Guy Gardner

## Background

### 1984 - 2008: Guy Gardner

Born in Baltimore, Guy Gardner is the second son of Roland & Peggy Gardner. His childhood mostly revolved around his alcoholic father beating on him. Though he initially idolized his brother, it soon turned into resentment when he realized his father never laid a hand on Mace. After years of taking beatings, trying to impress his parents & living up to Mace's standards, Guy finally gave up. Knowing he could never be as good as his cop brother, he decided to become the opposite. He turned into a juvenile delinquent, frequently getting into trouble & breaking the law.

Guy was considered an outlaw & a criminal in no time. Because his parents kicked him out, he bounced around friend's houses & spent some nights on the streets. But mostly, he was in & out of juvenile hall.

On his eighteenth birthday, Guy hotwired a car & decided to go on a joy ride. It would be his brother Mace that caught up to Guy & arrested him. But instead of taking him to city jail, Mace beat the living snot out of Guy. When he woke up the next morning on his brother's couch, Mace told him stop making people ashamed of him & get himself a decent job. He gave him a large sum of money & let him know this was the last time anybody else was going to look out for him.

This was exactly what Guy needed as he not only got himself a job but he also went back to school. After graduating, he paid his own way through college & finished with a bachelor's degree in both psychology & education. Moving himself down to warmer weather, he worked as a middle school's gym teacher in Coral City then spent his days off counseling prisoners. But Guy eventually settled into a more permanent job when the owner of the bar he frequented passed away. Seeing it as an opportunity to make his own money, Guy bought the bar. He renovated it completely, renamed it as Guy's Place & worked towards making it the most popular bars in the city.

## Romantic Relationships

* Tora Olafsdotter: Girlfriend (2011 - 2018); Fiancée (2018 - )

## Powers & Abilities

* **Green Lantern Ring:** The Lantern Ring uses energy supplied by a power battery to give its users a wide variety of abilities. The ring has the ability to affect & use fundamental forces of the known universe, including electromagnetic energies such as gravity, radiation, heat, light & powerful blasts of concussive force. The limitations of such use are the skill, knowledge and imagination of the user. Guy Gardner is a third degree master, labelling him an Adept.
	+ ***Enhanced Durability*:** The wearer possesses enhanced durability when wearing the ring, allowing them to withstand more force than the average human. This ability is more linked to blunt forces & not piercing objects or firearms
	+ ***Flight*:** The Power Ring enables him the ability to fly.
	+ ***Energy Projection*:** The ring can be used to fire blasts of energy or create weapons such as projectiles of them. The ring can project beams of force powered and shaped by the will of the user. The appearance of these blasts does not indicate the power of the weapon. The weapons power is more an indication of the mastery of the user.
	+ ***Galactic Encyclopedia*:** The ring allows me to understand any word spoken in the galaxy.
	+ ***Universal Translator*:** The ring allows the wearer to understand, read & speak virtually any language known to the Power Ring, facilitating diplomatic encounters rather than violent confrontations.
	+ ***Advanced Communications Suite*:** A Green Lantern can send messages via their ring to other Green Lantern or even other Power Ring wearers whose rings' code have been synchronized with the ring. If in distress, the wearer can use the power ring as an emergency beacon. The alert can be directed to a neighboring sector, or it can be a Corps-wide alert.
	+ ***Energy Constructs*:** The primary function of the Power Ring is to provide a weapon capable of transforming the wearer's thoughts into physical constructs through the wearer's strength of willpower.
	+ ***Electromagnetic Scanning*:** The ring has a wide range of detection abilities based on the imagination of the user. If one can conceive of it, one can probably detect it. Magical effects like clairvoyance, seem to be beyond the scope of the ring. Most normal electromagnetic phenomena are within the range of the ring, including radio, television, infrared, ultraviolet, and high-frequency band communications
	+ ***Energy Absorption*:** The ring can absorb and store most other mundane types of energy.
	+ ***Ring Mastery***: His energy constructs are quite powerful. Guy is so eager to ring-sling & possesses so much raw will power, his ring is often sparking like a leaky water faucet about to explode.
* **Blinding Rage**
* **Hand to Hand Combat**
* **Indomitable Will**

### Ratings

* **Intelligence:** 3 - Average / Basic
* **Strength:** 5 - High / Exceptional
* **Speed:** 5 - High / Exceptional
* **Occult:** 1 - Nonexistent
* **Weapons:** 5 - High / Exceptional
* **Range:** 6 - Expert / Advanced
* **Strategy:** 4 - Trained / Learned
* **Combat:** 4 - Trained / Learned
* **TOTAL:** 113 - Threat Level 3 / General Threat

## Trivia

* Guy doesn't really care about much. He's determined to save the world on a larger scale therefore small issues don't bother him.
* He's known to very bold & blunt. He once tried to fight Superman after they disagreed on something.
* Sometimes, Guy can be a goofball but that is only seen in the presence of or directed at Tora.
* After buying the bar, Guy continued being a gym teacher as it was part-time job.
* He is close friends with Kyle Rayner Ted Kord, Michael Carter, John Henry Irons & Hal Jordan.
* Batman dislikes him. Guy's cocky & hot-headed attitudes rub him the wrong way, leading to the two coming to blows on more than one occasion
* He finds General Zod annoying. After saying this to him, Zod attacked Guy for his own amusement.
* He shares a luxury cabin on the Watchtower with Ice. Its located in Sector 2 of Deck E.

## Notes

* His address is also a nod to *Green Lantern Corps* vol. 2 #20 (January 2008).
* Katie Gardner is the daughter of Demeter from the *Percy Jackson* franchise.