The Mechanic

The Mechanic was a renegade Time Lord, originally a professor at the Arcanian University.

Biography
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Personality
The Mechanic was a Time Lord with brilliance, resourcefulness, relentlessness and drive that was matched by precious, precious few. However, he was unfortunately a cold, calculating and fundamentally analytical sociopath without scruples. In every single incarnation, the Mechanic maintained an absolutely logical personality.

As a child and a teenager (By the standards of a Time Lord), the Mechanic showed early signs of extreme brilliance, becoming an exemplary student at the Arcanian University. When he looked into the Untempered Schism, the Mechanic became inspired with the concept that the entire universe was a vastly elaborate and complex machine that would never cease to operate and develop. The Mechanic was vastly intelligent and an unrivalled expert in interstitial physics, cybernetics, biology and interstellar technology. However, upon looking into the Schism, he also showed signs of becoming an absolute sociopath.

The Mechanic was a master of manipulation, which he learned early as a child - even before his initiation into the Academy. He knew precisely what strategies to resort to in order to get what he wanted and had no complaints about blackmailing, threatening or extorting others into doing as he asked. However, in contrast to common speculation, the Mechanic was not a sadistic man. In fact, he did not react at all to the pain of others. He appeared to be completely emotionless and confessed that he did not feel anything, not anger, happiness, despair or even fear. Instead, the Mechanic was a logician and didn't do anything because he wanted to, but because it was logical to his plans.

As a result of his extreme intelligence, the Mechanic was an exceptionally gifted strategist. He is remarked by anyone who knew him well enough to view him as an extremely dangerous opponent because he had no scruples and no known extremes in morality or ethics. While a lot of people viewed him as evil, it is more accurate and insightful to describe him as amoral. He did not view the differences between good and evil, and instead saw the intelligent and the idiotic, the resourceful and the limited, which led to him having an indifferent outlook on the universe.

The Mechanic wasn't only logical but also a misanthrope: he confessed personally that he deeply preferred machines to organic life forms because, in his view, "they didn't get in the way". He felt that he was also a machine, simply with no metal mechanics involved. The only proper relationship he actually had was with his android companion Cypher (Cybernetic Physical Experimental Replacement). The Doctor describes him as 'a grandfather clock in a Time Lord's body', to which the Mechanic expressed that he would have felt flattery at such a remark.

Equipment and Skills
The Mechanic was a fully-fledged genius of the highest calibre. He was best known as far as skill is concerned for his innate, unmatched knowledge of universal mechanics. He was also an expert on biology, chemistry, physics, celestial cryptography and cybernetics. He was an acclaimed professor at the Arcanian University, teaching Interstitial Physics and Cybernetics as a personal preference. He was so incredibly knowledgeable and proficient in such things that he was able to create, from scratch and without a single blueprint, his own personal cybernetic organism (Cypher) which was capable of sparring with him in physical combat, play every single instrument in history, operate his Tardis and even read his mind based on his behaviour.

The Mechanic was a master strategist and manipulator, capable of creating vastly elaborate plans over entire planetary systems that worked faultlessly and entirely to his advantage. These plans involved the emotional and psychological capacities and extremes of his targets and involved alternatives that led to the exact same conclusion should anything go out of hand. His ability to manipulate people involved blackmail, reverse psychology, anonymity and the exploitation of personal opinions and limitations. His intelligence was such that he became the inspiration for the character of Professor Moriarty for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Despite preferring to resort to his own brilliance, the Mechanic was in perfect physical condition, possessing great speed, strength, durability and reflexes. He exercised repeatedly in his spare time and remarked that he was on a diet. He was also extremely agile and nimble, keeping ahead of others very easily and even outrunning a pack of Slitheen without becoming exhausted. He was also, in spite of his agile frame, surprisingly strong, capable of bending a metal bar into a curve.

He was also a very skilled hand-to-hand fighter, capable of wrestling a Sontaran and winning. He could also break a Slitheen's arm easily due to his martial arts knowledge. His most remarkable demonstration of combat skill is when he fought the Doctor at the Reichenbach Falls and narrowly won, taking them both into the waterfall.