Oscar Brzenk

Biography

The sovereign whose reputation arrives first

Long before Oscar Brzenk enters a scene, his name defines the public ceiling of human strength. He is the official world Rank 1, vice president of the International Hunter Association, and the standard against which even BM is measured. His reputation also carries institutional force: observers treat the Brzenk Family as the only household whose standing clearly exceeds the newly prominent Yu household, while Oscar's son Tyr Brzenk is kept away from publicity because any failure could damage his father's honour. (Chapters 55, 77, 104, 120, 156, 225–227, 268–269)

Later revelations show that the name rests on more than prestige. Oscar builds the Brzenk Family from high-ranked superhumans personally loyal to him and establishes its seventeenth branch with African war refugees, giving desperate families food, clothing, shelter, and work. That rescue produces soldiers who follow his rules with unusual discipline and later defend his property and person even after he is branded a terrorist. His distant public image therefore conceals a sovereign whose authority is maintained through material responsibility as well as overwhelming power. (Chapters 227, 357–358)

Compromise over a black dragon

Oscar finally descends when Yu Jitae isolates the aftermath of Myu's attack and forces a private meeting. Providence identifies the adult black dragon as a risk, so Oscar arrives intending to kill her and draws his sovereign's sword. He listens when Jitae claims her survival is necessary to remove a deeper threat, then accepts that a battle would create needless casualties without stopping Jitae. His compromise preserves his duty: he publicly declares the dragon dead while placing her human form under Association supervision and reserving sovereign access to inspect her. (Chapter 296)

The same meeting makes Oscar responsible for tracing the missing personality of Vintage Clock. Months of searching end with the Judges barring him from the Temple of Providence and exiling him for three months. Although he resents Jitae's secrecy and the wasted time, Oscar recognizes that the Judges' human-like fury may signal a revolt against the personality that granted him sovereignty. He accepts Jitae's information about a back entrance and returns to investigate, choosing an obligation to his absent patron over the safer option of withdrawing. (Chapters 296, 344, 348)

The second attempt goes wrong because the Temple catches him after he enters secretly. The Judges seize his physical body, use it to attack the Association, and aim the possessed Oscar toward Jitae. The low death toll is inconsistent with a willing assault by the world's strongest superhuman, but the attack still injures hundreds, kills three people, hospitalizes BM and Jeanie Inssirem, and turns Oscar into a prisoner. His loyalists protect his equipment and later obstruct the search for him, indirectly causing further deaths when Jitae retaliates against them. (Chapters 354, 356–359, 363)

Oscar's mind remains intact inside the Temple even while his body is used as a puppet. During his captivity he reads the white bird's records, learns the scale of Jitae's repeated lives, and prepares for the public trial he expects the Judges to impose. When Jitae arrives through Oscar's Safe, Oscar rejects the possibility of becoming the Judges' compliant servant and volunteers to defend him. Their alliance is practical but also moral: both want the white bird found, while Oscar believes Jitae must survive if he is to repair the damaged Providence and free Oscar's body. (Chapters 361–363)

An attorney before a rigged court

Oscar approaches the trial as an advocate who still expects procedure to matter. He warns Jitae that the Judges will try to provoke an impulsive response and asks him to trust the defence. Drawing on a month spent reviewing Temple records, Oscar answers the first accusation by distinguishing Jitae's apparent lack of results from the extraordinary obstacles imposed on him. He presents the memories of Key as evidence that Jitae has located the cause of the distorted Providence, and the Punisher initially accepts that response. (Chapters 363–364)

The court then changes its standard from Jitae's results to the process by which he obtained them. Oscar argues that the Temple itself selected Jitae, denied him adequate support, and now seeks to punish the person who accomplished what its sovereigns and Judges could not. Reading the records transforms his defence from a professional strategy into anger on behalf of another human being: he calls the Judges negligent owners abusing a wounded dog and continues until the Punisher forcibly silences him. (Chapter 365)

Oscar's confidence collapses when the supposedly impartial Punisher repeatedly rejects his arguments and the scribe fails to record the proceedings. He recognizes that earlier trial records were likely fabricated and protests that the court has presumed guilt, but threats of punishment force him to stop. After the Judges announce the white bird's death and sentence the seventh iteration to be severed, Oscar believes he has failed both Jitae and the world. His legal preparation cannot overcome a tribunal whose outcome was fixed before the hearing. (Chapters 365, 367)

