Gregory

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• Creator / My Creator (Frewil)

• Greenheart (Blair)

> *"Before I drew you, I had a bad nightmare about the bad man. They were chasing me and I was scared that they were going to hurt me. And bad people need to stay away."*
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> - Grace reading Gregory's thoughts

Gregory Llyffant (can easily be pronounced "leh-faunt") is the Guardian of Heart, being around during the Guardian Era and is notably Frewil's Creator; after being traumatised by a nightmare involving the Grimdark. He is arguably the protagonist of the Guardian Era alongside his cousin, Mirai and is currently being taken cared of by Tangerine. Outside of Wowlife, he is Con Air's mascot and internet persona. He doesn't really fight per-say but he provides the best support he can using his waterbending healing and using the Celestial Brush of Creation, right before it was destroyed.

## **Appearance**

Gregory has a very simple design compared to other characters but not as simple as Mr Turtle. This is notably because of his simplified oval eyes and mouth lacking any teeth.

He is factually the shortest character in Wowlife. He resembles that of a toddler; having a innocent childlike face. Being a deepgill that's part axolotl, he has 3 gills on either side of his head; with each gill having 2 stripes on the bottom. He also notably has mitten hands and a thick tail.

He is also a frog too due to his skin colour being green and having a long tongue.

Being a guardian, his attire is mainly green coloured. He wears a hat that resembles a ski hat, goggles, sleeveless shirt with a hoodie, a rather tight looking belt, shorts, leggings and loafers. The shirt has a gear logo on the front; which is the logo for the guardians. This attire also counts as his casual attire.

## **Personality**

Gregory is widely known for being a mute. He doesn't speak at all and depended on Grace to read his thoughts. When Grace dies, he mostly depended on gestures to talk to people. When Grace did read his thoughts, he sounds very childish and innocent due to factually being a child.

His childlike traits are very noticeable. He acts like a normal well-behaved child but is very air-headed, gullible and curious when it comes to his surroundings. He wants to have fun with his friends and loves to play in parks; mainly the ones found in the Southern Land of Entertainment. This behaviour led to him notably distracting enemies by playing with them. Which proved to be a very usual thing for his teammates back then.

He is also notably an artist. He loves to paint pictures with the Celestial Brush of Creation. But due to the brush being destroyed, nowadays he draws with pencils and crayons. He is shown to being very imaginative so if anything, the brush was a perfect weapon for him.

As a guardian, Gregory is a very brave individual. Despite being a child, he proved to be a great ally to the guardians with the only real thing he was scared of was Frewil. He overcame his fear when fighting alongside Ace in his fight with Mari and Frewil and nowadays, he wants to stop Frewil due to his return but due to the Celestial Brush of Creation being destroyed, he cannot fight that much despite being a somewhat strong waterbender. So, he now lets Tangerine deal with Frewil and his allies, making her the new Guardian of Heart as a result.

### **Waterbending**

Gregory is a natural waterbender. He can notably heal people of their wounds by splashing his water on them. However this takes time and isn't as great as Cranium's healing for example. He did this a lot with the Guardians and later, Tangerine.

### **Frog Physiology**

Besides being a axolotl, Gregory is also known for being a frog; being a hybrid of the two. This is mostly reflected visually due to his skin being a unnatural green to axolotls and sometimes having his tongue out. But it is mainly reflected on his abilities, such as a long tongue he can use to grab things (mainly food), being able to climb walls and being able to jump very far.

### **The Celestial Brush of Creation**

Gregory's old divine weapon made by Chikyū and given to him as a gift. Just by painting in thin air with his wet ink, he can create many things to help support his allies. This weapon is the same weapon that sealed Frewil away for many years but it was destroyed by the Wrathful monster once he returned. It is noticeably inferior to Chikyū's new Meta Brush of Creation but it was still capable of good support.

### **Roleplay**

A weird ability that kind of serves as his ascension due to his lack of one. He essentially changes his outfit to swap his class. So, he can become a warrior, a mage and a rogue. And some extra weird ones like a flower, a pop star, a cat, a princess and a vampire (or in this case, a mampire). This completely changes how he fights but his weapons are usually toys, like his warrior roleplay having a wooden toy sword. It's a very meaningless ability but it does show how Gregory loves to play dress up and pretend.

## **Biography**

### **Backstory**

Gregory was born in the liquid depths. He had a family of parents, a uncle, a aunt and a unhatched cousin. The first three suffered a tragic death during the First War, leaving Gregory with the unhatched egg of his cousin as he travels with it on foot. As the war rages on, the Dark Lord appears taunting Gregory as a way to make fun of the defenceless deepgill, this leads to the one known as Boss to appear and save him from harm. As a means to repay his debt, he offers to help Gregory in stopping the Dark Lord from turning Wowtopia into a death zone.

