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Enoch Drebber
It's the addle-brained mock scientists that are the worst, you know. They don't recognise the fact that they don't have talent. They can't even get that right.

Enoch Drebber was a mysterious engineer whose name was known in the science and magician communities of London. He was a witness during Odie Asman's murder trial.

An unexpected revival[]

Main article: Professor Killings
Zombie

Witnessing the "Professor" rise from his grave.

Enoch Drebber was living and studying at London University to become a scientist, and was on the path to achieving that goal. However, he was also a member of The Repurposers, a small group who grave-robbed Lowgate Cemetery to dig up freshly-buried prisoners who were executed from the nearby Barclay Prison and sold them in order to make a living. To record information about the graves he robbed, he always brought a camera with him. One night, he dug up the grave of Genshin Asogi, the man thought to be a dangerous serial killer known as the Professor. However, when he opened the coffin he found that the man was well and moving, almost as if he had come back to life. When the figure was shot dead by someone behind Drebber, he got covered in blood and fled in terror, suffering from canities subita likely as a result of that experience. Unbeknownst to Drebber, the man was actually framed and buried alive. Two men were going to secretly send him home to Japan, but since Drebber dug him out first, one of them shot the man to protect the secret of the Professor’s identity.

Drebber told many outlets about the event, but nobody believed him since the man was now dead. However, a Daily Circus newspaper journalist, Odie Asman, published an article with his name in it. This resulted in him being exposed as a grave robber, forcing him to leave school and give up his promising career as a scientist. The articles went on to become very popular among the people of London. Drebber was later approached by Esmeralda Tusspells, who read the Daily Circus article and got a mold of the deceased Professor, to take a wax mold of his face for her "Hall of Terror" display of the rising Professor in her wax museum. He also sold her his camera because he had no intention of returning to Lowgate Cemetery. The camera was used for the exhibit as well. Embittered, Drebber became a con man who would build fake inventions for grant money, using his extensive knowledge of stage magic to sell his machines' efficacy long enough to be given money to "develop" them.

Revenge[]

Main article: The Return of the Great Departed Soul

One day, Asman showed up to Enoch Drebber's new factory. He didn’t actually remember Drebber as a subject of his article and instead came to him as a creator and "swindler". Asman had just approached a young scientist by the name of Albert Harebrayne about his theory on teleportation and wanted Drebber to build a machine for him with the goal of getting money from the government. Unknown to Asman, Drebber noticed an article in the newspaper he was holding about the creation of a new forensic investigation unit with coroner Courtney Sithe at the head, as Asman was blackmailing Sithe as well. Drebber decided to recruit Sithe and kill Asman for ruining his chances of becoming a scientist, as well as sabotage the career of Harebrayne, who he looked upon as a pseudo-scientist who demeaned his profession.

Drebber Photo

In photograph

Enoch Drebber built a teleportation machine for Harebrayne that was designed like a magic trick. There was a trick floor that connected to a shaft in the platform through which the experimentee would fall. Then, from a green balloon hanging above the test site, a second cage would fall to the Crystal Tower, setting up the illusion that a teleportation actually happened. If Odie Asman turned up dead during that, Harebrayne would be framed. In the first cage near the scientist would be the real Asman; in the second would be the wax figure of the Professor, which Drebber stole from Tusspells's museum a few days before the Great Exhibition. He left a ransom note telling the proprietor to have two hundred pounds ready by October 23rd if she wanted the figure back. Drebber chose this particular wax model to coerce Sithe into going along with his plan. When Drebber brought Harebrayne to his factory, he made him wear a blindfold in the carriage.

Sithe found the wax model in the cage that fell through the Crystal Tower, along with a letter from someone who "knows the truth about 10 years ago", instructing her to set up the crime scene as detailed by said letter. Sithe did so but, unbeknownst to Drebber, she went the underside of the machine and into the shaft instead. Drebber intended for the fall to kill Asman, but he survived. However, just as he was getting out of the cage, Courtney Sithe stabbed him with Harebrayne's screwdriver, getting her own revenge.

Drebber used a crossbow to silently shoot a flaming arrow at the green balloon, in order to cause an explosion and make the Professor's wax model fall as originally planned. Harebrayne was successfully arrested for the murder of Odie Asman. When Harebrayne finally mentioned Drebber on the first day of the trial, Harebrayne's defense team, Ryunosuke Naruhodo and Susato Mikotoba, went looking for him. They finally found his factory after Gina Lestrade's dog, Toby, sniffed an oil stain on the business card from Harebrayne.

