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|first_seen_in= [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Tribulations of Jenny Over-There (short story)|The Tribulations of Jenny Over-There]]'' | |first_seen_in= [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Tribulations of Jenny Over-There (short story)|The Tribulations of Jenny Over-There]]'' | ||
|also_seen_in= [[PROSE]]: ''[[Open Sourcing (short story)|Open Sourcing]]'' | |also_seen_in= [[PROSE]]: ''[[Open Sourcing (short story)|Open Sourcing]]''<br>[[PROSE]]: ''[[A Series of Queer Events (short story)|A Series of Queer Events]]'' | ||
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=== Personality === | === Personality === | ||
The Man in Grey freely referred to himself as “evil”. [[Jenny Over-There]] thought of him as rude, and he was easily frustrated. His liking for the colour grey extended beyond his wardrobe, with him entire painting the [[M.F.S. office]] in this same shade. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Open Sourcing (short story)|Open Sourcing]]'') | The Man in Grey freely referred to himself as “evil”. [[Jenny Over-There]] thought of him as rude, and he was easily frustrated. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Open Sourcing (short story)|Open Sourcing]]'') He combined an outsized confidence in his own mental faculties with a yearning for approval from his betters that left him crushed when he failed to get it. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Series of Queer Events (short story)|A Series of Queer Events]]'') | ||
His liking for the colour grey extended beyond his wardrobe, with him entire painting the [[M.F.S. office]] in this same shade. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Open Sourcing (short story)|Open Sourcing]]'') He also fell under the label of grey-asexual, but claimed this was a complete coincidence. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Series of Queer Events (short story)|A Series of Queer Events]]'') | |||
==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
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The interview process ended early when [[Dynamite Thor]] activated a real grenade inside the office, although no one was injured, with the Man in Grey (for his part) making out the window in time. He eventually settled on the roster of [[Talbot Molossus]], [[the Hydrant]], [[0000-8888888]] and [[Doctor Know-It-All]]. Additionally, however, being frustrated by the difficulty of finding the coffee machine, he suggested to Jenny that they hire an intern for the Welsh office. Jenny, feeling sorry for the hapless Thor, suggested him for the part. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Open Sourcing (short story)|Open Sourcing]]'') | The interview process ended early when [[Dynamite Thor]] activated a real grenade inside the office, although no one was injured, with the Man in Grey (for his part) making out the window in time. He eventually settled on the roster of [[Talbot Molossus]], [[the Hydrant]], [[0000-8888888]] and [[Doctor Know-It-All]]. Additionally, however, being frustrated by the difficulty of finding the coffee machine, he suggested to Jenny that they hire an intern for the Welsh office. Jenny, feeling sorry for the hapless Thor, suggested him for the part. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Open Sourcing (short story)|Open Sourcing]]'') | ||
=== At the Interdimensional Pride Council === | |||
Upon the following [[Pride Month]], he was finally given the opportunity to act as ambassador of the [[Great Higher-Up]]s to the [[Interdimensional Pride Council]], a long-held ambition of his. After printing a large number of posters and flyers for what he believed to be an accurate rainbow version of the [[Multidimensional Finders Service]] logo (although it really wasn't), and tasking [[Dynamite Thor]] with decorating the [[M.F.S. office]], he decided to secure a number of sponsorships for the [[Interdimensional Pride Parade]] including [[DollarGraveClub]], the [[Super Besties Justice Squad]], [[Dibbsy]], [[Kablamazon]], and the god [[Dionysus]]. He also got a letter of recommendation from [[Dorian Gray]], before finally heading off to the [[Diggs estate]] in the [[Land of Oz]], where the first Council meeting was to be held. | |||
After bumping into [[Professor Wogglebug]] at the entrance, he set down his suitcase containing the sponsorship deals and letter from Dorian Gray and entered the Councilchamber. Unbeknownst to him, it was found by [[Oscar Diggs]], who mistook it for his own suitcase and carried it away. Meanwhile, the meeting was a complete failure due to his poor choice of sponsors; bad blood between Dorian Gray and [[Atlas the Traveller]] rendered his letter of recommendation actively unhelpful, and as for the sponsorship deals, Dionysus boycotted the Council when he learned that [[Stardust the Super-Wizard]] had been invited as the Super Besties' representative only for Stardust himself not to bother to show up, and the remaining members of the Council reacted violently to the identities of the representatives of DollarGraveClub — [[Dracula#At DollarGraveClub|Dracula]], [[Carmilla#At DollarGraveClub|Carmilla]], [[Ruthven#At DollarGraveClub|Lord Ruthven]] and [[Varney#At DollarGraveClub|Mr Varney]]. Before they could try to salvage the situation, the Man in Grey and Wogglebug were confronted by an irate [[Ozma]], who banished the Man in Grey from Oz for corrupting the spirit of Pride. | |||
The Man in Grey returned to the M.F.S. office to tell Thor and [[Jenny Over-There]] to cancel all Pride theming and shred the flyers he'd printed, before heading off to sulk. A week or so later, he found himself in “the most heterosexual bar” he could find, having headed there to wallow. He ended up bumping into Wogglebug, who informed him that Jenny and Thor had set up a Pride party of their own at [[Professor Helvetius's Convenient Pride Decorations Shop]] using the decorations they'd bought to decorate the M.F.S. office prior to his counter-order. He managed to convince him to attend. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Series of Queer Events (short story)|A Series of Queer Events]]'') | |||
==Behind the scenes== | ==Behind the scenes== | ||