Owen Burnett was a mystery. Extremely intelligent, a talented fighter, and utterly subservient he seemed nothing more than a superb major-domo and butler to David Xanatos. Very low-key and rarely showing surprise, or rather any emotion at all, Owen is willing to do anything that David Xanatos might ask of him. Even going so far as to offer to try out an immortality elixir on himself, dipping his left arm up to the elbow in it. It backfired leaving him with a stone left hand and forearm. Owen did not even show any evidence of surprise or anger at this, he merely incorporated it into his defenses when fighting.

It was later revealed that Owen was in fact one of the fairie, or children of Oberon. We first saw Puck, Owen’s fairie self, when Demona managed to summon him through Titania’s Mirror. Capturing him in iron chains, she forced him to do her bidding. He granted her wishes, to the letter, but not the spirit and causing her more grief than good. In a typically fairie way he thoroughly enjoyed himself, and as a reward for the time spent, and as a punishment for her rude treatment, he granted her wish that she not turn to stone at dawn, after a fashion. Instead, at dawn, she goes through an extremely painful process of transforming from a gargoyle into a human.

It wasn’t until Oberon and Titania tried to take the Xanatos’s child, Alexander, that the major-domo fully revealed his past. As Puck, he was fascinated by Titania/Anastasia’s choice of a human husband over a fairie one. He decided to conduct his own human study. Having for centuries played the part of the trickster he decided to go to the opposite extreme and play the straight man for once. He decided to model himself after the straightest man he knew, Preston Vogel, Halcyon Renard’s second in command. After working for Xantos for several years he revealed his secret to him and offered him a choice. A wish or a lifetime of service as Owen. Xanatos chose Owen. Impressed by Xanatos’s forgoing of instant gratification over the long term benefits to be gained from Owen, he decided to honor the deal. He even went so far as to defend the Xanatos’s child against his King and Queen. As a result he was banished from his home on Avalon forever, and stripped of his powers except when acting as tutor to Alexander. As the sentence came down from Oberon, Puck was upset as he’d only been hoping for a few more decades of living in the mortal world, he didn’t wish to be cut off forever from his own kind. But he quickly controlled himself becoming the implacable, imperturbable Owen. A move that seemed to shock Oberon and further impress Xanatos. Fortunately for Puck, Oberon’s rule seems to be easily bendable, allowing him to use his powers whenever Alexander is even minimally involved. It was in this fashion that Owen helped Xanatos repay the Manhattan clan by separating Coldstone’s three personalities into the two steel clan robots and the Coldstone body.