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THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW HIM IS CRIMINAL! 😭 HE'S LITERALLY BEEN VOTED THE GREATEST TV VILLAIN OF ALL TIME!

This is from THIS year! 13 years after the show ended and he's still rated #1 by most lists. 😤

Controversial Character Tournament Round 1: Sylar from Heroes

Tagged by the very talented and supportive @purple-amaranthe Thank thee for including me.

1. Gabriel "Sylar" Gray. That's it. That's my type. 😅

Ok, okay... I'll do the full thing.

Men

1. Sylar

2. Gabriel Gray (he was my type even before he got confidence and god-like powers)

3. Spike (William the Bloody)

4. Damon Salvatore

5. Smaug (yeah, that's right, I wanna fuck a dragon! 😤)

6. Eric Northman

7. Castiel

8. Gomez Addams (Raul Julia)

9. Kyoya Ootori (That goddamn bed scene! *nosebleed*)

Honorable mention for Mercutio. (Yes, from Shakespeare) and Yue (Cardcaptor Sakura) ((I think I have an angel kink. >.>)) BB

Women

1. Velma Dinkley (my first and forever waifu 😤)

2. Ryoko Hakubi (That's Space Pirate Ryoko to you)

3. Morticia Addams (I could just watch them. Seriously...)

4. Elvira (I have a thing for goth girls... Can you blame me‽)

5. Erza Scarlet

6. Faye Valentine

7. Willow Rosenburg (especially vampire and dark Willow. 🥵)

8. Winifred Burkle (Fred! 😭😭)

9. Brienne of Tarth

Gendy Nuetch & Non-binary

1. Lucifer Morningstar (According to the Satanic Church Lucifer is non-binary.) ((I love Lucy.))

2. Haruka Tenoh (Sailor Uranus)

3. Kou Seiya (Sailor Star Fighter)

4. Gabriel (Constantine film adaptation)

5. Grencia Mars Elijah Guo Eckener (aka Gren from Bebop)

6. Klaus Hargreeves

7. Loki Laufeyson (Loki is in fact gender fluid 😁)

8. Garnet (Steven Universe has so much representation! 😭)

9. Crowley (any version)

I tag @saltygilmores @t4toro and @eziolovesbirds

Share 9 of your fictional crushes and let everyone guess your type!

I was tagged by @whichwayloreylo thank you!!! :D

Numerical order doesn't matter here btw

1. Kylo Ren/Ben Solo

2. Miguel O' Hara (LMAO)

3. Sevika and Vi and Silco and Jace(Arcane)

4. Rosa Diaz (Brooklyn 99)

5. Anthony Bridgerton

6. Pretty much any character played by Cate Blanchett

7. Julian Devorak from the Arcana

8. Zagreus and Ares from Hades the game

9. Draco Malfoy (MY interpretations of him, not so much the canon/film interpretations)

I tag @rogueimperator @oh-nostalgiaa @echoofawind @m1ssjess @purple-amaranthe

1. The Gabriel

2. The Company Cut

3. The Zane

4. The Fauxhawk

5. The Mexican Mullet

6. The Sylar Signature

7. The Presidential

Why are there literally only 3 pics of 5 Years Gone Sy and only this teensy one is in focus? 😭

Never forget one of the baddest BBEGs loves vanilla ice cream with rainbow sprinkies. 🌈🍦🖤

I wrote a drabble for this, because I loved this moment so much. Enjoy. 😆

I interrupt your regularly scheduled program to bring you one of my favorite moments in television from 2007: a cutaway shot of Zachary Quinto randomly eating ice cream.

(Heroes 1x22: “Chapter Twenty-Two ‘Landslide’“)

A writer from the back of the room raises their hand.

"I do."

It's going to be a common mention in my upcoming fic Hail to the Chief. It's an AU where Peter warns Nathan of his impending death and he decides to make a deal to get the devil off his back. In exchange for Sylar making him president for two full terms before taking over and sparing him and his family, Nathan offers to give him something he wants more than power, or should I say, someone.

I hate how the writers never truly explored Sylar's og power to its full potential... He could put a clock to his ear and tell exactly what was wrong with it and how to fix it, which means his ability was not restricted to knowing how other people's abilities worked. Not even restricted to the abilities at all because he was able to cure Charlie. Sylar's capable of learning how any machine works and how anything in a brain works. He could literally learn any language just by listening and watching someone's brain but they never tried that. They never showed him understanding how something works except for clocks. It makes me SO mad. Sylar is overpowered but not because he has a bunch of powers, it's because of his original ability. He could turn into a mad scientist and speak all the languages in the world if he wanted, god I hate how they did not explore his ability at all.

An addition from a Hereos fanfiction author: *clears throat*

It's also possible that Martin was not abusive at all, but indifferent and calloused towards Gabriel because he never wanted him as a son. His short temper could have been in the little ways he'd snap like : "Ask your mother!" or "What have I told you about bothering me while I'm working‽" which he was never not doing as a means of keeping his distance from them both. He confesses to Gabriel that he got him purely to make it easier to leave Virginia because she was a "sick, infantile woman," and he wanted out of a "loveless marriage". Gabriel was purchased so she would become codependent on him instead of Martin and once Martin was certain she'd become attached, and wouldn't come looking for him, he bailed. There was no Gabriel standing up to him. He describes the night he left as "Going for a pack of cigarettes. A bit cliche, don't you think?" Gabriel was bought as a sacrificial lamb.

