Tyler Ponder

Character Information
Character Name: Tyler Ponder Age: 28 Occupation: FBI Criminal profiler Known Relatives: Dick Ponder (Father), Beth Ponder (Mother) Significant Other: Chelsea Denny, former wife Current Location: Level 5, Hartsdale, New York Affiliation: Villian Known Ability: Illusion Biography: Since he was a child he's had the ability to make anyone see anything he wishes them to, but was always shy to use it. His shyness brought on by an abusive father, Tyler trying to cope as a young child. Eventually he learned to hide his scars with his ability.

It wasn't until he went to college, majoring in Psychology (trying to understand what he had done as a child to earn such treatment from his father) and learning extensively how the human mind thinks and reacts, that he began to actually abuse his power in way of performing 'social experiments' to study human reactions and gain control over something in his life.

Through these experiments he gained the knowledge that people were--for the most part--consistently idiots and afraid, and continued to use it against them. During the day he was a renowned psychologist in NYC, and within just a few years recruited by the FBI as a criminal profiler.

In the last few years, he has taken his experiments a step further and tested the human mind in its ability to cope with traumatic situations. Most of these experiments result in the suicide of the subject, which Tyler always cleverly escapes suspicion in as he never uses his own patients. To the rest of the world, he's simply a very talented profiler, who was recently put on the 'Sylar' case. Character Journal: trustmeimadoc Played by: Jen