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== Background ==

W. E. R. "{{TTS|tts=we're|Wer}}" LaFarge was born into a wealthy family in Boston, coming from three generations of accomplished experts. After graduating from Harvard he came back to New York with dreams of being a novelist like his father or his uncle.<ref name="eh"/> Within five or so years the counterculture movements of the 1960s kicked up, and {{TTS|tts=we're|WER}} became tormented by his role in perpetuating Liberal capitalism. This drove him to begin participating in scenes of progressive people, to divorce his politically-neutral wife, and to try his best to separate all his assets from the Vietnam War.<ref name="eh"/> Eventually he would put significant stretches of watershed land along the Narrow River into a trust for the benefit of the environment.<ref name="nr"/> {{TTS|tts=we're|WER}} transformed himself from a suit-and-tie aristocrat to a ponytail-wearing playwright, but the one thing he was not ready for was the day his new researcher wife was assigned [[E:Nim Chimpsky|a chimpanzee]];<ref name="eh"/><ref name="cu"/> one of the few things he was not willing to do was pack up all his books into his office before the chimp regularly knocked them onto the floor. Although he never pulled his money out on grounds the study wasn't worth it, he eventually had to pull himself out of his second marriage and retreat to a farm he owned in Rhode Island.<ref name="eh2"/>

In the 196X era, {{TTS|tts=we're|WER}} is mostly busy with his attempts at poetry, philosophical questions, and plays, as well as his occasional family troubles. He doodles his best guess at what he might look like after transformation in his notebooks. Into 197X, when he goes into retreat and finally gets some peace and quiet, he finally becomes his Advance form.<ref name="ib"/> He is largely disconnected from any greater workers' movement, but becomes a member of the hippie-founded [[E:Party of Peace and Crossover|Party of Peace and Crossover]] ({{TTS|tts=Pax|PAX}}), gladly donating money to aid the arts or the environment.<ref name="ib"/> As {{TTS|tts=Flowing-coat|Flowingcoat}}, he possesses [[:Category:Existentialist-Structuralist tradition ontology|Existentialist]] abilities centering around self-expression and freedom. He can act together with the surrounding environment to counter alchemical [[redlink|reversion actions]], although to be perfectly accurate his life is mostly uneventful and he hardly ever actually has to use these abilities.