Grey Lawe

[Grey Lawe]

OOC Name: That One Girl
Face Claim: Victor Ross

GREY LAWE

Age: 34
Date of Birth: May 9
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Occupation: Professor at SCC
Specie: Human

Hair Color: Dark Brown
Eye Color: Brown
Height: 6'2
Brief Physical Description: Grey has a muscular build on the lean side, with broad shoulders and a narrow waist. He works overtime to keep himself in top condition. Grey’s skin is the color of caramel and his eye are a light brown and sometimes appear gold. His hair is dark brown but often mistaken as black.

Likes: Order, guns, kids
Dislikes: Bubbly people, being too hot or too cold, waiting
Strengths: Bold, loyal, just
Weaknesses: Judgmental, temperamental, impatient
Brief Personality Description: Grey was once young and reckless, a charmer of women and a cocky military man. As he grew he lost his love for flirting and became a much more serious, intentional lover, as well as a soldier who tread cautiously, as he was a man with much to lose. Where Grey was once polite and preferred to laugh rather than confront, he now teeters on the line between having some manners and being too blunt to be pleasant. He isn’t intentionally mean, but he also isn’t patient with what he perceives as immaturity or stupidity. He is not hindered by social norms. Even if he isn’t the gentlest man, he is still loyal, confident, and reliable. He is a man of his word and expects everyone around him to be as well. Once someone has lost his trust it will likely never be regained. Despite what sounds like a serious man, Grey still knows how to let loose and have a good time, when in the right company.

Years in Silverdale: 5
Family: Claire (ex wife), Iris (11 year old daughter), Blue (8 year old son)
History: Grey can't complain about his childhood. He had two loving parents who did everything they could for him in the midst of being hated by their families for marrying one another (solely on the basis of race, as Grey's father is black and his mother his white). Grey enlisted in the army directly after high school, and served the country in that capacity for ten long years. In those years he met and fell in love with his ex wife, Claire, who was an army medic. Their love was established during a one year deployment. They married as soon as they returned home.

Not long after marriage came the baby in the baby carriage. Grey was only twenty-three when he became a father, and it was as filling as had expected. He got deployed not long after Iris' birth, however, and this particular tour changed him. They get pregnant with their son not long after his return, and Grey went back to school to pursue a business degree. Claire wanted him to get out of the military and be home. He didn't, but he entertained her desires.

The cold, harsh reality of life not just ending with happily ever after and a sunset overcame the Lawe family. Grey and Claire loved each other, and they loved their kids, but Grey also loved being a soldier, and he was a good one. Claire also loved being a medic, which saw many of her weekends at hospitals as a traveling nurse. Their kids ended up spending more time with Grey's parents than with their own. Bitterness grew up among them like a disease. Claire was bitter at Grey for choosing to be away when he could stay, and Grey was bitter with Claire for not being with the children more. The children were bitter with both of their parents for choosing their careers over them.

It ended as many good things do--angrily, rashly, regrettably--in divorce. Claire and Grey share custody of the kids, though Claire gets them throughout the year and Grey has them in the summers. Only after he lost his beloved family did Grey change; he left the military and finished his degree, earning a master's in business. There was a job opportunity for him at SCC in Silverdale, a few states away from his ex wife and children. He opted to make the move to try to move on, not to try to build a life like he had--he is confident he cannot have a thing that good twice--but to try to get some fresh mountain air and perspective.

Grey has not been teaching at SCC for five years. Aside from being a professor, he also works part-time in the community as a business adviser.

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