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Hywel Mckenna

[attr="class","dropfrumbodytxt"]WHO AM I? Growing up in war-time changes a person. It tempers the sword in the fire, it teaches one what desperation truly feels like, and some men are thrown into the fire, burnt to a crisp, but other men become hardened steel, and they walk out stronger than before. Hywel barely knew the time of prosperity he was born in––most of his childhood had been spent during the famine in Ireland. He grew up scrappy and hungry for something more, he grew up learning how to take care of his family at any cost. He was sixteen when they could finally afford to get on the ship towards the new world. Things were different, things were tough, but they had always managed. He inherited a natural gift for sorcery from his mother. The man had always had an affinity for things despite his more laid-back attitude. He took multiple jobs as well as helped out at home, but war was always inevitable. He was twenty-six when he was conscripted, and maybe everything would've been fine––he was only enlisted for a year or so––if his mother didn't pass away while he was at war. It broke his heart. From there on, it was his sister and him against the world. He was the man who raised Rhiannon, and they were always close. While Rhiannon sought a way to stay immortal without the downfalls of being a vampire, Hywel wasn't as convinced. It wasn't intentional on his part; he was simply following along one night when he felt the venom in his veins and his life seep away, only to wake up once again. Regardless, the man lives as if nothing's changed. He's easily amused by his sister's antics, and helps out whenever he can. There are few things he cares about in the world, and the temporal nature of the universe is something known to him. He's the kind of man who would do anything to make sure he gets what he wants, despite the easy smirk and the kind demeanor. He has little care for anything else in the world, and he will watch it burn before letting it take away those he loves.


VITALS:
STRENGTHS: time thievery, increased strength/speed/stamina
WEAKNESSES: his magic is only a defensive core now, very much still human physiology, loses strength when stealing time
ALIGNMENT: lawful evil, ISFP-A
SPOTIFY TOP TRACKS: A lot of classic 80s rock music, loves Fleetwood Mac & Queen
– Lives in a penthouse apartment by Madison Square Park. His neighbor is his sister (and the cat that keeps sneaking over to his flat)
– Owns The Gilded Hand, a popular cocktail bar

HISTORY Since he's been alive since 1837, some brief big™ timeline events are:

- Born in 1837 in Ireland, during a depression. Father died when he was was seven to take care of their family. He doesn't remember much of his childhood.

1844 – His father dies of a mysterious illness.

1847 – His half-sister, Rhiannon, is born when he's nine. His stepfather, a sailor, was rarely home. It's around that time when he begins learning magic; he's a natural at it.

1851 / EMIGRATION – They emigrate to New York when he's nineteen because there's no work back home. The famine wiped out a lot of people, and he had to find a job to support his mother and sister.

1863 / CONSCRIPTION – Age 23, he gets conscripted in the Civil War. He protests vehemently but what can he do? He must do his duty to his country. At this stage, he's already a high master as a warlock. It helps give him an edge in the war, and his magic core protects him from harm.

1865 / MOTHER'S DEATH – his mother passes away from a case of cholera. It's just him and his sister now. He feels guilty for leaving them for so long, especially because she died two months before he came back. Rhiannon is the only person he has left now.

1867 / THE SPELL – In an attempt to find the secret to immortality, they find themselves at a bar one night and Hywel gets into a fight with a vampire, but Rhiannon's quick work and experimental spell reverses the process. Except...it goes wrong when it reacts with something. He's no longer truly human/witch, nor is he...anything recognisable really. He gains a power of absorbing time from a human the way a vampire would take blood, as well as an enhancd strength and speed, but it comes with its drawbacks. His magic is reduced to nearly nothing and it almost kills him to use his time-stealing gift. He struggles with this new development, especially with losing his magic. He doesn't remember any of it, just what he thinks is a witch cursing him. 

1870 to 1873 – He gets into a scuffle, and accidentally activates his time-thief powers for the first time. He almost passes out on the street and it's only because of a friend that he gets home safely. Rhiannon spends the next few years trying to lessen the symptoms, mostly to no avail. However, she found a way to harvest the extra time, giving herself immortality too, and thus, their partnership is born. It gets better for Hywel to some degree, but most of his symptoms after time-thieving still have their effect on him.

1892 / THE ACCIDENT – It was supposed to be a simple mission, a regular top up of their lifespan but their target turned out to be a supernatural, which is how they discover that stealing time from an immortal can practically kill Hywel because there's too much energy for his vessel. They learn to be more careful after.

1917 –  The Great War starts. As much as death no longer really affects Hywel, it still does to some degree. His addiction to opium begins during this time.


TIME THIEVERY RULES:

- He needs to touch the person to steal their time and the more time he steals, the more time it takes him to recover fully.