Gregory would go on a journey with Boss and later, Grace to recruit new members to take on the Grimdark, who is Chikyū's sworn enemy and is meant as the destroyer of the Earth instead of being the protector. Along the way, Gregory would befriend the other guardians and several other known people such as the Nefarious Captain Archel, the wish granting Khamson and Ragnaro's famous sisters, Maria, Mary and Marie. As a thank you for saving him, Khamson grants Gregory eternal youth, making him 8 years old for the rest of his life. Gregory and the other guardians journey would 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 guardians the entire fight. With the Grimdark now possessing his sworn enemy, Gregory and the Guardians 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 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 and ending the war once and for all, Chikyū would accept the guardians as the new protectors of earth. With Gregory being titled as the Guardian of Heart. After this, Chikyū bestows Gregory her Celestial Brush of Creation, since he has a pure heart and is worthy of it's power.

Since then, the Guardians disbanded to go do their own things for now. Gregory would go back to his home and try to make friends with the fellow sea creatures but no luck was made. Gregory started to feel lonely and came up with the idea to draw a permanent drawing using the Celestial Brush of Creation to make into a friend. Gregory normally uses the brush to support his allies so this was all new to him. He tried several times but was unsuccessful. But during one night, Gregory had a nightmare the Grimdark chasing him. Due to it traumatising him thanks to being a child, this affected how he drew his new attempt. He ended up drawing this terrifying sketch of the monster he saw in his nightmare and it successfully worked. Resulting in the birth of Frewil. Gregory was scared of his creation but opened up to Frewil a little bit and would play with him for a couple of years; being gullible on the reason why he was created. This was until the guardians all reunite after several years.

During this time and with the help of Kako, Gregory and the other guardians would go back to the Tower of Despair. Due to remaining and more stronger versions of the Grimdark spawns roaming there. It's there where Gregory and other guardians show off their new abilities and they successfully conquer the tower, clearing out all of remaining remnants of the Grimdark. The tower itself wouldn't be revisited again for a long time now.

One night, Gregory would have the same nightmare he had that led to the birth of Frewil. After that, he would notably be scared of Frewil. This confused Frewil a lot and during one day, 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. Gregory starts to feel upmost guilt that he created Frewil and wishes to stop him in being the same monster he saw in his dreams. Gregory is next seen in a meeting with the Guardians (minus Grace). They go into a agreement that they would go to war with Frewil. Everyone agrees; with Gregory feeling terrified over the thought of this. As such, he made his way to a super secret place to put his cousin's egg, so they won't get hurt during the attack.

Gregory took part in the Calamity War as of the 5th of November and fought against several grimdark spawns. He was scared of them at first but Diesel and Ragnaro push him in overcoming his fears. Every guardian was disappointed over Gregory creating a monster but they still stood by his side; no matter what. This inspires Gregory to overcome his fear and go straight ahead; defeating many of the spawns.

Later, he finds the Mythical Mines where currently, Ace is fighting Frewil and Mari. Gregory rushes in to save him and later goes to fight Mari while he deals with Frewil. Gregory struggled against Mari but somehow won by countering her Calamity Violet Reciprocation with his waterbending abilities. This causes Mari to be stiff and fall down a giant deep hole from below her. After this, Gregory goes to check on Ace and Frewil, who were missing. He goes outside to see Frewil freezing Ace and teleporting him away from where they were. Gregory attacks Frewil with the brush and creates a seal on him. Before this happens, Frewil teleports Gregory away; only to be successfully sealed up.

Gregory is then seen in a random location he has never seen before. This place was factually a completely different dimension. Suddenly, Gregory was attacked by men. They were poachers. He tries to fight back.. only to realise that his brush was missing and that his leg is stuck. Before he could be attacked, the men were stopped by a unknown figure in a hood. The figure beats them all up with a hammer. They all retreat. The figure goes up to Gregory and helps him from his leg being stuck. The figure takes their hood off and it's revealed to be Tangerine, who reveals that this place wasn't the prime timeline but rather a place called the Cyber Timeline. Since then, the young Gregory valued Tangerine and the two became close. With Tangerine becoming Gregory's caretaker.

Gregory and Tangerine are now seen in the prime universe; returning Gregory back home to his own timeline. After convincing her family from a alternate dimension to her own, both Tangerine and Gregory start to make a living at the Citrus Ranch and since then, Tangerine has become a chosen hero to take Frewil on in the new generation while Gregory retires from his job as a guardian due to many reasons. The first being that he just wants a normal childhood at the Citrus Ranch due to never having one properly and his brush was destroyed by Frewil, rendering him useless as a fighter. But he is still support for Tangerine; healing her wounds using his healing water and just being there to cheer her on.

## **Relationships**

### **The Grimdark**

Due to having these terrible memories associated with the Grimdark himself, he was willing to just forget about the Grimdark himself when he was "reformed" into Kako. But if, somehow, the Grimdark came back, Gregory may reveal the secret that he kept for all these years...

### **The Guardians**

Gregory first met Grace and Boss happily. They saw the potential of him due to his control of water being extremely useful. Plus his pure heart proved to be a great inclusion to the guardians. Before Tangerine, Grace acted like Gregory's caretaker. Taking care of him no matter what. When she was infected with the grimdark virus, they were somewhat disappointed of Gregory. With Diesel questioning if he is on their side or not. But despite this, they are guardians. And the guardians always go by their moral code of "We guardians must always stick together. As we are the chosen ones who will sacrifice our blood to protect the innocent and we will always fight for honour and justice."

