Gregory Laramore

''My name is not Greg, its Gregory. Now would you just remember that so we can carry on.''

Background
''Just look at me, sitting in my own little world for five years, accepting insanity as sanity. Thus is life in a Bardo.''

Basic Info
Gregory Laramore was born on September 16th, 1983 in Albany New York. In the year 2008 he removed himself from the world and entered a strange Bardo.

Recent History
Very few Geniuses are capable of constant exposure to a Bardo ecosystem. While the concentration of mania varies from Bardo to Bardo, the prolonged effects of it on a genius can often be highly detrimental to their physical, and even more worrying, their mental health. To spend a year in a Bardo is an extraordinary accomplishment. To spend any time more is often considered an unlikely anomaly by the Genius community.

For Gregory Laramore, such an event should not be dismissed as an anomaly, but an attainable state, with some effort of course. With some difficulty, he managed to discover and enter a strange Bardo where failed military technologies of the world were given new life. When he entered, he quickly took up residence in the Bardo’s Appalachian Mountain Range, creating a small lab to further understand the weapons of the Bardo. How the two World Powers, tore eachother apart using technologies that would make a lesser scientist squirm. Tanks the size of houses, functioning freeze rays, and even a device that was capable of creating earthquakes, which was quickly weaponized by the Bardo’s US Government. There he simply watched the chaos and destruction as the bardo entered a third world war (in 1969 no less). But something had changed. Mania seeped and corrupted the Bardo around him, creating an entirely new world power. After managing to maintain his composure, the Bardo was struck by another expansion, several superpowers with distinctive backgrounds forming at once, acting as if they’ve existed for decades despite their sudden emergence.

Despite warnings from others who left the Bardo, Gregory decided to stay as the world warped around him. Although he had established himself as a Scientist for the Allied (Think of them as a Military Minded United Nations) cause (managing to swipe some technology), he quickly decided to throw his knowledge behind a new cause, a small, upstart civil defence force in the United States, after discovering their deep and intimate knowledge of Epikrato. Realizing this group would be perfect for observing the effects of mind control (or using the term he learned they liked to use, Post Hypnotic Suggestion) on a large population, he “accidentally” left some notes on more effective means of mind control on the desk of some rookie scientist, nearly doubling the effectiveness of their mind control overnight. He stood in a land of millions of test subjects. Rats running through a maze they had no hope in understanding. With puppet masters so potent they could turn a docile population into an army of communist hating super soldiers. Every man woman and child ready to take up arms in the name of Uncle Sam.

But what did Gregory care of these manes? They were nothing but creative energy, a malleable and never-ending resource. To waste such energy would be a grave mistake. That is why Gregory stays. Why should he leave such a wonderful place? Such ideas supplement his own research so nicely. And a near limitless stream of mania would guarantee that his research would expand indefinitely.

Personality
Gregory Laramore is a control freak, always trying to assert his dominance over others through subtle or overt ways. He is able to recognize what traits others appreciate and quickly learns to mimic them around them in order to boost his standing. He does however have a very short (albeit hard to light) fuse.

Appearance
Gregory Laramore is 6 ft tall with clean cut black hair and brown eyes with small green speckles behind a pair of glasses. The speckles are Jade from the Parado Bardo, lodged in his eyes after a lab experiment. Due to the etiquette of the Bardo he had taken residence in, he is often seen sporting a grey suit with a matching fedora in public, the years even causing him to adopt such clothing in his private life as well.

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