Sylar | Gabriel Gray

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Plot #1 Draft

fixesclocks — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 13:03:24 GMT

IMPORTANT UPCOMING PLOT!

There is an element of this plot that is GAME WIDE, but the other parts are slipped behind a cut. The bulletpoints are this: more murder, Batfamily shenanigans and a city wide EMP that will shut off sirens and temporarily all electrical stuff.

25th or 26th of September
Sylar goes after Carrie Kelly (Robin). Peter finds him and they both steal her power of density alteration, leaving her DEAD. Peter flips out and kills (intentionally or accidentally) Sylar. Peter will then post to the Network alerting the police, Batfamily, Sherlock etc.

5-6th October
Sylar will return from the dead and pretend to stay that way, but certain people can talk to cities.

7th October - EMP DAY - Evening sirens
Batman, furious over the murder of his Robin, hunts Sylar down and confronts him. In an effort to distract the Bat, he triggers a CITY WIDE EMP. Unlike a true EMP this will only have a temporary effect on everything it comes into contact with, but it will effect the entire city simultaneously. Most notable of its effects will be the following:

- The second set of sirens WILL NOT GO OFF and consequently there will be no warning that the creeping Darkness is falling or that Darkness has begun and the monsters are loose.
- All lights in the city will turn off.
- Car and burglar alarms, motion sensitive systems, will be instantly triggered.
- All NVs (and telephones) will cease functioning. Even if they are shielded from EMPs, the networks running them will be temporary down.
- Clocks and watches, unless run on clockwork rather than batteries, will also stop running, meaning that it's impossible to tell if the ten minutes of creeping Darkness is up.

Buildings that have backup generators will be able to run again after ten seconds of the EMP going off. All other functionality will return in TEN MINUTES, when the Darkness begins. People will radioactive or electromagnetic powers may have something to play with there. An event reminder will be posted on the 5th or 6th, going into further detail on this.

In other news, Batman will be completely outmatched. His body will be strung upside down (like a bat) from the SERO tower, but it will mysteriously vanish before anyone can fetch it down.

8th October - just after midnight through to dawn
Clark will be laying Batman's body to rest in the cave. Orders to destroy his body will be sent "in the event of his death" but Robins and Batfamily etc. will have a chance to say goodbye first. All the tears. Just before dawn there will be a Viking style funeral held dockside, and Clark will blow Batman's body adrift and ignite it. Sun rises dramatically.

21st October
Batman's return. Meaning he will be gone for two weeks; longer than most end up absent from the city. Between the funeral and this time Sylar will probably kill again, there may be Battle for the Cowling amongst other things. However what is certain so far is that Batman will be returning and capturing Sylar at the end of October/early November, see below. He'll need the ten days in between to genius up a device to make it stick.

1st/2nd November
Batman will hunt Sylar across the city. People may see shadows moving in odd ways, and it will be the two of them using the same power--Batman's. Briefly there will be a THREE MINUTE POWER OUT in SECTOR 1 and possibly some parts of Sectors 2 and 3. This is all part of Batman's plan to catch Sylar. Re-l is probably going to be called into make the arrest? After this Sylar's intuitive aptitude will be blocked temporarily - like Spike's chip blocked his vampirism - but he will be returning to his murderous self in December or so. The block will probably resemble a collar that specifically targets Sylar's DNA and Voids him, and it will be keyed to Bruce so that only he can remove it.

Or until Sylar kills a shapeshifter and either shifts into something smaller than the collar or alters his own DNA, something like that.

IC CONTACT

fixesclocks — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 18:32:13 GMT

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This is Sylar. Tell me where it hurts.

Permissions

fixesclocks — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:17:32 GMT

Link to abilities

General interaction

Name:Your character's name
Ability:Link to ability section
Can Sylar kill your character?: Y/N Yes means 'I am open to future plotting on this subject', no means no, never.
Can Sylar take your character's ability?: Requires that 'yes' be said to the above question, unless the character is a self-healer. 'no', if 'yes' is said to the above question, implies either that he is disturbed if he tries, or that the ability is, such as with vampires, ghosts, werewolves, wizards etc. biologically rather than mentally gifted. For instance, Sylar can take the powers of X-Men - even X-Men like Beast - because although the power is expressed physically, it is alteration of human DNA, and Beast has been shown to lose his powers and appear as human before. In contrary he wouldn't be able to take Spike's power, because he's a vampire and dead, nor Harry Potter's, because while the ability of magic is genetic, the ability to practice it is not.
Can Sylar hear anything odd about your character with his superhearing?: If your character doesn't have a heartbeat, or has multiple heartbeats, or an electrical blip or anything that Sylar might be able to hear in their presence of over audio.

