Oscar Ottway

Oscar Burke Ottway is a male survivor played by MindGate. he was accepted on February 11th, 2017 and is currently alive and active on the server.

Theme Song -The Constellations, Perfect Day

Description
Oscar is above the average height at 6’2”. He looks to be white with a rather average, light complexion with a fair skin complexion with little to no blemishes, apart from the signs of aging. Oscar looks to be in his mid to late thirties. He has a circular and fit body build with a medium amount of muscle mass and average amount of fat and weighs in at 179lbs. His hair is a shade of honey-blonde, obviously very well-kept, currently it has been left out to grow at a kept rate and is currently thick and styled in a combover. His eyes are a shade of almost hypnotic steely blue. He has little to no facial hair apart from his stubble that has been left to grow. His common facial expression consists of a listless gaze, once met with conversation, it changes and shows to be a possible facade. He has a very crooked smile, to that of someone who has worked as a lawyer, or a general crook. He seems to be very energetic and friendly in speech and commonly has a rather deceivingly friendly glare to his eyes. He speaks with a rather noticeable British accent with no apparent stutters, he has a slight undertone to that of a long-time smoker. He is commonly exceedingly friendly in speech and very kind, though when he’s loud, he’s very loud. He is commonly seen wearing dark gray button-up shirt with a solid black denim jacket and jeans with a set of black hiking boots.

Personality
Oscar is charismatic and cool headed and usually seemingly caring for the emotions of others on his exterior, while the truth is; Oscar believes the world is a dog-eat-dog world with little time to truly care for other people's emotions. He is a very manipulative man who puts on a very potent charade of false emotions and care for others with a common thirst for success and power in whatever social circles he has found himself in. Oscar has developed a pretty strong superiority complex after discovering that his mother had lied to him all of those years and he never had the slightest idea until he actually started to dig into his father’s case; he often questions himself on how he never possibly questioned anything until he grew older; he masks and pants up all of these emotions, however. It has severely degraded his psychological state-of-mind and has slowly developed him with the goal of making his father ‘proud’ by becoming someone of power. Underneath all of these charades and emotions does lay a caring man who would love to see the best for everyone and deeply does believe he can give some people a better life by either helping them or taking charge; his good intentions however, are often corrupted by his slowly degrading state-of-mind due to the loss of many of his friends and his previously self-inflicted social isolation. Those who do develop a sincere friendship with Oscar are protected by him with the at-most ferocity. Oscar is a deeply loyal friend who will not allow permanent harm to come to them and always looks out for what’s best for them.

