Janice Rowe aka Tinker By SilkyNoire Watch

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Officially an intelligence consultant and expert on the Soviets, Janice is really the main villain of the game, calling herself 'Tinker'. She was in the first round of government-run Spike trials three years previous (1981), along with her twin brother, Jacob, when they were both in college. The first dose crippled her and killed her brother. Their family was paid quite a bit of money to not take what happened public. Janice was monitored for a year afterwards. She faked coping, going through the stages of grief, but she really stopped at anger, blaming the government for what was done to her and her brother. The drug gave her a compulsive need to build and invent, as well as not blinking often, and being unable to sleep for more than an hour or two at a time. It’s out of her system, but the damage is done. She patented several inventions (through shell corporations and aliases so the government couldn’t claim them as theirs), making enough money to finance other plans but not enough to draw attention. She works behind the scenes, sending typewritten anonymous letters, manipulating those down on their luck (homeless, ex-cons, and the like), using them to run errands and act as couriers for her, paying them through dead drops and routing phone calls in loops to cover her tracks. She’s given classified information to the Soviets, helped them build their own cyborg super soldiers, taunted the heroes through phone calls and hijacking a PA system (always using a synthesizer to disguise her voice), smuggled Spike out of a secure lab and gave it to a small-time drug dealer to distribute, sabotaged the heroes’ plane, held a family hostage to them in one place so a cyborg could murder them, planted evidence to throw off suspicion, and threatened to leak government secrets to the public. She didn't reveal herself until the end of the game, after the heroes gathered evidence and cornered her at home. She ranted at them, lured them into a deathtrap, attacked them with spider robots and a coil gun, and before she was captured, coerced the Soviets to launch a missile carrying a dozen cyborgs at DC. When at work, Janice is chipper, polite, and eager to help, but it’s all an act. She’s very antisocial, short-tempered, extremely intelligent (IQ last measured at 220) and arrogant. She claims she wants to undermine the US government because it's corrupt and that citizens deserve better, that the Spike trials are the latest in a long list of the country doing whatever it wanted without repercussion, but she’s hiding her own pain and anger at what was done to her and her brother behind a ‘noble’ cause. She doesn’t have friends or anything that brings her joy, except for the brief moments where she feels superior to others. She compulsively builds, plots, and isolates herself. Though she tries to avoid attention, her arrogance often gets the better of her. Janice doesn't think she's right. She knows it

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Published : Mar 19, 2017