Talk:Gray Champion (John Domeck)/Character evolution


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In Shaken Dust, his suit is upgraded to a protective, futuristic black  He wears gray suit pants and a modern gray trenchcoat on top of his body glove. His Puritan-era belt, hat, and sword remain basically the same and are integrated into his new suit design. His mask, gloves, and cape remain the same.

In Vindication, his suit is replaced with a Gray Champion-themed combat suit based on a SCALLOP combat uniform - designed to aid him in his missions of infiltration and to utilize built-in defenses against MPF beams. Upon return to Toklisana, he keeps the anti-MPF features and utilizes them into his body glove. He otherwise resumes wearing his suit from Shaken Dust.

Upon nearing retirement during the Swappernetters arc, John makes an improved version of the anti-MPF body glove for Roy Bernauld to wear. He also creates a version of his suit worked around a WWI combat uniform's design, with the intent of Roy wearing that look as the Puritan look is set to retire when John does. This is in keeping with the following line in Hawthorne's original tale:

But none could make reply. The fathers of the people, those of four-score years and upwards, were disturbed, deeming it strange that they should forget one of such evident authority, whom they must have known in their early days, the associate of Winthrop and all the old Councillors, giving laws, and making prayers, and leading them against the savage. The elderly men ought to have remembered him, too, with locks as gray in their youth, as their own were now. And the young! How could he have passed so utterly from their memories--that hoary sire, the relic of long departed times, whose awful benediction had surely been bestowed on their uncovered heads, in childhood?

Since Hea's generation would have found John Domeck's attire of third-Puritan, third-Confederate, and third-modern uniform strange, Tabitha's generation would be just as confused by a Gray Champion who was half-WWI veteran and half-modern. This governs the logic of all manifestations of Gray Champion armor and equipment except for John's Vindication suit, which was designed specifically for defeating an alliance of the Icy Finger and Phaletori.