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Barbarians are at the gate, and ready to bust some Roman heads! 
―Wrench

Reginald Blechman, known as Wrench, is the deuteragonist of Watch Dogs 2, a playable character in Watch Dogs: Legion and one of the two main protagonists (alongside Aiden Pearce) of the DLC Bloodline. A hacker affiliated with DedSec, he works alongside Marcus, Sitara, and Josh, serving as the group's engineer and fixer.

Biography[]

Before Watch Dogs 2[]

Wrench was born on April 4, 1988. Even though Wrench is loud-mouthed and animated, it is speculated that he had a troubled childhood with debilitating shyness, leading him to build an electronic mask that would serve as his means of expressing his emotions.

Events of Watch Dogs 2[]

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Wrench first appears in the introductory mission, watching Marcus work his way through the CTOS server farm with the other DedSec members and asking questions about him. After Marcus deletes his profile and escapes the facility, Wrench shoves a bag over his head and forces him into a van. Later, on a beach, Marcus is introduced to the team and they celebrate his becoming a DedSec member by drinking beer and partying. When Marcus arrives at the hackerspace the next morning, Wrench introduces him to the Research app and the 3D Printer.

Sometime after that, Wrench called Marcus and told him that the CyberDriver trailer had been released, and asked him to come back to the hackerspace to watch it. While he and Marcus appreciated the trailer for fun, Sitara and (especially) Josh found it mundane and insulting of hacker culture. While DedSec launches Operation: Hack and Run, Marcus steals CHIP and brings it to Wrench's garage hackerspace, where the team fixes up the car for a publicity stunt. Wrench is seen preparing the car while Marcus remotely pilots the vehicle through the streets of San Francisco.

In W4TCHED, the FBI apprehends Wrench and tries to psychologically intimidate him by depriving him of his trademark mask. Dusan Nemec exerted his influence to have Wrench released only a few hours later, also offering a plea bargain to him and the rest of DedSec if they cooperated with him. Wrench was still deprived of his mask until Marcus retrieved it from the FBI. As Marcus returns Wrench's mask to him in a particularly emotional exchange, Wrench (showing his face to Marcus for the first time) and Marcus vow to refuse Dusan's deal and take him down instead.

Events of Bloodline[]

Before the events of Bloodline, Wrench was contacted by French businessman Thomas Rempart, CEO of Rempart Automated Defense Systems SA, a French private security firm specializing in robotic forces. While Wrench harbored his own misgivings about Rempart due to his vast wealth & status, he believed in Rempart's lies about improving the future of humanity, and therefore agreed to assist in designing the hardware for the MK1 robots. Somewhere along the line, Rempart stole Wrench's technology and cut all ties with Wrench, believing he had served his purpose and was no longer useful.

Feeling betrayed by Rempart, Wrench decided to take revenge by ruining Rempart on a massive scale. Using specially developed cloaking technology, and several other modified weapons, Wrench infiltrated the Broca Tech deep labs and attempted to steal the BrocaBridge, a device developed by Broca Tech that would facilitate the MK2's brain-machine interface. As Rempart had already sold a million units of the MK2 to the UK government (and the loss of the BrocaBridge would render them fundamentally useless), this would put Rempart in breach of contract, with a fine of approximately a billion pounds.

At the same time however, Louis-Edmond Rempart, both Thomas Rempart's father and chairman of Rempart SA's board of directors, contacted the Fixers. As Thomas's actions in London were not sanctioned by Rempart's board of directors, the board had no idea what Thomas was up to. Thus, they hired Aiden Pearce to find out what was going on. Having successfully stolen the BrocaBridge, Wrench left a message for Rempart at a Tidis/Rempart facility he had previously attacked. In the message, he revealed that he knew all about Thomas's scam with the MK2s and what the loss of the BrocaBridge would do to his company. Wrench then proceeded to taunt Rempart by threating to destroy the BrocaBridge with his sledgehammer, before narrowly missing it. He then revealed that he had much grander plans, and that he planned to reverse-engineer the BrocaBridge, and then upload the schematics for the MK2 to the internet for free, delivering a devastating blow to Rempart's business model.

Wrench later developed a false BrocaBridge that was rigged to explode, the real one was placed in limbo in the London postal service. Wrench then allowed Aiden Pearce to take this false BrocaBridge to Rempart, which managed to injure Rempart's face upon detonation. Afterwards he provided an escape vehicle for Aiden Pearce and Jackson Pearce and delivered them from Rempart Tower to his safehouse. He then proceeded to acquire medical supplies for the then comatose Aiden Pearce.

