Grace

* Normal
* Pre-Timeskip

• Four-eyes (Blair)

• Faker (Mari)

• Chikyū-no-Megami Shoryu (mother)

• Ace Shoryu (younger brother)

• Rufus Nightingale (nephew)

31 Years Old (Post-Timeskip)

> *"I only wish to help others by leading them to a better path. Either I will find that path or I'll end up making one myself."*
>
> - Grace

Grace Shoryu (pronouced "sure-you") is the Guardian of Light, being around during the guardian era. She is the daughter of the earth guardian, Boss and the goddess of the earth, Chikyū. While also being the older sister of Ace. She is also romantically involved with Cranium during the post time-skip era and is the Lawful Good counterpart to Mari. Her birthday is celebrated as the day of giving and seeing the smiles of many children; also known as Gracemas. Being a knight of radiance, Grace specialises in Holy Light Magic while riding her noble steed, Celeste. She is also a semi-cleric too.

## **Appearance**

Like her brother, Grace is somewhat short and despite being her younger brother, Ace is bigger than her by a few inches. In the pre-timeskip era, she is very short due to being a young child.

Being a elf, she has pale skin and pointed ears. Her rather short blonde hair is complete with a green headband. In the pre-timeskip era, her hair was much longer and had two pigtails on each side. Her blue eyes are a unique case when she is wearing her square glasses. As only the irises are overlaid onto the lens instead of the entire eyes being visible like Kako's glasses for example. The only other part that is shown is her eyebrows if she ever lowers them down. She got her lovely eye colour from her mother and her hair colour is from her father.

In the Guardian Era, Grace wore a cute grey dress with gold accents, a green capelet with matching gold accents, green leggings and grey/gold shoes.

In the post time-skip/Calamity War era, she wears a green helmet that curls over her face and down the sides of her head and has spikes on each side. For the rest of her attire, she wears a gold necklace that features the Guardian's gear logo, a green scarf with gold accents, a more stylised version of her grey pre-timeskip dress with gold markings around it that glows up when she activates her alterrarge, green leggings with the matching gold markings, green gloves, gold gauntlets and gold greaves.

Her casual wear is almost the same as her normal attire except she removes anything armour related. Such as her helmet, gauntlets and greaves. With the greaves being replaced with normal gold shoes that resembles what she wore in the guardian era.

As of the incident that happened in the tower of despair, Grace becomes incapable of using her legs to walk, becoming crippled as a result. Outside of combat, she travels via a wheelchair and in combat, she rides Celeste.

For both of her versions, she also wears pink lipstick.

## **Personality**

In the Guardian era, Grace is shown to be a well-behaved and kind child and she constantly states that she can take care of herself towards her overly protective father. In fact, her entire journey at that era revolved around her trying to prove that she can take care of herself in combat, leading her to become very mature as a result.

In the post time-skip/Calamity War era, she retains her previously mentioned traits but is shown to be somewhat angsty. But this is likely because she was jealous over her brother hogging most of the attention from her father due to him being more gifted than her. Despite this, she still cares for her brother, even if they don't get along on the outside. Which shows that Grace is very compassionate.

One of the few things that Grace doesn't like is seeing someone die in front of her or seeing something dead in general. It is sometimes met with her throwing up. This tended to be her weakness and due to her being kind, she sometimes gives mercy to most of her opponents instead of killing them, but that's mostly if they aren't involved with the Grimdark.

### **Holy Light Magic**

Her notable ability. Besides using it for healing, she also uses it for offensive methods. Some of these attacks were passed over to Cranium upon her death. They are conducted via her key staff.

* **Holy Gate:** After staring forwards, Grace summons a star that floats for a bit. The name was given due to her main weapon being a key. The difference between Cranium's version or even Mari's unholy version is that it is always floating right next to Grace and doesn't seem to go away unless she is hit.
	+ **Holy Aura:** After laying down a gate, Grace can manually attack the opponent while they're in its range by setting the gate off.
	+ **Holy Blast:** By mentally focusing on the gate, she can make it fire rapid projectiles.
	+ **Holy Righteousness:** When she points her key to the gate, it becomes a timed offensive tool where it plants itself onto the ground. After a set amount of time, the gate will erupt a heavenly light. The difference to Cranium's version is that it moves towards it's target while it's in the ground but it's weaker due to not firing out the star projectiles afterwards.
	+ **Holy Banish:** Upon activating, the gate goes into her key staff and surrounds it with a holy aura. This makes the staff look bigger as a result, which gives it more range but upon hitting with it once, the effect goes away.
	+ **Holy Dimensional Rift:** The gate turns into a portal. Grace can use this to get out of harms way or fire projectiles while her opponent is off-guard.

