Dill Clay

***Dill Clay*** is a character appearing in comic books and novels created and written by Damon Avent (Khaliq Trevor X). He is one of the titular Rage Knights characters and one of the main Neo-Deserters.

## Backstory/History

Clay originally appeared alongside Aaron Harold in High Heaven Council upon Scooblore, Damon Bradley and Spencer's arrival under Dark Prince's orders to eliminate Hades' forces and bring him back to the dimension of Hell. He was considered an antagonistic force that had been thought dead, before being brought back for the sole purpose of the Prince's agendas. The two chased down the trio, nearly killing them until Bradley fought back with his Rage Sword. After losing and being severely injured, Clay convinced an already contemplating Harold that maybe they weren't their real enemies and the two subsequently surrendered.

Later on, Alternative Future Damon had Hades' allow Clay and Harold to return to Earth on the condition that they gain intel on Dark Prince and help their rogue team thrive. So alongside Aaron, Clay would be brought back via the Grimoire arts magic spell. He aligns with the group shortly before they officially name themselves the Rage Knights in helps the group battle the Dark Prince's Diseased forces as well as Krom, whom attacked Northstar Middle with the help of a Grim Smiler, a Mech-Burden Diseased. Clay adventures with the group since, usually acting closely with Harold.

### Personality

Clay, earlier in the series possesses a quieter demeanor and often comes across as reflective and studious. He enjoyed learning of nature. Sometimes boasting his accomplishments quietly to nobody other than Aaron. As he adventures with the outcast warriors more, he becomes more open and displays a quite noticeable protective element, where he will easily defend or assist his friends in combat. One of his key personality traits is his tendency to plan things out ahead which becomes a trait as he matured eventually into a bounty hunter, policeman and eventually the police commander of the Queens Mane's North Division.

### Rage/Red God Arc

Dill would serve as one of Damon Bradley's closest allies during this period. Being more reliable with guns and possessing far more potent white magic abilities, including limited teleportation and being able to reflect some forms of time magic, that could be potent enough to severely aging and killing him. During this time, he leads several high-profile missions with or without the Rage Knights' help. His popularity arrives even drawing the attention of lawmakers, the FBI, police departments and Senator Ozaru, a Japanese-American senator running for Queens mane mayor. The senator forced Dill to abandon his role as a Rage Knight for the purpose of joining the police division and forming a relationship with the American public due to his known profile of destroying various Diseased.

## Nomad the Lost Arc

Dill Clay becomes the commander of the Eastern Police Division of Queens Mane during Nomad Bradley's return to Earth and abandonment as a Rage God and the name of "Damon". Most notably during this time, Dill is the commander of the uptown district that surrounds Brad-Dunn Inc. When Nomad returns to Earth and startles the U.S. Military in Nevada, Clay receives numerous calls and theories about the return of Bradley. He also takes a few eyewitnesses into question involving the incident, before policing a heavy surveillance around Queens Mane in the event of Nomad's return. This brought forth another force due to Nomad's return, Sabry Null. Whom had recovered from her *Sab the Destroyer* form and had followed Bradley into Queens Mane's uptown city where she had hoped to kill him for interfering with SHA but also due to her own personal grudge. Dill acted cautiously and patrolled along Brad-Dunn Inc. eventually running into a Pembroke Welsh Corgi (Nomad himself under disguise) whom was on the run from Null's attack. Clay ran into Sabry and had her arrested, but things eventually became confusing to Clay, when he learned that the Corgi was in fact, Nomad Bradley.

Dill became briefly obsessed with trying to locate Bradley due to his strong resemblance to Damon Bradley. Dill approached the CEO of Brad-Dunn Inc., Liam with questions regarding Bradley's arrival. The young CEO then revealed to him that this was in fact his friend whom had disappeared fifty years ago. Dill subsequently chases after Nomad for a few days following his exploits at the company's headquarters and eventually joins Bradley, Juno and Kho when they form an alliance to battle the forces of SHA and the Light Emperor.

### Attack of Erugi Arc

Dill, alongside many of his Neo-Deserter friends such as Midlore, Ragorias, Cecilia Sanchez, President Bradley and Nomad himself were facing heavy accusations and criticisms for their actions against SHA. Whom had also been under a scrutiny with Homeland security, the U.S. Senate, FBI and United Nations. The trial was cut short, when a SHA-hired mercenary from the Galacktron planet, Erugi Voxe appeared seeking to kill the Rage God Damon Bradley for numerous defeats over SHA personal. This disrupted many plans for Clay, forcing him to battle the mercenary directly on various occasions. Dill was able to match Erugi in physical strength but due to Clay's anger, frustrations and own personal negativity, he couldn't thwart Erugi. Whom relied strictly on utilizing negative energy and the cruelty of others (namely superficial and antagonistic peoples).

