Clay Moorington/History

## History

### Early life

Clay was born as the son of Wanda Moorington and a knight. As his mother and uncle are sorcerers, Clay was born with inherent magical abilities. He also had a brother, Fletcher Bowman, who was separated from him.

Due to his mother succumbing to the corruption of Forbidden Powers due to Monstrox's influence, he was left alone in Dnullib at a young age working as a sweeper until he was found by Merlok five years after his mother's descent to darkness. Without Clay knowing that he was biologically his uncle, Merlok took custody of Clay and the two of them eventually moved to the main capital of the kingdom.

After having taken custody of him, Merlok would often take Clay to watch the knight games with him in the Joustdome. During one game, he saw a robber stealing a princess' purse and quickly jumped on a Hover Horse to stop him. and another time, he fought off a cheating knight. The cheater's opponent bestowed upon him his claymore sword.

Fearing that Clay's latent magical abilities may corrupt him the same way his sister was corrupted by Forbidden Powers, Merlok hid Clay's magical heritage and potential from him in the hopes he would never discover his powers. Merlok would also encourage Clay to follow his dreams of becoming a knight and sent him to the Knights' Academy to help him achieve his dreams.

### At the Knights' Academy

After having been sent to the Knight's Academy to train, Clay would meet the future Nexo Knights and Jestro. He quickly befriended Jestro and took him in as a friend, one of his only. The six of them formed a tournament team together, with only five of them graduating.

Clay was a top student at the Academy and grew to keep the Knight's Code with him at all times, always living by its values. He also gained the respect of Principal Brickland for his values and good nature.

### The Book of Monsters - Part 1

Clay graduated alongside his friends, Aaron Fox, Lance Richmond, Axl, and Princess Macy Halbert in the 151st annual Knights' Academy graduation battlebration. Worried about Jestro after his disastrous show, Clay sought him out to try reassuring and reasoning with him to no avail.

### The Book of Monsters - Part 2

In the stress of Jestro having betrayed the kingdom, Clay provoked Lance into sparring with him as he felt Lance wasn't taking the situation seriously. Eventually, since none of the others were fit enough to become the leader of the team, he chose to become the unofficial leader of the Nexo Knights of Knighton. His position was finally made official after having proved himself as a knight and developing the maturity and responsibility to properly lead the rest of the team, and the whole team came to approve of and accept him as their leader.

### The Book of Total Badness

Jestro had split the team up, each pursuing a different monster. Having overpowered each of the knights, Clay was captured like the others. Having been tied to a spinning target, he attempts to reason with Jestro only to have his attempt spurned. After having been spun on the target continuously by the Lava Monsters.

### The Might and the Magic

He was later freed by Aaron and Macy. During Jestro's attack on Knightonia, he was given the most powerful Nexo Power by Merlok and banished Jestro, The Book of Monsters, and their monster army - if only for a while. He then congratulated Macy when she was officially knighted and announced an official member of the team.

### The Gray Knight

Knights placed the petrified version of him on the roof of the Fortrex, saying that he's a statue made to honor him for his bravery and heroic deeds. During the intense battle against Monstrox, Jestro, Roberto Arnoldi, and their army, the cloud saw Clay and zapped him with his lightning in order to bring him to life.

Sadly, Clay was turned evil and served as Monstrox's most loyal and trusted servant. Clay, now alive in his stone form, calling himself the Gray Knight, became the indestructible stone warrior of Monstrox. The team, especially Macy, were all hesitant to battle him but battled him in the end. But because of his incredible strength and rage, they were all forced to retreat by Merlok.

It was not not long after Clay decided to attack the Fortrex and destroy Merlok. Macy and the knights tried to reason with him, but he won't listen to them. In the end, Merlok attempted to use his magic to reverse the dark magic that was inside him but failed to do so, managing only to sever his connection with Monstrox and inadvertently blasting him across the whole kingdom, with Clay waking up the next day, still made of stone, in an unknown place.

### The Good, the Bad and the Tightwad

Clay woke up without remembering anything about himself or anything else in the town of Nothing Hill. Due to his amnesia, Jorah Tightwad manipulated him and used him to make money for himself. He was told by him to destroy the villagers' houses if they do not hand him any money. Luckily, Macy and Lance were there to save the day and helped Clay regain his memories.

### The Stranger in the Halps

Soon after, he overheard the team talking about him and his uncontrollable rage and the fact that he is not himself. He then left the team to find his inner peace and learn how to control his rage.

While meditating, a vision of Ruina Stoneheart appeared, telling him that he is not alone as a figure appeared. After that, he was very eager to destroy Jestro's army and bring them to their graves. In the next battles, he rejoins his friends, as cold and angry as ever, and is quite vengeful.

### Krakenskull

Just before Krakenskull, Jestro and the Stone Monsters defeated the Nexo Knights, Clay came in and completely disintegrated the Monsters in a fit of extreme rage and vengeance, stopping only when Ruina inflicted him with a magical spell that froze him in his tracks. After the battle, Aaron and Macy expressed worry for Clay, who had been acting strangely.

### Heart of Stone

He battled Ruina Stoneheart. She revealed to him that he wasn't supposed to be a knight and revealed that she is also his mother. She said that even Merlok knows about this. She also said that she cursed him so that he would follow in her footsteps when he is older.

Upon hearing this, he became even more vengeful and even more eager to destroy her, not believing her words. Back at the Fortrex, Merlok confirms that the information stated by Ruina was true and made him burst out in anger again. Then, seeing that he can't control his rage anymore, he found a way to use his magic to give Macy a Nexo Power that makes him turn back into stone, stiff as ever, much to Macy's misery.

### Season 5

***The following events occur in the unproduced Season 5, and thus, weren't seen to happen.***
Clay, saddened at his "misfiring" magical abilities, decided to set off on a quest of self—discovery to find out about his abilities as well as his mother, with Fletcher Bowman following him in secret. Eventually, in the mountains, he started feeling extreme pain in his leg and a Merlok Power dropped next to him.

Eventually, Clay and Fletcher would meet each other, and team up to defeat the wizard ghosts at the remnants of the Wizards' Council.

Clay's magical quest was indeed successful and he mastered magic as well as use of his sword.

***Season 5 events end here.***

## References

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/TommyAndreasen/status/1282072182739304452
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/TommyAndreasen/status/1104814888151584768
3. ↑ "Between a Rock and a Hard Place"
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Knights of the Realm - Part 1"
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Heart of Stone"
6. ↑ "Good Knight Clay Moorington!"
7. ↑ https://twitter.com/TommyAndreasen/status/1281581806026924032
8. ↑ https://twitter.com/TommyAndreasen/status/1070663099760476165
9. ↑ https://twitter.com/TommyAndreasen/status/1072810735875645440