The Decorum Timeline

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Individual Hero Timelines
Decorum USAce Headlong Cut-Up Kid Decorum
Deportment Mytheria The Mighty Thunor The Knight-Watchman Nuclear-Warhead
The Starguard Singularity X-1 LX II Scarlet Will Dragyn
King Lionidas Virtual Lad Samuel Flagg Complete Timeline  
Individual Villain Timelines
The Masque of Red Death Lola de Ville Discourtesy Hermione Brinkman
Individual Time-Lost Timelines
Trace The Black Bullseye Parashu Leonardo di Piero
Green Jack Praxia Lamentation Payne Sergeant Shatter
Individual Supporting Character Timelines
Hermonius Brinkman Jennifer Janes Thunderfist Count Camus The Grand Chronarch Anachronus Caesar


TIMELINE


20th Century

The '20s


1922
October 12 Chicago, Illinois - Birth of the later-named Hermonius Brinkmano.

1929
May 5 Chicago, Illinois - Hermonius Brinkman'so parents are killed in an automobile accident. He becomes a street urchin and begins using the name he will later be known by.

The '30s


1930
July 5 Chicago, Illinois - The curse of the Furies causes Bill Coopero to absorb some of the energies released from the Fountain of Zeus by Marcus Cole and Stefan Richter. He releases a large amount of this energy into a small meteorite that crashes to Earth. It is found by precocious eight year old Hermonius Brinkmano and will later be used as the basis of many of his scientific breakthroughs. Bill becomes a nameless wanderer for decades to come. {"The Milk of Paradise"}

The '50s


1953
April 7 Evanston, Illinois - Dr. Hermonius Brinkmano enters his new Compound on Neutron Circle and becomes a recluse, not leaving the grounds for decades. He still communicates with the outside world, but only by telephone or filmed lecture.

The '60s


1962
February 8 Evanston, Illinois - Dr. Hermonius Brinkmano begins Project: Prodigy. {"From the Files of Dr. Hermonius Brinkman"*}

1964
October 28 Evanston, Illinois - Frustrated by repeated failure, Dr. Hermonius Brinkmano abandons Project: Prodigy. {"From the Files of Dr. Hermonius Brinkman"*} He spends the next couple of decades acting as a free-lance advisor to the burgeoning super-hero community, but still never leaves the Compound.

The '70s


1978
July 8 Evanston, Illinois - Dr. Hermonius Brinkmano reactivates Project: Prodigy. {"From the Files of Dr. Hermonius Brinkman"*}

The '80s


1981
April 26 Evanston, Illinois - Dr. Hermonius Brinkmano shows them, shows them ALL! Berth-E of Project: Prodigy succeeds in germination and cell division. {"From the Files of Dr. Hermonius Brinkman"*}

1982
May 7 Evanston, Illinois - Birth of Jack Brinkmano. The Berth-E artificial womb is reconstructed as a robot housekeeper/mother figure that Jack will know as "Bertie". He will live his entire childhood inside the Compound, cared for by Bertie and a variety of servant robots. With only carefully edited educational materials and a voluminous pile of Silver Age comic books from which to form a worldview, he will be molded in their image. He sees no other human beings face to face with the exception of his fathero, who creates a sitcom family lifestyle around Jack. {"From the Files of Dr. Hermonius Brinkman"*}

21st Century


2006
June 1 Evanston, Illinois - Dr. Hermonius Brinkmano announces to the press that his son Jack, about whom not much is known besides his existence, has grown to maturity and will be sent to aid Paragon City under the name Decorumo.

June 2 Atlas Park, Paragon City, Rhode Island - Decorumo arrives in Paragon, where his fathero has arranged living quarters and a membership in the Legion of Valor.{"Dear Dad"}

June 11 Atlas Park, Paragon City, Rhode Island - His unstable genetic structure reacting with a host of new environmental agents, Decorumo becomes ill for the first time. He falls twenty-two stories from his apartment building to the ground and collapses in Atlas Plaza. He is taken to Chiron Medical Center.{"Dear Dad"}

June 13 Atlas Park, Paragon City, Rhode Island - Unable to bring Decorumo out of his coma, Dr. Alvin LeCroix faxes a letter to Dr. Hermonius Brinkmano requesting his assistance.{"Dear Dad"}

June 14 Atlas Park, Paragon City, Rhode Island - For the first time since 1953 Dr. Hermonius Brinkmano is seen outside his Compound in Evanston, as he travels to Paragon to save his sono. He is able to stabilize Decorum's genetic weaknesses and set him on the road to recovery.

