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[[File:Mountain vendetta.jpg|thumb|Mountain vendetta. The prone figure in the foreground is Havelock, the only person is this picture who survived the event.]]'''Havelock''' (? - ?) is a retired [[Superhero (nonfiction)]].
[[File:Havelock.jpg|thumb|Havelock.]]'''John Havelock''', often referred to as '''Judge Havelock''' or simply '''Havelock''', is a [[mathematician]] alleged time-traveler, usually found in the town of [[Periphery (town)|Periphery]] between 1801 and 1911.  


His superpower involves settling Fate-related disputes between two other people.
His time-traveling ability, and apparent immortality, result from his addiction to [[Extract of Radium]].


These two others will make a mutual pact which will result in one of their Fates (or "dreams") coming true, and the other dream coming to nothing.
He is sometimes referred to as "The man who doesn't get killed," because of his habit of playing Russian Roulette for money.


The pact requires them to make Havelock "decide" which dream "lives", and which dream "dies".
== In the News ==


Havelock has always sworn that he does not decide or choose which dream or destiny lives. In a recent interview he said:
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File:Your_Gun,_My_Head.jpg|link=Your Gun, My Head|The "[[Your Gun, My Head]]" scene from ''[[Bargain (nonfiction)|Bargain]]''.


<blockquote>These fools come to me, two by two, and they want action ''right now''. They've got their beefs all heated up, and they want me to pick one ''right now''.  
File:John Havelock and Henri Poincaré.jpg|link=John Havelock and Henri Poincaré|1892: Mathematicians [[John Havelock and Henri Poincaré|John Havelock and Henri Poincaré]] co-publish a pioneering paper on applications of [[Gnomon algorithm]] functions to the early detection of emergent catastrophic events, forecasting the [[Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|Chernobyl disaster]] to within 98.37% accuracy. 


I try to explain why it's a bad idea, and every so often I can talk 'em out of it.
File:Carnevale Tenebre vise logo.jpg|link=Carnevale Tenebre|1906: New sideshow at [[Carnevale Tenebre]] is "fronting all kinds of [[math crimes]]," says mathematician and alleged immortal John Havelock.


But most of the time I have go ahead and do it, because it's better than getting shot or stabbed in the leg, which is usually what they do if I refuse.
File:Clock Head (da Vinci version).jpg|link=Clock Head|[[Clock Head]] advises Judge Havelock to drink less [[Extract of Radium]], less often.


So I do my thing. I accept the situation.  I let it happen.  That's the only decision: I decide to ''let it happen''.
File:Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery|''[[Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery]]'' "is probably accurate, although I am dead at the time," says Havelock.


Then I usually get a little bit hazy, nod off for a second or two. But not long, it's quick.  And then it's done.
File:Havelock_and_Tesla_telecommunications_research.jpg|link=Havelock and Tesla Research Telecommunication|Havelock and [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] share Nobel Prize in Physics for [[Havelock and Tesla Research Telecommunication|research into electrical field modulation and data transmission]].


The problem is, most of the time, ''everything is the same''. There is no sign whatever that ''anything happened'', that anything has ''changed''.
File:Nikola Tesla 1896.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Electrical engineer [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] invites Havelock to collaborate on electric transmission project.


Sometimes it happens immediately.  One guy kills the other guy on the spot, or the loser drops dead of a heart attack.  I remember these two guys, within a minute they both get phone calls about a helicopter crash with no survivors.
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But usually it takes days, weeks for the effect to kick in. Months. There are no in-your-face miracles here, okay? The heavens do not open up and shower down gold, that doesn't happen.  If the winner wants gold, well, Fate will get the gold to him, in its own bittersweet time.
 
And they don't like that, these two guys.  The dislike it a lot. They've been business rivals, enemy warlords, dogs fighting over a bone for so long, they live for nothing but denying the other guy his dream.  ''Nothing". They are''obsessed'', and they won't be be put off.  They want to know whose dream will come true.
 
And I can't tell them a damned thing. I have no idea. I threw their dice, that's all. Fate called the winner.
 
I ain't Fate, man. <nowiki>[Laughs]</nowiki>. I'm a pawn like everyone else.</blockquote>
 
He is sometimes referred to as "The man who doesn't get killed," because all of the many attempts on his life have miscarried and failed.


== Fiction cross-reference ==
== Fiction cross-reference ==


* [[Baron Zersetzung]] - hostile colleague
* [[Clock Head]] - ally
* [[Gnomon algorithm]]
* [[Gnomon algorithm]]
* [[Havelock interview]]
* ''[[Havelock Plays Russian Roulette]]''
* [[Hollerith]]
* [[Hollerith]]
* ''[[John Havelock and Henri Poincaré]]''
* [[Luck-monger]]
* [[Luck-monger]]
* [[Periphery (town)]]
* [[Salvatore]]
* [[Salvatore]]
* [[The Patrick Device]]
* [[The Patrick Device]]
* [[Traversal]]
* [[Your Gun, My Head]]


== Nonfiction cross-reference ==
== Nonfiction cross-reference ==


* [[Gnomon Algorithm (nonfiction)]]
* [[Hollerith (nonfiction)]]
* [[Patrick Ladwig (nonfiction)]]
* [[Patrick Ladwig (nonfiction)]]


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Latest revision as of 16:16, 19 January 2023

Havelock.

John Havelock, often referred to as Judge Havelock or simply Havelock, is a mathematician alleged time-traveler, usually found in the town of Periphery between 1801 and 1911.

His time-traveling ability, and apparent immortality, result from his addiction to Extract of Radium.

He is sometimes referred to as "The man who doesn't get killed," because of his habit of playing Russian Roulette for money.

In the News

Fiction cross-reference

Nonfiction cross-reference

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