### **Celeste**

Grace is always riding on her noble steed in combat. Since she cannot walk after the Tower of Despair incident, she RELIES on Celeste to help her travel around in combat. Besides making use of the gate, Celeste is the main one that makes most of the attacks that Grace commands. Celeste is very capable of combat, doing things such as kicking while jumping, tackling her body forwards and kicking consecutively. She is called by Grace via her whistling a certain tune. Both her and Grace share mana together, which explains why they are always fighting alongside each other.

* **Lethal Snort:** After a long inhale, Celeste will fire out a lethal attack when she exhales. The effects depend on how much mana she uses. The first is powerful winds that blows her opponent away, second is blue flames that scorches her opponent and third is blue flame pillars that progressively go forwards in a pattern.

* **Ascension: Judgemental Pegasus:** Grace's ascension. It involves Celeste sprouting her wings to allow her to fly.
	+ **The Light Of Divine Smiting:** Grace's most deadly attack when ascended. After Celeste does her consecutive kicks and prepares to fly up in the air, Grace raises her staff upwards and summons a massive halo above her that rains down powerful star projectiles when she points her staff towards the direction she wants them to go. This depletes all of her mana upon using this though, so it can be risky to use.

### **Alterrarge**

Inherited from her mother, the alterrarge ability is a dragon's divine power that has been unleashed to it's perfect form; which is shown visually by the user's eyes glowing a bright colour. Besides greatly enhancing her divine magic, it also allows Grace to look into the past and future, just by touching something. Originally, she had the full version of it but due to half of her soul getting removed, she only has half of it. Leading to only her right eye glowing when it's active. She gives her alterrarge to Cranium when she dies however. Her version of the ability is vastly weaker to her mothers since she isn't a pure-blooded dragon and she only really uses it to investigate the past and the future.

## **Biography**

### **Backstory**

Grace was born at her father's guild. Sadly, she wasn't really gifted that much despite being Chikyū's daughter. She was raised well enough to prove herself worthy of combat somewhat. This is mainly thanks to her usage of Holy Light Magic, something she learnt at the age of 10. When she became 11 years old, she would start a journey with her father and later, Gregory and Ragnaro, after the Grimdark starts stealing souls of many innocent people. One of these souls being Captain Archel Dagger, a wanted pirate criminal. Grace and the others would fight Archel after he was causing trouble. He gets overwhelmed but soon gets turned into a demonic slave by the Grimdark. Turning him into a gigantic turtle monster. The transformed Archel would go and kidnap Prince Tobirth Pastel. With the help of Lilith, Grace and the others go on a journey to save Tobirth after being assigned to do so by his father.

During their road there, Grace would be impressed by Lilith by how cool she is, using the blade of 8000 truths. Lilith states that she works alone as a proud samurai warrior and she is only doing this to save the love of her life. This inspired Grace in wanting to do things herself but would be told off by her father due to him being overly protective. Grace says that she isn't a kid anymore and she can handle things herself.

The team would run into Chikyū, who was looking for the Grimdark herself. Chikyū would give the team a gift via her Pegasus named Celeste and Grace would become attached to Celeste, leading to her discovering that the two are a dynamic duo when it comes to combat. Boss notes how capable Grace became but was still protective of her.

When the team finally make it to Archel, he would overwhelm the team this time. He would attempt to finish Grace and Celeste off but Boss steps in to protect her. Showing off his new thorn whip and finishing Archel off, freeing his soul and returning his body back to normal. Grace thanks her father and says he can still protect her if she wishes, to which her father disagrees and says that she should carve her own path and that she probably needs Celeste's help to get started. With Prince Tobirth saved, the team head to the Pyramid of the Desert Winds, leaving Lilith behind.

