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PLAYER
✧ NAME: Koke
✧ LJ USERNAME: kokanshu
✧ CONTACT (EMAIL, AIM, MSN, PLURK, ETC.): email: kokanshu@gmail.com; aim: galahadfalling; msn: kokanshu@gmail.com; plurk: amaurosis
✧ CURRENT MUSE LIST: None.
CHARACTER
✧ NAME: Kelly Bridge
✧ SERIES: Original - Land's End, crossing over with The Morrisons.
Land's End is a city set in a world that's much like ours in terms of time, technology and supernatural or magical elements. As part of a personal meta experiment into the glorifying and idolisation of certain behaviours and cultures, the continent does not exist in our world but still interacts or overlaps with parts of our world, like media and politics. Imagine a film or TV show where the setting is never stated or shown through landmarks - this could be anywhere or nowhere.
Land's End was once a sleepy fishing village that grew into a flourishing tourist haven when word of the idyllic beaches spread. However, the long, empty beaches had also made it a good place for black market shipping, and as the city grew, the darker elements wound themselves into the roots and corrupted it all the way up. Now, Land's End is a beautiful coastal city, boasting warm weather all year round, perfect beaches, a thriving tourist industry that feeds hundreds of leisure businesses, restaurants, clubs and hotels. It's also completely infested with organised crime and gangs. The larger and more powerful families keep control of the local police and politicians, while the local people usually find themselves dealing with some aspect of the city's underbelly, and a large majority of the kids are sucked into the gangs at a young age.
The gang culture in the city revolves mostly around petty crimes, vandalism and petty theft, underage drinking, trespassing and public disorder. They are responsible for most of the drug trade in the city. Violence is often key, but there is a tenuous balance between the necessity to represent power and not drawing too much attention. There is an emphasis on knife fights and strange physical feats, blindfold races through the city or freerunning competitions.
✧ HISTORY: Kelly is the youngest of three brothers born to Katherine and Alaster Bridge. Successful young professionals, both working reasonably high up in large businesses, Katie and Alaster decided to buy a large house in the most expensive part of Land's End, West Hill, to start a family. However, after popping out three kids, both Katie and Alaster decided to go back to work, leaving their sons under the care of a series of nannies chosen for their professionalism and efficiency, rather than much emotional care.
Throughout Kelly's childhood, his parents were usually only seen for a few hours at dinner, if they weren't out on business trips or using the weekends to 'take time for themselves'. When they were interacting with their children, emphasis was placed on pre-education and developmental learning, moving on to achievements when they entered school, and nannies were expected to keep much the same pressures.
While most definitely a bright, quick boy, Kelly quickly grew disillusioned with working hard at school due to the lack of support he had from his parents and the fact that nothing ever seemed to be quite good enough. His level of reading skills progressing quite rapidly, he soon began to retreat into books, fantasy and sci-fi novels, while also acting out at school in order to get the attention from his peers that he never quite seemed to get at home. By the time he hit his teens, he was regularly playing truant and wandering into the more dangerous parts of Land's End, far from his expensive home and school.
When he was thirteen, this behaviour led him to cross paths with Matthew White, an older boy and East Hill gang member. Matt's freedom and lack of care for rules or law had Kelly quickly hero-worshipping him, as well as harbouring something of a crush. Matt noticed this and took advantage of it, giving Kelly all of the attention he so desperately wanted as well as giving him outlets for his rebellious streak, and soon had Kelly dealing drugs at his school and West Hill neighbourhood. They were something like friends, for a while, and as Kelly grew up and began experimenting with (and accepting) his sexuality, Matt was the one he turned to.
However, Matt was also busy fighting his way up the ladder in East Hill, and the increasingly violent and turbulent behaviour needed to make his name saw him go through a series of psychotic breaks, becoming more and more unstable. He made it to the top of the hill, but had lost most of his sanity along the way, becoming vicious and violent at the drop of a hat. This behaviour had him fostering an impressive reputation which no one else could touch, leaving him the leader of the gang for far longer than anyone else had ever boasted. In this time, however, his attentions towards Kelly had turned physically abusive and emotionally dead. While no one in the gangs really spoke about their relationship, everyone knew what was going on, but no one would question Matt. Kelly was left alone with his scars, unable to do anything against Matt but fearful of running away should he come after him.