Afterwards, Wrench then performed a job at the behest of Jordi Chin, which involved the destruction of several Rempart servers. After completion of the job, Jordi revealed Louis-Edmond Rempart as the client who hired Aiden, and that the board now wished to erase all trace of Thomas Rempart's actions in London and move him to a department where he could do no damage, as his actions in London threatened the conglomerate. This meant that if Thomas Rempart did not acquire the BrocaBridge, the inevitable fallout would be blamed on him and him alone in order to protect the company.

Skye Larsen, CEO of Broca Tech, then contacted Wrench, offering to assist him in reviving Aiden Pearce from his coma, in exchange for clearing Rempart's forces out of the Broca Tech Deep Labs. Wrench and Jackson accepted, seeing no other possible alternative. After clearing Rempart's forces from the deep labs, Rempart called Wrench to gloat that he had already acquired what he came there to do. Larsen then revealed that she did not reach out to Wrench in order to cure Aiden, but rather to test the BrocaBridge on him. Wrench protested that such a cure was insane, and that he and Jackson should find a better way. Jackson refused and entered Aiden's mind in order to revive him from his coma.

After reviving Aiden from his coma, Wrench attempted to track down Rempart to exact his revenge. Wrench then proceeded to locate Rempart's private barge, and disabled its engines to prevent it from reaching international waters. Upon reaching the barge's cargo hold, Rempart proceeded to activate a prototype MK2 robot and began to pilot it through jury-rigged Brocatech technology. With the MK2, Rempart attempted to kill Wrench, but he was stopped through the combined efforts of both Pearces and Wrench's weaponry. Upon reaching Rempart's cabin, Wrench destroyed his Brocatech controller, and proceeded to berate Rempart for his abandonment of his "dream." Rempart responded by saying that he had lied to Wrench and that he was going to go after all of Wrench's friends in California. Wrench responded by knocking Rempart out and delivering him into Albion custody.

Appearance[]

Wrench is a slim, average height man. His appearance are mainly inspired by punk rock culture. His clothing consists of a black spiked leather mask with an LED visor, a spiked vest with attached patches and pins, a black DedSec hoodie, ripped denim jeans, a red spiked bracelet, black strapped bracelets, and black studded leather sneakers.

Wrench's mask and mechanical goggles appear to "blink" emotes and various eye expressions, and the mask features a voice modulator that gives his voice a more robotic tone. The goggles can also project multiple pixelated symbols and appear to be made of many small, square-shaped bulbs. Wrench also has a series of tattoos on his arms influenced by Cyberculture. His vest shows a sewed patch inspired by the "y u no" meme on the right side, and an "anarchy" symbol tattooed on his neck. He has additional tattoos on his stomach and back, which are visible when he attends Swelter Skelter in costume during Looking Glass.

While attending the Swelter Skelter fest, he wears his trademark mask, a hood that features a large mohawk, a black motorcycle vest, a black man-thong with a spiked front, spiked kneepads, and black shoes.

Wrench's face is revealed when he is deprived of his mask during W4TCHED. He has a large, prominent port-wine stain birthmark around his left eye.[1] He has blue eyes and light brown hair. Interestingly, during the mission Motherload, he wears spiked shoulder-pads and spiked knee pads despite not wearing them in any cutscenes before the mission. It's possible that he put them on just for that mission, or developers forgot to remove them from the controllable model. In Bloodline, he removes his mask and reveals his face to Aiden to prove he is trustworthy enough, saying "No Mask, No Wrench, Just Reggie."

Personality[]

Wrench has a wild and humorous personality, as seen in a cutscene where he is trying to get a chip from a toaster; instead of properly taking it apart he smashes it with a sledgehammer instead. However, he appears to also be one of the more aggressive members of DedSec, as seen in the World Premiere trailer in which one of his dialogue to Marcus says that they are at war with everyone, including puppies. His aggression extends to his strategic thinking - during False Profits, he suggests making up a lie about the New Dawn church to discredit them before Sitara and Marcus counter that the risks would outweigh the rewards. He has an affinity for spikes or a punk aesthetic, as seen by his choice in clothing. He has gone to some parties in his life sipping beer under his mask. Some people say they actually have seen him without the mask but he prefers to deny it.

