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[color=ff4500][b]Name:[/b][/color]
Ashton Jefferson Gray

[color=ff4500][b]Appearance:[/b][/color]
Born several years before Emergence, Ashton is a living reminder of the old phrase ‘Be wary of an old man in a job where they die young’. He’s been a Ripper his whole life and it shows. Not a tall man, he’s best described as ‘solid’. A thick, heavy set frame, well muscled by years of hauling scrap and covered in a multitude of scars from accidents, fights and radiation. In Camp he sticks to a worn and many times repaired set of coveralls that are almost as old as he is. His current Ripper gear is actually an ex-CC industrial suit that he’s added a vest/harness and leg pouches to for greater utility; in addition to all that and several repair patches, he’s done a few ‘cosmetic’ alterations to hide the suits origin.

Aside from the many scars, he has a variety of tattoos; the most notable ones being ‘Good’ and ‘Haul’ across his knuckles and a set of scales over his heart.

[color=ff4500][b]Gender:[/b][/color]
Male

[color=ff4500][b]Nationality:[/b][/color]
If you had to ‘label’ him for his place of birth, he’d be UNISCI, but if you ask Ashton…and press him for an answer…he’d just call himself a Ripper. He may have been born in a UNISCI vault, but he’s lived and worked in the Ripper Camp of NNYC his entire life.

[color=ff4500][b]Role:[/b][/color]
Heavy Crew

[color=ff4500][b]Personality:[/b][/color]
‘Reserved’ would probably be the best way to describe Ashton as he’s not given to going out of his way to make friends. Mind you he’s no bitter anti-social asshole, he’s just never felt overly inclined to get to know people; what’s the point in getting too close to folk that may very well be dead in a week…or sooner.

On the other hand he does have his principles; his biggest one being ‘Always Back Your Crew’. Whether out Ripping, or back in the Camp, you watch each other's back regardless of anything else…and if someone betrays that trust you [i]deal[/i] with that right off.

[color=ff4500][b]Resume:[/b][/color]
Born quite literally the day before ‘Emergence Day’, Ashton grew up into rough and (even more) chaotic early days of the Ripper Camps. While his father, William,  became one of the first generation Rippers, his mother, Clara, cared for him and set up with a few others tending to the care and mending of the gear of those trying to rip a living out of the decaying ruins of the old world; from the moment he was old enough to actually take and follow instructions he helped with the work.

As he got older, he went from mending clothes to helping sort the scrap his father’s crew hauled back from the ruins and by the time he was a young teen he ‘graduated’ to being a Ripper himself…though sadly by then his father was gone due to radiation poisoning. Still he carried on, day after day to provide for himself and his mother.

When he was about twenty or so, his mother took up with a man named Victor. At first Ashton wasn’t a big fan of him, but in time he grew to appreciate Victor and the fact that he made his mother happy again. Not long after, his mother gave birth to his half-sister Sandra and the four of them were as happy as one could be in that hard life. Ashton worked on as a Ripper, tearing scrap from the ruins, while Clara, Victor, (and once she was old enough) Sandra tending to his and others Ripper gear.

Now his mother has passed and Victor is sadly a shell of who he once was. A few hard lessons and narrow escapes means Sandra is about the only person he truly trusts. Though he doesn’t see a future for himself, beyond ending up like his own father, he keeps pressing on to help Sandra keep her business afloat and to care for Victor.

[color=ff4500][b]Contacts:[/b][/color]
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[*][color=ff4500]’Missy’ Bellwether[/color] - Owner/operator of the ‘Last Gasp’ a popular Ripper bar not far from the main gate and money lender for the local Syndicate. The Last Gasp is Ash’s preferred drinking establishment and sometimes employer as Missy occasionally hires him as a bouncer and/or debt collector. 
[*][color=ff4500]Randolph Checkers[/color] - Weapons dealer. Works out of a back room in the ‘Last Gasp’. Charges a fair price and only deals in decent gear; rumored to have USCOM connections, but Ashton knows better than to poke about in business that isn’t his.
[*][color=ff4500]Sandy Wilson[/color] - His half-sister. She runs a flophouse not far from the ‘Last Gasp’, keeps a bunk open for Ashton as often as she can.
[*][color=ff4500]Victor Wilson[/color] - Sandra’s father. A fairly decent man once, but sadly his mind has gone and these days just sits and stares out a window at Sandra’s flop house.[/list]

[color=ff4500][b]Quirks:[/b][/color]
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[*][color=ff4500]{In It For The Long Haul}[/color] - As a lifelong Ripper, Ashton has a good eye for not only what the most valuable things are (obvious and otherwise), but also the subtle signs of what may be a trap (intentional or otherwise).
[*][color=ff4500]{Built Like A Brick}[/color] - Almost as broad as he is tall, he is remarkably strong; useful for not only hauling scrap, but dealing with the more active threats both outside and inside the Camp.
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[color=ff4500][b]Heels:[/b][/color]
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[*][color=ff4500]{Back In My Day}[/color] - Being a Ripper ages even the young rather quickly…and he’s not a young man any more. He hurts more constantly, he’s not as fast and so on and so forth …
[*][color=ff4500]{How Do You Turn This Thing On?}[/color] - He knows enough about the old tech to (mostly) salvage it safely, but dealing with the occasional systems that one finds that are still running? Yeah, he never got the hang of that.[/list]
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