### Lunar Red Cult

Dill encounters Maliq Mustafa of the Lunar Red Cult and battles the cult leader inside a banking stadium following the cult's plot to harvest the Diseased Cores. After losing initially in a physical and magical-based fight, He dials and commands Nomad and Midlore to abruptly return to Earth, amid their interstellar flight to Planet Muck and beyond. When the Neo-Deserters align to battle the cult in the west, Dill aides in dismantling and shooting down their weaponized spaceships.

## CEO of Brad-Dunn

When Juno Barone and Liam Barone were murdered by the Lunar Red Kingdom's warships while trying to save Nadeja, Clay becomes a stand-in CEO for a brief moment of time before Scooblore finds Leor Walsh and forces him to work for Brad-Dunn. Clay then pins the responsibility on him.

## Powers and Abilities

### Primary Powers

* ***Black Magic/White Magic usage***: Dill Clay from the beginning of the series, can cast both dark and white magic, expelling them from his twin Uzi SMG guns. His magic is practically weaker initially but as time progresses, Dill is able to cast various and deadlier forms of white magic-based attacks and aide in the usage and casting of black magic. Such as creating clones of his friends and having them blow up on impact whenever they reach the target. (*See: Self-Destructing Rage Knights Trick*)

* ***Flight***: He possesses flight, hand-to-hand combat, speed, and later on, a detective sense of intelligence. In later iterations of the character and writings, he becomes more keen with his abilities, using forms of reflective power to block and create immunities to bullying tactics.
* ***Immunity to Bullying Tactics***: Due to his height and modern superficial culture, many of the bullying tactics inflicted upon him by unfriendly, crude and downright antagonistic people tends to also prove fairly useless to Clay, indicating his increase in this immunity.

* ***Teleportation/Telekinesis***: Due to his usage of white magic, Clay develops the power to perform limited teleportation and use forms of Aaron Harold's attacks such as telekinetic guns.

* ***Tactician***: Dill Clay is a Tactician of many trades, such as a potent *battle tactician* whom is able to pinpoint many of his opponent's weaknesses and exploit them with several direct magic attacks as well as a specialized gun tactician whom primarily utilizes uzis and other SMGs

## Weapons and Equipment

### Guns

* Clay's ***2005 Uzi SMGs*** are his most used weapons of choice and were frequently used from 2005 to seemingly the years up to mid 2014. They are standard, dull-colored Uzis that aren't too complex and are balanced firearms that cast basic magic spells, especially *white magic*.
* ***Anime-Block Uzis*** are used from around the summer of 2007 and 2008. They are frequently known for casting radiant-point tips. Magical extensive shells that when combined with white magic usage, allows the user to project aurora beams, flamethrowers and concussive thunder jolts. Despite their short usage, in some stories, Clay brings the guns back and combines them with additional powers such as perception magic (with the help of Daniel Goldberg) to extend his damage. Whenever combined with perception magic, this allows him to cast literally *Manga/Anime* themed magic that typically redraws and alters the target's physical appearance into that of a traditional Japanese manga-based character.
* ***Wasted Time 45*** is a .45 caliber that was briefly used by Dill to defeat Diseased. It is used more often when he becomes a police officer. Whenever used in combat, it can easily kill lower-classed humanoid Diseased such as Gossip Kings, Wraiths and Ugly Seekers.

### Equipment

* ***Cigarettes:*** Dill always carries a pack of cigarettes, usually smoking at least three a day. In later incarnations, he prefers to smoke only if severely stressed or at late nights. In the years proceeding the AXIS/SHA Takeover and SHA's imperialistic development over the world, his love for smoking seemed to diminish.
* ***Muccian-Combat Boots:*** Dill Briefly dons Muccian-Combat Boots after going with the other Neo-Deserters to Planet Muck to locate Nomad following Bradley and Midlore West-Stein's infiltration on the Magistrate Tower and encounter with Aphrodite-Bushra.

## Trivia/Notes

* Dill Clay's favorite foods are fried Calamari, roasted deer meat and pineapple pizza.
* After a year passed since the last major edit of the Dill Clay page (2019), the page flourishes stronger. Especially during trying and negative times.
* Like the other titular characters in *the Rage Knights: Red God* universe, *Dill Clay* is credited under the creator/Original author's name. Others include Aaron Harold, Damon Bradley, Midlore West-Stein, Spencer Holifeld, Hades, Jessica Bree, Daniel Goldberg and Hangi Bell.

***Disclaimer**: To whom this may concern, the characters in their entirety, while they borrow inspiration from events, ideas, themes and other sources from the original author's life, they are incredibly different and fictional entities inside the Rage Knights Red God and under no circumstance are they expressing a real person's actual views, ideologies, names and likeness to cause harm or defame them. Any names bearing similarities to any person(s) is unintentional unless stated otherwise and under special permission. The Rage Knights Red God is a work of fiction and solely for entertainment and educational purposes. Please note, the series does not represent events that have happened, events to come nor does it condone the very human evils the series itself is/was meant to advocate against.*