strangehouse @ 2008-02-25T00:25:00

2008-02-25T06:28:36Z

ATWATER hunter (werewolf - alpha) → 45 → Hunter Atwater was born in Cold Water Flats on November 5th, 1962. His mother, Arabella Atwater, was the first female werewolf to ever give birth, making Hunter the first full blooded werewolf and the only of his kind. In her day, she was a hollywood starlett akin to Marilyn Monroe. Deciding one weekend that she needed a weekend away from the world of glamor, she took a trip to Cold Water Flats to stay in a renowned bed and breakfast. What she didn't know was that this little trip to Cold Water was going to change her life, for better or worse. One of the wolves in the Cold Water Flats pack had an unhealthy obsession with her and when he realized she was in town managed to lure her away from her escort. Arabella, completely unfamiliar with the woods in the area, managed to get completely lost in the woods territory. That was when the wolf decided to make his move. He chased her in the direction of the pack house only to brutally attack her just as she thought she was safe. Carter, the current pack Alpha managed to stop the wolf before he killed her and took her back to the house to try and save her life. To survive a werewolf was extremely rare so no one held their breath but Arabella slowly came around. Because of her new found lycanthropy she was unable to return to her life in the limelight and decided to stay with the pack in Cold Water Flats. Slowly, she fell for the pack Alpha and soon enough she was pregnant with her first son.

Hunter was just four years old when the pack was outed to a group of anti-preternatural humans who happened to know the secrets of the supernatural world. In an attempt to expose the werewolves the group raided the wolves around the pack's home, managing to take a few of the wolves down with heavy doses of tranquilizer. Hunter was one of the few that ended up being taken by the group for experimentation. It took the combined efforts of the remaining wolves to track down and reclaim their packmates. Hunter made it home without any long lasting physical damage but he was a little mentally scarred. It didn't help that shortly after his rescue, Hunter's father, who was injured from a dominance fight, was killed by a mutt over a territory issue. The death of his father only sent him further into his own little world and he withdrew himself from the rest of the pack. Not knowing what else to do his mother stepped up to the plate and took over the pack, wanting to ensure the safety of the wolves and of her son.

For the first several years of his life after that, Hunter didn't speak. Despite his lack of verbal communication however, he proved to be a rather intelligent child. He was never fit for school but Arabella taught him at home. Unsure of how to break him out of his shell, she asked another of the wolves to help out with Hunter. Tristan Fairchild became something of a mentor to Hunter and he helped bring Hunter around. As he continued working with the boy he also developed a relationship with Arabella and together they had another son, Austin. This more than anything brought Hunter back out of his shell as he had someone to look after and help raise. From there on out the brothers had an ordinary life. As ordinary as a werewolf's life can be anyway. At eighteen Hunter headed off to college, not venturing very far however, at Cold Water Flats University. It was there that he earned a degree in Anthropology. Finding that he was very well suited for formal education he continued on to get a masters at Harvard and a PhD at Stanford. When he had graduated for a third time he got a job, one he could do for home, editing peer reviewed journals in the subject of Anthropology. Along with some wise investments of his small monthly income, Hunter added to the future that had belonged to the pack since it's conception.

Life was good to Hunter for the next several years, but shortly after his thirty-fifth birthday, his mother passed away. She was only sixty, a very young age for a werewolf, and the circumstances of her death were very mysterious. No one really talks about it because of how devastating it was to the pack. Hunter, doing the only thing he knew to do, stepped up to take over the pack. For the past five years he'd been the Alpha of the Cold Water Flats pack. Just recently however problems have arisen surrounding the anti-preternatural group that abducted him as a child. After saving the rest of his pack, Hunter once again fell into their hands. For months he was missing but he returned recently, emaciated and weak, but alive. Although he wont talk about what happened, Hunter will say that he took care of the problem and to leave it alone. Now he is just trying to hold things together as he regains his strength.

ESTRADA gael (werewolf) → 17 → Mutts were never very responsible with their progeny and Dominik Estrada was no different. After the birth of his son, he took the boy away from his mother and tried his best to raise the kid like he should have been raised. Traveling several states away to ensure that the woman never found him or the little boy, Dominik tried to build a small family for himself and his son. It was as close to a pack as he would be able to get without swallowing his pride and joining the wolf pack. What he hadn't realized at the time was that children were often very difficult to handle and within a month he had come to the decision that it was too hard to bother with Gael. Rather than taking the kid back to his mother, he abandoned him. The little boy was turned over to the state after he was found at the truck stop where Dominik had dropped him off. Shuffled into the California state foster system, Gael was lost for a few years.

Moving from foster home to foster home, the little boy didn't have any real sense of stability until he met the James family. With foster parents that lived next door to them, Gael was always over at their house, playing with Winnie. And when his foster parents decided they couldn't keep him any longer, Winnie begged her dad to take Gael in and when he was ten the little boy was finally adopted and given the first real family he'd ever know. And things were great. At least until he hit puberty and everything started to change. Nearing the end of his seventeenth year, Gael had his first shift. Not knowing what was happening or what to do, he just disappeared into the woods. His shifts were erratic and difficult and he was very nearly driven insane by them. That was until Hunter found him and took him back to wolf haven.