Enoch Drebber was in his factory throwing shoes at a balloon to get the Professor's wax head out. When that failed, he decided to blow it up along with the whole factory using a time bomb, and hid in his safe to protect himself. But he forgot the combination, so he turned over all the furniture to find out where he hid it, and succeeded. After Naruhodo, Mikotoba, and Herlock Sholmes found him nonetheless, the time bomb in his room was disarmed. However, Drebber was revealed to have set another time bomb in the machine that he built for Harebrayne. The explosion was enormous, with the machine and two police officers guarding it vanishing in the blaze.

Being exposed[]

Device

The machine he built for Harebrayne after he blew it up

Initially, Drebber insisted that there was only one cage, and that the experiment was thus genuine, claiming that he only built the machine without knowing the details of how it worked. But after Naruhodo showed the court that the cracks on the cage were in the wrong place, the defense figured out that the real Asman actually fell underneath the stage. Since this violated the evidence produced by the coroner, Courtney Sithe, Naruhodo concluded that she must have been Drebber's accomplice and formally accused her as such. This line of questioning eventually proved that Sithe was blackmailed into participating in Enoch's plan via the note and the wax figure he'd stolen, lest he reveal her falsification of the Professor's death.

Later, Esmeralda Tusspells took the stand, and produced the newspaper regarding Enoch Drebber's discovery of the Professor's "resurrection" - the one that called him by name and destroyed his career. Naruhodo, cross-checking the signature on the article with Asman's signature on the contract signed between him and Drebber, found them to be identical - and realized that though the prosecution had asserted that since Drebber could not receive any of the money given to fund the experiment were Asman to die, Drebber would thus have no motive to kill him, this was actually untrue, as Drebber had never cared about the money; his true motive had always been revenge. Yet even with Sithe confessing to being an accomplice, Drebber still refused to admit to anything; but Naruhodo, pushing for one final round of testimony, presented the photo of Asman's corpse, and determined that by the way the blood spilled across Asman's jacket, he was killed by being stabbed, not by falling - and thus the only person who could have committed the deed was Sithe herself. This shocked and angered Drebber; the manipulator having himself been manipulated. In order for Sithe to face punishment, Drebber had no choice but to confess, expressing a great disdain for Harebrayne and calling him an "addle-brained mock scientist", while also expressing pride in the magic trick he pulled off. Drebber would be put to trial on a later date.

Personality[]

Enoch Drebber physically resembles a cyborg, with jerky, robotic movements and a seemingly clockwork hand. Perhaps to convey a unnatural or machine-like speaking pattern, random, unimportant words and phrases in his dialogue are colored orange. He is an extremely skilled engineer of both scientific machinery and stage magic, having a talent for making his creations look like genuine inventions instead of the cleverly designed props they are. Drebber is infamous in both the science and stage magic communities due to his status as a fraudster, and is thus extremely thorough in covering his tracks. His business card has no address, and Harebrayne, one of the few visitors to Drebber's workshop, mentioned that he was blindfolded during the trip. He also planned to destroy his workshop and his work if he was ever discovered, and even set two time bombs to do just that: one below his workshop, and another planted in Harebrayne's machine. When cornered, he was more than willing to activate the time bomb and hide himself in his explosive-proof safe.

Drebber's ostracization from the scientific community caused him to grow bitter, and deteriorated his morals. He grew to deeply resent Scotland Yard, not thinking of or perhaps not caring about the collateral damage his destruction of Harebrayne's machine might wreak upon the police officers guarding it (though it seems he had no real intention of harming Naruhodo and his compatriots, given that he deliberately set the time bomb in his workshop basement to give them more than enough time to escape). He cannot stand pseudo-scientists and cranks, who he views as obstacles to technological and scientific advancement - because of this, he deliberately set his scheme to make Harebrayne seem like a reckless fool, as Harebrayne's belief in his own theory despite mounting evidence against it was something he viewed as a fundamental dishonesty. However, when Naruhodo points out that his scheme brought the same shame upon Harebrayne, a promising young scientist, as was brought upon himself all those years ago, he does not fight that assertion, which suggests that perhaps Drebber did not entirely believe that Harebrayne was as talentless as he'd said.

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  • Enoch Drebber is a tall and lanky man who has long white hair, gray eyes, a black circle over his right eye, and a gold monocle over the left side of his head. He wears a long, very dark brown coat with a black trim with gold dots, black straps and gold buttons, a black striped suit, a white tie, and black dress shoes. He wears black gloves and has a gold mechanical shell over his left hand.
    • In the Photograph of Drebber, he has long brown hair tied in a ponytail and a monocle over his right eye. He wears a white lab coat, a gray striped suit with black buttons, a black shirt, a white tie, and black dress shoes.
  • Three of the gears on his mechanical "glove" animate in some of his animations. Since they are all adjacent to each other, however, the result is that two of the gears are spinning in opposite directions.
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