BRAVE IN BLUE

With the law on her side, Brave in Blue reads evildoers their rights and makes sure they get their day in the criminal justice system. She takes them down hard and makes them rue the day they ever crossed her path!

But all this is a lie... (well, in this case, maybe just a little ~~overexaggerated~~over exaggerated.)...

THE "REAL" SKINNY: TONI GRANT

Fresh out of the police academy, Antoinette Grant (she prefers to be called Toni) believes it is a great honor and responsibility to be an officer of the law -- especially in a Los Angeles African-American family, who had more history of seeing the other side of the law. Her parents are JEROME and PATRICIA GRANT, and she lost a brother named TYRELL to street violence. She's bitter because a superhero nearby who could have gotten there in time, couldn't break away from primping at a press conference fast enough. The reality was that the press trapped him and couldn't let him get away even though he heard the gunshots blocks away, but that makes no difference to Toni. Now, as a rookie, she has gotten assigned to simple jobs such as running security and traffic control at motion picture location shoots and the like. Though superheroes also fight crime, Toni has never liked them. She feels people have begun to rely too heavily on these beings with super powers. Instead, she thinks that they should be able to take care of themselves -- and though the police have been far from perfect, being an officer gives her a "costume" of sorts and a sense of authority. Toni doesn't desire to be a vigilante, since to her that is someone without powers trying to emulate a superhero and not working in a system of people working together. Toni has never held 'super heroes' in very much high regard, they seemed to follow a 'the end justifies the means' type of vigilantism, and coming out of South Central L.A. she knows that doesn't work.

She had her first run in with FLYING GLORY AND THE HOUNDS OF GLORY at a radio station sponsored concert that Glamm attacked. The police were called out when it looked like Debra and the others couldn't take her down, and Toni was part of that contingent because she was in the area on a routine patrol, not out of any special qualifications for crowd control. The superheroes saved the day as Elsie arrived to help the others take control of the situation, but not before Glamm threw Nate against sound equipment and seriously injured him. Like the rest of the police officers, Toni couldn't do much while the super heroes fought their battle, but when she spotted Nate's fall, she ran to get him out of the way of the rest of the battle. Though eighteen year old Nate isn't aware of it, the not much older Toni hasn't forgotten him and even checks up on him at the hospital without him knowing. She's intrigued why someone like Nate would be with a superhero band but not be in costume as part of the act and not defend himself against Glamm. Because of her intrigue regarding Nate, Toni now finds herself intertwined with the masked rock singer, no matter how much she despises it.

Toni gets her opportunity to become closer to Nate again. She locates him after his parents throw him out on his 18th birthday for not giving up his friendship with Flying Glory. Toni (whom Nate knew by a childhood nickname of "Netty") begins to allow herself to express her true feelings for him.

It seems certain Toni's path will cross with Flying Glory and the Hounds of Glory in the future.

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Brave in Blue bio by Shannon Muir

Toni Grant bio by Shannon Muir and Kevin Paul Shaw Broden

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