It was at this point that he met Eden Morrison. Initially finding her a weird, creepy girl, he ignored all her attempts at friendship and actively rebuffed her, especially when she demonstrated some of her more supernatural abilities. Her persistence as well as her obvious loneliness and lack of understanding of social norms eventually had him opening up to her. As his friendship with her grew, her brothers became curious, but it was Othniel who began to see time with Kelly as the same sort of escape that Eden had. Eden's miscarriage, the effects it had on her and the second pregnancy so soon after only strengthened his relationship with the two youngest Morrisons, understanding on some level that they were trapped much like he was.
In the nine months of Eden's second pregnancy, Matt's abuse of Kelly became steadily more severe. Both Eden and Othniel had offered to rescue Kelly from the situation using their magic, but it was only shortly after Sapphira's birth that he accepted this and the repercussions that he expected would come from it. The Morrisons cloaked Kelly, hiding him from Matthew and anyone he might send after him, the magic keeping him invisible and untouchable to them. It took Kelly a while to adjust, but he realises his new freedom and begins to look at his life afresh.
In the next ten years, Kelly grew out from under the shadow he'd been living with, gaining confidence and strength in himself. He finished high school and used money from his parents to set up a restaurant. His relationship with Eden and Othniel only growing stronger, especially as his connection to Othniel became romantic, he began a strange black-market trade in items, substances and creatures more familiar to the Morrisons' world.
Ten years was the stipulation placed on Eden regarding the Morrisons' agreement with Christopher Bonheur, however, and after they were up and Eden's twins were born, her mother and sisters were quick to have Kelly finally pay his due. Never fully settled with the laws of the family Eden and Othniel are a part of, Kelly was still resistant and reluctant, and after the act was done, took great anger from the fact Othniel made no move to stop it, still determined to hide the power he possessed. Compelled to push him to do something and test his love, Kelly ran away. After some nudging from Eden, Othniel went after him, placing magical 'wires' around his heart and bringing him home.
More assured about his place with Othniel and Eden, and finding quite a bit of joy in being a father when Qetzi'ah is born, all three come to the decision to have a second child. Kandake is Eden's last child, and the only one she truly consents to. All three settle into raising the girls together, lives split between the hill and the city.
✧ TIMELINE: He's thirty-one. Qetzi'ah is a year and a bit, Kandake is a few months old.
✧ PERSONALITY: Kelly has been through a lot and taken a long time to truly settle in his skin. He wears the scars of his past demons, and where previously they would have weighed him down with shame, he keeps them with confidence. He views them as signs that he has survived, built his own life and flourished. He feels no uncertainties about himself or his life anymore, is quietly content with what he has, has seen too many gangs come and go to view unchecked ambition as anything else than a quick way to dig your own grave.
He is pragmatic in his decision making, looks at situations realistically to work out possible solutions and possible outcomes in order to be prepared should something not go the way he intends. That isn't to say he isn't optimistic though, generally holds to the idea that the good in life outweighs the bad, and that every cloud has a silver lining. But he doesn't buy into pipe-dreams or empty positive thinking, thinks those are as quick a way to ruin yourself as worrying about everything and having a depressed outlook on life. He doesn't like to let people take themselves too seriously, has a light-hearted sense of humour and will poke well-meaning fun at people he knows. This can turn to sarcasm with people he dislikes or thinks are unredeemable in their big-headedness.
He is intelligent, sharp, and well-read, despite not doing well in an academic setting. After years in the gangs and dealing with shadier individuals in his trading business, he also has a lot of street-smarts, and tends to be quite good at reading people. He still has something of a rebellious streak and does not do well with authority, whether that is the law in the city or the law of the Hill. He doesn't shy away from confrontation that he believes is necessary, regardless of consequences, something which usually sees his visits to the Hill carefully guided by Eden and Othniel so he doesn't cross paths with their mother or eldest sister.
Under all the strength and confidence, Kelly is still emotionally needy, hungry for the attention and love that he didn't receive from his parents. The wires around his heart help support him from this, he flourishes in Othniel's possessiveness, but being so closely entangled with a Morrison has corrupted him, seen parts of his personality turn slowly darker over time.
