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COMPOSITION AND APPEARANCE:
Wallace Graves isn’t the tallest human nor is he the smallest standing at five feet and ten inches. He isn’t thick with muscle, his brown eyes are nondescript and match his tangled brown hair. Graves doesn’t dress in anything remotely nice, an old worn pair of black boots, black pants, white shirt, and a worn blue jacket. That is when he isn’t fully armored in his traditional green colored Aliit'gam. He favors cigarettes and almost always has one between his lips. His smell is a poignant one, the smell of smoke lined with sweat, yet somehow not entirely appalling. The most distinguishing thing about his appearance, perhaps the only distinguishing thing about him, is his composure. The way he carries himself is lethal, even to an untrained eye. The lethality follows him like an ominous cloud and is made more pronounced by the twin Mandolorian Rippers that hang on either hip.
PERSONALITY:
Graves isn’t an impolite man but he is far from pleasant. He was raised to be respectful and courteous but that was where the warmth ends. He is a very patient man, apt to let those around him do most of the talking while choosing his own words wisely. Occasionally loosing his head to some minor out bursts, at least he feels they are minor. He doesn’t take kindly to insults to his skill or honor. Honor is his driving motivation, but his sense of honor would be hard pressed to stand up in any traditional court system. Those that intrude upon his honor or break his code quickly find themselves staring down the barrels of his rippers.
Through challenge and battle Graves gains honor and, so, often finds himself in a fight or an unusually precarious situation.
STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES:
While Graves is a man of honor he is undoubtedly and admittedly a flawed man. And like most flawed men he has his vices. His cigarettes, his whiskey, and a strange fondness for bar fights. He doesn’t do well with authority, but he understands that authority is an inevitable part of the galaxy that must be dealt with on a day to day basis. He holds no illusions of escaping the rule of one faction or another, merely begrudgingly excepts their hold on his life while choosing to ignore it from time to time. Now excepted as a Mandolorain he has found an authority that he openly accepts. In fact, he not only openly accepts it he feels that it is his duty as a Mandolorain to see the Mandolorain way protected. He holds it sacred, the words of his superior Mandolorians are more than just words to him. They are the way that he will live his life.
Graves does not like children. Truth be told, Graves doesn’t like most people. Graves especially does not like children.
Pre Clan Renelo
Graves is a skilled fighter, but his talent is very raw. He could greatly benefit from more instruction and discipline. Still, give him a blaster rifle and target, he will shoot it. Give him a vibro knife, let a kath hound at him, he will kill it. Give him his rippers and watch the world around him come to an end. Put him in the cockpit of a ship and he will fly it into the nearest sun. Graves simply cannot fly. He has no feel for it. Being on a ship is entirely unsettling for him to begin with, but he can manage. He cannot, however, manage to fly anything. He can fix just about any type of handheld weapon you could imagine and most of the bigger ones. His father taught him to maintain weapons and to use them at a young age. Teaching him to fight in close quarters first then moving on to weapon maintenance. He always said “You shouldn’t use it until you know how it works.” And so Graves became quite the weapon smith.
Perhaps the reason that Wallace is such an abysmal pilot was the fact that he didn’t step onto a ship until he was already eighteen years old. His father had never owned his own ship, never had enough money to buy one so naturally he didn’t bother to train his son to fly one. After completing several missions with the Protectors that involved extensive space travel Graves began to feel more comfortable in ships. Eventually he sought out the instruction of an older Mandoloraion. Jaghar Nalgra helped Graves to overcome his fear of flying and even become a decent space pilot. After that he learned how to coordinate larger ships and conduct larger scale space battles. This was a monumental achievement for Graves.
His father had been exiled from his Mandolorian Clan for some disgrace that Wallace had never learned. The exile had taken his son with him fleeing to Nar Shadaa where he had taken up mercenary and bounty hunter work. He had never earned enough to get off the smugglers moon, mostly due to his propensity to gamble.
Graves was seventeen when his father died. Father and son had been together, working as hired guns for the Hutts when a spice deal went bad. Graves had killed the Rodian thugs that had murdered his father, but he felt little satisfaction in their death. There was little challenge in it.
His father had taught him growth through challenge and battle was the key to life and war the ultimate test. Graves took this lesson to heart and bounced around from spaceport to spaceport selling his gun in an attempt to gain honor and prestige, he found little enough. Now five years after his father’s death, he feels his next challenge is to join his father’s clan and prove that he is a real mandolorian.
After fully embracing the mandolorian culture Graves has decided to join the ranks of the Protectors, dedicating his life in service to the mandolorian people. Serving with the Protectors turned out to be Graves true calling in life. After completing several missions and proving not only his ability to fight but also lead, Graves was given a ship to command, the Darasuum Haran.
Graves also found himself moving past his extreme dislike of children. It seems the community life of the mandolorians has helped him grow as an individual.
After the Protectors:
If asked why the Protectors were disbanded he would have one of two responses depending on the status of the individual asking the question. A person on Graves bad side would not walk away from the conversation as whole as they had entered it. To a person who garners his respect, “They didn’t.”
Graves upon hearing of Vencu’s orders to disband the Protectors Graves immediately sought out Sisk Renelo and voiced his concerns with Mandolorian leadership. After the two talked Graves pledged his allegiance to Sisk. When Clan Renelo emerged, Graves dropped his given first name replacing it with his former surname and taking on the clan name, in honor of the man who led true vod.
In the subsequent turmoil of the Clan Wars and the following Sith invasion Graves remained loyal to Sisk leading units in battle against the Sith in the effort to protect Mandolorian space. Having been around from the beginning and being an elite warrior Graves Renelo earned the respect of his Clan and Alor and became an Al’verde and Leader of Adenn Tor.
Since joining the Mandolorians Graves has left behind the reputation seeking and arrogant youth he was and become a well versed, highly trained, confident and humble Mandolorian.
Credits:
1,000
Primary Gear:
Graves ability with weapons allows for him to heavily modified all of his weapons,
customizing them to his fast, mobile and accurate approach to firefights.
customizing them to his fast, mobile and accurate approach to firefights.
Pair of Mandolorian Rippers heavily modified for increased stopping power and accuracy, they are his prized possessions.
Traycn’burenaar “Firestorm” Repeater- Modified to act primarily as an assault rifle functioning in both a burst fire mode to support accuracy. It also has its original full auto function but with decreased rate of fire due to the modifications. Overall the gun has been modified to sacrifice rate of fire for accuracy and dual functions.
Ca’oya “Night Hunter” Blade
Orjorer “Outcry” Scattergun. This is a new weapon that Graves has not yet had time to modify.
MV-1 "Sol'kad" Vibroblade.
Weapon cleaning/maintanence kit.
Armor and its upgrades
Beskar’gam, made of lightweight duraplast material. Traditional Green coloring with the right arm and shoulder painted black. The right shoulder bears the mark of Clan Renelo as well as over his left chest plate.
ZX miniature flame projector (2X)
Dur-24 wrist laser
Concealed Dart Launcher (x2)
Beskar crushgaunt
Not in use:
Mandolorian Blaster Rifle, custom design. Semi-auto, high accuracy and energy strength.
KILLS:
N/A
BOUNTIES COLLECTED:
N/A
DUELING RING MATCHES:
N/A
GRAND TOURNAMENT MATCHES:
N/A
ROLE-PLAYS:
Learning to Fly
A Jakelian Knife-dance Instructor
Derelict Duty
Lost and Found
Training of a Young Mandolorian
Finding Himself
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