Background

Doctor Mann was born in 1971 under the name Ayuko Matsumori to Doctor Matsumori(father-chinese) and Doctor Mastumori(mother-japanese). She grew up with horrible allergies leading her father to run constant tests on her with hopes of improving her health. An emotional distant child Mann grew up to become a geneticist, better than her father, to scorn him for his rejection of her upon coming out of the closet to him.

After graduating from UC Berkley she took on a job teaching at Harvard University. Shortly before the plague Doctor Mann heard of her father's attempts to clone humans and, as a way to further spite him, set forth on her own cloning exploit. Enlisting the aide of a student, primarily for prenatal care, she impregnated herself with her own clone. This clone died in childbirth at the moment the plague hit.

Post-Plague

As the top surving scientist in her field with knowledge of cloning, Yorick and Agent 355 set out to enlist the help of Doctor Mann in repopulating the now man-free world, as well as study Yorick and Ampersand to determine how they managed to survive. Mann first meets up with Yorick and 355 in Boston. Shortly thereafter her lab is burned to the ground by the Isrealis forcing the three to travel across the country to her back-up lab in San Francisco.

Arriving in San Francisco, after a long series of exploits, Mann sets to work studying Yorick and Ampersand with hopes of discovering the key to their immunity to the disease that wiped out all males beside the two. The answer? Bacteria located in Ampersand's galbladder, transfered to Yorick viva contact with Ampersand's feces. Unforunately just as soon as this breakthrough is discovered I new challege comes as a ninja appears and kidnaps Ampersand. With the monkey possibly now the only key to the survival of any possible future males on Earth the three must now set out after the ninja. Where to? Japan, with Mann picking up a lesbian lover named Rose and resently retired from the Australian navy along the way.

Arriving in Japan, Mann is reunited with her mother then quickly separated once more as the ninja, whom we now learn is named Toyota, kidnaps Mann's mother, demanding Ampersand in trade, the monkey having escaped her custody while traveling. Though at first Mann keeps this event a secret from her fellow travelers it is revealed as they travel to Hong Kong in search of research conducted by the one and only Doctor Matsumori, Mann's father.

Things get more complex as they find Doctor Matsumori not only alive but with a deep understanding of the cause of the plague. Cloning. According to the good doctor Matsumori, man was once a nessecary evil on earth kept in existance for the sake of reproduction though the moment a child, of his mistress Doctor Ming, was born without the assistance of man, it being a clone, nature took over and wiped the now unnessecary evil off the face of the earth. His answer now? Kill the last men on earth and leave it to the women. Luckily Mann disposes of her father before he can kill Yorick and Ampersand while 355 takes care of Toyota.

Now with a lab made for cloning Doctor Mann continues her research alone with Rose, who'd agreed to carry a clone child for Mann, and her mother while Yorick and 355 set out in search of Yorick long lost love/fiance Beth in Australia(and later Paris).