He has his own possessiveness, over Othniel and his daughters, though with Othniel it can take the form of pushing or testing Othniel to act, his running away and receiving the wire spell being the biggest display of this. He can sometimes be cold and aloof where previously he would have been compassionate, and can be ruthless in his trade dealings where before he might have allowed some compromise. He's learnt over his life living in Land's End to turn a blind eye to a lot of incidents, but when he was younger often tried to help people out of bad situations. It takes a lot more to stir him to action now, and his looking-the-other way has extended to a lot of the activities that he's now aware go on at the Hill. He recognises the depths of the Morrisons' depravity, but doesn't comment on it or the acts that he knows occur, instead avoids them as much as he's able. He's irrevocably tied to the Morrisons now, and would rather stay in the hopes of being a better guide to his daughters than attempt to cross the family or run away again.
He tells himself this, but he has never truly contemplated running, doesn't truly recognise the changes the dirt has made in him, has been insidiously and inescapably tied down.
✧ ABILITIES/POWERS: Kelly is a normal human being, but he has spent a lot of time with gangs and a lot of time with witches. He's good in a fight, either with his fists or a knife. He has done a lot of reading into supernatural matters, myths and folklore, and has seen a lot of things close hand, has a reasonably good understanding of witchlore and symbology without being able to truly practice any himself.
The 'wires' spell around his heart marks him as possessed and protected by the Morrison clan.
✧ TIME OF ARRIVAL: Day.
✧ MASK DESIGN: here.
✧ PLACE OF SOLACE: A beach cinema, complete with all the films Kelly can remember.
SAMPLES
✧ FIRST PERSON: We're heading into the rainy season now. I should get the girls down, take them out to the theatre before it shuts. Not that they've got any problem with people sitting there with umbrellas, but the sound gets muffled in the rain. I think they're showing The Little Mermaid next Tuesday. That one's got some nice messages on freedom, but I wonder if I should avoid Disney. It's just a little concerning how witches are portrayed, I suppose. Eden and Niel could probably handle it, but I don't want to ask them. I doubt I'd get a straight answer, or they'd even understand fully. And I don't want to be asked questions back.
I don't want the girls to feel hated, but, more than that -- fuck, I hate myself for thinking this -- I don't want them to get any ideas. They're not really old enough to be forming ideas of their own, but even if there's any chance of leaving an impression on them, I don't want it to be about stealing someone's voice or locking them away behind a forest of thorns.
It's Pixar week at the King Charles. I'll take them to see Wall-E instead.
✧ THIRD PERSON: The drive up to the hill is a long one, but Kelly is long used to it, familiar with the way the city opens out into countryside, how the trees begin to slowly thicken out along the edges of the road, until he's surrounded by the forest and the mountains the Morrisons call home. He was worried about getting lost, the first few times, doubted trying to put the location into a GPS would work, and the roads leading up to the house grew thinner and trickier the closer he got, odd paths that seemed to disappear off into the gloom. But he had never taken a wrong turning, never got lost. Eden had told him once that the hill was impenetrable when all of the clan were home. He wonders if there's something in that, if his welcome is what guides him, gives him the right path to follow.
The car is loaded with the usual fare, groceries that have been asked for, odd things from the modern world that have somehow come up in conversation and he's made the mental note to bring, and of course, pizzas. It's grown to include children's things, clothes and books, toys that are meant to help pre-developmental learning. He's seen Eden's mother and sisters look at the toys disdainfully, used to whatever way they have been teaching their children here for however long, and even Eden and Othniel had seemed confused by them, but no one stops him. He can lavish his children with as many gifts as he likes, teach them as much about life off the hill as he likes, just as long as he doesn't expect them to come and live it with him.
But he doesn't expect that, knows he can't leave entirely himself anymore, if he would have ever been able to after that first meeting with Eden. His life is inextricably interwoven with the hill, now. A talisman Othniel gave him hanging from his rear-view mirror, the box full of strange substances and objects he was requested to acquire through his trading kept carefully separate in the back of the car, the strings around his heart that Othniel has the habit of tugging randomly through the day, the baby daughters he keeps photos of on his noticeboard at work. Just as hopelessly trapped as he was with Matt, though the signs of it will never be as visible as the scars on his back, and he just doesn't feel it. Has a family, a lover, employees that worry he has a heart condition, dark strings slowly sinking deeper into his soul, and he's happy.
