Ryan Romano

**Ryan Romano**, often referred to as **Quicksave**, is the protagonist of *The Perfect Run*. He is a Violet Genome who can go back to a point in time when he dies and stop time for up to ten seconds, among other abilities.

### Quicksave costume

Ryan's costume has a mouthless metal mask with two rounded glasses for eyes, a black top hat, navy blue trench coat, purple shirt, blue pants, black gloves, and boots. Although stylish, it is not very practical for fighting.

## Personality

After centuries of living through save points, Ryan lacks common sense. He is also not good at organizing, has superb memorization skills, and doesn't like boredom. He likes doing things in a dramatic way. He doesn't mind dying. He seeks exciting ways to accomplish things. He likes puns and jokes. Dynamis' file describes him as "Deranged, but reliable." He likes the idea of being famous. Ryan also references video games and their terms, much to others' confusion since the Genome Wars destroyed much of video game culture. Ryan is selfless as seen from his to do list.

## Powers and abilities

Ryan is a Violet Genome. He can stop time for up to ten seconds. With the exception of his save point, Ryan's powers need a conscious action to activate. His enhanced timing sense doesn't activate until after he lives through events once. He has an autopilot mode, where his mind is free to wander off while his body repeats all the actions of his previous save for him. his powers true power temporal bilocation, it works by having a copy of him in both the purple world and the real world, with both of them sharing the same counciousness, whenever his real world copy dies it's timelines is destroyed then recreated from the version stored in he purple world, he can stop time by fusing his counciousness with his purple world counterpart, creating a time anomaly. Ryan has a temporal awareness, he would know if time moved forward or backward, stopped, erased,.., etc.

## Background

He was forcefully adopted up by Bloodstream before he drank his Genome, he was friends with Len Sabino Bloodstream's biological daughter and his best friend. Time passed and he began to fear for his life under bloodstream so when he and Len find two vials he prepares an ambush with the Carnival to take down Bloodstream. Before the fight he drinks the Violet vial and starts learning how to use his powers.

Dying on mass he eventually loses Len and awakens from a coma repeatedly all the while befriending Mr. Wave, he eventually leaves and gets trapped in Monaco where he dies of old age before looping for his perfect run where he saves all the prisoners and stations one of the survivors to create a wall to block off Monaco.

He then befriends a Wet Ware Genius and befriends them during this time he creates the Rabbit Plush and added the Chronoradio to the Plymouth Fury.

## Relationships

Ryan befriends Jamie, Lanka, and Ki-jung in his first few loops working with the Augusti.

## Paraphernalia

### Weapons

* Rabbit plushie
* Pisto-gauntlets (The Fisty Brothers)
* Coil Gun
* Pocket Nuke
* Gauss rifle
* Shotgun
* Aluminum baseball bat

## Trivia

* Ryan can type on a computer with his toes.
* He always does science in his underwear.
	+ This is precisely because the last time Ryan did science while being completely naked, he had made Plushie and sown the seeds of Leporimachia.
* "He" is Ryan "quicksave" Romano, observer of time, Arbiter of reality, courier of destiny, fashion incarnate.
* He is immortal, but don't tell anyone.
	+ He truly is, in fact, immortal. Even old age does not kill him but rather, it simply causes him to loop. Powers such as Cancel's or the Black may kill him but his sheer skill can help him avoid it.
* He is ~887 years old at the end of the novel.
* He is a cat-person but also cares for dogs.
* He can't Ice skate
* Ryan is bisexual.
* Ryan' s elixir has the same humour sense as Ryan's.
* As an observer, Ryan is the only version of himself that exists. He doesn't have any alternate version in any other reality or universe.
* Ryan delayed his ascension and chose to remain on Earth for one more lifetime.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Chapter 1
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Chapter 2
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Chapter 101
4. ↑ the violet one revealed it to me in a dream
5. ↑ Chapter 126
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Chapter 129