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Player: Tee
Contact: terribletrivium
Age: 28
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Character: Peter A Walter VI
Age: 29
Canon: Steam Powered Giraffe
Canon Point: Vice Quadrant

Background: Steam Powered Giraffe: The Comic ⚿ Official Blog ⚿ SPG Backstory ⚿ SPG Timeline ⚿ Vice Quadrant Timeline

Peter A Walter VI is the current CEO of the Walter Robotics Company, founded in 1911 by his great-great-grandpappy, Peter A Walter. He took over the company and the oversight of the Walter legacy in 2013 when his father, Peter A Walter V, stepped down due to dementia. It's a lot of work keeping a mom and pop robotics company afloat, but someone has to do it!

Temecula Rift (2013): Shortly before the once-annual revival of the Walter Robotics Expo, the blue matter rift in Temecula began to show increased activity. Unfortunately, due to a miscalculation, rather than open the rift wider to create a portal for quick travel as Peter had intended, he caused it to collapse in on itself resulting in an implosion that horribly disfigured his face. These things happen when you work with something as unstable as blue matter, and Peter bounced back from this tragedy within days. Walters, you can't keep'em down for nothing.

Vice Quadrant (2015): In 1992, a young Peter A Walter VI sees something foreboding through his telescope and begins work on the WINK (Wandering Intelligent Navigational Knight) project. The project is a success, and an unspecified number of blue matter powered satellites, equipped with Walter Robotics AIs, are launched into space to search for a new home for humanity—you know, just in case.

One of these satellites (calling itself WINK) finds its way back home and crash-lands near Walter Manor. It requests the help of Hatchworth, The Spine, and Rabbit in saving the planet it had found from the grip of a Space Giant. Peter begins work on a spaceship for the robots and WINK in 2014, although he is reluctant to send his robots into the vast unknown. The work is completed in 2015, and WINK, accompanied by Steam Powered Giraffe, returns to space.

Then the Walters go on a family vacation, because that makes sense when the world is in peril.

Personality:
"I've spent years exploring this workshop and I still haven't discovered all of its secrets."

Peter is, first and foremost, before anything else, a huge science nerd. Absolutely the biggest, and there isn't anything he nerds out about more than his great-great-grandpappy's inventions. The Manor hides many secrets, and there isn't a larger concentration of them anywhere outside of the original Peter A Walter's workshop. This is where Peter can usually be found, either working on his own projects or hunting for hidden buttons to press, just to see what will happen. Although it has to be said that he isn't always the most observant; rather than hunt for a lightswitch on the first floor, he used to run down fifty-odd flights of stairs in the dark to turn the workshop lights on. Of course, as impressive as the workshop is, nothing beats the First's crowning achievement: the once 8th and 1/2 Wonder of the World, Colonel P A Walter's Steam Man Band.

So, how exactly does one treat autonomous robots, anyway? If one happens to be Peter Walter the Sixth, the answer is... complicated. As the inheritor of the Walter legacy, he's their caretaker and, technically, their owner (because the US of A doesn't have any personhood laws regarding complex AI). As the CEO of WR, he's their boss, and one might think that would make their relationship perfectly clear, but it really doesn't. Have you ever tried to give an order to someone that watched your great-uncles—and your dad, and you—have their diapers changed? No? Well, neither has Peter, because when all is said and done he'd really rather just ask. Even when wearing his CEO cap he expresses directives as an employer would to an employee, rather than the way someone might, for example, command SIRI to tell them where the nearest Starbucks is. The original steam powered automatons (specifically The Spine and Rabbit, since Hatchworth was locked away for safety reasons for most of his childhood) are like family to him, and you don't just override your robo-uncle or -aunt's autonomy to make them pick up after you, unless you're some kind of monster. Only in the event of a fatal error (for the automatons or literally everyone else) would he ever dream of using the override commands written into their base code.

"Welks to walter Manor!"

Everything about Walter Manor is eccentric, from Norman Becile's Picasso eye and lobster fingers to the Hall of Hamburgers, and Peter Walter the Sixth is no exception. And no, it isn't just his keyhole mask and persistence in wearing striped sweater vests, although both of these things are a bit strange. Like all of the long-term residents of the Manor Peter takes weirdness in stride and thinks nothing of his own eccentricities. He walks around the Manor barefoot even when expecting company, rides his gigantic cat like a horse, and uses slang like a grandpa trying to be hip. Totes coolios, bros! He doesn't believe in doors, but he does believe in the boogey man, and built a boogey ray to prove it. The reason for his aversion to doors is known only to himself—it might just have something to do with that disfiguring implosion he was at the epicenter of in 2013. If your face was a door, wouldn't you want to look at as few of them as possible? Yeah, he thinks so too.

But even if he does have an aversion to doors, Peter isn't the type of person to let a little thing like a nigh-fatal implosion keep him down! Not when there's science to be done, and especially not when he's one of the only people in the world that can do what he does. Within a week of his tragic accident Peter was back to portal-hopping, checking the stability of the slew of miniature blue matter rifts the Temecula rift imploding on itself had caused and seeing for himself that no one else had suffered from his accident. As a Walter it's his duty to keep the Earth-side rifts in check—nobody else can, and he takes this responsibility seriously.

So seriously, in fact, that he refused multiple offers of help from Walter Robotics employees when he first went out to stabilize the Temecula rift in 2013. He went alone, claiming that their efforts were put to better use on less trivial pursuits—certainly a lie to assuage their concerns, considering that, of all people, Peter would know how difficult and dangerous an undertaking stabilizing the rift would be. He put himself in danger so that his employees wouldn't have to. In the words of Walter Robotics' very own Matter Mistress: "Peter’s selflessness should stand out in this event more than anything. It is his motto and creed to take the brunt of the impossible dream, and it is his eagerness to bear this weight that holds us together as a company."

He doesn't regret his decision to go it alone. If anything, he bounced back stronger and more determined than ever, and while the event certainly took its toll, he's learned to live with it. His response has been aggressive optimism and a new penchant for self-aware humor—he even went so far as to wear a tie as a halloween costume, which means no entry bros. Because he... looks like a door.

Abilities:
Inventor; specializes in blue matter theory, engineering, and robotics. Also just a little bit of a genius, he did conceive of and begin work on the WINK project when he was six years old, after all! Aside from that he's a perfectly ordinary human being that just happens to have a truly staggering tolerance for blue matter radiation exposure. It doesn't grant him any superpowers, unless being able to work on the family's robots with minimal protective gear counts as a superpower.

Alignment:
Thras. Peter has shown himself to put others' lives ahead of his own, even when the potential for fatal accidents is high. If that isn't enough for bravery, consider his response to his own disfigurement: he could have wallowed in self-pity and fear, but instead he got right back on his feet and went out to make sure other people hadn't been harmed.

Other: The mask is not removable.


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Questions:
I'd like to bring in Peter's cat from the 8th dimension, Marshmallow. Considering that the cat is approximately the size of a small house, I'll totally understand if it isn't possible.