According to an in-game audio log, the FBI developed a psychological profile of him and determined him to have a troubled, possibly traumatic childhood. As such, he is socially awkward around women, has trouble conveying his emotions, and wears his trademark mask as a "billboard" to show how he feels (one FBI agent even likened this to Roy Orbison's use of sunglasses). In another in-game audio log found in the original hackerspace, Horatio mentions that Wrench wears his mask to dodge CTOS's facial recognition, but probably has a deeper reason such as hiding from a dangerous past.

He is also very crude, as in the mission Haum Sweet Haum, he tells Marcus to get the Haum 2.0 Zero-Day before "some do-gooder white hat tells Haum how to... cockblock [them]" and at the very end of his portion of the Motherload mission, upon destroying Blume's backup servers he tells Marcus "I came, I saw, I blew shit up, I came again." Wrench also has a passion for rock music.

In Bloodline, it is revealed that Wrench is bisexual, with him having a former husband, Zane. At this point, Wrench seems to be more open with his feelings and emotions, and also seems to be more comfortable with showing his face.

Relationships[]

Marcus Holloway[]

While he is obviously friends with the entirety of the DedSec crew, Wrench grew particularly close to Marcus Holloway due to their mutual love of Jimmy Siska movies, sci-fi, action films, and their different but compatible senses of humor. They grew especially close during the events of W4TCHED, in which Marcus developed newfound intimacy with Wrench after returning his mask (a very personal item of Wrench's; one that an FBI agent described as "a totem") to him when both the FBI and Dusan Nemec stole it from him for the sole purpose of psychologically intimidating Wrench.

Another prominent example of their friendship is in the DLC mission Moscow Gambit where, after learning the Bratva kidnapped Marcus and tried to kill him with a car crusher, Wrench angrily punched a hole in a nearby wall. Once Marcus returned to Hackerspace, Wrench hugs him tightly, clearly relieved that Marcus is alive.

For up to a year and a half before the events of Bloodline, Wrench fell out of touch with Marcus as a result of spending too much time with his new husband Zane and later at his new job with Rempart. Wrench felt very guilty and lonely for not maintaining contact with Marcus, but was too nervous to contact him back after so long, to the point that Wrench would repeatedly listen to the old voicemails Marcus had left him over the months. In the mission London Culling, Marcus surprises Wrench with the opportunity to film stunts for Jimmy Siska's upcoming action film Devon v. Devin, and the two of them resolve to start hanging out again.

Sitara Dhawan[]

Being a member of DedSec, Wrench respected Sitara as both a friend and a capable hacker who brought her talents for art, speech, and programming to the forefront of DedSec's public image and operational capacity. They do seem to have a fairly playful side to their relationship, as Sitara once teased Wrench when a Prime_Eight doxxing list suggested Wrench's real name to be Reginald.

When Wrench and Marcus reunite in London Culling, Marcus mentions that Sitara is also eager to hear from him again.

Josh Sauchak[]

Wrench also respected Josh as a talented hacker, however, their relationship was not without their disagreements and misunderstandings. For example, during a cutscene in the mission Haum Sweet Haum, Josh and Wrench could briefly be seen arguing before Marcus broke them up. Generally, though, Wrench got along with Josh.

Horatio Carlin[]

Wrench's interactions with Horatio were minimal, to say the least. This is not to say Wrench didn't think highly of Horatio, however; at the end of the mission Eye For An Eye, Wrench mourned his death, noting that the Tezcas could have come after any one of the DedSec crew members.

In Watch Dogs: Legion, if Wrench is selected to carry out the mission The Knowledge, Wrench will recall Horatio and his day job at Nudle while expressing sympathy for the rank-and-file employees of the tech giants that DedSec works against.

Raymond "T-Bone" Kenney[]

Wrench's relationship with T-Bone was rocky from the start, with their initial greetings being sly but passive-aggressive compliments of each other's' hat and mask. This became even more tumultuous when T-Bone proposed using Wrench Jr. as a plant to detonate an EMP inside of a Tidis facility, a suggestion that Wrench vehemently despised; so much so that when Marcus agreed to it, he almost compromised his friendship with Marcus. By the end of the game's story, however, he eventually learned to get along well with T-Bone.

Aiden Pearce[]

Wrench's relationship with Pearce, as seen in Bloodline, starts off as a rivalry, as the two battle over the BrocaBridge. Wrench becomes responsible for a piece of shrapnel getting lodged within Aiden's chest; however. as the two become closer. they become accomplices. Wrench ends up helping Jackson revive Aiden from a coma with the help of Skye Larsen, showing his respect for him.

