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I am a natural progression of the species || SYLAR

Created on 2007-07-19 05:37:53 (#13410553), last updated 2007-09-16

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THE VILLAIN

Gabriel Gray is a second-generation watchmaker from Queens, New York who always hoped to be "special" but was disappointed to have followed his father into watchmaking. He has always lived an uneventful life up to and including the point where he began restoring time pieces himself at the family business, Gray & Sons. His mother has an interest in snow globes from across the country.

When he is approached by Chandra Suresh and told that he might have special powers, Gabriel is quite hopeful that his theories are correct; however, none of Chandra's tests indicate that Gabriel has any sort of abnormal properties whatsoever. Growing doubtful, Chandra decides to move on to the next person on his list, which angers the distraught Gabriel.

In an attempt to validate his hopes and prove that he is special, Gabriel uses information from Chandra's notes to find the name and address of Brian Davis, another possible subject on Chandra's list. He contacts Davis, asking him to visit his store and introduces himself as "Sylar", a pseudonym derived from the brand of watch that he is working on at the time. Gabriel then identifies Davis as a telekinetic.

Gabriel states that Davis is "broken". Unlike Gabriel, who desperately wants to be special, Davis fears his power, asking if Gabriel could get rid of it. Claiming that he could "fix" Davis, Gabriel brutally murders him, acknowledging a previous statement by Chandra that the source of the abilities "is in the brain." He returns to Chandra's apartment the next day, this time demonstrating telekinetic abilities with greater control than Davis. Thoroughly impressed, Chandra continues on with his research with "Sylar".

Sylar, being Chandra's first recorded study, is dubbed "Patient Zero", though sometime over the course of six months the study is terminated, as the two have a falling out. In a taped phone conversation discovered by Chandra's son Mohinder, Sylar states that Chandra "made [him] this way," and refers to a mysterious "uncontrollable hunger" that he now experiences. Chandra wants nothing to do with Sylar at this point. A vision Mohinder experiences in "Seven Minutes to Midnight" shows Sylar killing Chandra in the latter's taxicab. Chandra's death is what originally brought Mohinder to New York City.

Eventually, Sylar becomes a serial killer, using Chandra's list to track down victims across the United States. This leads FBI agent Audrey Hanson to become obsessed with capturing him. Three months after taking on his serial killer persona, Sylar leads Hanson on a chase through the streets of Chicago, following another one of his murders. Hanson chases him into the subways. He gives his cap and trench coat to an innocent elderly man, which causes the agent to mistake the man for Sylar. After shooting the man, she realizes her mistake, and the unbearable guilt from her error intensifies her drive to hunt him down.

In "Don't Look Back", Agent Hanson investigates a double homicide where a married couple with a child were murdered. The woman was pinned horizontally to the staircase and the male, James Walker, was frozen solid in mid-pose with his brain removed. Telepathic police officer Matt Parkman finds their unharmed daughter, Molly, hiding in the house, and learns the name "Sylar" from Hanson. The two begin working together to catch their suspect.

In the following episode, Sylar infiltrates the FBI's Los Angeles office and attempts to kidnap the murdered couple's daughter, Molly. Parkman and Hansen stop him and give chase. When Audrey pulls her gun, Sylar uses his powers to force her back against a wall and make her point her weapon to her own head. Matt arrives and shoots at Sylar, but when Matt checks on Audrey, Sylar stands up and the bullets which supposedly hit him fall to the ground. As the two law-enforcement officers look back, Sylar disappears upward.

Meanwhile, Mohinder and Eden McCain break into Sylar's apartment in New York. The apartment has no photographs but plenty of books on philosophy and a copy of Chandra's book, Activating Evolution. A secret room also contains a map similar to those used by both Chandra and Mohinder Suresh, but with many more connections and papers linked to it. Nathan Petrelli is identified on one of the links, and in an adjoining room, the wall is covered in scrawls, some seemingly written in blood. Most of the messages amount to variations on the phrase "Forgive me, father, for I have sinned." When Mohinder fetches police officers to show them the apartment, it has already been cleaned out.

Sylar continues to use Chandra's list, leading him to Texas in "Seven Minutes to Midnight". Sylar enters a diner where Hiro Nakamura and Ando Masahashi are being served by a young waitress named Charlie Andrews. Charlie demonstrates superhuman memory skills while talking to Hiro and Ando. Sylar, who is sitting at a nearby table, follows her to the diner's storeroom, murders her, and takes her brain.

