NAME: Casey Sankar GENDER & PRONOUNS: Cis Man / He/Him AGE & DATE OF BIRTH: 28 years old / July 5th HOMETOWN: Great Falls, MT TIME IN GREAT FALLS: 28 years RESIDENCE: Willow Creek Ranch OCCUPATION: Ranch Hand at Willow Creek Ranch
BACKSTORY —
trigger warnings: car accident, death, drugs, jail, arrest.
Great Falls was exactly where Casey’s parents wanted to raise him, considering his mother was raised there as well. Casey’s dad had moved to Great Falls to teach at the high school. His dad met his mom in the teacher’s lounge, and the rest was history.
Casey’s values were instilled by his grandfather, who was always pretty hard on him. Casey wasn’t the brightest in class, wasn’t the sportiest, he didn’t excel at anything, he was just there. And that was hard for his grandfather to grasp but his parents didn’t mind, as long as he was a happy kid, doing whatever it was that made him feel happy.
Everything changed when his parents were in the wrong place at the wrong time. They shouldn’t have been on that road but they had promised they’d pick Casey up from one of his first high school party’s, knowing that there’d probably be drinking to begin with. They never picked him up that night. One fatality, that’s what happened, and his father was never the same after that, having survivor’s guilt, turning to things that made him numb. Casey’s grandpa took over as the primary caregiver, causing Casey to have a lot of resentment towards his grandfather. Nothing he ever did was good enough. And he tried, he really tried.
It didn’t help that felt alone in the grieving process, turning to the very same things that his father did as well. It was hard for his grandpa to have to deal with a son and a grandson going through the stages of addiction, though Casey swore he wasn’t addicted to begin with. The first few years of his twenties, it was hard for him to hold down a job, bouncing from anything his grandfather could get him.
It was his own grandpa who had called the cops on him, catching him with 500 milligrams of coke on him. He was sentenced to a year in jail, having been released earlier this year. Twenty eight years old and Casey feels like he’s done nothing with his life. His grandfather has called in one last favor on his behalf to Terry Hawthorne. He told Casey that he won’t talk to him again if he chooses to go down the path he was going again. It’s now make or break for him, fall back into his old habits or stay sober.
Portrayed by RAYMOND ABLACK, written by JAM.