The drive up to the hill is a long one, but he sings along to the radio the entire way there.
✧ ORIGINAL CHARACTER QUESTION: Kelly will be alarmed at first, but he's adaptable and has a lot of experience with magic. He's been reading Sci-Fi and Fantasy since he was able to read, so he has some escapist tendencies, and a curiosity that will have him feeling quite a bit of excitement for being in such a place, and he'll be exploring as soon as he can. However, he will still be concerned about getting home to his daughters, and that will start to weigh on him quickly.
✧ NAME: Koke
✧ LJ USERNAME: kokanshu
✧ CONTACT (EMAIL, AIM, MSN, PLURK, ETC.): email: kokanshu@gmail.com; aim: galahadfalling; msn: kokanshu@gmail.com; plurk: amaurosis
✧ CURRENT MUSE LIST: None.
CHARACTER
✧ NAME: Kelly Bridge
✧ SERIES: Original - Land's End, crossing over with The Morrisons.
Land's End is a city set in a world that's much like ours in terms of time, technology and supernatural or magical elements. As part of a personal meta experiment into the glorifying and idolisation of certain behaviours and cultures, the continent does not exist in our world but still interacts or overlaps with parts of our world, like media and politics. Imagine a film or TV show where the setting is never stated or shown through landmarks - this could be anywhere or nowhere.
Land's End was once a sleepy fishing village that grew into a flourishing tourist haven when word of the idyllic beaches spread. However, the long, empty beaches had also made it a good place for black market shipping, and as the city grew, the darker elements wound themselves into the roots and corrupted it all the way up. Now, Land's End is a beautiful coastal city, boasting warm weather all year round, perfect beaches, a thriving tourist industry that feeds hundreds of leisure businesses, restaurants, clubs and hotels. It's also completely infested with organised crime and gangs. The larger and more powerful families keep control of the local police and politicians, while the local people usually find themselves dealing with some aspect of the city's underbelly, and a large majority of the kids are sucked into the gangs at a young age.
The gang culture in the city revolves mostly around petty crimes, vandalism and petty theft, underage drinking, trespassing and public disorder. They are responsible for most of the drug trade in the city. Violence is often key, but there is a tenuous balance between the necessity to represent power and not drawing too much attention. There is an emphasis on knife fights and strange physical feats, blindfold races through the city or freerunning competitions.
✧ HISTORY: Kelly is the youngest of three brothers born to Katherine and Alaster Bridge. Successful young professionals, both working reasonably high up in large businesses, Katie and Alaster decided to buy a large house in the most expensive part of Land's End, West Hill, to start a family. However, after popping out three kids, both Katie and Alaster decided to go back to work, leaving their sons under the care of a series of nannies chosen for their professionalism and efficiency, rather than much emotional care.
Throughout Kelly's childhood, his parents were usually only seen for a few hours at dinner, if they weren't out on business trips or using the weekends to 'take time for themselves'. When they were interacting with their children, emphasis was placed on pre-education and developmental learning, moving on to achievements when they entered school, and nannies were expected to keep much the same pressures.
While most definitely a bright, quick boy, Kelly quickly grew disillusioned with working hard at school due to the lack of support he had from his parents and the fact that nothing ever seemed to be quite good enough. His level of reading skills progressing quite rapidly, he soon began to retreat into books, fantasy and sci-fi novels, while also acting out at school in order to get the attention from his peers that he never quite seemed to get at home. By the time he hit his teens, he was regularly playing truant and wandering into the more dangerous parts of Land's End, far from his expensive home and school.
When he was thirteen, this behaviour led him to cross paths with Matthew White, an older boy and East Hill gang member. Matt's freedom and lack of care for rules or law had Kelly quickly hero-worshipping him, as well as harbouring something of a crush. Matt noticed this and took advantage of it, giving Kelly all of the attention he so desperately wanted as well as giving him outlets for his rebellious streak, and soon had Kelly dealing drugs at his school and West Hill neighbourhood. They were something like friends, for a while, and as Kelly grew up and began experimenting with (and accepting) his sexuality, Matt was the one he turned to.
