Arnold Grey

Arnold Grey, also known as Grey, Arnold, R, and Rotoscope was a former detective in the world of Scripted Too as well as a main protagonist. He is notably a member of The Critics.

Level 2 Spoilers


Powers and Abilities
After touching The Dagger of Judas, Grey obtained his Talent (coloured black and white) and shortly after came up with the Talent-Bearer name Rotoscope for himself.

Framing Out Objects
When touching an object, Grey is able to "frame out" this object by momentarily transporting him and a temporal image of this object to a void space where time does not progress. In this world, he is able to scroll through the object's timeline and access arbitrary temporal images (snapshots) of the object at different points of time which he can affect. However, he is unable to see the state of the object in their temporal snapshots and therefore cannot see the past or the future.

For example, he can fire a bullet at the time snapshot on the object's timeline from 10 minutes in the future, and this object (after Grey exits this state) in 10 minutes will then experience the effects of getting hit by the bullet 10 minutes in the future.

Grey can also affect the past, but he refrains from doing so due to the unpredictable nature of The Butterfly Effect.

Grey can only frame out an object for as long as he can hold his breath, since the air inside him cannot be absorbed by his lungs as it is frozen.

Using a method of framing out an object, Grey can achieve pseudo teleportation or super-speed when in physical contact with an enemy. For example, he was able to fire his entire clip of 20 bullets into an enemy while framed out, which caused all 20 bullets to hit the enemy simultaneously when he exited this state.

Entity-Based Time Manipulation (on framed-out objects)
By not letting the object's timeline scroll back to the present, Grey can age or reverse age an object. However, doing this also affects himself, which can cause him and others to lose memories.

Talent-Bearer Physiology
As a Talent-Bearer, Grey has higher endurance, strength, and reflexes than normal humans.

Level 3 Spoilers


Powers and Abilities
After fusing with M due to Shingen Keisuke's Null Strike of the Void, Grey acquired use of M's Talent (coloured black and white) in addition to his own.