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GENERAL INFO
NAME:Â Zane Cho GENDER/PRONOUNS: CIS Male, He/Him DATE OF BIRTH: March 5th, 1955 (Physically 41)Â PLACE OF BIRTH: Astoria, Oregon CURRENT RESIDENCE: Staten Island OCCUPATION: Council Member/Mechanic FACE CLAIM: Daniel Henney
SUPERNATURAL INFO
SPECIES: PhoenixÂ
BIOGRAPHY
Trigger Warnings: Fire, Death
Zane, born Alistair Cho, lived a relatively normal life growing up, as normal as one could be knowing they are phoenix. His father had been a pilot in WW2 and Alistair always longed to follow in his footsteps, to fight and to serve. Much to his motherâs dismay, he signed up for the Army right out of high school. She worried for him, worried that heâd lose control in the fields of battle, or worse be reborn out of flames for all to see. Alistair was smart and careful. He had control over his powers, fighting to maintain it. He covered injuries so no one would see his advanced healing. He made a life for himself and even fell in love.
For a while everything was as close to normal as it could get but life had a way of shaking things up. A quiet night at home turned deadly when a group attacked the home. He never quite knew if they were hunters or just humans but it didnât really matter. When a fight ensued, Alistair was injured severely, and he knew what was coming. It had never happened before, but somehow he knew. In seconds his body began to engulf in flames, spreading quickly to the house and before the flames overtook he could have sworn he saw his wife running for safety outside.
Alistair was reborn from the ashes that night, with no memory of how he got there. His friends found him, gave him the bad news. Bodies had been found in the house, burned beyond recognition and they were sure his wife was among them. In time his memories came back, but he still couldnât find her. Grief and anger overtook him, but nothing hurt as much as guilt. Had his fire killed his wife? Consumed by emotion he turned his focus to his military career, joining tour after tour, mission after mission until the danger he put himself in caught up with him.
In the aftermath, all the team could find were his dog tags. Just like that Alistair Cho was no more. Reborn again in the ashes of battle, it took longer for his memory to return. A man who took him in, gave him a place to rest named him Zane and the name stuck. Even as his memory returned, he continued to travel, to learn more about the world and the species in it. He was lost. Stuck without a purpose, haunted by fiery deaths and those heâd lost. Eventually he heard about the Island of the Lost in New York and it seemed fitting.
Moving to the city, he found his purpose again amongst the others that had gathered there. Opening up a mechanicâs shop on Staten Island, he made it his home again. He liked to keep his hands busy whether it be tinkering on cars or fixing up houses. Though he was not rich by any means heâd managed to save and with some finagling he received an inheritance from his past life as Alistair. He used the money to buy up a few properties in the area to flip, some even set up as safehouse for those on the Island who needed it. He hadnât expected to lead by any means, but after Opheliaâs murder he was happy to step up into the role to ensure that those âlostâ species like himself didnât end up casualties in a war they didnât start.
