Toby Wincott

First Appearance: Forge: Things Change, Chapter 3 (June, 2005)
Occupation: Technology and Science Specialist, Nightwatch Solutions

Toby Wincott, from birth, was a living model of self-sabotage. Born with a natural gift for technology and science, he was one of the most brilliant minds in Canada, but managed to both argue with and outsmart his teachers so much that many would undergrade his projects just for spite. He lacked people skills on an impressive scale, and alienated and offended most around him. He found himself beaten up in his lower grades (even by other science nerds), shunned in college, and his inability to follow orders or work with others cost him one promising job after the next, despite the brilliance of his ideas and designs. Embittered and resentful of a world that was clearly inferior to him, he decided to turn his genius to crime and show them all what he was made of. After several iffy forays toward his ultimate goal (ones that nearly got him shot by other criminals on a couple of occasions), he reached what he thought would be his greatest chance at his destiny, the acquisition of a load of stolen experimental government technologies that would allow him 1) great riches from the deal that would jump-start his personal empire and 2) the chance to double-cross the people he was supposed to be stealing them for and get the technologies for himself. What he hadn't planned for was the whole thing being a set-up by BRAND, Canada's SHIELD division, and that the warehouse would be descended upon by dozens of heavily-armed BRAND agents and BRAND's leader--Colonel John Clayton--himself. Toby's deal inadvertently handed BRAND an entire terrorist organization, and landed him in prison pending trial. It was there, having reached rock-bottom, that he began to rethink his life and all the things he'd done to bring it to such a place, and consider what he might do with a second chance. As VERY good luck would have it, that second chance showed up at his cell door, a woman named Harry Sullivan who had a connection with Colonel Clayton, and was willing to use that connection to get Toby out if he would come work for her. Needless to say, he jumped at the chance, and found a new home with Nightwatch Solutions as their tech/science expert, and is slowly (but not always successfully) trying to learn to be a team player and better human being.