( monica barbaro / cis female / she/her ) — CAITLIN SILTSHORE has been living in Port Leiry for HER WHOLE LIFE (BUT RECENTLY RETURNED AFTER A YEAR AWAY). They currently work as a SILTSHORE MAUSOLEUM (OWNER), and are TWENTY-EIGHT years old. No one is sure if they’re actually a WITCH WARLOCK (TENEBRIS) or if they’re connected to GARNETT COVEN. They tend to be quite SELF-DESTRUCTIVE and ICARIAN, but can also be CURIOUS and AMBITIOUS.—
( tw: death, murder )
tl;dr: cait comes from a bloodline of witches who made some mistakes centuries ago and found themselves cursed as a result. the siltshore bloodline gets picked off one by one over the decades, and now here's cait, the last of her name. the curse comes with a haunting - cait grows up having to handle it. she tries to get rid of it in her early twenties and it backfires, badly. she leaves her ex-fiance for dead and goes off the grid for two whole years. she comes back to port leiry when she learns her uncle, leader of the garnett coven, has been murdered died. her uncle leaves her the coven and the mausoleum. it doesn't take cait long to realize that her uncle has been murdered by none other than her ex-fiance.
the ex-fiance and cait work together to take her possession and turn it into a patron, making themselves the first warlocks this world has seen. the spell comes at a cost: 15,000 souls. well, 15,001 - cait leaves her ex-fiance for dead for a second time and this time, he stays dead. cait returns to port leiry shortly after to continue running her coven.
this only works for so long, faction leaders congregate and agree that there must be consequences for the town cait decimated and the souls she claimed. cait is exiled. it is now, a year later, the exile has lapsed on a technicality. she returns to her home in port leiry.
caitlin is a morally gray / evil leaning warlock who is an innovator at heart. running on sheer ambition, she wants to build her coven into something lasting; wants to create and create and create and encourage others do the same.
about under the cut I penned by rey
ORIGINS
name: caitlin siltshore
age: twenty-eight
creative touchpoints: cait is inspired by a few characters: edward elric from fullmetal alchemist in that cait is a walking cautionary tale and yet still has a certain ambition driving her. she has the rough edges and self-destructive tendencies of jessica jones. You might even see a little dark urge from baldur’s gate iii in there thanks to her latent violence. She’s any character you think of to be a godkiller, any character that can be described as icarian. god/john from the locked tomb is another touchpoint. in her heart of hearts, cait is an inventor - it wouldn’t be out of place to think of her as a mad scientist or a frankenstein. definitely an insufferable know-it-all, necromancy prodigy. “unkillable rat” are also good words to describe her. annoyingly, cait believes she is the closest thing to a god. her ultimate hubris is believing that she can tinker her way out of anything; that the laws of the world and the natural order of things do not apply to her.
alignment: chaotic evil (the faintest flicker of chaotic good can be seen on the darkest of nights)
species: warlock (patron: tenebris, former: life and death witch)
hometown: port leiry
affiliation: garnett coven (former leader)
occupation: siltshore mausoleum (owner)
family members of note: brennan siltshore (npc, uncle, deceased), nathaniel roy (npc, deceased)
BACKSTORY
THE CURSE
there is a nightmare in her blood, it's been there for centuries, moving from one siltshore witch to the next - eroding their mind and their marrow, putting them in the ground long before they are due. the siltshore curse blooms in cait when she is thirteen; it strikes her at the midnight hour and follows her wherever she goes. from then on, cait's body isn't her own.
the curse goes like this: if you are a siltshore witch, you will be possessed, and you will die a premature death. it is the bitter fruit of a feud between two witch families, the siltshores and the roys, who were once of the same coven. now, a millennia later, caitlin is the last witch of her name.
cait becomes familiar with the spirit that haunts her, but for a long time she refuses to hear its name. the spirit takes many forms. it's a malevolent whisper in her ear that sways like the tides. it's a shadow in her mirror that stares back at her. it reigns over her body when it wants to, slumbers when it wishes. it becomes her keeper and her teacher in all things necromantic. it calls itself 'dorian.'
GARNETT
despite dorian's existence, cait's uncle brennan raises her. as leader of the garnett coven, brennan pulls his magic from the world around him. he's a good teacher and he does the best to bring others in. his magic hums with the vibrancy of life, he threads fate between his fingers. brennan's magic is good - brennan is good - and he seems to think cait is capable of such things too. he knows the weight of the curse she is carrying, his mother carried it too. but brennan believes cait can rise above it. cait tries, but dark things come too easy to her.
THE BOY
cait leaves port leiry for college - a chance to further develop her magic and keep building out her grimoire. a chance to maybe find herself, in the way that all cursed witches aim to do. there's a boy at college - one who doesn't know he's a witch, one who says he's seen her in his dreams. he's a necromancer too. cait takes him by the hand and shows him what she knows. curiosity pulls nathaniel and cait together, ambition keeps them stitched there. she doesn't tell him about the curse.
what nathaniel and cait do instead is talk about plans. They dream big, start crafting something new. there's that ambition again - and it is so bright at the center of her. so electric. sometimes it's hard for cait to remember the sound of her own thoughts, to understand where hers end and dorian's begin. but she wants this - she wants to build, and grow, and discover, and learn. she doesn't really mind how she gets there. she doesn't mind a little blood. she does know though, that when she does it, she wants her body to be her own.
love is so strange - strange in the way that you can let a person get so close to you. strange in the way that you can let them get to know you. no person should be allowed to take that knowing and turn it into a knife. nathaniel and cait get engaged and that should mean something. and yet, when cait tries to get rid of her possession and it costs her nathaniel life, she pays the price and leaves him for dead.
