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| Fortunato |
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worked with Tachyon to defeat the Swarm |
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Telepathy, mind control, telekinesis, astral projection, control over time |
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Fortunato is a character from the Wild Cards series of books. He is a pimp, but prefers to downplay, even to himself, the negative aspects of his "escort" business (calling his prostitutes "geishas", for example). Fortunato's wild card grants him immense telepathic and telekinetic powers. He can control minds, fly, create force walls, throw mental blasts, read the future (and the past) and generally has a whole host of powers to call upon. Dr. Tachyon states that he is Earth's most powerful mental/telepathic wild card (Starshine may be the most powerful non-mental). Fortunato derives all his power from tantric sex magic. Tantric rituals feed his power reserve, which then allow him to utilize his massive powers. However, the more he uses them, the faster he runs out of power. In terms of powers and strength, Fortunato is even (or nearly even) with The Astronomer; this is one of the most obvious case of opposites in the Wild Cards' universe (Fortunato gaining his power from sex -- the source of life -- while The Astronomer gains his powers from death).
