#Dr. Haworth whf

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dr. faraday!

I think Dr. Faraday is a very crucial character in terms of how she compares to so many other characters in the game. She gives us insight into how they might have fared under different circumstances.

The most obvious is Sally. They're both successful female scientists and yet, up until til Faraday's decision to stop enabling the police state of Wellington Wells, she seemed to have the sort of working life Sally could only dream of: a lab to herself with some guys out front to keep people from bothering her (granted, Roger and James were apparently not the best at this) with no expectation of entertaining anything but the science.

And this is why I rag on Sally so hard, aside from that she is one of the game's professed "three moderately terrible people" but how seems to escape a lot of players. One time I said as much in a WHF discord server, that she was just as bad as Arthur and Ollie, and whoo-boy! Several people were typing! All to tell me that I just didn't understand Sally's story. That. It. Is. About. Feminism! A lone woman and her precious baby against a cruel world seeking to exploit and abuse her at every turn!

Y'all.

Faraday is but one example of how women in Wellington Wells rose to and seized the opportunities presented to them by the town's lack of resources and ability to maintain status quo. And like many others (Gemma Olsen, Margaret Oliphant, Penelope Snug) she has done this without the help of men. Which Sally could do too, if she were so inclined. People hit me with the "but that's how she was raised!". Do you think these other women were not raised this way? Faraday herself had a husband and right up until he went on holiday, she lived Sally's same brilliant-assistant-who-gets none-of-the-credit role. But time's had appreciably changed by then. Instead of finding another man to play second fiddle to, Faraday hired a pair of houseboys to screen her calls and make her sandwiches, then went into business for herself.

I think her success up to the point at which she has her change of heart is also an interesting comparison to Verloc's role at Haworth Labs. That is, they have similar temperament and lack of emotional intelligence, but they are apparently brilliant when left the fuck alone. I think Verloc's chief problem is that he's in a role where he has to manage and delegate to others (others who operate at varying levels of detriment due to Joy use) and he is ill suited to the patience that requires. Faraday, on the other hand, fashioned for herself ideal work conditions for her similar personality: a private lab in her home with all her creature needs seen to and distractions minimized. Again, Roger and James aren't the best at providing this (although I think Faraday is unduly harsh in her criticism of them), but she only has to manage the two of them as compared to a whole factory, they try their best, and they are aligned with and supportive of her goals for the most part.

Another person we could compare her to is Percy.

Arthur surmises that Percy would have made a good scientist due to his analytical way of thinking and that "you don't have to talk much to be a scientist". This is, as said above, only true if you arrange things this way and don't find yourself in charge of an entire factory.

My close friends and I sometimes like to suppose especially hot takes for this game and a relevant one that comes to mind is that Percy would not have been able to conform effectively to Wellington Wells' society the way Edmund was able to because he has resting bitch face, he cannot tolerate any kind of discomfort, and his lack of social awareness does not endear people to him the way Edmund's does. As such, Arthur may have actually given him a shot at survival in abandoning him to the train.

But, I do think if somehow Percy had fallen into a Faraday-like circumstance before succumbing to any of the town's social perils, he would have done quite well for himself in Wellington Wells. Indeed, he might have even made a very good lab assistant to Dr. Faraday.

I do have some Fun Faraday Facts for you: there are cut lines in Cub Reporter/Start Spreading the News that state that she and Margaret Oliphant were schoolgirl friends and that Margaret's cat puzzle was designed by Faraday.

There's also a cut quest called Blow Up for Sally in which Faraday would task her with preventing the explosion of a motilene power station and would give Sally a walkie talkie to track her progress. The walkie talkie model used in They Came From Below is a salvaged asset from this quest.

One of the objectives for this quest involves Sally making a trade with Bobby Catesby, which she is reluctant to do.

126 Then you're going to have to set the snuffer charge! Otherwise the whole station will melt down.

128 You can't just go to Lionel Castershire and buy a bomb! You'd have to-- the only man I know who'd even-- I'm not going to bloody Robert Catesby for a bomb! He hates me!

130 If that station melts down, the whole motilene system will go up in flames. But I can understand how it's difficult talking to some men.

132 I'll find him. And I'll reason with him.

134 That's ma girl!

Tell her ass, Dr. F.

Dr. Faraday's idle waiting animation before you tap on her window is the sitting-on-the-floor-and-sobbing one.

Roger's idle animation is crying before you approach the house too though so I wouldn't read too much into that.

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Can you do some Headcannons for Verloc and Haworth? Like how their relationship was, how Haworth went missing? Thanks!!

((Kay so this is probably a spoiler, for Haworth Labs so here’s a big ol warning

*DO NOT READ IF YOU DON’T WANT SPOILERS!!!!!!*

((Dr.Haworth isn’t missing, Verloc has him in a secret chamber under his office, but I have been looking at letter screenshots when I watched someone ChristopherOdd play the game because he explores and reads the notes a lot more than the usual Let’s Players like Mark and Jack. So here I go))

Haworth and Verloc were working on a lot after Sally Boyle had left. Their biggest concerns were the bad batches of Joy from letters pouring in.

They had QUITE a few disagreements, but they respected each other, at least to the public.

Haworth was looking to try new ingredients of Joy since they were eventually going to run out of supplies anyway from his letter to the General. Verloc, though stubborn, tried to use what they could gather, hence why there would become bad batches around the time of the game.

While the Joy crisis was starting to fade, Haworth was looking into the study of phrenology (which is mostly based on the measurements of the skull and how the brain is the organ of the mind, thanks, Google). It was HIS idea to come up with a permanent solution and Verloc over heard when Haworth was trying to steal it.

When they both argued about the situation, Verloc lied by saying he promises to not get in the way of his superior and they would continue working on coconut.

Verloc showed him the chambers he planned to test the coconut Joy on and Haworth, foolishly, looked inside, in which Verloc locked him in.

Haworth was locked in there for 4 years, attempting to attack anyone, ESPECIALLY Verloc and even attempted suicide. The Doctors had made a note to Verloc to never go in there, as his hostility grew when Verloc was near.

The two never started off on good terms, and this just worsened it.