Grant Carter

Registry of the Evolved Database

File #18 Jan 2009 23:48

Summary

Name Grant Carter Aliases Status Unregistered Evolved Ability Broadcast Reception/Transmission Gender Male Race/Eth. Caucasian Birthdate Age 21 Height Build Eyes Hair Residence Employment Student (Accounting) Parents Siblings Marital Status Single Children First Seen First Night On The Job Last Seen Bastard Squared Profile Grant is a nobody to most people. He's a college student that has a knack for numbers. He's quiet, and somewhat bookish.

portrayed by Jason London

Background

Grantham Carter was born to a pair of factory workers in the south. They didn't have a lot of money, but they were at least able to afford all the necessities of life. He was a quiet child for the most part, though he was drawn to music.

He didn't have a lot of friends, preferring to spend time on his own. In the playgrounds, he always spent his time along, away from the other children. Sure, there were a few that he'd talk to, but not that many. He was just the type of kid that liked to be alone.

As he grew, that never changed. His love for music and his preference for being left alone were what people knew him for. Along with music, though, came his love of numbers. He excelled in the ars mathematica from the beginning.

He chose to go to college, heading towards one of the local schools. The chosen major? ACCOUNTING! What better for someone who likes to be alone and loves numbers? He got a good scholarship, due to his parents lack of income, and chose to head to another state, to get away from the family. Due to his scholarships, grants, and loans, he chose a college in New York. City University of New York - Queens Campus.

Shortly after his arrival, though, all the weirdness happened. The bomb, the evolved becoming common knowledge, and… his own abilities. It started lightly. He would occasionally hear radio stations when there was no radio around.

It really came to the fore when he was listening to his mp3 player, and one of his few friends came up to him. He told him about some new radio station playing. He pulled his headphone out and listened to the one his friend was using. He heard nothing. As he put his own mp3 player back into his other ear, he heard the exact same thing playing out of the radio. He knew something weird was going on.

Deciding to take it in his own time, he began testing and learning more about it. He knows what he is. He's read and studied on things. However, he doesn't believe in a lot of the current sitational things. He doesn't think he should have to register himself, because he prefers to keep his private life to himself. However, with the state of affairs, he's getting tired of just letting other people decide what's going to happen in his life.

He's struggling, trying to find a way to balance his school life and his desire to find out more about himself, right now. He's managing, and keeping his grades up, but he's getting to the point where he has to try to find friends. He's scared of what might happen if his abilities become known… and… he's not even sure what else he CAN do.

Psych Profile

Evolved Ability

Grant's power is the ability to receive and transmit signal broadcasts. What this means, is he can hear and/or see signals from radio and tv, OR he can transmit to those same things. However, he doesn't yet know that he can work with TV signals. Radio transmission and reception is simple and easy. He can hear radio transmissions without it interfering with his normal day to day workings. He can hear either AM or FM transmissions at will, adjusting his mental 'dial' to the right stations. Television reception, however, when he learns it… will completely disable him while he's watching. TV signals are much stronger. He will be able to see nothing or hear nothing when it's going on.

Broadcasting radio on a random channel is easy as well, simply letting the sounds he hears to flow onto the air waves. However, he cannot filter anything he hears. ANYTHING he hears or says will go directly onto the waves when he's broadcasting. Like with reception, Television broadcasting will render Grant immobile and unable to do anything until he stops. He can see and hear everything, however, he has to focus on sending it all out.

Grant can receive anything a standard high definition radio or standard non-cable television can receive. His broadcast range is limited to a one mile radius from his body. However, his signals can be amplified by machinery (like a signal boosting tower, or a 'news van' or something of the sort). He can, potentially, jam a signal nearby by broadcasting his own signal over what he's hearing. However, doing so will only be short range.

Appendices

Timeline:

February 2009

February 16, 2009	Grant is introduced to Rupe in the back room at Old Lucy's. He finds out more about people that he knows than he expected. And… he likes what he hears.

January 2009

January 18, 2009	Grant goes to Old Lucy's and meets Nicolas who buys him a beer, along with Roselyn who is working that evening. Nicolas gets called to the back but is soon replaced by Ben. ((First Night on the Job))
January 25, 2009	Grant goes to Old Lucy's and runs into Nicolas and Roselyn. The bartender, Abby warns him that he needs to get off the island. ((The Warning))
January 27, 2009	Grant goes to a different bar this time, and happens to see Hagan. He's seen Hagan before but never chatted. Funny, they're both assholes and possible because of that, may just get along fine.

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Trivia and Notes:

• Grant is left-handed.
• Grant is almost always listening to the 'radio' in his head. If he's not, he's listening to something physical and playing the 'radio' in his head for anyone who happens to be on the right station.