ClockWork

The first of what would be considered the Masked Super-Villains of today. The Journal and Workbook pages from ClockWork became a highly sought after long after the villa'ins demise. Each page revealing amazing insight and understanding of mechanical engineering and fringe science. With each page having its own level of encryption written by the highly paranoid ClockWork, even after they were no longer cutting edge tech, the ability to decode them became a point of pride that few in the world had.

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Pre ClockWork Life
Anastasia Belacove, the real name of ClockWork was the only daughter of Sansa Belacove and Marko Belacove a wealthy Merchant and Serbian Nationalist. Born in 1852 in the City of Belgrade. The only child of a wealthy family she should have been granted a life of luxury and splendor. However this was not quite the case as her mother died in childbirth. Her Father blamed the child exclusively for the loss ef his true love and treated her terribly. Despite her brilliance he tried to avoid teaching her, forcing Anastasia to seek tutelage in secrecy. He often emotionally and physically abused the child, blaming all things that went wrong in his life on her.

Raised a devote Orthodox she grew up in the church, often finding job in the church as it was the only time her father would ever show kindness to her, not wanting to show such anger in front of Religious leaders. This religious upbringing would go on eventually to cause her struggles as she came to accept her lesbian identity, and the churches views on such things would further push her out of acceptance of society.

As she grew up her father began giving her a generous allowance mostly to be done with her and try and marry her off. She how ever secretly used this money to fund investments and works increasing it many folsd. She began traveling Europe where she would attend lectures of the great minds of the time further expanding her mind. Soon she began to far surpass the great men of her time and tried to publish her first scientific paper at the age of 15. As she was a young woman, it was rejected and few saw the work.

Rejection by male academia and seeing her father Revolutionary views when it came to Serbian nationalism, he often funded many anti Austro-Hungarian empire groups, made her view the world in a very negative light. Seeing the horrors caused by what she saw as incompetent and ill-equipped heads of the great nations of the world she began to form her radical political ideologies. Soon she began writing secret papers under an assumed male name. These papers would gain some traction and seeing a positive return she convinced herself the world needed a revolution and removal of the ineffective governments and replaced with one born on scientific principles.

Rise of ClockWork
Taking the name of the little mechanical toy she had built to be her friend, that had been destroyed, she began to operate as ClockWork. She built a suit, but recognized that no one would take a 16-year-old girl seriously, so began operating with a suit that uses piping and other things to drop the tenor of voice to make it sound masculine. In these early years, she would end up running into someone who seemed to be just like her but displaced in some way (this was a time-traveling ClockWork(Prime3) following the Bob). During this time she also met and began courting the eldest daughter of the Influncian Diecanta family, but keeping their relationship very secretive. This added to her already solid resources and pretending to be actually courting the twin brother made her father more or less stop caring about her at all thinking she had found a good husband.

She soon found many supporters in the downtrodden working class and intellectual circles with her arguments that the world was run by corrupt fools and that a better way was possible. She also began developing a wide range of tech, from mechanical Gorillaz, siege spiders, and lightning guns. She traveled extensively around the world but mostly in America and Europe working to establish her orginization and global plan.

During this time she also established hidden bases defended with her automaton warriors and hiding her many works. These bases would later be raided by different people giving them a strong base of operations, including Anderson and Naucht.

First Death
Her action drew the attention of the Raven's Host the ancient organization dedicated to protecting the world. They employed a group of operatives and deployed them around the world, including eventually the Bowman, to try and halt her actions. These attempts culminated at the Paris Worlds Fair, where she was was attempting to build a device that would use background dimensional radiation and frequency to create a power source to generate the needs of her army.

The Two operatives deployed in from a jury-rigged parachute into her warehouse while a third snuck in, a scuffle ensued resulting in a massive detonation as the device turned on, shifting them out of phase with all known dimensions.

Ressurection
In the 70's a young man had grown obsessed with the, as he thought, a man named ClockWork, becoming in love with this impressive mind. in 1982 he rented the warehouse where ClockWork had died 100 years before and built a device to try and connect to his idol. Eventually, he succeeded in generating and realigning her and effectively resurrecting her 100 years later. Different technologies have been used since to keep her aligned with the dimensional frequency and alive.

Modern
She worked in the late '80s for the Department of Meta Affairs under the allies Annita Bennit, where she would among other things become a mentor and mother figure to struggling teen superhero Miniscule.

Ideals
ClockWork believes the world needs to be run by a council of the elite intellectual minds of the world. Those who are smartest and most well prepared to try and guide the globe. With this conclave of the elites in command, the world can focus on making things better for all instead of just a few. These would formulate a strong foundation that would be able to guide the collective world generation after generation to a stronger and brighter future.

Further, she would be described as a Futurist or a technologist, strongly feeling that the only way to make the world better is by embracing new and advancing technology to push the boundaries of the resources and abilities the global community currently posses.

Eternal Industries
Eternal Industries has become one of the most dominant forces in technology. Their open-access virtual assistant A.R.I.S. has become very dominate in the world is integrated into smart home and automation technology globally. They also sell a range of highly popular cell phones and other devices. As a privately held company, they keep many things close to their chest and reinvest nearly all profits back into expanding the company. She has stated they will never go public despite some estimating she could make over 100 billion or more overnight personally if she did.

Impact
The foundation of most super tech and much more.