Grey

Grey
DAN-003
In-Game Information
Weapon:	Model A Buster Shot
Affiliations:	Hunter's Guild
Misc. Information
Script:	グレイ
Rōmaji:	Gurei
Gender:	Male
Age:	14
Eye Color:	Green
Hair Color:	Silver
Series Information
In-game Appearances:	Mega Man ZX Advent
Other Appearances:	Rockman ZX Advent (manga)
Japanese VA:	Hiromi Hirata
English VA:	Peter von Gomm

"Yeah, you're right, I am Defective. I'm just a person named Grey. You couldn't even change the destiny of a regular boy like me. This is the destiny that I've chosen... To live together with the people of this world!"

―Grey to Albert, Mega Man ZX Advent

Grey (グレイ, Gurei) is one of the two main protagonists of Mega Man ZX Advent. Unlike the other protagonist, Ashe, he is a 14 year old Reploid who awakens in a Mysterious Lab. He is the Biomatch for Biometal Model A, and was secretly created by Master Albert.

Appearance

Grey is a short Reploid with tan skin, green eyes, and short spiky gray hair. His body is a dark purple color with an orange torso. He wears red shorts with white bands, a brown belt with a gray buckle, purple gloves with orange cuffs and white fingers, a red chest pad, and purple shoes with orange tops, white soles, and yellow buttons. Grey also has a pink triangle on his forehead, marking him as a Reploid.

Personality

Because of the premature end of his brainwashing as a result of the Maverick ambush, Grey spends most of the game with amnesia. He is initially a confused reactionary, and his personality is influenced by his experiences over the course of his journey.

Being rescued by people who didn't know him, Grey is inspired by this act of kindness to do the same for others, even if they are enemies; Grey openly demonstrates this with his willingness to save the Raiders from an attack by Atlas. Another influence comes from Aile's advice, which encourages Grey to leave his past behind him and focus on making his own future. Because he has no experience interacting with others, Grey has no insight on proper mannerisms (as noted by the Sage Trinity as well as Aile), which makes him seem a little rude at times. Model A in particular describes Grey as "a tough-talking stubborn kid" and "a kind, crazy fool". Despite being paired with Model A, Grey is somewhat like Model X due to the fact they both believe that there shouldn't be a reason to save innocent people. He never smiles throughout the game until the ending of the game, possibly because of a happy ending.

History

Background

Grey was created by Master Albert as a backup successor, so that in case Albert died he would have someone to carry on his work with Model W. He was meant to experience conditioning in stasis in the Mysterious Lab that would make him loyal to Albert.

Mega Man ZX Advent

Grey's red eyes, which quickly revert to green due to the failed conditioning.

Grey's conditioning was interrupted by a scuffle between Hunters and Mavericks, which opened his capsule prematurely. He stumbled out, confused, until Pandora found him and called him "defective", explaining that she had to kill him. Grey grabbed a buster from a fallen Hunter, fired, and escaped. He was knocked out after fighting Dogu the Giant when the bridge he was standing on collapsed.

Grey is found by the Hunter Billy, who takes him to Hunter Camp, where he is given a Hunter's License and asked to help escort the Model A Biometal to Legion. However, Prometheus and Pandora attack the train carrying it, and the Biometal responds to Grey. They Megamerge, and the pair allows him to join the "Game of Destiny". Shortly after, Grey discovers the power of A-Trans after defeating the Pseudoroid, Buckfire the Gaxelleroid. Model A, though unsure of assisting Grey, decides to tag along for his own safety.

He is then given an invitation by the Sage Trinity to visit Legion, the most powerful organization in the world in order to inspect Model A. During his venture, he encounters four other Mega Men, Aeolus, Atlas, Thetis and Siarnaq, who wields the Biometals, H, F, L and P, respectively. He first fights against Atlas and manages to defeat her before she harvests the souls of a stray group of Raiders to Model W and in the process, breaks a cipher, revealing secret encoded data about the Model W. Grey then finally heads to Legion but is temporarily stopped short by Siarnaq, but is also defeated, resulting in another cipher, this time, showing a vague figured as well as a hint as to the creator of Model W, who appears to be one of the Sage Trinity. Though Model A is unsure at this point, Grey continues on ahead for the truth. The perpetrator appears to be none other than Albert, who is seen with several Model W fragments and escapes Grey's attack, but not before telling him he was 'made in his image'.

