Sphere

Doctor Alan Gramme, known publicly as Sphere, was a capable and benevolent tinker who dedicated his life to trying to solve the world's problems. He failed.

Appearance
As a child he had blond hair, it is unknown if it darkened as he reached maturity.

Personality
Sphere was exceedingly intelligent, judicial and resourceful. and had a few playful instincts.

Abilities, Powers and Equipment
Sphere's tinker specialty allowed him to create drones that let him in turn create bubbles ideal for sheltering occupants from innumerable hazards. He could theoretically make huge bubbles capable of holding cities and even started a project to get a whole moon base operating.

Alan specialized in large projects as a type of architect tinker. He primarily worked through automated constructors, which, as they were not self directed, required his attention to keep on target. He had several processors that would consume resources to create the various materials he would use, such as ceramics that were selectively electrically conductive.

Background
Born Alan Gramme, a man with a happy childhood and home life. After triggering he became a tinker specializing in enclosed systems, this led him taking the pseudonym 'Sphere'.

Roughly five years before the story, he gained fame and attention as his power allowed to take up Evacuation Earth "a project to build self sustaining biospheres on the moon." It is stated that "he had ideas on solving world hunger, and building aquatic cities near cities plagued by overcrowding." Sphere was attempting to get all of that off the ground when The Simurgh attacked the site he was living in.

In the Simurgh attack, his wife and children were killed, and the years of work he'd done to help fix the problems of the world were ruined. Alan went mad and shut himself off from the world. Literally. Sphere withdrew, crafting a self-contained ecosystem in which he could survive indefinitely, untouchable, unreachable and safe. Sphere emerged under the new name of 'Mannequin'.

Story Start
He had long become his own antithesis, and targeted those who tried to follow in his footsteps.

Timeskip
While secreted away in her lab, Bonesaw would grow several clones of Gramme for the express purpose of remaking Mannequin. They had none of the original's memories, their personalities were expressly sculpted to recreate the monster that he became. One version was created with his powers at a presumably much younger than Alan Gramme originally had been and as such was not a accurate representation of Alan's personality.

Trivia

 * Like Andrew Norton was not an intentional homage to Emperor Nortan, Sphere was not given the first name of Alan as an intentional homage to the musician Alan Menken.