At first Gael struggled with fitting in with all the wolves. His relationship with Wendell put a strain on the rest of the pack and he became something of an outsider. It also didn't help that Sullivan and Austin had taken to picking on him, especially Austin. When Winnie came to the pack Gael couldn't help but feel insanely guilty over the fact that she'd very nearly died at Sullivan's hands and that now she had to deal with being a werewolf as well. His only saving grace was working for Felix and getting to meet Campbell at the record store. The two have been attached at the hip, save for the few weeks of disconnect when Campbell first found out about Gael being a werewolf. For now things have settled down and Gael has found his niche in the pack. He does what he can to stay out of the way of the more dominant wolves and he spends a lot of time at the record store, hanging around Felix and Campbell.

FAIRCHILD austin (werewolf) → 17 → The second of two sons, Austin Fairchild was born to Arabella Atwater and Tristan Fairchild. Like his brother, Austin was born a pureblood werewolf, but unlike his brother he has had the luxury of growing up with both of his parents. His life was a relatively simple one. For the first several years of his education he home schooled with his mother as he got better control over his wolf. While most werewolves didn't shift until they hit puberty, Austin was shifting from a very young age due to the purity of his blood. When he was able to control himself he was sent to public school with his best friend, Sullivan, another wolf of his age. The two were thick as thieves in their youth and only grew closer as they started to get older. Because of a strained relationship with his father, Sullivan was always around the house and Austin grew accustomed to spending every moment with him if possible. Of course this closeness started to develop into something as they entered into junior high school. Girls started taking notice of Austin but he only took notice of Sullivan. However, to keep up with his best friend he 'dated' girls his age and tried to live the life of a normal adolescent human.

Austin's world came crashing down when he was thirteen. A year away from high school and his mother was killed. No one other than her immediate family within the pack know of the causes but the result of it was a seriously damaged young wolf. To top things off, Tristan disappeared just days after they buried Arabella, leaving Austin without a mother and a father. Hunter did his best to try and help his brother but Austin pulled in on himself and started to change. He grew moody and quiet, refusing to even leave his room for days at a time. With the help of Sullivan and Hunter he slowly started to come around but the impact of losing his parents at the same time had a lasting effect. No longer caring about fitting in, Austin only ever interacted with the human students at his school when he wanted something out of them. He only dated for sexual gratification and his interested in Sullivan continued to evolve though he said nothing about it. Austin also started taking active interest in picking on the younger wolves. Though he more or less left Holden alone, he found great joy in terrorizing Robin, especially after Sullivan first shifted. Sullivan's first shift brought them even closer, giving Austin a frequent running partner and playmate for his shifts. But it wasn't until early this year that their relationship finally coalesced.

It happened one night. The two of them slept together and after that there was no turning back. It was by no means an easy relationship and things were further complicated by dominance issues as well as outside influences. They have a rocky relationship at best, one that was tested the most by Sullivan's relationship to Robin. When things very nearly ended between them, Austin proposed a road trip. Whether or not Sullivan went with him he was leaving the pack. Together the boys left, going on a Summer long vacation to the east coast. In their absence they completely missed Hunter's disappearance and return and now that he's back he's having a little bit of trouble dealing with the fact that he was gone during such a crucial time for the pack. He's also trying to deal with Sullivan and Robin still being an item now that they've returned.

sonny boy (vampire) → 57 → It was the summer of 1967, and seventeen year old Sonny Boy found himself on the ride of a lifetime with his sister. Drawn to the neighborhood of Haight-Ashbury like moths to a flame, the twins planned to spend their summer in a drug induced haze of free love. Unfortunately for the siblings, fate intervened. Late one evening they were at a party in the park, listening to live music, when Sonny Boy's sister was lured off by a suspicious looking guy. Sonny Boy was the last person to ever try and stifle his sister's sexual freedom but he started to worry and wandered off to look for them. He stumbled upon his sister just as the vampire finished draining her. The look in his sister's lifeless eyes was enough to nearly drive him mad. And no one believed his story either. Her death was ruled some freak accident and the more Sonny Boy protested and claimed he'd seen a vampire do it the more the authorities believed he'd gone mad. With no other options in sight because they couldn't identify the boy or his sister, Sonny Boy was committed to a psychiatric hospital. That was where he met Hugo.

Taking pity on the young boy, Hugo embraced Sonny Boy and brought him over to life as a kindred. The embrace did nothing to alleviate Sonny Boy's potential madness. If anything it solidified it. He escaped the hospital with Hugo and they made their way to the city of Venia. For the past forty years Sonny Boy has been completely dependent on Hugo.

wolfking

2008-02-21T09:09:55Z

Stay up late and we'd talk all night in the dark room lit by the TV light.
Through all the hard times in my life, those nights kept me alive.

strange house

strangehouse @ 2008-02-25T00:25:00

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