for all we know Ulysses is also Graham. Graham is also known as the burned man, and Black could mean burned.

stranger things have happened and children have been known to be born with different skin colors.

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110421234047/fallout/images/2/24/Honestheartsbanner.jpg
http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110109171931/fallout/images/thumb/e/e7/Ulysses.jpg/452px-Ulysses.jpg

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just saying Ulysses could be another life/identity for Graham.

he doesn't have to keep his "old" name, and his old lifestyle.

have you heard of speculation? Is that not the point of this thread?

Sure but when the speculation can be be discredited from facts then I dunno how much point the speculation serves.
Even Ulysses was a different life/identity for Graham it doesn't explain that they don't look the same.

And I don't really see how it adds up.
Graham was a legate of the Legion who was burned and thrown down the grand canyon and the mysteriously disappeared.
Ulysses was a courier with a possible Legion connection who wants to work his life for a nation he believes in or die trying.
Graham is so evil that he's evil amongst evil people.
Ulysses seems kindhearted the way he helped Christine, and also seems troubled about his past with another courier.

I believe you killed someone close to him or caused someone close to him to die and that's why he wants revenge, at wolf-horn ranch there is a huge flagpole jutting out of the ground and under it is a radio and a grave. There isint much inside the grave but i believe after he buried whoever it was he swore revenge against you and that is why he is after you, you probably never even have met him before.

we do not have enough information on either person to discredit the possibility of Graham switching his name to Ulysses and living a new life.

also graham could've had a change of heart and wanted to change his ways.

i'll give you the whole looking different thing, but you said they do not look exactly the same, so they do look alike according to your logic and the picture of Ulysses is concept art, its not meant to look anything like the actual character, so for all we know they do look the same.

1. True, but I still find it to be unlikely. (Hardly think either of us are gonna budge on this.)

2. What I mean was that they don't look the same. Not that "Well "technically" they don't look the same but they do share some similar features."
So yeah, I mis typed what I meant, remove the "exactly" from my previous statement.

and like i said, the pic is concept art, it means NOTHING.

In your opinion maybe.
In mine it shows off the true design of them.
Since characters are forced to use what Gamebryo's character creation allows means that a lot of characters couldn't have their intended design, but the concept art shows their original character design.
I believe that those are more true than the final design. (Varies from game to game depending on concept art, engine and graphics.)

I have played plenty of games to know that characters in-game look like their concept art only by a little bit of a margin, so i have learned to not trust the stuff till i see the characters in-game look like their concept art, which rarely happens.

you my friend need to learn that concept art is just that, a concept, and nowhere near the final rendition of the character. Concept art is not really lore for the game world in which the character or place appears.

Sorry, just being honest. Original=Final

Example: http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20060524205314/fallout/images/thumb/2/25/SuperSledge2.jpg/121px-SuperSledge2.jpg and http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110210214553/fallout/images/thumb/2/21/SUPERSLEDGE.png/240px-SUPERSLEDGE.png

also, what if the courier was sent/hired by the BoS because they had an interest in Ulysses and it turned out that Ulysses is a cyborg?