#everett|headcanon

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What Shape Does Your Pain Take?

Everett March

Glass Cage

You feel disconnected from the world around you. You can see everything, everyone can see you, but you're not really there. No one can really communicate with you, can they? You're isolated, even when you're around people you're alone. You want desperately to be close to someone, but you're afraid of what will happen if you shatter your glass prison. You don't want to let someone in, you don't want to leave, and it's a constant battle of your own will. It's easier to be alone, where no one can hurt you... Isn't it?

Tagged by: borrowed from @wordbound

Tagging: @dcscrtcd @highgrcunded​ @muddledbloodlines​

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When the end of the world comes, what is your last thought?

finally, i hope it doesn't hurt too badly.

all you've known has been a life of pain and questioning. am i enough? will i ever become enough? what happens when i turn 80 and i'm still scared of growing old. time was never your friend, living just hurt, you embrace the end, perhaps see it as an opportunity to obtain closure. you watch as the clock ticks down, you are not sad, you are tired, you just want to sleep. perhaps the next lifetime will bring the peace your body craves, you are not scared, you are ready to see what is next, you may like it.

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♩ Everett

@wordbound || Musical headcanons

While Your Lips Are Still Red - Nightwish

Kiss while your lips are still red While he's still silent Rest while bosom is still untouched, unveiled Hold another hand while the hand's still without a tool Drown into eyes while they're still blind Love while the night still hides the withering dawn

First day of love never comes back A passionate hour's never a wasted one The violin, the poet's hand Every thawing heart plays your theme with care

Everett was never certain why William turned him- he was a quiet historian, and the Roaring Twenties boasted more interesting, and more attractive people than one bespectacled man obsessed with the Regency Era. 

Their meeting was more accidental than anything in the first place; one of the infamous drag balls had been broken up by the police, and William had fled the scene before he could be arrested. He was laughing, and Everett will never forget the way he looked racing down the dark London street in a billowing red velvet dress. The fact he was laughing at all, like he didn’t care about it was memorable.

William was easy to be taken in by though, he was charming, and flirtatious, (Even now, Everett would say that he was the most attractive person he had met up until that point. In the past century, he’s met others who may edge his sire out, but there was something to be said for the sidhe having an unfair advantage). And what had started as an accidental run in, became an... exciting night to say the least.

William always liked humans; they were warm and alive in a way that vampires weren’t, and he had always enjoyed wine, and art, and the beautiful, fine things in life that even after years of travelling with William, Everett never quite understood. 

They’re mostly settled now; Everett is content to stay in London and work at the museum, and every so often William will come back to the city and they’ll have a few days, before William sets off for somewhere new. It’s nothing like the first whirlwind night in October 1929, but that still makes for a good memory if Everett is honest. (Even if the week right after was... less than ideal).

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What powers does Everett have?

Hey! Thank you for the wonderful question.

Everett isn’t a particularly powerful vampire, he has no incredibly notable powers, and for the ones he does have, he uses sparingly. He’s a historian, and he’s content to be a historian. He has the more standard increased senses, speed, and resistance. In addition though, he has presence (for a bit more information).

It’s useful, and it stops people from thinking long enough about some of his oddities to question them. No one asks why the museum’s foremost expert on the regency era has been the same person for half a century and still looks 26, or why he always works during the night. 

if you’re familiar with Vampire: the Masquerade, then he’d be a toreador. They blend in well with humanity, and their clan powers are what I mentioned. If you know Shadowhunters as well, very much like them with their increased speed/senses and ability to shift the minds of others. Technically Everett doesn’t actually really need his glasses anymore because of being a vampire, but he still wears them.

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(kid meme) Everett & Willow

@wordbound​ sent in some children!

Name: Lenara Abigail March

Gender: female

General Appearance: Lenara has Willow’s colouring- the same red hair, pale skin, and shade of brown eyes. That much is obvious, but the curls and the glasses, and the specific tilt of her mouth when she’s amused or displeased, well that’s all Everett. She’s taller than her mother, but still shorter than her father. Both of them could have such nice curls of they’d bother to take more care of them and weren’t distracted by their work.

Personality: Lenara is rather deadpan, and much like both of her parents and her Uncle Giles, she’s more academic than not. Her knowledge of the past though, while vast and varied, is also largely specific to the superanatural, and less of any given time-period like her father before he met her mother. Most of the people she sees, and her family, biological or not, are all aware of the things that go bump in the night, so to the outside world, she’s a bit of an oddity.  It makes for good stories though, and she’s gotten to be a relatively well known author under the name “A.J. March (It stands for Abigail Johanna, Johanna for the aunt she never got to meet because she was dead by the time Lenara was born).

Special Talents: Lenara didn’t get much by way of special talents from her father, other than a great desire to learn, but she’s learned magic from her mother, because she didn’t need the heavily innate magic to be talented at that. Occasionally she’s even managed to talk her Uncle Giles into teaching her things.

Who they like better: Both, and neither. She loves both of her parents and has spent a lot of time with both of them, just practicing different things. She’s spent many long hours passing ancient tomes of supernatural knowledge.

Who they take after more: Both, and neither. When she was a child she was more like Willow, and as a teenager, rather a lot like both of them with a tilt towards Everett. Now, it’s largely equalled out to a cross between the two and her own person.

