Gryph

Gryph was a vulture-based cybrid who was part of the Legion of Disciples, his real name was apparently Donavon but never wanted to use the name again after his abuse. He died at the Manhattan Incident.

#### **History**

Originally born in somewhere in Georgia, Don moved to the Pequannock Township in New Jersey when he was 9, and there led a mostly insular life with his alcoholic and at times violent father, a man of conservative and far-right dogma, Jerry who split from his mother before the move. It was known that his mother applied for Artificial Insemination via PGI Research in England, but since his father had often felt insecure about his impotency and never felt like Donavon was his. Nevertheless Jerry won custody of the boy and moved states.

Don spent most of his time online, looking for friends and became a self-proclaimed 'Anonymous' hacker when he was 11.

When he was 16 his cybridisation manifested, and his father reacted badly, beating him to near-death, calling him a freak of nature and locking him in his room and even inviting priests to try to remove his "curse", but Don feared Jerry would ask his neighbours to simply take the boy out to the woods and kill him.

By this time Don was already in contact with Zeroth on the darknet who had planned to meet him, sending Kaos to pick the boy up.

When Kaos showed up his father's friends had already began dragging him out of the house and Kaos took great pleasure in killing them. When confronted with Jerry, who Don called a coward for not doing the deed himself, Don shot his father in the face with a shotgun.

The duo took their neighbours pickup in a hurry before the police arrived on the scene, narrowly avoiding getting caught and after dumping the truck in the suburbs, rode the train back to central New York where Zeroth greeted him as a new member of the Disciples as 'Gryph'.

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### **Appearance**

Don was a tall, lanky young man with dark, near-black hair that was kinked and hung loosely over his forehead and grew long enough that it often obscured his eyes, he had dark eyes and suffered with acne quite badly, had a large nose and gaunt facial features and after years of intense hunched internet activity, developed something of a hump that was somewhat extenuated by his protruding addams apple, he often covered his head and face in hoods and always wore long coats, even in summer; this sometimes gave him body odour. He has multiple healed slashed on his wrists due to self-harm and attempted suicides, although after his cybrid mutations manifested, these were hidden with feathers. He had winged arms that he hid under his sleeves and pointed nails.

### **Personality**

Gryph was quiet and insular, rarely saying anything other than a few words, but was nevertheless usually always calm in demeanour during intense and violent moments, which gave him an advantage in battle. Even before his cybridism manifested, Gryph never liked his appearance, which drove him to have a particularly low self-esteem and a sense of self-worth, and until the last few weeks of his life, hid his appearance under hooded jackets and coats at all times. Don's attitude towards other people gave Zeroth an easy way of manipulating him to his cause and had no issue with killing.

### **Powers and abilities**

**Powers:**

Don was a first-generation cybrid with animal genes that likely came from a griffon vulture, these manifested during a puberty-based mutation which occurs to 95 percent of first-gen cybrids. After his change he possessed a verity of physical mutations and enhanced abilities including:

***Part-Avian Cybrid Physiology:*** His cybridism gave him hollow bones and lighter body structure overall.

* ***Enhanced vision:*** Gryph could see in extreme clarity over long distances far beyond that of any normal human, he was able to detect movement in his environment much more efficiently than normal humans, detecting movement through mediums such as thick fog or smoke.
* ***Enhanced olfactory senses:*** His sense of smell was at least two or three times as potent as any normal human.
* ***Winged Flight:*** Two of his fingers, his little finger and the next one in, grew to extreme lengths and rigidity, forming long, feathered wings that grew from his arms; these wings could be folded up against his arms and their joints coincided with his elbow, allowing him to hide these wings under regular clothing. Contracting musculature under each arm could expand these wings allowing him to glide as efficiently as a real vulture, though he often required a deal of force to achieve lift-off thrust, once airborne he could catch thermals and expend very little energy doing so, enabling him to fly great distances with ease.
* ***Enhanced Arm Strength:*** The muscles on his arms and back became quite strong, and was able to break bones with swipes of his wings and could press roughly 1050 lbs, while not actually considered in the league of other superhumans with majorly enhanced strength, was far stronger than any other normal human and strong enough to inflict serious damage on humans.
* ***Enhanced reflexes and agility**:* These enhanced his acrobatic abilities whilst on the ground, enabled him a degree of maneuverability and wing flexibility while airborne.
* ***Nail-claws:*** His fingernails grew to short, nonretractable but very sharp talons that could slice through flesh. He later revealed to have bigger talons on his feet.

**Abilities:**

* **Natural combatant:** After learning the basics of fighting, his increased reflexes and agility gave him the edge on physical combat
* **Hacker:** He had previously aided Anonymous' cyber attacks on various websites for practice and fun and was an expert at finding people and information, which he used to gather info on cybridisation and neohumans from darkweb sources.
* **Software and Hardware Expert:** He could easily alter, repair and upgrade various computer systems.

### **Limitations and weaknesses**

Gryph was quiet and depressed, the only thing that stopped him committing suicide was his desire to dish out vengeance on the world, which ultimately Zeroth used to recruit him to his cause.

His constant wearing of heavy, hooded clothing, even on hot days, sometimes gave him a body odour issue.

He had something of an on-off relationship with Thresher, another cybrid who Zeroth later recruited and the two would regularly fight.