Pvt. Dexter Grif

Dexter Grif was a child of privilege. He came from a rather wealthy family, and never really had to worry about anything until he decided to join the military. He never found acceptance in school, due to his family's wealth, so he spent his time focusing on his schoolwork, becmoing surprisingly well educated. He also gained such a good grasp of sarcasm that it actually goes over other people's heads sometimes. Despite his overall intelligence, he has very little worldly knowledge. He genuinely thinks Simmons is a Spanish name, and wasn't able to figure out Lopez was a robot.

He also never ever took care of his body. Having the childhood advantages he did, he spent all his spare time playing video games naked in a bean bag chair eating cheetos. He took up smoking at an early age, and never picked up anything resembling a workout schedule. As a result, he's really out of shape, barely able to run a few hundred feet. Lucky for him the position of sniper doesn't generally require a whole lot of running around, because he is the closest thing the reds have to one.

Grif's kind of a rebel though. He has a tattoo on the back of his neck from the comic book Blade, and somehow he got really in to skateboarding and doing tricks. People have tried to figure out when he started skateboarding, but it will likely end up being a mystery for all time. Odds are he did it so he could get around using only one leg, to continue being lazy. When N.A.S.A. sent a stupid amount of rovers to Blood Gulch for a brief time, he built a giant ramp to do tricks on. Then he fell and hurt himself, learned his lesson and dismantled the ramp.

It came as a complete surprise to him when he was jailed on Sidewinder with his good enemy Church. During his short stint in the clink with Church he became hard, institutionalized... at least that's what he told people. When Church exploded, destroying the present, Grif was sent forward in time to the future, where he uncovered a sad little secret: Simmons has absolutely no imagination.

When Simmons picked up a distress signal in the rebuilt Warthog, Grif was monkeying about in the back seat. Once the direction it was coming from was isolated, Sarge tried to leave Grif behind by leaving him to spy on the Blues, but that lasted just until Grif discovered the Blues were talking to a bomb as if it would talk back. He ended up riding in the jeep with Sarge and Simmons to get back to the source of the distress signal, only to discover it was coming from Blood Gulch.

This disappointed Grif.