Part Two - Heroes Survival Game Bio

When I initially joined the Heroes Survival Game (HSG), it was during Phase Two and the bio was the basis of what would become the Assignment Tracker 2.0 content except on the HSG bio, there are two exclusive sections that continue chronologically after the AT 2.0 March 20, 2007 entry.

HSG Bio

The first section, Ellen, is revealing what Trevor was up to in the Volume 3 and 4 timeline. As much as I wanted him to be this uber-James Bond character, I knew I had to ground him in the Heroes-verse in a sensible way. He's only human and flawed like anyone else. He let his emotions get the better of him and set out to get revenge. And between 2006 and 2007, he killed five Company agents and it got to him. Trevor began to realize the monolithic nature of the Company and began to question himself. So in short, he exiled himself to one of the safe places he knew of, the Chinese countryside, in order to reassess.

I set this up to explore more in detail in a future story. But the HSG profile reveals the tail end of his exile. All of a sudden, his dead cell phone starts getting texts from someone.

JUNE 2, 2007

I summed up Ellen's purpose and Volume 4. To add several things to pique Trevor's interest, the reference to his nickname listed in the HSG bio and I wrote in the part of being in an equation. As I noted earlier, the numbers one's and zero's play a part in Trevor's power. It's set up to explore Trevor's use of mathematics in future stories.

I might as well talk about the nickname. When I went about creating these aliases for Trevor, there was no significant origin other than coming up with Japanese names and matching the first letter to the first letter of the first name as an homage to the comic book motifs (i.e. Peter Parker, Wally West).

The nickname itself, I never figured out a way to tell its story but the backstory on it is some silly DJ handle, he came up with when he was in college, before he manifested. I pictured him as listening to rap music one day and fantasizing about how cool it would be to be a rapper. He brainstormed and tried to figure out what his name would be and thought about the flow of pronouncing letters and mrmichaelt was all he could come up with.

That's why the tone of his answer to Ellen was "I haven't heard that name from college" = "Man that sounds so stupid to me now, what was I thinking?". And also, the fact that this Ellen knows something about his past, which he erased, raises a red flag in his brain. Trevor is intrigued and has to know more. So he quickly accesses his memory and concludes Ellen is an alias and deduces she or one of her cronies has a power which then references Micah Sanders, Hana Gitelman, and Richard Drucker's powers. Obviously in this case, Ellen called in a favor to Micah, now Rebel, to deliver the text. I used this to tie in to their alliance in iStory. Then Trevor's warning about being a "caged tiger" is another Drucker reference from when he interacted with Gitelman in one of the early Evolutions blogs/texts. Because at this point, Trevor is still on the fence about giving up or continuing to kill and he compares himself to a zoo animal.

JUNE 4, 2007

I wanted to have fun with Leona Mills' character, and hint at how much like Angela Petrelli she can really be like, which iStory explores in Book Five. She continues to dangle that line in front of Trevor. Trevor responds with more Drucker-esque logic and I embedded a loose reference to HRG's Company, if it ever comes to be. After that line is one of my favorite quotes, it's mainly about purpose and we see what Trevor is really after and basically asks Leona if that's what she's offering.

Leona realizes this and starts speaking in code to Trevor. She starts by quoting Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass). It happens to be a line that is my all time favorite, about identity and change, and Trevor, who probably memorized the book, responds with another line. And this also happens to be a scene from Lost when Jack reads the story to his nephew in a Flash Forward. Then Leona quotes another line which instructs him where to meet. This turns out to be Trevor's birthplace, which I did on purpose to explore in a future story.

Then the texts end and we shift to the second piece, Building 26.

BUILDING 26

The title is in reference to the room where all the captured specials were kept under sedation. If you paid attention to panels, you'd see the Human Resources sign. I always loved that sort of irony so I wanted to reference it. The file name and its style is a direct homage to iStory 602's conclusion when it is revealed how Belief insulted the agent, Penn. It sums up what Trevor did post March 20, 2007 and notes when he arrived at LAX, on June 15, 2007. This is a reference to when the registration on Niki Sanders' Cadillac in Volume One "Don't Look Back" expires. And to add to Ms. Niles line about using Victor and Valerie on two ends of the USA, I had Trevor meet Victor then vanish. This story picks up in part two of my five parter.

After that I planned on inserting my five parter but I discovered there is a limit to how much you can type in the field. So with a restriction, I looked elsewhere to post it, on 9th Wonders. But recently, I decided it will be housed here on this blog as five posts and I'd leave a link on the forum. It'll also have a minor edit and extra joke added since the forum thread was created.