David Grey
Code-Name: Hellion
Other Alias: Ethan Reitz (Birth Name)
Ethnicity: Half-Mexican, Half-Caucasian
Position: Black Ops TL, Blue TL, Grey Institute Headmaster
Sex: Male
Age: 76, physically about 26
Appearance:
Hair: Brown and short, sometimes spiked
Eyes: Brown
Skin: Tanned
Weight: 210 lbs.
Height: 6 foot 1 inches
Other: Wears mostly form fitting designer clothing.
Date Of Birth: February 19
Place Of Birth: Los Angeles, CA
Education: Public Education in the 1960s, Formal Education (Grey Institute), Tactical training and weapons training through SHIELD, the assassin Dagger, X-Men training and Wolverine's personal training through out his life.
Mother:
Name: Nicole Reitz nee Hernandez
Age: Unknown. Deceased.
Race: Human
Father:
Name: Tyler Reitz
Age: Unknown. Deceased.
Race: Human
Adopted-Mother:
Name: Jean Grey
Age: 59 years
Race: Mutant, Phoenix force
Adopted-Father:
Name: Logan Grey
Age: Unknown. Deceased.
Race: Mutant
Other Relatives:
Blood-Sister: Stephanie Reitz (Deceased)
Adopted-Sister: Elisa Grey aka Athena (Deceased)
Adopted-Brother: Nate Grey aka Cable (MIA)
Adopted-Sister: X-23 genetic clone and daughter of Wolverine (Currently serving on Excalibur)
Adopted-Sister: Rachel Grey aka Phoenix (Deceased)
Adopted-Brother: Dagger genetic half clone of Wolverine (Location Unknown)
Powers: Healing Factor, Super Agility
Details of Powers: David has an above average healing ability. He is able to regenerate lost tissue and nearly instantly heal any wound. He is able to survive wounds and attacks that would be fatal to other people. His healing factor also makes his hair and other cells grow faster - his body not aging as quickly because it produces cells faster then it loses them. David also has super agility, the ability to perform acrobatic feats that put most professional gymnasts to shame, able to bend himself into various shapes as well as perform inhuman flips and twists.
Power Limitations: David's healing factor works almost too well. When he heals he can heal incorrectly. For instance if his bone was sticking out of his body, his body would heal with it there and the bone would have to be re-broken for David to heal it naturally. He also used to possess enhanced senses, but his healing factor wiped them out as they were genetically engineered into David by Weapon X.
Hobbies and Interests: David is extremely interested in history and tactics. He spends a lot of his time learning about tactics of some of the better military leaders through out history. David loves to work out and hit the gym, he spends a lot of time in the gym training every day. Outside of that David loves music and has an odd obsession with Disney films.
Background:
David grew up in Los Angeles, CA. At this time he was known as Ethan Reitz. He was a normal student and young boy. He spent his time doing sports and hanging out with friends. At the age of nine he was attacked by a rabid bunny at a petting zoo and has had an innate fear of them ever since. He grew up with a proud Mexican mother and a quiet and strong Italian father, though it was a running joke as a kid that his mother wore the pants in the family. When he was in about ninth grade, headed home from school, he was attacked by a group of soldiers. He was eventually captured for a long time by the Weapon X program.
When Wolverine heard rumors of a second wave of Weapon X subjects, and new trail of ultimate soldiers, Logan went to sabotage it, finding David shortly after his first surgery to give him blades made of Adamantuim. He saved David before the second surgery could begin, which would have coated his skeleton in the same metal, throwing his body into more of a shock as the procedure was interrupted mid-way.
Wolverine, with the unwanted help of the assassin team, the Sheiken Kyougi, made sure Weapon X would never happen again. Though as Wolverine wanted nothing to do with the team, he left with David before he got too deep into the mass murder the three assassins were planning. Feeling mildly responsible and under Jean's persuasion they decided to adopt David and the two X-Men watched over him and helped him to recuperate, with the help and therapy of Charles Xavier. After a lot of thought they decided to mention nothing of Weapon X or the past he had lost as Wolverine knew they wouldn't have all the answers David would want. Logan knew someday David would find out, but had no idea how soon.During the Genosha mission, the new X-Men were forced to room together at an underground base with the Sheiken Kyougi, who were hired by the Vice President to due the same job; Kill Riot. Sabretooth, Dagger and Pandora, who make up the trio, felt no reason not to leak the information of David's past to him once they recognized the man Logan was calling his son. David confronted Dagger, who seemed to know the most and found out over fifty years ago they'd undergone the same experiments as Wolverine and Sabretooth. David was in the second program alongside Dagger. After Wolverine's rescue of David and the Sheiken Kyougi's murder of Weapon X officials the labs were destroyed. David had no idea he had undergone this experience until this point in his life.
