After stealing powers of precognition, he feared that he might be the cause of a giant explosion and kill a ton of innocent people. He didn't understand it-- why would he kill all these people if there was no reason for it? He visited his mother in hopes that she would tell him give it up, that it was okay for him to be normal. Instead, all she did was goad him on into thinking that he could accomplish great things, even becoming the president. He tried to show her his powers, proof that he was special after all, and it terrified her. Calling him damned, she tried to attack him with a pair of scissors, only to be impaled by her own weapon as he struggled against her. In that moment, Sylar decided it didn't matter. He would take the power he saw himself having that destroyed the city. He would embrace his destiny. But when he went to Kirby Plaza and faced off with Peter Petrelli, he realized that he wasn't the bomb. The other man had absorbed the same ability from the same person, and seemed to be unable to control the power. Sylar was impaled on the sword of Hiro Nakamura, and escaped the scene barely alive, disappearing into a manhole.
Sylar awoke in a shack in the Mexican jungle, still recuperating from his near-fatal wound and under the care of another Company agent. He also found himself infected with a virus that suppressed all his powers. Angry at losing everything that made him special, he lashed out by killing his caretaker and setting off on a journey to regain his abilities.
Eventually he ran into two twins looking for the same man he was-- Mohinder Suresh, his ex-mentor's son, who was carrying on the project of his late father. Sylar manipulated the twins into taking him with them, gaining the trust of one and killing the other when he attempted to stand in his way. They reached Suresh, he absconded the cure from him, and regained his abilities. Sylar then decided to track down a target that had previously escaped his grasp-- Claire Bennet, a cheerleader with the ability to regenerate. Gaining her powers (though not killing her-- he couldn't kill her, even if he'd wanted to. There was something different about her), he used the files her father, a Company agent, kept in their house as his brand new shopping list.
Arriving to the Company, he managed to kill the director and that was as far as he got. He was knocked unconscious by the man's daughter, and imprisoned by the Company once more. While imprisoned, he was visited by Angela Petrelli, and told that he was actually her son. She'd given him up for adoption and regretted it. She accepted him, and forgave him for the things he'd done.
Although initially reluctant to believe it, eventually he came to accept her words as truth. He wanted to be the hero that she expected him to be, and expressed this in small acts of kindness-- apologizing to Claire Bennet, saving the life of Peter. When Sylar encounters her husband, Arthur Petrelli, he tells him that Angela had been lying all along. She feared him, didn't love him, and tried to drown him when he was first born. Believing this, Sylar switched his allegiances and started working for his new father.
One of the things that Arthur did for him was show him that he could access other people's powers by using empathy. He did this by locking Sylar in a room with Elle-- the same girl who'd tricked him when he was most vulnerable, the daughter of the director of the Company who he'd killed and stole the ability of. She attacks him with her power-- electricity-- mercilessly, and asks for him to kill her. After forgiving her and helping her forgive herself, he begins to exhibit lightning as well. They go on a mission from Arthur to get Claire together, and begin to realize that they have feelings for each other.
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Sylar awoke in a shack in the Mexican jungle, still recuperating from his near-fatal wound and under the care of another Company agent. He also found himself infected with a virus that suppressed all his powers. Angry at losing everything that made him special, he lashed out by killing his caretaker and setting off on a journey to regain his abilities.
Eventually he ran into two twins looking for the same man he was-- Mohinder Suresh, his ex-mentor's son, who was carrying on the project of his late father. Sylar manipulated the twins into taking him with them, gaining the trust of one and killing the other when he attempted to stand in his way. They reached Suresh, he absconded the cure from him, and regained his abilities.
Sylar then decided to track down a target that had previously escaped his grasp-- Claire Bennet, a cheerleader with the ability to regenerate. Gaining her powers (though not killing her-- he couldn't kill her, even if he'd wanted to. There was something different about her), he used the files her father, a Company agent, kept in their house as his brand new shopping list.
Arriving to the Company, he managed to kill the director and that was as far as he got. He was knocked unconscious by the man's daughter, and imprisoned by the Company once more. While imprisoned, he was visited by Angela Petrelli, and told that he was actually her son. She'd given him up for adoption and regretted it. She accepted him, and forgave him for the things he'd done.
Although initially reluctant to believe it, eventually he came to accept her words as truth. He wanted to be the hero that she expected him to be, and expressed this in small acts of kindness-- apologizing to Claire Bennet, saving the life of Peter.
When Sylar encounters her husband, Arthur Petrelli, he tells him that Angela had been lying all along. She feared him, didn't love him, and tried to drown him when he was first born. Believing this, Sylar switched his allegiances and started working for his new father.
One of the things that Arthur did for him was show him that he could access other people's powers by using empathy. He did this by locking Sylar in a room with Elle-- the same girl who'd tricked him when he was most vulnerable, the daughter of the director of the Company who he'd killed and stole the ability of. She attacks him with her power-- electricity-- mercilessly, and asks for him to kill her. After forgiving her and helping her forgive herself, he begins to exhibit lightning as well. They go on a mission from Arthur to get Claire together, and begin to realize that they have feelings for each other.