Part of Gabe's power training involved Reginald exposing him to some really horrific audio and visuals at a young age to weaponize the hallucinations. These include: snuff films, war footage, serial killer confession tapes, crime scene pictures, autopsies, and a whole host of other morbidities. To test his development, his father once made him conjure a battle scene strewn with the mutilated bodies of his siblings. Reginald's only response was "I don't see Number Seven." Gabe couldn't look his siblings in the eyes for a weeks.
He hates horror movies, but used to watch them as research. He generally tries to avoid watching them with any of his siblings around after someone pointed out how jumpy he was after they saw The Ring.
He hasn't really done it since he left for college, but he used to create wild, fanciful hallucinations for his siblings. Partially to prove to himself that he can make something other than a nightmare, partially to just be nice.
On any late night donut excursions, his go to order was a cream filled, a chocolate sprinkle, and a box of chocolate milk. He's still fond of boxed chocolate milk.
Gabe once got himself stuck in a tree during a mission where they had a showdown in a park and he needed the high ground to best cast a hallucination, and one of his siblings had to save him. He still stands by the fact that he would have come down on his own eventually.
Pop music has been a guilty pleasure of his for years. He'll never admit it, but the first time he ever tried using his powers for non-heroic purposes as a teenager was to shoplift a Britney Spears album (that one of his siblings found and he swore up and down belonged to one of the girls and wound up in his room somehow). On top of that, and he would never admit this to any of his siblings, he sometimes does karaoke and used to hallucinate his way into bars to do so as a teenager.
Right before he left for college, he gave their dad a minor "fuck you" by casting monocles all over the place that would disappear the moment he reached out to pick it up. Reginald tore into him that evening, but it was so worth it.
He had a fling with a girl when he was 16 that he used to sneak out to meet up with. He gave her an alias and everything, but she dumped him after she found out he'd been lying to her when one of his siblings found him and called him by his name and she put two-and-two together.
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He hates horror movies, but used to watch them as research. He generally tries to avoid watching them with any of his siblings around after someone pointed out how jumpy he was after they saw The Ring.
He hasn't really done it since he left for college, but he used to create wild, fanciful hallucinations for his siblings. Partially to prove to himself that he can make something other than a nightmare, partially to just be nice.
On any late night donut excursions, his go to order was a cream filled, a chocolate sprinkle, and a box of chocolate milk. He's still fond of boxed chocolate milk.
Gabe once got himself stuck in a tree during a mission where they had a showdown in a park and he needed the high ground to best cast a hallucination, and one of his siblings had to save him. He still stands by the fact that he would have come down on his own eventually.
Pop music has been a guilty pleasure of his for years. He'll never admit it, but the first time he ever tried using his powers for non-heroic purposes as a teenager was to shoplift a Britney Spears album (that one of his siblings found and he swore up and down belonged to one of the girls and wound up in his room somehow). On top of that, and he would never admit this to any of his siblings, he sometimes does karaoke and used to hallucinate his way into bars to do so as a teenager.
Right before he left for college, he gave their dad a minor "fuck you" by casting monocles all over the place that would disappear the moment he reached out to pick it up. Reginald tore into him that evening, but it was so worth it.
He had a fling with a girl when he was 16 that he used to sneak out to meet up with. He gave her an alias and everything, but she dumped him after she found out he'd been lying to her when one of his siblings found him and called him by his name and she put two-and-two together.