Oswald Geraldo
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Wiz Real Name: Oswald Geraldo Alias: Wiz, Ozzie, Senor Baldy Identity: Public Alignment: Good Affiliation: X-Patriots, Fed-X, formerly Agency X; Senate select
committee on Mutant Affairs Relatives: Theresa Cordova (wife,
deceased) Base of
Operation: X-Lair, Characteristics Gender: Male Height: 5’3” Weight: 148 lbs Eyes: Hazel Hair: Bald, formerly Sandy Blonde Status Citizenship: American Martial Status: Widowed Occupation: Team Manager Education: MS, Middle Eastern
Studies, Origin Origin: As a young man Oswald
found he could read minds. A follower on Xavier’s coexistence philosophy
Geraldo had been attempting to make a new team of superheroes to prove that
Super humans and mutants were not a threat to mankind but could help protect
it from the worse elements out there. After years of red tape he had finally
gotten the go-ahead and created Fed-X. Place of Birth: |
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1. History 1.1 Growing Pains 1.2 Passing 1.3 A Dream 1.4 Expanding 1.5 Discovery 1.6 Civil War 2. Powers and Abilities 2.1
Powers 2.2
Abilities 2.3
Strength level 2.4 Weaknesses 3. Paraphernalia 4. Notes |
History
Growing Pains
Oswald
was a sensitive child growing up in
He
hid his mutant powers well into college as he slowly learned how to screen out
the mental noise of people around so he didn’t hear them all. While tempted to
use his gift to further his academic career and personal life, Oswald knew his
parents wouldn’t approve if they’d known. His already high natural intelligence
earned him the nickname Wiz.
After
finishing his undergraduate work he managed to be assigned to an Israeli
program for his graduate work on Middle Eastern Studies. Working with the
government he would analyze Palestinian behavior and media for any sign of
potential hostilities. It was here he met Theresa Cordova, who relocated to
Passing
Both
returned to the States so he could finish his graduate studies. He found
government work as an instructor to the CIA teaching them Arabic and the
various customs of societies so as to blend in better. Theresa meanwhile had
resuming nursing both as means to help the injured and to have something to
focus on while her husband was away from home for weeks at a time. Finding out
how unhappy she was with his constant traveling leaving her alone, Oswald
invited her to spend time with him instead. She agreed and began the drive up
the coast to him but was hit by a drunk driver just on the fringe of his telepathic
range. Informing the police they did nothing as he had no idea where she was at
the time of the crash. Using his powers it took him hours to find her and by
then it was too late. After asking him not to hate god for doing this she died
in his arms.
For
a period of time his mental powers seemed to fade away as he was overcome by
guilt and grief. They would be jump started again by a chance meeting with
Prof. Charles Xavier to discuss the growing numbers of mutants in the
A Dream
Working
inside the government, Oswald became a supporter of mutant rights and helped
lobby to defeat or rescind the Mutant Registration Act each time it was brought
to the senate floor. He kept his own mutant status a secret, feeling he could
do more good for his kind that way. A feeling Xavier also shared. He’d also
thought Xavier’s mutant team, the X-men, were too mysterious and aloof from
authorities. This made them and mutants in general seem like a danger rather
then allies to humans. He had an idea of making a mutant team that worked
closer with the government and spread the message of peaceful coexistence
between mutants and humans but political climate would be against such a team
for years. Only after the failure of Freedom Force and X-Force did he see the
opening he had longed for.
Using
Valerie Cooper and his own extensive connections he got a meeting with the
Select Committee on Mutant Affairs and sold them on the idea of such a team as
necessary to show the
He
quickly hit a snag as the mutants not only had no experience as heroes but were
largely untrained in their own powers. Feeling inadequate to train them himself
and with all other options refusing to even consider it he called in a favor to
his long time colleague Xavier and arranged for him to conduct their training.
Appointed Team Supervisor and government liaison He kept tabs on their progress
under Xavier and rescued the quasi-bestial Quabi Arêtes and helped him calm his
feral rages with Xavier. After six months he gathered his team. Before he left
Xavier told him to have more confidence in his abilities both as a telepath and
a leader.
Expanding
During
those first months he was their councilor, wet nurse and therapist as he
continued their training while trying to ease the various emotional scars they
each carried. None would be as dramatic as the work he did with Alora Gannon.
Like her sister her abusive past had put blocks on her powers but he found a
long buried second personality that was much more powerful. Fearing her lack of
control he reinforced these blocks while he tried to release the rage and guilt
that had formed this subconscious persona. Little to he realize he was paving
the way for Inferno to appear later when Alora was kidnapped and altered by the
Nihilist madman, Cataclysm. She scornfully flayed his own mind open and was
repulsed by the memory of his wife’s death. After a second battle with her team
mates she returned to him in a deep coma and the team seemed to see him in new
eyes for withholding that information.