His actual father on the other hand murdered his baby momma the second he got rid of their kid. She was no longer of use to him and since she was clearly upset and wanted her son back, when she woke up, he decided to also cut his losses. But Samson is covetous like Gabriel, chalk it up to the nature of Intuitive Aptitude, and if he wasn't going to have her then no one would. He'd tried keeping her at first, otherwise he'd have just left Gabriel with her. Instead he tries to sell him and for only a few hundred dollars then tries to leave with her. When that doesn't work, and she's upset, he kills her.

It's much more likely that Samson was abusive to Gabriel or both of them and that is birth mother shielded him. That he hid in the closet while she was getting beaten or SA'ed. The man said: "That was so long ago. Who can remember," when asked why he sold his son and killed his lover. Gabriel's lie detection doesn't go off. This man cared so little about his child and partner that the reasons for ending her life and selling his son weren't worth remembering.

Gabriel mirrors his father subconsciously throughout the show prior to meeting him and getting those few memories back. He kills every victim after Brian the same way he saw his father kill his mother. He uses women as tools, often through seduction and describes Maya as: "A shiny new toy and she's all mine." He acts like they're pathetic for falling for his wiles and looks down on people he can deceive in general.

When he realizes that Elle has lied to him again by insisting the Petrelli's are his parents and that "Bennet is lying. He's Bennet," what does he do? He doesn't confront her and have a normal conversation about her betrayal. He doesn't end things by stranding her where they were teleported to and telling her he'll kill her if she looks for him. No. He seduces her to lower her defenses and get her in a vulnerable position, tells her he knows she was lying in a roundabout way by saying people don't change while also referring to himself, and then he kills her. It's one of his only crimes of passion instead of practicality or the acquisition of power.

I also believe that she knew why he was hurting her and that's why she let him. All she says is: "You're hurting me," and when he says: "I know," she just closes her eyes and quietly whimpers through the pain. She knew she shouldn't have tricked and manipulated him again and she felt she deserved it. We know from his previous attempt to kill her that she could have beaten him if she had wanted to, but that's a whole different topic. The point is that Gabriel ended things with Elle by ending her, the same way his father did with his mother.

He's been subconsciously reenacting his childhood ever since his second kill. When his father points out that he only preys on feeble targets his defense is that it's not his fault they're so weak and his father smiles to himself. That's because it's clearly his same logic and in that moment he knows his son turned out exactly like him, which might be a point of pride since he thinks so highly of himself. Unlike Gabriel (who literally cries more than any other character on the show), Samson has no remorse over his actions whatsoever. He truly is a monster, while Gabriel has been trapped in an unconscious pantomime of portraying one because that's what he learned power looked like. That's how the person on top of the chain behaved, so as soon as he gets power of his own he starts acting the same.

This is actually very common for children of abuse, whether it was themselves or helplessly watching others, because all people pick up behavioral patterns from their parents as children no matter how hard you fight against it, they get in there. And in the case of toxic people, at least one of those toxic traits is going to be absorbed and modeled. For some people it's ending up with abusive relationships, whether it's friends or lovers, because they picked up traits from the victim. For others, it's the abuser. Some people see a boot and neck situation and decide they're going to be the boot, others choose to be the neck (intentionally or not), and it is so difficult to even recognize these traits, forget reprogramming them into healthy ones. That requires so much work and at the end of the day, most people know they're fucked up and that it hurts others around them but they don't care enough to put in the effort.

Gabriel has always toed that line of knowing he's fucked up but not understanding why and when he learns why that is used to explain and excuse it all. While thinking he was Nathan (which was just him getting to experience what life could have been like if he felt supported and loved and chose a career people respect), he learns what it feels like to be that kind of person. In the meantime his psyche is in Matt's head and he's forced to see a person with similar insecurities and similar daddy issues have everything, which confuses and angers him. Why could Matt Parkman get a wife who loves him for who he is and start a family of his own, when he couldn't? Eventually, in the mind prison, when he's lost everything and he's all alone, he accepts that he was one of the people that never really tried to have the things he wanted because he took a "If you can't handle me at my worst, you don't deserve me at my best," approach without accepting that his worst self was cruel and emotionally unavailable, things you cannot expect people should accept.

He feels unwanted as Gabriel and unworthy as Sylar. That's why he tells Peter: "Maybe I deserve all this aloneness, this nothingness!" That means there's hope for him, because he's still capable of feeling remorse, guilt, and shame. He's still capable of taking responsibility for his actions. If there wasn't a decent person buried beneath all the layers, he would have never tried to be a better person any of the times he's attempted it. And despite how many times people have lied, manipulated, and betrayed him, Gabriel still tries to trust others because he wants to be loved and to belong so badly. The whole point of the show is that no one is all good or all bad and that includes the villains. If anyone on that show could be redeemed from a psychological standpoint, it would be Gabriel Gray.

sylar has this weird thing where he respects the intent behind a closed door and doesn’t force it open when someone is hiding from him (molly walker, claire bennet, virginia gray)

I wonder if it’s because he once hid behind a closed door and that’s why he respects the fragile safety that it represents

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#i will NOT blorbo ify a serial killer. i will simply not do that

i need to feed him soup