| M.C. Escher's Pen | |
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Origin |
M. C. Escher |
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Type |
Pen |
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Effects |
Creates an alternate self to continue one’s life once incapacitated |
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Downsides |
User will be unable to claim their true identity in the time active |
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Activation |
Drawing geometric shapes and patterns |
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Collected by |
Warehouse 13 |
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Section |
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Aisle |
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Shelf |
890955-2815-688 |
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Date of Collection |
October 5, 1937 |
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Origin[]
Maurits Cornelis Escher (17 June 1898 – 27 March 1972) was a Dutch graphic artist who made woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints, many of which were inspired by mathematics. Despite wide popular interest, for most of his life Escher was neglected in the art world, even in his native Netherlands. He was 70 before a retrospective exhibition was held. In the late twentieth century, he became more widely appreciated, and in the twenty-first century he has been celebrated in exhibitions around the world.
His work features mathematical objects and operations including impossible objects, explorations of infinity, reflection, symmetry, perspective, truncated and stellated polyhedra, hyperbolic geometry, and tessellations. Although Escher believed he had no mathematical ability, he interacted with the mathematicians George Pólya, Roger Penrose, and Donald Coxeter, and the crystallographer Friedrich Haag, and conducted his own research into tessellation.
Early in his career, he drew inspiration from nature, making studies of insects, landscapes, and plants such as lichens, all of which he used as details in his artworks. He traveled in Italy and Spain, sketching buildings, townscapes, architecture and the tilings of the Alhambra and the Mezquita of Cordoba, and became steadily more interested in their mathematical structure.
Effects[]
Whenever the user is incapacitated (comatose, prison, exiled, etc.) a clone is formed to continue on the life they would have ideally lead. All their thoughts and actions are identical to the original, and they behave without any inkling they’re a duplicate. The newly christened version will travel about continuing as normal, functionally living the user’s life for them instead. The clone is still susceptible to injury and illness, eventually passing away even if the user never returns to society.
During that entire period, the original cannot identify themselves. They are physically restricted from mentioning their name, although they can still explain their personal history or use another title. Successfully forcing the name will cause the difference in time to be added to the clone’s potential lifespan. Decades extra are now possible, although it usually just makes healing and overall health better instead. The original will instead cease functioning, becoming effectively dead within an instant with no registration of vital signs.
Usage[]
After his Bronzing, his pen activated and created an illusionary version of its master to cover up the bronzing. This 'Escher' carried on his life, and 'passed away' in the 70s. Only in the mid-2010s was he released from captivity, with the copies’ memories trickling back to him once reunited. (This effect is likely from him being the originator and not a standard for other users.) While his release from the Bronze Sector and his forceful ways bred distrust for Bri, outright rivalry was born when Escher reclaimed his pen from Nikki.