While they were sleeping, the Grimdark kidnaps the members of the team, all except Gregory and Celeste. Grace, Boss and Ragnaro get taken to a jail cell. With no options left, Grace and the others put hope on Gregory to save them. Later on she would meet with several other people who also helped Gregory in his journey. Knowing they are friends with Gregory, they started to become friends with these new members of the team one by one until Gregory finally saves them with the help of Chikyū. After saving the others, Gregory and the others eventually lead to them defeating the Grimdark, who was currently possessing the first ever hero of legend, Terios. When the Grimdark was released out of Terios, they would eventually possess Chikyū, who was with the team the entire fight. With the Grimdark now possessing his sworn enemy, Grace and the others would yet have to go back to square one, going on another journey to take on a more stronger Grimdark. They succeed and save Chikyū but this leads to the Grimdark to say they might have defeated him, but his hatred will return again one day. Chikyū would then use her magic to reform the Grimdark into a better person, as it is the only way to stop him. This resulted in the birth of Kako. After their victory, Chikyū would accept the guardians as the new protectors of earth. With her daughter being titled as the Guardian of Light. After this, it's revealed that Chikyū is pregnant, leading Grace to become happy that she will have a sibling.

Since then, the Guardians disbanded to go do their own things for now. For Grace, she mostly stayed at home to be with her family. Especially after her newborn brother, Ace, was born. Her brother showed signs of unusual abilities like randomly firing out flames from his arm, flinging himself around using air from his leg and would cause whirlpools while swimming. Clearly this is the result of the genes given by his mother. Apparently Ace was gifted, unlike his sister. Leading to her being somewhat jealous over him but she still took care of him.

After several years, the guardians all reunite after so long. Everyone was surprised to see how much Grace has grown. Later on, Grace and the guardians would eventually go to and successfully conquer the Tower of Despair after reports of powerful grimdark spawns still roaming despite the Grimdark's defeat. When they reached the top, the Guardians are met with a extremely strong spawn. Scarab, being who she is, rushes in without a plan and goes to attack the spawn with a drop kick but stopped by Grace getting in her way. As a result of protecting her close friend, she is met with the spawn grabbing Grace's legs and crushing them. Breaking them as a result. When the spawn is finally defeated, peace was made but at the cost of Grace's legs being broken for the rest of her life. After all of this, Grace starts continuing her job as a teacher at the Orphanage of the Gifted and getting used to using a wheelchair after Cranium gives her one.

One day, Grace was sightseeing with Gregory. She was concerned over him due to him looking upset. Gregory's creation, Frewil, appears and starts talking to Grace and Gregory. The young axolotl gets scared and hides behind Grace. This confused Frewil a lot and he confronts his creator and asked him why he is scared of him. Thanks to Grace reading Gregory's mind via her alterrarge, she was able to translate what Gregory says; confirming to him that the sketch that gave him life was the result of a nightmare he had of the monster that inspired how Frewil looks.

Knowing this, Frewil decides that he doesn't want to be a hero anymore and attacks Grace, injecting the Grimdark Virus in her. He enjoys this sudden attack after he ran off. Gregory was terrified over what has happened and was found by Boss and Blair. They help Grace and take her back to the guild and put her in a containment room so that she wouldn't spread the virus within her. The Guardians would then announce a war against Frewil. Blair removes half of Grace's soul that was corrupted from the virus. Grace turned out okay in the end after but was shocked when Frewil comes in to steal the soul that was removed. WIthout any more options left, Grace takes part in the Calamity War. But this was after Ace asks his father to take part in the war; to which he and Grace decline his offer. This maddens Ace and he has a argument with the two of them. After the argument that ended on a dreadful note, Grace goes off to the Mythical mines to look for potential spawns.

She arrives and noticed the place seemed off. Like it was abandoned. Then suddenly a purple light appears behind her and it lunges at her. She dodges in time and it's revealed to be Mari, who goes on and on about how she is a "imposter." Revealing that she where the corrupted half of her soul went. During their fight, Ace arrives with Cranium. Grace yells at his brother for arriving here; still angry over the argument they had. Off-guard, Grace is stabbed by Mari in the stomach. Cranium rages and goes to lash out at Mari but she dodges and runs away. Cranium was about to go after her but is stopped by Ace, who is next to Grace, who is slowly dying. Cranium holds onto her and starts to cry. Grace smiles and says that it's ok and that Cranium needs to stay strong. He says that he can't get strong without her. Grace then says that she will be with him forever. This led to Grace giving Cranium the half of her alterrarge that wasn't corrupted. Before Grace dies, she moves Cranium's hair to see his eyes; he is seen having a glowing right eye, confirming that he now has the alterrarge. She says that she had plans of marrying Cranium but due to what's happened, this will likely never happen. Grace says she loves Cranium and dies in his arms. Ending her story as a result.

