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[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Guy Gardner. He might go by Warrior if he needs to but really? Why'd he wanna hide himself?
FANDOM: DCU
CHRONOLOGY: Just post-Superbuddies.
BACKGROUND:
So. Guy grew up in Baltimore with a pretty shitty set of parents. His father was an abusive alcoholic, his mother did nothing to protect her younger son, and both parents strongly favoured Guy’s older brother, Mace. In response to his home life, Guy became a juvenile delinquent, stealing cars and generally being an asshole. He was eventually straightened out by Mace, who’d become a police officer, and went to college. After getting his degree, Guy worked as a social welfare caseworker and then as a teacher for children with disabilities.
Guy’s involvement with heroing began shortly after Hal Jordan was given his Green Lantern ring. Jordan found out that there were, in fact, two potential successors to the ring on Earth and that he had been chosen because he was closer to the dying previous Lantern. He went out of his way to contact Guy, and the two of them became friends.
Some time later, when Gardner was acting as a backup Green Lantern for Hal, Hal’s power battery exploded and trapped him in the Phantom Zone. Believing him to be dead, Hal and Gardner’s girlfriend started going out and eventually decided to get married. Because Hal Jordan is a huge douche.
Anyway, Guy was able to get out through sheer willpower and pissed-offness (and some telepathic communication), but he had brain damage and, when he finally got out of the Phantom Zone, he was comatose for quite a while. That is, until the Crisis on Infinite Earths.
At that time, some of the Guardians of the Universe kicked up a hissy fit and decided to revive Guy and command him to defeat and recruit the Ani-Monitor’s forces, making him believe he was the last "true" Green Lantern. The brain damage had given him a much different personality than before, and Guy went off to fulfill his commands. Luckily for the world, Hal Jordan and John Stewart stopped him before he managed to destroy the universe, although he’d resent them both, especially Hal, for a while.
After the Guardians' departure from Oa, Guy was one of the last Green Lanterns with a working power ring, and he became a founding member of the JLI after the JLA disbanded. While he did hook up with Ice, this time was mostly full of arguing, insane hijinks, a fight with Lobo, the sucker-punching of Blue Beetle during a boxing match, and finally him quitting the team after being "belittled" by Superman. That is to say: awesome times.
Eventually, Guy was forced to hand over his Green Lantern ring to Hal Jordan. Undaunted, he tricked Lobo into helping him get Sinestro’s yellow power ring from Oa. He came back to earth to pick a fight with Superman but helped Earth’s heroes battle Doomsday. Later, Guy clears his name of murder that was committed by his clone and learns that his brother Mace had become the assassin Militia and was trying to kill him. They fight, Guy wins, and he decides to take the codename Warrior.
Later, Hal Jordan, under the influence of the villain Parallax, destroyed the Green Lantern Corps and Guy Gardner led a group of heroes to Oa to find out what had happened. When the two fought, Hal destroyed Guy’s ring. Luckily, this was only a temporary setback to Guy’s heroics. Guy went to a trip to the Amazon and drank from the Warrior Water, activating the alien DNA that had been implanted in his bloodline millennium ago by a space-traveling race called the Vuldarians. This gave him superpowers and let him keep heroing. Initially he had trouble with these powers, but eventually figured out how to use them to fight his enemies. Note: sometime during the time when he acted as Warrior, he created a superhero theme bar, Warrior’s.
Guy was thought to be killed in the Our Worlds at War crossover, but he was later found trapped in a pocket of Hell in General Zod's country of Pokolistan. After freeing himself, his Warrior powers were apparently enhanced and he declared it his job to do the dirty work that the big heroes couldn’t.
Granted, this resolution obviously fell through somehow because the next time we see him, Guy is ‘normal’, without his Warrior powers, and opening a bar next door to the Superbuddies. Strangely, he also has the yellow ring powers associated with Sinestro’s ring, but wears no ring and doesn’t explain his ability to any of the other heroes. It is shortly after this point that he is ported into The City.