Jordi Chin[]

Jordi's relationship with Wrench begins when Jordi accuses Wrench of kidnapping Aiden Pearce. Since Aiden is incapacitated, Jordi offers Fixer Contracts to Wrench. Wrench and Jordi then worked together to destroy Thomas Rempart's shipments. Following this, Jordi offers further Wrench Fixer Contracts that the player can complete as side missions, as Wrench.

Zane[]

During the events of Bloodline, it is revealed that Wrench is bisexual and had a husband, Zane, prior to coming to London (previously, Wrench's possible bisexuality was only jokingly hinted at in a handful of missions, including Plug and Play and Automata). The first inclination towards this in Bloodline is a scratched out heart with the name Zane in it, that is on a table in Wrench's hideout. Later on in the DLC, Wrench mentions how he busted up Zane's car after they divorced. In the side quests with Marcus, Marcus asks if Wrench is doing okay after the divorce, but Wrench refuses to say Zane's name and says that he can fall down a well for all he cares, suggesting the breakup between the two was bad. In an audio log sent by Marcus, Marcus again asks if Wrench is okay and suggests that he should hookup with a guy Marcus knows, who drives monster trucks. In a text file located outside of Skye Larsen's house, Wrench mentions in a text to Thomas Rempart that Zane had kicked him out and Wrench had been living in his car during his partnership with Rempart.

Skills and Abilities[]

  • High Intelligence: He is extraordinarily intelligent, despite him having anarchistic outbursts. He was able to create Wrench Jr. thanks to his engineering skills.
    • Hacking Skills: Like any DedSec member, he is a very skilled hacker. He even has a profile of his own for CTOS manipulation. According to one FBI audio log, Wrench's hacking skills are mostly self-taught despite its high-quality level.
  • Combat Skills: Despite being scrawny, he is a brutal combatant, preferring explosives, and heavy weapons. This is most likely due to his violent and anarchistic personality.
  • Athletic Skills: He is adept at parkour, like Marcus.
  • Demolitions Expertise: According to Horatio (when he's describing himself, Sitara, Josh, and Wrench to Marcus in the beginning), while Wrench is good at coding, he's better at breaking things apart than putting them together. This is clearly shown in the DLC mission Moscow Gambit, where Wrench rigs vacant Bratva houses with explosives that release fireworks which come together to form a DedSec logo, and in his portion of the Motherload mission, where he uses explosives and grenade launchers as part of his arsenal (and apparently has an infinite supply of ammunition for his guns).

Audio Logs[]

During the mission W4TCHED, three Audio Logs left by FBI members about Wrench can be heard.

Audio Log #1[]

"The subject is remarkable in that he wears a mask at all times. The mask prevents our facial recognition software from determining his identity. We have also run several vocal passes, the results are indeterminate as to region and upbringing. His work is that of a high-level, albeit self-taught, hacker whose calling card often involves crude jokes left encoded into his target's core program."

Audio Log #2[]

"Previous to his DedSec involvement, the subject known as Wrench mostly pursued cyber-attacks of dubious humanistic value. Changing website text to verbiage, often using bathroom humor. This sort of adolescent acting-out has transformed as he has become more deeply involved in DedSec. He now operates within a team, generally pursuing either corporate or political targets. The subject is considered dangerous."

Audio Log #3[]

"As for DedSec member Wrench. Surveillance indicates that he is awkward around the opposite sex and uses his mask as a deflecting device. A psych analysis postulates a disrupted childhood along with possible debilitating shyness. Subject copes with this using the mask which he has programmed to reflect his emotions as a sort of electronic billboard. Within the world in which the subject operates, this solution is considered ingenious."

Horatio's Report #3[]

Additionally, Horatio Carlin recorded an audio log detailing Wrench's involvement in DedSec, which can be found in the San Francisco hackerspace.

"The Wrench...man...what to say about this guy? Some freaky shit going on right there. I'd like to say he's actually a sensitive, charming guy beneath the harsh exterior, but I'm pretty sure he's a "fucked up motherfucker" all the way through. I don't even know who first recruited him, he just started showing up at local hackerspaces and building his "tools of destruction". At first, I thought he was trying too hard... like he was an FBI plant or something... but no agent's going to pull the kind of suicidal stunts this guy does. I think the truth is... Wrench doesn't care if he dies, but he's not going quietly. Even so... I'm glad we've got the Wrench on our side. One of the group's biggest problems is a lack of GSD...Gettin' Shit Done. The Wrench is pure GSD and he brings his own sledgehammer. He's not some dumb thug, either... I've seen some of his code--he's legit. Probably why he's interested in DedSec and not some street gang. You know what, I take that back. He might actually belong to a street gang. Who knows. One thing I do know about Wrench... the man hates Blume. I mean HATES them. I can't get the "why" from him. It's obvious he wears the mask to avoid the facial recognition, but what's he hiding FROM? He's not saying."

