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P L A Y E R I N F O R M A T I O N
Your Name: Ca
OOC Journal: [Bad username or unknown identity: ”nothingtofear”]
Under 18? If yes, what is your age?: n
Email + IM: cltonabun@gmail.com / n0tJesus
Characters Played at Ataraxion: Ned & Spike
C H A R A C T E R I N F O R M A T I O N
Name: Gary Bell
Canon: Alphas
Original or Alternate Universe: OU
Canon Point: 2x03 “Alpha Dogs”
Number: 042
Setting: Gary lives in New York City circa 2011/2012 where he works for a psychiatrist and neurologist, Dr. Lee Rosen, who studies metahumans which he dubs “Alphas.” The majority of the populous knows nothing of this phenomenon, even some of the alphas themselves remain completely unaware of their own abilities. Gary alongside a group of Alphas working closely with Homeland Security under a top secret organization, help to categorize and capture dangerous Alphas as they become a menace to society. They are given badges where they are dubbed “DCIS: Department of Criminal Investigative Services” whatever that means. Gary just likes that it has his face on it. An organization of Alphas emerges known as 'Red Flag' who are essentially terrorists who believe that normal humans will commit genocide when they find out and thusly are trying to turn the tables before that happens.
There is a secret facility in Binghamton that is known colloquially as “The Compound” among Rosen's group. If an Alpha is deemed dangerous to himself or others he will be placed into this 'hospital.' The specifics are unclear from the outside as its cover story is a psychiatric prison, however, no legal or medical proof is needed other than Dr. Rosen's say so to be locked away there. Once in the care at Binghamton, 'patients' are implanted with a chip that inhibits their Alpha ability. However, because of the way in which Alpha abilities are triggered in the brain, this also strips them of their personalities, leaving nothing but a zombie-like shell capable of little else but basic functions. Once the chip is removed however, there is no physical residual effect. Think of this world as basically XMen in reverse.
The team he works with are as follows: Dr. Lee Rosen, Rachel Pirzad, Cameron Hicks, Bill Harken, Nina Theroux, and later on Kat. The special agents assigned to them keep dying, they're on like #3 or 4 by now. Cameron is a Hyperkinetic, which gives him greater-than-human hands-eye coordination and perfect aim. He is discovered by the team when he is mind-controlled into shooting a perfect shot that kills a federal witness. He must work for the team or else he'll be sent to prison or worse: Binghamton. Bill is an ex-FBI agent who broke a fellow agents clavicle in a rage. He is what's known as a Hyperadrenal Alpha, which means that he can stress his system at will to displays of superhuman strength or speed. The downside to his ability is that it causes great stress on his heart when he uses it too much in succession. He initially joined the team to get his job back, but now he stays on to help wherever he can. Rachel's family is from Iran and she is a Synesthete. She can block out all but one sense which becomes extremely powerful. She has been working with the team for the longest amount of time of the current members and refers to herself as a “walking crime lab.” Her parents hope this program will find her someone to marry. Nina is an Influencer. She discovered at a young age that she could get anyone to do anything she wanted just by telling them to, a process called “pushing.” She can only push one person at a time and the effects last mere minutes, but the pushee forgets the pushing process unless their memory is somehow jogged at a later time. Nina has also been with the team a long time. Kat is Adomapathic and she can learn any skill by watching it or reading about it once. The downside of her ability is that her memory is only about 6 weeks old. This means that she retains all of the knowledge that she learns but she can't remember how or why she learned it, or any of the context surrounding it. She can't remember her family or who she is, and goes only by Kat.
History: Not much is known of Gary's personal history before he came to be working for Dr. Rosen. In the pilot, we meet his mother Sandra, who cares for his every need. Gary is a highly functioning autistic but at 20 years old she will not allow him to do things like drive, shop, or be in charge of his own socialization. Nothing is ever mentioned about Gary's father and the only other family member ever mentioned is Gary's uncle, though he comes to think of the Alphas he works with as an extended family.
Gary's daily routine is roughly as follows: he wakes up at 7:42, brushes his teeth, eats his breakfast, then Dr. Rosen picks him up at home and brings him to the office for 9 where he greets his coworkers and puts his lunch in the fridge. He has his own office in their modest space, but he doesn't need a telephone or a computer or anything else. Instead he uses his ability while sitting at his desk and occasionally he follows the others into the field though he's usually asked to remain in the car.
