Talk:Gray Boy

Original vs Clone

"need to distinguish in the article a bit more between gray boy and his clone, we do not need seperate articles but they do have slightly diffrent powers and personalities"

The difficulty with that is the implication that his power restored his original body, so it's hard to say how much of his seen personality is his real one and how much is Bonesaw's memory implants. Gray Boy was active for quite some time before he was killed (I recall reading he was 35 when he first died, can anyone confirm?), and Jack Slash seemed to think he was acting in character when he was cloned, which implies he wasn't Labyrinthine for his entire 25(? probably less than that) years of activity in the S9. By the way, do you have a WoG on the powers thing? That's the first time I've heard of there being any differences between Gray Boy's and Clone Boy's powers.Rimmer7 (talk) 04:56, July 10, 2016 (UTC)

I will admit to some presumption (never assume anything when you edit a wiki) on my part, since you are interested in gray boy let me share a quote form the story.

A computer monitor on the desk flickered to life.

“I’m excited,” Jack said. “Gray Boy is working on getting the video up. Funny thing. The real Gray Boy wouldn’t be able to do this, but we gave this one the memories of a real child. Came with the necessary skills. I’m almost disappointed. People are so much more interesting when they’re flawed, aren’t they? Oh, here we go. I haven’t even seen this. Let’s see…”

Your Thoughts, The clone may just be more lucid now but how much is shaping form pre-riley bonesaw?

Also how do you do the quote thing? i just copied off of you--FossilLord 05:22, July 10, 2016 (UTC)

I just ctrl+c->ctrl+v'd your edit summary. Anyway, I saw that Jack quote, but I interpreted that as Bonesaw's extra memory-implants granting the restored Gray Boy the skills that the child those memory-implants were taken from had, with video making/editing (something that wasn't easily available in the 80s/90s when I presume OGB was active) being one of them, as opposed to his original personality being completely replaced by the implants. Again, this is due to the implication that GB's shard revived the original, which may have come with the original's memories in addition to the implants, as the shard will have presumably backed up GB's memories in case his brain gets destroyed and the shard has to be able to time-revert his brain without doing the same to his memories. It's quite difficult to tell one way or the other due to Wildbow deliberately being vague and occasionally inconsistent in his WoGs along with responding to questions like "does this mean A or does it mean B?" with the classic mathematician's answer of "Yes."

An additional and absolutely hellish complication is telling fanon apart from canon, which is unusually difficult in Worm due to the sheer wordcount of the Worm web serial and the popularity of Worm fanfiction.

Still, all in all it is true that the only WoG we have of original GB is that he was similar to Labyrinth, so that's what the article should say of his personality.Rimmer7 (talk) 05:41, July 10, 2016 (UTC)