Your character in regards to Sylar:

Sylar is evil--can my character see that he is evil?
In person there is something that is distinctly off about his character. If he is acting, then he is a smooth and brilliant actor, except that his intentions begin to crack through to the surface. If he is cracking, the point where he does so will be clearly portrayed so in my text, so please don't assume so before then.
Can my character work out that Zane is actually the Brain Thief murderer?
The short answer is no. Zane will only appear on audio, and he isn't recognisable as Sylar except to Mohinder. In person, Sylar is Sylar to everyone that's met him before. He won't keep up the Zane persona for longer than it yeilds answers (or yummy abilities) to him, so at some point Sylar will appear as himself. If a character knows Sylar from a previous incarnation and meets Zane, he will blow it off with reminders that it wouldn't be the first time someone has been mistaken for someone else in Siren's Port. This may be subject to change, depending on development.
Can my character catch Sylar?
I'd like to keep him free for as long as possible so as to avoid the police seeming incapable. In his canon he was only caught by the company after being injured by Peter, and later Hiro. If you're serious about this then we can discuss it, but expect the answer to be 'no.' When I want him to be caught, then that plot will be developed and left open for CR in the OOC comm.
Can my character hurt Sylar?
Depending on your power yes, they can. Sylar has no healing power, but he can protect himself with telekinesis. Any attack will have to pierce that bubble, and surprise attacks are going to be a lot more efficient since he can stop a speeding bullet and pluck it out of the air, currently. His reaction time is fast. But he isn't invulnerable, he does bleed and he does get hurt.
Can my character prevent Sylar taking their abilities?
The best way to prevent Sylar taking your abilities is to destroy your brain in some manner. A shot to the head would do the trick. Otherwise we can talk OOC about other ways to prevent him taking them.
Can my character change the future that Sylar predicts?
Mostly no, but sometimes yes. All of the futures predicted in Heroes bar the one where the city blows up at ground level come true in one way or another. That isn't to say that the future can't be changed; it can. Message me if you'd like to get involved in something like that.
Can my character move in telekinesis?
It depends on the telekinetic hold that he has a character in. The hold can be anything from stopping a hand to stopping someone from speaking. Usually, though, he freezes the victim completely; sometimes he allows them to talk only. If unspecified, his hold is complete, including the inability to talk.
Can my character sneak up on Sylar?
Not unless they have no heartbeat and can fly.
Can my character kill Sylar?
Yes, if they're powerful enough. Please discuss it with me, though, obviously.

Predictive paintings

Sylar will be giving predictive paintings or sketches to the news feed of murders that are about to happen, or things that will be happening in the game. If you have a plot coming up that you'd like illustrated by him, I need at least three days warning to create the painting or sketch, and the prediction needs to be posted in advance of the event by at least two days, but as much as months in advance.

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Abilities - Import and game

fixesclocks — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:46:26 GMT

Summary

Import abilities

Intuitive aptitude

Telekinesis
Precognition (by artistry)
Induced radioactivity
Shattering
Freezing
Melting
Enhanced hearing

Game abilities

(PC) Luck manipulation
(PC) Shadow walking/City talking
(PC) Density lightening

Notes
Click on the ability to go to the comment dealing with that ability. Game abilities taken from player characters will have a link to their abilities section, reposted into a comment to this entry.

