Bryan Welsh

* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
* Gallery

### Bryan Welsh: 1987 - 2006

Bryan was born into a world that was post-Manhattaning. Literally. He was born the day after twenty-seven cities and millions of lives just ceased to be in an instant. His parents were both heavily involved in the global relief and restructuring efforts. Bryan's mother was a fundraising coordinator and his father was a contractor who ran a company which chased disasters across the world to build quickly produced shelters, clinics, and clear debris.

Three days after he was born, Bryan was left with his grandparents while his parents caught a flight. He was taking his first steps before he spent any considerable amount of time with his parents again. This pattern of being left in the care of his grandparents continued for months at a time and became the norm for Bryan. He more closely related to his mother's parents than he did his own.

Bryan's favorite activity as a child was accompanying his grandfather to Plesa Park to fly remote control aircraft. He spent years chasing the shadow amongst the grass or collecting the downed equipment and racing it back to his grandfather to prepare for another takeoff. After seeing just how much enjoyment Bryan got from this, he was gifted a remote control car on his ninth birthday.

By his twelfth birthday, Bryan had won three remote control racing competitions, including one which allowed his own customized RC car. Three years later, Bryan would have doubled his amount of championships, including one from an aerial RC competition. These sorts of accomplishments ended up on his college application which got him a scholarship to Seaview University's engineering program.

### Bryan Welsh: 2006 - 2012

Bryan did well as an engineering student. It was the first time he ever made really close friends who shared his interests. During his sophomore year, Bryan made the acquaintance of Professor Ray Stantz. Bryan had seen the professor before as his family's farmhouse was just down the street from Bryan's grandparents' house. When he saw the professor's name in the course catalog, offering an elective that could count toward his engineering degree, Bryan's curiosity got the better of him and he registered for the class.

It turns out that Bryan had accidentally signed up for a companion lab class for parapsychology lecture course. Though he missed the first lecture and was offered a chance to drop-out to remedy the error, Bryan took a look at the lab syllabus and decided it looked like a fun challenge. So with an already overloaded class schedule, Bryan decided to squeeze in one more class and enrolled in the lecture series, too.

Parapsychology was definitely Bryan's weakest class, but Stantz gave the kid good grades as he was, without question, the best student in the engineering lab. So impressed was Professor Stantz with Bryan that he offered him a job for the next two years as a lab assistant. Bryan lost the job partway into the second year when Stantz was fired.

Earning his Bachelor's Degree, Bryan entered the job force. He had heard of the success Stantz was having and decided to apply for the Ghostbusters, working as a retail clerk as he waited for the call back.

### Bryan Welsh: 2012 - 2013

Bryan Welsh got a call from the Ghostbusters, hiring him over the phone, just after Christmas. He was given a crazy week-long crash course that saw him mostly operating as a fifth Ghostbuster while he was learning to operate the proton pack and Muon trap. All the while he was called "Rookie" by Venkman who liked to joke that there was no use learning Bryan's name since the "last guy didn't last long." Of course, this "last guy" was fictional, but that did not stop Venkman from enjoying causing Bryan concern with all the jokes alluding to the "last guy" being vaporized or driven mad or getting his hand caught in a Muon trap's doors.

After New Years, when the holiday season slowed down, Bryan fell into a more stable work schedule, tinkering with the gadgetry in the basement workshop or driving out to the outskirts of town to field test the equipment on an empty beach. He enjoyed these early months, even if his employers tended to forget about him (some might argue that is why he liked his job so much - ***Some***, but not me. No one better tell my boss I said that). But even though Stantz and Spengler were busy running the daily operations and Venkman refused to bother learning his name, Bryan did make some unexpected friends at work.

First of all, Janine liked to spend her lunch break talking Bryan's ear off. She loved how good of a listener he was. When winter was over, the company hired two more technical aids (or "interns" as Venkman liked to call them): a Fleet Technician and a Facilities Technician. Since both of them bunked in the same basement room as Bryan, all three of them became rather close.

### Bryan Welsh: 2013

Bryan was on vacation (for job interviews in Coast City) when he heard about the Firehouse blowing up and Star City being overwhelmed by ghosts. If that was not bad enough, when he texted Janine to find out what was going on, she told him the Ghostbusters had been arrested. Bryan walked out of his job interview at Kord Omniversal and got on the next plane home.

Meeting up with Janine as she was rummaging through the ruins of the Firehouse, Bryan was able to cobble together a proton pack from the broken parts of three others in the debris. Loading up in Janine's compact car, the pair managed to bust their way to Dillin Tower just in time to see marshmallow rain down over Plesa Park.

The next few weeks were hell... literally. Though it was challenging, Bryan stepped up to the task. The event also gave him some much needed insight. Though when it was all over, Bryan got a number of job offers from Coast City and Platinum Flats, but he turned them all down. When asked why, he simply said "Bustin' makes me feel good."

### Bryan Welsh: 2013 - Present

Nowadays, Bryan's still busting. Don't be fooled by his 'Rookie' name tag (which he often still wears for luck), Bryan's a valued veteran of the team. Knowing how hard busting can be for newbs, Bryan often volunteers for training duty and enjoys telling the new rookies to "Wear that sticker with pride. You'll earn your name soon, until then you're gonna borrow mine."

