Prosper English

'''WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS SPOILERS ABOUT THE CATHERINE JINKS BOOK SERIES EVIL GENIUS. READ AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION''' Prosper English is the real name of Doctor Darkkon's right hand man. For the majority of Catherine Jinks's book Evil Genius he went under the alias of Thaddeus Roth. He was Cadel's therapist for eight years, the Chancellor of the Axis Institute of World Domination, the leader of a world wide criminal operation, and Cadel's persumed father.

History
Prosper's birth place is unknown. He has probably been to college (presuming his psychology degrees are real), and has been the notorious geneticist, Doctor Phineas Darkkon's right hand man for many, many years. But, according to English, he was the one really in charge, because Darkkon was slowly going insane. But Prosper could care less, he literally had whatever he wanted because of the Darkkon Empire's influence. But, unfortunately, when Darkkon married a woman named Elspeth, Prosper got far too involved. Darkkon treated Elspeth very poorly, sometimes even poisoning her so she couldn't leave the house. He was paranoid that she would leave him, and, ironically, she turned to Prosper for help, and it was with Prosper she (presumably) had Cadel. Darkkon was suspicious of her and had Prosper run DNA tests, which he naturally faked. However, when Prosper finished the tests, he killed her.

Role in Evil Genius
After that, Darkkon created the Axis Institute for World Domination. Darkkon was obsessed with the existance of what he called "Advanced Genes", and this college would help him get rid of the Junk People (aka, people he deemed stupid or worthless). Darkkon naturally made his most trusted lieutenant the Chancellor of his most prized venture. Prosper always thought the Institute a foolish idea, but he had better plans, and expected that Cadel would someday take it down. He had been hoping for it.

Soon after, Darkkon arranged Cadel to be raised in the care of two of his employees to specifically raise him so he would hate them and love Darkkon and trust English (alias Roth). For eight years, Prosper did everything in his power to nudge Cadel to use his technical prowess for other, less legal exploits. It was because of this that Cadel started a fake dating service called Partner Post, where he began talking to Kay-Lee McDougal (who was really a girl with cerebral palsy). When he found out about Sonja (the girl), he had a few of his agents tell Sonja about how Partner Post was fake. Finally, when Cadel did take down the Institute, Prosper was nothing but pleased. However, when Cadel attempted to escape Prosper, he was caught by the police, and Cadel spilled about Prosper's location, and when his house was surrounded, he threatened Cadel at gun point, but ultimately could not bring himself to shooting who he thought was his son.