Henry was always an introverted person, who clung to computers and programming more readily than interfacing with people. He took solace in learning about computers, discovering how they worked and the logic behind their operation. Perhaps a symptom of his autism, he object personified computers since a young age, seeing their function as a unique form of experience and cognition. In this way, his love and affection for computers is more present and tangible in his life than most human friendships he has formed.
He continued into adulthood to pursue a career in technology. While working under his last employer, Henry—naturally, underappreciated and tasked with remedying the corporations negligence of its equipment—was asked to cable manage the hopeless mess thst functioned as the building's server room. Something grasped onto Henry amidst the fray of wires, and that lithe, wiry something did not let go. Between Henry's frantic efforts to free himself, the hazard of the server room's state, and the desperation of a force other than the man present—an electrical fire erupted.
Firefighters rescued a sooty, shaken-up Henry from the half-burned shell of the office building. He insisted not to be taken to the hospital despite his best interest. When he was released home, Henry suffered through the night...unable to fall asleep at the ache of something slithering beneath his skin.
The living mass of wires living inside of Henry are a manifestation of the Extinction. They are deeply possessive over Henry as their host, and Henry has a troubled but "affectionate" relationship to them. He often uses his wires to subdue prey in order to feed the Dread Power he serves. As their relationship has gone on, both Henry and the wires behave symbiotically, and Henry has often been creative using the wires to his ends, including interfacing with technology both new and defunct to renew them to some sort of maligned sentience. His own wires and those machines that he awakens tear his victims apart, suffocate them, or otherwise kill them in whatever way he pleases. Henry takes a particular joy in letting his victims be consumed by technology as literally as possible.
He currently works an IT job at a new office, where he can be found slinking to the solitude of his office as soon as he gets his coffee.
In relationships I would describe Henry as otherwise obsessive, desperate, and pathetic towards whoever or whatever decides to have him.
