![]() He left a message for this man, went about his life, and when Brian sought him out for help, Gabriel introduced himself, for the first time, as Gabriel Sylar - taken from a brand of a watch he was fixing at the time. Upon leaving, Gabriel found he still had the contact details of one of these people in his hand - a man named Brian Davis, a telekinetic. Out of anger, he grabbed Suresh's files on the people he would come to as he did Gabriel, flinging them down and asking if Suresh would toss them aside too. This snapped something inside of Gabriel. Neither he nor Suresh could work out his gift, and Suresh came to the conclusion that he had made a mistake - that Gabriel wasn't gifted after all. Suresh had given him hope, and Gabriel wasn't going to let it go without a fight.īut Gabriel's gift of intuitive aptitude was a subtle one, nothing so flashy as spontaneous regeneration, flight, or telekinesis. This was his opportunity, the perfect opportunity, to become something more than a humble watchmaker, to become something more than the sum of his depressingly ordinary existence and reject, transcend the expectations his parents had put on him, imagined and not. Chandra Suresh, a geneticist, sought him out when Gabriel was in his later twenties, and told him he had a special ability. Little did he know that his talent as a watchmaker was an evolutionary power, not mere talent. This futile attempt at trying to gain approval from a man who had no presence in his life and the disappointment it invoked in his mother created a kind of restless frustration and a yearning to be good enough, accepted, loved that was never realised. At the same time, he pursued a career in watchmaking and time piece restoration, something he had an uncanny talent for, in order to please his absent father. Burdened, and simultaneously trapped by, and so Gabriel's mundane existence was unsatisfactory to both him and his mother. ![]() What this raised was a rather quiet and self-conscious young man who didn't easily make friends, sometimes reflecting his mother's tendencies towards having a quick temper, and burdened with her expectations in Christian morality as well as her hopes and dreams for his future. It doesn't help that she can't be described as a particularly well woman, prone to fits of hysteria, mood swings, manic behaviour. He was raised in a claustrophobic environment of his mother's religious upbringing in combination with her sometimes embarrassing over protectiveness. ![]() What he does know is that his father walked out when Gabriel was very young, leaving him in the hands of the slightly broken, devout woman Virginia Gray. Gabriel Gray comes from a humble background in Queens, and far humbler than he can even comprehend. ![]()
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