Bloodshot

**Ray Garrison** is a former U.S. Marine, and the only successful human subject of Rising Spirit Technologies' Project Bloodshot.

## Biography

### Early life

At some point, Ray Garrison married Gina. Also working as a Marine for the military, this put a strain on his relationship, ultimately leading to them splitting.

During an operation with the Marines, Ray was killed, and his body given to Rising Spirit Technologies due to it being unclaimed by family.

### Working for Rising Spirit Technologies

Ray was experimented on by Dr. Emil Harting at RST, who injected him with nanites, replacing his blood and enhancing his biology. Using this technology, they had him hunt down a number of their former employees who had defected, inserting false memories into his head that had him believe his wife was killed by them. Each time he killed them, he was brought back to RST's headquarters and rebooted, having his memories erased and his nanites re-energized, before once more meeting operatives KT, Tibbs, and Jimmy Dalton. On such occasion, he stopped a convoy with his new victim, Martin Axe, in a tunnel. He crashed a truck carrying flour into them, causing it to spill everywhere. He fought through the entirety of the security team, killing Axe where he sat, despite his claims that RST was lying to him. Returning to RST, he went to sleep, but not before being mocked by Dalton as he lay helpless on a stretcher. He next headed to East Sussex in England in search of Nick Baris. He broke through his fortress, fighting off all of his men and leading his way to Baris himself. Once again, Baris protested, claiming RST to be lying to him, but once again Garrison shot him dead. However, as he did, Baris's tech guy, Wilfred Wigans, initated an EMP, causing all of the nanites keeping Garrison alive to stop working. Wigans brought him downstairs to his basement, where he electrocuted him until he woke up. Wigans explained RST's manipulation of him, and Ray admitted that he remembered his wife's killer having changed. Looking up Gina, he found her living in Westminster in London. He told her that he'd come home, but she expressed that she'd moved on, as evidenced by a daughter. She then explained that it'd been five years since they'd last seen each other, and Ray disappeared. As he left, Ray began to be pursued by Dalton and Tibbs, who attempted to eliminate him. Ray managed to fend them off and somewhat escape, but not before RST managed to get Garrison connected back to their servers, switching him off.

Bringing him back to the tower, RST once more attempted to reboot Garrison. However, KT, in league with Wigans, managed to hack into the system and surprise Ray before he could be convinced of fake events as previously. He woke up and escaped from his containment. Making his way through the halls of the tower, Garrison ran into Tibbs and Dalton, who he entered into combat with. They eventually found themselves on top of the building's elevators, beating each other around as they went up and down. Managing to knock both off of the elevators and beat them to the ground, presumably killing both, Garrison made his way down also, being saved by his regenerative properties. He approached Dr. Harting's vehicle, intending to end things. Harting fought back, sending explosive projectiles towards him, depleting Ray of his nanites. When he finally did so, Harting confidently stood up to Garrison, but not before Ray revealed himself to be holding an undetonated explosive, releasing the trigger and exploding both of them.

### A free man

Following the ordeal, Ray was found by Wigans and saved, re-energizing his nanites and making them self-sufficient. He woke up in a camper van alongside Wigans, who was relieved that he remembered him. Ray conferred with KT, before the three drove off into the sunset.

## Powers and abilities

### Powers

* **Regenerative healing**: The nanites making up Ray's bloodstream work to quickly repair any damaged tissue experienced from catastrophic injury.

### Abilities

* **Marksmanship**: As a former Marine, Ray was an efficient marksman, and displayed incredible proficiency with firearms.
* **Hand-to-hand combatant**: When not using a firearm, Ray displayed himself to be highly proficient in beating up his opponents, even while not directly standing on solid ground.

## Equipment

* **Nanites**: Ray was injected with nanites by Rising Spirit Technologies after his death, which entirely replaced his blood. They exist to enhance Ray's biology, and heal any damaged tissue in his body. Initially they required energy to operate, but eventually they were modified by Wilfred Wigans to be self-sufficient.

## Relationships

### Allies

* United States Marine Corps
* KT
* Wilfred Wigans - savior

### Enemies

* D. Shamdasani † - wife's supposed killer
* Martin Axe † - wife's supposed killer
* Nick Baris † - wife's supposed killer
* Rising Spirit Technologies - savior
	+ Dr. Emil Harting † - manipulator
	+ Tibbs † - manipulator
	+ Jimmy Dalton † - manipulator

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Wadlow, Jeff, Heisserer, Eric (writers) & Wilson, David S. F. (director) (March 13, 2020). *Bloodshot*.