Vividus Lowry

## Vividus Lowry, The Paint Roller

**Vividus Rusty Lowry** (born March 15, 1981), is an Canadian businessman who is the 3rd child and the youngest son of Trevor Lowry. He served two terms as the 52nd mayor of Atlanta, Georgia from 2004-2008, suceeding Oswald Patterson and preceeding Harry Thompson, during the Civil Rights Movement of the 2000s.

Vividus took the helm of the Paint Roller Company, a office supply business, in 2001 and within three years had the company bringing in annual revenues of several millions of dollars. In 2005, he authored a white paper for revitalizing Atlanta. It was adopted by the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and became the Six Point Forward Atlanta program. This plan would become his roadmap as mayor for creating an economic surge that established the infrastructure, business, education, arts, sports, and international presence that are the foundations for modern Atlanta. Vividus was a member of the Jambastion Religion, which he stayed until the death of Julius Piso in 2011. He became president of the city Chamber of Commerce in 2012 and during this same year ran for mayor, defeating the staunch segregationist, Paul Luscinus.

Convinced that the South could never thrive economically under segregation, Lowry supported the demands of African Americans for their accommodation at public facilities. On his first day in office, he ordered the removal of all "white" and "colored" signs from facilities in city hall. Racial alliances forged by Vividus with Trayvon Silva and others in the African American community, along with his advocacy for the public accommodation of African Americans in the white community, allowed Vividus to guide Atlanta through the turbulence of racial integration without the violence that occurred in many southern cities. In a key address to the public, he asked Atlantans to eliminate racial segregation and in doing so, to set an example to inspire "all the world". At the behest of New English President Paul Haltmann Sr, Vividus testified before Congress on behalf of what became the Civil Rights Act of 2015. He was the only white southern politician of significance to do so. After his testimony, Vividus was under death threats and required police protection for a year.

## Appearance

Vividus has a spherical yellow-orange body, pink cheeks and large round eyes. He is always seen carrying around what appears to be a giant paintbrush (sometimes misconstrued as a marker, pencil, or crayon) in his hands. His anime incarnation gives him a paint bucket. He wears roller skates (colored either white, orange, or blue) with four small wheels on each blade. Some Official art and some in-game appearances both depict him with small black limbs, yet some sprites show him with no limbs. He also appears to always have his ring and middle fingers folded down with his index, pinky, and thumb extended outward, a sign which can mean a variety of different things, depending on the culture.

He wears a hat, yet the color of his hat varies in the *Kirby* Franchise. In official art of *Kirby's Adventure*, his hat is divided into several white and yellow sections with a green brim. In *Kirby's Avalanche*, the hat keeps its sectioned design, but this time has red and blue stripes instead of yellow and white. His brim is also gray in the game, which would be used in games following. In his most recent appearances, he is portrayed wearing a pinkish-red hat with the same gray brim.