Rick Hayes

Rick Hayes / Blackstone is a multiverse traveler, most commonly seen between universes awaiting or facing great disaster. Rick always has about him a positive attitude about most things, most of which are of taking pride in himself. Even as a joking and fun person, he is capable of coordinating or setting into motion dangerous events that have the potential to level the given universe itself. His appearance is a humanoid (anthropomorphic) grizzly bear consisting of brown fur and yellow eyes, wearing casual wear on nearly every occasion aside.

History
Due to the bear himself being a multiverse traveler, he has several origin stories across different universes. However, Rick of Earth Dimension D-20 was born into a poverty-stricken neighborhood located somewhere in Florida and quickly given up to an adoption house by his parents so he could find a better life for himself than the crime his family would have to put him through. As a young child, many of the house's other children shunned him for his unusual eye color, calling him various names such as "Demon" or "Monster" which lead the young bear to grow up introverted until the Hayes Family adopted him, seeing a kind spirit in someone as shy as he was.

He was ecstatic that someone had come for him and as he was raised with his adoptive family as Dante, taking from the same set of names that he was called by others. He became friendlier and more charismatic with others as he grew up, due to him having a brand new family to guide him through his childhood. Going through school was a little tough for him however, mostly due to the face that he wasn't a very attentive kid; which led him to being set back a bit in tests and exams. Despite all this, he graduated from high school and attended Princeton University and worked towards a Ph.D in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, to which he received in a matter of 3 years.