### Supplemental Reports

* (*Submitted by Operator*) Bryan's first real girlfriend was Maddie Collins. The two casually dated for a month shortly after they first met. Maddie didn't want anything really serious at the time so she ended up breaking off the relationship when it began to complicate their working relationship as it was clear that Bryan was becoming romantically attached.
* (*Submitted by Operator*) In the lead up to the Gozer Incident, and following his break-up with Maddie, Bryan volunteered to do some research on Mesopotamian Lore at the university. It turns out that Bryan had some ulterior motives. In college he remembered a cute girl who was studying Mesopotamian history, Ilyssa Selwyn. Knowing she would still be working toward her doctorate, Bryan stalked the library for a couple of days until he "bumped" into her again. Bryan casually reminded her that he had been a big help to her passing a chemistry class and was able to coerce her into talking about Gozer over a cup of coffee. That coffee became a weekly meet-up as the pair theorized which mythical figures could be literal beings and which were mere fiction. After Bryan saved her life during Hell on Earth, their weekly meet-ups became a lot more intimate.
* (*Submitted by TurtleGurl84*) Here are some fun facts about the "Rookie":
	+ His favorite food is pizza, which works out quite well at the Firehouse.
	+ His favorite pastimes are building and flying RC airplanes and drones.
	+ He's very superstitious (won't walk under ladders, is very cautious around mirrors and black cats, calls of sick on Friday the 13th, etc.)

### Key Affiliations

* **Ghostbusters:** Bryan was the first hire since Winston Zeddemore joined the team. He was originally hired to be an Experimental Equipment Technician. Since his original job was to oversee the testing and maintaining of the Ghostbusters' gear, Bryan had no intentions of ever going into the field, but when Hell on Earth hit, Bryan deputized himself to be a full-blown Ghostbuster.
* **Maddie Collins:** Bryan is very close with Maddie as the two were hired around the same time.
* **Chad Fuller:** Bryan and Chad are bunkmates at the Ghostbusters HQ. The two have become unlikely friends.
* **Ilyssa Selwyn:** Bryan's got a sweet spot for Seaview U's expert on Mesopotamian Mythology. He's always first to volunteer to hit Dr. Selwyn up for more Gozer lore.

## Threat Assessment

### Resources

* **Technical Training:** Bryan Welsh was hired by the Ghostbusters to be their "Experimental Equipment Technician." Many people presume he was just meant to be their guinea pig for unsafe equipment (which is not really 'untrue') but he was selected from a list of several candidates due to his exceptional expertise with the relevant skills necessary to operate, maintain, repair, and modify their equipment to the specifics laid out by Dr. Spengler and Dr. Stantz. Though Welsh is quite familiar with the schematics of such things as the proton pack and the Muon traps, it is worth noting that Bryan Welsh lacks the level of understanding of nuclear physics and complex engineering necessary to build that gear from scratch.
	+ ***Computer Expertise:*** Bryan is an expert in the operation and construction of computer hardware. He's well-versed in basic functions, can build a computer from its base components, and can even set up a complex network - but he is not a hacker and cannot program or code software.
	+ ***Mechanical Engineering:*** Bryan has always been good with his hands. As a child, he always enjoyed deconstructing appliances to see how they worked and to challenge himself to put them back together again. By the time he was a teenager, he was making "improvements" to the family appliances and rebuilding his grandfather's old cars.
	+ ***Miniaturization:*** Bryan is an expert in the field of micro-electronics. This was his primary field of study in college. Ghostbusters was meant to be a stepping stone first job before going on to work at a big tech firm designing the next new mobile phone or laptop computer. However, since joining the Ghostbusters, Bryan has put his expertise to work modifying the Ghostbusters' gear. He's personally reduced the proton pack's weight by no less than 27% - a feat for which even Venkman was thankful for.
* **Remote Control Operation:** Even though Venkman likes to tease him about being a "Junior Birdman of America", Bryan continues to hone his drone piloting skills. This has come in handy many times, with the Ghostbusters installing a remote control operation module on Ecto-1 and Bryan's construction of the Ecto-Drone which is used for recon and gathering samples.
* **Expert on Mythical Figures:** As a Ghostbuster, Bryan has had a crash course in a variety of fields. As an example, he was never much for having any interest in the supernatural in his youth but has now become an accomplished parapsychologist in his own right. In particular, he's studied deities to a considerable degree (he wants to make sure that the next time there's a 'Gozer incident', that he can spot it before it's too late).
* **Amateur Pilot:** Bryan has recently begun taking piloting lessons. He and Ray Stantz have even been talking about building their own "Ectolight" aircraft (or possibly a small gyrocopter) to conduct aerial scans of the city. According to Maddie Collins, he's already an expert navigator and capable co-pilot.

### Weaknesses

* **Socially Awkward:** Bryan's not particularly good with his words. He gets tongue-tied and is not very assertive. Combined with having "one of those faces," Bryan is often overlooked, even by his own friends.
* **OCD:** He might have mild OCD.

### Analytics

* **Physicality:** 2 — Basic / Typical
* **Occult:** 2 — Basic / Typical
* **Weaponry:** 3 — Trained / Exceptional
* **Expertise:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
* **Range:** 3 — Trained / Exceptional
* **Strategy:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
	+ **TOTAL:** 34
	+ **RANKING:** Low Threat

## Trivia and Notes

### Trivia

* Bryan built his own RC aircraft called the "Ecto-Drone." Its features include Ecto-Band Remote Operation, Kirlian Video Camera, Sample Collection Apparatus, PKE Scanner, and Extended Battery Life.

### Notes

* The Rookie is a character from *Ghostbusters: The Video Game.* He's from the "Realistic" port of the game. His name as Bryan Welsh is from the *Ghostbusters* comic books by IDW.
* There was also the "Stylized" port which had a male rookie and a female rookie. Their names in the IDW comics are Chad Fuller and Maddie Collins.
* Rookie's social awkwardness is a nod to him being silent in the game.
* Ilyssa Selwyn is another character from the *Ghostbusters: The Video Game.*
* The quote on his shirt comes from the first movie.

## Gallery

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## Network Files

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## Appears In

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## Links and References

* Appearances of Bryan Welsh

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2. ↑ Network Files: Bryan Welsh 2