Gerard Keay is the most LGBT character of all time because he had ten minutes worth of screentime and the fandom collectively said “I think I met that guy at pride once.”
Jon -
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Martin -
Tim -
Sasha -
Melanie -
Georgie -
Basira -
Daisy -
Peter -
Elias -
Gertrude -
Gerard -
Michael Shelley -
Since Jon and Gertrude use a tape recorder to store their knowledge, I headcanon that other people connected to The Eye keep track of what they know in different ways.
Sasha James made a video diary once a week about memorable events that happened to her. Sometimes she talked about important things like Martin’s encounter’s with Jane Prentiss, but most the time she just talked about the thing’s she saw in general, like the cafe near her house being busier than usual, or the cool old car that drove down her street. She fed The Eye in the most mundane way…or maybe The Eye was just that entangled with her day to day.
Gerard Keay carried a sketchbook and doodled the small things as they happen, then made full drawing’s of the big events as soon as he got the chance.
Eric Delano carried around a journal and jotted down his thought’s and feeling’s on everything he experienced. It was just meant to untangle his messy thought’s about The Institute, Gertrude, Mary and everything in between, but it ended up feeding The Eye pretty well.
Michael Shelley carried around a camcorder outside of work and would film things some times. He said it was because he had a hobby for film, which was partially true, but he also carried it so he could capture proof if he stumbled across anything like the door that took his friend…
Fiona Law had a photography hobby. She started it as a way to take picture’s of nature, but it quickly escalated into her taking picture’s of anything that felt drawn too. Including: Building’s, animal’s, people, and sometimes even the strange.
Emma Harvey kept a day planner where she would document the results of her “experiments” on her coworker’s day by day. She had a system to write innocuously enough to not draw suspension, like jolting down “Had trouble sleeping,” if Fiona lasted longer than usual before fainting.
Sarah Carpenter would just steal thing’s she thought they were important or interesting. She would keep them in her apartment where they could always be seen under her gaze, feeding The Eye through her occasionally sticky fingers.
The thing about Gerard Keay is that I don’t know if it would be sadder if he looked like his Mother, looked like his Father, or looked like a mixture of both his parents.
If he looks like his Mother, then he’s always carrying her ghost on his face. Even after her pages are burned she stays in his mirror, and let’s herself by seen in puddles on the ground, and reflects in the eyes of everyone who look’s at him.
But if he looks like his Father, then he’s carrying the ghost of what his life could have been. His face is a reminder of someone he never got the chance to know because they loved him like a son and not like an heir.
If he looks like a mix of them, then both concept’s are true. He can never escape either of their faces because he carries them with him, both as legacy and baggage.
Jon saying “That would be our Gerard” kills me every time because it’s probably the first time in Gerry’s life that he’s been claimed with affection instead of possession.
Jon - Jon got his ears pierced in college to look cool, and then immediately regretted them and let them grow up. However, he did look really cool for a second there.
Martin - Martin doesn’t have any piercings and he doesn’t want any. He doesn’t have an issue with them or anything, it’s just that the thought of a needle going through his skin freaks him out a little.
Tim - Tim has a tongue piercing in Season 1. Then he has a tongue piercing and a bridge piercing in Season 3.
Sasha - Sasha doesn’t have a piercing yet, but if she did she’d want it in a unique spot like her wrist or her hip. Probably her wrist, but she could go for many places.
Melanie and Georgie - Melanie wanted a septum piercing her entire life but she wasn’t sure what her pain tolerance would be for that type of thing so she ended up bringing Georgie to her appointment for support. Melanie did get the septum piercing. Georgie somehow ended up walking out with a philtrum piercing
Basira - Basira has a small nostril piercing that’s kind of hard of notice but looks really good if you do.
Daisy - Daisy has canine bites that she wears in her off time because they make her look intimidating. She doesn’t wear them post coffin.
Peter - Peter has a bellybutton piercing as a consequence of losing a bet with Elias.
Jonah/Elias - Gauges. Jonah didn’t originally have piercings, but Elias did and the holes in his ears were so big that they didn’t shrink back to a normal size once Jonah took over. So, Jonah just embraced the look.
Gertrude - Gertrude had an eyebrow piercing when she first joined The Institute, but it grew up eventually as her focus started zeroing in on the fears and her personal style kind of fell to the side in it all.
Gerard - Gerard has snake bite piercings and a stacked lobe. He wants more but hasn’t gotten around to it yet.
Michael Shelley - Michael has a snug ear piercing, but he keeps it hidden by covering his ears with his hair. He worries that he’ll get in trouble at work for having it, (Even despite Elias’s ears) but Elias and Gertrude could care less as long as he’s doing his job.
“My Goodbye” from Epic The Musical but with Gertrude and Gerard having some kind of falling out.
Doorkeay but Gerard Keay is banned from their local grocery store for being vaguely unsettling while somehow Distortion Michael is not.
I made a headcanon that Gerard Keay likes marine biology because the name Gerard means “brave spearman,” and now it’s gone too far and I have this universe in my head where Gerard is a huge fish nerd and I keep forgetting that that’s not even slightly a thing in canon.