NYLANDER, Granger Dallas

[Granger Dallas Nylander]

GRANGER DALLAS NYLANDER

FULL NAME: Granger Dallas Nylander
NICKNAMES: Nylander or Deadshot (but usually the first)
AGE: Twenty eight.
GENDER: male
SEXUALITY: Straight
STATUS: Single.
GROUP: Citizen.
GRADE: N/A
MAJOR: N/A
JOB OCCUPATION: Vice cop.

HAIR: Short, light brown hair. He keeps it short and sweet, wash and go.
EYES: Blue.
SCARS/BIRTHMARKS: plenty.
TATTOOS: He has his nickname, Deadshot, inked on his right side ribcage as well as his unit's insignia on his left bicep.
PIERCINGS: His ears!
PLAY-BY: Jesse Lee Soffer! <3

LIKES: a cold beer, catching the bad guys, charity basketball games, Sports Illustrated, Rye and Coke, strong coffee, video games, dogs, comedies, getting to sleep in, breakfast at the diner, sweatpants, hockey games
DISLIKES: suits, wing tip shoes, undercover work (He does it anyway when it's asked of him), Valentine's Day, being single, rats, cockroaches, tea, missing a Rangers game, CI's being vague, Greek salad.
FEARS: Never having that relationship his parents had, being buried alive, missing an important shot.
SECRETS: He did a lot of things undercover, none of which he is proud of. But the worst of it all had been killing one of the dealers and planting his own wires on him to get into the trusted circle. It was, technically, sanctioned by the department but it had never sat well with Granger and it still keeps him up at night. And after it all happened and he was cleared, it became his dirty little secret.
PERSONALITY: A lot can be said about Granger. He's a fighter, can get downright nasty in the right circumstances. He fights to win and there's nothing else to it. He can be a bad loser, but its over the things that were rigged in the first place, like letting a little fish go to catch the bigger one. That shit irritates him. Outside of work, Granger is a bit of a prankster, always cracking jokes and having a good time. He needs the downtime to deal with what he sees in his day-to-day life. It's not pretty, it can be very disturbing and nightmares are frequent. So he combats it all with laughter and jokes. On the job is another story. Yeah, he cracks his jokes when they're having a good day or when he's undercover as a bit of a laidback sort of guy with a gun. Granger isn't exactly the romantic type but he does try when there's a lady in his life. They're generally few and far between because his job is dangerous but he does it because he loves his family, his city and he wants these thugs off the streets. He is absolutely passionate about everything he does, he puts his heart into it all and wouldn't change anything for it.

MOTHER: Mary Nylander & sixty five.
FATHER: Thomas Nylander & deceased.
SIBLINGS: Ryleigh Fischer & thirty
Veronica Nylander & Twenty four.
OTHERS: N/A.
PETS: N/A!
HOMETOWN: Brooklyn, New York.
HISTORY: Mary and Thomas actually met at a bar while Mary had been on a date with another man. He was treating her like shit, gawking at the other women in the bar, drinking way too much and staring at his phone more than he was ever looking at Mary. Thomas overheard him asking questions, getting Mary to keep talking while he pretended to listen. It was son obvious that she knew he wasn't listening and eventually starting spouting off all sorts of what Thomas had assumed was bullshit. At one point she was telling a story from only a few months before that had been so funny that Thomas laughed at it and that's when she really knew the guy taking up the next table was listening more intently than the man she was out with. It didn't take two minutes for Mary to slide from her chair and sit down right next to Thomas. They spent the rest of the night talking at the bar until it finally shut down for the night, then they moved down the street to the all-night diner. Eventually, Thomas hailed Mary a cab and sent her on her way, after giving her his number. No pressure if she wasn't interested beyond the night. As it turned out, she had only waited until she walked h her apartment door before she was calling him and telling him how much she had enjoyed spending time with him. They were slow moving after that but within two years, Mary had a pretty rock on her finger and another year saw them married and crazy happy.

Mary hadn't been kidding about the stories, she really did know the celebrities she had been talking about, called quite a few of them friends and they filled up the wedding nicely. Thomas hadn't been anything special as a firefighter but his buddies from the station were also there. And the entire lot welcomed their children into the world with them as well. Rayleigh and Veronica, their oldest and youngest daughters, would take after their mother while Granger would follow his own path. All three had pretty normal childhoods. Granger stood up for the smaller kids who couldn't or just wouldn't defend themselves, so he saw the inside of the principles office a hell of a lot more than his sisters did but his parents had never faulted him for it. His sitting in that office meant he was doing something right. He continued on this path until he reached eighteen. He joined the military then, fighting for those who couldn't. He was a trained sniper, one of only a dozen or two who could make the fast and hard shots.

When it was time to agree to another deployment, Granger also got the news that his father wasn't doing so well. He had planned on just taking some time and his CO agreed to that. But after three months of his father only getting worse, Granger opted out of another deployment, took the reserve position and the recommendation from his CO that landed him a job with the NYPD. He was stuck in uniform, patrol duty for only six months before he was asked onto a specialty unit; vice. Granger had been considering taking up all those qualifications for a place on S.W.A.T but it wasn't as action packed as Granger had hoped for. They had plenty of men on the team who knew the right end of a pretty big gun but only Granger could hit the bull's eye every single time; without fail. He'd worked damn hard at that and earned the teasing nickname of Deadshot back in his unit. His unit had all had ridiculous superhero or anti-hero names. He would have preferred Deadpool but it had been snapped up by his CO so he landed himself with the next best thing.

He kept it, thanks to all the old stories that were pretty easy to come by whenever one of his own teammates stopped by. They talked, stories were told and jokes were made and life carried on. About a year into sticking around, Thomas past away and at twenty seven, Granger became the man of the family. He took it hard, spent a lot of time at the gun range but he was a fighter and knew his father wouldn't have approved of any downward spirals. And now at twenty eight, he's trying to make sure his family doesn't fall apart, though he'll be the first one to admit that his sister's are far better at that than he will ever be. Still, he's sticking around for a while yet, believing he needs to be back in New York, protecting his city and his family.

YOUR ALIAS: Cali.
RULE WORDS: I've got these.
WHERE YOU FOUND US: THE FAR SIDE OF THE MOOOOOOON.
SAMPLE:

I would really rather not, thank you for asking though!

 

[Cali]