Silver

"Go... Shirou... Nexus... everyone....Thank you. Our adventures were truly fun, weren't they? I guess it really has been... a roundabout path."

- Silver

Silver (シルバー), born and designated as Subject 192 (被験者192), is the titular main protagonist of Silver Days. This is the original depiction of Silver, as created by Alex Guy. He is the son of the late Mirai and Ben, the twin brother of the late Gray, a former test subject of the Evolutionary, the husband of Shirou, and the father of Light.

Due to experimentation by the Evolutionary, Silver was turned into a cyborg and injected with demon DNA. This, combined with a rough childhood, led to Silver becoming a wannabe villain. Creating a rough plan to assassinate the mayor/presidential candidate, Silver attempted to take over the country with his close-knit group of friends: Go Marufuji, Mei Kuroishi, Ryohaku Shimamoto, and Kazuma.

However, after battles with the Beast and Toyota Takashiro, Silver was forced into hiding and moved to West City. Three years later, Silver reemerged take action against the Era Corporation in order to further his villainous plans, however, he finally changed his ways after the death and subsequent revival of his friends following the conflict with Division X, officially founding Team Silver, encountering an immense amount of villains.

During the advent of Nexus, Silver's adventures took him deep into space, on the planet of Xena Prime, where he quickly came into conflict with the Frost Force. Through these battles, Silver found redemption and new allies, in the form of Nexus, Alpha, and Omega. Retiring from heroism after the destruction of the Dark Celestial during the clone conflict, focusing on raising his son with Shirou, Silver's past returned to haunt him with the return of the Evolutionary, deciding to come out of retirement to avenge his parents and destroy the GENEX.

Unfortunately, Silver was forced to self-destruct in order to rid the world of Demora, but years later, both he and Nexus were revived to battle Veltrax. Overtime, Silver became quite popular with civilians, especially during the onslaught of Nova, becoming a legend for years to come.

Appearance
Silver is canonically established as a tall (186 cm/6'1"), attractive, fair-skinned, and well-built man, even for a young adult. He has short and unkempt silver hair, which darkens to gray as it lengthens to the nape of his neck, a strong jaw, bold eyebrows, and piercing red eyes, which are drawn to look menacing. He bears a small scar over his right eye and a star-shaped mole on his right cheek. Various characters have described Silver to be stone-faced and scary looking. He also closely resembles his father, Benjamin.

The superficial theme of Silver's attire experiences minor changes in his later appearances. His trademarks are a gold-colored bandana, white combat gloves, fitting black pants, knee-high futuristic-looking combat boots, and an unbuttoned long white coat, roughly mid-thigh-length, and featuring a raised collar, with a black t-shirt underneath, though the color later changes to navy blue. His attire was influenced by Jotaro Kujo's outfit from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, and Seto Kaiba's outfit from the "Battle City arc" in the original Yu-Gu-Oh! series.

Personality
Silver is introduced as a rough, mean, arrogant, and bitter young man with malicious thoughts, due to the fact that he originally believed that his parents abandoned him and the teasing and abuse from the people in East City. However he still displayed some compassion and morality, mainly to his friends. In the Regic Arc and the Kingdom Island Arc, Silver ruthlessly kills Regic and Toyota Takashiro, respectively, instead of giving them mercy. As the series continues, Silver undergoes a big change in personality, becoming a calmer and kinder person who only shows extreme anger and arrogance during battles with cold villains, or in extreme situations, such as the death of a friend or relative. He is also vengeful, shown in his battle with Nick Graves after seeing Zen'a lifeless body and witnessing Alice's in vain sacrifice.

Throughout the later portions of the series, Silver has been shown to be very loving to his wife, Shirou, and their son Light. Despite all this, he can be very blunt and is not scared to express his opinions in discussions and fights. Mainly during the beginning of Silver Days, he tended not to give respect to people of higher authority, such as "Edo Kaiba" and the mayor, and while this improves later on, Silver is still, at times, rude and does not seem to be too scared of beings like Xythurvia and the Grand Master.

He initially hated his parents, believing that they had abandoned him and thought little of them and his older sibling, Gray, who he still had some memories of. After it is revealed that he was a test subject of the Evolutionary, Silver apologizes to his parents and begins to appreciate everything that they had done for him. Silver did not want to hurt Gray and after defeating him, he decided to let him escape.

In the end, despite his flaws, Silver is a good person whose circle of friends keeps expanding due to his change of heart.

Background
Silver and his twin brother Gray were born to Ben and Mirai, a couple working as scientists for the Evolutionary, whose birth name is "Subject 192." Unfortunately, Silver and Gray were taken by the Evolutionary to be experimented on, which resulted in Silver becoming a cyborg and being injected with demon essence, via Demora. Following seven years of experiments, Mirai and Ben decided to send him to Earth through a portal and destroy the Homeworld Prime's base and the Evolutionary's then-headquarters.

After this, 7-year-old Silver was found by a woman in the woods and was raised by her for two years before bidding farewell. Now 9 years old, Silver began to train in South City's wilderness under Master Crimson and was educated by him, too. The children of South City that would stumbleupon Silver would bully him and call him a freak, due to his extraordinary powers. At age 13, Silver met Go and the two became best friends, and afterward encountered and befriended Mei, Kazuma, and Ryohaku, the latter of whom's father worked for the Death Trappers.

The five of them, all martial artists, became good friends but were major outcasts in South City. Silver's built up hatred for society eventually influenced him to become a villain, and the group became criminals. They later moved to the isolated East City, and after destroying the East City Police Department, Silver and his friends began to create a rough plan to kill the mayor, who was bent on becoming the new president.

Silver NX
Silver is mentioned several times throughout the series, seldom appearing in person.

Seven Stars Tournament Arc
By this time, especially in West City's successor, Unys City, Silver was considered to be a legendary warrior and is mentioned to have disappeared from the general public. Shunichi Takahashi thought of him, Nexus, Alpha, Omega, Judai, Joeri, and Hayato when he said that he was not going to back down in his fight with Kaiser Schmidt like how they never gave up.

Twilight's Destiny Arc
Silver later appears in a "what-if" scenario presented by Upsilon, alongside Nexus and Judai, in his attempt to convince Shunichi to side with him.

Story 1
Main article: Game of Darkness

Story 2
Main article: The World's Might

Story 3
Main article: Attack of the Shadow Reavers

Story 4
Main article: Frozin Solid

Story 5
Main article: Victory Mission

Story 6
Main article: Interstellar

Story 7
Main article: Revenge of the Highest Institute

Story 8
Main article: Earth Bound

Story 9
Main article: Wrath of the Dragon Soul

Silver Days: A Universal Battle and Ultimate
Main article: Silver (A Universal Battle)