Oswaldo Ramirez

[APugNamedPugsley]

Player Nickname: APugNamedPugsley

Character Name: Oswaldo Riviera

Code Name: N/A

Age: 22

Date of Birth: August 8, 1998

Height: 5'10

Weight: 165lbs

Hair Color: None. As a side effect of his mutation, Oswaldo has no hair anywhere at all. He wears fake eyebrows and eyelashes along with the occasional hair piece to blend in but is otherwise hairless.

Place of Birth: Montevideo, Uruguay

Status: Recent arrival and aspiring refugee.

Occupation: Mathematician/Engineer/Strategist/Gambler

Nationality: Uruguayan, Italian ancestry.

Personality: It would seem that the world revealed to Oswaldo by his power is one of fixed outcomes and causal determinism, but this has resulted in him valuing human freedom and agency above all else. His demeanor is that of a laid back and carefree stoner. He is quick to laughter, quick to anger, mercurial in his moods and values friendships and personal loyalties above status, power or money. He hopes to become a champion for the oppressed but right now the bastards that ruined his life and turned it into a hell on earth need to pay. Beneath the casual and relaxed exterior, anger fuels his thirst for vengeance against those who wronged him and all those like them.

Power Origin/Type: Mutant/Mental

----------

General Power: Hypermind Oswaldo's mind is a hypercomputer capable of rapidly and without mechanical aid performing a near-infinite number of unimaginably complex and simultaneous calculations with minimal stimuli. He can quickly, simultaneously and perfectly analyze multiple information streams and rapidly respond to changing tactical situations, by identifying the variables and quantum possibilities in any situation and he uses the information to adjust the outcome to whichever is most favorable to him. Because his mind operates like a hypercomputer; he can process information quickly and this gives him a hyper-accelerated learning aptitude. He also possesses limitless information storage and retrieval, enhanced pattern recognition, extremely high perception and observational skills, perfect deductive reasoning and investigative skills, superhuman strategic, tactical and analytical skills and an eidetic memory.

Ability One: Technological Innovation By applying all of his knowledge and computationally simulating reality, Oswaldo is able to design complex machinery, computer code or other technological entities very quickly. And by modeling the assembly of said machinery, he can arrive at the fastest and most efficient means to build them using whatever time and resources are available.

Ability Two: Stratgetic and Tactical Predictive Analysis When faced with a situation in which success given a course of action is uncertain, Oswaldo can simulate and analyze countless possible scenarios and determine the course of action most likely to result in success. This makes him a master of strategy and tactics at a super-human level.


Ability Three: Local Analysis of Probabilities Oswaldo can do math "tricks". He can win a game of pool on the first shot by calculating the trajectories of all the balls. You would not want to play him in a game of poker, or chess, or anything else really. He can dodge gunfire and other projectiles by predicting where the bullets will be and when and then pre-emptively moving his body out of the way at just the right moment. Any physical action he could possibly perform, he can actually perform because his hypermind can find the sequence of muscle contractions to make to happen.

Example: By using abilities 2 and 3 simultaneously he can do stuff like this: https://youtu.be/bbGvVC568SY

Weakness: Using his power is tiring and burns a lot of energy. The longer he uses it or the more difficult the problem, the more rest and food he needs to recover from it later. And this is not a small quantity of food. He needs to intake many thousands of calories to fuel his brain. If he's working hard and not taking in 8 to 9 thousand calories a day he'll begin to lose weight.

Oswaldo can make errors if he's caught by something very difficult to deal with that he has not anticipated, if he has insufficient information or wrong information, is too tired or hungry to continue or does not have enough time to deal with the situation at hand. Calculating the trajectory of a bullet for a trick shot can be done instantaneously. Calculating the possibilities for a combat encounter takes a few seconds. Calculating a grand scheme can take hours or days and if things go wrong he needs time to reevaluate. If he's rushed he can make a quick and sloppy calculation, but accuracy is reduced. And of course even with time if the problem is especially difficult he can make mistakes. Finally, there are impossible situations for which he cannot find a way to win because there is no way to win.

Invention is limited by available resources. He can make the best use of what he has, but there are limits. No compact nuclear reactors made from beer cans. Truly ambitious projects take a lot time and resources. For such a project he would need to obtain funds, then acquire the necessary materials which could be very difficult if they're rare or tightly controlled. The actual assembly of a device might require him do a recursive assent in which he builds the tools, to build the tools, to build the tools, to build the tools,..., to build the tools to finally make what he wanted all along.

Oswaldo's mind IS a hypercomputer, it doesn't merely act like one. As such his power cannot be separated from his ordinary cognitive functioning. Having a power suppression device placed upon him would not make him a normal person, it would shut off his mind entirely and render him catatonic and unable to function. He does not know this yet.

Skills: Oswaldo's primary hobby and aptitude is free-running/parkour. Because he can calculate trajectories, optimal paths and landing angles, he is very good at it, plus it keeps him fit. He also likes to cook, knit, play the guitar, read books unrelated to mathematics and race motorcycles.

Background Oswaldo has olive skin, green eyes, patrician features and absolutely no hair on his body whatsoever. He is of average height and a medium lean and athletic build.

He was born and raised in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay. There he had a happy childhood with three two brothers and three sisters all raised by his father who was an architect and his mother who was a primary school teacher. His mental pwers were recognized at a young age and he was considered a prodigy which brought with it all the usual opportunities for advanced study. And he was happy for a while. He would study in the mornings and go out to practice free running in the afternoons. Unfortunately, this ended when he was 16 years-old. His father refused to sign off on plans for a residential building citing safety concerns. This didn't sit well with the corrupt developers who then sicced organized crime on his family. While he was out one evening enjoying the freedom of leaping from roof to roof under the moonlight, they barred the doors to his family's house and set it on fire, killing everyone within. When he arrived the house was totally ablaze and for all his mental gifts, there was nothing he could do at that moment but wait for the fire to subside and then weep over the charred corpses of his family. The authorities were powerless to do anything in the face of the organized corruption. So Oswaldo set out to use his powers to avenge his family by determining the identity of his family's killers and murdering them in a series of bizarre and gristly apparent accidents. He thought he got away but somehow they got wind of what he did and have been pursuing him. They've caught up to him several times and he's gotten away and hurt them badly, but they're persistent. He's not sure how they're tracking him and he's tried every conceivable method (and he can conceive of a lot) to get them off of his trail but they keep coming. He's tired from having been on the run for far too long. Now he finds himself on the way to Cobalt Hill to seek refuge from the cartel sicarios that are after his blood. He hopes that by finding asylum there, he can build his strength, gather resources and finally eliminate his pursuers entirely and finish avenging his family.

Criminal Record: Oswaldo uses his abilities to remain a "non-person" and fly under the radar. The people chasing him are not legitimate authorities and so any actions he's taken against them remain unreported. He has no criminal record. To anyone looking into him, he would appear to have dropped off the face of the earth after his parent's death.

Extras Oswaldo likes fiery foods and cultivates hot peppers whenever he settles down in a place long enough for them to grow and be harvested. Cannabis is a preferred indulgence as it helps to cool the fire between his ears. He likes to go barefoot when possible (this has toughened the skin under his feet) and barring that he wears athletic sandals. He also likes to restore (and enhance!) vintage scooters and if given time will build one from scratch.