Application for Siren's Pull

fixesclocks — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 10:40:40 GMT

Player Information

Name: Reg
Age: 24
AIM SN: regasssa
email: regasssa@hotmail.com
Have you played in an LJ based game before? Y
Currrently Played Characters: Clark Kent isitablurred and Eric Northman vampingitup
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Character Information

General
Canon Source: Heroes
Canon Format: TV Series (and a comic book companion series)
Character's Name: Gabriel (Sylar) Gray
Character's Age: 1st February 1977 ( Presumed to be mid to late seventies, and to fit in with askedtobe's Peter. Gabriel is 'revealed' to be Peter's older brother - the middle brother - which requires a certain space between the two of them. ) This makes him 29 at the time he was taken.
Conditional: If your character is 13 years of age or under, please clarify how they will be played. N/A

What form will your character's NV take? A broken SYLAR wristwatch which to any other person would appear to be just a watch. Due to his power, Gabriel alone will be able to use it, as he will inherently know how it functions; audio, video and holographic only. Any text will be automatically converted to sound, and any sound deliberately intended to do so will convert to text.

Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities:
Intuitive aptitude

Like all characters in Heroes, Gabriel has a single power which is his own, and the markers for that power are evident in his DNA. His power is to by intuition and examination completely understand how something works, once he's able to study it, and to learn how to use it or fix it once he knows how. This is why he's so good at repairing clocks and watches; he's able to tell by intuition where they're broken, and how to fix them, and in fact feels inclined to do so due to his personality traits. He describes this compulsion to use his power as an intense hunger, one that in a possible future he has to go to enormous efforts to control for the sake of his family.

Gabriel takes the powers of others by directly examining their brains--he cuts open their heads with telekinesis and removes the entire organ to better examine it. The process is clearly fast, since within moments of an examination he can demonstrate the abilities, and usually tests them on the corpses of the people he's taken them from.

This power is limited by his human memory, and whichever weaknesses come with the powers he takes, though it's demonstrable that he is usually better at using whichever power he takes than the original person to have that power. For instance he takes superhearing from a woman who must constantly play rock music into her ears in order to keep out the noises of other things, but despite being oversensitive to sound to begin with, Gabriel goes on to New York without demonstrating any further discomfort from the ability. Again, memory plays a huge part in this power. Currently Gabriel only has half a dozen powers, but his biological father - who has the same power - claims in a later series to have begun to forget powers that he's taken as he goes along.

Gabriel is shown to be able to tell if a clock is broken from across a room, and likewise can see what a person's power is and how it works (and how to fight it) by observation alone. He can tell when people are 'broken', such as with Charlie's blood clot, or Hiro's brain tumor, and at first describes other powered people as being broken too. He instantly identifies Peter's power as being 'like me', and likewise can tell powered people apart from those without powers seemingly at a glance, unless consumed by the hunger and misguided, such as when he attacks Jackie Wilcox. He realises his mistake - that she isn't special - almost instantly.

Notes: At one point Gabriel takes the power of a woman named Charlie, who has perfect memory, but this is negated in the timeline when Hiro saves her life, so he does not come to the port with that power.

Acquired abilities
By order of use

Telekinesis
Stolen from Brian Davis - While the original user of this power was afraid of it, Gabriel made it his own, developing it as though manipulating invisible forces with his hands. As a result he can use the power in multiple ways, but can still - with concentration - use the telekinesis without gestures the way that Brian did. This is useless in a fight--he can take on two enemies, but a third becomes more difficult if not impossible.

Gabriel can narrow his power down to creating incisions through bone, literally rending the flesh and bone apart with force, use it to augment his own strength (such as lifting people off the ground, or making enormous leaps), or to throw objects or people from or across a great distance. He has flipped huge trucks with this power, and shielded himself from bullets, the latter occasionally without the use of his hands. He can manipulate people (or himself) physically, raise them (or himself) off the ground, or strangle or kill them without touching, which especially frustrated the CIA agents investigating him.

Precognition
Stolen from Isaac Mendez - Isaac used this power while under the effect of heroin, while both Sylar and Peter use it naturally. While looking at blank canvas, they can project from their minds an image onto the paper, and then they paint what they see. They can also sketch images, with far less effort.
Most importantly; the future can be changed, suggesting that what is painted is only a possible future. The original owner of this ability also painted the past and the present--if he concentrated on a person, he could locate them. Gabriel appears to better develop this ability, as he paints the name of the meeting place onto the painting of himself and Peter, which Isaac either did not try to or was not able to do.

