Editing Brian Laborn (section)

==Appearance & Equipment==
Brian is an African-American teenager, physically mature for his age,<ref name=":2">It was easy enough to pin down Regent, Tattletale and Bitch as teenagers. It wasn't much of an intuitive leap to guess that Grue had been one too. - [[Gestation 1.5]]</ref> with a muscular frame, and a lantern jaw. He wore his hair in cornrows.<ref>Grue had dark chocolate skin, shoulder length cornrows and that masculine lantern jaw you typically associated with guy superheroes. He wore jeans, boots and a plain green t-shirt, which struck me as a bit cold for the spring. I did note that he had considerable muscle definition in his arms. This was a guy who worked out. - [[Insinuation 2.6]]</ref> He was taller than any of the other Undersiders,<ref>There were two girls, a guy, and a fourth I identified as male only because of the height. The tall one approached me, while the others hurried to the edge of the roof to watch Lung and the creature duke it out. - [[Gestation 1.5]]</ref> at least a foot taller than Taylor when they first met.<ref>Grue was startling in appearance, by contrast. Taller than me by at least a foot - [[Insinuation 2.6]]</ref> Multiple characters consider him rather handsome.{{Cite}}<!--taylor because come on. sophia because of how she was checking him out, enough to raise taylors heckles "Blah", ciara in her interlude-->

He had a deep, masculine voice<ref>His voice was deep, masculine, but muffled by the helmet he wore. - [[Gestation 1.5]]</ref> that could pass for an adult.<ref name=":2" /><ref>He had a nice voice. It was an adult voice, even if his appearance gave me the sense of a guy in his late teens. - [[Insinuation 2.6]]</ref> When he used his power, it created an echoing, reverberating effect.<ref name="3.7 e1">His voice echoed, reverberated, with a hollowness to the sound, like something alien and far away. He was using his power to play with the sound, “Tattletale, see to the door.  Bug, with me.” - [http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/08/30/agitation-3-7/ Excerpt] from [[Agitation 3.7]]</ref><ref>"The infamous Undersiders," Eidolon spoke. His voice reverberated slightly, an effect similar to Grue's. - [[Queen 18.4]]</ref><ref>"If you've figured something out, spit it out," Grue spoke in his echoing voice - [[Agitation 3.9]]</ref>

As Grue, Brian dressed in motorcycle leathers and a motorcycle helmet with a full-face visor sculpted to look like a stylized skull.<ref name="1.5">[[Gestation 1.5]]</ref> These incorporated side vents to allow the darkness he creates to flow outward, creating an eerie, dramatic effect.<ref name="3.7 e2">Brian had showed me how the visor had vents at the edges, to direct the effect of his power around the sides and top of his head, so it wouldn't obscure the face. It wasn't that he couldn't see through the effects of his own power – he could. He'd explained that the vents were there to create an effect where you could see glimpses of a black-painted skull floating in the vaguely human shaped form of even darker black. - [http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/08/30/agitation-3-7/ Excerpt] from [[Agitation 3.7]]</ref>

On at least one occasion, he carried a small crowbar.<ref>Grue, for his part, withdrew a short crowbar from within the darkness that smoldered around his body. - [[Agitation 3.8]]</ref>

His equipment would receive defensive upgrades when Skitter finished making spider-silk costumes for all the Undersiders. The new outfit possessed a helmet with a more demonic design, as opposed to the skeletal motif of his previous helmet. It was based on a figurine Brian bought for the express purpose of inspiration.<ref name="15.1e1">Grue’s costume was not unlike his motorcycle leathers in terms of thickness and design, making him one of the most heavily armored of our groups in terms of the amount of material he was wearing.  His headwear was the part I’d changed the most: I’d modeled the face-plate after a figurine(see shell 4.4) he’d bought at the market.  It was a step away from the visor he’d worn up to now, more demonic than skeletal.  The only real trick there had been making it non-porous enough that his darkness wouldn’t bleed through.  A quick experiment proved that my efforts had turned out alright.  In costume, the face-mask down, the darkness framed his mask but didn’t cover it unless Grue forced it to.  A demon’s face in dark gray in a vaguely human-shaped twist of darkness. -[[Colony 15.1]]</ref>

Following his resurrection Brian has a white skull-imprint on his face. He covers it with makeup.<ref>“You’re not wearing the lame skull face paint anymore.  That’s cool.  You can always say Valkyrie made you do it, at least.”<br><br>“That’s my face now,” he said.  “This is face paint, covering it up.”<br>[...]<br>He’d rubbed at one of his cheekbones and wiped away the makeup that covered up the marking that Valkyrie had given him. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/02/11/infrared-19-f/ Excerpt] from [[Infrared 19.f]]</ref> His eyes are also slightly discolored.<ref>His eyes were still paler than they’d been before he’d died. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/02/18/infrared-19-g/ Excerpt] from [[Infrared 19.g]]</ref>