Augusta 'Gus' Blackwood

About

Wielding brass contraptions and unbridled imagination, Gus Blackwood dreams of engineering a world transformed, even if it means shattering every Victorian social constraint. Beneath her precisely tailored waistcoats and intricate mechanical gloves beats the heart of a radical—a visionary who believes technology can liberate humanity from its own stifling limitations.

Backstory

Three copper gears, no larger than a child's fingernail, sparked and danced in perfect synchronization above Augusta's palm—a feat that should have been impossible without any visible machinery. The demonstration before the Royal Society's most esteemed members was meant to showcase her revolutionary "Resonance Field Generator," a device that could manipulate metal through harmonic frequencies, but when the gears began to glow white-hot and emit an otherworldly shriek, she realized she had accidentally tapped into something far more dangerous than mere magnetism. The explosion that followed killed two distinguished professors and left Augusta's left arm permanently scarred with strange, branching marks that resembled circuitry etched in flesh. That catastrophic day taught her that the boundary between scientific innovation and arcane forces was far thinner than any textbook dared admit, and that her gift for seeing patterns others missed came with the terrible responsibility of wieldin

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