Induced radioactivity
Stolen from Ted Sprague - As a matter of course, Gabriel gains from this power the following:
- Ability to produce radiation on a broad spectrum
Ted learns some degree of this before his death in New York, but Gabriel, who understands by intuition how any given power works, understands how to use the power appropriately.
- Ability to create small bursts of energy
Gabriel and Ted have been shown creating bursts of energy above their hands, that glow bright and fast. They clearly contains the energy in some manner, presumably with an electromagnetic field. Much in the same way, Ted could produce an EMP (electro-magnetic pulse) which would disable the electrics in a building, could melt ice, char flesh, start fires or even create a burst of electricity to start a car by placing his hands on it.
- Radioactive immunity
While Ted has been seen to produce neutron radiation, poisoning his environment and killing his wife with radiation, this is something Gabriel should be able to control. No matter the amount of time exposed to radioactive material, Ted never showed any sign of sickness, and this immunity has no doubt also been passed along.
- Nuclear bomb
The entire first series is about 'How to stop an exploding man', and Gabriel is no different. In an alternate future, after watching his son die, he accidentally explodes, destroying Costa Verde and killing 200,000 people. However, Gabriel has no desire to kill people on that scale "What would be the point?", and short of having his own son killed is in far too much control to accidentally explode.

Shattering
Stolen from Trevor Zeitlan - Under Elle's supervision, Gabriel steals this power, which is essentially the ability to shatter objects from a distance. Trevor is shown to shatter glass in demonstration, and Gabriel never seems to use this power with his victims, so it's not shown what the limit of this power is. For the sake of consistency, Gabriel will be able to shatter objects that are naturally fragile - glass, chocolate eggs, sheet ice etc, though his telekinesis would actually be capable of much the same thing at this point, rendering the shattering moot.

Freezing
Stolen from James Walker - After he stole Walker's ability, Gabriel froze him in place instantly, demonstrating that he can freeze an entire person within seconds. He does not have to be touching someone to do this. He can also freeze his environment, again without touching, and cover significant expanses with ice. He can freeze metal to the point of shattering.
This ability comes alongside some natural immunity to the cold.

Melting
Stolen from Zane Taylor - This ability is a change of state ability. With direct application the state of an object can be changed from solid to liquid without seemingly affecting its temperature in any way. While the original owner of the power only seemed to be able to mostly melt objects, Gabriel can liquify them completely. For the sake of consistency, and because it's not made clear, these objects are not melted by heat and therefore do not become solid when they return to room temperature, but consistently remain liquid.

Enhanced hearing
Stolen from Dale Smither - When Gabriel hears about Dale's power he's delighted by it, so much so that she can hear his heart begin to race with murderous intent. She claims that she can hear cockroaches as though they are marching bands parading through her house, and that she can hear a pin drop from miles away. She listens to loud music in order to prevent the headaches associated with the power.
After Gabriel takes it, he at first seems to show some weakness in getting used to new sounds. The slam of a car door, for instance. Mohinder uses a set of tuning forks to physically hurt him. However since then he seems to have developed and learned to use his ability, able to listen to conversations across a crowded plaza in New York, or hear someone dialling a telephone over the line, or hear and recognise someone's heartbeat.

Conditional: If your character has no superhuman canon abilities, what dormant ability will you give them? N/A
Weapons: N/A

History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History: Sylar's Season One history
Point in Canon: The end of Season One, just after Sylar accuses Peter - who is now glowing radioactive - of being the villain, and before being run through by Hiro.
Conditional: Brief summary of previous RP history: N/A

Character Personality:

"When I was a kid, I used to wish some stranger would come and tell me my family wasn't really my family. They weren't bad people, they were just... insignificant. And I wanted to be different. Special. I wanted to change. A new name; a new life. The watchmaker's son... tick... became a watchmaker. It is so futile. And I wanted to be... important."

Gabriel was adopted - unknown to him - by his biological uncle Martin and aunt Virginia Gray, from his parents; Samson Gray and an unnamed mother. From this point on, since Gabriel was raised to believe that Martin and Virginia are his parents, they will be described as such. Unless his memory is forcefully unlocked by a psychic on the island, or a situation he finds himself in, he'll continue to believe that they were his parents.

