Michael "Ace" Reed

Appearance
Ace is a 5'5" stocky Lakota man. He has dark skin, chin length black hair with red streaks. He almost always wears red sunglasses and earrings one of his sisters made for him. He's usually seen dressing stereotypically "tradpunk," with a leather jacket, various belts, Doc Martens, and a well-worn pair of jeans.

Personality
Ace is a storyteller by nature. He's outspoken, telling stories to anyone who will listen. He tends to have a more unique outlook on life, preferring to see it as just another story for him to see. He's generally cheerful, only appearing less so when threatened or in a situation he dislikes.

Ace bonds with people quickly, appearing to change his manner ever so slightly to be more accommodating towards them. He's been shown to be patient, amicable, and a hopeless romantic. He tends to become near obsessive with telling and discovering stories, telling them with similar emotions as when the stories happened.

Backstory
Ace was born in Northern Ireland to Native-American born immigrant parents. He grew up a standoff-ish child with a insatiable love of the outdoors and knowledge. Throughout his childhood, The Hunt and The Slaughter began to target he and his family, often appearing in the form of police officers or "black-and-tans."

When Ace was a teenager, his father and he were walking through the streets of the local town, when his father was attacked and killed by several avatars of The Slaughter serving in the police force. Ace did not escape uninjured, with severe injury and scarring, and a deep mark placed upon him by both the Hunt and the Slaughter, after vowing to kill the officers who had killed his father in what was never officially acknowledged as a racially targeted hate crime.

For the next several years of his life, Ace juggled school and his new life as a Hunter, a group of punks that targeted the police for being corrupt. This earned him the nickname "Ace," as he was almost unnaturally good at throwing deadly objects at the heads and eyes of cops. Eventually the police caught on, and the Hunt began to target him back, leaving him with several bullet wounds, broken bones, and semi-deadly injuries.

His luck in escaping ran out when he moved to London to pursue a career in working in Research at The Magnus Institute, delaying his start date at the Institute for over a year as he had just barely escaped a run-in with a pack of cops who left him with a shattered knee due to a bullet wound, claw marks across his chest, and severely shattered ribs. This incident was caused due to having a romantic encounter with an avatar pretending to be attracted to him in order to attack him.