He
worked with Alora for months to master her now growing abilities and found she
had quickly outgrown him as a teacher. The team itself seemed to outgrown it
need for him as most of the original members left on leaves of absence after
Xerox suddenly switched sides to join with Magneto. The addition of new members
helped him shake it off as the new Team Gold was left to handle new challenges
in subterranean monsters and mystic sorcerers. The return of Xerox and the
original team boosted his spirits as he now had two teams to look after. It
also doubled his concern as they were becoming his family as well.
The
events on Genosha made him resolve to do more to help mutant kind including
letting people know he was a mutant as well. He took up lecturing on top of
managing both teams in a attempt to make a difference
his own way. The Government didn’t see it in the same light and when New
regulations were passed down on the mutant members of Fed –X, they used his
protest to dismiss him and put Rem Quesada who would
later turn out to be the terrorist, Masquerade, in his place. Displaced he took
up lecturing again and trying to get mutant rights recognized by the
government. When Rem’s true identity was revealed
months later He almost didn’t return to the team but Alora personally pleaded
with him to return as Team Supervisor. Somewhat reluctantly he took his old job
back and quickly decided he made the right decision after all.
While
he had coordinated the teams flawlessly to defeat Cataclysm’s attempt at global
genocide he was surprising easily to knock out when Cataclysm and former ally
Jump appeared inside the X-lair. While the team had saved him and themselves
the base was a total loss and for a second time he was relieved of his duties
as the team was disbanded.
Discovery
Seemingly
without a purpose Wiz drifted from assignment to assignment unable to make the
government change it mind. He fell into a depression over his lack of progress
and letting his dream get taken apart. Strange thoughts began to circulate in
his head of revenge and violence. Confronting them he found Fed- X’s old enemy
Trance had taken advantage of his turmoil and was trying to destroy his life.
It seemed he was losing until he removed his own blocks he’d subconsciously put
in years ago after the death of his wife and blasted the invader with a massive
psionic burst. Trance faded his mind and Wiz found him on the floor in a
catatonic trance.
Wiz
began to practice his own powers using the lessons he taught Alora. He would
later give the reformed Fed-X his approval but decided to stay with the
government to give mutants a voice and his former teammates a conduit to
federal databases. After M-day he led a push to have mutants protected although
not in the way he planned when piloted Sentinel’s became guards to the
de-powered mutants now staying at Xavier’s School for Higher Learning. Despite
arguments against it, ONE would remain stationed around the mansion for months.
Feeling
blocked off on that issue he changed gears and tried to help his former
teammates who had lost their powers. He introduced Matrix to Forge
and they worked out new battle suits and equipment to replace some of the
mutants lost abilities. He then used his contacts to find the newly formed
X-Patriots a home base in
Civil War
Despite
working with the government for most of his adult life, he had been vehemently
against registration in any form as a basic breech in civil liberties. He
lobbied hard against it and took Tony Stark changing sides very personal. He
saw they were losing ground well before the final vote and warned his former
team mates the storm was coming as the bill passed days later. It was with a
heavy heart he found Xerox’s name on a captured list. Discreetly contacting the
X-Patriots and Fed-X he set up his rescue before being discovered and arrested
himself. Released during the amnesty period granted by Director of SHIELD, Tony
Stark he rejoined the now reduced Fed-X as part of the Initiative program.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
Oswald
is a Beta level mutant with several potent psionic powers.
Telepathy: Able to read thoughts and project his own for up to
a range of 25 miles. With the Headband it extends itself to over 200 miles.
Telekinesis: able to levitate and manipulate objects using his
mind alone. Prolonged use of this power leaves him weakened.
Abilities
Oswald
has a high intelligence and extensive knowledge of Middle-Eastern laws,
customs, and society. He’s a polyglot reading, writing, and speaking Spanish,
English, Arabic, and Hebrew.
Strength Level
Oswald
possesses the strength of a man his age, height, and build, who engages in
regular moderate exercise. Using his telekinetic powers he effectively doubles
his strength lifting up to about 300lbs.
Weaknesses
Wiz
is highly vulnerable to psychic shock and overload. Without his headband his
power and range is somewhat diminished.
Paraphernalia
Equipment: Cybernetic headband that amplifies his telepathic
and telekinetic powers.
Transportation: X-cruiser Mk III
Weapons: None Known
Notes