Tinker

General Description

Tinker, a genius and a Technopath, is first introduced in book 7: Flashback. She is described as very eccentric, and hardly ever gives you straight answers, preferring to answer in questions. She designed the enhancing blocker and the null that Sophie wore in Flashback, that ended up blocking all technology around her and letting Alvar escape. Dex has worked and probably still works with her to develop his Technopathy. (In Flashback, he was going 'as often as he could, preferably every day'.) She also has a pet gremlin named Sprocket, and a tomple, which helps her keep her lab clean. (Tomples eat dust.) Both Dex and Mr. Forkle have expressed confusion at her choice of of pets, since gremlins dismantle anything they can get their hands on, but Tinker insists it is worth it.

Residence

Tinker currently lives in Widgetmoor where she works on all of her projects. This residence runs on the power of earth, air, sunlight, and water. (She is afraid of fire, but from what is unknown) It is said that every part of Widgetmoor has a purpose, waiting to be discovered. It has many features such as five bells that might tell the time, and a number of "pet projects" that "live" in her house. She also has here own version of a vortinator, a usually violent ride which transports the people on board upwards by spiraling as if on a corkscrew. Hers is much gentler, and Sophie notes it to be very smooth and slow.

Gadgets

Tinker, being an accomplished Technopath, has a bunch of gadgets that she has made over the years, such as

-Her pet projects. These are encredibly lifelike robots that are modled after different animals, such as a rabbit, a monkey, a hummingbird, an owl, and a marmoset.

-Mr. Forkle's office, which looks simple but has a number of features including a projector that shows pictures of all of the intelligent species and humans, a table with a 3D map of the world with all of the cities on it, and a mysterious feature that lets Mr. Forkle 'eject everyone from the room if he wanted to'.

-The null on the fake Ruwen crest that was originally supposed to block the Neverseen from tracking Sophie, but ended up blocking the Warden that Dex created to keep Alvar from escaping Everglen.

Appearance

Tinker's appearance matches her personality. She has messy, bright red hair and is 'the tallest elf Sophie had ever seen.' She also almost always wears her Black Swan disguise, for it is also functional as well as good concealment.