Jitae's violent rejection of the sentence leaves Oscar a shocked observer. Clone 2's evidence exposes the Judge who murdered the white bird, Jitae breaks his restraints, and the Temple descends into bloodshed. Oscar notices the non-recording scribe, but afterward sits absentmindedly while Jitae leaves for the clock tower. By the later dragon crisis, Oscar is alive but absent because his body remains unwell; others still judge that a healthy Oscar could meet an adult dragon on equal terms. His political title and exact recovery are not shown after the trial. (Chapters 367–368, 394)

Appearance and personality

Oscar is a middle-aged man in his forties with blond or golden hair, blue eyes, and slightly drooping eyes. His first in-person arrival presents him in full sovereign equipment: a transparent mask over his face and eyes, armour, cape, gloves, jewellery, a longsword, and the Heaven-destroying Eight Wings behind his back. When he later visits Jitae's office without the battle presentation, golden light surrounds him and his serious expression makes his concern over Providence immediately visible. (Chapters 296, 348)

He is controlled, pragmatic, and strongly conscious of responsibility. Faced with an enemy he cannot defeat, he negotiates conditions that preserve oversight rather than escalating for pride. He respects evidence and procedure, but he is not passive: he lies to the world to contain Myu, risks the Temple's hostility for Vintage Clock, and angrily confronts Judges once their conduct becomes unjust. Irritation often appears as blunt language or curses, yet he repeatedly disperses anger before it can replace judgment. (Chapters 296, 348, 363–365)

Oscar's public reserve coexists with concern for people and institutions. His African branch gives refugees a stable life, his family treats his honour as a collective responsibility, and his trial defence becomes emotionally charged after he comprehends Jitae's suffering. He can still be rigid—his surveillance conditions for Myu are severe—but his choices consistently favor the continued safety of Earth. The Judges' use of his body against that purpose is therefore a violation of both his agency and the role by which he defines himself. (Chapters 268, 296, 358, 363–365)

Powers and abilities

Sovereignty and access to Providence

Oscar is Earth's current Sovereign, a unique position granted by Providence through the Temple rather than an ordinary Association office. Providence supplies him with blessings and information about threats, allowing him to recognize Jitae and receive warnings concerning Myu before their first meeting. He can distinguish truth from falsehood, exercise sovereign authority over Association containment, and enter conceptual locations inaccessible to ordinary humans. He also maintains a personal connection to the personality of Vintage Clock and a corresponding Workshop. (Chapters 195, 245, 296, 348)

That access is powerful but subordinate. The information Oscar receives can be painful, cryptic, or incomplete, and the disappearance of the white bird leaves the connection present without direct communication. The Judges can bar him from the Temple, exile him into another dimension, and seize his physical body because their authority comes from the same Providence that empowers his office. His latest confirmed state follows that seizure and the public trial; the narrative shows him alive but does not demonstrate restored access to the Temple or renewed communication with Vintage Clock. (Chapters 296, 344, 348, 363–365, 394)

World Rank 1 combat power

Oscar is publicly ranked first among Earth's superhumans and is repeatedly treated as humanity's strongest active combatant. BM is described as the strongest known superhuman only when Oscar is excluded, and later observers state that a healthy Oscar could fight an adult dragon evenly. His arrival through a divine-looking sphere and the Level 5 longsword dedicated to the sovereign establish a heavily equipped combat role, but most individual techniques and the exact mechanics of his weapons are not demonstrated in his voluntary scenes. (Chapters 55, 77, 104, 296, 394)

His possessed body's attack on the Association demonstrates destructive scale but not Oscar's chosen tactics. Reports say the controlled body used the full range of sovereign authority, injured hundreds, broke significant defensive infrastructure, and seriously wounded BM and Jeanie Inssirem. Jitae nevertheless judges the casualties implausibly low for an intelligent, deliberate assault by Oscar and estimates that a willing dimension-jumping attack could have killed roughly thirty percent of the Association's military. The event therefore proves the body's danger while remaining poor evidence for Oscar's personal intent or full skill. (Chapters 354, 356–359, 363)

