Bryce McHenry's History
Born in a small American town, Bryce McHenry grew up without a father and with a mother who constantly brought home new boyfriends. Eventually, Bryce met a girl named Hayley and had a little daughter Iris. However, this life ended when his mom's latest boyfriend "Eli" turned out to be on the run from problems with criminals. Bryce confronted Elwin and accidentally killed him with his gun. With his last words, Elwin urged Bryce to run, as he would be put for life otherwise. Bryce abandoned his family with Elwin's money and disappeared forever.
Over the years Bryce became an assassin of some renown, living a life of gratification with an upbeat attitude. This too came to an end when he was hired to kill a Japanese politician Ken Takahara. After carrying out the hit, Bryce was double-crossed and almost killed, although he managed to escape into the mountains with some wounds. Members of a Japanese Macaque clan took him in, nursing him back to health with herbal remedies and hot springs. One
Monkey disagreed with this, believing that would bring evil with him. Once Bryce regained his health, he began to hone his skills, practicing on snowmen. The Monkey had studied Bryce, who warned him against picking up a gun in anger. The Monkey resorted to physical violence against the members of his clan over the continued presence of the assassin and was exiled. He happened upon a group of soldiers in the woods who were looking for the assassin, and returned to the clan to give warning, but did not make it in time. Bryce and his clan were slain and Monkey sought vengeance, picking up the weapons, and killing the soldiers.
His home and his tribe gone, the Monkey set out on his journey searching for the one who gave the orders to kill the assassin. Bryce's spirit soon appeared to him, explaining that he felt bound to Monkey and unable to either ascend or leave his side. Bryce began guiding the Monkey towards those who ordered the original hit, seeking vengeance for both his death and those of the Monkey's tribesmen.
The Monkey and Bryce came up on a Monk who could see and understand them both. The Monk told Bryce that they needed to eradicate the root of evil to pass over, which Bryce interpreted as killing everyone who was behind the Takahara hit and began guiding the monkey through the chain of Yakuza. However, when the seemingly last of them was dead, Bryce still failed to ascend.
Bryce and Monkey visited the Monk again, who showed Monkey that Bryce could be stopped with salt and told him to follow his path instead of being led by Bryce. After surviving an encounter with Lady Bullseye, the Monkey trapped Bryce's spirit inside a circle of salt inside a McDonalds bathroom stall and left. He eventually returned and freed him after several weeks had passed. They learned from Akiko Yokohama and Haruka that one of the candidates Itaru Ozu was apparently behind the hit on Takahara and was being funded by the
Bonsai Master. The Monkey killed the Bonsai Master, but Ozu claimed to be innocent, revealing that Akiko's uncle Shinji Yokohama was behind the original hit all along and had just become the new Prime Minister. Finally coming face to face with Shinji, the Monkey was persuaded not to kill him by Bryce, who thus redeemed himself and managed to ascend. However, after some time Bryce appeared to the Monkey once again. Bryce revealed that he found the warm place to be awesome, but wished to be with his friend once again and had signed a contract with the
red dude that allowed him to do so.
