Gustavo Vidón

Not part of Riordanverse The following article/section is from the Sal & Gabi continuity under Rick Riordan Presents and not the Riordanverse canon.

Gustavo Vidón
Biographical information
Full name	Gustavo Vidón
Gender	Male
Alias	Papi (by Sal)
Family	Unnamed father Floramaria Vidón (first wife) Sal Vidón (son) Unnamed son and daughter (exists in at least one alternative dimension) Lucy Vidón (second wife)
Residence	Cuba (formerly) Connecticut, United States of America (formerly) Miami, Florida
Status	Alive
Physical description
Eye	Dark
Hair	Black
Species	Human
Behind the scenes
Appearances	Sal & Gabi Break the Universe Sal & Gabi Fix the Universe

“	For five years, Sal has been able to peer into the multiverse. Sometimes he's even reached into other universes and brought other Floramaria's here. […] But now, thanks to this baby, he can’t do that anymore. It’s natural that he would feel disoriented at first. Of course his world seems smaller. But that’s good. That’s how the rest of us feel! None of us can kidnap people from other universes.	”
–Gustavo to his son and wife upon activating his life's work in Sal & Gabi Fix the Universe.

Gustavo Vidon is a calamity physicist. He is the father of Sal Vidon and the husband of both Floramaria Vidón and Lucy Vidón.

History

Early Life

Sal Vidon, his son.

Gustavo was born in Cuba. In his teen years he had a turbulent relationship with his father and, at one point, lived with his friend Ernesto and his family. They treated him as their own and gave him the space he need to discover himself.

First Marriage and Immigration

In his adult life he married a woman named Floramaria and the two immigrated to the United States of America and had a son. He settled in Connecticut to be close to his work. When Sal was nine, his wife died and he promised to stop smoking.

Second Marriage and Relocation to Miami

Soon he remarried a woman named Lucy, a principal at Sal's elementary school. Sal would inadvertently bring alternate versions of his first wife to their dimension and the three would fight. They moved to Miami, Florida after a unicorn Sal summoned would not vanish and it destroyed the house.

Sal & Gabi Duology

Sal & Gabi Break the Universe

When he and his second wife come home, they realize his first wife is with them. They have dinner and he is enjoying the food until his first wife starts to flirt with him, disturbing him. After Sal passes out and they take him to the hospital. He scans his son but finds nothing out of the ordinary. He tells his wife that all the Floramarias Sal summoned has some similarities between his Floramaria. He also tells her that the Rememberation Machine is complete. Before Sal "wakes up", he and Lucy decide to take away Sal's magic privileges for a week, but decide against it.

Sal is discharged at 5:30 and the Vidóns race home to shower. He gets out first and makes coffee and hot chocolate. He asks Sal if he brought Floramaria back on purpose, he says no. Sal asks Gustavo if his device can close rips in the universe, he says he is not sure.

Later, Sal and Gabi come home to find him and others assembling a machine in the living room. He has Sal help him with sundaes. He tells Sal that he relocated them to Miami to better in his field to help him and that he thinks Sal could close the rips he makes. He finds Gabi's struggle to help Sal understand that Bonita is a robot to be amusing. He and Sal take Lucy to her favorite restaurant and tell her about the machine.

The following day, he lets Sal spend the night at the hospital and he and Lucy get to know Gabi Real and her family. He lets Sal and Gabi go to Culeco to do a project after Gabi promises they will be back by 9:30. As he and his wife leave the hospital they spend almost an hour saying goodbye to the Reals.

The next day, he and his wife bring props and supplies to help Sal and Gabi with their Everyman play. On Sunday he watches the play and enjoys it.

As they drive home, he and his wife congratulate Sal on the performance and think he has a future in show business. Just then they get an urgent message about Iggy's immune system failing and they rush back to the hospital.

A week after Iggy recovers, he and Bonita are given the paper their alternate selves wrote and happily use it to further their research.