## **Relationships**

### **Boss Shoryu**

Grace loves her father and spent most of her life fighting alongside him during the Guardian Era. She originally didn't like how overly protective he was but she understood that he only did this because she is his daughter.

### **Chikyū**

Grace was very fond of her mother. She sometimes wish she got more attention but she wasn't like Ace at all sadly. Despite this, she still loves her mother.

### **Ace Shoryu**

Grace has a love-hate relationship with her brother. They act like they don't like each other on the outside due to having fights on a regular basis during their youth and having different interests and hobbies, but they still loved each other as siblings deep inside. She is older than him by 11 years.

### **The Guardians**

Grace is obviously good friends with the guardians. Being best friends with Scarab in particular. They all mean a lot to Grace and she is willing to do everything she can to help.

### **Celeste**

Being the Guardian's divine noble steed that was given to them by her mother, Grace has a great relationship with Celeste. She rarely ever leaves her side and the two proved to be a great dynamic duo.

### **Sir Cranium**

Cranium is Grace's boyfriend, plus he is her bodyguard. Cranium fell for Grace immediately when they first met and Grace wouldn't fall for him until he saves her from evil threats. She's the reason why he became a knight, why he later gets his spear and would later been known as Sir Cranium; a name that Cranium still uses to this day that many people always refer to him as. Grace had plans of marrying Cranium but tragedy struck, resulting in Grace dying by Mari. Grace would pass her half of the alterrarge over to him and like with his name and spear, he uses this power to continue his lover's heritage.

### **Mari**

Grace and her evil counterpart are obviously sworn enemies. Mari remarks on how pathetic Grace is compared to her. Which was actually true. Mari outclassed Grace thanks to the Corrupted Alterrarge and the new powers within her. Which obviously results in her killing Grace.

## **Trivia**

* Grace's first name is meant to parallel her brother's. Due to both of them sounding similar to each other. However, her name, in Latin origins, was first used for a phrase meaning "god's grace". Which refers to her being the daughter of the literal goddess of the entire multiverse. Plus the name also means charm, goodness, and generosity. Three things to best describe Grace.
	+ Her last name, Shoryu, translates to “Rising Dragon” in Japanese kanji. It was a name that was meant for her brother but this became her last name due to being related to him. Same can be said for their father.
* Like with the other Guardians, Grace is based on a Pokémon from the original Team Tazmily idea. For her, it's Gardevoir, or rather a shiny variant of a Gardevoir. She was actually a part of the main cast in the Team Tazmily video alongside Gregory and Diesel. In the video, the Gardevoir is always annoyed with the Wooper and is trying to keep him out of trouble. The Gardevoir itself is named after Con Air's beloved Shiny Gardevoir from his Pokémon Alpha Sapphire save. This ended up being a part of Wowlife's version of her. Her Wowlife counterpart notably wears a helmet that resembles that of a Gardevoir's hair and spikes near the side of their face.
	+ When she was adapted to Wowlife, she originally was more humanlike. Having normal human skin and having normal glasses. This was changed when she became the daughter of Boss. Making her into a elf. She shares this change with her brother.
* Her likes consist of:
	+ Fried Chicken
	+ Taking care of children
	+ Horseback riding
* Her dislikes consist of:
	+ Anything relating to death.
* Grace being crippled and relying on a horse to help her in combat could be seen as a reference to Johnny Joestar from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
* Her eyes changing drastically when she is wearing glasses is very similar and is factually based on Velma Dinkley from Scooby Doo, with how her eyes are potrayed.
	+ In fact Grace seems like Velma a lot. Both being very intelligent and having almost the same hairstyle.

* Being a guardian, her theme is based around a celebrated holiday, for her it's Christmas. Due to her birthday being on the 25th of December and being seen as a religious figure. Her birthday is factually Wowlife's depiction of Christmas, being called Gracemas instead.
	+ She seems to be the only guardian that shares a holiday theme with another guardian, that being her father. Though this is more or so because Boss is considered to be the Santa Claus of Wowlife and less because they share a birthday.

## **Gallery**

Grace's Default RenderGrace's Pre-Timeskip RenderGrace's Early Sketch/Depiction as a Gardevoir. Seen in the cut credits of the Team Tazmily VideoGrace's Early RenderGrace's Guardian RenderGrace's Versus RenderGrace's Reference SheetGrace's Pre-Timeskip SheetA Early Sheet of Gardevoir Grace's parts used for the Team Tazmily Video.Grace's Early Icon. Was never used outside of profile pics for Con Air's alternate accounts.