Steven Balcomb

Steven "Ironhead" Balcomb, (November 12, 1809 - October 23, 1944) was the sole Caretaker of the 12th Iteration of the Warehouse. Starting on June 10th 1830 and ending through transference on August 27th 1914.

He is most commenily known by agents and regents alike, as "Ironhead", due to an event that changed his life and made him a Caretaker, one of the youngest caretakers in Warehouse history. He is also credited in saving the life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle from the clutches of person with an artifact.

Bio
Born in London, England on 122 Baker Street to his mother, Cathrine Balcomb and David Allen Balcomb both actors jobless, which was not unusal for actors of the early 19th century. He had only one older brother, but he had died in a carrage accident at the age of twelve due to the horse being spooked at the wrong time. He was five when his brother died.

At the age of thirteen, he aquirred the job of cleaning fish at Bellmount & Sons Fish Market, a local fishing dock that primerily sold fish caught by George Bellmount and his two sons. The brothers, Johnathen and Nathan Bellmount hated Steven, he would often recall to agents how they would throw leftovers from the rotten fish onto the boat and blame it on him. Eventually, their antics got him fired and he swore that he would get back at them one day. At the age of fifthteen, he caught himself another job as a carrage driver, driving people who would hire him. He worked there until he reached the age of 20, when his life would change for the better.

Meeting for the first time was Nicola Balovic, the Caretaker of Warehouse 11, meeting an old friend, he hired a carrage hand to take him through London. Whist rummaging through London, he had taken a liking to Steven and even invited him to tag along to the party of a friend. Enjoying the party, Nicola Balovic, had not taken in the fact that an old nemises had stuck into the party. Steven had been enjoying the party until he heard some commotion upstairs, the other attendies had thought it was just other party goers, but something popped into Steven's head, almost like a six sence, he felt that someone was going to die. Soon.

Nicola had been upheld and tied to a chair, tortured by his enemy, noone knew the name of, just Nicola called him Shadow. Steven watched as Shadow pulled out an object out of a trunk, an old black veil, unknown what this artifact was, Shadow spoke in a thick russian accent, all that was said, that he could understand was "Azrael" The Arkangel of Death.

Shadow spoke russian before he smiled at Nicola, which he returned with a smile. Placing the veil on Nicola, it glowed and Nicola let out a long painful bellow. Steven intervened as he knew it was killing Nicola, he fought both Shadow and his goons, until took one of Shadow's objects out of his trunk and hit one of his goons, he fell hard on floor with a large and painfull thud. He fought off all them and threw the veil off of Nicola. Nicola in his last act, reached into his pocket and pulled out a ribbon, tied it around his arm and with a bright flash of light, he died. Steven had no clue on what happened, but felt the strange sentation of becoming apart of something amazing.

Warehouse regents decided on keeping Steven as Caretaker. And until his death, he was considered among some of the greatest Warehouse 12 agents they have ever seen.

Not much is said about his life collecting, except his nickname, Ironhead, as he always put himself head first no matter what and always kept the artifact that helped him defend off the Shadow. (Willam Kidd's Cat o' Nine Tails) Which he rarely used, only in emergencies.

He is famously credited as the original inpersation to Arthur Conan Doyle's famous character in many of his novels, Sherlock Homes, due to a person named Colin Morierty (Insperation to Professor James Morierty) with a nasty artifact that gave him premonition. Doyle wrote the story A Study in Scarlet with Steven's name originally put in the story, until it was edited by warehouse agent Shermain Lockhart Holme.

He was transfered from Caretaker-ship on August 27th 1914 to Irene Fredric and lived his life up into old age, all the way to the year 1944.