Sovereign equipment

Oscar's battle ensemble covers nearly his entire body in artifacts. The weakest pieces are Level 3, some are Level 4, and his longsword is Level 5. The named Heaven-destroying Eight Wings appear behind him when he descends to Myu's containment fissure, but their specific activation, range, and limits are not explained. His equipment remains under Brzenk Family protection after his arrest, and no later scene confirms which pieces he recovers after the Temple incident. (Chapters 296, 356–357)

Strategy, administration, and advocacy

Oscar's noncombat abilities are as consequential as his rank. He constructs a workable deception around Myu, turns sovereign rights into enforceable supervision rules, and supports Jitae's experiments without exposing them to ordinary records. Inside Providence, he studies and consults the white bird's records for a month to prepare a defence, uses the personality of Key as a witness, and identifies that the scribe is not recording the trial. These efforts cannot defeat a rigged tribunal, but they expose its procedural fraud and help Jitae understand whom he is facing. (Chapters 296, 348, 363–365, 368)

Relationships

Yu Jitae

Oscar and Jitae share the goal of preserving Earth but approach it from different positions: Oscar is its sanctioned sovereign, while Jitae possesses superior force and forbidden knowledge of repeated time. Their first bargain is tense, yet both compromise over Myu and cooperate in searching for Vintage Clock. Reading Jitae's histories changes Oscar from a wary institutional partner into an impassioned defender who recognizes the injustice of his burden. Jitae, in turn, relies on Oscar's Temple access and Safe even after Oscar's body becomes the Judges' bait. (Chapters 296, 348, 361–368)

Vintage Clock and the Judges

Vintage Clock grants Oscar the sovereign title, supplies information, and serves as his greatest ally within Providence. Its disappearance threatens both his office and his personal security, motivating repeated attempts to enter the Temple. The Judges exploit that loyalty, seize his body, and stage a trial that treats his advocacy as disobedience. Oscar's faith in lawful Providence erodes as he discovers the fixed verdict and fraudulent record, leaving him aligned with the absent white bird against the institutions claiming to represent its authority. (Chapters 296, 344, 348, 363–367)

The Brzenk family

Oscar's son Tyr lives under the weight of the Rank 1 name, avoiding publicity so that an ordinary setback cannot become a stain on his father. Oscar's younger sister Kitty acts as Tyr's guardian, while the broader Brzenk Family consists of high-rankers personally selected to carry the name. Their loyalty is intense enough that they defend Oscar's equipment and demand time to discover his will after the apparent terrorist attack, even though that resistance worsens the conflict with Jitae. (Chapters 104, 156, 227, 268–269, 356–358)

The Association and Myu

As vice president, Oscar works within the Association's civil structure under chairman Chaliovan Greenrain, while his separate sovereign rights let him designate Myu for special supervision. His treatment of her balances threat containment against Jitae's demand that she live: he creates a false public account, assigns her a special status, and imposes severe safeguards while giving Jitae private access. The controlled assault later turns the institution he protects against him and leaves his true intentions obscured from most of its members. (Chapters 104, 296, 300, 354–359)

Items

Safe

Oscar's Safe is the only known Level 6 artifact on Earth and the most powerful armoury in his possession. The four-metre silver cube is guarded by the seventeenth Brzenk branch in North Africa. Its door opens shortly after Oscar disappears from Association custody, and the artifact then becomes the Judges' trap and the source of the force pulling Jitae into the Temple of Providence. Oscar owns and secures the Safe, but the Judges control its gateway function during that incident. (Chapters 358, 361–363)

Sovereign battle gear

Oscar's transparent mask, armour, cape, gloves, necklace, rings, Heaven-destroying Eight Wings, and dedicated longsword form a coordinated sovereign kit. Individual pieces range from Level 3 to Level 5, with the sword carrying the highest confirmed level. Their custody passes to Brzenk Family protection after Oscar's arrest. The narrative does not supply separate names or mechanics for most of the pieces, so their contribution beyond protection, armament, and his witnessed arrival remains unspecified. (Chapters 296, 356–357)