Though his relationship to most of the others is strained at first, Gary cares for and accepts all of them after time. Most important is, early on, when he meets a girl named Anna. She is low-functioning compared to Gary, but he notices quickly that, like him, she is harboring a special ability. They find her in a house Red Flag was occupying and assume that they victimized her and moved in where no one would protest. But it is soon revealed that Anna is not only a very powerful “translator” but also Red Flag's leader. She encrypts all of their messages with a series of sounds that she's compiled into her own unique language. She initially hides this from Gary by helping him translate the messages, just not 100% accurately. By the time he figures out how she lied, she's given her men enough time to elude Dr. Rosen's group. Anna overloads Gary and flees the house. But later that night she sends him a message apologizing and the two remain friends after that despite their very different allegiances.
Next up is Bill. Gary gets his very own special episode with Bill and they bond pretty early on as well. Bill takes Gary along on a secret mission to interfere with an ongoing FBI kidnapping case. Without Gary's unique expertise they never would have found the girl in time, and Bill is finally offered reinstatement – which he turns down. It's through this adventure that Bill and Gary grow close, however, having been mostly hostile toward one another before.
After a bunch more fluff episodes like this one, Dr. Rosen discovers a man named Stanton Parish who he believes is Hypercognitive, which means he has a perfect mind-to-body connection. This essentially allows him to heal any injury, including death. After admitting to the others that he still talks to Anna, Gary goes to see her to ask her about Stanton Parish. She accidentally reveals that he is not only alive and an agent of Red Flag but their secret leader. Shortly after this Anna and several other members of Red Flag come forward to the Department of Defense and are killed for it. Stanton Parish doesn't show when he realizes what will happen but chooses not to save them either. This causes Gary a great deal of pain and he makes a Twitter account called Anna_Lives and keeps her memory alive throughout the remainder of the show. He tweets “The revolution is coming” under this handle.
At the end of the first season, Dr. Rosen is sent to a mental institution for following up the brave actions of those members of Red Flag by going on public airwaves and telling everyone about Alphas. The team starts to fall apart and Gary is sent to the NSA when they discover what he can do. He is forced to “spy on his friends” but they refuse to accommodate his schedule that his autism deems especially important and he has an absolute meltdown. Not knowing what to do with him, they place him in Binghamton where a chip is implanted in his neck that inhibits his Alpha ability like all the other patients there.
There's roughly 8 months between the end of the first season and the beginning of the second. And Dr. Rosen pulls a few strings with Homeland Security and finally gets released. Bill and Cameron were the only two to stay on with the team officially in Dr. Rosen's absence. Nina goes back to pushing everyone she meets and Rachel hides under her covers, overwhelmed by her own senses. Dr. Rosen brings everyone back together and goes to rescue Gary. Hicks cuts the power to the building which deactivates everyone's chips and it's utter chaos. There are a few casualties but they manage to retrieve Gary physically unharmed. Due to the horrors he witnessed and was subjected to at Binghamton, he adds a ten second long scream to his morning routine, after he brushes his teeth and before breakfast. This act disturbs his mother and so with Dr. Rosen's blessing he moves into his office so that he can be more independent. He then adapts an 8-o-clock and 3-o-clock call to his mother into his routine. I will be taking him from this episode in season 2, “Alpha Dogs.”
Personality: Gary is a “32” on the CARS scale. Or Childhood Autism Rating Scale. Scores range from 15 to 60 with a minimum of 30 required to get an autistic diagnosis. All this to say that Gary is highly functioning, and what is often referred to as “mildly autistic.” He exhibits most of the classic symptoms: failure to make eye contact, difficulty in socializing and forming connections, inconsistent body language, repeating words and people's names as well as imitating them, and while he can surpass all of these the thing that most cripples him is his schedule and reliance on certain foods. He needs to do very specific things at very specific times or his whole routine falls apart. Example: when he is rescued from Binghamton and brought to the office, he refuses to speak to anyone because he did not greet them all at 9 as usual. Example 2: when he is made to stay up past his bedtime for a case, 9:30, he stays up all night. He also has a breakdown when his pudding is thrown out. Any small threat to his schedule or way in which he conducts his day is a DISASTER and he can't mentally handle it. (So arriving on the Tranquility should be interesting for him, to say the least.)
