Parzival/Wade Watts/Bryce Lynch

Parzival is the name of Wade Watts avatar in OASIS. Wade is a seventeen-year-old teenager who lives in a poor area of Oklahoma City in the year 2045. Wade is a gunter, someone who is actively searching for the egg James Halliday hid in the OASIS programming. For this reason, Wade is a huge fan of old videogames, movies, and television shows, especially those that Halliday has mentioned in his diaries, the Anorak Almanac, as his favorites.

Wade's parents are both dead and Wade lives in a world in the grip of an energy crisis, making life difficult for everyone, but especially the very poor. Wade's aunt is not much of a caretaker. She only took Wade in becaue of the food vouchers she can get for him. In fact, at the beginning of the novel the aunt takes Wade's laptop to sell so she...