I think it would be great if Clockwork and Professor Paradox knew each other personally, since technically they could be called colleagues.
If they could be considered colleagues, I actually think they would be the sort that would absolutely loath and very reluctantly respect each other.
I mean, they are both kinda schemy and manipulative (not like outright, but they clearly set stuff in motion in background, so things would go/end a certain way), so it feels like they would be a thorn in each other's sides, or the other would try to use the other in their schemes. Like you know what I mean??? They seem like they could be that sort of colleagues.
On a complete side note, I am a big fan of 'Clockwork is a Ghost of Professor Paradox's original human self' AU idea that I saw floating around!
Like - during the experiment Professor Paradox died, but also not, so it created a ghost that then fused with the concept of time which created Clockwork, who just now exist as a Spirit from the beginning of time (because time is not linear for him), which would explain why he exists in Ghost Zone from the ancient times. Meanwhile, since Paradox is not actually dead dead, but now he doesn't actually exist in the linear material world properly (like, this man also jumps dimensions Im pretty sure???) he is straddling that weird line between existing and not.
I just think it would be a neat concept, of two different entities born from one person, now existing separate but also unfathomably tethered by something invisible.
Also it gives nice little parallels, because Clockwork is the Soul that has a lot of power but can't do much and mostly observe, while Paradox is the Flesh, that can actually do stuff and travel around, but he is not all that powerful in comparison.
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