Clockwork

Clockwork is a character in The Great Machine.

Equipment
Far too much to list everything let alone keeep it shorter than a year's worth of typing. It's quite the heap, I'll give you that.

Abilities
Clockwork is a very assiduous character, always either making sure the mess of robotics keeps rolling or sizing up its surroundings to understand, overthrow and stand victorious over whatever may cross its path. Its fervor has often helped it out in times of quick action, and its cool, calculating attitude allows it to work in a predicament no matter the size. It speaks, but never releases emotion, though many agree it must have some to do its work that properly.

Description
It starts all with a little robot with a single wheel, two diligent manipulators and a seemingly numb and brainwashed AI. It follows with a power cord, wrapped around a gear or two, then has some wires around it enveiling that cord in an electric web. Then it goes on to enter a grotto composed of who knows how many gears, wires, speakers, hard drives, scanners, sensors and databases, each one less inclined to see daylight as the last. Somewhere in that bunch must lie a hidden battery of sorts, powering Clockwork 'till ends the day.

Biography
Every robot has a purpose. This was the very first as well as last commented line in Clockwork's - and in many others' - program. The AI had little choice but to believe it, and since he was created to be a patcher-up, (a robot destined for nothing but fixing others) it performed its job with an unmatchable fervor. Then the entire building, the entire civilisation revolving around robots in that building, everything collapsed. Clockwork reawakened to find itself entangled in a bundle of robotic parts which, to make things worse, didn't always function all too well either. It promised itself it would fix everything. He would build a better robot, entirely out of memory, using all of the parts he received. After wandering around in the ruins of the world he once knew for an uncountable amount of decades, it was finally warped away to its destination. Every robot has a purpose.