Otto

### Date of Resurrection

August 2020, 5th October 2020 (several times) (aged 100), December 2021 (aged 101)

### Place of Resurrection

Earth (August 2020), Reconstruction Centre, Earth (December 2021)

## Scientific Career

### Fields

Physics, chemistry, astrophysics, biology, genetics, neuroscience

### Notable Inventions

Otto's Resurrection Machine, Otto's Rejuvenation Machine, Otto’s Brain Altering Ray, Otto’s Traction Beam, Otto and Wellington’s Pulveriser

## Relations

### Friends

Laurence (lobster), Henry (otter), Othello (octopus), Otto's Rhinoceroses, Barrington, Simon (chicken), Silas Gobble Gobble, Colin (crab), Sally (squid), Janet (jellyfish), Georgia (jellyfish), Johanna (tortoise), Tony (tamarin), Petra (polar bear), Jasmin (jackal), Rosemary (rhinoceros), Martin (pine marten), Matthew (marmoset), Jemima (marmoset), Professor Inkling, Babbage, Wellington, Leonardo, Roger (otter), Dr Young, Professor Horatio, Professor Wyatt, Professor Honoria, Professor Theodore, Professor Oswald, Professor Othello, Professor Lucinda, Bryce, Kaiser, Anthony (anteater), Copernicus, Basil (donkey), Dr Foster, Jonathan (neuroscientist), Dover, Government Womble Scientist Group, Railway Tom

### Allies

Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Palestine, Gaza, Charlie (wombat), Carmen, Dalai Gartok, Great Uncle Bulgaria, Lord Cornelius (until May 2020), Sheba

### Enemies

Adolf Hitler, Hermann Goering, Joseph Goebbels, April 2020 Citizens' Assemblies, John C. Star, Martha Star, Fredrick Star, Charlie (wombat), Horace, Mrs Ultra Ultra Ultra Time Hamster, Che Guevara, Communist Collective, Lord Cornelius (from May 2020), Dorothy, Daphne, Josef Mengele, Nazi Planet, Ian, Ian’s Fisherman Friend

## Official Positions

### Position3

Member of the Taskforce Against Dictators

### Position4

Joint Chief Scientist to the Government (serving with Babbage & Professor Inkling)

### In Office4

25th July 2022 - Present

**Otto** (born 1920) is an Atlantian octopus scientist, inventor and politician who since the 25th July 2022, has been serving as the Chief Scientist to the Government, a position he holds jointly with Babbage and Professor Inkling. He previously served as Leader of Earth from the 21st April 2020 to the 14th May 2020 and served as a member of the then-governing body of Earth, the Taskforce Against Dictators, from the 28th August 2020 to the 11th September 2020. Otto is a renown scientist and is often described as one the "greatest scientists ever".

Otto was born in the Atlantic Ocean in 1920, the second of two sons of Catherine and Henry. His brother Olympian was always dominant in their childhood and considered Otto to be weak and unable to assert himself. This view of Otto would effect their relationship in the future and eventually resulted in Olympian seizing the position of World Leader from Otto after he claimed that Otto was unable to quell dissent. From an early age, Otto was passionate about science and was committed to becoming a scientist, which he did in 1940 at the age of twenty. Even at this early point in his career, it was clear that Otto was an extremely talented scientist. Otto, who at the time disliked publicity, worked in relative obscurity for around fifty years, until he was discovered by the billionaire business otter Henry (otter), in 1990. Henry (otter) employed Otto for over 30 years, during which time he created Otto's Rhinoceroses, a group of genetically modified rhinoceroses, designed to act as a private army for Henry (otter). They are four times the size and many times the strength of a baseline member of their species and are also armoured and extremely resistant to attack or damage. In February 2020, Otto assisted Henry (otter) in matters relating to science during his brief reign as world leader.

In March 2020, Otto's identity became publicly known, after it was revealed by Frederick (chicken), a chicken journalist who placed his son, Frederick Jr., in a secure box that Otto used to indirectly communicate with those who wished to contact him. Frederick (chicken) then waited for Otto to open the box to see what had been left for him and release the chick he found, then recorded video of him doing so and exposed his identity. Frederick was widely condemned for what many animals saw as the neglect, abuse and endangerment of his son and it was also revealed that he had caused his wife's death, by coercing her to enter an underwater waterfall, The Devil's Kettle, in an attempt to find its endpoint. For these crimes, Frederick (chicken) was executed and his son changed his name to Simon (chicken) and was adopted by Henry (otter) and moved to Utopia. In early 2020, Otto experimented on several members of the Frog Family, including James (boat frog), Elizabeth, Henrietta and Arnold. This experiment was to trial an invention which was designed to stop individuals feeling pain. The experiments were carried out with the consent of the participants and were successful, resulting in all of the participants becoming unable to feel pain. The experiments were originally unknown to the public, but their existence was revealed in July 2020, when then-world leader Adolf Hitler attempted, and failed, to torture Arnold for insulting him and investigated why he could not feel pain.

