A little back story, or How we got where we are

Mayor Puddles had been ridiculed all through school. The taunting and laughter made him dedicate his education to the more esoteric side of science. In elementary school, he entered a small device that could cause a person to pee their pants. It actually won silver at the science fair as the judges didn't want him to do worse to them. In middle school, he invented a device that, when combined with the first device, would render someone oblivious to the first devices effects while also extending the time the first device's effects lasted. He won bronze in the middle school science fair. In high school, he won gold for his device that made it so that the first two device would, when combined with the third, render people unpotty trained permanently.

During his high school years, he had secretly refined his trio of devices, molding them into tools of persuasion. At his rallies, Harold’s inventions worked behind the scenes, disarming detractors and fostering an unusual loyalty among his supporters. Flushington’s residents found themselves oddly drawn to his quirky ideas, while simultaneously grappling with suspicious bouts of awkwardness—an early hint of the devices’ effects.

Clara Clean was Harold's closest rival. She secretly harbored a crush on him, but had been raised by a neat freak of the highest order. Coincidentally enough, the two happened to go to competing college's. So it was almost inevitable that, when she found Harold rising through the city government, she found herself compelled to find out how he was doing it as she had always had a hatred for the fact that he was always slightly better than her at everything they did.

Clara Clean and Harold Puddles had spent their formative years locked in an unspoken contest. From grade school to graduation, Harold always seemed to edge her out, winning competitions by a nose—or, in Clara’s case, a mop handle. Raised by a mother whose spotless home could rival a laboratory, Clara’s pride rested on order, cleanliness, and precision. Harold’s uncanny ability to both outshine her and leave chaos in his wake sparked a deeply personal grudge, one she could never fully reconcile with the flutter she felt whenever he smirked at her in triumph.

Their rivalry persisted into college, as fate would have it, on opposing campuses—Flushington Tech for Harold and Clean University for Clara. While Harold experimented with his bizarre contraptions, Clara excelled in sanitation engineering, determined to create eco-friendly systems that would revolutionize waste management. She didn’t think about Harold much… until she saw his name splashed across headlines: "Child Prodigy Inventor Elected Mayor of Flushington."

Now, as the newly elected mayor of Flushington, Harold Puddles was poised to enact his most clever scheme.