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|aka= The Man in Gray
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|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]]''<br>[[PROSE]]: ''[[A Series of Queer Events (short story)|A Series of Queer Events]]''<br> ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Family Business (short story)|Family Business]]''<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[PROSE]]: ''[[Workplace Reunion (short story)|Workplace Reunion]]''<br>[[PROSE]]: ''[[A Very Jenny Over-There Christmas (short story)|A Very Jenny Over-There Christmas]]''<br>[[PROSE]]: ''[[Good Crieff - The Tribulations of the Scottish Division (short story)|Good Crieff - The Tribulations of the Scottish Division]]''<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[PROSE]]: ''[[Lovie Dovie Stuff (short story)|Lovie Dovie Stuff]]''<br>[[PROSE]]: ''[[Fragment: A & E (short story)|A & E]]''<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Laws the Lawyers? (short story)|Who Laws the Lawyers?]]''<br>[[PROSE]]: ''[[Annals of the Jen: One Year of Jenny Over-There (novel)|Annals of the Jen: One Year of Jenny Over-There]]''<br>[[COMIC]]: ''[[Call Me Nowhere (comic story)|Call Me Nowhere]]''
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}}'''The Man in Grey''' was a mysterious being. Multiple versions of him were active in [[the Multiverse]], with [[the Man in Gray|one]] spelling the name as '''the Man in Gray''', with an “A”, instead.
 
==Description==
=== Physical appearance ===
The Man in Grey's principle physical characteristic was the gray robes he wore. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Tribulations of Jenny Over-There (short story)|The Tribulations of Jenny Over-There]]'')
 
=== Personality ===
Even in universes where he wasn't really especially villainous, the Man in Grey freely referred to himself as “evil”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Open Sourcing (short story)|Open Sourcing]]'') Over-There once cited “working for the Man in Grey for extended periods of time” as something which “tend[ed] to shift one’s perspective a little on the relative badness of kidnapping situations”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Family Business (short story)|Family Business]]'') 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]]'')
 
In at least some incarnations, 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 925th Universe's version 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]]'')
 
=== Powers & abilities ===
The Man in Grey generally had an aura of grayness which extended beyond his physical wardrobe choice. [[Jenny Over-There (925th Universe)|Jenny Over-There]] found [[Jenny Nowhere (38167th Universe)|Jenny Nowhere]]'s comparable aura of wrongness eerily familiar. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Family Business (short story)|Family Business]]'')
 
==Biography==
=== In the 925th Universe ===
{{main|The Man in Grey (925th Universe)}}
Though he may have originated in [[Third Universe|another universe]] as “[[the Man in Black]]”, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Open Sourcing (short story)|Open Sourcing]]'') one version of the Man in Grey was principally active in the [[925th Universe]], where he founded the [[Multidimensional Finders Service]] within [[the Backrooms]] on the orders of the [[Great Higher-Up]]s. This made him [[Jenny Over-There (925th Universe)|Jenny Over-There]]'s boss. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Tribulations of Jenny Over-There (short story)|The Tribulations of Jenny Over-There]]'', ''[[Fragment: A & E (short story)|Fragment: A & E]]'', etc.)
 
=== In Universe 925-B ===
{{main|The Man in Gray}}
In “[[Universe 925-B]]”, a somewhat more sinister equivalent of the Man in Grey who called himself [[the Man in Gray]], with an A instead of an E, ran a [[Monouniversal Finders Service]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Annals of the Jen: One Year of Jenny Over-There (short story)|Annals of the Jen: One Year of Jenny Over-There]]'') He looked similar to his [[925th Universe]] counterpart that [[Dynamite Thor]] couldn't tell the difference, also being “a gray, unremarkable figure wearing a badly-fitting gray suit”, although [[Jenny Over-There (925th Universe)|Jenny Over-There]] could easily tell the difference. He was aware of the 925th Universe's Man in Grey and once visited the [[M.F.S. office]] to meet with him and discuss his lack of a [[Talisman of Restriction]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Fragment: A & E (short story)|Fragment: A & E]]'')
 
=== In the 775th Universe ===
{{main|The Man in Grey (775th Universe)}}
[[File:The Man in Grey in Call Me Nowhere.png|thumb|left|The Man in Grey who menaced [[Jenny Everywhere (775th Universe)|Jenny Smith]] in the [[775th Universe]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Call Me Nowhere (comic story)|Call Me Nowhere]]'')]]In the [[775th Universe]], [[the Man in Grey (775th Universe)|the Man in Grey]] was in charge of the [[Altern Corporation]], and a noticeably more sinister figure than the version who ran the M.F.S. office. [[Jenny Nowhere (775th Universe)|The local Jenny Nowhere]] was one of his operatives. He appeared as a tall figure with gray skin, short white hair, and pointed ears. His eyes were heterochromic, with one being solid black with a white pupil, and the other white with a black pupil. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Call Me Nowhere (comic story)|Call Me Nowhere]]'')
 
==Behind the scenes==
===Genesis===
The 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>
 
{{quotebox|You can also just use the Man in Grey if you want, I won't get on your case about that, he's public domain now.|Callum Phillpott}}
 
The character's mystery and descriptor made him reminiscent of Phillpott's earlier creation, the [https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Man_in_black_(Cyber-Hunt) Man in Black] from their [[Third Universe|''Doctor Who'' universe]] novel ''[https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Cyber-Hunt_(novelisation) Cyber-Hunt]''. This was addressed directly in ''[[Open Sourcing (short story)|Open Sourcing]]''.
 
When he devised [[the Man in Gray]] in ''[[Fragment: A & E (short story)|Fragment: A & E]]'', [[Scott Sanford]] specified in the copyright note
 
{{quotebox|The Man in Gray is as public domain as the Man in Grey – if they’re different people at all, which you couldn’t prove by talking to Dynamite Thor.|Scott Sanford}}
 
===Notes & References===
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{{Incarnations of the Man in Grey}}
{{Jenny Everywhere recurring cast}}
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