Clockwork Rat: Difference between revisions

The Clockwork Rat is a deceptive and manipulative character, a representation of Dr. [[Catherine Halsey]] and the [[SPARTAN Program]].<ref>[[Axon]] [[Media:a_little_sting.ogg|a_little_sting.ogg]]: ''Durga: On my 14th birthday they took me to a lab, and... a doctor came in, and... it was a... lady doctor in a white coat. And, the nurse brought out a steel tray covered in picks, and scalpels, that rattled when she walked.'' (...) ''I let them strap me down... And she, picked up this long needle, with some yellow liquid in it. Black bars like stripes at the milliliter markings... And she said, "this will hardly hurt a bit."''</ref><ref>[[Axon]] [[Media:the_clockwork_rat.ogg|the_clockwork_rat.ogg]]: ''Durga: You all rescued me, and I'm so grateful. Only, some years had passed and I... I... I changed. Kamal: Yasmine, you're still there. Durga: No. She's not, Kamal. The Clockwork Rat got her.</ref> When caught by Perdita, he promises to help her survive and eventually find her way to her family.<ref>''[[Perdita's Story]]'', [[Perdita%27s_Story#Chapter_3:_Scraps|Chapter 3]]: ''The Rat promised he would show Perdita the way home, and at first the little girl's heart jumped for joy. But although the Rat was true to its word about finding safe dark holes to hide in, and scraps to eat of things almost like food, somehow they never seemed to find the humble tin-cutter's cottage.''</ref> However, the rat secretly destroys the trail of [[Red Balloon|red balloons]] she leaves,<ref>''[[Perdita's Story]]'', [[Perdita%27s_Story#Chapter_4:_The_Looking-Glass|Chapter 4]]: ''But the Rat laughed with a sound like scalpels bouncing on a metal tray, and cut the string, and the red balloon went drifting up, up, up into the night sky. And that's the end.''</ref> and in time alters her into a hideous cyborg while she sleeps.<ref>''[[Perdita's Story]]'', [[Perdita%27s_Story#Chapter_3:_Scraps|Chapter 3]]: ''It was still dark when she woke up, and she felt a throbbing pain in her hand. When she looked down, she found one of her thumbs was missing. In its place was the head of a pair of needle-nose pliers. She looked around for the Clockwork Rat. He was perched on the edge of a rusting barrel full of rain water, furiously washing something off his little scissor claws.''; ''When she woke up, there was a small electric iron at the bottom of her right leg instead of a foot, and something felt strange about her hair.''</ref><ref>''[[Perdita's Story]]'', [[Perdita%27s_Story#Chapter_4:_The_Looking-Glass|Chapter 4]]: ''The next time Perdita woke up, she found an egg-beater where her left hand used to be, and when she bit her lip she found her teeth had gone all thin and flat and sharp as tin.''</ref>