Buzz has circuits braided into his hair. This is a practical choice as much as an aesthetic one, and Buzz is, under the hippie exterior, a very practical person. The circuits extend his range. He has needed the range.
He works in the territory none of the other Urges will fully credit — the interdimensional, the extraterrestrial, the genuinely beyond. This creates a specific dynamic at the clinic: Buzz is the person with the most accurate picture of what is actually happening at the largest scale, who is also the person least likely to be believed in any given meeting. He has made his peace with this. He has had to.
What he is not, despite appearances, is a flake. He is a rigorous thinker operating in a field without established methodology, using tools the field hasn't named yet.
His live-in situationship with Andrew is one of the clinic's great mysteries. They are almost entirely unlike each other. They argue about everything, especially the politics of psychic visibility. They are also, clearly, in love, which helps with most of it.
Perceives and communicates with entities, phenomena, and information sources outside the standard dimensional framework. The things he contacts are real. Their messages are actionable. This has been verified.
Reads and interfaces with electronic and digital systems at a psychic level. The braids extend his range and sensitivity. He can feel the emotional signature of a system, its health, its intentions.
Not prophecy exactly. More like: a very long antenna, receiving from further ahead than most people can imagine. The signal is often unclear. The broad shape of what's coming is usually not.
Powerful baseline psychic ability that the others sometimes underestimate because it is accompanied by all the other things. Range is exceptional. Precision at distance is one of the clinic's most useful assets.
His situationship and his opposite and his most consistent argument. They live together. They vote differently. About everything. Book IV is theirs.
View file → Michael PalatineThe finale. Something these two know together that nobody else knows. Buzz would tell you if you asked. You might not be ready to hear it.
View file → Nadine BlumenthalHe was kind to her early, before anyone knew what she was going to become. He knew. He didn't say anything because she wasn't ready. This is what Buzz does.
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