Independent
Price's father and a baseline human completely unattuned to the frequencies of Chaos. Oblivious to the magical world around him, Patrick navigates his family's sudden supernatural uprooting by filtering reality-bending anomalies through an intensely protective, highly delusional paradigm of standard suburban milestones.
Often seen in a state of domestic disheveled comfort — lounging in a green bathrobe at the kitchen counter while glued to his phone screen, or dressed sharply in a clean blue-collared polo shirt.
Completely unaware that Price is an isolated outcast with only one friend. Fiercely protective of his son's future, he confronts Congress agents on his behalf and provides a replacement cell phone to keep their connection alive after Price departs for Agriant Academy.
Believed Valerie was simply eccentric until she demonstrated her Channeling abilities on their living room floor. Even then, his rationalization mechanisms translate the impossible into the familiar.
Openly screams at Octavia for upending his son's academic trajectory, confronting a high-ranking Congress agent with the full force of suburban parental outrage before ultimately being forced to yield.
Patrick O'Neil is the father of Price O'Neil, a baseline human completely unattuned to the frequencies of Chaos. Oblivious to the magical world around him, Patrick navigates his family's sudden supernatural uprooting by filtering the reality-bending anomalies through an intensely protective, highly delusional paradigm of standard suburban milestones.
Patrick is the ultimate anchor of normalcy within the O'Neil household, completely unaware that his son is an isolated outcast with only one friend. Despite his total lack of awareness regarding the Chaosmatic capital, Patrick is fiercely protective of his son's future. He openly confronts high-ranking Congress agents like Octavia Greenfield, screaming at them for upending his son's academic trajectory. Though ultimately forced to yield to institutional laws, he continues to support Price by providing baseline technology — like a replacement cell phone — to maintain a tether to their old life.
Patrick possesses zero internal attunement to Chaos, rendering him entirely blind to the sensory "Fog" or the ambient energetic currents shifting around his son.
Patrick exhibits a profound psychological defense mechanism against the supernatural. When confronted with overt, impossible shifts in geometry — such as an automated traffic barrier splitting open via invisible threads — his brain immediately translates the event into familiar baseline concepts, treating supernatural school recruitments like high school varsity sports transfers.