However, Matt was also busy fighting his way up the ladder in East Hill, and the increasingly violent and turbulent behaviour needed to make his name saw him go through a series of psychotic breaks, becoming more and more unstable. He made it to the top of the hill, but had lost most of his sanity along the way, becoming vicious and violent at the drop of a hat. This behaviour had him fostering an impressive reputation which no one else could touch, leaving him the leader of the gang for far longer than anyone else had ever boasted. In this time, however, his attentions towards Kelly had turned physically abusive and emotionally dead. While no one in the gangs really spoke about their relationship, everyone knew what was going on, but no one would question Matt. Kelly was left alone with his scars, unable to do anything against Matt but fearful of running away should he come after him.
It was at this point that he met Eden Morrison. Initially finding her a weird, creepy girl, he ignored all her attempts at friendship and actively rebuffed her, especially when she demonstrated some of her more supernatural abilities. Her persistence as well as her obvious loneliness and lack of understanding of social norms eventually had him opening up to her. As his friendship with her grew, her brothers became curious, but it was Othniel who began to see time with Kelly as the same sort of escape that Eden had. Eden's miscarriage, the effects it had on her and the second pregnancy so soon after only strengthened his relationship with the two youngest Morrisons, understanding on some level that they were trapped much like he was.
In the nine months of Eden's second pregnancy, Matt's abuse of Kelly became steadily more severe. Both Eden and Othniel had offered to rescue Kelly from the situation using their magic, but it was only shortly after Sapphira's birth that he accepted this and the repercussions that he expected would come from it. The Morrisons cloaked Kelly, hiding him from Matthew and anyone he might send after him, the magic keeping him invisible and untouchable to them. It took Kelly a while to adjust, but he realises his new freedom and begins to look at his life afresh.
In the next ten years, Kelly grew out from under the shadow he'd been living with, gaining confidence and strength in himself. He finished high school and used money from his parents to set up a restaurant. His relationship with Eden and Othniel only growing stronger, especially as his connection to Othniel became romantic, he began a strange black-market trade in items, substances and creatures more familiar to the Morrisons' world.
Ten years was the stipulation placed on Eden regarding the Morrisons' agreement with Christopher Bonheur, however, and after they were up and Eden's twins were born, her mother and sisters were quick to have Kelly finally pay his due. Never fully settled with the laws of the family Eden and Othniel are a part of, Kelly was still resistant and reluctant, and after the act was done, took great anger from the fact Othniel made no move to stop it, still determined to hide the power he possessed. Compelled to push him to do something and test his love, Kelly ran away. After some nudging from Eden, Othniel went after him, placing magical 'wires' around his heart and bringing him home.
More assured about his place with Othniel and Eden, and finding quite a bit of joy in being a father when Qetzi'ah is born, all three come to the decision to have a second child. Kandake is Eden's last child, and the only one she truly consents to. All three settle into raising the girls together, lives split between the hill and the city.
✧ TIMELINE: He's thirty-one. Qetzi'ah is a year and a bit, Kandake is a few months old.
✧ PERSONALITY: Kelly has been through a lot and taken a long time to truly settle in his skin. He wears the scars of his past demons, and where previously they would have weighed him down with shame, he keeps them with confidence. He views them as signs that he has survived, built his own life and flourished. He feels no uncertainties about himself or his life anymore, is quietly content with what he has, has seen too many gangs come and go to view unchecked ambition as anything else than a quick way to dig your own grave.
He is pragmatic in his decision making, looks at situations realistically to work out possible solutions and possible outcomes in order to be prepared should something not go the way he intends. That isn't to say he isn't optimistic though, generally holds to the idea that the good in life outweighs the bad, and that every cloud has a silver lining. But he doesn't buy into pipe-dreams or empty positive thinking, thinks those are as quick a way to ruin yourself as worrying about everything and having a depressed outlook on life. He doesn't like to let people take themselves too seriously, has a light-hearted sense of humour and will poke well-meaning fun at people he knows. This can turn to sarcasm with people he dislikes or thinks are unredeemable in their big-headedness.
He is intelligent, sharp, and well-read, despite not doing well in an academic setting. After years in the gangs and dealing with shadier individuals in his trading business, he also has a lot of street-smarts, and tends to be quite good at reading people. He still has something of a rebellious streak and does not do well with authority, whether that is the law in the city or the law of the Hill. He doesn't shy away from confrontation that he believes is necessary, regardless of consequences, something which usually sees his visits to the Hill carefully guided by Eden and Othniel so he doesn't cross paths with their mother or eldest sister.