As such Gabriel sees his parents as insignificant, and like many people his age he sees his life as mundane and imagines that it's going nowhere; that he'll be trapped forever in the same routine. Unfortunately despite also being special, and having the same power as Gabriel, his biological father Samson is also insignificant. His meeting with his son when it happens is anticlimatic--he is dying of cancer, alone and paranoid. At the point he's taken from, however, Gabriel hasn't met him.

Growing up as the watchmaker's son, in a three room apartment in New York, was no doubt a difficult childhood for Gabriel. The family had a shop, which after Martin Gray left he continued to run, fixing and making watches with complicated internal workings with the help of both natural skill and his ability. He was, early on in the series socially inept; his interactions with Chandra and Elle both reflect the difficulties that he has interacting with others.

His mother, Virginia, has been described as being an unsound woman to have chosen to raise a child with, and she certainly reflects that impression. She was obsessed with snow globes, and since she never travelled she relied on Gabriel to collect them for her--at the time of her death he had collected all but one state - Montana - suggesting that he had travelled a lot. She was also deeply religious, and thinks of Gabriel as her angel. He, on the other hand, seems to have no religious attachments at all. Throughout his childhood she was the one that insisted that he was special, that he was supposed to be more than just a watchmaker's son, and that he could get out the way she had always wanted to.

As a result of his mother's insistence, and his own dreaming, Gabriel was quick to respond to Chandra Suresh's appeal for a meeting after his call, and became his devoted Patient Zero, subjecting himself to tests in the hope that he really was special. His relationship with Suresh was built on rocky ground, since for the first time in his life someone other than his mother was showing interest in him, and Gabriel deeply desired to please. When his ability was not detected by Suresh, and the attention began to wane, the relationship turned sour, and Gabriel quickly turned angry. Conversely, as soon as he knew that he was special he flew back to Suresh hoping to be welcomed by him, wanting despreately to impress him--and did, until Suresh realised that Gabriel was murdering other people and stealing their powers. At this point he shut Gabriel down, and in response Chandra Suresh became the first non-powered victim of Sylar. This demonstrated that Gabriel is unrestrained by morality or empathy; if someone displeases him or is in his way he will kill them--or at the very least almost kill them. In Chandra's case he knew too much; he knew that Sylar was Gabriel Gray, and consequently posed a threat. He also intended to warn people of the danger to them, much as Mohinder Suresh (his son) means to in the future.

Gabriel visited his first victim straight after his argument with Suresh about his not being special; he wanted to see for himself what that meant, and discovered a man who not only had an amazing ability (telekinesis) but was also afraid of it, and wanted it taken away. For someone who craved to be special as much as Gabriel did this was no doubt an insult of the highest order. How could someone with an ability like that want to be like everyone else? But more than that, he could instantly see it; see how Brian Davis was broken, and wanted to get a closer look. Instinct played its part here, and like an animal instinctively knowing to swallow the food placed in its mouth, Gabriel killed and took Brian's ability. It's important to note here that Gabriel does many things by instinct, if not raw intelligence.

The result, however, was not just his taking of power, which he would gleefully demonstrate to Chandra later, but remorse. At this point he hadn't come to terms with what he was, and killing was wrong; he attempted to commit suicide, and was prevented by Elle, who humiliated him when she caught him in the act. He built a wary relationship with her, not realising that she was in fact an undercover agent for the Company sent to test him. His second victim, and the one that solidifies his method and strengthens him into serial killer mode comes at this point with the death of Trevor. Elle, by bringing Trevor to the apartment and swooning over his power to explode glasses, triggers Gabriel's jealousy and his hunger, and he pins Trevor to the wall and instinctively uses telekinesis to take his power.

Again the instinct must be noted here, in regard to the blocked memory of Samson Gray murdering his biological mother by the same method. Though Gabriel has never killed before, he does so by pointing his finger and literally slicing through to the brain, just as his father did. It's been stated in interviews that Gabriel takes his powers this way because he remembers, even despite the block, seeing his father do it.