Sal & Gabi Fix the Universe

After weeks of looking over his alternative self's notes, he find what he is looking for in a dream and calls Lucy and Sal to see the Rememberation Machine work, the test run is successful. However Sal passes out and he brings his son a glass of water. After Sal says the world feels smaller, he explains that is because the rememberation machine is stopping him from looking into other universes. Just then he gets a call from Bonita, who has Gabi and Iggy with her, saying they will be at the Coral Castle in a few minutes. After Bonita hangs up, Sal says they should brace for Gabi. After his wife jokingly called Gabi his “girlfriend”, Sal jokingly confirms it. After Lucy believes it, surprised Sal said so after coming out as asexual, he says Sal is joking and he and his wife leave to get dressed. After they get dressed they greet the Reáls. After Sal activates the disco function on Iggy's baby carrier, they ask him why he did that and greet Iggy. The baby falls asleep in his arms, but starts crying when they head inside. He soon stops and the others wondering what to do next as he, after raising a son with diabetes, knows the difference between a scream of pain and a temper tantrum. Sal suggests they wait until it happens again, which it does. Iggy stops when he exits the house and Bonita takes him to the hospital. Gabi them mentions that she feels pins and needles and emptiness. After the test, he had a cigar in celebration.

After allowing Yasmany Robles, a classmate of his son's, to spend the night, he pretends to not know Yasmany is their. As they “sneak” upstairs, he comments on how good his sandwich is. Later he and his wife play video games with the boys, with him dying multiple times, before going to bed. Later after hearing something, he finds Sal and the Entropy-sweeper with the remembranation machine and scolds his son for playing with million dollar equipment. He grounds Sal for two weeks.

After Bonita drops by to digitize their findings into the remembramation machine, he goes out with her. When he returns home, he gets a call from Culeco. When Principal Torres tells him her theory that Sal is using one of his devices to perform magic tricks, he says he is under a strict contract not to reveal his work to anyone outside the project he is working on. He hangs up and heads to his room to change. When he takes something out of his pocket his son, who got home before him, makes his presence known. As they sit on the patio, he reveals he stated smoking regularly after his success with the remembramation machine and thinks he could earn a Nobel Peace Prize for it. Gustavo asks for Sal and Lucy's help in managing his smoking before he congratulates Sal on becoming co-director and brings up the call from Culeco. After that Sal brings up the dangers of sealing off the universe. He calmly asks Sal for proof and they go to talk with the remembramation machine. He also considers ungrounding Sal so his son can work on the play.

He goes to the Reál House later in the day and is disgusted when his son eats an empanada made from insect flower. After eating, the kids discuss their plan to retell the story as a more ethnically diverse play reflecting the various ethnicities of the student body. They go on to explain that the play will be held in different classrooms with different students playing the same part and need multiple costumes. The adults agree to help, except for him and Bonita, who say they need to do research, and Gabi says she and Sal should scout out the school for rooms that will work for the play. Before they leave, Ms. Reál says a new dad is joining the family. Everyone is shocked when the new dad is revealed to be Yasmany and he joins everyone in a group hug.

He and his wife are informed of the rogue Gabi and participate in the plan to stop her. Soon after they have her where they want her, Sal has Vorágine signal the others and him, his wife, Gabi, Principal Torres, the Entropy-sweeper, and the Sisterverse barge in and subdue the rogue Gabi while Mr. Milagros stands watch. After explaining everything to Principal Torres, Sal tells them to let the rogue Gabi up as she wanted to get caught. After she says she misses her old life and cries, they all comfort her before they decide to enroll her at Culeco.

Appearance

Gustavo is a big man with a macular build, thick biceps, and dark skin and hair.

Personality

Gustavo is a caring man who enjoys spending time with his family and throwing parties. He never passes on an opportunity to explain his field of study to someone.

Trivia

• He has a self driving car.
• He is a germaphobe.
• He has arachophodia.
• He enjoys hosting parties and serving dessert.
• He smokes one cigar a month.