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Name: Phasma
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E-mail: geoduelist87@yahoo.com
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Character
Name: Soos Ramirez
Series: Gravity Falls
Timeline: After s2e20 “Take Back the Falls”
Canon Resource Links:
Soos on the Gravity Falls Wiki

Personality:
At first glance, Soos is the bumbling comic relief, the big dumb guy, that side character that gets eaten in the first fifteen minutes of a monster movie. It's an impression that's not entirely incorrect. Soos can definitely be childish and impulsive, taking genuine delight in things like the puns from a cheap, talking-skull candy bowl or a children's train ride. He has a tendency to roll with the weirdness of Gravity Falls that can be an asset -when Dipper tells Soos he suspects a new boyfriend of Mabel’s is a zombie, Soos believes it entirely possible but points out that Dipper needs evidence- but it also makes him prone to distraction. When needing to stealthily escape a monster, he deliberately set off the above-mentioned candy bowl because he “needed some levity,” going as far as replacing its batteries when they turned out to be dead. He is sometimes a little too relaxed in the face of danger, seeing no problem in pursuing a relationship with an emotionally unstable, machine-hopping AI program despite recognizing her talk of “deleting” her programmers as “a major red flag.” Even when he's cognizant of how dangerous or serious a situation can be, his priorities can be more than a little skewed; when mentally transferred into the body of a pig, he was more than happy with the situation until someone tried to eat him. It’s also entirely possible for him to actively make a bad situation worse; such as telling an enemy that he would never find his target, Stan, followed by Stan’s very specific location at the time.

Despite his sometimes bumbling nature and childlike attitude, Soos is highly competent as both a handyman and a paranormal investigator. He's been the Mystery Shack’s handyman since he was 12, and is able to successfully perform repairs on a wide rangevof devices, including the Shack’s golf cart and an old laptop retrieved from an underground bunker. He also frequently helped in Dipper and Mabel’s investigations, providing backup when they entered the above-mentioned bunker, and successfully working out a way to safely bypass a carnivorous pterodactyl chick. It's also heavily implied that he's highly creative, and may be responsible for a great number of the Mystery Shack's exhibits; when constructing a maze of mirrors, for example, Stan describes it as “[Soos’] best idea that I'm taken credit for yet.”

Ultimately, Soos just wants to help those around him – during the apocalyptic ‘Weirdmageddon’ that turned Gravity Falls into a literal hellscape, he ends up wandering around helping strangers, allegedly inspiring folk-songs about himself with his efforts; more mundanely, he frequently helps the Pines’ family outside of his official duties as a Mystery Shack employee, such as unsticking Mabel’s braces from a screen door, acquiring free snacks from the vending machine for the twins, or assisting Stan when he needed to “scratch in two places at once.” Soos is intensely loyal to the Mystery Shack and the Pines family in general, considering Stan to be a surrogate father figure after he was hired as handyman on the spot –at the age of 12- on the same birthday he realized his biological father had left for good. . Soos is aware of his awkward nature, as he claimed it might prevent him from successfully asking out a woman when his grandmother told him to find a date for his cousin’s wedding; despite this he manages to find confidence in the people that do appreciate him, eventually saying that he considers the Pines to be family, on top of finding a girlfriend who shared his interests. A longtime dream was to become Stan’s successor as the Shack’s proprietor, which Soos viewed as being entirely accepted by Stan; he eventually realized this goal when Stan and his twin brother left Gravity Falls to pursue supernatural occurrences elsewhere in the world. Soos has little social life outside the Mystery Shack, spending a good deal of his free time there, and is implied to have few to no friends outside of the Pines and Wendy; the only people he is depicted spending time with besides them are his grandmother, whom he lives with, and his long-distance girlfriend Melody. When not at the Shack, he spends most of his time playing video games; he has a large collection, and once stated that one of his major life goals was to receive the high score on a ‘Tumbleweed Terror’ pinball game.
Strengths/Weaknesses:
+ Mechanical Aptitude: If it’s broken, Soos can probably fix it. If it’s not broken, he can give it unnecessary but cool fins and flame decals.
+ Video Game Skill: Soos spends most of his free time playing video games; while he seems to prefer fighting games, it’s likely he’s very familiar with the type of RPG logic that dominates Johto and Kanto.
+ Multilingual: Aside from speaking English, Soos was raised by his Spanish-speaking grandmother and has demonstrated the ability to read at least some Japanese.
+ Musical Talent: Soos has successfully DJ’d in the past, as well as having a hand in making a techno remix of Dipper’s cracking voice.
+/x Roll With It: Soos is used to the strange and inexplicable happening around and to him. Unfortunately, this often leads him to be non-chalant or careless in the face of situations that need to be taken seriously.
+/x Loyal: It’s fairly easy to win Soos’ trust, and once it’s been won it’s hard to lose; even if the object of Soos’ loyalties isn’t the most trustworthy.
+/x I Can Fix That: Soos is willing and eager to help those around him, but his enthusiasm can sometimes make things worse before they get better.
+/x Creativity: Soos has a lot of ideas. Sometimes they result in a maze of mirrors or successfully escaping carnivorous dinosaurs. Sometimes it leads to Soos wearing a disturbingly-revealing question-mark costume and mentally scarring the people around him.
x Easily Distracted: It’s possible to successfully distract Soos for extended periods of time with a laser pointer.
x Socially Awkward: Soos can be incredibly childlike –or childish- in ways that can be off-putting to those around him.
x Needs Approval: Related to his awkwardness, Soos is afraid of rejection from those around him, leading him to sometimes tolerate verbal abuse or less than safe ideas in the name of being accepted.

Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Breeder
Starter: Slowpoke
Password: Peppermint Bark

Samples
First Person Sample:
Ha, hey, check it out dudes.

[The video feed is focused, a bit unsteadily, on a sign reading “New Bark Town: Winds of a New Beginning.” What’s so funny isn’t immediately obvious, even as a beefy forearm enters the frame to strategically cover part of the wording.]

“Newb Town.” Ha, oh man, I should be writin’ this down.

[The camera turns to reveal the one speaking, an overweight man in a suit and fez, eye-patch flipped up to reveal a perfectly functioning eye underneath.]

Okay but seriously dudes, I got no idea how I got here. It’s nice an’ all, but I kinda got responsibilities now, you know? Oh, and this thing’s been following me since that weird woman kicked me out of her house.

[The camera spins again to show a Slowpoke flopped down on the grass behind Soos, staring at nothing, eyes blinking just a bit out of synch with each other.]

I guess it’s some kinda mini gummy hippo thing? I figure it either thinks I’m its mom or something, or it wants to eat me.

[There’s a short, considering pause.]

Eh, I give it about a fifty-fifty chance. Those are good odds. And I think I could outrun this little dude if I had to.

Third Person Sample:
“Oh man, they weren’t kidding when they called this place ‘Dark Cave,’ huh?”

Soos’ flashlight didn’t do much against the miasma that seemed to fill the aptly named cave. It fell into a dim circle a few feet ahead of him and then seemed to fade off into the inky darkness of the cave. Soos patted at the baby-carrier hanging off his chest, holding his Slowpoke snuggly in place. He liked letting the rubbery pink Pokémon walk on its own when he could, but in here it seemed prudent to keep it within bodyguarding range. Soos had mastered the art of letting Little Dude follow at its own pace, fleeing back to his Pokémon when a wild one attacked, but here that seemed likely to end in a very painful meeting between his face and the rocky cave floor.

“…Slow.”

“I know dude, right? I keep expectin’ to see a grue or something. Ha, that’d be pretty old-school, right?”

There was a solid minute’s pause or so before Little Dude responded with a “Poke” and a long yawn.

“Aw, me too man. But this’d probably be a bad place to sleep. It’s probably got terrible back support.”

The flashlight beam, such as it was, shone around the area a bit, examining the rocky walls and outcroppings for places a rare Pokémon might hide. If there was anything Soos had learned from dungeon-crawling games, it was that the creepiest places usually had the strongest monsters and the best loot. Fortunately, in this case, the loot and the monsters were one and the same. A good breeder had to have a solid breeding stock of in-demand eggs, right? And if that meant scouring through a ridiculously-dangerous cavern system with an incredibly apt name, that’s what Soos was going to do.

“So if I were a super-rare pocketable monster that everyone wanted, where exactly would I be?”

“…Poke.”

“Fair point dude, I wouldn’t tell me either.”