Gadget

Backstory

Her name is Georgia Hackett, but nobody has called her that since she was nine, when she rebuilt the salvage yard's dead radio out of a toaster and two doorbells and the old scrappers started calling her Gadget. She grew up in the hangar of her father, Barnaby Hackett, a test pilot and tinkerer who welded two round copper ear-guards onto her first welding goggles so she would stop losing them; she painted them pink, and they became the most recognisable goggles in the Neo-Vintage Metro. Since Barnaby went down in a storm when she was fourteen, she has kept his hangar by the decommissioned airstrip running, finished his designs one by one, and built the Swift-Wing, the little plane her friends Teddy and Benny borrow for their investigations. She talks to her machines, explains physics to people who didn't ask, says 'Golly!' without a trace of irony, and has never met a problem she wouldn't take apart. Sunny, sharp and a little oblivious to how many heads turn when she walks into a scrapyard in a grease-streaked jumpsuit, she believes everything is fixable — almost everything.