The earth turns, the sun burns
but i d i e without you.
NAME: Caspar Hades Manchester
NICKNAMES: Cas, Cassie, Hades, Ghost, Friendly Ghost
DOB: November 14
SPECIES: Human
PLACE OF BIRTH: Keene, New Hampshire
RESIDENCY: Forks, Washington
DESCRIPTION: He feels alone and scared, much like a child
who knows about the monsters hidden under his bed.
PARENTS: Xavier King (Deceased) & Adelaide Manchester (Deceased)
SIBLINGS: Remy Montgomery, Toby Montgomery, Hudson Manchester,
Jude Manchester (Deceased), Samantha Manchester(Deceased),
Scout Manchester (Deceased)
LIVING SITUATION: A small house with his brother Hudson
EDUCATION: Junior at Forks High School
Caspar gave up on people by the time he was thirteen, and his sister had to remind people that he actually had a name aside from "friendly ghost".
Caspar had been made fun of his entire life. Maybe it was his eccentric name, or the fact that compared to the rest of his siblings, he was an easy target; maybe it was because he was so closed off, and people were offended by that. Until Caspar was ten, he barely said a word to anyone who wasn't his sister, even his family were outsiders. To get to Caspar you had to talk through Scout.
Sophomore year was when everything went down hill. Caspar wasn't naive enough to think that the terror would end when high school hit, so freshmen year went as expected, annoying but bearable. What he didn't expect was that during second year he'd fall in love, and he didn't think he'd lose the only people holding him together.
There was a boy, an older boy, who was the only person who looked at him like he was human; he didn't think Caspar was normal, but instead admired that he wasn't.
They'd known each other for three months when he introduced him to Scout, they'd been dating for two when he got to meet the rest of the family. Part of it was that he didn't want to share his only friend, and part of it was the age gap. Manchesters were nothing if not protective but they trusted Caspar; they even started to trust his boyfriend after about a month of intimidation tactics.
When spring break hit, Caspar decided to reward that year the title of best year yet. He'd built up a thick skin, and when thinking of all the good he had in his life, it made coping with the bad days a little easier.
Even though they didn't go anywhere special for Spring Break, returning to school with memories of a week full of sunsets spent with his favorite people, and staying up all night watching indie movies or day trips to the beach and piggy back rides through the park just seemed to make things easier.
It was three weeks until summer break; Caspar knew because he had a countdown calendar, and he gave almost daily updates at this point.
They went out to celebrate Scout being made MVP and Caspar's art being showcased in the school art show.
It was a beautiful summer night, outside still dimly lit, the warm rain was light and made the air smell clean and refreshing; days like this were Caspar's favorite. Xavier had decided to take everyone out, Caspar's boyfriend included, to the nicest restaurant he knew.
She came out of nowhere and disappeared just after the crash. No one even noticed the semi-truck coming around the corner.
They were all going out to dinner, that was the worst part, they weren't doing anything criminal, Xavier was wide awake and alert. His sister Sammy was playing with their brother Jude's ears, pulling and wiggling them like they were all kids again, and singing loudly to the songs they could all already hear coming out of her mp3 player.
Scout was sitting between Caspar and his love, her head rested on Caspar's arm, feet placed in their friend's lap, joking about how she was the buffer zone, making sure they didn't do anything suspicious; Caspar didn't mind, they had always been a packaged deal and their parents knew he wouldn't actually do anything bad, so the joke was all in good fun.
Caspar was telling her to fix her position because it was dangerous, and everyone was teasing him about how he was too nervous, his love eventually reaching for his hand over Scout to brush his thumb over the soft skin as Caspar turned bright red from nerves and frustration.
"Not something. Someone! There was someone in the street, and the headlights...the headlights were so bright. Where's Scout? I need Scout!"
His parents were killed on impact, and Jude and Samantha were dead before the paramedics could get there. those in the back seat were the only survivors. The three musketeers, and he had to watch them, day after day, endless beeping, bright white, and those chemical smells.
"It was like Jude had been ripped from the car. None of it was normal. Dad hasn't been in an accident since 94'. You think all of a sudden he'd swerve into a semi truck and kill half his family? It doesn't make sense, and I'm gonna figure it out, with or without your help."
His older brother Hudson came to stay with him after he was discharged from the hospital, but Caspar was there whenever he could be, even when he shouldn’t be, because he needed to see them.
His love was the first to die. They tried to give him surgery to improve his health; he didn’t pull through. Caspar held a grudge towards doctors after that, he couldn’t look at his brother Toby the same, wondering how many people he’d killed thinking he could fix things.
Scout held on for four months, nine days, six hours, and about seventeen minutes. He knows, because he was in the room when she started to drift. They couldn’t bring her back, but he was bitter about them not trying hard enough.
Due to the accident, Caspar didn't finish out the school year. Considering he had decent grades, the year was nearing its end, and the ordeal he'd gone through, they still let him continue on to the eleventh grade and he just took his exams in the summer.
He'd barely had time to take a beat and mourn Scout's death before he was packing up his things, moving to his brother's home in Forks, Washington, and starting life at a new school.
Hudson was on the police force in Forks, and is pretty well known by all the locals, meaning that from the moment he got there, everyone knew what he'd been through. Every new person he'd met gave him condolences.
After moving, Caspar had more friends then ever, and Hudson was happy for him, thought it was a good sign...but people only talked to him out pity at first, and now it's out of convenience, and he knows that. He never thought he'd actually miss being a loner.
He hates that he feels this way, because it's not like the kids at school aren't nice, but they just pale in comparison to the people he lost in that accident, and coping seems pretty damn hard.
Caspar buries himself in school work or legends, putting on a brave face for Hudson whenever he has to and actually pretending the accident never happened when he can. He plays nice with his school friends, because other than Hudson, they're all he has, but he's still desperately searching for something to ease the pain.