Wayne

**Wayne** is a Twinborn on Scadrial; a Slider and a Bloodmaker.

He is a friend and colleague of Waxillium Ladrian. He lived in the Roughs and worked with Wax to keep law and order. He traveled to Elendel to help investigate the Vanishers and attempted to convince Wax to return to the Roughs as a lawman.

## Appearance and Personality

Wayne is of average height, lean and muscular, with a round, sharp-chinned face. At the time of the hunt for the Vanishers he was about 30 years old. He prefers to dress in Roughs clothing with a duster coat. He has an affinity for hats, which he says are essential to completing his elaborate disguises. He cannot grow a "proper" beard.

He has an easygoing personality and is often seen manipulating his accent and style of speech depending on who he is with. He and Wax often exchange witty banter when together.

Wayne has little to no concept of boundaries and an almost pathological need to prove that he's not a bad person. He is deeply troubled and has PTSD, and did not cope well with the isolation he faced in the Roughs. Wayne also has a problem with kleptomania. This is seen in his multiple episodes of "trading" items of different value and then making up convoluted reasons for why this "trade" is acceptable.

## History

Wayne's father was a Feruchemist, and Wayne was aware of his abilities by the time he was 16, but never had access to any bendalloy or gold. Wayne had a natural talent for grabbing things without meaning to, and with encouragement from some friends he starting pick pocketing, and eventually robbed a man at gunpoint. He accidentally killed the man, and was easily caught by the local lawman Jon Deadfinger. At the trial he found out that the man he killed had been a bookkeeper, charity worker, and father of three. Wax saved Wayne from being hanged, though the details of how are unknown. Ever since the two have worked together almost like a sheriff and deputy, becoming famous enough to be taught about in University. As a reaction to the death of the bookkeeper, Wayne is unable to hold a gun without his hands shaking, preferring to use dueling canes instead. He also sends half of the money he makes to the man's widow to help pay for her kids, one of whom was able to go to university. He visits Allriandre, the eldest child, at the University on the first day of every month to give her "blood money," but she has not forgiven him.

Wayne saved MeLaan's life by recovering her spikes from Telsin, who had previously removed them. Haggard from grief due to MeLaan's predicament and the alleged death of Waxillium, Wayne used Wax's shotgun on Telsin, knowing that her gold metalminds would heal her. It is unclear if Wayne's surmounting of his gun-phobia was temporary or not.

## Powers and Abilities

Wayne is a bloodmaker, a slider, a ferring, and a mister.

### Accents

One of his best talents, is that, upon hearing somebody's voice, he can imitate them flawlessly, and he can even mix accents for an amazing effect, which fools almost anyone. He has stated that he feels that the accents are the only things he can steal.

*"He was feeling pretty good about this accent. It was a mixture of seventh-son lord and foreman of an ironworks, with just a hint of canal captain. Speaking with it felt like he’d stuffed cotton in half of his mouth and had borrowed the voice from an angry dog. People thought Wayne imitated accents. He didn’t. He outright stole them. They were the only things he was still allowed to steal seeing as to how he’d turned to doing good with his life and stuff like that. -Wayne*

### Bloodmaker

As a bloodmaker he can spend time being sickly and weak, to add to his "goldmine". He can use this stored gold to heal himself later, when the situation is more dire. This is handy for wounds, but the gold does not heal diseases as well. However, if aluminum is in the body, the bloodmaker cannot heal that area of the body as long as it is in place. Bloodmakers are able to heal damages to the soul with a lot of gold, or can even heal a wound from a shardblade.

### Slider

As a Slider Wayne is able to burn bendalloy in order to make time pass more quickly inside of a little bubble he creates for himself. The ratio of inside the bubble to the outside is approximately 2 minutes to 15 seconds.

### Fighting

During fighting Wayne does not like to use guns, instead creating a bubble with is slider abilities and fighting the opponent, who moves much slower than him. After fighting one opponent he will pop his bubble then move on to the next one. This method is useful against men with guns, because if a bullet enters the bullet it will bend course and can't hit him.

### Disguises

Wayne uses his ability to imitate accents paired with crafty costumes to fool almost anyone.

## Trivia

* If Wayne joined the Knights Radiance he would be an edgedancer, and all of the other orders would look at him strangely.
* It would take the author, Brandon Sanderson, a long time just to think of one of Wayne's clever remarks. He explained it as: "Here's the deal, it’s kind of hard to write people who are more clever than you are, but it's one of the tricks you have to learn as a writer. The big difference is, they make it off the cuff in the moment, and you can spend like a week or two trying to find the perfect thing to say in that moment."

## Notes

1. ↑ History from the Coppermind wiki-https://coppermind.net/wiki/Wayne
2. ↑ https://wob.coppermind.net/events/259-oathbringer-leeds-signing/#e8737
3. ↑ https://wob.coppermind.net/events/368-skyward-san-diego-signing/#e11843
4. ↑ https://wob.coppermind.net/adv\_search/?query=Wayne