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[center][sub] "And I love the Fourth of July
When bombs start flashing!
And I wish I had a shiny red top
And a bugel with  a big brass bell to cheer me up
Or maybe something bigger that would really go pop!
So I could make the gardening stop."
- [i]Atomic Garden[/i], Bad Religon[/sub][/center]
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[u][b]<!Open_6R4Y_H44T.pers//Decrypting::[/b][/u]
[u][b]<<--Username//[/b][/u]6R4Y_H44T
[u][b]<<--Age//[/b][/u]--4_44--
[u][b]<<--Appearance//[/b][/u]D45H11N6-R06ISH-T4LD4RKH4ND50ME

There are people who are tall and people like Gray. Standing just over seven feet tall, Gray's bulky frame stands him slightly taller than your average door, let alone your average tough. In spite of this his thick and billowing coats, smooth, faceless helmets, and extensive exo-skeleton shield almost the entirety of his body from sight at any given time. There's a running question as to whether or not he's even a person under all that gear or some kind of AI run amok--it would certainly explain a lot.

[u][b]<<--Traits//..Listing::[/b][/u]
[indent]!<<5UUP3R_G3NN1US//Decrypting::[/indent]
[indent][indent]Gray is smart. Gray is [i]really[/i] smart. Gray is so smart that it is almost certainly illegal, entirely likely gained by some form of genetic engineering, chemical stimulation, or cybernetic enhancement. When it comes to knowing things about things, Gray does. Though of course nobody is sure that he's not just pulling up its Omnipedia page on the inside of his helmet and pretending.[/indent][/indent]
[indent]!<<D44T_4$$H0LE//Decrypting::[/indent]
[indent][indent]It's a good thing that Gray is so goddamn smart, because he makes up for it by being so goddamn annoying. 'Childish' is a good word to describe Gray, as he's almost constantly cracking wise, making some kind of idiotic pop-culture reference, or otherwise trolling some poor soul. It's almost compulsive, really, his inability to provide a straight answer or not make a smart ass comment, and it's gotten him in trouble on more than one occasion. Some things just aren't funny, but like a true extranet troll Gray has a really hard time telling where that line is and has an unfortunate habit of sulking when people get butthurt. The irony is lost on him.[/indent][/indent]
[indent]!<<B3H0LD_D4_W1Z44D//Decrypting::[/indent]
[indent][indent]Speaking of idiocy, Gray is superstitious to the point of being just plain weird about it. For a technofreak he sure doesn't seem to put a lot of faith in logic, or at least not entirely in logic. It's hard to tell whether or not Gray actually believes in all the little things that he does or if they're some manifestation of on-the-spectrum stress release--there had to be at least some quirks to let him pull the kind of shit he pulls. A believer in everything from Martian Tengen-jutsu to Venutian Spiral Readings, Grays fascination with the occult borders on actual mysticism. He's a particular believer in numerology, and at any given time numbers and patterns are being corrolated for not only the most efficient but the most [i]auspicious[/i] course of actions. Most people are willing to just give it to him, but it doesn't make it any less...well. Let's just say the ship used to have a cat.[/indent][/indent]
[indent]!<<H1ST0RY_R3PE4TSR3PE4TSR3PE4TS_H1ST0RY_R3PE4TSR3PE4TSR3PE4TS_H1S//Error{Cyclical//Decrypting::[/indent]
[indent][indent]Gray likes history. A lot. Enough that he's willingly chosen ancient pieces of art over people's lives and safety, including his own, on numerous occasions. While the arts--sculptures in particular--are by far his favorite he has a fondness for all sorts of relics, including cultural and especially religious ones. One of the few ways to get him to talk about something serious, Gray views the past (and even the distant past) as all part of a grand equation that ultimately allows the prediction of the future, and will continue at length on the subject with increasing incoherence until it eventually devolves into memes like everything else he does.[/indent][/indent]

[u][b]<--Strengths//Listing::[/b][/u]
[indent]!<I_4M_HE4VY_W34P0NS_6UY!!1//Decrypting::[/indent]
[indent][indent]Gray doesn't really like to fight--it's certainly not his strong suit. He much prefers to screw with his enemies in all manner of awkward life-hack nonsense, but there are occasions when you've just got to get stuck in with it. On those occasions, Gray goes with the time honored tradition of taking the biggest goddamn gun he can find and making as much noise and explosions with it as possible. While rarely useful in a one-on-one fight, Gray's exoskeleton and AI aim-assists helps him load up the caliber of weapon commonly seen mounted on military vehicles. He's not above--and in fact greatly enjoys--demolitions, and while this can do wonders against a Venutian mercenary group it isn't always the best answer for some of the more casual fighting that occurs in the course of a bounty hunter's work. This has not seemed to 'click' with Gray, whose typical response is something along the lines of 'M0RE_D44K4!!1'.[/indent][/indent]
[indent]!<Open::Salinger.J.D.--<"I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes.">//Decrypting::[/indent]
[indent][indent]When it comes to flat network hacking, to say that Gray is legendary is to give him too little credit--after all, 'legendary' would mean that people know about him. Responsible for four out of six most carefully covered up corporate hacks of the last decade, most people assume that Username:6R4Y_H44T is actually a collective of extranet cybertrolls. The intelligence community know better, and commonly believe him to be the computer equivalent of the Tooth Fairy. When your computer turns itself inside out and starts vomiting your details to anyone in broadcast range, Gray Hat did it. While it takes concentration, Gray can crack, hack, and put back together just about anything that broadcasts before most people can realize that their helmet's videofeed is missing the seven foot exoskeletal giant in the corner.[/indent][/indent]
[indent]!<3L3M3NT4RY,MY_D34R_W4TS0N...//Decrypting::[/indent]
[indent][indent]Surprisingly to most, Gray is actually impressively intuitive when it comes to people. Something of a voyeur, he spends a disproportionate amount of his time watching them through security feeds, Trojan vid-viruses, and social media hacks, and while many would say he does it so that he can get a better grasp of these odd, fleshy things called 'Homo Sapiens' he seems to spend so much time around the truth is that Gray just likes people. He tends to understand them much better than they tend to understand themselves, and it is this as much as anything that helps him act as something of a sleuth on more occasions than not. If you're looking for someone to run the head game on your local bounty, you might as well ask Gray. That's kinda his turf.[/indent][/indent]
[indent]<!N0TUR4V3R4GE-LYF3--H4CK//Decrypting:[/indent]
[indent][indent]Perhaps even more surprising to most, Gray is actually quite an accomplished physician. Though almost all of his knowledge is hacked from extranet articles, med-school holographies, recorded surgeries, and trauma videos, when it comes time to get that bullet out you can count on Gray to do it without taking off the arm. By no means a doctor in any sense of the word, he takes the phrase 'life-hack' more literally than most and treats the body as yet another system to troll. It isn't recommended to bring him anything but trauma and needlessly complicated medical issues, however--anything else is 'boring' and likely to result in aggressive and incessant teasing.[/indent][/indent] 
[indent][s]!Bedroom_Skills::Open_xxxFistula.img/:Open_Cht.Cam.milfaholic334/:Exec_"Spank Me Daddy"/Run_MayFlowersNeedsGolden--//REDACT::Browser_History&Recycling&Folder/Downloads[/s][/indent]