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Trivia[]

  • Wrench's birthday is April 4 of an unknown year,[2] most likely in the mid-1980s to mid-1990s. However, he likes to tell people his birthday is April 1, which is April Fools' Day, possibly because of his humorous personality.
  • Between Haum Sweet Haum and Robot Wars he owned his own robot, Wrench Jr.
  • In Watch Dogs: Legion, Wrench possesses a custom construction drone named Sergei. The player can interact with Sergei in their safehouse. Wrench will then say that he couldn't add additional weapons on Sergei because of supply problems.
  • Wrench's diversionary shell company in Watch Dogs: Legion is named "Anime Sex Pillows, LLC".
  • In Wrench's safehouse, the player can find multiple goat pictures and Jackson asks him about it. Wrench answers with "because I am a horny boi, because they have horns...not because I want to fuck".
  • Wrench's Safehouse in Watch Dogs: Legion, located at Brixton Barrier Block, was made accessible to all players in story mode and online mode with Title Update 4.0 on May 4, apparently by mistake. It was removed with a PC patch later that month, and it later became inaccessible on all platforms with the release of Title Update 4.5 on June 1.
  • Wrench's weapons in Watch Dogs: Legion are named "Princess Rat-Tat-Tat", "Shredder-senpai", "BFF", "Captain Boom Boom" and a sledgehammer named "Lady Smash".
  • In the mission Haum Sweet Haum, Wrench tells Marcus that he has a strong disliking for animals, stating that "They're all evolving to replace us on the food chain." In particular, it is shown he becomes nervous around even the most harmless of animals, including young puppies.
  • Wrench was originally going to be a strong and tough fixer, but when Ubisoft cast a non-famous actor to play the role, who didn't have the body type, they worked to change the character to match the actor, making Wrench less intimidating and funnier.
  • Wrench possibly sees through his mask via a small camera positioned towards the top of his mask.
  • In the side mission The Name Game, after Wrench asks Marcus if his real name was in the list of Prime_Eight's doxxing list, Marcus answers "Sure was, Reginald." Sitara sounds surprised to learn Wrench's apparent real name, implying that Marcus knew it before Sitara did. However, after retrieving Wrench's mask from the FBI, Marcus tells Sitara that he does not know Wrench's actual name, and she replies that "[she] will never tell."
    • In Bloodline, it is revealed that Wrench's full name is Reginald Blechman.
  • The mechanism of Wrench's mask is unknown since his hands are generally free when the emotes change. It is possibly based on CTOS 2.0's emotion analysis function or some other form of facial recognition system.
  • During the mission W4TCHED after Marcus meets with Wrench in the coffee shop, when exiting Wrench is seen having a conversation with the coffee shop worker, Naomi. It is possible to enter the coffee shop and hear their conversation.
  • In Bloodline, Wrench's mask will disappear when driving vehicles. It reappears on his face when exiting a vehicle.
  • In Watch Dogs: Legion, Wrench's mask can be toggled off; however, his voice changer will still be active and visible on his neck.
  • In the missions Moscow Gambit and Wrench in the Works, when Wrench is scanned by CTOS, the description states "Your Future Boyfriend, F*ck you and F*ck your mother." His income is listed as "Error".
  • In Watch Dogs: Legion, if the player plays as Wrench during the mission Coming Home, he reveals he enjoys polka music, zydeco music, and "anything loud and obnoxious."
  • In Far Cry 5, another Ubisoft game, Wrench's mask is a cosmetic and can be worn via Uplay.
  • In Watch Dogs: 2, Wrench possesses his own version of Marcus's Thunder Ball and uses the same takedown animations; in Legion, however, he has phased out his Thunder Ball in favor of a metal sledgehammer named "Lady Smash", and one of Wrench's stealth takedowns is a brutal tactic that involves him sticking "Lady Smash" between the legs of his target before sharply lifting it upwards to strike them in the groin, before doing so a second time while knocking them onto their back before striking them in the torso.

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