(age.) twenty seven (species.) witch (abilities.) pyrokensis and invisibility (occupation.) chef at l’ateleir de la magie (residency.) arrived february 2018 (mirror.) dave franco
Born to two powerful witches who were the leaders of a coven in Seattle, Liam and his two siblings, Thalia and Reid, did not have much of a concept of ‘family’. They grew up with their parents only caring about their reputation and power, the kids were simply thrown from one nanny to another for they hadn’t the time to be dealing with them. The three little kids made up for the absence of parental affection by growing closer to each other. The boys always fought about who was Thalia’s favourite brother and while it was mostly amusing to everyone involved, it did bridge a gap between them which they, in that age, didn’t even realize, both growing closer to the sister than each other. The only times their parents were present in their lives was to point out and punish them for their mistakes or bad grades, basically just letting them know as brutally as possible that they were not good enough. It helped nothing, only made things worse. The children grew more and more rebellious with age, growing to resent their parents to the point where there was no love left. They supported each other against them and with every year that passed, their hatred for them and their coven members who practically worshiped them only grew.
Liam naively imagined his life would be more free and to his liking when he turned eighteen and became an adult, but he soon found out that was not the case at all. Liam found love very young in life. He was only nineteen when he was dating a werewolf whom he was certain he would spend the rest of his life with. He didn’t see the point in hiding the relationship from his family or their coven and when the news began to spread, his parents were more furious with him than they had ever been and the coven was disgusted to have a werewolf anywhere near them. For months, Liam refused his parents when they insisted he end this, in their opinion, blasphemous relationship. The more they forced him, the more stubborn he became until one day, his parents did get their wish – he found the wolf dead with obvious signs of magical damage. He did not really know for sure who was responsible for her death but he could say his parents and coven had everything to do with it. He could not find any kind of proof, however, and it his heartbroken and angry state, he fell into bad company and began to use drugs as a means to forget his pain. It took months of his sister trying to make him get clean and hospitalization from overdosing before he agreed to go into rehab and came out clean.
His need for revenge was strong once he was back. Having had enough of their bullshit, Liam plotted to kill them when his younger siblings were away. After making sure Reid and Thalia were not to be at home, he put his plan into action. Using his pyrokinesis, he set fire to their house when both of them were inside, hoping to brush off the whole thing as an accident once it was over. He was unaware that his siblings had returned early from their road trip and were inside the house too. Thalia died in the ‘accident’ while Reid survived. As soon as he realized what he had done, Liam was devastated and not knowing what to do, he knee-jerk reaction to run. Only to care for Reid, who was hurt in the fire, did he stop himself from doing anything rash and stupid. When Reid was well enough again, he tried to admit what he had done to him but couldn’t bring himself to. The guilt was too much for him to handle and he considered getting back into using drugs but the image of Thalia having struggled with him for so long to get him out of that phase of his life stopped him. He never used his fire powers again, and he was even scared of fire now, maybe not when he could control it but. But anything sudden or out of control will leave him in hysterics.
He lasted merely days in his brother’s company before he ran away from home. He traveled a lot, but nothing truly helped his guilt, and after a few years away, he returned to Seattle to find his brother again. Reid wasn’t to return till several months later, but Liam settled in Seattle, focusing on his career and hoping for his return. It was not long after he was reunited with Reid did a war break out between their coven and the local werewolf pack which led to Reid and Liam to both flee. For a couple of months, they traveled together. It was in February that they heard about Hollowgrove and decided to move in there to hopefully start a new life, one where they could leave the drama of their past behind. Liam began to focus more on his career and on being there for Reid instead of dwelling on what happened.
❝ the nature of the beast
Most people would describe Liam as obnoxious, arrogant, cocky, boastful, overconfident and an insufferable show off. A mischievous prankster who was well aware of his own abilities and talent. Someone who was in no way modest about what he could do but still managed to make people impressed anyway. Someone who picked fights with people simply because he could, and used his words, strength and magic as his weapons. And they weren’t wrong. He was all of those things but that was just one side of him, the side he let people see. Since the death of his sister, he was trying to be different to most people, trying to be a better person, the real him rather than the person he paraded as. He was still all of those things but maybe in a slightly lesser degree. And he was trying his best to be a better brother and friend to everyone around him.
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