Rohan Persaud - 34 - Witch
G H O S T Â L I G H T
âI have heard myself say that a house with a death in it can never again be bought or sold by the living. It can only be borrowed from the ghosts that have stayed behind.â
Below the cut is some quick background on Rohan. His full biography goes into a little more detail, but please feel free to hit me up any time with ideas or plots!
TW: Death; Murder; Terminal IllnessÂ
I. Basics
Name: Rohan Persaud Gender/Pro-Nouns: Cisgender Male (He/Him/His) Birthday & Age: March 4, 1988 (34) Place of Birth:Â Castine, Maine, USA Species: Witch Special Abilities: Spirit Raising; Air Manipulation; Familiar Manifestation; Catoptromancy Current residence: Downtown Lunar Cove Occupation: Playwright & Artistic Director Faceclaim: Raymond Ablack Sexuality: Homosexual
II. Stats
Height: 6âČ0âł Eyes: Brown Hair: Black MBTI: INFP Alignment: Chaotic Good Affiliations: Coven Member
III. Background
Rohan was raised in a gargantuan seashore house in a small Maine town. His adoptive parents, an older couple with successful professional careers under their belts, had converted the place into a successful inn, known for its antiques, its charm, and the ghost of a bride who walked its halls.
At a young age, Rohan became involved as a child actor at a local semi-professional, semi-community playhouse, where he appeared in A Christmas Carol, Oliver!, Oklahoma!, and The Innocents, the plot of which he found especially funny.
In middle school, he encountered a plump black and white stray cat, which he eventually named Bustopher. This animal, his familiar unknowingly manifested by his latent abilities, ingratiated its way into Rohanâs life and revealed to him his magical origins.
Still, with only a surface-level understanding of his species and skills, Rohan remained largely nullified, beyond his ability to talk with Bustopher and rally the wind by accident from time to time.
He went to New York City for college, studying theatre and eventually specializing in playwriting. There, he discovered his powerful proficiency for conjuring and communicating with the dead. His play Indignant Desert Birds was willingly inspired by a story dictated to him by a murdered man.
The two-act drama won a prestigious grant award and a production in the city. Another âspirit playâ came soon after and then another, the third, which landed on Broadway and enjoyed several Tony nominations (including one win for a supporting actor). Rohanâs place was thus secured as a fresh face in the American theatre, produced regionally throughout the country.
A matter of chance, however, brought him into contact with a particular banshee as he was working on a new piece dedicated to a spirit whose death she had foretold. Through her, then, Rohan found his way to Lunar Cove.
A temporary visit became more and more permanent, and after a few weeks, Rohan properly settled down and joined the coven. His powers grew, new abilities revealing themselves and old ones becoming more dependable and less erratic.Â
His knack for catoptromancy came now, discovered through his established habit of scrying, wherein he would use mirrors as a tool to view spirits which wished not to be looked at directly.Â
Redirecting his career, Rohan moved into the role of Artistic Director for the Pendulum Playhouse, where he produces mainstage work, sometimes his own, and runs a successful theatre camp.Â
Rohan himself views the dramatic artform as something of a service he can provide: a tool to help confused spirits remember the moments leading to their deaths, a tool to create happier endings for those who want them, and a tool to achieve monumental immortality, a life played out on stage forever.
To that end, he gives spirits that want them pseudonym credits in playbills and even sends anonymous portions of monetary royalties to families or loved ones when asked to. The foreword of all his published plays dictate that the story has been dictated to him by the protagonist and only his creative revisions and additions are his own. Most audiences read this is a cheeky joke.
IV: The Plays
Rohan has six full-length published plays to his name and is working on his seventh. They are listed below, in order of premiere, and may be familiar to theatregoers.
Indignant Desert Birds: A man in hospice wins a sizable prize from a scratch-off lottery ticket gifted to him by a nurse on his final birthday. His loved ones begin to circle like vultures and raise questions of mortality, family, and mercy.
Strephon: A Tragedy: A married woman begins an eight-week affair with a much younger man, an employee at an annual autumn festival. This play was applauded for its unique scenic design, the labyrinthine center of a corn maze that grows thinner and more rotten as the winter approaches, mirroring the charactersâ own spiral into disarray.
This House with Many Stairs: Rohanâs most personal and lauded play, winner of a Tony Award, it was penned in the wake of his adoptive motherâs death and details the interwoven stories of the people who have made lives in an old seaside home: the bride for whom it was built; an immigrant couple; and their adult son, who must cope with its empty halls once the others have gone.
Captains: A couple and their teenage son, a star high school athlete, welcome the boyâs grandmother into their home as her age advances. As her memories of the distant past grow more vivid than those of recent events, a dire new meaning is given to the portrait of the deceased family patriarch, a military Captain for whom his grandson was named.
Uses of a New Metal: Taking place over a single Monday morning, this play reveals the cracks among four co-workers who inhabit a solitary row of cubicles after an intern does not return to work after the weekend with no explanation.
Mixed Media: An uncharacteristically dark and at times, cruel drama, even for an author who deals exclusively in death, this story tells of a gallery owner who fishes a deceased artistâs paintings from an incinerator, where he had intended to destroy them. As his posthumous renown grows, so does his influence from the beyond, until painting and reality can no longer be distinguished from each other. Currently being performed in Connecticut to much praise, with early Broadway buzz.Â
V: Possible Connections
Rohan is open to any and all plots and connections, but below are some potential ideas to kick off brainstorming.
The Neighbor: Rohan lives downtown. He knows this person from the neighborhood and may or may not get along with them.
The Fellow Artist: Rohan loves to create, and heâs always more than willing to come together to try to collaborate with people who spark his interest. Maybe this person is involved at the Playhouse.Â
The Sitter: Rohan dabbles in various forms of divination. Do you need your Tarot cards read? Heâs happy to help and is very good at easing you to accept your imminent downfall with grace when The Tower pops up.Â
The Mourner: Rohan can conjure up the spirits of the dead. This person finds out and would love to know or pass on a message.
The Knowledge Holder: Rohan knows very little of his birth parents, who were witches that could not raise him on their own, for whatever reason. This person either knows something or is interested in helping him solve their mystery.
The Haunted:Â Rohan is here to have a polite conversation and wag his finger at whatever undead specters may be bothering you.Â














