#pam character

[magicdwells]

Due to being a hybrid, Mack suffered several ailments through her childhood, such as Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and being deaf in one ear. She was also prone to various illnesses, such as bronchitis, pneumonia, and ear infections. Their mother was absent constantly, always busy with the high society life; their father was absent as well, either due to work or the bottle. They had nanny after nanny, but none lasted long, leaving her older sister Lottie as the only constant in her life, the only one willing to help her through her ever-present illnesses, until she was five years old. At five, they had a new constant, that of the only nanny whoever lasted more than a few months, Holden Shepherd. Yet, nothing lasts forever, does it? 

When Mack was eleven, she and her sister heard the terrifying sounds late one night, afraid to investigate. But once they did, they were brought face to face with the horror of seeing their father moving the corpse of their beloved nanny. Both girls were greatly scarred by this and their relationships with their father shifted, both of them trying to escape him as soon as possible. Mack had always been smart, had always been ahead of her peers, but her always-absent parents were still seemingly surprised when she got a scholarship at fifteen. Not long after Lottie had hit eighteen, Mack was ready to leave home, packing her bags and taking the first flight to MIT, where she studied as hard as she could, determined not to fall behind because dropping out would mean returning home.

While much of MIT was a blessing for Mack, she had been thrust into a highly competitive atmosphere while battling her health at the same time. It was in her final year at MIT, when she was seventeen, that she had been exposed to alcohol and began using it to numb the constant pain both in her mind and in her body. It wasn’t long after that she discovered that cocaine not only gave her a rush but also helped her do more studying in a short amount of time, 

After graduation, she got an entry level job at a software developing company as an assistant, though she steadily grew ranks through the years. Maya was in and out of her life, though they stayed connected through letters until Lottie dropped off the grid one day. Mack continued to write her stubbornly, knowing that her sister wouldn’t ignore her for no reason at all. Mack’s career looked bright and was just about to unfold as she got a job offer to work for Ivey International, one of the world’s leading environmental technology companies. However, she had only been working there for a few months when she had a heart attack and had to spend a week in the hospital. Not long after the experience, Mack walked away from the company, going instead to investigate a town she had heard about where supernaturals lived peacefully together.

Still new to the town, Mack has been quietly studying the way people interact and continuing to write her sister letters, going as far as to code them so that she could safely send her sister the coordinates to the town. She got a job as well working with the local handyman, Clark Segen, though his death meant her taking on the entire workload herself. She even managed to befriend Shiloh Seddik, another hybrid in town, taking the opportunity to learn more about what exactly it meant to be like them. Mostly, her ambitions have been left behind, her depression telling her that her health will never let her succeed and there is no point in trying at all. Instead, she’s focusing on working in this new town and trying to find a way to improve her health and her life span, occasionally going to the Research Center and allowing experiments on her. Though she does send design plans to an old friend from MIT, hoping that she can still help the Earth to outlive her.

[magicdwells]

Milo’s life could never have been described as easy. It was by the time that he turned six months old that he was abandoned for the first time as his mother, Helen, had left him and their family in the dust, overwhelmed by the stress of her accidental infant. When he was six, his father, Clive, left him home alone to go get groceries and failed to return at all. Milo managed to keep himself fed until two days later when his older sister, Melody, came to check on them, concerned from the lack of contact from their father. When he told her that their dad had been gone for two days, she realized that he had been abandoned by another parent and took him in, taking complete guardianship of the small boy. Milo was sixteen when his sister came home from work to find him crying in the bathroom. After a lot of prompting, he finally came out to her, explaining that a girl he took out had wanted to hook up and he couldn’t do it. She hugged him and told him she loved him and it was okay to love who he loved. 

At seventeen, Milo grew tired of seeing his sister struggle bill after bill, even having to work two or three jobs to keep them afloat. Knowing he was never part of her life plan killed him as he wanted her to have anything she wanted in life. She refused to let him get a job, wanting him to focus on school. Finally, Milo went to a clinic and lied about his age and donated sperm many times over. He never thought any of them would be used, too young to think of the possible repercussions of this action. He never told Melody.

