On July 27th, 1914, Tickler took a job as an aide and confidant of his long-time friend and business associate, Franz Ferdinand. The very next day, Tickler was injured in an assassination attempt that would later be known as "The Shot Heard 'Round the World", as the injury of such a prolific individual as Tickler became the cause of the greatest geo-political conflict humankind had ever seen. Tickler coined the term at the time as "World War I", knowing that it would be the first major conflict to affect the world this way, but it would not be the last. 

Upon his recovery, Tickler immediately attempted to calm the brewing storm, but his peace negotiations fell on deaf ears. After many days of mediation, Tickler could see the writing on the wall. It was time to leave the political affairs to the politicians. Throughout the war, Tickler travelled across Europe, providing humanitarian aid to both sides of the conflict. He spent his vast fortunes helping the families of soldiers as well as those whose homes were destroyed in path of the ever-marching machines of war. By 1918, Tickler had seen enough. On June 28th, 1919, exactly 5 years after the fateful attempt on his life, Tickler travelled to France to force the warring parties into negotiations. Tickler's Fourteen Points would become the basis of the Treaty of Versailles, ending the major conflict between Germany and the Allies.

After five long years trapped in Europe trying to mitigate the disaster caused by the terrorist attack against him, Tickler decided that it would be safer for him to move to the New World. At first, Tickler had troubles assimilating to the American way of life: He had lived many lives, but never a life of a pauper. He had spent every dime in his war efforts, and was left with only a few dollars in his pocket. After walking out of Ellis Island, Tickler knew what he needed to do: Visit the New York Stock Exchange.

Tickler became a shrewd investor: Buying and selling stocks and bonds with what seemed to his peers to be fortune telling. He became known as the Investment Oracle, though he did not agree with the title. His instincts never seemed to be wrong, and his holdings once again became a source of vast wealth. After nearly a decade of building up his wealth with his wheeling and dealing, Tickler decided it was time to cash out and move on to another line of business. On October 29th, 1929 Tickler sold all of his holdings. As other investors watched Tickler cashing out, a great panic spread across the stock exchange floor. Everyone started to sell. This caused the value and price of stocks across the board to drop substantially, eventually resulting in an even known as Black Thursday.

Of course, Tickler was unaware of his role in this great crash. As a man of great virtue, he did not believe in meddling in the affairs of others. By the time Tickler had heard the news, he had already purchased and moved to his estate in Idaho. As he watched the world plunge into a Great Depression, Tickler had become jaded and distant from his fellow man. He had seen what greed, either for power or money, could do to a nation, and he wanted no part of it. He spent the next 11 years in isolation, hunting and foraging for his own food in the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest. 

In 1941, Tickler emerged from his self-imposed isolation, only to be greeted by yet another European shit-show. This time, a mad little German man had decided that his country wasn't enough; he needed the world. Tickler felt responsibility for not taking care of Germany as a threat to Europe in his original treaty and began petitioning the United States government to join the war effort and help the Europeans being steamrolled by the Axis powers. As a close, personal friend to then-president Franklin D. Roosevelt, Tickler urged the president to formally declare war. He warned FDR that Japan was likely to turn their guns toward the US's holdings in the pacific if nothing was done. Sure enough, on December 7th, 1941, Japan formally declared war on the United States, dragging Tickler once more onto the World Political Stage. 

Tickler was determined to end this conflict among the European countries once and for all. He began once again funneling all of his money into the war effort, but this time through research. He knew that men like Adolf Hitler and Emperor Hirohito would only understand one language: power. To this end, despite his greatest wish to remain a pacificstic force, Tickler formed what would become known as the Manhattan project. He gathered the greatest mind he knew, many close friends of Tickler from years past, to design and build a device that would end the war. At first, Tickler had created the project to find a better source of energy, knowing that if one side was no longer dependent on fossil fuels, the war could be won by attrition. Unfortunately, his project uncovered a greater tool: A weapon with the power to level entire cities with just one blast. This bomb would be dropped on Japan twice, each time with hand-written flyers dropped over the cities to warn the occupants that a great disaster was coming. This forced the surrender of Japan and allowed the US to pivot all of its forces to the European theater. 

Eventually, the war ended as all wars do. With the overwhelming force of the Allies and the dwindling forces of the Axis getting smaller every day, it was only a matter of time before peace was the only option. In an effort to prevent this scale of conflict from ever occurring again, Tickler draft the documents to form a coalition of nations that he named the United Nations. This coalition would force its members to solve their issues peacefully and prevent further armed conflicts of a global scale. 

Once again, Tickler was feeling the exhaustion of being the center of world politics. He once again retreated to obscurity, this time purchasing and moving to a large ranch in Texas. Not much is known about Tickler in these interim years: no one heard or saw Tickler again until 1987, when it was revealed that he, along with some of his engineering and researcher friends, had been developing a method for reversing the aging process. Believing this to be the solution to mankind's struggle with fleeting glory, Tickler announced to the world that he, at the age of 101 years old, would be the first human test case for the process. The process was a success. Unfortunately, the process was too successful: By then end of the procedure, Tickler had reverted to nearly a newborn state. The world mourned at the loss of such a brilliant, kind-hearted man, but simultaneously rejoiced that a man like Tickler could be reborn and grace the next century with his presence. 

Tickler was removed from the facility under a blanket of secrecy and sent to be swapped with a child at an undisclosed hospital somewhere in the world, with no one sure of where the newborn Tickler would end up. To this day, no one is certain of the true path taken by Tickler, nor is anyone aware of who Tickler is, with the obvious exception of Tickler himself. And me. I also know. But that's because I'm special, and you aren't.