Editing Gray Boy (section)

==Trivia==

*In previous drafts of Worm, Gray Boy was usually an independent villain. Some versions of him would shunt people into the future, during which they experienced sensory deprivation, rather than looping them; he began sending people thousands or millions of years when he was "broken mentally" during that story.<ref name="SB1aaaa" />
**Gray Boy's power was inspired by Wildbow thinking of the worst thing he could do with a common time power.<ref name="SB1aaaa">Gray Boy is one of those characters that cropped up a lot in the drafts.<br /><br />Where Bonesaw sort of found her way to various teams in the drafts, Gray Boy was usually a loner. An independent who might have been in the same in-story role as Kaiser, with various tweaks to powers.<br /><br />So you think, just in general, "What's a horrible thing you can do with [common power], as a variant?"<br /><br />Fire goes out of control, that's sort of a metaphor for Burnscar. Water, Leviathan. Lightning strikes, there's not a fucking lot you can normally do about being struck by lightning.<br /><br />Remember the last chapter of Migration? Peaks are higher, valleys are lower. It's just a question of scale.<br /><br />Gray Boy was a fairly natural leap from 'time power'. I think in another variation, he just shunted you a duration into the future. For all intents and purposes, you disappeared, but you got to experience the ride in real time. In that incarnation, he was broken mentally, he started to shunt people around by thousands or tens of thousands or millions of years instead of the usual. Similar idea, less visceral, harder to get on paper. Idea gets refined, given his short appearance and need to 'show' more, and you wind up with this. - 
[http://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/13653718 Comment by Wildbow on Spacebattles]</ref>
*It is theorized that Nicholas took the [[List of Cauldron vials#M-0-0-4-2.2C .22Vestige.22|Vestige]] formula, the same Cauldron vial taken by [[Perdition]] and possibly [[Epoch]].