Milo was working on his degree in criminal psychology when his sister came home and told him that they needed to move, due to the increased violence of her abusive boyfriend. The two fled and went from their home in Canada to Colombus, Ohio. They were there for a few weeks and Milo enrolled in school while his sister got a job. They were just about to move into their apartment when Melody’s ex-boyfriend showed up at their hotel and shot her. Milo tackled him and got the gun from him, ending in him shooting and killing the man. Luckily for him, Forest Hawthorne was their neighbor at the motel. The other werewolf helped him clean up the scene and stayed with him while he grieved his sister. He even helped Milo through his first full moon and the two began a relationship that ended when Milo freaked out upon hearing that Forest loved him, having become convinced that there was a correlation between someone loving him and them dying. He was alone for a few years, finishing his degree and working as a criminal psychologist. In 2003, he met Forest and (Name TBD) at a New Years party and just like that was attached to the pair of them by the hip. He and Forest continued an almost friends with benefits relationship, Milo still desperately in love with him but unable to say it. But in 2022, Forest and (TBD Name) took care of some werewolf hunters and Milo, determined to find them a safe place, went to take a look at Romulus.

When first arriving in Romulus, Milo found himself an apartment and set up the book section of TriBeCa, a book store, coffee shop, and music store. Milo loved everything about the town and was friendly to everyone he met, enthralled by the safety of the open atmosphere. His friends came to join him and TriBeCa was complete. He thought things would be simple now, or as simple as it could be as it could be while he was sleeping with the man he was in love with, no strings attached. Of course, then Forrest found Landon Kincaid. They were childhood friends, almost childhood sweethearts, and Milo finally overcame his phobia and told Forrest he loved him the same night he told him to move on and take the chance with Landon, the same night he finally told Forrest goodbye in that sense. 

That was before Tate Brandt showed up in his life. She revealed that she was his daughter from his donations, that she was bounced from home to home and even harmed in some. Her distrust of him broke his heart and her vowed to learn how to be a father and give her the love and nurturing she had never had before. He has his second bedroom set up for her in case she ever wanted to move in, secretly hoping for it though he’d never tell her for fear of pressuring her. 

[magicdwells]

Born Wigheard Greyson to English parents, he was thirteen years old when the Black Plague hit England and he fell ill with it himself. Without even realizing what he was doing, his Ifrit powers pulled life force from humans around him, even resulting in some of them dying faster from the plague. His family taught him about his powers over time. His mother constantly told him that he was destined for war if he would only toughen up, that sometimes they had to make sacrifices for the security of their family. It was in the mid 1400’s that his family murdered the Demoriane family. Wigheard and his uncle, Thomas, had stayed with the children of the Greyson clan during the slaughter, both feeling obligated to stop the attack but neither acting. 

Even though he disagreed with the actions, Wigheard stayed by his family and kept quiet about it, hoping to never speak of the slaughter again. In the 1500’s, the Greysons used their gifts of persuasion to secure their spots on the ship set for Roanoke. It was soon after settling that the Lamia family put their plan to leave the control of England into action, killing the humans and doing away with the bodies. They carved the word Croatoan into a tree in hopes of blaming the crime on a tribe and took the children miles away to a small place that they made their own. Wigheard had seen the entire slaughter, once again staying with the children and Thomas, and later his mother had informed him that it was “for their safety and freedom” and that he would not be permitted to stand to the side next time this sort of action was needed. Almost immediately after they resettled to a new area, Wigheard did some traveling to see the world himself, even as his mother begged him not to. At the end of the 1600’s, he returned home to find his entire village wiped out save for Thomas who had been hunting when the attack occurred.

In the coming years, Wigheard would come to join the Revolutionary War, wanting to bring freedom to the other settlers. His rage over his family’s slaughter made him a good soldier, as well as the memory of his mother’s assurance that he was made for war. He began to travel in and out of Romulus, fascinated by the society and reminded of the society that his family had made for themselves. As time went on, he fought for the North in the Civil War and took on the name Wyatt Greyson. During the war, he was nearly killed and nursed back to health by Charlie Engel. The two began an off and on relationship that would last through the years, faithful to each other every time they were together but permitted to sleeping with others in their time apart.

