User:SqueakySaiyan1

Character History
Edward Grey was born into a family of acrobats, living his early life in a circus act. He was the first child born to the acrobat duo Damien Grey and Carrie Grey, from the moment he was able to walk Edward was taught the art of being an acrobat, though for the stage it was mainly trapeze. Working for the circus the family were extremely poor as were all the other circus folk. Due to the poor conditions very often the Grey family would find themselves out in towns using their abilities to pick pocket and rob homes. From a young age Edward was taught how to use his talents to commit petty crime.

This went on for many years, soon Edward had a younger sister named Selena, who was also taught the family ways and together as a family they committed petty crime in every town the circus went to if only enough to survive.

When Edward was 16 his mother has just given birth to his baby brother Jason. After the birth his mother grew very ill and Jason himself was very sickly and the circus wasn't making enough money to support them. As luck would have it however there was a very luxurious house atop a hill in town. He his father and 11 year old sister Selena went to case the home. They got in with great ease and managed to lift a large amount of valuable objects they could easily sell for a high price, enough to afford medicine for their two ill family members. His father and Selena had jumped through the window they entered in but as Edward, whom was carrying the stolen goods attempted to leave the window slammed shut and a marine Captain by the name of Captain Peter Smith entered the home demanding to know what the young boy was doing in his home. With no where to run Edward dropped the stolen valuables and explained his story to the man, explaining how without the money from these objects his mother and baby brother could die. Expecting to be arrested he held out his arms, Captain Smith took the stolen objects from Edward and instead of handcuffs gave Edward enough money for medicine nd then some. Telling him to use the rest of the money for himself, to lead an honest life so he and his family would never have to steal ever again.

With his mother and brother healthy he left the circus to join a Marine academy determined to become like Captain Smith and help those in need giving them the second chance everyone deserves. He blazed through te rank of chore boy before being promoted to rank of petty officer through pure determination. While at sea he began training to fight using his natural acrobatic abilities, he took to using a metal pole which split into two smaller poles as he fighting weapons, one for the adaptability of such a weapon but most importantly due to the non lethal aspect of them. They aren't built to kill just to detain which he aimed to stick too no matter what he believed strongly that everyone deserves another chance and stuck to that even basing his fighting style off it. The Pole also gave him additional balance than a sword would when performing acrobatic techniques in a fight. It was during this time the ships helmsman taught him how to pilot the ship and how he would one day pilot his own.

While on shore during his years as a petty officer he once found himself stopping a street urchin whom, Edward believed had stolen some fruit after detaining him taking the fruit back and giving the child some money he found the fruit he'd stolen didn't belong to any fruit stand so he decided he'd eat it himself, not realising this was in fact a devil fruit. Eating this gave him a large amount of power he is yet to really tap into.

After many years of serving as a petty officer at the age of 22 he was finally promoted to Warrant officer, he at this point acquisition his own ship which he christened the second chance after his life long mantra even if it doesn't always conform with marine ideals. he then slowly put himself together a crew quite a number of which are reformed pirates wishing to make an honest living working with Captain Grey. Of course the marines aren't aware of the fact these men are pirates otherwise they'd have to be placed under arrest, as far as anyone is aware these are just civilians hired by Grey to serve in his crew.

Personality
Grey is a very cheerful man, always nice to anyone regardless of their background, whether they are pirates petty thieves, marines he will try his best to be obliging. However he can be extremely threatening whn required and with the power of his acrobatic fighting style tied with his fearsome devil fruit a straight fight with him is often described as fierce. The only people he refuses to tolerate are corrupt officials. Members of the marines of government who bully criminals and the worse off due to some faded idea of pride. Due to their belief that they are above them. In Grey's sees everyone is born equal and should be forgiven and granted a second chance. Any marine who kills any and all pirates and crminals in their way will probably at some point butt heads with Grey. He wishes to prtect everyone. He wants to protect civillians from criminals and criminals who have to commit crime to survive from the poor legal system and threat of execution and other overly cruel punishment