Ryos Blackmore

## Overview

Ryos Blackmore was a Doctor and Professor of Mechanical and Bio-Medical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. After being discredited and imprisoned, he was taken to Christensen Labs where he participated the the Parahuman Gene Dispersion Event.

## Biography

### Past

Ryos graduated from Carnegie Mellon with a dual degree in mechanical and bio-medical engineering, attending grad school at his Alma Mater. He went on to receive doctorates in both fields from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At the age of twenty-nine, Ryos was offered a teaching position at University of California, Berkeley, where he received numerous research grants to pursue his doctoral theses.

At Berkeley, Ryos began researching bionics and how to link them to the Human nervous system. As his research developed, his very promising results received additional funding from other organizations, including Christensen Labs. As animal trials commenced, the results were staggered but promising. The bionics were properly linked to the brain, but due to neurological limitations, the reaction times of the limbs was delayed. Furthermore, Ryos realized there was an unavoidable side-effect to his interface; a neurological dependency on the bionic, not unlike chemical addiction.

Spending months researching a resolution to this setback, Ryos could find no resolution. Seeking to continue his research, he also did not wish to burden others with the foreseen side-effect. After careful contemplation, Ryos began preparations to undergo Human trials. With a carefully elected team of colleagues, he had his right arm surgically amputated and a metal socket implanted into his shoulder.

In the wake of his surgery, he donned a simple bionic arm that worked exceptionally well compared to previous experiments. However, when the Berkeley Board of Review learned of his experiments, he was brought to trial for neglecting the Nuremberg Codes. During the trial, he was accused of being obsessed with his work, risking his own life in the name of marginal progress. When it was decided that he would be stripped of his doctorates.

Upset at losing his research grants and his life's work, Ryos stole research and materials from the University, stashing them in a storage locker he purchased under a pseudonym. When his theft was discovered, he was arrested and sentenced to several years in prison. Rather than arriving in prison after his sentence, Ryos was delivered, unofficially, to Christensen Labs Secure Research. There, he was prompted to continue his work, funded by Christensen Labs, so that he could perfect the design of his interface.

After further investigation his benefactor's files, Ryos learned that Christensen was performing dozens of illegal experimentation projects, hellbent on furthering the Human race into something more.

## Appearance and Personality

### Appearance

Ryos is a very physically fit man, tall and muscular.  His brown hair is usually unkempt, reaching just past his ears when not pulled back.  His right arm is severed at the shoulder.  In its place, he has a titanium socket that he can interchange with various bionics of his own design.

### Personality

Ryos is very intelligent, bordering on genius. He has little patience for other people, especially those who are not intelligent themselves. He respects academic accomplishments, second only to scientific results in ones work. When he is suffering from withdrawal without is prosthetic, he becomes irrationally irritable, bordering on violent. Attempting to take his arm results in immediate aggression, going so far as to maim or kill the culprits.

## Powers and Abilities

### Intellect

Ryos has one of the greatest minds on the planet, capable of groundbreaking experiments that surpass all but the brightest minds in academia.

### Nerve Interface

Through his research, Ryos developed an incredibly complex link between the human nervous system and bionics, allowing them to function identically to their organic counterpart. In place of his right arm, Ryos has a socket that links himself to any bionics he inserts into the joint.

### Enhanced Strength

Through use of his bionic arm, Ryos is able to lift several times more than the average Human without any negative effects to his body. The weight of what he is lifting is distributed evenly across his body, so as not to damage his skeletal or muscular systems.

### Mechanical Adaptations

Through various iterations of bionic prostheses, Ryos is able to be prepared for a variety of situations, building tools and weapons into his arm so as to combat any threat or problem. He is able to resolve many issues with these tools and his great mind.

## Trivia

Ryos is one of the few characters to be present at the Parahuman Gene Dispersion Event, one of the most significant events in the Asylumverse Timeline.