<div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 20pt;">†• † • Gray Wilder • † •†</span> <br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 10pt;">• TheHangedMan •</span></div><br/><div class="floatright">(http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w223/Mirrahs_echo/manu-bennett-1.jpg)</div><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>|| : But you can call me : ||</strong> <br/>Gray, Pain <br/><br/> <strong>|| : Last I checked : ||</strong>  <br/> Male.  <br/><br/> <strong>|| : Just a number : ||</strong>  <br/> 25  <br/><br/> <strong>|| : How I roll : ||</strong>  <br/> Women, of course.   <br/><br/> <strong>|| : Where I stand : ||</strong> <br/> Guard<br/><br/> <strong>|| : My little parlor tricks : ||</strong>  <br/> Psychic Shock: Gray is able to cause others to suffer extreme pain. In humans, this usually manifests in feeling like they're experiencing a severe migraine; the kind that makes every light too bright, every noise too loud, the kind of migraine that makes the world spin and makes you want to empty the contents of your stomach all over the ground. Other living creatures experience different reactions to the attack, but it's almost always unpleasant (Like a Bull Ant suddenly frenzying and attacking the nearest thing close to it, like its compatriots), and some times, fatal. There is a kicker to this power, however, and that is that Gray must injure himself to make it work. He needs to be in pain; something about experiencing it gives him the necessary "mojo" (he needs to be having an adrenaline rush to get the power to function properly; he finds self-harm an ironic and workable way of using it. Even if someone explained away the adrenaline need, he's become fixated on needing to injure himself in order to use his power.)  <br/><br/> <strong>|| : Underneath It All : ||</strong>  <br/> I like these guys and gals around me. I try to do right by them, because I know they'll try to do right by me, too. I chose to become a guard because I feel naturally drawn towards the vocation. I neither fear pain (actually finding joy in it), and can even enjoy seeing others in pain (If I think they deserve it). I also have no qualms about killing (whether it's another man, or one of the Kreatures that threaten our community), and will not shy away from it when I feel it is justified/warranted. <br/><br/>I have some times heard it said that I am a clannish person; that even in this small community, where everyone knows everyone else, their are those here who I hold above the others, regardless of their rank or occupation. It's true. Their are people out there that I care strongly about, and if anyone or anything tries to hurt them, <em>I will make them feel the pain and anguish of a hundred deaths.</em>  I do <strong>not</strong> tolerate my friends being harassed, bullied, or hurt in any way, shape, or form, and whoever dares to do so better be ready to deal with the consequences.<br/><br/> <strong>|| : Where I’ve been : ||</strong>  <br/> Born the son of Richard Wilder, and Jelanda (Maiden name: Grayle), he grew up in the village. His father was the caretaker of the graveyard, and his mother helped him with that, in addition to generally being a jack-of-all-trades around Stratclaw. She never did anything consistently, but if you ever needed a hand with something, she was the person to go to. The fact that Gray is a quick learner is often attributed to his mother.<br/><br/>As Gray grew older, he had a lot of responsibilities, helping his parents with tending to the house and the graveyard. His wiry, deceptive strength can easily be attributed to this.  Besides work around the place, his father also taught him how to fletch arrows, and to string and shoot a shortbow; his favored weapon. <br/><br/>Gray discovered his power when he was 16; a late bloomer, some might say, but up until then, nobody had an inkling of what he could do. Neither of his parents were 'gifted'; nor was anyone in their family possessed of any special traits. It was easy to assume that Gray was the same.<br/><br/>One day, while he was still in the course of training as a guard, their was a Bull Ant attack. He attempted to fight them off with the rest of the guards, but due to underestimating his enemy (something he will never do again), he ended up being on the receiving end of a beating.<br/><br/>As the Bull Ant continued to snap  at the teen, something in him snapped. He's not sure what he did, how it all worked; but all of a sudden, the creature backed off, and started  shrieking in pain. It ended up bashing open its head on the wall, killing itself in a spectacularly brutal fashion.<br/><br/>And then he blacked out. He came to, a full day later, where the events of that day had to be repeated to him.  Nobody was sure what happened with the Bull Ant; nobody in the village had the power to do anything like that, and it was entirely out of character. But hey, maybe they just didn't understand the once human things.<br/><br/>He never did fully recover from the injury he took, and walks with a modest limp; on a good day, he is able to move without too much difficulty (though it shows when and if he runs), though he does have bad days where anyone would be able to tell he had some sort of injury. <br/><br/>It took a full year of the encounter being replayed, over and over, in his head, before he realized something. Whatever happened to the Bull Ant, it had to have been something he did. Possessed of a natural inquisitiveness, he then proceeded to experiment, in many different ways, to try and see if he could trigger that power again.<br/><br/>By the time he was fully done with his training, and officially a guard, he had figured out two things. The first is that pain was the trigger for his power; the second is that he is a masochist. Eventually, he was able to explain this to others, mostly the men and women he trained and grew up with.<br/><br/>Nowadays, most people know exactly what it is that he can do; it's fairly well accepted, even if its seen as strange by most (in so far that it requires a 'sacrifice' of sorts from him). His power, in addition to his high pain threshold, are exactly how he earned the nickname of "Pain". </span>