Because of his autism, Gary has a hard time lying or employing tact as most people would. He is trying to train himself to “white lie” but this is an ongoing struggle. He speaks of things in certainty and doesn't actually mean offense by his words, but he doesn't have the capacity to make them sound nicer. That said, he does have an actual cognitive issue with drawing lines between other people's feelings and why he should care. There is an episode in which he steals a letterman jacket off a dying boy because he covets it, and doesn't really think much of it. “It looks better on me anyway. ... I'm a baller.”
When Gary does surpass his nature and form connections, like that with his team, he shows this through humor, and while he is very smart he can be very immature and boylike when it comes to joking around. He calls his genitals his “fruit” to make everyone laugh when they accidentally see him naked after showering at his new office-home, and he laughs at a joke Bill makes about a bird fart. He is very much an adolescent boy when the situation allows for it, though he does his best to remain serious when he has to. There is often a disconnect here too, and he slips up a lot, interrupting important mission details with asking if he can drive pretty much daily.
When Gary is right, he finds it absolutely impossible to keep to himself. He will steamroll right over you with his words, and if you “get up in his grill” he may shove people whom he deems a threat. Like the evil agents who stole his pudding. Gary is a social justice warrior of the worst kind, and none of his own offenses count towards the tally. He is the human embodiment of Tumblr. Which, given his ability, is a pretty apt description of what he does and how he do.
Also because of his ability, he has no respect for privacy and reads other people's emails, text messages, and any other private message without qualm or pause. In the game I'll have a permission post for this sort of thing, but if it's unencrypted to Gary's mind it's free media for his own consumption. Similarly, he will ask invasive questions or try to get to the bottom of a social issue, like: are these two people sleeping together? with virtually no tact whatsoever. He finds out that Cameron is sleeping with Dr. Rosen's daughter because he reads a text from her that read “the pancakes were great this morning” and he says to Hicks, “I broke your sex code!” He is very delighted with himself when he solves a problem, no matter to what detriment it might bring others.
With that said, he is not so much selfish as self-centered. He cares most about how he feels and his own well-being, but he can easily be persuaded to help others because of the joy it brings him. He doesn't like being put in harm's way but he does like being a secret agent and thinks it makes him “cool.” He will do dangerous things for those he cares about without too much thought, though he does have a strong sense of self-preservation. It is merely overridden by those he's closest to. Which makes sense, because they help him function.
Gary requires a specific support system in order to function well and properly. People and items that bring him comfort, like his schedule and his team. But ever since meeting Anna he pushes himself to be more independent and do more things for himself. While before he met her he accepted that his mother did everything for him, things like “I'm an adult” and “I'm my own man” have now become common phrases for him. He never wants to be thought of as less for being autistic or being an Alpha and he considers neither of these a drawback but rather an integral and important part of his person.
Abilities, Weaknesses and Power Limitations: Gary is what Dr. Rosen refers to as a “transducer.” He can see and interact with any and all electromagnetic waves. While this includes everything technological: cell phone towers down to individual signals, computers, wifi, anything you could imagine – this also goes for all things carbon-based as well. Basically, these wavelengths surround Gary no matter where he is. He is the only one who can see them and he moves his hands as a way to pull information from the images, and he describes what he sees as “shapes and colors.” While he can see and get to encrypted information almost anywhere, he is not a hacker or a technopath. He doesn't speak to these signals, he merely sees them and pulls from them what he needs.
Gary says that Dr. Rosen explained it to him that a certain part of his brain merely grew bigger than other people's, which is essentially how a child becomes an Alpha in his world and why sometimes abilities don't manifest in the very young. Because too, of the way that his ability works, he is impervious to any and all mind-control and telepathically based skills. However, all Alpha abilities have a “drawback” and his weakness is to technopaths/translators or other electronically inclined people, Alpha or not, who can overload a signal. Anna does this and causes him a great deal of pain in one episode.