Biography
Oscar Burke Ottway was born to Clarence and Amanda Ottway February 10th, 1979 in London, England. Oscar found his early life to be mostly uneventful and boring, he received good grades in school and grew up as an only child. Oscar was outgoing and had a healthy amount of friends and often participated in plenty of extra curricular activities such as drama club and sports. Oscar practiced fencing and rugby, specifically. Fencing came to Oscar almost naturally, as his father had been an avid HEMA enthusiast and swordsman in his off-time from his job working as a banker. Once Oscar hit the age of eleven and was deemed old enough by his father, he started to teach him some of the basics of HEMA with longswords which was what Clarence specialized with. Oscar with some previous experience in fencing didn’t take to it at first, but overtime starting to gradually improve with the help of his father who had grown a very close bond with his son. Middle-school came and went for Oscar, he didn’t really have anything too out of the ordinary happen to him, he got average grades and had his first girlfriend and first kiss, the usual for any soon-to-be teenager. Oscar retained his interest in sports and started to on the side take rugby a tad bit more seriously than he did in the past, no longer playing for fun, but for competition. Oscar could feel something inside of him growing, a flame from his father; the thirst for competition and success at any cost and anyone's expense. This new awakening turned quite a few people sour towards Oscar and his thirst; his undying love for competition and power within whatever social circles he found himself in. Manipulation was key to acquiring his goals, whether it had been class president or bartering one of his ‘friends’ much better game into his grasp; and what he couldn’t acquire, he found other means to change that, whether it had been helping the person or humiliating them. Oscar found a way. High-school had been some of the worst years of Oscars life, it started it normal and rather enjoyable. Growing up had been an experience for Oscar, at the start he kept to his previous streak of acquiring good, passing grades and sticking with sports programs and his father teaching him HEMA after school. It all changed towards the end of his sophomore year. Clarence, his father had been found dead just outside of Blanchland which was five hours away from the ritzy loft in London that Oscar and his mother lived in. The investigation into Clarence's mysterious demise brought little back through the first month. Oscar took the death of his father very hard and slipped into a stage of depression while his mother took the loss surprisingly well. She acquired all of Clarence’s money along with most of his personal belongings. Three months went by, for most it may have felt so quick, but not for Oscar. It felt like years, days turned into weeks and months into years within his mind; in that time his personality and general disposition towards those that he once considered friends soured, he found himself becoming more aggressive in rugby, far more aggressive than most he played with. He grew more violent with HEMA, his slices and cuts became heavier and intentionally powerful. Oscar knew he was changing into something, a being of hatred. It didn’t matter to him anymore, though. The case never really came back with much aside from one piece of information; the last person Clarence had ever been seen with. A prostitute who worked the streets of Blanchland going by the name of Margaret who had went missing the very same night, never to be seen again. It wasn’t long until the cases heat slowly died down and faded out, only to be eventually closed and piled up alongside a plethora of cold cases. It never sat well with Oscar, but he never had time to really express his inner-emotions to his mother, as the moment the case closed she broke the news to him; they were moving far, far away from London to the United States. Readjusting and setting up in the States didn’t come as that much of a challenge, the wealth that Amanda inherited from Clarence’s savings and life insurance was, to say the least, substantial and enough to set up her and Oscar for life. Oscar bitterly finished up high school in Los Angeles, California. He never picked up any of his activities that he enjoyed so deeply back in London, aside from HEMA. Oscar vigorously honed his craft, refusing to let the small part of his father that he still had left behind, die. Once he graduated from High-School most of his free time out of his HEMA practices were put into figuring out which college he wanted to go to and what courses he truly wanted to take. Oscar always felt that he’d follow in his father's footsteps but found himself drawn to another occupation. Law enforcement, deep down, eating away at him. He felt that the police back in England didn’t put as much of a foot forward as they should have. Oscar felt that he could have done the job better and wanted to prove himself right and decided that he was going to go for courses in law enforcement much to his mother's disapproval who felt that he would do much better as an actor.

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Oscar enrolled with the UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles.) and majored in Criminal Justice and went for minors in Psychology and Sociology. Most of Oscar’s time in college went by rather slowly, he never found himself attending parties as most of his fellow students did, but instead hidden away and studying while in his free time he continued his practices with HEMA and soon enough found himself in a rather obscure club that didn’t have very many members, simply people sharing the same interests who enjoyed the sport; many matches were set up between the small clubs members involving longsword sparring dominantly. Oscar received little support from his mother whose ideals for him only distanced them over the course of the years with her not even attending his graduation. Oscar had found himself in the position where he stopped caring for his mother for the most part and severed most of his communications with her. Setting up on his own with what little money he found himself with was rather difficult, but he managed to rent a decent apartment in the neighborhood of Palms in LA after he graduated from UCLA with a bachelors in Criminal Justice. After settling down, Oscar started looking into enrolling with the police academy in the area to join the next wave of recruits for the LAPD; he managed to butter-up some of the police officers in the area and attended some ride-alongs to build up his resume and background with some volunteer police work before he attempted to go any further with his occupation of choice. His daily routines consisted of exercise, healthy eating, and HEMA practice; rarely did he meet up with any of his ‘friends’ due to his rigorous and beefy schedule. Over the course of the year, Oscar built up his background and then proceeded to apply for the local police academy which brought him back less than savory results; he had been denied due to failing his psychological examination for undisclosed reasons. Oscar wanted answers as to why he was denied, but never received any back. He spent the next two years trying to re-apply, only to be shot down each and every time for the same undisclosed reasons which were ultimately revealed to him the last time he tried; the psychologists that had spoken with Oscar each time had came to the same conclusion, that Oscar was psychologically unfit for duty due to his underlying temper, his difficulty to take orders and his tendency to make rash and often unethical decisions in many of the scenarios they outlined for him under his deceivingly friendly exterior. Seeing that his dream had completely slipped out of his grasped, he looked for alternative occupations that could provide the same satisfaction and feeling as working as a police officer; this sent him on the path to work under a licensed private investigator; he knew that he required a total of five thousand hours of paid investigative work over the period of two-and-a-half years. He searched through multiple different firms and took up with a firm known as ‘Briscoe Investigative Services’ which was owned by a man known as Arthur Briscoe who specialized in Background checks, fraud,  civil investigations, surveillance and corporate investigations. The next two years went by lightning fast for Oscar, he crashed into the world of corporate espionage, surveillance on lonely house wives who were suspected of cheating on their ritzy rich husbands, gathering evidence for trials. Everything Oscar did gradually built up his experience and sincerely did befriend Arthur, his mentor in the P.I business. When Oscar did eventually leave Briscoe Investigative Services on good terms to acquire his license and start his own firm he happened to dig into some of the old information of his father's old case, not bringing back much he dropped it and put his focuses towards his business, ‘Burke Investigative Solutions’. Business was slow and not in demand for the first year, Oscar spent most of his time handling small-time surveillance cases which involved him spying on housewives who had been suspected of cheating on their husbands. Slow and tediously annoying work, though, it paid fairly well. Oscar started to slowly build a name and good reputation for his business and decided to expand and to recruit a partner, Bret Kelley. Oscar met Bret through one of his old ‘housewife’ cases, he had been one of the unlucky individuals who ran into the wrong woman at the wrong period of time. Nothing really ever became of it, aside from the husband completely divorcing his wife; Bret never ran into any real trouble. Guy was a dead-beat actor who couldn’t make it in his occupation of choice, he was damned good at his job but never could catch a big enough break to make it big-time.