Otto became world leader on the 21st April 2020, when he seized power from the April 2020 Citizens' Assemblies. He had been asked by the Nazis to seize power on their behalf, but instead of handing power over to Joseph Goebbels, he decided to assume the position of world leader himself. Shortly after assuming office, Otto made an address to the citizens, in which he said he would be a "strong but fair" leader and would not be holding elections. He established Otto's Rhinoceroses as the core part of his security force and established the Serious Crime Defence League, a group of six trusted allies, Tony (tamarin), Petra (polar bear), Jasmin (jackal), Rosemary (rhinoceros), Martin (pine marten) and Matthew (marmoset), who were tasked with preventing espionage and dissent. Otto also named his cabinet, which consisted of Colin (crab), Sally (squid), Janet (jellyfish), Georgia (jellyfish) and others. Otto subsequently appointed former wold leader, Silas Gobble Gobble, as his Chief Advisor, after Silas Gobble Gobble offered his expertise and experience to Otto. Otto replaced Leonardo's Resurrection Machine and Leonardo's Rejuvenation Machine with his own inventions, Otto's Resurrection Machine and Otto's Rejuvenation Machine, which remain the most widely used resurrection machine and rejuvenation machine, respectively. Otto also invented Otto's Traction Beam, a device which could pull an individual or group of individuals in a particular direction against their will. This was intended for law enforcement purposes. Controversially, Otto invented a Brain-Altering Ray, which he claimed resulted in animals becoming more intelligent and less confrontational. As World Leader, he utilised this ray on his citizens in an attempt to make them easier to govern. For the most part, the changes it caused were subtle, but occasionally it resulted in individuals becoming obsessed with and trying to worship Otto. Its use was denounced as "brain washing" by Adolf Hitler and protests broke out across Earth against it. Otto's government was able to temporarily quell the protests, but they left a lasting impact on his reputation as a world leader. On the 29th April 2020, Otto directed the Raid on Dorothy's University, an event which saw Dorothy's University, a university renown for its academic achievement, raided by government forces after it was discovered that serious crimes, including torture, murder, cannibalism and forced worship of Dorothy, the university's founder, were taken place at the university. Otto was praised for his quick response to the crisis and what many saw as strong leadership. His decision to torture and execute the ringleaders, Dorothy, Daphne and Josef Mengele, was supported by the vast majority of citizens. In May 2020, Otto’s government uncovered the Murder of Sea Creatures at Ian’s Slaughterhouse, which was being perpetrated by Ian and Ian’s Fisherman Friend at Ian’s Slaughterhouse. Otto discovered that Ian’s Fisherman Friend had been capturing the sea creatures and that Ian had been torturing, killing and selling them as food. The majority of the victims were crustaceans, one of whom was Otto’s longtime friend, Laurence, a lobster. Otto was distressed upon learning of his friend’s suffering and the suffering of the other sea creatures and immediately had those who had been killed, including Laurence, resurrected and had Ian and Ian’s Fisherman Friend arrested. Ian and his friend both blamed each other for the murders and both refused to take responsibility for their crimes. After consideration, Otto sentenced both to be tortured to death, via a method of the victims’s choosing. The victims decided that Ian and his friend should receive a torture and execution reflecting their crimes and thus had them boiled to death, much to the celebration of the victims, their families and citizens in general. In May 2020, Otto came into conflict with the Communist Collective, a communist polity led by Che Guevara (swan) located on the Communist Planet, which denounced Otto and attempted to overthrow him. In response to the Attempted Communist Overthrow of Otto, Otto ordered the assassination of Che Guevara (swan). This was initially unsuccessful, as Che Guevara (swan) utilised a forcefield given to him by his friend, Leonardo, but Otto was able to invent a weapon to destroy the forcefield and consequently kill Che Guevara (swan). After Che Guevara (swan)'s death, Otto installed Lord Cornelius as the new leader of the Communist Collective. Lord Cornelius was intended to be someone who would take orders from Otto, but he became fixated with his own power, demanded worship and stated he was more important than Otto. For these reasons, Otto had him killed on the 12th May 2020 and replaced him with Sheba, a swan community leader who Otto trusted to remain on his side. Sheba temporally served as leader of the Communist Collective, but she was recalled to Earth after the Communist Collective rejected her and branded her as an "Otto puppet". Following this, Otto discussed the issue of the Communist Collective with his Chief Advisor Silas Gobble Gobble, who advised Otto to send his armed forces to the Communist Planet and kill all of its residents, stating Otto could potentially resurrect them if there was a public outcry. Otto accepted Silas Gobble Gobble's reasoning, so dispatched his armed forces to the Communist Planet with the objective to kill everyone there. The armed forces did as instructed and killed all the residents of the Communist Planet, including civilians and children. This event became known as the Communist Planet Massacre. Otto was criticised for his role in the massacre, but claimed he was unaware that civilians, including children, resided on the Communist Planet and he only meant for communist militants to be killed. In response to the criticism, Otto punished the soldiers responsible for the massacre and resurrected the civilians who had been killed. Otto remained as world leader until the 14th May 2020, when, after being faced with protests against his apparent brain control and the resignation of his Chief Advisor, Silas Gobble Gobble, and his cabinet, he resigned in favour of his brother Olympian, who had already assumed *de facto* control of the Earth. On the 23rd June 2020, then-world leader Charlie (wombat) executed Otto for what Charlie (wombat) described as "crimes against the citizens". Otto accepted his execution, which was carried out in Charlie's Execution Arena via electrocution, which was chosen as it was considered to be a quick and painless form of execution. Otto was resurrected around months after his execution, in late August 2020.