David was shocked by the news and it bothers him that his parents never told him. It weighs on his mind as Logan and him only spoke of it for a short time, and it hasn't been mentioned since they'd been home. Unlike Wolverine he doesn't deny his connection to the Sheiken Kyougi, and formed a loose friendship with Dagger over the mission and respects him as warrior and someone who spoke the truth. Restless and weary, and with being named the leader of the team, David now deals with a lot of stress and isn't as care free as he once was.
At the battle against Apocalypse, only two months after the killing of Riot and the loss of a teammate Charlene, David comes truly into stride as a team leader. With his help of his teammates and his father Apocalypse is stopped before he can seize any form of power. David is finally starting to calm down and relax a little since the Genosha mission. Though while battling Cable one of the Horseman he loses his blades. The blades given to him by Weapon X are ripped telekinetically from his body. After coming home and spending a short time with Jade, the daughter of Emma Frost, and the White Queen herself he comes to respect the family deeply. David began feeling he needed a new codename to go with his lack of blades. He wasn't the Grim Reaper anymore. The codename that Weapon X had given him so long ago. Jade suggested David call himself Hellion. The name of Emma Frost's former team of students. David likes the idea and adopts the codename. David at some point around this time lost control of himself. He reverted back to the animal he had been during his time at Weapon X. He bit and tried to kill his friend Dallas. He know remembers this thanks to an event that occurred later on. During a mission against the FOH, David saw Gunner and the Sheiken Kyougi prepared to kill Gunner's mom. Gunner's Mom turned out to be the head of the Friends of Humanity. David stopped them from committing the murder and the team went back to the mansion. While they had been gone the mansion had been attacked and destroyed by Seraph and the Brotherhood. David moved to Chicago for the summer so that he would have a place to live while the mansion was rebuilt. After a summer of living in Chicago, with teammate Gunner as a roomie, David moved back to the mansion. He had dealt with numerous problems of general life over the summer he was more then happy to get back his life as an X-Man.As the school year started he lost control of himself again. He became a savage monster trying to injure people he cared about. This was during an attack by Gunner's mom to seek revenge. She succeeded in killing Gunner only to have him brought back to life thanks to Apollo reversing time around Gunner.
During this attack the X-Men all over the world were kidnapped by Nightmare and both Beasts. The New X-Men, David's team, formed together with the remaining members of the Hellions and Excalibur to form a counter attack. They succeeded and freed the X-Men. But, in the process of the rescue Sarell was killed. Nightmare tapped into David's brain and unlocked his past. By the time the mission was over David remembered everything about his past.
After the mission, and a brief stint of making sure Dallas was okay, David left to speak with Dagger and to
find out more about his past. Right before he did this he broke up with his long time boyfriend, Wil Cole. He just didn't feel he was in a place to have a relationship anymore. He has traveled the world and has met his biological sister Stephanie. Now after a few months gone from the Institute he is coming home and he isn't sure what kind of a greeting he will get. David lived with Dagger and trained with him, increasing his skills before returning to the mansion. David has since lead the team in various missions, including ones to rescue his mother from demise, an alternate universe in which he was all that Weapon X had planned and a mission to stop the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants from attacking various political buildings. This turned out to be a trap to lure the teams into trying to convert members into the Brotherhood. This mission left David jaded, as he had to fight his best friend Dallas and had to make hard decisions. Recently David has tried dating again. He briefly dated a student named Aaron and shortly after that relationship ended he began dating new student, Riley. Riley and David have been dating for a couple months and things seem to be going well. David along with fellow leader Aisha, broke the teams up into three teams now and David became official leader of the Black Squad. David chose his teammate Gunner as his second in command. David most recently lead his team in a mission against the Pantheon, a group of villains trying to free a God from Limbo. David's team performed exceptionally well and David is very happy with how things are going. For the first time in years David finally feels like he is getting back to being himself. He has aged and hardened, but things are looking up. David's team performed well all year. Despite the death of two students and friends at graduation. Over the summer David swore to never lose another student and with SHIELDs help he tracked down and locked up the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. With the new year starting, David is ready to protect and lead his team.When the new year began, the Exiles showed up and David eventually agreed to assist them with helping Charlene and his alternate universe self, Ethan escape from jail so the Exiles could return them to their proper universe. The mission put SHIELD at heads with the X-men, a place David wasn't familiar with, but in the end the mission was a success and the two were taken out of this universe, which was good for David because he never quite felt comfortable with Ethan's existence. The next semester David was on edge after Raphael turned on them, possessed by the demon lord Belasco who had been killed and driven from Limbo by Magik and Wiccan. The whole thing ended in Raquel's coma and David feeling a bit uncomfortable with the people on the teams. He didn't trust them all as much as he once had, people just kept defecting for various reasons. He was also sad to see Aisha, his fellow team leader, move to Excalibur.
