Gravy Swayze

Gravy Swayze is the child of Scout Briar and Lauri Nieminen. He doesn’t have any memory from his childhood. He just remembers waking up one day in Pillbox with a note in his jacket pocket that told him to head to the Cyber Bar where his father could hire him on as a computer technician. From then on, it was history.

Gravy is a gentle man with a huge heart that is known for his eccentric clothing and car style, always having food or drinks, a dossier full of random pictures, and his for his love of almond milk lattes, skateboarding and weed. He’s also known for being kind (though maybe too kind at times…) and maybe spending too much time as a hostage on the floors of the many banks of the city. It wasn’t hard to grab him as he used to always be found skateboarding from place to place.

After waking up in Pillbox and reading the note, he headed down to the Cyber Bar where he was hired on by Lauri as a computer technician. Soon after this, Lauri and Scout bought Gravy his first real car, not counting the shitty green Picador he bought with his stimulus from City Hall. This car was a Warrener HKR from Wayne King who would also grow to become a friend of his. Gravy cherished that car and immediately took it to Benny’s to have it customized to look like an Arizona Green Tea can.

Gravy spent his early days dumpster diving, selling dumpster weed to locals on the pier, “cleaning” houses and prospecting with his mom, and doing computer repairs to earn clean money. He grew to be very lucky and very persuasive in these ventures. He also spent a lot of time playing pool or hanging out at the arcade with his parents, his uncle Boris, Jonathan Porter, Kyle David, and Sean Dablackguy.

As he spent more time at the arcade, Steve French, the owner of Cyber Bar, also saw potential in Gravy because not long after being hired as a technician, he was promoted to manager of the Cyber Bar. He didn’t stay very long there because his charm and hard working attitude was needed to help run Cockatoos as head bartender and then as a manager. After Cockatoos went under new management, Gravy decided to step down from his position as manager and went back to the arcade to manage there instead.

While working for arcade, Gravy learned that real estate was taking applications for small businesses so he followed one of his dreams and applied for a cannabis business which they approved after meeting him and hearing his business proposition. He then became the proud owner of Pipe Dreams on the corner of postal 325 near the canals where he still sells cannabis and cannabis supplies for growing, bagging, and consuming. He also offers education (with the needed supplies) on how to grow your own for a small fee. The shop is still doing well to this day - especially once the city changed how the cannabis scene worked.

Gravy has many custom strains starting with his first one that he ever grew: Gasanova. Then he went on to grow Aspen High Peaks, Lemon Meringue Tie, McDanks, Mommy Milkers, Genovese Grenade, Mustache Ride, Belle Delphine Bath Water, and Genovese Cream Pie. Some of those strains he grew for his friends or to memorialize special moments.

Around this time, Gravy and Lauri became friends and business associates with Lawrence Prez of the Genovese Crime Family - later on they would both earn the trust and respect of the Don, Valentina Posie-Prez, and be asked to join the family. Of course they both graciously accepted and then Gravy started to add much more cream color and a beautiful Genovese chain to his eccentric wardrobe.

After Gravy went back to work at the arcade as a manager, he was sadly sent to jail for the first time after being caught boosting cars with his father. This ended up working out well for him because after a brief moment of being unemployed, he was able to try out a new working venture as a mechanic at Benny’s where he still works to this day as a senior mechanic. People often mistake him for Ace Bogetti who is the owner of Benny’s.

Before working at Benny’s, Gravy became friends and partners in literal crime with Daniel Porter who helped him get the job at Benny’s and who also introduced him to the underground racing scene where Gravy (also known as Aspen in UGR) has become an unofficial certified passenger princess and made many new friends. Over this time the two of them became close. Where you find Gravy, you often find Daniel, and vice versa. They’re usually found driving about the city together in Daniel’s seafoam RH7 with a Belle Delphine livery causing mild chaos, trying to nail sick jumps, or going on dates to Pizza This where the service and food is always wonderful. Somewhere in there, Daniel and Gravy started dating and they’re still together and causing chaos to this day.