A stylized image of Sylar is found on a painting in Isaac Mendez's apartment. When Peter Petrelli finishes the painting, the man is standing over the mutilated body of a cheerleader. After his stop at the diner, Sylar travels to Claire Bennet's high school to murder the one he believes to be a superhealing cheerleader. In the school's gym, Sylar attacks Claire and her classmate Jackie Wilcox, but concentrates his attack on Jackie, apparently due to a news article which reported that Jackie had saved a man from a fire. Sylar hurls Claire, with crushing force, against a nearby wall. As Sylar brutally attacks Jackie, Claire heals from the attack and sees Sylar cut open Jackie's skull with no physical contact. When Sylar realizes he has the wrong girl, he turns to pursue Claire. As she makes her escape, Sylar uses his powers to attack Peter, who runs into Claire in the hallway, by telekinetically hurling locker doors at him. His pursuit ends on top of the school, where he and Peter struggle, causing both of them to fall off. Sylar escapes alive, but is later apprehended by Eden McCain and the Haitian. Eden uses her persuasive abilities to cause Sylar to involuntarily fall asleep, while the Haitian uses his "dampening" ability to render Sylar powerless.

In "Fallout", Sylar is confined in a small cell which supposedly prevents him from using his powers. During his imprisonment, Sylar becomes infuriated when Mr. Bennet repeatedly refers to him as Gabriel, insisting that his name is really Sylar after repeated uses of his former name. Mr. Bennet informs him that he'll be taken apart and studied, comparing the act to the watches Sylar once repaired. Before this can happen, however, Eden visits Sylar and attempts to use her powers to make him commit suicide with a gun she brought along, as she believes him to be too dangerous to be kept alive for any reason. However, before she can give him the gun, he telekinetically drags her through the glass wall of his cell. While he informs her that her power will help him immensely, she points the gun to her own head and fires, killing herself and preventing Sylar from acquiring her power.

Bennet and the Haitian then rush into the cell and subdue him with a tranquilizer gun. In "Godsend," Sylar is seen lying helpless on the floor of his cell after being injected with powerful drugs used to help make special abilities manifest. The doctor in charge of him, Hank, states that Sylar has been tested to the brink of death, saying Sylar had been given enough drugs to kill an elephant, and still fails to display any power besides telekinesis.

In "The Fix", the tests on Sylar seem to be fatal, as he dies despite Hank's best efforts. Nevertheless, after Hank reports this to Bennet and removes his restraints, Sylar revives (possibly having faked his condition) and murders Hank. When Bennet arrives to check on Sylar, he finds Hank's body in Sylar's place and Sylar standing calmly behind him. Sylar simply asks Bennet, "How's Claire?"

In "Distractions", Sylar uses his telekinesis to attack Mr. Bennet, and then traps him in the room in which Bennet had imprisoned him. After stealing Mr. Bennet's driver's license to learn the location of his house, he travels there. Under the disguise of a Primatech employee making a delivery for Mr. Bennet, he fools Mrs. Bennet for a while. However, Sylar's strange interest in Claire eventually causes Mrs. Bennet to see through his deception. He then uses his telekinesis to attack her, after telling her of his murderous intentions in regards to Claire. As he moves in to finish her off, Mr. Bennet and the Haitian run into the house. Mr. Bennet shoots Sylar multiple times. Nonetheless, Sylar quickly escapes. Though the Haitian chases after him, Sylar has already vanished.

While on the run once more, the bullet wounds annoy Sylar. He notes that things would be easier if he had Claire Bennet's healing factor. To go "North" and out of "Podunk, Texas," Sylar hitches a ride with a semi-truck driver. After realizing the driver is really heading West, Sylar kills him and hijacks the delivery truck. Police eventually follow Sylar, but he easily escapes them by using his powers to put ice on the road and then jump/fly out of the truck as it crashes over the embankment. Sylar also notes that he is down to the last person he can remember from Chandra's list. Thus, he ends up at the home of this person, and the events of "Run!" begin.

Zane Taylor was expecting Mohinder Suresh to visit him when Sylar comes to his door. Mistaking Sylar for Mohinder, Zane lets him into his house and quickly demonstrates his liquefaction ability to him. Sylar kills Zane and takes his ability, just before the real Mohinder arrives. When Mohinder enters, Sylar identifies himself as Zane Taylor, showing Mohinder his new ability when prompted. Mohinder then asks for a DNA sample to continue his research. Sylar covertly gives him a sample from Zane's corpse, in lieu of his own. As the conversation draws to an end, Sylar, seeing Mohinder as a way to find more victims, suggests accompanying Mohinder on his mission to find other "unique people". Sylar states that because he possesses an ability himself, he could help convince others to help with Mohinder’s research, with which Mohinder happily agrees.