Inventory:
→ his special phone that Skylar gave him; it basically has the ability to ping different things, computers tvs other phones so that Gary can show others what he's doing with his ability.
→ his favorite green hoodie
→ some other clothes he likes!!
→ the suit he wore to Anna's funeral
→ his special cereal blend
→ A BURRITO that Bill gave him once he hates it
→ his DCIS badge
Appearance: Ryan Cartwright
Age: 20
S A M P L E S
Log Sample: After causing all the scenes in the locker room, he makes it here, to his locker. It's his locker – just his, and even in this terrifying place where nothing and no one is familiar, he owns something. He has something that's just his. Gary traces the numbers on the door and smiles lightly. It's a palandrone, it's cool. It suits him. He peers over his shoulder before dialing in the combination, like someone might be watching his every move. This place kind of lends to his paranoia on the matter anyway.
He's initially happy to see his phone, and he almost reaches for it – but his fingers settle on something else instead. Cloth, and much rougher than his normal attire. Some sort of wool blend. Gary tugs at it and his blood runs cold with the sight of it. Anna was dead. Six months ago now, but it wasn't enough time. They had never had enough time. Would never get it again. Because time stopped when you were dead, and you couldn't have any more, of that Gary was certain.
But he had this, a suit he had only worn once – would never wear again. It was tangible proof that no matter which solar system he happened to be occupying; Anna was dead, and her death was very permanent.
“I hate ties. They're stupid,” he mutters to himself, again glancing around to make sure no one had heard him. He throws the thin tie on the ground and glares at it, clenching his teeth. He remembers though he doesn't want to – Rachel helping him put it on. He remembers pretending to be her date. He remembers screwing that up, too. “But not as stupid as space. Space is way stupider, and that isn't even a word.”
Maybe if he's angry enough now, he doesn't have to keep feeling this way. He can bury all his abject horror to his new surroundings and try to make something out of it. Like when the NSA made him spy on his friends only maybe this time he won't assault anyone.
No promises, though.
Comms Sample:
→ what even is this road trip meme thread.
→ have another really random thing.
→ and two dear mun posts.
Your Name: Ca
OOC Journal: [Bad username or unknown identity: ”nothingtofear”]
Under 18? If yes, what is your age?: n
Email + IM: cltonabun@gmail.com / n0tJesus
Characters Played at Ataraxion: Ned & Spike
C H A R A C T E R I N F O R M A T I O N
Name: Gary Bell
Canon: Alphas
Original or Alternate Universe: OU
Canon Point: 2x03 “Alpha Dogs”
Number: 042
Setting: Gary lives in New York City circa 2011/2012 where he works for a psychiatrist and neurologist, Dr. Lee Rosen, who studies metahumans which he dubs “Alphas.” The majority of the populous knows nothing of this phenomenon, even some of the alphas themselves remain completely unaware of their own abilities. Gary alongside a group of Alphas working closely with Homeland Security under a top secret organization, help to categorize and capture dangerous Alphas as they become a menace to society. They are given badges where they are dubbed “DCIS: Department of Criminal Investigative Services” whatever that means. Gary just likes that it has his face on it. An organization of Alphas emerges known as 'Red Flag' who are essentially terrorists who believe that normal humans will commit genocide when they find out and thusly are trying to turn the tables before that happens.
There is a secret facility in Binghamton that is known colloquially as “The Compound” among Rosen's group. If an Alpha is deemed dangerous to himself or others he will be placed into this 'hospital.' The specifics are unclear from the outside as its cover story is a psychiatric prison, however, no legal or medical proof is needed other than Dr. Rosen's say so to be locked away there. Once in the care at Binghamton, 'patients' are implanted with a chip that inhibits their Alpha ability. However, because of the way in which Alpha abilities are triggered in the brain, this also strips them of their personalities, leaving nothing but a zombie-like shell capable of little else but basic functions. Once the chip is removed however, there is no physical residual effect. Think of this world as basically XMen in reverse.
