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Cogs
Cogs is highly regarded as someone who heals by listening carefully and never
interrupting. This is because sometimes he himself is trying to retrieve lost
info about the goings-on in the Mall and sometimes because he’s asleep.
He admires power of any kind, and when Sheena seizes power in the Mall, previously
his undisputed domain, he grudgingly cedes it to her and becomes her more or
less innocent collaborator.
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Inventing Cogs
Cogs is based on a character called Cognition I designed based on an idea by Carola Meyer for Learntron, a computer-based training company. Click on the icon (left) for the progress of Cogs as he travelled through various guises.
Inspirations
Click on the icon to the left, for a slideshow of different images, symbols and celebrities that came to inspire the creation of Cogs. Although Cogs doesn’t seem all that clever on the surface, he is sometimes
inadvertently wise and the others consult him as a part-time shaman and healer.
This is similar to the phenomenon of the ‘holy fool’ as exemplified
by Peter Sellers’ character in Being There, as Chance the gardener. So
he provides a contrast to Drak who is more of a scientist.
Most of the time Cogs is rather old-school, grumpy and brusque, like Mr Wilson
in Dennis the Menace - deeply suspicious of the others whom he suspects of laughing
at him.
This is sometimes true.
Back Story:
Cogs is short for Cogmission, which is what Drak called him after realising the extent
of his forgetfulness. This she sorted out with memory chips, the idea for which
comes from William Gibson’s SimStim chips from his book Neuromancer and others.
The chips go into the back of his head, and he has both short-term
chips and long term, most of which have nothing to do with his own memories,
but are rather the equivalent of DVDs from the video shop. He therefore enjoys
travel documentaries and other more dubious 'memories'....in full Sensoround
or Virtual Reality.
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