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As stated by [[Callum Phillpott]] on the Jenny Everywhere Discord on July 8th, 2023: | As stated by [[Callum Phillpott]] on the Jenny Everywhere Discord on July 8th, 2023: | ||
{{quotebox|The Man in Grey definitely got tweaked a bit conceptually ''after'' [''[[What Went Down at Facebook (short story)]]''], but he's been around for a while — in fact he might predate [[the Man in Black]] since a similar figure did pop up in an abandoned draft of a novella I was writing, but I can't remember which name I chose then. The story never got far (so it's entirely possible the Man in Black/Grey never left my loose story notes), but the story itself was a sort of romcom riff on ''Beyond the Wall of Sleep'', with the Man in Whatever acting as a cold and removed eldritch matchmaker who was heavily implied or stated to be Nyarlathotep. This story was doomed to fail. This did nearly make it in to Minalopa as a subplot, but we all know what happened there. (…) It's probably a safe call to treat [''What Went Down at Facebook''] as a different universe. (Also, the reason it's a 50/50 chance of either being the Man in Grey or Man in Black is because I got both of these names from the Specials song ''Man at C&A'' — obviously they're quite generic names that have been used centuries prior, but that's where I got them from.|Callum Phillpott}} | {{quotebox|The Man in Grey definitely got tweaked a bit conceptually ''after'' [''[[What Went Down at Facebook (short story)]]''], but he's been around for a while — in fact he might predate [[the Man in Black]] since a similar figure did pop up in an abandoned draft of a novella I was writing, but I can't remember which name I chose then. The story never got far (so it's entirely possible the Man in Black/Grey never left my loose story notes), but the story itself was a sort of romcom riff on ''Beyond the Wall of Sleep'', with the Man in Whatever acting as a cold and removed eldritch matchmaker who was heavily implied or stated to be Nyarlathotep. This story was doomed to fail. This did nearly make it in to Minalopa as a subplot, but we all know what happened there. (…) It's probably a safe call to treat [''What Went Down at Facebook''] as a different universe. (Also, the reason it's a 50/50 chance of either being the Man in Grey or Man in Black is because I got both of these names from the Specials song ''Man at C&A'' — obviously they're quite generic names that have been used centuries prior, but that's where I got them from.|Callum Phillpott}} | ||
The Man in [[PROSE]]: ''[[What Went Down at Facebook (short story)|What Went Down at Facebook]]'' would go on to be referenced in [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Man in Grey's Christmas Carol (novel)|The Man in Grey's Christmas | The Man in [[PROSE]]: ''[[What Went Down at Facebook (short story)|What Went Down at Facebook]]'' would go on to be referenced in [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Man in Grey's Christmas Carol (novel)|The Man in Grey's Christmas Carol]]'' as “whatever grey-robed busybody worked at Facebook all those years ago…”, suggested to have been an initially-distinct individual whose identity the 925th Universe's [[the Man in Grey (925th Universe)|Man in Grey]] had subsumed, as part of a wider claim that the Man in Grey had a tendency to subsume other people's pasts into his own, although the ''Man at C&A'' Men were not specifically referenced. | ||
The definitive Man in Grey was introduced in 2022 in ''[[The Tribulations of Jenny Over-There (short story)|The Tribulations of Jenny Over-There]]'', an [[April Fools' Day (real world)|April Fools' Day]] story by [[Callum Phillpott]] which also introduced [[Jenny Over-There (925th Universe)|Jenny Over-There]]. Phillpott's rendition of “[[the Paragraph]]” released Jenny Over-There as an open-source character in her own right under similar conditions to Jenny Everywhere and other recurring characters, and also said of the Man in Grey:<ref>https://archiveofourown.org/works/38095315</ref> | The definitive Man in Grey was introduced in 2022 in ''[[The Tribulations of Jenny Over-There (short story)|The Tribulations of Jenny Over-There]]'', an [[April Fools' Day (real world)|April Fools' Day]] story by [[Callum Phillpott]] which also introduced [[Jenny Over-There (925th Universe)|Jenny Over-There]]. Phillpott's rendition of “[[the Paragraph]]” released Jenny Over-There as an open-source character in her own right under similar conditions to Jenny Everywhere and other recurring characters, and also said of the Man in Grey:<ref>https://archiveofourown.org/works/38095315</ref> | ||