The team he works with are as follows: Dr. Lee Rosen, Rachel Pirzad, Cameron Hicks, Bill Harken, Nina Theroux, and later on Kat. The special agents assigned to them keep dying, they're on like #3 or 4 by now. Cameron is a Hyperkinetic, which gives him greater-than-human hands-eye coordination and perfect aim. He is discovered by the team when he is mind-controlled into shooting a perfect shot that kills a federal witness. He must work for the team or else he'll be sent to prison or worse: Binghamton. Bill is an ex-FBI agent who broke a fellow agents clavicle in a rage. He is what's known as a Hyperadrenal Alpha, which means that he can stress his system at will to displays of superhuman strength or speed. The downside to his ability is that it causes great stress on his heart when he uses it too much in succession. He initially joined the team to get his job back, but now he stays on to help wherever he can. Rachel's family is from Iran and she is a Synesthete. She can block out all but one sense which becomes extremely powerful. She has been working with the team for the longest amount of time of the current members and refers to herself as a “walking crime lab.” Her parents hope this program will find her someone to marry. Nina is an Influencer. She discovered at a young age that she could get anyone to do anything she wanted just by telling them to, a process called “pushing.” She can only push one person at a time and the effects last mere minutes, but the pushee forgets the pushing process unless their memory is somehow jogged at a later time. Nina has also been with the team a long time. Kat is Adomapathic and she can learn any skill by watching it or reading about it once. The downside of her ability is that her memory is only about 6 weeks old. This means that she retains all of the knowledge that she learns but she can't remember how or why she learned it, or any of the context surrounding it. She can't remember her family or who she is, and goes only by Kat.
History: Not much is known of Gary's personal history before he came to be working for Dr. Rosen. In the pilot, we meet his mother Sandra, who cares for his every need. Gary is a highly functioning autistic but at 20 years old she will not allow him to do things like drive, shop, or be in charge of his own socialization. Nothing is ever mentioned about Gary's father and the only other family member ever mentioned is Gary's uncle, though he comes to think of the Alphas he works with as an extended family.
Gary's daily routine is roughly as follows: he wakes up at 7:42, brushes his teeth, eats his breakfast, then Dr. Rosen picks him up at home and brings him to the office for 9 where he greets his coworkers and puts his lunch in the fridge. He has his own office in their modest space, but he doesn't need a telephone or a computer or anything else. Instead he uses his ability while sitting at his desk and occasionally he follows the others into the field though he's usually asked to remain in the car.
Though his relationship to most of the others is strained at first, Gary cares for and accepts all of them after time. Most important is, early on, when he meets a girl named Anna. She is low-functioning compared to Gary, but he notices quickly that, like him, she is harboring a special ability. They find her in a house Red Flag was occupying and assume that they victimized her and moved in where no one would protest. But it is soon revealed that Anna is not only a very powerful “translator” but also Red Flag's leader. She encrypts all of their messages with a series of sounds that she's compiled into her own unique language. She initially hides this from Gary by helping him translate the messages, just not 100% accurately. By the time he figures out how she lied, she's given her men enough time to elude Dr. Rosen's group. Anna overloads Gary and flees the house. But later that night she sends him a message apologizing and the two remain friends after that despite their very different allegiances.
Next up is Bill. Gary gets his very own special episode with Bill and they bond pretty early on as well. Bill takes Gary along on a secret mission to interfere with an ongoing FBI kidnapping case. Without Gary's unique expertise they never would have found the girl in time, and Bill is finally offered reinstatement – which he turns down. It's through this adventure that Bill and Gary grow close, however, having been mostly hostile toward one another before.
After a bunch more fluff episodes like this one, Dr. Rosen discovers a man named Stanton Parish who he believes is Hypercognitive, which means he has a perfect mind-to-body connection. This essentially allows him to heal any injury, including death. After admitting to the others that he still talks to Anna, Gary goes to see her to ask her about Stanton Parish. She accidentally reveals that he is not only alive and an agent of Red Flag but their secret leader. Shortly after this Anna and several other members of Red Flag come forward to the Department of Defense and are killed for it. Stanton Parish doesn't show when he realizes what will happen but chooses not to save them either. This causes Gary a great deal of pain and he makes a Twitter account called Anna_Lives and keeps her memory alive throughout the remainder of the show. He tweets “The revolution is coming” under this handle.
