QUOTE (Chagatai14 @ May 27 2007, 07:01 PM)

Role playing it? You mean, like a game? Well, whatever. I haven't been looking at these boards long enough to confirm that, nor am I interested in doing so. Sorry for any wrongful accusations.
Bah, you both stole the idea of thought materialisation, from Jack Williamson's
Star Bright! j/k
I know that post was a long time ago, but I had to do it anyway.
Name: Gregory Grey
Location: Los Angeles (Originally from Elizabethan London)
As he appears in visions/hallucinations:{
Age: 48
Eyes: Gold, with Silver rims, er... I mean... Amber with flecks of grey at the edges.
Hair: Dark Brown, with a lot of grey on the sides.
Weight: 155
Height 6'1"
Race: European (English/German/Welsh)
}
Power:
Share ConsciousnessBorn Gregory Grey, London, 1524. Studied and taught at Oxford for most of his life. Courted and married Christine Ambrose (b. 1536) in 1570. They're first and only child was born in 1572, and he named him Samuel.
He was an avid pursuer of knowledge, and also a dedicated teacher, when he deemed the student worth his time. When his power manifested, he found that by touching another person, he could share their thoughts and memories. In time, he learned to give of his own experiences, memories, and emotion, and eventually even to do so without touching, merely by looking into his or her eyes.
With no one could he do this more adeptly than a young woman named Christine Ambrose. Though she was beautiful, she remained unwed into her thirties (unheard of at that time). When Gregory accidently shared his thoughts with her one day while glancing at her across the table, she was taken with him. A few years later, he began to court her, and they were married in the Spring.
His power blossomed in the next four years, and he found he could control which thoughts he gave and which he took. Two years after their marriage, Christine gave birth to a son, Samuel, and the next two years were the happiest either had ever known.
Then, Gregory became mysteriously ill (cancer). Nothing could be done to save him, and in the winter of 1574, he died. Or did he?
His body was buried in Oxford, but the night of his death, as he breathed his last, his conscious mind permanently abandoned his old body and entered Christine's, as she sat beside his death bed, asleep, his hand in her lap.
Gregory continued to live in Christine, eventually revealing his presence to her, until her own death in 1614, at the age of 78. She had several suitors, but never remarried ('cause, you know, that would be weird and all).
Gregory sometimes visited his son's mind as well, and when the reality of his wife's impending death hit him he considered "moving" into his son's mind, but when he did, he did not like what he found. Angry with Samuel, the elder Grey left his son behind after his wife's death, and became a silent passenger across the world, gradually overcoming his grief over his wife's death and his own disembodiment. As time passed he became more comfortable with his new existence, and zealously sought knowledge wherever he could find it. In return, he taught his hosts many skills, and spoke with them in their dreams, drawing upon all his past "lives" to fill up what was lacking in his host's own experiences.
Usually he was passive, hidden, stealthy. But on occasion he took drastic action. He has saved more than one woman from being molested by invading her attacker's mind and confusing him so she could escape. But each time it cost him a great deal of pain, since he could not but help share that man's memories of failure, betrayal, and self-abuse.
In the middle of the 19th century Gregory made a discovery: he could stretch himself between two minds, dwelling in both simultaneously, and even, if he made himself sufficiently transparent, connecting the two, bridging them, as it were. Soon after he discovered that, if one of these people possessed supernormal abilities, the other person connected would also receive those abilities, though only as long as the connection was maintained. Gregory could also provide them with the skill to use those abilities.
During the Great War, Grey went with a young man to the front lines. Though the boy distinguished himself well, he was wounded a few days before the armistice was signed, and died of those wounds. Gregory himself entered the mind of a Yank, and travelled across the ocean to the United States, where he resides to this day.
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Because of his ability to connect two (or more) minds together, and permit each mind to share the thoughts and abilities of the others, Gregory could form a Gestalt superbeing, if the heroes involved will willing to do such a thing.
He has never attempted to maintain this kind of multiple mind connection over long distances, though he knows that, once established, it has a longer range than a simple jump does (i.e. Grey usually needs eye contact to jump from mind to mind, or to connect two minds [He contacted Christine from several miles away in the last year of their marriage, but he has never been able to duplicate that feat], but once connected, they can break eye contact and even leave the same area and the connection won't be broken. How far away they can go without severing the connection is unknown, however.)
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Gregory is not particularly strong willed, so a confrontation with Sylar (or the Haitian, or any other person with a strong mind) might go badly for him. Still, he has
so much experience that he should be able to win the first few battles, and stun Sylar with mental overload. Eventually though, I have no doubt Sylar would win out, and either imprison Grey in a corner of his mind or expel him. Because Grey's power no longer has a specific physical source (Grey's brain decayed long ago) there's no way Sylar could simply
steal his power, though he might be able to forcibly take some of Grey's knowledge and memories, if he chooses to imprison him inside himself (but then, Gregory will almost certainly backstab him at the first opportunity, i.e. in the middle of a climactic final battle.)