Professor Wudlig Don Vrake

### Affiliation

Scru McCodger,Deltasong Danger,the Clan of Barlcarks (extended),the Engineer,Cuisine Kit,DJ Mooves,Larry Samuel,Charlie Black,Shorts Kid,Snailien

## Physical Attributes

### Species

Frankenalie

A national treasure. You know Bill Nye? Imagine Bill Nye as a cute cuddly duck, who is also an incredible artificer, and can sing and play every instrument ever. That's Professor Wudlig.

## Personality

Curious, inventive, enthusiastic and always open to new ideas, the professor is every scientist's dream of a good scientist. He is constantly learning and researching new topics, which is staggering considering how much of an expert he is about... well... everything. Sometimes this can get a little wearying, as he will set off on lectures about most any topic at the drop of a hat, and occasionally there is a time and a place where it is not advisable to start waxing lyrical about the properties of sound- in the audience during the middle of an opera concert, for example. He is, however, incredibly well meaning and always tries to see the best in people, even though he has seen the worst of it close up. He has a hidden mischievous streak, and can be surprisingly acidic in his humour, though he is never cruel (to those who don't deserve it).

## Appearance

A duck of average height with greying head feathers and pince-nez glasses of a variety he has invented himself (they allow him to see at great magnification, which is highly beneficial so long as he doesn't forget which setting he has left them on). Generally he wears his artificer gear, which consists of leather and hardy fabric which is hard to set fire to.

## Backstory

In his younger days he explored the entirety of Einquell as thoroughly and quickly as he could afford to alongside his constant and extensive study at various schools and universities. He amassed more PHDs, doctorates and diplomas than had ever been seen before by toonkind, even in montage, and was equally eager and quick to share his vast knowledge with the world. His travelling lecture shows helped to fund his travels and research, and earned him a great amount of respect across the continent, though there were some of a more exclusive, esoterically academic leaning who found his behaviour vulgar and overly 'beneficial' to the 'common populace'. He took a specialised interest in the field of toonkind, and became a world authority on their biology, physiology, philosophy, and much else besides. His theories on colour and sound were a turning point in his career, and these topics were the main theme of his first screened lectures (the advent of film allowed for more than entertainment, and was seen by the Professor as yet another opportunity to educate)- and the success of this series repeated once television was invented. Among the Professor's many other claims to fame is the design and collaborated creation of the ill-fated Taffy Train, and while the locomotive itself was sadly destroyed the advances in technology that have resulted from its manufacture cannot be overlooked. The laying of the 'red lace line' was also partly overseen by this educated duck, owing to his knowledge of geology and the natural diversity of Einquell.

His recent discovery of DNA (Definitive Nomenclature of Animation) has been groundbreaking in the fundamental scientific understanding of toons and their intimate relation to waveforms, light, colour, and sound. To this day he studies these topics in the most minute detail, and has recently coined the term of his latest field of discovery and ongoing research; Quantoon Physics.

## Personal life

The Professor was a largely solitary duck until the occasion of a cataclysmic event which rendered one Deltasong Danger an orphan at a young age. Being a close friend of the family, and understanding that the child was proving difficult to handle in the aftermath, Wudlig took the young gosling under his wing as an assistant of sorts. While an adoption was never made official, the match worked well, and despite all the notoriety of Deltasong's stubbornness and pride never once has it been recorded that these two avians had a falling out. The Professor and his charge travelled extensively continuing his work, Deltasong only choosing to leave his care at the age of seventeen in order to pursue the study of sorcery.

It is reported that at the funeral the verbose Professor was, for perhaps the only time in his life, quite unable to speak.

## Shenanigans

Professor Wudlig was first introduced in the Taffy Train Saga, wherein he took the DNA samples of Larry, Charlie, Shorts Kid and Snailien, in order to further his research (in part funded by Scru McCodger, who also instructed him to test the guests who boarded the train, in the hope that one of them might prove to be the supposedly deceased Deltasong Danger). During the disaster the Professor adeptly employed his medical knowledge to aid those injured.