On the 28th August 2020, Carmen appointed Otto as a member of the Taskforce Against Dictators, the then-governing body of Earth. Otto advised world leader Carmen on a number of policy matters and worked alongside his friend, Silas Gobble Gobble. Whilst serving as a member of the Taskforce Against Dictators, Otto was appointed to several task forces, those being the Taskforce Against John C. Star, the Taskforce Against Adolf Hitler and the Taskforce Against Peter the Pike. His duties in all these positions consisted of him working with other Taskforce members to prevent the return of the individuals each Taskforce pertained to. Otto served as a member of the Taskforce Against Dictators until the 11th September 2020, when the organisation was deposed by Mrs Ultra Ultra Ultra Time Hamster following the 11th September 2020 Massacre. On the 5th October 2020, Otto, along with Leonardo and Copernicus, perpetrated the October 2020 Scientist Attacks, which saw Otto invent and activate a Madness Ray, a type of brain-altering ray designed to turn a proportion of the population insane. The ray worked as intended and resulted in the October 2020 World Madness, which saw widespread destruction including property damage and several thousand deaths. Despite causing deaths, Otto was not remorseful and instead stated that it was "fun" to activate the Madness Ray across Earth. The then-world leader Adolf Hitler, was unable to find or stop Otto, so Mrs Ultra Ultra Ultra Time Hamster intervened and ended the October 2020 World Madness and prevented Otto from using the Madness Ray, or any other ray, including the Violence Ray, which was designed to turn animals violent and aggressive and to cause them to attack and kill other animals. After intervening, Mrs Ultra Ultra Ultra Time Hamster handed Otto over to Adolf Hitler, who had him publicly tortured to death multiple times by members of the public. Otto remained deceased for over a year, until December 2021, when he was reconstructed. After his reconstruction, Otto expressed remorse for his crimes and resumed his scientific career. On the 25th July 2022, after the retirement of Wellington from the position, Otto, along with Babbage, were appointed as Joint Chief Scientists to the Government. They were subsequently joined by a third Joint Chief Scientist to the Government, Professor Inkling. As Joint Chief Scientist to the Government, Otto has overseen several important government projects; Past extraterrestrial Species Resurrection Project, Accelerated Evolution Project, Theoretical Universe Project and Past Universe Project. As of December 2022, Otto continues to work closely with Jerusalem's Government and is currently working on the reconstructions of Maxwell and Light Thorn, attending a meeting with Boron scientists on the 14th December 2022 to discuss the latter. Otto has been praised for his work as Joint Chief Scientist to the Government by commentators and members of the public and has received the Government Science Award for his achievements.