- Every year he steals, it takes him a full day to even be able to stand, not to mention it takes even more energy to give those years to someone else (which is where rhiannon comes in)

- Works only on humans, extremely dangerous to try on supernaturals because it can kill him

- He is severely weakened after taking away years from someone, almost to the point of being unable to move for a while, which makes him even more vulnerable

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Tobias "Dregs" Brown

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WHO AM I? Despite what you may hear about him, Tobias actually does have a soul. Growing up in Chicago during the 80s, he was a scrappy, skinny kid from humble origins. His parents worked hard to get him into a good school and to keep him out of trouble. Being street smart and resourceful was something that came naturally to him, and in a city well into its decline at the time, he, like many others, thought he could make a difference. His investigation skills helped him become a detective quite early in his career. He had his dream life, really. Married to his high school sweetheart, a child on his way, a promising career, he was the embodiment of how even the underdogs could succeed.

It was a case in 1995. A string of gruesome murders, and he was in charge of solving it. After chasing leads for many months, they finally caught the monster, a woman with powers he had never seen before. She bled a victim until they died, drinking their blood; it was then he realized the world out there wasn't as it seemed. He tried to push for prosecution, but along with the secrecy of keeping supernaturals under wraps and the fact that the woman was the mayor's daughter, they closed the case. After all, the people who died lived in crime-ridden areas, on the edges of gang turfs. They claimed the victims as simply other addicts who got caught in the crossfire. When he tried to overturn this verdict, he was quietly let go, forced to sign an NDA or to lose all credibility in his field.

His anger overtook him, and it caused more problems than solved any. He quit the force, and they decided to scapegoat him. A disgraced detective who tried to blackmail a mayor, they said. Unable to find another job in the city, financial troubles caused him to leave the city, and his marriage to end.

Tobias is no longer the hopeful, do-gooder he used to be. As a private investigator, he often lurks in the darkness, solving crimes the police won't take on, especially ones involving supernatural creatures. He keeps his feelings hidden, his motives are no longer inspired by morality, but with an overwhelming drive, to break down the system that naturally protects supernaturals and corrupt government officials, and to usher in a new era, where the system is destroyed and rebuilt again, and he'll do anything to achieve his goal.

VITALS
– wears a mask when hunting, rarely gives out his name
– hunters know him as dregs, a nickname he had as a kid
– 6'1, mesomorphic build
– ISFJ, chaotic neutral
– still on okay terms with his ex-wife, Sarah. He sees his son, Thomas, every summer, but since he refuses to go back to Chicago, it puts him at odds with his ex. They divorced partially due to his workaholicism, but also because Sarah believes him to be too extreme in his beliefs sometimes. She still thinks he's a good person inside, but she just isn't there for how he behaves, especially when he's being a low key anarchist.
– Lives in Mott Haven, Bronx

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Elias 'Eli' Sandoval

[attr="class","dropfrumbodytxt"]WHO AM I?
Family comes first, but which family? The family you're born with, or the family you end up choosing? Sometimes, the firstborn son doesn't have all its perks. They say the first child has its traits. Overprotective, spoiled, attention-seeking, the kind of character with a drive and leadership qualities, with a sense of responsibility that the younger ones might not have. Elias embodies many of these things. It's a difficult thing, coming from a lineage of werewolves, and even more difficult when one's father was a skipped gene. His parents were never werewolves, so when he discovered his wolf at the age of ten, his parents didn't know what to do. It seemed to open a pandora's box to family issues that had never been there; he was sent to live with his grandparents outside of the city, to learn to control his werewolf. His grandparents were strict, but in a sense, their home became his. He always resented the way his father looked at him like he was a disappointment as if he was a bargaining chip to hold against his grandfather, and in a sense, he still resents the man. Out of his immediate family, he's only protective of his younger sister, the polar opposite of the cool, calm demeanor he had learned to place. On the outside, he has a need to uphold the family honor, to be the inheritance of the lineage he was blessed with, something that he takes very seriously. He's very precise and detail-oriented when it comes to holding the facade of normalcy in the eyes of other people, both werewolves and humans alike. He is a determined person, hard-working for the things he desires, but the determination can change into a certain sense of stubbornness. If he wants it, he's certain to get it. The man isn't necessarily a model of a moral compass either; he does what needs to be done for his family. As they say, the firstborn son doesn't always get its perks; while he's usually the model of chill and collected, he gets the temper he tries so hard to control, he gets the responsibility of upholding this facade, that everything is okay. He doesn't get the chance to truly be who he wants to be, trapped in this cycle of holding up the necessary masculinity for the show, but Elias deals with it. He always has, and he always will.


VITALS:
STRENGTHS: Pretty good control of his wolf, a large boi™ in the first place, protective, leadership qualities
WEAKNESSES: His daddy issues™, doesn't exactly know how to open up when he's struggling, has a temper, a bit of a control freak on aspects of his life
OTHER: Neutral Good
SPOTIFY TOP TRACKS: Mixed, he likes his folk music as much as he likes his RnB

OTHER:
– a wholesome lad who leads the pup scouts on the weekends tbh
– lives in Astoria, drives everywhere tbh because he's a physio and some of his patients are home-visits
– middle class-ish? He's a physio tho so prob lmfao