As business started to improve, Oscar decided to put some more effort into reopening his father's case with his new-found income and acquired set of skills. He packed up and went on ‘vacation’ back to London, England. He settled in one of the hotels and started beating the dead horse, so to speak. He spoke with many of his father’s old friends to acquire information. He didn’t bring back very much at first and debated giving up the case and heading back to work in LA; but he found one piece of information that sent him back on the right track. His father's old employer and close friend, Wayne Wallace revealed to him that Clarence had been debating divorce for awhile and had started to suspect his wife of cheating on him and started to in-return see other people. Amanda and Clarence had quite a bit of friction between them but never really brought their arguments outside to anyone other than themselves. The night that Clarence went missing he stated that he had feared for his life as he suspected Amanda of hiring someone to ‘eliminate’ him from the equation. Oscar was flabbergasted as how the police-force never acquired this information and went further with it, his mother should have been the prime suspect from day one but the case never even saw the light of day, truly. Something was sour and this information sent him directly back to LA where he had decided he would pressure an answer out of his mother, one way or another. He travelled back to LA and proceeded to be hit with a rather depressing confrontation, whilst on his trip to London, his mother had been in a car accident and was now in critical condition and on life support. The visit was short; his mother was awake and aware enough to speak, he simply asked her and act as if she knew and she admitted it. She hired the prostitute to kill Clarence with the promises of a very large sum of money, once Clarence died she eliminated the prostitute and had her corpse disposed of. She bought off the lead-investigator and the case never got properly looked into. Oscar pulled her life support and let her die, right there; nurses and doctors tried to properly revive her to no avail. The years forward were spent vastly differently than all of the last, Oscar inherited all of his mother's cash and even found his father's longsword in storage. He kept and treasured it, putting it on display in his loft. Business went differently from now on, Oscar decided to find a change of scenery and decided on moving his business to Louisville, KY. Oscar didn’t care about helping people anymore, he cared about profit, and profit only. He learnt one very valuable lesson from his mother, it’s a dog eat dog world. Oscar blackmailed housewives alongside Bret, intentionally setting them up with Bret seducing them. He sold corporate information to rivaling corporations and intentionally ‘lost’ evidence with the gift of profit from the guilty. Business kept up until the outbreak; Oscar and Bret fled out of the city with their prized possessions and closer friends during the heat of the outbreak, they stuck to the back roads when they could until the eventually couldn’t drive anymore and were met with moving on foot. Running low on food and water, they eventually found themselves just outside of West Point, KY. Having lost everyone apart from themselves the two men agreed that they’d check the situation in the town, and if it wasn’t too bad, they’d stay knowing that they wouldn’t make it much further on their own with no mode of transportation.

Clarence Ottway ✞
Oscar and his father, Clarence had always carried a close bond with one another with very little arguments or disagreements between the two. They were one in the same.

Amanda Ottway ✞
Oscar detests his mother for murdering his father, Clarence.

Bret Kelley
Bret is Oscar's partner and protege. The two have worked together for years now as private investigators.

Arthur Briscoe ✞
Arthur was Oscar's mentor, he taught Oscar everything he knows in the field of private investigations.

Sirius Rowan
Sirius has so far proven himself to be a total posh and possibly unreliable, though, Oscar is so far unsure as the two share very similar outlooks.

Ellie Blackwood
Ellie has so far made herself a seemingly positive acquaintance to Oscar.