Driven by order, when he discovers that something is broken there is a necessity to fix it; in this way he's somewhat obsessive compulsive, though it also relates to his ability. He instantly fixes Suresh's watch, and insists on repairing the broken clock that belonged to his adopted father, even though it obviously displeases his mother. He can't not, just as when he tells her not to make him a sandwich, she does anyway. In later seasons he's shown having trouble controlling this compulsive behaviour, but does so for the sake of his son. This also reflects on the hunger he has for abilities, and seeing, wanting, but not being able to do anything about it is stressful to him. His ability, his desire to see how it works is at its basis primitive, and drives him to extraordinary limits. As a result, taking an ability is like getting his fix, it doesn't matter what the ability is, and using it is exciting for him. It also explains why he favours his first ability, telekinesis, and because of its flexibility it can be used to great effect, in ways that other people's whole powers are necessary for; i.e. in a later season: he can use telekinesis to force people's actions much like the Puppet Master, and consequently doesn't bother to steal his power.

Gabriel does not take powers because they are useful, or dangerous, he takes them because his hunger forces him to, and as a result it is not exactly pick and mix for him. His victims will be all shapes and sizes, and they could have the power to clap on and off lights for all Gabriel cares. The point, after all, is seeing how it works, and for most purposes he is just fine with his telekinesis anyway, thank you very much.

Gabriel is an excellent actor, mostly due to the fact that he is a talented, fluid liar, but also because he is a mimic in all ways; not simply with his powers. After taking Zane's powers, he employs an element of Zane's humanity in his interactions with Mohinder, for example, wringing his hands together and appearing anxious, in a perfect mimic of how Zane introduced himself to Gabriel in the first place. However, his intentions are not always well masked, and they slip through the cracks no matter how good his play acting is, because his personality is inherently an addictive one, and in some ways he feels a need to be recognised, and in others his hunger is something that he cannot mask completely because it is so much a part of him. Sylar will use a false persona when he introduces himself to the city, so I hope to demonstrate how the cracks subtly show, even if characters who don't know to look for them won't know they're there. He is intimidating regardless of his attempts to appear otherwise.

Apart from this clearly intentional act, there seems to be very little effect on Gabriel as a result of absorbing other people's powers. Bennet and the company suggest that Gabriel would become more and more mentally unstable as he absorbs different facets of people's personalities along with their powers, but in fact this only becomes a problem when he absorbs a shapeshifting ability in a later season. It is common speculation that when Gabriel loses control of his powers when demonstrating them to his mother it's due to this erosion of his identity, but I personally believe it was exhuberance--as mentioned before, Gabriel most enjoys using his ability of telekinesis, and got caught up in the moment. He shows no other signs of his sense of self eroding, only a distinct evolution of perspective based on events and his own failures and successes.

Consistently, Gabriel does not continue to maintain a charade once his true motives, character, or abilities are recognised, and is quick to note any changes in behaviour that suggest that his act has been seen through. This fails him with Mohinder, who poisons him before his behaviour fluctuates, but not so in the case of Sandra Bennet, whom he catches the moment she realises something is wrong. There is no pride in successfully appearing to be someone else; Gabriel is proud of being himself, and seems almost relieved to let himself loose again.

He finds a vicarious pleasure in messing with the heads of his victims, even to the point of allowing them to believe that he's helpless, or that they're winning. In Mohinder's case he plays possum all the way up to the point where he is shot at, then reveals that he manipulated the switch on the catheta with his telekinesis in order to prevent the drugs being fed into his system. He plays dead in order to escape the Company, too, and in a later season he sits quietly and allows a scene to play out even though he could have intervened at any time, simply because he enjoys the feeling of malevolent power that comes with knowing that he can stop it at any time, but allowing someone else to feel like they're in control--because it makes it that much more of a blow to them when he reveals otherwise. As a matter of course such delays also allow him to learn more about people's plans or motives; they are inevitably more talkative when they think they're in control of a situation.

Gabriel has been shown to hesitate when it comes to killing children, or to be extra protective to them, however short of killing the cheerleader, he hasn't been in any position to kill a child since Molly, who hid from him when he killed her parents. In the future he knowingly spares a child, Luke: "And I let you live, which is kind of a big deal for me!", and as stated before he is protective of his son.

Gabriel is extremely contrary. This is again due to his control issues; he doesn't want to be manipulated by anyone, because now that he's tasted freedom and the ability to control his own life, he wants to keep it that way. This causes tension with Angela Petrelli in a later season, and also with the Company. Tell him to do something one way, and he will refuse and do it another, just to be difficult. Sylar has a twisted and remarkable sense of humour, and employs it to devastating effect in many ways. He mocks his victims openly, and employs that dark humour ruthlessly, often callously. In Isaac's case, he mocks him for not being big enough for his power, making it clear that he has no empathy with his victims--ironic, since his power is later revealed to be empathetic at its basic level.