INTERLUDE
for two years cait runs, leaving behind her choices and building out her grimoire. for the first time, her mind is silent. a place to call her own. she still has big plans - but they all come to a stop when she hears about brennan's death.
warily, cait makes her way back to port leiry.
ASCENSION
nathaniel is behind brennan’s death - of course he is; the murder is bait to draw her home. she left him for dead, yet the possession has burrowed into him now, their work still unfinished. their reunion in port leiry is tumultuous, but ambition stitches them together once more: caitlin and nathaniel intend to raise dorian into something greater.
june 2025. at the cost of 15,000 souls - the entire population of ashford bend, nebraska - caitlin and nathaniel forge a patron from dorian, the newborn power naming itself tenebris. cait walks away the world’s first warlock; nathaniel, meant to stand beside her, is claimed by the recoil. extreme magic, extreme, unexpected price - nothing can save him from death this time.
cait returns to head up the garnett coven and tells only choice few about her warlock status, but secrets like that have weight. word slips. ashford bend is a wound the world won't stop bleeding from - and when the factions piece it together, the verdict is swift and unanimous. exile. they strip her of her seat, salt the threshold of the mausoleum, and tell her to walk. cait slips out of port leiry the way smoke leaves a room, and for a while there is no caitlin siltshore anywhere.
NOW
it takes about a year. a seat shifts here, a vote turns there, an old enemy of brennan's takes a chair they shouldn't have. nothing changes about what cait did, only who is left to call it a crime. the exile collapses on a technicality, and just like that the doors of port leiry crack open again. cait comes home. she walks the long road back to siltshore mausoleum and finds the salt long since scattered, the dead patient as ever beneath the stones. the garnett coven receives her stiffly; cait takes her seat at the edge of the room, no longer leader. no matter. tenebris hums under her ribs like a second heartbeat. there's so much still to build. there's so much still to tear apart to build it.
WANTED CONNECTIONS
tbd - but really anything and everything. let her be the devil on your shoulder; be the one to keep her in the light. my god, cait is so quick to make enemies, but she is fiercely protective of those in the garnett coven. if you need a morally questionable warlock to invent you a spell or a curse, she's your gal. if you need someone to commit cold blooded murder, she is also unfortunately your gal
⌞ʾ⁎ ⊰ Ben Barnes, cis-male, he/him/his ⊱ i think i just saw SIR ADAM LANDRY IV walk across trafalgar square, singing to ALL I DO IS WIN ( LUDACRIS ). you know, the THIRTY-SEVEN year old HEIR? people claim that they are just like THE BEAST from BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. it must be because they are VALIANT and SPOILED as well… though i could be wrong. all i know for sure is that they live at BALTIMORE apartment. { moni, 28, cst, she/her/hers }⌝
About
The Landry family can be dated back all the way to 14th century England and have ties to old royalty in France. It is something that they pride themselves with and something they continue to brag about.
Adam is the only son and oldest child of the Duke and Duchess.
Growing up, Adam was very spoiled due to his family’s history and his future title as Duke. His parents gave him whatever he wanted and rarely disciplined him.
He lived most of his life in France where he also went to school. Adam was, by default, the most popular boy in his school. Everyone wanted to be his friend and be on his good side. For the most part, he was able to get away with whatever he wanted. He didn’t care if people weren’t really his “friend” or if they didn’t like him while he was Head Boy. Adam believed that his title and pocket book spoke louder than anything he needed to say himself.
His parents traveled the world with little to no contact with their son. The butlers and maids basically raised Adam. He respects them more than his parents.
When he was older, Adam spent most of his time partying, spending a lot of his parents money, and globe trotting around the world. He has been the focus of many gossip columns and scandals. Something his father behind the scenes had to clean up one too many times for his own liking.
After being arrested for disorderly contact for a third time, his parents were able to cut a deal with the court. Being disappointed in his behavior, they threaten to cut him off if he didn’t clean up his act. It was not too long afterwards, his mother passed away.
Adam went on a downward spiral after his mother passed. He partied none stop in London, got into many fights, and was caught drunk driving a couple of times. After he spent almost £3 million pounds on one “epic” weekend, his father gave up on him and decided to cut him off until he could prove himself worthy to be a Landry.
It was not made public of what his father did to him. There was a few whisperings here and there but not much more.
His father brought him in for a meeting one day with their lawyer. His will had been updated due to a recent development in his health. Adam was alerted that there were three things he had to do in order to inherit the title of Duke and the Landry fortune: 1) Go to rehab and get a therapist, 2) He must live on his own and show that he could provide for himself, and 3) He must learn to love others.
To help start him out, The Duke gave Adam some starter money to help him out and an apartment in the Baltimore building of the Weber apartments.
For two years now, Adam has struggled to better himself and his situation. Saving some of his money that he kept to the side and the money he inherited from his mom, he tried his best to keep up with his lifestyle.
The more his father’s illness progresses, the more Adam realizes he doesn’t have much time to show that he can change. The road to recovery is a long one but he is willing to try and do it. His worst nightmare is that both of his parents will die only seeing him as a “monster” of a child. And he refuses to let that be his father’s regret the day that he dies.
Personality
Adam can be very hot tempered if he doesn’t get what he wants. He feels like it is his way or no way at all.
He can be very spoiled and doesn’t like to do things to help others like his very charitable parents did. He doesn’t understand why they give so much money snd time to charity when it should go to him.
When he was little, he had dreamed about being a firefighter. He isn’t afraid to help during a time of need and doesn’t think twice when running into danger.
Adam can be insecure since he never truly had support growing up. He often looks to his butlers and maids for advice since his parents rarely gave it to him.
Over the past couple of months, Adam has taken the steps to better himself. His been a very slow and at times painful process but for Adam, at least he is making progress.