At the end of the first season, Dr. Rosen is sent to a mental institution for following up the brave actions of those members of Red Flag by going on public airwaves and telling everyone about Alphas. The team starts to fall apart and Gary is sent to the NSA when they discover what he can do. He is forced to “spy on his friends” but they refuse to accommodate his schedule that his autism deems especially important and he has an absolute meltdown. Not knowing what to do with him, they place him in Binghamton where a chip is implanted in his neck that inhibits his Alpha ability like all the other patients there.
There's roughly 8 months between the end of the first season and the beginning of the second. And Dr. Rosen pulls a few strings with Homeland Security and finally gets released. Bill and Cameron were the only two to stay on with the team officially in Dr. Rosen's absence. Nina goes back to pushing everyone she meets and Rachel hides under her covers, overwhelmed by her own senses. Dr. Rosen brings everyone back together and goes to rescue Gary. Hicks cuts the power to the building which deactivates everyone's chips and it's utter chaos. There are a few casualties but they manage to retrieve Gary physically unharmed. Due to the horrors he witnessed and was subjected to at Binghamton, he adds a ten second long scream to his morning routine, after he brushes his teeth and before breakfast. This act disturbs his mother and so with Dr. Rosen's blessing he moves into his office so that he can be more independent. He then adapts an 8-o-clock and 3-o-clock call to his mother into his routine. I will be taking him from this episode in season 2, “Alpha Dogs.”
Personality: Gary is a “32” on the CARS scale. Or Childhood Autism Rating Scale. Scores range from 15 to 60 with a minimum of 30 required to get an autistic diagnosis. All this to say that Gary is highly functioning, and what is often referred to as “mildly autistic.” He exhibits most of the classic symptoms: failure to make eye contact, difficulty in socializing and forming connections, inconsistent body language, repeating words and people's names as well as imitating them, and while he can surpass all of these the thing that most cripples him is his schedule and reliance on certain foods. He needs to do very specific things at very specific times or his whole routine falls apart. Example: when he is rescued from Binghamton and brought to the office, he refuses to speak to anyone because he did not greet them all at 9 as usual. Example 2: when he is made to stay up past his bedtime for a case, 9:30, he stays up all night. He also has a breakdown when his pudding is thrown out. Any small threat to his schedule or way in which he conducts his day is a DISASTER and he can't mentally handle it. (So arriving on the Tranquility should be interesting for him, to say the least.)
Because of his autism, Gary has a hard time lying or employing tact as most people would. He is trying to train himself to “white lie” but this is an ongoing struggle. He speaks of things in certainty and doesn't actually mean offense by his words, but he doesn't have the capacity to make them sound nicer. That said, he does have an actual cognitive issue with drawing lines between other people's feelings and why he should care. There is an episode in which he steals a letterman jacket off a dying boy because he covets it, and doesn't really think much of it. “It looks better on me anyway. ... I'm a baller.”
When Gary does surpass his nature and form connections, like that with his team, he shows this through humor, and while he is very smart he can be very immature and boylike when it comes to joking around. He calls his genitals his “fruit” to make everyone laugh when they accidentally see him naked after showering at his new office-home, and he laughs at a joke Bill makes about a bird fart. He is very much an adolescent boy when the situation allows for it, though he does his best to remain serious when he has to. There is often a disconnect here too, and he slips up a lot, interrupting important mission details with asking if he can drive pretty much daily.
When Gary is right, he finds it absolutely impossible to keep to himself. He will steamroll right over you with his words, and if you “get up in his grill” he may shove people whom he deems a threat. Like the evil agents who stole his pudding. Gary is a social justice warrior of the worst kind, and none of his own offenses count towards the tally. He is the human embodiment of Tumblr. Which, given his ability, is a pretty apt description of what he does and how he do.
Also because of his ability, he has no respect for privacy and reads other people's emails, text messages, and any other private message without qualm or pause. In the game I'll have a permission post for this sort of thing, but if it's unencrypted to Gary's mind it's free media for his own consumption. Similarly, he will ask invasive questions or try to get to the bottom of a social issue, like: are these two people sleeping together? with virtually no tact whatsoever. He finds out that Cameron is sleeping with Dr. Rosen's daughter because he reads a text from her that read “the pancakes were great this morning” and he says to Hicks, “I broke your sex code!” He is very delighted with himself when he solves a problem, no matter to what detriment it might bring others.
