The Underground Street Racing Boyfriend (Patreon)

I think a lot of the guys we’ve seen Gray with to this point tend towards the feminine side, but that’s not specifically his type so much as “men who demand to be the centre of attention”. He likes the captain-of-the-football-team types as much as the beauty bloggers, what matters to him is that confidence and self-assurance. This guy definitely has a street racing car with a light-up LED undercarriage and makes sure everyone in that community knows his name.

This page involves Gray saying the most words in a row he’s ever had in the entirety of the comic so far. Post-brain-injury Gray gets exhausted by talking too much, so his manner of speaking usually involves finding the most blunt and to-the-point ways of phrasing things to conserve his spoons. This shows the way he lights up and gets an energy boost when he’s on a subject that means a lot to him, but he gets immediately shot down because Gray-who-is-infodumping-about-his-favourite-things does not match the fantasy of Gray-the-hot-bouncer-who-barely-speaks and this guy doesn’t like that. He wants an ornamental boyfriend, not someone who might embarrass him in front of his friends by having interests and opinions.

This look for Gray is him right on the verge of going full-tilt into body mods. He’s clearly starting to bulk up more since the last time we saw him, he’s getting back to wearing his biker leathers, he hasn’t shaved or cut his hair since he buzzed it all off, but he’s starting to get an idea of what he wants to do with himself and what helps keep the machine on the rails.