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Character Basics:

Character Name: Grey
Journal: silenttrainbaby
Age: 18
Fandom: Snowpiercer
Canon Point: Just after his death. He will awaken with scars on his left hand, a healed right wrist, and a gnarly new scar over his heart.
Debt:

Class A: Murder and Espionage: 5 years
Class B: Assault: 5 years.
Class C: Attempted Murder, Assassination, Breaking out of Prison (the tail), Conspiracy, Disorderly Conduct, Property Damage, all linked to the Curtis Rebellion: 16 months.

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GRAND TOTAL: 11 years, 4 months

Canon Character Section:

History:

In 2031, all that is left of the world is the Snowpiercer, a train that circles the world on a seemingly endless loop.

In 2014, scientists tried to solve global warming by shooting a chemical into the clouds to slow or stop it. Instead of merely reversing the heating of the planet, the chemical literally froze the world instead. The only thing that saved a small percentage of the world's population was the Snowpiercer, or, as it was called by its inhabitants, the Train. Created by Wilford, the train, powered by a perpetual motion engine, traveled once around the world each year and was starkly segregated by class. The closer to the front of the train one was, the higher one's status and amenities. Those who lived in the back of the train, or the tail, were considered the lowest class and treated as such, harshly controlled, barely fed, and picked off for seemingly random reasons.

Grey was born in the tail of the train. When the train's unending journey started, the tail wasn't fed, left simply to fend for itself and weed out the weak. Starvation ran rampant in the train's tale section at first. Curtis Everett, the leader of the eventual rebellion, stated that he knows that babies taste best, making very clear that cannibalism was at least somewhat common. Because of that, a good many babies may not have survived. Those who did owed their life to Gilliam, who quickly became the leader of the tail, sacrificing his own body parts so that some might eat.

Grey was born mute, and it can easily be thought that his mother's malnutrition might have had something to do with that. While the tail is the lowest of the low - the shoe, as it's once called by Mason, a representative of the Front - there was a hierarchy and Grey was taken under Gilliam's wing and protected. For most of the Snowpiercer's journey, Gilliam continued to be the leader, the most respected in the tail as he continued to cut off limbs so that others could eat. Even then, though, because he was getting older and more weak, Gilliam was preparing Curtis Everett to be the next leader. Eventually protein blocks (made of ground up insects, it's later learned) were provided for food, drawing cannibalism to a halt.

As he grew, Grey stayed close to Gilliam, was raised by him, taught all he knew by him while providing essential care to him, helping the crippled man to move when he needed, and becoming his mentor's lover (this is alluded to in the movie, but made clear by the director in interviews). As he grew, Grey was taught to fight, to be prepared for the next, inevitable rebellion against the treatment of the tail section by those in the upper classes in the front of the train. He grew to be tall, thin, agile, and strong, so he made an excellent fighter. Being mute, he was also easy to ignore or forget, even miss or disregard, so he was - and will continue to be - very good at sneaking up on anyone. As he grew, too, to ease communication, words were tattooed onto his skin; all he needed to do was point to a word, which those on the train would grow used to him doing.

From there, Grey's life had a somewhat singular focus. It was, as the tattoos on his arms indicate, fight for the Curtis rebellion or die. Surrender, another word on his arm, was never an option.

When the Rebellion finally - and suddenly - started, the tail sections started to move forward, encountering violence and death at nearly every turn. At first, Gilliam stayed back to protect Gilliam. But when the time came and Gilliam knew that Grey had to fight, he "gave" Grey to Curtis: he sent him forward, saying "Go to Curtis now." So, without question, Grey did. He was instrumental in the Rebellion's ability to move forward. First, he killed the man who had the keys to the front of the train. Then he brought fire forward from the back of the train to where the others were, so that they could see to fight. Finally, after he saw Gilliam die, Grey sacrificed his life for the Rebellion and for Curtis, dying with a knife to the chest.

The Rebellion was never about Grey, just what he could do for others. That, in its own way, made his life worth something when so many in the tail had nothing on which to build a meaningful life.

Personality:

That history brings us to Grey's personality (and the hardest question to answer, since he's not given a great monologue about his life).

Grey, as noted, was raised to be a fighting, killing machine. Additionally, because it can be assumed that his mother died when he was a baby, and he never knew his father, he didn't have many close connections, aside from Gilliam and perhaps Edgar, another "Train baby." It couldn't be said that he was close to Curtis, though he was raised to respect him and to sacrifice for him. Since he has so few connections, the ones he did establish were very strong and worth dying for. The Rebellion was worth dying for. After all, if Grey didn't fight for that, what had he spent his life doing? Existing and nothing more.

But Grey was always - and always would be - different - an Other. Whether he is mute because of his mother's malnutrition before he was born, or because he simply never utilized his vocal cords, Grey was and is silent. As already noted, that made him easy to ignore, easy to miss. It was also, most likely, what made him such a good candidate for being a fighter. Thanks to the protein blocks, he was able to build muscle (even if he might be malnourished in many other ways), and Gilliam - with Curtis's help, it can be assumed - trained him to fight. He is very fast, very strong and very agile. He can jump, run, and scrap better than most. Being as he was such a good fighter, he needed to be quick-thinking, instinctive and confident. He was able to disappear into the ceiling rafters of the tail section and sit for hours, watching people go about their daily lives. It was easy to disappear when one was silent and Grey was that silent one. Once he was intimate with Gilliam, he would stay close to his lover, stealing intimate, quiet, gentle moments when the rest of the tail was incessantly brutal, cold and dark.

Within the world of the tail section, It's safe to assume that there was very little to laugh about. Additionally, while Grey could most likely appreciate humor, he wasn't very good at delivering it, though a raised eyebrow can go a long way. As a result, he's serious. But he is also stalwart, steady and focused. It has to be assumed that he got to be as good a fighter as he is, not because of natural talent, but training and drilling, instruction and implementation.

Grey was loyal, most especially to Gilliam, who, as noted above, raised him and nurtured him physically, emotionally and spiritually. He will continue to be when he finds someone he can trust, who cares. Additionally, having that role model, Grey has learned to be patient, introspective, and steady. After all, he was taught to fight not to defend himself, but to eventually take on the front cars of the train. With this in mind, he was raised to be selfless, brave, and fearless; these traits were modeled for him by Gilliam, who sacrificed body parts in the early days of the tail section so that children - like Grey - would not be killed and eaten. He was - and is - generous of all he had to give, which in the tail of the train was his body and his skills. He, like everyone else on the train after all, had nothing else to give.

Ultimately, Grey, though only eighteen, was and will be a good man - or as good as he could be in the given situation. He didn't choose his situation (none in the tail section did, of course, save Gilliam perhaps), but he is prepared to make the most of it, trained for that, from birth. When he died, it wasn't with a sense of remorse or fear or sadness: it was simply part of life in the tail section of the train.

Powers/Abilities: Trained as he was, Grey is a tremendous physical fighter. He can fight with and throw knives, he can run very fast and climb very well.

Appearance: Body: Fighting, Killing Machine
Face: Go to Curtis, Grey

CR AU

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Samples:

Actionspam Sample: A link

Prose Sample: Grief like an ocean