In "Unexpected", Sylar and Mohinder locate a woman named Dale, who possesses incredibly enhanced hearing that allows her to hear rain coming from forty miles away, or to hear the changes in someone's heartbeat. Sylar demonstrates his new liquefaction ability, and she agrees to let Mohinder run some tests. Later that night, Sylar returns to Dale's shop, kills her, and takes her ability. The next day, Sylar finds his new enhanced hearing ability hard to control, as he experiences excruciating pain at the slightest noise. Mohinder finds Dale's body, but Sylar convinces him not to phone the police, telling him they'd look too suspicious. Mohinder agrees, and says he'll phone them once they're on the road again.

By the time of the events of "Parasite", Mohinder, unbeknownst to Sylar, has discovered his true identity, after finding a news article on the internet about Zane Taylor's death. Mohinder drugs Sylar, and restrains him to a chair, hooking up an I.V. with curare, which renders him unable to access his abilities. Mohinder prepares to shoot Sylar, but stops when Sylar tells him that Mohinder's father confided in him and trusted him more than his son. Mohinder proceeds to take a sample of Sylar's spinal fluid. Through this sample, Mohinder apparently finds the key to being able to locate other unique people (to "make a new list," as Mohinder states). He then attempts to kill Sylar, who had secretly shut off the I.V. via telekinesis. Sylar telekinetically stops the bullet Mohinder fires at him, and then asks Mohinder for his list. Later on, Peter arrives at Mohinder's apartment, finding him pinned to the ceiling through Sylar's telekinetic abilities, bleeding. Sylar then emerges from the darkness and pins Peter to the wall, saying that he would like to see how Peter's power works. He then grabs Peter and begins to slice his skull in the same manner he has all his victims, just as the episode ends.

Sylar slices deep into Peter's skull at the beginning of ".07%", attempting to claim his powers; however, Peter is able to use Claire's healing ability to close the wound before hurling Sylar across the room with his own telekinetic abilities, freeing Mohinder as a result. Sylar quickly recovers from the attack and prepares to battle Peter, who responds by becoming invisible. Sylar notes that he “can’t wait to try that one”, and retaliates by telekinetically lifting a large amount of shattered glass off the ground and flinging it in all directions, stabbing Peter in the back of the head and killing him. As Sylar moves in to take Peter's power, Mohinder crushes him against the wall with his charts, knocking him out. Sylar awakens later, finding Mohinder's list destroyed. He flies into a rage, only to find Isaac's address on the ground.

Isaac just finishes a painting of Sylar standing over his corpse as the killer arrives. Isaac tells Sylar that he has seen Sylar's future, and that he is doomed to die at the hands of the other heroes. Sylar demands to see those paintings, but Isaac says that he has already sent them for the others to find, and that his purpose is complete; he was destined to show the others how to kill Sylar. Sylar retaliates by impaling Isaac's wrists and ankles with paintbrushes. Isaac tells him that he can't fight the future, and Sylar kills him and takes his power. Sylar is later seen painting a picture of Nathan Petrelli standing in the White House. His painting is, however, far darker and more macabre than Isaac's, showing Nathan in a slightly demonic light; the colors of the painting are also distorted. It is later revealed in the episode "Five Years Gone" that this may, in fact, be a depiction of himself in the White House, posing as Nathan, using Candice's power of illusion.

As "The Hard Part" begins, Sylar finishes a new painting, showing himself about to kill Ted Sprague. Fearing that he is going to be the exploding man, he phones Suresh, telling him that he doesn't know why he'd want to do that. He tells him that he only killed people who "didn't deserve" their powers, and that he doesn't want to kill all those innocent people. Mohinder asks him to turn himself in while dialling 911. Sylar hears him dial and quickly hangs up. Sylar then calls his mother and asks if he can come over. He proceeds to clean himself up, dressing like he appeared in "Six Months Ago". As he goes to leave, he hears the heartbeats of Hiro and Ando, who had come looking for Isaac. Hiro teleports himself and Ando away just before Sylar finds them.

Sylar arrives at his mother's apartment, his mother expressing great joy and relief to see him. During their conversations, in which Sylar asks that his mom accept him as a "normal" watchmaker, and not wish for him to be special, it becomes apparent that his mother is the reason Sylar longs to be special. She even tells him that he could be president if he wanted, possibly allowing him to justify taking Nathan Petrelli’s presidential role in "Five Years Gone". Sylar eventually demonstrates his powers to his mother, using a kitchen hose, his freezing powers, and telekinesis to turn her apartment into a "snow globe". However, he seems to become detached and unresponsive as he uses his powers, inadvertently injuring her.