With that said, he is not so much selfish as self-centered. He cares most about how he feels and his own well-being, but he can easily be persuaded to help others because of the joy it brings him. He doesn't like being put in harm's way but he does like being a secret agent and thinks it makes him “cool.” He will do dangerous things for those he cares about without too much thought, though he does have a strong sense of self-preservation. It is merely overridden by those he's closest to. Which makes sense, because they help him function.
Gary requires a specific support system in order to function well and properly. People and items that bring him comfort, like his schedule and his team. But ever since meeting Anna he pushes himself to be more independent and do more things for himself. While before he met her he accepted that his mother did everything for him, things like “I'm an adult” and “I'm my own man” have now become common phrases for him. He never wants to be thought of as less for being autistic or being an Alpha and he considers neither of these a drawback but rather an integral and important part of his person.
Abilities, Weaknesses and Power Limitations: Gary is what Dr. Rosen refers to as a “transducer.” He can see and interact with any and all electromagnetic waves. While this includes everything technological: cell phone towers down to individual signals, computers, wifi, anything you could imagine – this also goes for all things carbon-based as well. Basically, these wavelengths surround Gary no matter where he is. He is the only one who can see them and he moves his hands as a way to pull information from the images, and he describes what he sees as “shapes and colors.” While he can see and get to encrypted information almost anywhere, he is not a hacker or a technopath. He doesn't speak to these signals, he merely sees them and pulls from them what he needs.
Gary says that Dr. Rosen explained it to him that a certain part of his brain merely grew bigger than other people's, which is essentially how a child becomes an Alpha in his world and why sometimes abilities don't manifest in the very young. Because too, of the way that his ability works, he is impervious to any and all mind-control and telepathically based skills. However, all Alpha abilities have a “drawback” and his weakness is to technopaths/translators or other electronically inclined people, Alpha or not, who can overload a signal. Anna does this and causes him a great deal of pain in one episode.
Inventory:
→ his special phone that Skylar gave him; it basically has the ability to ping different things, computers tvs other phones so that Gary can show others what he's doing with his ability.
→ his favorite green hoodie
→ some other clothes he likes!!
→ the suit he wore to Anna's funeral
→ his special cereal blend
→ A BURRITO that Bill gave him once he hates it
→ his DCIS badge
Appearance: Ryan Cartwright
Age: 20
S A M P L E S
Log Sample: After causing all the scenes in the locker room, he makes it here, to his locker. It's his locker – just his, and even in this terrifying place where nothing and no one is familiar, he owns something. He has something that's just his. Gary traces the numbers on the door and smiles lightly. It's a palandrone, it's cool. It suits him. He peers over his shoulder before dialing in the combination, like someone might be watching his every move. This place kind of lends to his paranoia on the matter anyway.
He's initially happy to see his phone, and he almost reaches for it – but his fingers settle on something else instead. Cloth, and much rougher than his normal attire. Some sort of wool blend. Gary tugs at it and his blood runs cold with the sight of it. Anna was dead. Six months ago now, but it wasn't enough time. They had never had enough time. Would never get it again. Because time stopped when you were dead, and you couldn't have any more, of that Gary was certain.
But he had this, a suit he had only worn once – would never wear again. It was tangible proof that no matter which solar system he happened to be occupying; Anna was dead, and her death was very permanent.
“I hate ties. They're stupid,” he mutters to himself, again glancing around to make sure no one had heard him. He throws the thin tie on the ground and glares at it, clenching his teeth. He remembers though he doesn't want to – Rachel helping him put it on. He remembers pretending to be her date. He remembers screwing that up, too. “But not as stupid as space. Space is way stupider, and that isn't even a word.”
Maybe if he's angry enough now, he doesn't have to keep feeling this way. He can bury all his abject horror to his new surroundings and try to make something out of it. Like when the NSA made him spy on his friends only maybe this time he won't assault anyone.
No promises, though.
Comms Sample:
→ what even is this road trip meme thread.
→ have another really random thing.
→ and two dear mun posts.