Information dump and permissions!
Gary's routine:-
I am not going to write this out, so I am going to put it in here for people to see and will link it to here.
7:42am: gets up, brushes his teeth and dresses himself appropriately (which means shirt, pants, "you have to wear pants even if it’s uncomfortable, it’s important to wear pants when you leave the house")
8:00am: Scream for ten seconds (this has been part of his routine since his friend Anna was killed, it's a way of releasing his grief), call his mom, breakfast.
9:00am: Greeting his coworkers. He used to be carpooled to work, but doesn't have to because he moved out of the office.
1.30pm:Lunch and pudding at 2.30 after which it's back to work.
3.15pm: he calls his mom.
6.00pm: dinner.
9.27pm: he brushes his teeth again
9.30pm: bedtime
Any time not specified means that he can either be working or be having recreational time. Sometimes both together.
Gary's ability
Gary’s Alpha ability is that he can read, watch, and hear signals. He’s best at reading and tracking electromagnetic waves, as it’s what he has most experience in, but he has been shown how to pick up the signals from things in nature and off anything biological (he’s listening to his food at one point). The signals appear to him as multi-coloured waves and he’ll open up what looks like a circular window to read what’s in that signal through the use of hand gestures. Because his power is what lets him see this (Bill calls it ‘Gary-vision’ which annoys Gary), to anybody unfamiliar with what he’s doing often makes it look like he’s just Ticing. The nature of his power leaves him vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks which leave him crippled with pain and passed out. Microwave towers interfere with him, causing him to hear a buzzing noise which leaves him feeling stressed out as it distracts him from what he’s doing.
He is unable to be ‘pushed’ - mind controlled - and this is explained in canon by way of his autism. Because his brain is so focused on routine and rigid, it disregards anything that’s not part of that which Gary has not consciously chosen to do. He’s also unaffected by anything that would require eye contact as he never makes eye contact because of his condition.
Permissions
This is just a heads up to let me know (aim @ crimpingwithnoel or here) that because there's no such thing as a 'locked from Gary' post; at the time of a thread if you really don't want him to mention something that's come up in there although, to be honest, I'm not going to read every single thread that's going on... Also, on the flip side, you can let me know if there's something said you really do want him to tell the other people for any reason at all (It could be lulz, it could be to set up a thread for some CR you want, anything!) He really has no concept of privacy, so he wouldn't think twice about mentioning something if it occurred to him, so... yeah, just let me know and it won't ever occur to him.