Bixby - Hobson
According to Lügner's
papers, the Bixby-Hobson team was a match made in Hell. Having similar
ideas regarding mechanical-human combinations, these men thought that
by teaming together they might enhance each others skills and achieve
a greater success rate. Lügner opines in his papers that the two,
from the beginning, sought to steal each other's secrets. He goes on to
document what became a clash of colossal egos. These scientists 'accidentally'
destroyed each other's notes, sabotaged each others experiments and blamed
each other for their failures (even when there was no foul-play). The
results of this ill-fated collaboration were mercifully short-lived but
among the strangest creatures that ever breathed.
Bixby wore an eye-patch over his left eye and wore a monocle on the right.
He also wore an artificial nose to cover the one bitten off by one of
his creations. That, the multiple scars and the steel plate in his head
attest to other attacks.
Hobson, a polio victim as a child, coincidentally also wore a monocle
in his right eye. He had a very large mechanical prosthesis for his amputated
left arm, lost in a nuclear experiment. Those experiments also cause his
head and neck mutation. Twisted physically as well as mentally, Dr. Hobson
was a bitter and paranoid man. Lügner speculates that Hobson strove
to create creatures more miserable than himself, perhaps to boost his
self esteem.
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