Sheemie Ruiz
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Sheemie Ruiz (born Stanley Sheemer) is a character in the Stephen King series The Dark Tower. He is a mentally challenged boy who works in a bar in Hambry. He is gifted with "the touch", or telepathic powers. He has the ability to teleport and create locations that exist out of time and space.
[edit] Fictional History
Sheemie first appears in the fourth of the Dark Tower books, "Wizard and Glass", as a "half-wit" working at the Traveler's Rest in Mejis. (However, in the revised version of "Gunslinger" Roland recalls him as "a boy... who’d had a mule".) He is the illegitimate son of Dolores Sheemer, and it is implied that the bartender, Stanley Ruiz, might be his father. He shows moments of great insight, as well as extreme loyalty to his heroes. He is asked to care for Susan Delgado, the love of Roland, but the towns' members take her and kill her. Sheemie leaves the town, eventually making his appearance in "The Dark Tower".
By the time we see him again in the seventh book, The Dark Tower, it has apparently been confirmed that Ruiz was his father since he is now using it as his last name. It is also revealed for the first time that Stanley is his true first name as well. By this time, his powers have matured, and he can make portals between "our" world and Roland's world.
In "The Gunslinger Born", Marvel Comics' adaptation of "Wizard"'s flashbacks, his parts are relatively unchanged, and in the sequel "The Dark Tower: The Long Road Home", Sheemie ends up in a Dogan, a military base, after the death of Susan Delgado, and activates a robot which boosts his telepathic powers. After the robot boosts him, it dies and gives him teleportation, which allowing him to go across a gap whose bridge had its ropes cut (an event not actually seen by any of the other characters), since going around the fallen bridge would be a detour of hundreds of miles.
