Graves manages to save Twisted Fate and after they successfully survive the explosion, both men settled their dispute and resolve to pick up their joint hustling.Īs Graves had lost his shotgun Destiny, they head to Piltover so he can get a new one. Twisted Fate then jumps after him and saves Graves from drowning but almost dies in the process. Graves managed to hide one of Twisted Fate's cards, snatched during their previous fight around the city, from the pirate thugs, and so, Twisted Fate teleports behind Gangplank and punches him, but Graves gets dragged to the bottom of the ocean. Hearing the news of this event, Sarah Fortune's plans set in motion and along with her crew, started to make preparations to blow up Gangplank’s flagship so all Bilgewater could witness the death of their Reaver King. Gangplank tortured them until he tried to publicly execute them in front of the whole city for their misbehavior. Informed by the destruction of his warehouse, Gangplank set off the catch both of the perpetrators of this act.īoth Graves and Twisted Fate tried to flee from the wrath of the Pirate King but with no success. With Gangplank's warehouse burning and with the pirate captain's thugs swarming, the resolution of Graves' and Twisted Fate's long-simmering feud threatens to engulf the entire city in flames. She would later hire him by proxy to sneak into Gangplank’s warehouse to steal and return a Crimson-Coil dagger, where he would reunite with Graves, who broke out from The Locker and was tipped off by the Bounty Hunter herself about Twisted Fate presence.įlamed with rage at his partner's apparent betrayal, Graves started shooting at Tobias in an effort to settle the score with him. In the years after, Twisted Fate continued conning people solo, one-time evading capture by Miss Fortune. When he finally clawed his way to freedom, with the prison warden’s brand new shotgun slung over his shoulder, Graves began his long-overdue pursuit of Twisted Fate. Thrown into the infamous prison known as the Locker, Graves endured years of torture and solitary confinement, during which time he nursed his bitter anger toward his old partner, and, convinced that Twisted Fate had betrayed him, Graves was determined to have his revenge. In almost every case, only once they and their accomplices were safely over the horizon were their crimes even discovered-usually along with one of Twisted Fate’s trademark calling cards left where it would be easily found.ĭuring a heist that rapidly turned from complex to completely botched, Graves was taken by the local enforcers, while Twisted Fate merely turned tail and abandoned him. Not only did the pair empty the vault of all its treasures, they also tricked the guards into loading the loot onto their hijacked schooner, for a quick getaway through the Sun Gates. In Piltover, they still hold the distinction of being the only thieves ever to crack the supposedly impenetrable Clockwork Vault. That they pocketed the reward money, only to ransom the vile young man to the highest bidder, should really have come as no surprise to their original employer. On the southern borderlands of Valoran, they set two renowned noble houses of Noxus at each other’s throats as cover for the rescue of a kidnapped heir. Their mutual sense of roguish honor grew into genuine trust, and together they stole from the rich, swindled the foolish, handpicked skilled crews for specific jobs, and sold out their rivals whenever they could. Between Graves’ raw brawn and Twisted Fate’s brains, they were an unusually effective team from the outset. Still little more than a youth, Graves stole a blunderbuss and smuggled himself aboard a ship headed out of Bilgewater to the Shuriman mainland, where he stole, lied, and gambled his way from place to place along the coast.Īcross the table of a high-stakes-and highly illegal-card game in Mudtown, Graves met Twisted Fate.Įach immediately saw in the other the same reckless passion for danger and adventure, and together they formed a most lucrative partnership. He could always find work hauling contraband up from the smugglers’ skiffs that came into the bay each night-with a tidy side-gig as hired muscle for various other unsavory local characters, as they went about their business in the port.īut the alleys were small-time, and he craved more excitement than they could offer. Raised in the wharf alleys of Bilgewater, Malcolm Graves quickly learned how to fight and how to steal.
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