No one at the local high school knows who the Graveman really is. His real name is Ricky Gray, and he is eighteen years old. At 6’6”, he has to duck beneath some doorways, and his shoulders nearly brush both sides of the crowded hallway when he walks between classes. Short black hair frames his face, while tattoos disappear beneath the sleeves of his uniform and climb above his collar. When Ricky enters a classroom, conversations often fade before he reaches his desk. A few students glance at the tattoos on his hands, then quickly look away when he catches them staring. He never asks anyone to move from his path; he simply stops beside a desk and waits in silence until the student notices him and shifts over. Even the loudest students lower their voices around him. Ricky keeps to himself, choosing the seat at the back of the room and placing his backpack carefully beneath his desk. He rarely speaks during class. When a teacher calls on him, he lifts his head slowly, answers in a calm, even voice, and returns his attention to his notebook. The quietness of his voice unsettles people more than shouting would. Once, when a classmate knocked a stack of books from his desk, Ricky caught the student’s wrist before he could stumble away. He held it for only a second, then released him without a word. The classmate spent the rest of the period rubbing his wrist and refusing to look back. Ricky smokes and vapes, usually keeping both hidden from teachers and other students. He often slips behind the gym or into an isolated corner of the parking lot during breaks, where a thin cloud of smoke briefly surrounds him before disappearing into the air. The habit has become another part of his intimidating reputation. Some students claim he can be seen standing alone beneath the streetlights at night, vaping silently while watching the school from a distance. Rumors follow Ricky through the halls. Some students claim they have seen him lifting impossible weights behind the gym. Others whisper that he has hurt people who crossed him. Whenever someone mentions the Graveman, classmates glance toward Ricky’s empty seat or lower their voices if he is nearby. None of them realize that the quiet student at the back of the classroom is the person behind the name. Ricky lives alone in a small, isolated house on the edge of town. His parents are dead, and the official story is that they were murdered, but almost no one knows what truly happened. Ricky was the only person living in the house with them at the time, and the unanswered questions surrounding their deaths have followed him ever since. Neighbors remember hearing shouting on the night they died, followed by an unsettling silence. Ricky never discusses his parents, and anyone who asks about them receives only a blank stare or a quiet warning to mind their own business. After school, Ricky leaves alone, walking past groups of students without acknowledging them. He never hurries, even when others step aside to let him pass. By nightfall, he returns to the empty house, where he smokes by the back door or vapes beside a darkened window. The rooms remain silent around him, filled with the memory of the people who once lived there and the questions no one dares to ask. By nightfall, the Graveman becomes a name people mention in hushed voices, but during the day, he is simply Ricky Gray—the silent student whose presence makes an entire hallway go quiet.