One of Titan Garden's leading ambassadors for the promotion of cybernetics, Otto is a Martian augmentation enthusiast who provides supporting services for starfarers looking to receive some body work. Otto's own cybernetics are one of the most extreme examples of the technology yet performed, allowing him to quite literally be in two places at once and multitask efficiently. For ease of discussion we'll refer to his instances as Otto Red and Otto Blue; both are Otto, and Otto is one guy, but whether you're talking to Otto Red or Otto Blue you'll have a distinct Otto Experience with your Otto. To better understand Otto, lets start by taking a look at his suite of cybernetics, then from there we can more fully grasp the role he plays in Titan's cybernetics community.
Otto is a Martian, which means he has a strong constitution and a unique set of physiological redundancies compared to other species in the Sol system.
Every Martian has two hearts, three lungs, four kidneys, two stomachs, two spines, a double-wide sternum, four clavicles and a segmented liver. For most Martians this means they are hardy and adaptable, able to survive in harsh and unforgiving climates; for Otto this means there's enough important stuff to share between his selves. He's always been fascinated by
cybernetic technology, seeing people around him replace limbs or organs or cranial bits with metallic enhancements, and that got him wondering. With the right combination of synthetic organs and life-support systems, Otto believed that a Martian could augment an entire half of themselves, but rather than discard the parts that have been replaced, what if they installed a mirror augmentation to that half and kept it alive? Martians had enough redundant organs that neither half would be terribly lacking, they could both presumably be fully self-sustaining individuals.
Otto spent much of his formative years studying cybernetics, learning what's possible, what is successful and what synergizes with what among augments. He worked multiple jobs, saved up his credits and assembled and tinkered with a blueprint of parts he wanted to have installed. He talked to a lot of Martian cybernetics doctors about his plans, consulting with them on what is possible and finding the curious and somewhat ethically-pliable among them who would agree to take on his request. He figured he'd need at least three whole teams of doctors to achieve his goals- one to support each of his halves and a third to make the initial cuts. Otto spent a quarter century preparing his funds, his contacts and his knowledgebase to realize his dreams until finally, one day, a new high watermark for Martian cybernetics technology was achieved. Otto's plans worked, and now he had an entire half of his body augmented, and his separated half had its own other-half augmented as well. Otto had successfully pluraled himself.
While Otto's vitals work perfectly fine, each half-set of redundant organs supplemented by a set of synthetic counterparts, an unforeseen side effect came from splitting his brain into its two hemispheres. People have had halves of their heads replaced with computer augments before, the notion of hemispherical cybernetic integration isn't unheard of, it's just no one's really kept the other half alive before to see what happens. As it turns out, Otto Red and Otto Blue branched out from each other to develop their own unique personalities- they both share early memories from his life but they ways in which they carry themselves following his cybernetics procedure diverge rather cleanly. Otto Red is a lot more serious, very honest and uncompromising in his personality. He prefers light clothing with rounded cuts. Otto Blue is a lot looser and more jovial, manifesting a persuasive salesman personality. He prefers darker clothing with sharp angular cuts. Despite being of two minds, Otto is happy with himself and is celebrated as a landmark achievement in Martian medical technology. He wasn't content to just be a poster-boy for prosthetic parts, however. He wanted to do more with his life.
Otto supports the Titan cybernetics industry in two ways. Otto Red provides insurance to help support people who are seeking elective cybernetic procedures- it is not a riskless endeavor, so he believes offering insurance policies in the event of rejection or malfunction would alleviate people's fears about exploring cybernetic augmentation. Otto Red supplements this insurance by pushing for strong standards of practice among licensed clinics, ensuring they provide clean and professional care to their clients and don't allow the scene to develop a reputation for being a string of chop shops- in this regard his strict and uncompromising personality proves very useful.
Otto Blue, on the other hand, offers low-interest loans to starfarers who might not yet have the credits to pick up a new cybernetic, encouraging them to get some work done now rather than later. A fair number of starfarers find voluntary cybernetics to be useful in their careers in space, and their pay tends to come in chunks, so taking out a loan to fill in the gaps isn't too bad when you can use that new cybernetic enhancement to keep earning pay chunks and then pay down the low-interest loan. Otto Blue's more manic personality helps juice up a fence-sitting think-abouter, and a genuine passion for the technology helps make his low interest rates seem honest.
All the clinics on Titan know Otto, and while they may have different opinions about him, he undoubtedly works to promote more widespread adoption of integrated technologies and ensure the medical discipline maintains good health standards and a clean reputation. He is an enthusiastic and persistent ambassador for the potential good cybernetics can provide, and if you're ever thinking about having some work done he'd love to talk to you about your goals, your needs and your budget. Just, whatever you do, don't talk to him about Min-Jeong. He may be of two minds, but neither one of them is particularly fond of Min-Jeong, her work or the impact she has on the reputation of the Titan cybernetics scene, and he will go on and on and on and on and on about "the little butcher of B-District". It'll be hard to get him back on topic once Min-Jeong sends him off the rails. Just keep it strictly clinical.