Vibe

Reverb (Alias)

Armando Ramon (Brother)

Dante Ramon (Brother)

Sophia Ramon (Sister)

Lucita Ramon (Sister)

Isabella Ramon (Sister)

Rosita Ramon (Sister)

The Network (Member)

## **History**

### **Cisco Ramon: 1985 - 1995**

Cisco is the sixth of the seven children. It was shortly after the birth of Cisco's little sister Rosita that Mrs. Ramon took her children out of town to stay with their grandparents in Midway City. Cisco's parents were having marital problems and needed time away from the kids to work through their issues.

A week later, Detroit became one of the targets of a series of intrinsic explosions. The Ramon home was two blocks from the epicenter of the explosion in Detroit, and the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Ramon were never found. Cisco was still a toddler at the time, but this was a painful episode in the lives of his older siblings and grandparents. Depression and grief hit most of them hard. Cisco and Rosita were often neglected growing up as a result and were more or less raised by the television.

Cisco did benefit from an inherent genius. From a young age, Cisco taught himself to read and would often eat his meals reading books. As his grandfather was a retired automotive mechanic, Cisco had no shortage of mechanical textbooks and shop manuals lying around. At nine, Cisco had learned to rebuild an internal combustion engine. A year later, he was the youngest kid in the local college science fair at ten years old. When he won the science fair, Cisco caught the attention of Ivy University's magnate program, which he joined the following fall.

### **Vibe: 1995 - Present**

While enrolled in the magnate program, Cisco mostly kept to himself and preferred to work on his projects at night when everyone else was sleeping, accompanied only by his MP3 player. Nevertheless, he did impress someone with his work: that would be myself, Harrison Wells. Back then, I often used the Ivy University campus labs after-hours as well and took a keen interest in Cisco.

Cisco was an incredibly bright child in regards to both his intellect and outlook on life. When I left Ivy Town in 1997 to found STAR Labs, I gave Cisco my personal cell number and told him that was his ticket to a job. Cisco called me just three months later, when Cisco was just thirteen years old. He explained to me then that he had heard his grandmother was very sick and he wanted a job to pay for her medical expenses. I told Cisco he couldn't hire a thirteen year old, regardless of his qualifications, but Cisco insisted that he needed the money and wouldn't accept a handout. So I struck a deal with him buying some of his inventions and plans to supply him with enough money to keep Cisco and the Ramon family comfortable for years to come. One of those plans eventually became the foundation for STAR Labs' crown jewel: The Particle Accelerator.

When Cisco turned eighteen years old, as the Accelerator was nearing completion, I thought it was only right to put the architect in charge of the construction. The accelerator's test runs went fine, but its actual opening did not go as planned, but that wasn't Cisco's fault...well, not entirely.

## **Powers, Abilities, Equipment, and Weaknesses**

### **Powers**

**Metahuman Physiology:**

* **Vibration Manipulation**

## **Trivia**

* Vibe joined the Justice League in 2011 nominated by The Flash.
* Cisco is sick of hearing Barry's "Flash Facts". He's ready to beat him with a keyboard if he hears another one.
* He's a little nervous around J'onn J'onzz because Cynthia considers him to be her surrogate father.
* He considers Hartley Rathaway his rival.
* Sheriff Donna Hanscum once laughed at Cisco's Vibe glasses.
* Cisco is a pop culture fiend, as we all know. Some of his favorites are *The Princess Bride*, *Star Trek* (The Next Generation & Deep Space Nine), *Star Wars* (the original trilogy only), *Honey, I Shrunk the Kids*, *Inception*, and *Pokémon*.
* For the purposes of sharing information with the Network, I shall trust all of you with one of my greatest secrets. I use a Moroccan conditioner with a pinch of lime juice to keep my hair so lush.
* Cisco has a penchant for giving meta-criminals and masked heroes monikers that fit their attributes, personalities, or powers. Cisco claims to really dislike codenames that incorporate colors; for instance, Cisco gives Oliver and Dinah a lot of grief for "Green Arrow" and "Black Canary". He also really dislikes "Speedy".