### **Kage**

Before the Grimdark revealed himself properly, Kage was the major threat in the Guardian Era. Gregory and him are obviously enemies and he tends to fear the three-headed hellhound. Especially in their terrifying ascension.

### **Frewil**

Gregory is Frewil's creator. At first, he was happy to have a friend during the time that the guardians disbanded but he became scared of him due to realising he was only created out of trauma from a nightmare But later, he faces his fears and attempts to take him on.. only to be teleported away. Clearly he isn't suited to take his own creation on. Even more so due to the destruction of the very weapon he used.

### **Tangerine**

Tangerine would later become Gregory's caretaker later down the road. She has a very motherly relationship with him and will do everything to protect him. This was mainly due to Tangerine taking after Melancholy Nano; due to him reminding her of her younger self. Since they first met, Gregory has never left her side no matter what.

## **Trivia**

* Gregory is more or so named after a "fursona" made by Con Air via a channel in a Discord server that he speaks in. He originally had the full name of "Gregory Gearhead" and had a different look. He looked rather taller, his gills and hands look different and he had a more natural axolotl purple/pink colour scheme. He wore a trench coat, a watch on his left arm, a jumper, baggy pants, a top hat with steampunk glasses and generic black shoes. Obviously, he was designed after the concept of steampunk. Which is the idea given by another guardian, Pyro. He was changed to be more simplified and his colour scheme is based around Con Air's favourite colour of green and being part frog. His name also means watchful and vigilant. Referencing how he is very careful when it comes to danger.
	+ His last name, Llyffant, is the welsh translation for "frog". To make it simple, many can pronounce it "leh-faunt", as the actual pronunciation can be rather difficult to some.
	+ However there was more to him. He was designed after a Wooper from the popular Pokémon series. Who before Gregory, was Con Air's unofficial mascot during his time as a Twitter Parody Account. The Wooper itself was based loosely on a Wooper from a hacked save file of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky where the main character was Wooper and the partner was a Gardevoir. The idea of the two Pokémon would later be used in a College Animation Project made by Con Air called "Team Tazmily in The Galar Region". Which depicts a Wooper and a Shiny Gardevoir visiting Galar and meeting a Rolycoly along the way. The Wooper seen here is very similar to Gregory; acting very childlike and curious. However unlike Gregory, the Wooper was extremely dumb and could speak; being very annoying and causing trouble to the Rolycoly. The idea of Team Tazmily would later become the Guardians; with each member being repurposed and majorly redesigned from their Pokémon counterparts. With Wooper becoming Gregory as a result. The original animation was posted on Con Air's Twitter very early on and can be found here. The animation, although not that detailed and was animated using hand drawn body parts, proved to be a memorable moment in Con Air's time at College. Very much like Wowlife.
* His likes consists of:
	+ Potato smileys
	+ Flies
	+ Honey
	+ The Rain
	+ Blackcurrant Juice
	+ Painting/Drawing
	+ Playing in the park
* His dislikes consists of:
	+ Disappointing his friends
* Some of his personality traits are based on Con Air when he was a young child. While also sharing his favourite food and drink at the time, potato smileys and blackcurrant juice. He also notably shares the same birthday as him, being the 25th of April.
* He is the only guardian that notably doesn't have a different look from the time skip between the Guardian Era to the Calamity War era. This is mainly because of him eternally being young, being the same age as he was during his adventures in the guardian era due to Khamson's thank you gift. With this in mind, he's the youngest of the guardians, even before he was given eternal youth.
* His roleplay ability is based on Jobs from the game, Miitopia. With how you can switch classes on the fly and the fact Gregory, as well as the other guardians, were made in the Switch version of the game.
* He's the only guardian to not have a versus render. This is mainly because he isn't much of a fighter like the others. Despite this, he is still characterised as the 18th character according to Con Air's files.
	+ With this in mind, he's also the only guardian who doesn't have a ascension.
* He is undoubtedly one of the shortest character out of all. Being 2 foot smaller and a inch taller than Susie. And being 1 foot and 4 inches smaller than the Grimdark Brotherhood's smallest member, Evelyn.

* He's the only guardian, alongside Eon and Gaishi, who's theming isn't around a known universally celebrated holiday. Rather, his theming is around Con Air and his birthday. Due to him being born on the 25th of April and having a frog theming, which is Con Air's favourite animal. Plus he IS Con Air's mascot, so it all makes sense in the end.

## **Gallery**

Gregory's Default RenderGregory's Default Render (With Tangerine)Gregory's Early Sketch/Depiction as a Wooper. Seen in the cut credits of the Team Tazmily VideoGregory's Early RenderGregory's Guardian RenderGregory featured on Tangerine's Grimdark Hunter RenderGregory's Reference SheetA Early Sheet of Wooper Gregory's parts used for the Team Tazmily VideoGregory's Pog Emote used in Con Air's Private Discord ServerGregory's Icon. Also serves as Con Air's Icon for the many social media platforms he uses.A animated version of Gregory's Icon.A animated icon used for Con Air's Discord profile.A brief update to the Discord Icon (non-animated).