How real is an idea?

Can a fantasy truly be regarded as nonexistent just because it does not exist in our own world? If ideas can give hope and that hope can lift one to do great things, just as despair and nihilism can bring one to the dumps, is it not fair to assume that idea have some weight?

And can perhaps the mere idea that we can be better than ourselves, be it through seeing a character in a story or seeing the sky in someone else's world, be enough to tell us that it is indeed possible?

I suppose that's not for me to tell you. It's a decision you have to make yourself.

Just like Loboto.

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Special Agent Loboto



Background

Caligosto Loboto was born into a well-home, gifted with psychic powers at birth, one of the rare cases where no evidence of previous mental abilities is seen on his family tree. As is the unfortunate routine with many such children, his parents were frightened and otherwise aggravated with his abilities, and so his father, being the ‘sensible’ doctor he was, sent his boy off to be lobotomized.

What might have been a terrible occurrence never came to pass however, as the Psychonauts found and rescued young Caligosto via an inside man at the mental institution. It was child’s play to set-up that the boy perish in the operation and send him into their P.C.P. (Psychic Child Protection) Initiative. Here he was raised to understand his powers alongside many other children similarly maligned by those who should have shown nothing but love.

Though he could have followed any path he wished, he made a vow that he has kept to this day: To not only embrace his psychic gifts and show the world how wrong it was to fear and distrust them, not by force or conquest but through helping the world however he wished.

From that day, Loboto worked and studied to improve his mind in all its form, passing through every required channel to become a bonified Psychonaut. Upon his entry, he took up the codename Loboto and his dentistry hobby as his own symbolic rejection of his parents’ closemindedness and continued his works across the world; from espionage to counterintelligence, mental extractions of all sorts, all under the guise of a dentist with the finest anesthetic known to mankind. In fact, his side profession has even been helpful in keeping the organization in the green in recent years

However, during a routine ‘check-up’ with the twisted duo of Gzar Razputin and Lili ‘Lights-Out’ Zonato, Loboto found himself sucked into a wormhole, popping out into a universe where nothing is right: His hated enemies are Psychonauts royalty, the Grand Head is an actual person and not a red-haired ram puppet on Head Secretary Boyd’s hand and he is a lobotomized husk of a man.

It’s up to him to find a way back to his homeworld, though perhaps a slight ‘rinse and spit’ of this world along the way wouldn’t help either.



Special Abilities

Thespianism

Taught by Jasper Rolls himself, Loboto is able to slip into any needed role, be it a comedic straight man, a roadcrew worker, or even a manatee.

His dentistry persona is 100% genuine, baby!

Telekinesis

Thanks to his constructs of finely kept dental tools, Loboto can raise and carry objects as easily as one would a baby tooth

Combined with some levitation, he can always get that perfect angle for a tug

Pacification

Years of Dental School has given Loboto skills to keep his patients at ease, comes in handy when one in need of a mental drilling needs some calming down.

In the mental world, this manifests in an ability to send out various flavors of anesthetics against his enemies,

Stronger minds require stronger doses

The Twist

This Loboto isn’t real.

In fact, his whole universe isn’t real.

Not in the sense that it doesn’t exist, mind you, but rather it doesn’t take up real physical space, but rather space in Razputin Aquato’s mind.

Ever since discovering Loboto’s origins in The Rhombus of Ruin, Raz’s mind was alight with that question that haunts every single one of us: What if?

What if Loboto hadn’t been given that terrible procedure, how would his life have gone and what else could have happened to shape the man along his life? Whether he knew it or not, that single question sent the comic presses in Raz’s mind whirling and his subconscious began spinning the tale of this brave little boy, saved from a fate worse than death and so dedicated his life to helping those in need, aided by better versions of others Raz had faced and met in the past and Loboto himself matching wits with a person who, in Raz’s mind, represented the worst, most regretful parts of himself.

Though this revelation would not be broadcast, it would be discovered by the three people who it would mean the most to: Razputin and the two Lobotos. Contrary to cynical thought, both Lobotos take it very well, The Doctor touched anyone could imagine such a version of him, especially Raz, and The Agent proud of Raz to have such faith in the good of others. And that such an idea as a truly helpful Loboto to be given physical form in the real world, it does make one wonder.

After some well-tuned platformer chicanery, the portal to Agent Loboto’s home ‘universe’ is opened wide, but first the group must contend with Gzar Raz and his enforcer jumping through to cause havoc.

When all is said and done, all bested, Agent Loboto returns to his world, leaving his ‘real world’ counterpart with a further bolstered sense of hope in turning his life around.