As he has been developing into a serial killer, his moments of emotional backlash have been growing smaller. He originally didn't do much planning, and was oppurtunistic but with his confidence has come more order, and better applications of his power rather than simple brute strength, and taking what he can. Rather than lose his temper in New York when his chance to take Ted's ability seems impossible, he quite calmly phones in a tip to the police that ends up with Ted being caught and driven out of the city, so that he can follow them and take Ted's power at his leisure, and without Peter or Noah there to intervene. His instant use of Zane Taylor's name when Mohinder appears on his doorstep is also clever and immediate, just as when asked for a saliva sample he goes back to the other room to take one from the dead man in the kitchen. He is actually brilliant and scheming when it's necessary. The more confident he became, the less emotional he was.

Gabriel initially does not think that he would kill without purpose. This goes for any innocents, but it is a line that slowly fades further away as time goes on. He kills Chandra Suresh, who has no power, and in later seasons despite learning a way to take his powers without killing, he still kills for the sake of it--not because he has to to take the power, but because his hunger demands it. At first he shows genuine regret, though short lived, and this is echoed once more when he learns that he, rather than Ted, is meant to be the exploding man (in fact, Peter is the one who explodes) and may be responsible for the deaths of all the people in New York City. At this point he seeks redemption from his mother:

""Mom — Mom, don't. Don't, it's just... maybe I don't have to be special. That's okay to just be a normal watchmaker. Can't you just tell me that's enough?"

At this point he wants her to agree; to say that perhaps he doesn't have to be special because he's always been special to her just how he is, or something like that. She doesn't, insisting that he can be great; that maybe he could even be President one day (foreshadowing a possible future). He didn't want to be responsible for those deaths--but upon killing her and painting the exploding city in her blood on the floor, it became clear to him that the future was unavoidable, and he went out to face it, or maybe even with one last effort to prevent it. He laughs when the unreleased issue of 9th Wonders, the future that Isaac painted, falls into his hands, and he sees the depiction of Hiro killing him with a sword; mostly because he can't imagine why Isaac would believe so completely that it was possible. (Isaac dies confident that Sylar is going to die too, because he's painted it.) There is something almost hysterical about Gabriel in this scene; just the disbelief and maybe even futility of it all getting to him. In any case he goes to Kirby Plaza knowing that he's going to face Peter, perhaps hoping that the other man stops him. Instead Peter goes nuclear, and Gabriel realises that he can be the hero and save the day. Just as he's about to intervene and kill Peter - the villain - Hiro appears and kills him. He's taken from the moment before Hiro appears.

Sylar has special relationships particularly with Mohinder, whom he promised to kill after the man drugged him and tried to kill him, HRG (Noah Bennet) whom he also promised to kill after being caught by the Company, Claire Bennet, whom he failed to kill in the attack on her high school, when he went after her healing ability, and finally Peter who is 'like me', and yet interferes in his attempts to kill both Claire and Mohinder (and seems to die both times, only to come back). He jokes about this when they meet at Kirby Plaza: "Didn't I kill you?"

Conditional: Personality development in previous game: N/A
Character Plans: With mod permission I'd like to request that at some point during his first month in the city, Gabriel trigger an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) that temporarily knocks out all electric systems across the Port, a spiteful response to the blare of the sirens which temporarily deafened him when he arrived. It would be enough to disrupt the second, longer set of sirens and cause mayhem as the seeping Darkness sets in. I could write a news article, and it could be set up in the ooc comm a few days/a couple of weeks before (when I post his intro) so that everyone has time to prep a response to it. Don't know if you want to do something with that? If not I can swing it so that he doesn't. A prediction painting would go hand in hand with this, so that Gabriel can prove the legitimacy of his ability, though where it goes from there--does the city believe that the painter is holding them for ransom? (Gabriel will insist on being paid to an anonymous post box if they use the painting.) That another person is responsible? Will they try to catch him? The possibilities with that are endless.