During his missions for Legion, Grey unlocks more ciphers after defeating the four Mega Men he met earlier while traveling to Legion. After completing the new destination Master Thomas had added to the transerver, he then encounters Aile in the Quarries, along with a Model W. Grey demands Aile to step away from the Model W, but Aile refuses and Double-Megamerges with Model X and Model Z. She decides to challenge Grey for the Model W. After Aile's defeat, Grey unlocks the final cipher, revealing data of Albert's goal to combine all the Model Ws forming the ultimate Biometal, Ouroboros.

Later on, he discovers that he was made as an "Alternate body" for Master Albert, who created Model A, also known as Model Albert. After Grey defeats Albert, he then collapses. Meanwhile, during the fight between Aile and the four Mega Men, Model Z insists that Aile has to go rescue Grey while he stalls the enemies. It is unknown whether Model Z survived the fall of Ouroboros. After Grey wakes up at Hunters' Camp and finishes his conversation with Aile, he and Model A go explore the world in search of their destinies.

Powers and abilities

As a regular Reploid, Grey is athletic but not nearly as strong as when Megamerged. He can crouch and swim, but he cannot Wall Kick or Dash, nor can he charge his Buster Shot (though he can at least fire it, unlike Vent or Aile in the previous game).

Image	Attack	Input	Description
	Buster Shot	Y	Grey fires up to three bullets at once.
	Crouch	↓	Grey crouches, and from here can crawl through small gaps.
	Swim	← / → (water)	Grey swims on the surface of the water. Can jump out of the water while swimming.

Other media

Archie Comics

Grey has a brief cameo in Issue #55 of the Mega Man comic series, with Dr. Light seeing a vision of the future of the Mega Man ZX series due to a time travel development accident.

Rockman ZX Advent (manga)

Grey is the protagonist of the story and the Biomatch for Model A. Unlike his game counterpart, Grey is childish and gullible, and has a fondness for sweets or any delicious foods. He and Model A are employed by Ashe to be her bodyguards in her treasure hunting, protecting her whenever there's Maverick Reploids or Mechaniloids getting their way while looking for treasure. Although, most of the times, Grey, together with Model A, acts more like Ashe's errand boy, doing things like carrying all her luggages or looking for foods for them while Ashe is sleeping.

Gallery

Artwork

Grey's concept art.

Grey Megamerged with Model A.

Grey Megamerged with Model A.

Grey on the ZXA Tunes cover.

Grey in the Rockman ZX Advent manga.

Grey's appearance in Archie's Mega Man Issue #55.

Cutscenes

Grey sleeping in his capsule.

Grey is confronted by Pandora.

Grey Megamerging with Model A.

Grey Megamerges with Model A for the first time.

Grey looking at the blue sky.

Grey parts ways with Aile in the ending.

Etymology

• "Grey" is the British spelling variant of "Gray", which shares the same kanji "灰" with "ash", a pun and also a spelling variant of "Ashe".

Trivia

• At the start of Grey's story, he first met Pandora, then later met Aile, whereas Ashe met Prometheus and then Vent.
• Interestingly, Grey is the first main protagonist of a Mega Man game to be a Reploid since Mega Man Zero 4. This, in turn, makes Grey the only playable Reploid in the ZX series (not counting A-Trans forms).
• Being a creation of Master Albert, he could be considered "son" of Albert and the younger brother of Prometheus and Pandora (also creations of Albert) and as well as Ashe's "half-brother" by technicality as she is a biological descendant of Albert.
• Grey's intro is similar to Zero's in the first Zero game: both were asleep, and soon after awakening, both of them grab a gun from a dead body, and both even are left amnesiac as a result of their awakening.
• A lot of voice actors from the English version of Mega Man X7 returned to do voice work for Mega Man ZX Advent. Grey's voice actor, Peter von Gomm, voiced X in Mega Man X7. Ironically, Grey's "father" and nemesis, Master Albert, was voiced by Jack Merluzzi, who voiced Zero in the same game.
• Technically, Grey is the only playable character in the ZX series to have red eyes (as he briefly was shown to have red eyes when his brainwashing prematurely ended in the beginning of his story).