano-fibers. When given the command to, the mask will cover Lance's beak. This mask allows Lance to breathe underwater, in space, in low-pressure environments, as well as in a number of otherwise inhospitable conditions.
	+ **Communications piece** - Lance is able to use his goggles to communicate with both JOSHUA and his team.
	+ **JOSHUA integration** - His goggles comes with equipment to allow JOSHUA to communicate with him, and manage the interface of Lance's goggles.
	+ **"Time vision"** - His goggles can be toggled to see tachyons, or other particles associated with time travel. This can be used to locate time rifts or identify time travelers, although this only works within a certain window of time due to the nature of time-traveling particle decay.
	+ **Magnification** - Lance's goggles can zoom in on objects within his vision to a very impressive degree, allowing him to see things from far distances without the need of binoculars, or identify very small objects.

* **Wristwatch** - Lance owns a wristwatch.
* **Grey trench-coat** - After his first initial conflicts against Dr. Chrono, Lance adopted a trench-coat, later adding the Pocket Watch logo when the team was founded.
* **Boots** - Lance dons a pair of special boots, which come with better grip.
* **Laser Pistol**s - Lance owns two laser pistols, both of which are concealed by his trench-coat.

### Former

* **Purple T-Shirts** - Lance used to own a number of purple shirts, which he later stopped wearing.

## Personality

Lance often carries himself with a high degree of maturity and serenity, maintaining a mostly calm and resolute composure in the face of great danger or peril. Lance is known to be less considerate of emotion-based decisions, favouring options that appear more logical to him, despite his ocassional spikes of emotion in certain extreme cases. He is simplistic in terms of lifestyle and takes a dislike to flashy appearances or flamboyant behavior, seeing it as attention-demanding, pretentious, and overly excessive.

At times he can be somewhat scatterbrained, being messy and disorganized. His own view of himself is rather modest and self-effacing, although Lance does recognize the importance of protecting the timeline and the amount of dedication and effort that he gives to his role in it, from time to time.

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