Additionally, since he just arrived and there are instantly powered people around, so would the death of an NPC or two be too hard to swing to set off his killing spree? Again, a news article could be written; Greeter Meets Untimely Demise in Gruesome Murder.

In the long term, Sylar is in the city to kill. It's his fantasy island, full of people with powers; everywhere he looks there's more to learn, more to copy. He would keep on the down low to start with, try to hold himself back and set up an alternate persona in Zane Taylor, complete with fake accent to fool Peter with, but his hunger prevents him from living a normal life. He will kill, and there will be a trail of victims with no evidence, even if certain people know who is responsible for the killing due to the signature method.

At some point he will be caught, but Sylar knows how things work and this includes prisons. If there is an opportunity at any point to use his power and escape, a rhythm to his day that leaves the slightest chance, he will take advantage of it. Or he might simply implement another person for the murders before he gets caught in the first place; this all depends on how it's played out. Player characters will be crucial in this, obviously.

Appearance/PB: Zachary Quinto

Writing Samples

First Person Sample

[The audio is clear and crisp; a man's voice, with a distinct southern American lilt to it, warm and friendly. If you've heard Sylar's voice before, you won't recognise it now, since the accent is false.]

Well hey there, Siren's Port. Fancy this old watch of mine being some kind of phone. A watch should be a watch, right?

Anyway, my name's Zane. I just got here, and I'm afraid I don't know anyone--or much about the place, actually. My greeter was sort of close-lipped on the whole thing. [Actually he was dead.] Is it true that everyone here's got powers? Everyone? I want to hear about them--all of them. And if anyone fancies giving me a guided tour, I sure would appreciate it.

Third Person Sample

Opportunity was an interesting concept. In Gabriel's life, opportunity had a habit of falling right into his lap, though only half the time would his instinct respond sharply enough to satisfy him. How often had the teleporter slipped through his fingers, after all? Peter? He had taken advantage often enough in turn, responding to Chandra Suresh's appeal for a Patient Zero, meeting Brian Davis and taking his ability from him, tricking Mohinder into believing that he was Zane Taylor. He had played his cards right often enough to think that he was nigh on undefeatable, his rising confidence a steady beat in his chest.

Today, opportunity had left him dazed on a baseball diamond, staring bleakly into the eyes of an approaching man as he yabbered about Cores and Newcomers with only a single comprehensive thought pounding in his mind:

This man is special.

The deed done, a tidy flicker of radioactivity across his skin burned away all traces of the man's blood and brain matter, leaving it to blow as a powdery dust into the breeze and vanish. Gabriel barely spared a glance for the brainless corpse, who, lying there frozen on his back, the top of his head hewn off and lying empty, had been turned to solid lead by his own ability. It was useless, like a reverse midas touch. What use was lead, except perhaps to guard against radiation?--something he was naturally immune to.

The sun was growing lower, vanishing beneath the high rises, and it had surely already been night in New York, hadn't it? Perhaps he really was in Canada; perhaps that wretched teleporter had zapped in and brought him here, dumping him in the middle of nowhere. If so, it hadn't been very timely for whoever that was he'd just killed. No, he thought, if the teleporter was going to bring him anywhere, it would be the middle of a desert. Somewhere he'd be certain to die. And wasn't he supposed to run him through? That was just as idiotic.

But not as strange as--

Tick. Tick. Tick.

Why was his watch ticking?

The face was still cracked, the hands didn't move, but as steadily as if it were working, the watch was ticking, a perfect, correct heartbeat. It wasn't broken, and it hadn't been wound, but it was working. Working in a way that Gabriel had never seen a watch work. He raised it to his ear, inquisitive, but just as he began to listen harder, a wailing screech screamed through his head, crippling loud, and brought him to his knees with his hands raised to his ears.

The city! The city was making the sound! Every building, every street corner, speakers wailing the same awful siren noise. Siren's Port the man had said. Welcome to Siren's Port. The sound was unbearable, like corkscrews being driven into his brain through his ears, and Gabriel wailed; the sound so pitiful it was fortunate he couldn't hear it through the deafening scream in his head, for it would most certainly be humiliating. He screamed, and then with a fast, bright flash of energy--the sound stopped.

And then the shadows began to creep toward him.

Blue text edited on September 1st, after a conversation on the topic.