PERSONALITY: Guy is an asshole who will drink your beer, hit on your women, kick you in the jeans, insult the state of your broken down car and then proceed to come over tomorrow with tools in hand to fix it up. That is to say, he's got his vices and he doesn't hide them, but he has a strong sense of morality that's often overlooked because of his blunt, abrasive personality.
Guy's main goal, in the end, is acknowledgment. He wants everyone in the world to know his name and appreciate how goddamn awesome he is. After all, he's a Big Damn Hero. Why should he hide that? His greatest fear, though, is that he's going to turn into someone who's not good enough, that's he's going to become his father and fade into the background and that everyone will realize this and then leave him alone. Granted, it's not a strong fear because he really couldn't care less about what most people think about him, but there's a certain few that he opens up to and who, as a consequence, he will do anything to keep close and safe. The safe is a key point here since, as mentioned above, his girlfriend Tora was killed when he wasn't around to save her.
CLASS: BIG DAMN HERO
SUPERHERO NAME: Warrior.
ALTER EGO: Guy Gardner
POWER: I'm taking him just post-Superbuddies. In that comic, he was shown to have yellow ring power, much like he had when he possessed one of Sinestro's power rings. However, he doesn't actually possess a ring, as it was destroyed by Parallax years ago. As such, I'm going to assume that the yellow ring constructs are a product of Guy's own willpower.
Thus, his powers will be semi-canonical: yellow ring constructs in line with what green GL rings can do.
COMMUNITY POST SAMPLE:
Wait. Lemmee get this straight. You brought me, Guy Gardner, Warrior, kicker of a million million asses here to this dump why? Because you don't have anyone around to beat up your wussy bad guys? The hell?!
Now I know that I'm real good at this kickin' ass and takin' names thing, but this is goin' way, way over the line in the "Oh Mr. Gardner, can we please have your help?" thing. 'Cause you know what? Much as I love the world hoppin', I gotta home to take care of an' a bar to keep from burnin' to the ground when the rest of those mediocre hero types start flyin' around and doin' jack shit against today's villain of the week.
So all you half-assed villainous, "my momma didn't love me as a child and I just can't get over it, so I kick puppies to make myself feel better" types just line up right here, okay? I'll punch you in the face, we're square and then I can go home!
GET IT?
GOT IT?
GOOD.
THIRD PERSON:
Guy Gardner trudges down the street, head down and collar up and generally feeling miserable. It's raining, and water's running down the back of his neck, which always pisses him off. On top of that, he's stuck here in this place where dead people are alive and... Tora isn't here.
It's like some crazy god up there is laughing at his pain. First, she dies when he's not around to save her, then when he gets a chance to bring her back from Hell, Bea screws it up and Tora vanishes inches from his fingertips. And now he's here and his best girl's still stuck in Hell with the demons and the darkness. It's just not fair.
Angrily, he kicks at a can, and it skitters down the street.
He blinks when a startled yelp breaks the silence and a spotted dog sprints out from the shadows, looking at him with big, reproachful eyes.
"Woah there. I just kicked the can. If you were too damn dumb to dodge it, that's your problem, not mine."
The puppy, because really it's only a pup, not a full grown dog at all, just whines at him, looking wet and forlorn and obviously abandoned. All alone. Sort of like him, really.
Aw, damnit.
Guy sighs and strips off his jacket, then kneels down so that he's eye to eye with the mutt.
"Now see here. I'm gonna take you home and wash you up, but only if you don't bite or do somethin' nasty in my stuff, okay?"
The dog doesn't talk, but Guy thinks he sees a light of comprehension in its eyes.
"Okay then. Let's go y'damn dog."
Carefully, he bundles the pup up in his coat. It's bony and much too light for an animal its size, so Guy figures he's going to have to get it something to eat too and isn't that just another nuisance, Damndog?
But it's not alone anymore and neither is he and Tora would have wanted things this way. That's what matters.