Ethan Reed
last pic art by my gf
this post is a work in progress
Short Bio
age(s): 14/15 at the start of the canon story, > 18 as illustrated above (finale of the canon story), the older twin
gender: male
sexuality: straight-questioning (the entire canon story), bisexual (alternate universe)
class: human, vampire hunter
birthday: 20 November (2008) (year is tentative, it was the year he was created/written)
parents: Lithium Everlastine (vampire), Jillian Reed (human)
height: 175~185cm (age 15~18), 190cm (age 25)
Early Years
parents and the "curse"
Ethan Reed was born in the Everlastine-Reed household.
Lithium and Jillian fell in love and ran away. Lithium was one of the highest rank vampires while Jillian was an opera singer who came from vampire hunters family. They settled somewhere in the north and made a small family of four - them and their twin children, Ethan and Evan.
At first, they were just a normal nuclear family (save for the fact that their family consisted of two races and the couple bought a rather secluded house and never interacted much with their neighbors hundred meters away). That changed when someone from Lithium's family found them. With some struggles, they managed to negotiate that Lithium were to leave his wife in exchange of his wife's safety. If Lithium came back to the Everlastine family, his family were to never touch the Reeds and his small family.
Granted, Lithium planned to go back to his family. Lithium promised Jillian he would come back after he settled everything in his part, in return Jillian promised she would take care of the twins.
For their safety, Lithium sealed Evan within Ethan's body, so that Jillian would appear to be a normal widow with a normal human child. This was meant to be temporary as Lithium thought he could come back to his wife and kids. Though, magic/mana within Evan is attracted to the full moon. Every full moon, Evan's natural mana grows stronger than his seal container's, Ethan. This causes Evan to be able to take over Ethan's body - or rather, reverse the situation and instead seal Ethan within him.
Being too young, Ethan gradually had forgotten that he had a twin brother. Jillian let this happen because it (supposed to) made the situation easier and it collided with Lithium's plan. On the other hand, Evan had to know everything, so since he was a kid he had been tasked to pretend to be Ethan and no one must know he even existed.
However, Lithium wasn't the only one who planned to break their promise. Lithium's close sibling was tasked by the Elders of Everlastine to kill Jillian. Jillian was killed in front of Ethan, driving Ethan to harbor great hatred toward vampires. It took weeks (months?) for Jillian's closest sibling to find out and years for Lithium.
The only one left who knew about the seal was Evan (and Lithium who was absent for roughly a decade). Ethan, never finding out about the seal, lived until the age of 16/17 thinking he was a half-vampire. He always thought he was cursed, living as a half-human, half-something that he hated deeply.
Reed family
Ethan went by the name Ethan Reed, the name he was registered as at school when Jillian was still alive. His uncle, Zabbath Reed (I genuinely don't remember well about him tbh aaaaaaaaaa I'm gonna find another name for him lmao), Jillian's closest brother, adopted him and took him into his house, where he then lived with his cousins, Rhabtoth and Regina Reed.
Outside of these three people, he wasn't well-liked among his mother's family, as they are the family of vampire hunters (and the fact that humans naturally hate vampires).
On full moon nights, Zabbath, Rhabtoth, and Regina worked together to contain Ethan and hide Evan's existence from the whole world. Evan roamed during his out time, yet the world managed to never finding out about this (save for some people).
Self and Personality
Generally, he was a calm guy with reserved nature.
Major self-hatred and depression
Until the middle of the canon story, he believed he was a half-vampire. This caused great inner turmoil and he suffered depression in the big chunk of the story.
"People Pleaser"
Generally, he tended to not care too much about what people think of him. Yet, there was a great desire to be wanted and useful due to his status as a "halfling" living in human society.
In addition, his uncle received a lot of hate from his mother's big family due to adopting him who is a "halfling", and it also complicated his uncle's relationship with his wife that was already strained prior the adoption. This made Ethan wanted to be anything but a burden, driven him to take care of the house and do splendid job at trainings and works related to vampire-hunting.
This tendency went on even as he reached adulthood.