After the Creel house massacre, Henry ended up in Hawkins Lab with Dr. Brenner. You know that boss who says, “I’m just trying to help you reach your potential” while working you to exhaustion? That’s Brenner. He strapped Henry to machines and poked at his brain like a science experiment.
Brenner gave Henry a new identity: Number One. He taught Henry to control his powers, but he also taught him that emotions were weakness. Think of it like learning to drive, but your instructor only shows you how to floor the gas pedal and never mentions brakes.
Henry’s anger and bitterness didn’t disappear. They just got organized. He started thinking about spiders, webs, and how everything—people, time, even reality—was just a pattern he could rearrange. And if you can rearrange a pattern, you can destroy it.
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