After she hides from him in her room, Sylar pleads with her to come out, still in disbelief that he'd kill so many people. His mother attempts to leave the house and expects Sylar to be gone when she gets back. She declares that he is no longer her son, and wants him to give her real son back. While attempting to reason with her, she brandishes a pair of scissors, which she stabs herself with while struggling with Sylar. Hiro, having followed Sylar, freezes time at this moment and attempts to kill him, but loses his nerve and lets his concentration slip, allowing Sylar to block Hiro's sword. Sylar tries to goad Hiro into killing him, but resolves to kill Hiro after he can't do so. Sylar breaks Hiro's sword with his freezing powers, and Hiro teleports away before Sylar can kill him. Sylar is later seen painting the explosion in New York in blood, saying that his mother was right about him being able to become president.

As "Landslide" begins, Sylar has tracked down Sprague, who is with Claire, Peter, Mr. Bennet and Matt Parkman. Sylar uses his enhanced hearing to learn that Ted, Peter, and Claire are heading to Nebraska and that Ted is wanted by the FBI, so he begins following them. Peter hears Sylar's thoughts as they move down the street, and the three of them duck into a building to hide. Sylar takes the time to contact the FBI and inform them of Ted's whereabouts, leading to his arrest shortly after he leaves the building. Audrey Hanson, who is leading the FBI team, thanks Sylar for the tip. He gives his name as Isaac Mendez before disappearing into the crowd. Later, Sylar attacks the van that is transferring Ted to Guantanamo Bay, using his telekinesis to flip it over. Still chained to the van, Ted is unable to fight back as Sylar moves in and kills him, taking his power. He is last seen atop a building, overlooking New York and testing his new ability. He then gives an eerie grin as he looks out on the city, and utters one word: "Boom".

In "How to Stop an Exploding Man", Sylar paints a picture of himself facing off against Peter Petrelli in battle. Realizing Peter is part of his final destiny, Sylar prepares to hunt him down. However, before he leaves, Ando arrives to kill him. Sylar easily defeats Ando and discovers the comic that shows his death, then taunting Ando that a "silly little man," like Hiro could never kill him. Sylar demands the location of Peter from Ando, but Ando tells him he doesn't know. Hiro teleports into the loft, and he and Sylar have a standoff, Sylar taunting Hiro to try and stop time before he cuts Ando's head off. Hiro manages to quickly teleport himself and Ando away.

Doing as his painting suggests, Sylar waits for Peter in Kirby Plaza. Peter soon arrives with Mr. Bennet, whom Sylar hurls against a wall, incapacitating him. Sylar tells Peter that he will not get "all the glory", and grabs him with his telekinesis. Matt Parkman arrives and shoots at Sylar, who stops the bullets and throws them back at Matt, gravely wounding him. Sylar then grabs a parking meter and begins to beat Peter, but a nearby Niki Sanders rips the meter from Sylar's hands and knocks him down. Peter tells Niki to leave and stay with her family - having absorbed her superhuman strength - begins beating Sylar viciously. Sylar, instead of fighting back, begins laughing as Peter's hands begin to glow. He tells Peter that he has been wrong all along, that he is the villain, and Sylar is the hero. As Sylar watches Peter, Hiro teleports in behind him and stabs Sylar through the chest before he can react. Sylar collapses to the ground, but before Hiro can do anything to stop Peter from exploding, Sylar uses what little strength he has left to toss Hiro against a building, forcing him to teleport away at the last second. Sylar smiles and slumps to the ground and in his eyes sees everyone who has died due to his own actions, including himself, and they then fade to white.

In the epilogue, as the other characters mourn the apparent loss of the Petrelli brothers, Sylar has vanished, leaving only a bloody trail leading from where he laid to an open manhole cover. A cockroach is seen crawling on the manhole, echoing an earlier scene in "The Fix", as well as Mohinder's mentioning of their evolutionary superiority in the first episode. It is unknown how Sylar survived.

But he has found his way to Los Angeles, California. Regaining his strength, and making sure he's ready for whatever is next to come. And of course, a little revenge is only necessary along the way.

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{ I play Sylar in

tenebrae_nostro, as well as other places. No, I'm not Zachary Quinto, nor that remotely hot. Sorry to disappoint. The banner is my own creation. The information provided above, is from your friendly neighborhood wikipedia. And the mun's name is Skye. ( Yes, she doesn't talk about it much. ) }

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