The Hermonius Brinkman Timeline

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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
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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"}

1939
October 6 Chicago, Illinois - With a little coincidental help from the other side, young Hermonius Brinkmano makes contact with inhabitants of another dimension, which he refers to as the Spark Dimension.

October 20 Chicago, Illinois - Working with the Spark Dimension occupants, Hermonius Brinkmano creates a raw device to enter their dimension. He finds it a wonderful place, with many people using the spark of genius to build technological marvels that clank about the countryside. He meets the adventuring Telemeter sisters, Agatha and Agnes, and accompanies them on their exploits while learning vast amounts about science and technology.

The '40s


1941
January 7 Chicago, Illinois - Hermonius Brinkmano returns from the Spark Dimension to discover that time moves much more slowly there. After spending approximately four months there, he finds that over a year has passed in his home. He also finds that in his absence, his make-shift lab has been ransacked and all his equipment and notes have been stolen or destroyed, except for the small mysterious meteorite he found when he was 8 years old.

1942
January 14 Washington D.C. - After a demonstration of his knowledge, an unaccredited Hermonius Brinkmano joins the scientists in the U.S. Super-Soldier program.

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. 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 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.









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