[u][b]<--Weaknesses//Listing::[/b][/u]
[indent]<!Open_6R4Y.doc.med//Decrypting:://ERROR{File Not Found//[/indent]
[indent][indent]Gray is not well, and not in the 'haha, he's crazy' kind of way. Well, also in that kind of way, but not only. Whatever it is that Gray or someone else has done to his body, it had some significant side-effects;  at the very least he's dependent upon a cocktail of something that includes a restricted pain medication. The reason Gray is quite so up on his medical knowledge is so that he can figure out how to fix himself, though he carefully guards quite what it is he's attempting to fix [i]about[/i] himself. Asking without having earned enough 'Approval', as he refers to it, is just begging to be deflected and abused.[/indent][/indent]
[indent]<!ERROR{Maintenance_Required::LServo2A//ERROR{Maintenance_Required::LServo2B//Decrypting::[/indent]
[indent][indent]All that hardware Gray packs around with doesn't come cheap, and it doesn't exactly hold up under the rigors of mercenary life as well as it ought to. Everything from his exoskeleton to his face masks to his extranet broadcaster is either something he picked up along the way and rigged to work or a dying piece of cutting-edge equipment that he ripped off from somewhere else. Gray is always looking for odd bits and ends to help shore up his collection, but parts can be scarce and a long time between jobs can make for a very unhappy Gray.[/indent][/indent]
[indent]<!Open_25thCentury-Digital-Boy//Decrypting::[/indent]
[indent][indent]Worse, Gray is largely dependent on his hardware. Not all of it, of course, but on the rare occasions Gray is without his exoskeleton he is demonstrably crippled, physically extremely weak and mentally struggling. While the suit itself is hardened against EMP attacks and environmental failures as best it can be--it has backup systems, redundant operational structures, and really isn't about to just go out on its own--that doesn't mean that without it he's essentially helpless. It also doesn't mean that a good number of fine systems can be damaged both by electromagnetic interference or a sufficiently advanced technological attack, which is only theoretically possible thanks to some hilariously overdeveloped firewalls and security protocols but still something Gray is understandably paranoid about. If the power goes out, Gray's in trouble.[/indent][/indent]
[indent]<!Exec_Cry.Some.More.kll//Decrypting::[/indent]
[indent][indent]Say what you want about Gray, there's a solid case to be made that he's still quite young somewhere beneath all that equipment. It's hard to say for sure, but just looking at the way he acts sometimes definitely places him on an immature spectrum, juxtaposed by occasional moments of true brilliance or wisdom. He hates losing, he holds a grudge, he often responds with overkill, and in spite of his constant dickery he takes most things very personally. A cool cucumber or smooth operator Gray is not.[/indent][/indent]

[u][b]<<--Past//Open_PRec.GrayHat//Decrypting:ERROR{Exec_3y3Prov2.5.1//Decrptying:ERROR{Receiving::[/b][/u]
[indent][i]I can see you there. 
Don't think that I can't. 
You're reading up on me. You've done a good job, or paid for it. Strengths, weaknesses. Personality files. Someone's been squealing, but I'll see to that soon enough. What's important is that there's nothing here for you. I could let you pull it up and see, but all it would tell you is what they want you to know. Or what I want you to know. Which wouldn't make it any more true, would it?

We all have a past. We all have a history, and it repeats itself. Do yourself a favor and erase it. Input new starting parameters, recalculate. If equal changes are made to both sides of an equation it remains the same: Don't be equal. I'm not. But you got this far on me, so before I frag every drive on your network I'll give you this little tidbit for posterity:

Rosebud.[/i][/indent]
[u][b]<--Exec_H4H4H4.exe//ERROR{File Not Found--ERROR{File Not Found--ERROR{File Not Found--
<--ERROR{Sys_Settings.sys cannot be opened. Unknown Error.
<--ERROR{Sys_Mem.sys cannot be opened. Unknown Error.
<--A problem has been detected and your interface has been shut down to prevent damage to your terminal.
   The problem seems to be have been caused by the following file: 4NGR4_M41NYU.Sys
   If this is the first time you have experienced this problem, please restart your terminal.
   If the problem continues, follow these steps:
	ERROR{H4H4H4[/b][/u]