Gepetto

Gepetto is the chief antagonist of "Strays" and will also become a major player in both Endgame and Monsters, becoming in many ways the right-hand of the Hatter and one of the most powerful threats to Red's world ever - he will also continue to play a major role in Red's reality following the end of Monsters..

Origin
Long ago there lived a kindly old toysmith by the name of Gepetto, he delighted in his work and loved children - sadly he was also too old to start a family of his own and had no wife: instead he took comfort in carving life-like dolls out of wood for himself, though some would inevitably be sold by Gepetto due to his kind-nature.

One night however Gepetto's life would change forever when a mysterious figure arrived one night, dressed in the style of a Victorian gentleman with a tophat - the figure granted Gepetto's wish for a child via animating one of his dolls: at first horrified at this transformation Gepetto would grow to love it as his own son and named it Pinochio.

However Pinochio's life was short, at the tender age of eight the doll's body finally gave up - unable to function properly as it was never truly a living creature (little more than a cruel trick by the Hatter).

Gepetto was devastated at the loss of Pinochio and never recovered, he closed down his toyshop and became reclusive - he grew to hate the world for what had happened and slowly delved into utter madness, deciding that he would hunt down the children of others and take them in as his own..

Strays
It would so happen Gepetto would get his chance to do just this when he became aware of Red and her "strays" - a group of children from Earth who she was planning on taking back to her native realm: Gepetto began a plan to capture the children and usurp Red as the new ruler of the alternate-world.

Powers and Abilities
Gepetto is a master of alchemy and black magic - he specialises in fusing together flesh and blood with the ease a carver can shape wood, he can create horrifiic fusions of living matter and machine via this process as well as modify himself and others to a near-limitless degree: ironically in his quest to rid the world of magic Gepetto has become one of the most powerful sorcerers ever to exist.