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Timeline:
1983: Born to Torbert and Mary Octavius in New York. Otto's early years would be filled with
contradictory messages from both; his father advocating for a violent solution to most problems...
while he was the target of his father's rages. Beaten at home /and/ at school, Torbert would earn
Otto's burning hatred during this time... his only solace being when his mother managed to calm his
father.
1998: Torbert dies in a construction accident. During the funeral, Mary would tell
Otto that an early death is the fate of a manual laborer, and she expected better of Otto. This
moment is a formative one for Otto... who becomes obsessed with becoming the best scientist the
world has ever seen.
2002: Accepted into MIT, Otto pursues a number of fields in his first
month... before deciding to major in nuclear physics. He also decides to pursue multiple minors in
various other fields at the same time... and manages to graduate at the top of his class for nuclear
physics and in robotics and biochemistry. He weould go on to begin self-teaching himself other
subjects from this point forward... never stopping studying.
2007: Having graduated, Otto is
headhunted by multiple corporations and government agencies. Choosing between the US Atomic Research
Center and Oscorp, Otto chooses Oscorp, more interested in improving existing nuclear power
generation than in making weapons for the military.
2008: Having spent the better part of a
year learning the Oscorp style of operations, Otto gets fed up with current safety regulations and
takes it upon himself to invent and build a nearly indestructible set of tentacles designed for
hostile conditions. He builds them into a harness designed for himself to be fitted to his chest...
and a neural interface designed for brain and spinal column use. No one else wants to chance the
device... and using it earns his the nickname Doctor Octopus from his colleagues.
2020: After
spending years on projects and self-teaching, Otto is considered the foremost expert on nuclear
projects and applications in the world. He has also mastered the use of his uniquely designed
tentacle harness. Over the years, he had grown close to and fallen in love with Mary Anders; a
fellow scientist. Eventually deciding to propose to her, Mary accepted. However, when Otto tells his
mother the news, the two get into a serious argument, with his mother completely against the
engagement... and accusing him to turning his back on her. Shocked and depressed, Otto breaks off
the engagement... only to find out his mother was dating without telling him. The news has Otto blow
up in a rage at her, and the argument leads to his mother having a heart attack. Consumed with guilt
and considered his mothers death his fault, faulty safety equipment and mislabelled chemicals at the
research center causes a momentary distraction to turn into a near meltdown of the reactor Otto was
working on. Sealed inside the main chamber as a result of the safety lockdown, Otto is bathed in
various chemicals at the same time he is at ground zero of the near-meltdown. Instead of dying
though... his body manages to survive, the chemicals being the catalyst for his body to metaboliZe
the radiation, mutating his body and damaging his brain irreversibly. He falls into a coma as his
body heals itself.
2021: Otto wakes up after a year in a coma, his tentacle harness now
irrevokably tied into his nervous system, and his brain irreversibly damaged to the point that Otto
has become a psychopath.
Doctor Octopus