June 16 Atlas Park, Paragon City, Rhode Island - Decorumo is released from the hospital. He and his fathero are seen sight-seeing around Paragon for this day and the next.{"Dear Dad"}{"Dear Dad"}

June 17 Evanston, Illinois - Dr. Hermonius Brinkmano returns to the Compound.

June 19 The Hollows, Paragon City, Rhode Island - Decorumo rescues an amnesiac boy with seeming superhuman powers from the Circle of Thorns. The boyo is taken to Chiron Medical Center for treatment.

June 23 Overbrook, Paragon City, Rhode Island - Decorumo first encounters and easily defeats Count Camuso. Humiliated, Count Camus swears eternal revenge.

July 2 Skyway City, Paragon City, Rhode Island - Decorumo becomes infected with the Vahzilok Plague. He later flies through a thunderstorm and is struck by lightning five times. Combined with his already unstable genetics, Decorum's body re-adapts under burned skin. His hair becomes black, his eyes pupil-less and his skin bright red. He loses his power of flight and acquires the power of super-speed. He is stronger, but less durable. Not wanting to give the media an image of a weakened Decorum, Jack takes a second identity and costume as Thunderfisto.{"Dear Dad"}

July 7 Kings Row, Paragon City, Rhode Island - Thunderfisto defeats Dr. Vahzilok deep in the sewer systems beneath the city. Would-be reporter Jennifer Janeso follows Thunderfist and records the incident on a home camcorder.{"Dear Dad"}

July 8 Steel Canyon, Paragon City, Rhode Island - Jennifer Janeso gives her story free of charge to the morning "Wake-Up Paragon!" TV show in exchange for a job. She will host a ten minute segment called "Hero Watch" once every hour during the shows daily three hour run.

July 15 Talos Island, Paragon City, Rhode Island - Jennifer Janeso shadows Thunderfisto as he defeats the Iron Hand. She airs a report the next day.{"Dear Dad"}

July 21-23 Paragon City, Rhode Island - Jennifer Janeso follows Thunderfisto with live updates as he finds and collects the pieces of the Wheel of Destruction.{"Dear Dad"}

August 5-6 Paragon City, Rhode Island - Thunderfisto joins his Legion of Valor teammates in an epic struggle against Clamor.{"Dear Dad"}

August 7-11 Steel Canyon, Paragon City, Rhode Island - Jennifer Janeso runs a week-long series on "Hero Watch" called "The Clamor War".{"Dear Dad"}

August 15 Terra Volta, Paragon City, Rhode Island - Thunderfisto is seen entering the Terra Volta reactor with some fellow Legion of Valor members. He disappears briefly and returns in a coma, stripped of the Thunderfist identity and returned to his normal appearance and powers. He is placed into a recuperative tube in the Halls of Valor by his teammates.{"Dear Dad"}

September 5 The Halls of Valor - Decorumo is released from his recuperative tube to general hospitalization.

September 12 Talos Island, Paragon City, Rhode Island - Decorumo is released from the hospital.

2007
July 17 - Paragon City, Rhode Island - The Knight-Watchmano, Cut-Upo, Decorumo, Kid Decorumo, Deportmento, USAceo, Nuclear-Warheado, Thunoro, Scarlet Willo and Dragyno battle the Masque of Red Deatho, Count Camuso and Discourtesyo. {"Destiny's Children"*}

2008
December 25 Kings Row, Paragon City, Rhode Island - Count Camuso brings several cartoon characters to life in an attempt to bring chaos to Paragon City. Decorumo is able to defeat the characters and Count Camus with the aid of King Lionidaso, who remains "alive" in Paragon after the other characters have been returned to their various media. {"Christmas Capers"*}









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