Personal Head canon: Lenara isn’t immortal, at least she doesn’t think she is, but she does age slower than the average mortal, and ever since she reached about 21, she doesn’t seem to have aged much at all. She’s considered going to university, but for now she’s more content to write her books and help her parents defeat the monster in the dark.

Face Claim: Julia Roberts

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Training of a New Vampire

It’s not that William is a bad sire— he isn’t, not compared to a lot of them, or even that he sires a lot of new vampires. Everett has met parents with more children, and those take far more time and effort to create. But William is flighty at the best of times and he almost never realizes that he’s sired them until after the fact. So the one night fling, becomes a newly sired vampire who needs to be taught how to survive. And having a childer is a commitment. So more often than not, Everett ends up taking them.

His schedule works better for it than William’s flights of fancy anyways. The museum doesn’t care of he works nights, and for the first few month, it means that the new vampire doesn’t have to worry. It’s safe, and there’s blood to quench their hunger. Sometimes they leave and go back to a somewhat normal life, a few have joined William in his travels, and a couple strike out on their own adventures. (If they’re ever back in London though, there’s always a spare bed. And the times he leaves and ends up in the same city as one of them, the offer is always reciprocated).

If William were anyone other than who he is, Everett would say that he owes him. But he isn’t anyone else. He’s William. And he pays back the debt without having to. They might not be together or travelling together anymore, but every time William returns to London, Everett will end up sharing his bed, and he’ll get something in return.

The first time, it was a proper first edition of Sense and Sensibility. The next it was an authentic bottle of regency era wine (how William had gotten that, Everett isn’t sure). So in exchange, Everett takes in his sire’s new childers, and he teaches them how to survive. There’s usually one or two a decade, and if it’s taught him anything, it’s that he’d rather not have any of his own.

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AESTHETIC     HEADCANON     MUSIC     CHARACTER

• QUICK STATS •

NAME :: Everett Theodore March NICKNAME :: Theo FANDOM :: Generic urban fantasy GENDER :: Male ORIENTATION :: bisexual BIRTHDAY :: October 17th, 1903, 1802 ZODIAC :: Libra SHIPS :: chemistry

• BIOGRAPHY •

Everett was born at the turn of 20th century. His parents were the working middle class, and when the war came, both his parents started working in the factories in Britain to contribute to the war effort. He remembers the war in the way that many of the children his age did-- distant enough to still be the War on the news, but with the same realization that sooner rather than later, they may be asked to fight. It ended before they were old enough, and life continued for the next several years.

He spent much of that time reading all the books he could; fiction, and science, and history. The time period he found himself drawn back to time, and time again was always the Regency period, and he remembers the evenings when exhausted from a day of work, he would curl in beside his mother and read aloud a Jane Austen novel (he thinks she always enjoyed the romantic idea that was that instead of the war-torn reality their country was facing).

In 1921, Everett got accepted to Oxford on scholarship, and he pursued history. The first four years were relatively quiet, he got his work done, and when he wasn’t working on his class work, he was learning about the Regency era, independent of his courses (the university library had far more than the collection of books he’d managed to collect during his childhood).

He finished the first degree, and continued on with his masters. In 1928, he finished, and found a job at the library, archiving papers. Much of his work had become writing out the text from faded pages, but it left him time to look into his own research, and to enjoy the life that had begun to spring up during the latter half of the 20′s. 

On October 8th, 1929, he was turned by William Price. For a week, Everett struggled to adjust to the new life. Gone was the sun in his life, and the familiar life he had lead. William helped int he ways he could, getting him blood, making sure he didn’t die by getting inside too late, and explaining what it all meant. Two weeks later, the stock market crashed, and Everett was grateful now, for the fact that he didn’t need to eat or sleep, or even, for that matter, fire.

During the early 1930′s, he started to say that he was born in 1802, because it made him sound older, and more respectable as a vampire instead of saying he wasn’t even 30 yet. He’d done a degree on the period, he knew enough to be able to convince those he met that it was true. 

Nowadays, Everett can find himself forgetting that he was ever born in something that wasn’t 1802. He’s spent enough time researching, and talking to people who have actually been through the time to make it even more believable. 

• PHYSICAL •

FACE CLAIM :: Aidan Turner HEIGHT :: 5’9″ BUILD :: lanky VISUAL AGE :: 26 ACTUAL AGE :: 117 218 HAIR :: black EYES :: dark SPECIES :: Vampire, human (formerly) HAND :: right GLASSES :: yes, however during the WWII, and the early 1950′s, they got damaged and didn’t fit terribly well. He got a new pair in 1955. IDENTIFYING :: While Everett doesn’t usually have them out, the fangs are a pretty good indication of his status as a vampire.

• MENTAL •

FAITH :: Everett was raised Church of England as most people in Britain at the time were, but he’s not much for religion, and after getting turned, he saw little need for it. MARITAL STATUS :: single, though he has a somewhat on again-off again relationship with his sire whenever. William doesn’t spend much time in London, nor are they particularly worried about seeing other people. OCCUPATION :: Historian EDUCATION :: Everett has a master’s degree from oxford in History, with a focus on the Regency era.  QUIRKS :: The necessity of the glasses isn’t as great anymore, but between habit, and the aesthetic he’d built, he keeps them.