FILE: Cameron Osbourne
âł 77 (APPEARS 27) / SOULSUCKER / BARTENDER AT INFERNO / EZRA MILLER / TAKEN
âI can move mountains, I can work a miracle, work a miracle. Oh, oh, treat you like an oath, may nothing but death do us part.â
The closest metaphor that could be drawn to describe the volatility of Cameronâs personality would be that of a shaken soda: bubbly and congenial when treated with care yet explosive and potentially dangerous when pushed around. The world owes them quite a lot of favors at this point in their life, or at least they think so, and when things donât go their way it gets rather messy for everyone involved. If they didnât have the power to suck away the lifeforce of someone who pisses them off and didnât have other nasty talents to match, this wouldnât be a problem, but the fact remains that they do and they arenât particularly shy about using those talents to meet the ends that they think suit the means. One would hope that age would have tempered that stereotypically youthful flaw, but itâs still going strong after nearly eight decades of getting them into almost as much trouble as it wins them perfectly settled scores. Yet despite all of this, Cameron is almost annoyingly adept at winning friends to their side, only to discard them as soon as things start to go sour or theyâre no longer as âfunâ as they used to be.
CHARACTER TRAITS:Â ENTHUSIASTIC. VINDICTIVE. TACTLESS. IMPATIENT. LOYAL.
Born on January 9th to a human woman and an incubus father, Cameron was foisted off on their maternal grandmother almost as soon as they exited the womb and saw their mother but rarely through their formative years. As sad as it sounds, that suited both them perfectly and Cameron grew to loathe her infrequent visits home, so much so that their grandmother had to coerce them into being at least moderately civil to her when she came back to Oregon. They were almost relieved to hear that she had overdosed on morphine when they were eleven, it meant that they no longer had to suffer through holidays where they pretended to be thrilled with her presents and stories, and even better, they no longer had to deal with her sharp comments about how unacceptably feminine her child had become under the influence of their grandmother.
Cameron had never felt particularly attached to the trappings of either gender, and luckily their grandmother was accepting enough of that to not protest when she found them digging through her makeup or when they convinced her to allow them to grow their hair longer than most of the other children at school. Of course, they had to keep up appearances in public, but at least at home they could feel at ease with themselves, though it didnât entirely erase the whispering that they endured from their classmates. Having that haven to come home to made it bearable, at least until a stroke took their grandmother by surprise one spring evening and left sixteen year old Cameron facing the prospect of being forced into a new home with people who obviously werenât going to be so accepting. If the circus hadnât been in town at the same time, they would have probably ended up on the streets or in that horrific sounding foster home that the social worker had tried to foist upon them. More importantly, if they hadnât learned long ago that they had the ability to bend people to their will when the circumstance demanded, they wouldnât have been offered a place with the carnies at all, but it all worked out in the end.
Or at least it seemed to at the time, despite the fact that they were broke nearly all of the time and were treated like the lowest spoke on the totem pole by all of the seasoned circus folk. That part of it definitely wasnât what Cameron had signed up for, but at the very least, they met another member of their species there that taught them the ins and outs of being a soulsucker. It explained quite a lot about their past, as well as why they had never heard a word about their father, but eventually the whole experience began to tarnish and while the rest of the group moved on from a stay in Ashbourne, Cameron stayed behind once they had decided that they were tired of being treated like second best. The fact that Ashbourne was also teeming with other members of their species might have had something to do with as well, but in their opinion the only one that mattered was Darius Montgomery, who gave them a position as a bartender in his club. Cameron has been involved in all of Dariusâ clubs over the past fifty years or so, and that involvement has given them a healthy loathing for the council that only served to explode into deepest disgust after the murder of Saffie Meadowes. It was Cameron, using skills gleaned from an old flame, who hacked into the councilâs server and decided to steal as much information as they could, though they didnât know what to do with it until they met Orion Faulkner and Sabine Devereux. Both of them were seemingly just as livid with the council as Cameron was, and in the past several months theyâve all collaborated in an attempt to bring about some actual positive change. Theyâre getting a bit impatient with the pace of that change, but somethingâs got to give, and Cameron has no problem with giving things a little shove every once and a while.
Quite frankly, Cameron doesnât think very much of Lyra Faulknerâs news stories or the way that her brother drones on in meetings, but they do rather like his younger sister and her snarky attitude. The two of them first met when she was sitting in on one of the Friday night shows and was being harassed by one of the male bar patrons, something that Cameron has very little patience for and tries their best to intervene in whenever possible. However, before they could so much as open their mouth to tell the guy off, Lyra threw her entire daiquiri into the manâs eyes and stomped off to the other side of the bar, which forced Cameron to turn away before the man saw them laughing at him. Theyâve been fast friends ever since she caught them laughing at what sheâd done, and it always brightens up a dull night when Lyra slides onto a bar stool nearby.
Cameron tends to visit Erika Stevensâ brotherâs diner only when theyâre waiting for Sabine or Orion to join them for a plotting session, so they appreciate the fact that for the most part, she tends to leave them and their newspaper alone unless their coffee cup is empty. Even when she does come over to the booth to bother them about something, itâs always so obviously meant with all the kindest intentions that it hardly annoys them, even if theyâre busy texting or trawling through the newspaper for something new to bring up with their groupmates. Theyâre actually rather certain that itâs shyness that keeps Erika from coming over to their table as often as the other waitresses do, but that suits Cameron just fine, fine enough to leave her a generous tip whenever they visit.
Being a bartender for this long has made Cameron pretty much immune to any and all attempts made by underage clubgoers to talk them into turning a blind eye to the legal drinking age, and Arden Pierce is no exception. Her attempts were even more pathetic than most, with a lot of eyelash batting and clumsy flirting, but even a fifty slid across the bar towards them didnât win her any sympathy. As they pointed out to her at the time, they like their job quite a bit more than they have ever and could ever like her, and no teenage girlâs margarita was worth losing it over. That wasnât strictly true, they had slipped a few drinks towards slightly underage patrons in the past, but they didnât like her manners or her assumption that they could be bought out so easily. Plus, her annoying persistence despite their blatant rudeness hasnât won her any brownie points with Cameron either.
AWARE OF ALL SUPERNATURAL BEINGS.
Alternate FCs:Â Niels Schneider, Samuel Larsen, Janis Ancens, Cykeem White