David lead a team backed by SHIELD to take out the wolves who had killed Clover and Daniel. They managed to capture some of the wolves and David helped his friend Gabe draw some much needed closer with the Alpha Female of the wolf pack. David was feeling more confident in his leading skills and the direction the world seemed to be taking for him. Then everything changed that spring at the Mall of America.
While shopping with Dallas and Aaron, David ran into Seraph and Cae. The five of them did battle and Seraph injured people and caused hundreds of thousands in structural damage to the stores and area. Eventually David, Dallas and Aaron all were brought up on charges by store owners and injured citizens for their actions in attacking the villains. David wasn't happy and it resulted in him being sent, in his opinion as an example, to SHIELD's top security prison in the Negative Zone.
After his time in SHIELD prison, David is out and back at the mansion. He is more okay with SHIELD having taken over the school then he thought he would be, he has been back and forth about it. He earned his spot back as a team leader and is more then willing to fight to keep it. David has aged a lot in the past couple years and is really working to be respected by others around him.
David trained hard through out the year and with the advice of his superiors and a few different ideas tossed around he ended up forming a group of Black Ops teammates to go on tactical missions for SHIELD. The missions were a bit darker and the teams identity was kept secret for a period of time, nobody at the school knowing it even existed, much less what they did when they left the mansion. As time went on in the new school year, David was surprised at how many missions they had now that SHIELD was in control.
When his adoptive father was taken by Apocalypse's forces, David went on multiple missions to stop the despot from rising back to power. In the end he not only lost his father but his sister Elisa to death. They stopped Apocalypse but at a heavy cost, losing the mansion as well. David was distraught and alone, he went home to stay with Jean, who moved to Britain to live in Psylocke's mansion with the Excalibur team stationed there. David returned home, rejoining SHIELD. Living on the helicarrier, David began leading an X-Man team on multiple missions. He lead them against everything from alien invaders, to a prison break out of the prison he had once been in as a prisoner himself. David formed a close knit team around himself and began a premier agent of SHIELD. He felt accomplished and worked hard to make his team of X-Men SHIELD agents into the best they could be, glad to be in a position of power where he felt he belonged. David felt a new hole rip into him as another person died in his life, his biological sister Stephanie died of natural causes. David was sent on a mission by himself to track down a man named Ronin. He secretly contacted an old ally and sometimes enemy, Dagger, asking him if he knew anything of him. Dagger informed him they had been tracking Ronin for some time but didn't know his identity yet, per David's request Dagger backed off and let David move in on him. David managed to not only discover Ronin's identity but he found out it was his ex-boyfriend Aaron. The two fought and David asked Ronin to move back to America with him, though he denied him at the time. When David came back to America, he joined Aisha in reopening the school. He worked with her to set up the new building in downtown Seattle and worked to move the X-Men there as well. With Sage taking over the leadership of all of SHIELD, David was given full control of the X-Men and picking out his team personally. David found solace and some comfort with Clover, much to his surprise. The two of them dated for a long time and David found he cared about her, but the two broke up because of his lies about the Black Ops team and things he was doing in secret for SHIELD. Life ran into a hitch when Gunner's actions ended with David and Bear being revealed to the public as part of a government black operations squad. It took a lot of covering up and publicity to make the situation go away so they didn't have to deal with the repercussions, it really hurt David and Gunner's friendship as well, putting them firmly at odds. The school was in full swing and David felt back at home. He saw many of his friends come back together to help teach and to join the X-Men. Everything was looking up again and David was excited to be part of the new school and helping lead it alongside Aisha.
Personality: David is an old soul and has a very serious side to himself. He spends a lot of his time in private or with close friends. He may come off as rude at times, but his standoffish nature is just how he deals with things. He can usually be found with a smile on his face when around public events to keep up a positive image. He cares deeply about his friends and works hard to take care of them day to day. He does have a laid back and almost joking side, but it only comes out when with the closest of friends. He has to really get to know people before he tries to let his guard down around them.
Special Notes (if any): David has chosen to continue to go by the name of David Grey. He loves his new found sister and his memories but he doesn't feel any connection to Ethan Reitz or that entire ideal. He is also a bisexual male.