He returned to his uncle only for his Uncle Thomas to tell him that he had killed their Lamia community. He told him that the guilt of standing by while they murdered various groups of people to get their ultimate goal had been eating him alive for all of these centuries and that he had finally snapped. Thomas allowed Wyatt to kill him, even encouraged it, and Wyatt left immediately after doing so without looking back. He took on the name of Grey and fought in both World Wars followed by the Vietnam War. It was there that his view on the world cracked and everything that his mother had told him about his destiny and how killing for freedom was worth it fell away. The war was ugly and terrible, with children killed in front of him and neither side having any regard for human life. As soon as he returned home, Grey walked away from the life of wars and instead turned to professional boxing, even becoming a big name, almost as if with every hit he took he was paying back some of the pain he had caused.

It was in 2022 that Grey returned to Romulus. It was only because of the prompting of Charlie. He once again has been easily falling back into a quiet watch of the town. Thanks to the prodding of those that he knows in town, he has taken the job as a group counselor for those with trauma and focusing on the smithy, though sometimes he gets restless and falls into old habits, finding himself at the underground fight club.

[magicdwells]

Sometimes all you ever need to survive is one person. Peter Cadoc had his one person in his older brother, Damien. They may not have had parents or any family besides each other, but that was okay. Even as they were bounced from foster home to foster home, Peter always knew that he was safe because his brother was with him. Peter was always small in stature, nerdy, and quiet, so he often attracted bullies at school. Sometimes he tried to hide it from Damien, but sometimes he didn’t or couldn’t. One of those times, when Peter was eleven, his brother came to his defense and killed the bully for him. And then Damien disappeared and Peter was left in foster care, scared and truly alone for the first time in his life. 

The foster homes were rough, full of hate and uncaring people. He was an easy target without Damien around to protect him. When it came time for him to go to a new foster home, Peter fought them as hard as he could, insisting that he had to stay so that Damien could find him. He was forced away anyway. The months turned into years and as Peter grew, he remained on the small side, quiet, and nerdy but learned how to fight back - at least somewhat. It was just after he graduated high school, when he was 17, that his werewolf gene was triggered. He had been kissing a boy from his school in an alleyway, for fear of being caught, when a man saw them and began angrily yelling homophobic slurs. The man and his friends had clearly been drinking and wasted no time in attacking them. They were grabbing both of the boys and hitting them repeatedly, but when one of them pulled out a knife and moved towards the boy Peter had been kissing, Peter lost control, getting free of the hold he was in and disarming the man before killing him himself. The other men ran immediately, as did the boy, and finally, Peter fled himself, leaving town and never looking back. It wasn’t long after that the first transformation occurred. 

Terrified and alone, Peter fought to find a balance within himself, hitchhiking to Washington State. He lived on the streets for a while, and finally managed to move into a broken down apartment, working horrible job after horrible job as he tried to make ends meet. Roommates came and went, but no one ever stayed, and Peter eventually accepted that that was how the world worked.

Everything changed when Peter was 22 and became roommates with another young man named Travis. Travis was a nymph, the first supernatural that Peter had met since Damien. They got close, bonding over their abilities and the fact that they were both LGBTQ (although Peter was far from out in the open about it after what had happened to him before). Eventually, Travis told him about a place that he had heard about called Romulus. They began making plans to go, saving their money and Peter finally allowed himself to dream about finding his brother. But then when Peter was 22, Travis was shot in town. While Peter had no concrete idea as to what happened, his own experiences led him to believe that it was another hate crime. No matter the reason, however, Peter was on his own again but he refused to let go of the hope of seeing his brother again. Desperate for a piece of hope, for a chance, he made his way to Romulus, slowly, taking buses and hitchhiking when he felt that he couldn’t afford a bus. He spent his 23rd birthday alone in a rundown motel with the last bit of his money, and it was only then that he let himself cry about losing Travis, about the knowledge that Damien probably wouldn’t even be there in Romulus, that Damien too might be dead. 

However, he found his brother in town after all and the two became roommates, with Peter getting a job as a barista at the Sweet Spot. He hit it off with Ivy Sloane immediately, the two becoming best friends until they became more. Over the summer, Peter took a job at the library, among the books that he had always loved so much.