Fixit For Sure: The Mellow Mechanic
Name: Clement Wurmwood
Nickname: Clem
Occupation: Mechanic
Born: August 5, 1948, in Atlanta, GA, US
Died: November 3, 2006, in Billings, MT, US
Spouse: None
Children: None
Favorite Foods: BBQ, chicken wings, ice-cream sandwiches
Hobbies: Collecting rubber duckies, napping
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"I tip my hat to you, my green friend. One blue-collar worker to another."
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Clement Wurmwood, known to many as Clem, was born in Atlanta, Georgia on August 5, 1948. From childhood, Clem enjoyed working with his hands and getting sweaty and grimy, whether it be helping his dad fix up the family car or repairing neighbors' appliances for a little cash. When he was fifteen, Clem decided that he wanted to be a mechanic.
To that end, when he graduated from high school in 1966, Clem attended a two-year vocational school, where he learned the tools of the trade. In 1970, he took a job at a company called Fixit Industries, which specialized in steel works, car repair and appliance repair. For the first ten years, Clem was often seen tuning up cars. Then, in 1980, Clem was tasked with managing the upkeep of various buildings' sub-basement levels, which netted significantly better pay.
Over the next 26 years, Clem became notoriously good at his job, playfully pranking his co-workers to break the monotony. He also took an interest in rubber duckies, amassing a huge collection from his work-related travels. On slow workdays, he took frequent naps to keep himself alert. Aside from his napping and his slight mischievousness, Clem was described as a model employee, receiving several pay raises throughout his career.
On November 3, 2006, Clem had just finished a job in Billings, Montana, when he came upon a bloody fistfight. In his good-natured way, Clem attempted to break it up, but he wound up thrown into the path of an oncoming car. Whether it was accidental or deliberate, no one would ever know. All the same, Clem succumbed to his injuries at the age of 58.
Clem was more lethargic as a ghost, frequently sighted napping in condemned buildings, surrounded by his rubber duckie collection. He could also be spotted in flooded areas, lazily drifting by atop a pool floatie. It wasn't long before Clem grew tired of napping all the time. He wanted to work with his hands again, and most of all, the wanted to fix things again.
The ghostly mechanic got his chance in 2018, when Hellen Gravely brought him to her hotel and charged him with maintaining the Boilerworks on the sub-basement floor. A year later, she gave him an elevator button and told him to keep it away from Luigi by any means necessary.
When Luigi arrived at the Boilerworks, Clem was asleep, waking up when the former accidently stepped on a rubber duckie. After Clem failed to scare off the man in green with a warning, he flooded the Boilerworks by throwing a switch, with Luigi surviving due to Polterpup. Fashioning a motorboat out of a pool floatie and the Poltergust's vacuuming and exhaust functions, Luigi navigated his way to the switch, which he used to drain the area, before heading back to the main tank to confront Clem. Along the way, he thanked Gooigi for his actions on the previous floor, apologizing for his strong negative reaction.
Clem was impressed by Luigi's stubbornness and grew to respect him due to their shared blue-collar backgrounds. He challenged Luigi to a fight for the elevator button, in which the two rode around on pool floaties, Clem attacking by tossing mines at his opponent and swatting at him with a paper fan. But Luigi figured out how to turn the mines against Clem, suction his floatie onto the Poltergust and launch him into the arena's spiked walls, giving him an opening to attack. It was a long, frustrating battle, but Luigi knuckled tight, emerging with the next elevator button and a captured mechanic ghost.
When the adventure concluded, Clem, like the other ghosts, abandoned his grudge against Luigi and helped build the new hotel. He became the resident mechanic when it opened, and he also entertained the hotel's guest with a semi-autobiographical dinner show. In recent years, Clem has revamped his dinner show, proudly showing off his rubber duckie collection and letting one lucky patron take one home, having lost the need for such material things.