I decided to make Trevor's control index on the high side at 88% not only because he's awesome but to lay down the possibility that he could use his power against telepaths and other cerebral's in a dangerous way which I explore in future stories.
I love the Diagram photo used for specials with Enhanced Memory. The Ones and Zeroes become an important motif in future stories when Trevor uses his power.
Personal History
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I based them on the reports that evsdropr stole with the trojan virus. Like with field reports, agents check in to Primatech. Story-wise, I decided to use Julia Ryan and Lukas Bahn as the agents first charged with determining if Trevor was a highly evolved being. At this point in 2006, Trevor is already using multiple aliases, moving from state to state, and erased his data in every known database across the world. It makes perfect sense to use the Ryan-Bahn team because they specialize in finding the hard to find, off the grid specials.
I also sought to quickly establish how Trevor used his advanced ability of enhanced memory: memorizing specific disciplines that may come handy while on the lam, languages, tv shows (that he's references to in his own snarky way), keeps in shape (so he can fight or flee), and is an outcast.
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I wanted to build up a sense of mystery behind this character. Why did he erase his history? Who is he really? What is he? I laid down the blacks ops theory to use as a callback in the story "Spook."
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These lay out Trevor's traveling pattern. It is done chronologically to suggest he was moving west from some point east but at the same time, nothing specific about his origins. The main point is to demonstrate his patterns of how long he stays, names he used, where he appeared, what job he used that was listed in the statistics, and what other people noted of him.
Also I chose the date May 2, 2003 because we know from his profile, Matt Neuenberg manifested in 2003 at age 12.
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I adapted the 'accumulated ability predictors' from the chosen method of investigating specials by the Company, usually mentioned as genetic predictors just like in evs' file on a homeless special being chased. I also laid down this entry to use as brief flashback in the montage of Part One.
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I used this to reveal why Trevor stayed so long in Hawai'i, he found a life he wanted and someone to share it with. However, with love often comes tragedy in the world of Heroes. The Company tried to bag and tag him but the came at the wrong time. I used what happened to Sandra Bennet in Volume One to explore a curiosity of the Haitian's power and its effects. It can't work the same on everyone. In this case, Trevor's girlfriend got a seizure from the mental manipulation and died. This becomes the main driving force of Trevor's life. I debated for awhile on what his impetus would be, and I concluded on an element of tragedy. I also listed the agents there specifically for Trevor to discover when he steals a Company phone and hacks into their database. They become part of his 'list', another motif of the show.
I used terms like neurocognitive deficit, support team, and nullifer from the AT Files and Graphic Novels. 'Nullifier' and 'support team' came from the story featuring Kill Squad taking on Brandon Lewis with Donna Dunlap and Eric Thompson Jr., who was present at the attempted bag and tag of Trevor. I never elaborated on the support team but it may have been anyone even a KS member or two.
September 26, 2006 was chosen because it is the day Chandra Suresh told Mohinder he was paranoid about being followed as revealed in "Genesis."
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I began to embed elements of the show into Trevor's story: Sprint phones, Company surveillance, and Assignment Tracker. I also felt the need to frame the storyline and adding in show references to solidify and tighten Trevor's. Here I used the raid that Matt Parkman and Audrey Hanson instigated in Odessa in Volume One. I suspect it made a headline in a local newspaper and Trevor probably saw it while skimming Google News or something online and remembered.
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I laid down Trevor's methods. He times his flights, pre-packs, has safe houses all around (I never dealt with how he did it, but he was a credit analyst so its implied he had financial sense and liquidated everything then bought up properties with his aliases. I never got time to explain it so it got cut out). Also felt the need to link his power to his basic skill of analysis then combined, it makes him a very strategic person. Also the rant about how his power is not harmful is a nod to Justice League Unlimited "The Cat and the Canary" when Black Canary and Green Arrow confront Wildcat about his extra-circular activities. The last line about paranoia is also modified from something Sayid Jarrah said to Jack in the Lost season 2 finale when they talked about Michael.
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This is intended to reveal that the Company knows Trevor killed the agent and took his phone and (gun but I forgot to mention it but if you think about it, Trevor probably took all his gear to find out about this operation) and performed an autopsy, exploring Company procedure. Revealed that the surviving agent was Dulahey who had a brief appearance on iStory Book One Operation Splinter Chapter 4 when the contract player searches Red Eye's apartment. The player asks Dulahey about the agent before,
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Meant to confirm that Trevor did indeed at least download some AT 2.0 files before ditching the phone. He reads off psych profiles of several characters including Matt Neuenberg who shares the same power.
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Maybe I threw this in to build empathy for Trevor. He was trying to rebuild his life and then he lost it. Now, he's running on rage and wants revenge and I established he's okay with killing. So he's in a weird moral gray space, he's never been in, and now he's had his paranoia confirmed by the Company. The song he hears in his head is a reference to the Korean film, "Old Boy." It hit a chord with me when I watched the movie and it stuck with me since. As much as Trevor is angry, he also has a broken heart and he has never felt so vulnerable.
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When Trevor goes on another rant, most of the dialogue is a reference to Richard Drucker when he conversed with Hana Gitelman in Volume 2's Heroes Evolutions. I loved the ideology and for sure it would have been a book that Trevor read during his travels. It also shows that he's questioning his current course of action, what's more important, revenge or the truth, a callback to when Ted and Parkman confront Bennet at his house in Volume One "Company Man." It also lays tracks for his desire to find others with powers, which comes to a head in my later stories. Also the line about "wishing it and making it happen.." is a loose nod to Future Matt and Future Mohinder's conversation in Volume One's "Five Years Gone."
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Based on one of my original blog posts during the evsdropr arc, this one sets up how Trevor now booby traps his safe houses with cheap explosives. Also included is a nod to another agent introduced in the evsdropr arc, Paul Harding, who can manipulate hair.
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Also another original entry I gave some meat to. It establishes where Trevor is during the Volume 2 finale, he was visiting his girlfriend's grave a few feet away from where Kaito Nakamura's funeral was held which I later referenced in several future stories. I also couldn't help but establish this was after Hiro buried Adam Monroe and Trevor thinks its his subconscious.
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Ties up everything I was implying and setting up. He's dangerous.
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A nod to iStory with the Executive Servies. Always wanted Evolutions to explore those divisions more but I felt the need to show that the Company considers what their bag and tags could be if they were 'reprogrammed' to work for them.
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Couldn't resist but make Trevor look nuts with multiple disorders. Apophenia is a callback to DC Comics' the Question and a scene from Justice League Unlimited "Double Date" when Huntress messes with the Question in the Watchtower. Class III Sedation is a callback to the German arc when he was captured and the Company transmissions were sent to us by evsdropr. The German was sedated to keep his powers in check during transport.
Next time: I introduce what happened to Trevor in the show's third season and talk about that in detail.
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