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Name: Grayson Graves

Nicknames: Gray

Gender: Male

Age: 20

Birthday: July 29

Sign: Leo

Blood Type: O-

Fav. Food: Hot dogs, loaded. As in, everything you've got at the stand, he'll put on his dog.

Hated Food: Chocolate, except for white chocolate. That's all right, but he especially hates dark chocolate.

School: Meadowview

Hobbies:

Fire Spinning: Gray has been playing with fire since before his parents thought he was old enough, that's for sure. At first, they just considered him a pyro, and threatened to rip his skin off if he went down to the wood stove and poked around again. When he was about ten, a group of fire spinners came through town, dancing and twirling staffs and torches to music. He was absolutely enthralled, and ever since then, pleaded with his parents to be allowed to take up the art himself. They refused until they learned he was trying to do it on his own anyway - resulting in one very frightening trip to the ER - and after that, they agreed to allow him to learn how from a professional. Since then, he's never looked back, and has been in several performances. It's the one thing in his life he takes absolutely seriously, and as soon as he turns eighteen, he's joining a group and getting the hell out of dodge. Possibly a circus. Whatever, he's getting out there, and he's spinning fire.

Music: Grayson loves music. He unashamedly loves music. He will sing Get Another Boyfriend without batting an eye, and he hopes you sing along too. He has a wide range of music on his iPod, and he's glad that was one of the things Tristan didn't smash to pieces. He likes singing as well as dancing to music, though he has no talent for composing or playing an instrument; he does have a decent enough voice, though. Nothing really amazing, but he wouldn't be booed off a karaoke stage.

Sleeping: It's a hobby, okay. He's always trying to fall asleep. If he has nothing else to do, he's probably sleeping. While Grayson won't mind too much if you wake him up and get him to do something, chances are, if you don't know what he's doing and you haven't seen him for upwards of an hour, he's asleep somewhere. Usually in his bed, though he's slept through classes more than once in the past.

Writing: No, Grayson won't be writing a bestseller anytime soon. All his writing he does in - okay, he's not embarrassed - a diary. Though it doesn't have much of actual use, and he's careful to keep senshi exploits out of it, the diary does detail many things about the others, though only in reference to their civilian names. In particular, there's a large section on Jude Lawson, because honestly, Sometimes he just doesn't know what to do with you, Jude.

Virtues:

Brave: Danger to life and limb? Is fire involved? Things that really shouldn't excite him do, and he doesn't bat an eye at the prospect of doing something where he might really get hurt. It's the rush of adrenaline (one might even go so far as to say he's an adrenaline junkie) involved in doing things that others would consider too dangerous to even attempt. There's also the, you know, cool factor that comes along with it, but mostly, he thrills in taking risks and coming out on top, especially if he's helping people. This is the kid who will run into a burning building because the firemen haven't arrived yet and someone's still inside. He shines brightest when he has someone to defend, someone to protect; here is when he is at his bravest.

Cautious: Just because he likes risky business doesn't mean he isn't careful about it. The part that no one hears about is that Gray does extensive research on the brave and daring things he does, and he's careful. There's some element of unpredictability in everything, of course, but Gray would like to live to a ripe old age, so he's smart about the incredibly stupid things he does. He won't rush headlong into the fray, throwing all caution to the wind in the pursuit of protecting someone, but he will do the very best he can to make sure that the damage to you -- and him -- is minimized. It's just, he will take calculated risks. If someone has to get hurt, in the end, he'd rather it be him.

Generous: He'll give you the shirt off his back and the five in his pocket if you need it for bus fare. He'll split his lunch fifty-fifty even if he's super hungry that day. Have a fight with your parents? Come stay over at his place, he'll let you use his bed. Gray likes people, sincerely, and he likes helping out. It's usually no real trouble to him to share what he has, so he doesn't bat an eye at the prospect. He can be taken advantage of, and has in the past, but for the most part, he doesn't seem to care very much.

Flaws:

Lazy: If he's not spinning fire or bravely accomplishing some amazing task, he's probably doing nothing at all. He practices rigorously with his various implements for his act, and when all is said and done, he doesn't feel like doing much else. Homework, eh. Chores, eh. Walk the dog, eh. If he doesn't strictly have to do it (as in, you don't have a gun to his head) and it doesn't have to do with fire, he's probably not going to do it without a whole lot of bitching and moaning. He will do it, but only if you literally drag him out to do it.

Irresponsible: We had an assignment due? What do you mean the trash is piling up to the ceiling? The dog hasn't been fed in how long? These are all things that are likely to fall out of Gray's mouth at any given time. He knows he has obligations and duties, but it's so much easier to just do something he wants to do, something he's passionate about. All that boring stuff can be put off later until it's absolutely, 100% necessary it gets done (he's failing a class, you can't walk through the kitchen, the dog is starving). This also applies to senshi duties -- he will go to Saturday Night Fight Club because he has to or Hero will kill him. He will patrol the minimum amount per week because otherwise Hero will kill him.

Reclusive: Gray will never go out of his way to seek someone's company. He likes his alone time, and most of the things that really interest him he doesn't need other people around for. He likes people, and doesn't mind hanging out with them, but they have to come to him. They also shouldn't be too offended if he ignores them in favor of what he was already doing, because come on, he was doing it before they came around. They can't expect him to stop practicing his routine just because they showed up, right?

Leo -- Radiant Light

Leo makes himself too dazzlingly bright for anyone else to bear -- this unfortunately can have friendly fire effects, but he suddenly emits radiant light from all over his body. This can suck if you're busy melee fighting him and are blinded. Lasts for a minute.

Not only does the light blind and disorient, it also hurts the enemy to a certain degree. (Looking right at the sun hurts, this is similar.) Enemies are likely to remain semi-blinded (think color spots) for a little bit afterward, and their eyes will probably ache. Depending on the strength of the enemy, they could have residual slight status ailment as well (mostly youma will be weaker all around, Negaverse agents will be weakened slightly but it'll wear off).

(( I was told that his attack should also hurt, so, I hope this makes sense. XDD ))

Soldier Leo -- Radiant Beam

Soldier Leo will form and direct a beam of energy toward a target -- the source of this energy is generally his palm, though he will sometimes zap a very fine beam out of a fingertip. The smaller and more concentrated the beam is, the more it hurts/damages - if he does a one-finger beam, it's probably going to create sharp, localized pain wherever he hits with it, whereas if it's as wide as his palm, it'll be a more broad, grazing pain.

His attacks are much more effective on youma than humans (his little laserpointy would probably burn through parts of a youma, whereas it would burn a person, but obviously not straight through their body) with the added effect of the bright flash of light stunning and weakening a youma to a noticeable degree and disorienting other humans/senshi/negaverse if they look directly at it. (Think sunblinding.)

The more he uses this attack, the less effective it will become -- he can create the small, localized beams when he first begins, but if he tries to use it multiple times in battle, his focus and energy level will only allow the broader, less damaging attacks. He can only hold the energy beam for about five to ten seconds at a time -- so it's really a very short zap -- and he can't control the direction of it except to point, so if he misses, he misses. The attack itself only has a range of about twenty feet; essentially, a beam of energy that will dissipate at the end of the twenty feet, so if it hasn't encountered anyone, no damage will be done.

This attack will damage other senshi if they get in the line of fire, just like his first one.

Reserving.

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