* THE DIRTBAG /

for @halloweentowntm

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loribartonn :

“Ha. Ha. Ha. Very cute,” she stated sarcastically as she hopped herself up onto the nearest stool. “I just might next time, if you’re lucky.” It seemed like she couldn’t go anywhere without hearing murmurs and whispers about the incident. She had grown tired of it and the thoughts of sadness that came along with it, not to mention that her empathic abilities seemed to be hyperactive, throwing all the griief and negative emotions her way, adding more to her own emotions. She knew that here, it would be a quiet place, where she could relax. “Long day?”

               “you’ve no idea, kid.” he said with a slight shake of his head, and moved to sit next to her on an adjacent stool once he finished cleaning. sighing, he studied her face for a moment now that he was closer. they always fascinated him, ghosts. everything from their very existence to the hauntingly stunning way they looked baffled him ----- that lori managed to sustain her personality stuck in an eternal limbo amazed him most of all. but he was rather thankful for it. “what brings you here? I know it wasn’t just to see me.”

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itsinmyblccd :

charlie gave a small frown. “i’m so sorry! i promise i’ll be quick,” she said and slid onto a bar-stool. she hated to intrude, but the pub was the only stop open on her late-night walk home from the law office. her work had run well past closing and she was famished. still, reluctant to hold the bartender any longer than necessary, she only ordered a ginger ale and a bag of crisps. 

as the only patron in the bar, charlie watched the man while she waited and felt compelled to speak. “so i heard you knew her—uh, Alyson,” she mumbled, as if her could possibly refer to anyone else. “please don’t get upset. i don’t think you did it. i’m just…sorry for your loss.”

             he cringed at yet another mention of that name ---- he must have heard it 500 times tonight, all in that same tone. pity. they pitied her. they pitied him and anyone else that knew her. as ash began to put her order on his nice and clean bar top, he eyed his new patron curiously and his head sort of cocked to the side. she wasn’t human, he could smell that, but she wasn’t a demon and visibly not a ghost. oddly enough, he found himself rather curious about her. “sorry?” his tone was like ice, as though he’d never heard that word before, “don’t be sorry. she’s the lucky one ----- she doesn’t have to keep going and going and going like the rest of us. and some of us do it forever.”

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loribartonn :

Lori stopped short at the sound of his remark, a small smile spreading across her lips before slowly making her way over to the bar to greet her friend. She placed a hand lightly on the counter-top as he finishes cleaning the area. “You know, I could’ve just walked through the wall as soon as you closed if I came here for the drinks,” she joked. Which of course were both false statements. She had never been one to drink, not even when she was alive, and she wouldn’t sneak into a place unless absolutely necessary. 

               he looked up once he heard her voice, but the small half smile that plagued his lips as he rolled his eyes fooled no one. truth be told, he’d rather it be her than another customer ---- another sad grieving face he would have to make small talk with while pouring shitty cocktail drinks ---- all of them, the same. lori was different, he noticed that a long time ago, and more tolerable than most halloweentown citizens. perhaps it’s because she’s a ghost, or perhaps she’s just less insufferable than the rest. who knows? “why didn’t you? I like when you perform tricks.”

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                “I’m not dragging your sorry ass home if you get too drunk to walk,” ash tells a particularly ghoulish patron sitting at his bar right before taking the scotch they’d been working on. he lowers his voice and leans in just a little, “and stop all that talk about alyson ---- before you get questioned like the rest of us. now get out of here!”

                being a vampire always meant suspicion around here, but the looks of cross judgment and general distaste amplified once the town feds caught wind that the victim visited his apartment the night before she died. when the ghoul leaves, ash begins wiping down the bar with a rag ------ doesn’t even look up when he hears bells on the door alert him of someone’s entry. “sorry, we’re closing up.”

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did you see ash keaton the thirty-one (700) year old vampire walking around halloweentown? they’re known as the dirtbag, makes sense since they tend be quite charming and arrogant. they work as a bartender and spend a lot of time at draven’s pub listening to crazy by aerosmith. they’ve always reminded me of a cigarette still smoking in an ashtray, combat boots, and neon jukeboxes. wonder how they’re taking all the disruption in the town.

bio --

lorenzo ‘ ash ’ keaton

31 when turned, 700 years ago

a thief who worked as a shipbuilder during his human life in the renaissance era

goes by ash because of his gritty appearance

that and the cigarette always dangling from his lips

landed in halloweentown by accident, after being turned and stuck around

has been a resident of halloweentown for 700 years

now works as a bartender at draven’s pub

lives in a studio apartment next to the bar

can easily be found in one of those two locations

despises humans

thinks wix are snooty know it alls

alyson hitchins came by his apartment the night before she died

personality --

arrogant

charming

sarcastic

cynical

intelligent

funny

wc’s --

friends, he’s mostly a loner but he’s lived here 700 years so he’s bound to have one or two good friendships

ex girlfriend, can be any species. ended in disaster, but he really cared about her (as much as he could) --- it would have ended because she suspected he was sleeping with alyson hitchins

weakness, (one wix and one human) these would be the one soft spot he has for those species. he reluctantly would always come when this person calls

arch nemesis, (another vampire) this would be someone ash has known for a long time and has had a particularly unpleasant run in with in the past. for whatever reason, the two do not get along.