Under all the strength and confidence, Kelly is still emotionally needy, hungry for the attention and love that he didn't receive from his parents. The wires around his heart help support him from this, he flourishes in Othniel's possessiveness, but being so closely entangled with a Morrison has corrupted him, seen parts of his personality turn slowly darker over time.
He has his own possessiveness, over Othniel and his daughters, though with Othniel it can take the form of pushing or testing Othniel to act, his running away and receiving the wire spell being the biggest display of this. He can sometimes be cold and aloof where previously he would have been compassionate, and can be ruthless in his trade dealings where before he might have allowed some compromise. He's learnt over his life living in Land's End to turn a blind eye to a lot of incidents, but when he was younger often tried to help people out of bad situations. It takes a lot more to stir him to action now, and his looking-the-other way has extended to a lot of the activities that he's now aware go on at the Hill. He recognises the depths of the Morrisons' depravity, but doesn't comment on it or the acts that he knows occur, instead avoids them as much as he's able. He's irrevocably tied to the Morrisons now, and would rather stay in the hopes of being a better guide to his daughters than attempt to cross the family or run away again.
He tells himself this, but he has never truly contemplated running, doesn't truly recognise the changes the dirt has made in him, has been insidiously and inescapably tied down.
✧ ABILITIES/POWERS: Kelly is a normal human being, but he has spent a lot of time with gangs and a lot of time with witches. He's good in a fight, either with his fists or a knife. He has done a lot of reading into supernatural matters, myths and folklore, and has seen a lot of things close hand, has a reasonably good understanding of witchlore and symbology without being able to truly practice any himself.
The 'wires' spell around his heart marks him as possessed and protected by the Morrison clan.
✧ TIME OF ARRIVAL: Day.
✧ MASK DESIGN: here.
✧ PLACE OF SOLACE: A beach cinema, complete with all the films Kelly can remember.
SAMPLES
✧ FIRST PERSON: We're heading into the rainy season now. I should get the girls down, take them out to the theatre before it shuts. Not that they've got any problem with people sitting there with umbrellas, but the sound gets muffled in the rain. I think they're showing The Little Mermaid next Tuesday. That one's got some nice messages on freedom, but I wonder if I should avoid Disney. It's just a little concerning how witches are portrayed, I suppose. Eden and Niel could probably handle it, but I don't want to ask them. I doubt I'd get a straight answer, or they'd even understand fully. And I don't want to be asked questions back.
I don't want the girls to feel hated, but, more than that -- fuck, I hate myself for thinking this -- I don't want them to get any ideas. They're not really old enough to be forming ideas of their own, but even if there's any chance of leaving an impression on them, I don't want it to be about stealing someone's voice or locking them away behind a forest of thorns.
It's Pixar week at the King Charles. I'll take them to see Wall-E instead.
✧ THIRD PERSON: The drive up to the hill is a long one, but Kelly is long used to it, familiar with the way the city opens out into countryside, how the trees begin to slowly thicken out along the edges of the road, until he's surrounded by the forest and the mountains the Morrisons call home. He was worried about getting lost, the first few times, doubted trying to put the location into a GPS would work, and the roads leading up to the house grew thinner and trickier the closer he got, odd paths that seemed to disappear off into the gloom. But he had never taken a wrong turning, never got lost. Eden had told him once that the hill was impenetrable when all of the clan were home. He wonders if there's something in that, if his welcome is what guides him, gives him the right path to follow.
The car is loaded with the usual fare, groceries that have been asked for, odd things from the modern world that have somehow come up in conversation and he's made the mental note to bring, and of course, pizzas. It's grown to include children's things, clothes and books, toys that are meant to help pre-developmental learning. He's seen Eden's mother and sisters look at the toys disdainfully, used to whatever way they have been teaching their children here for however long, and even Eden and Othniel had seemed confused by them, but no one stops him. He can lavish his children with as many gifts as he likes, teach them as much about life off the hill as he likes, just as long as he doesn't expect them to come and live it with him.
But he doesn't expect that, knows he can't leave entirely himself anymore, if he would have ever been able to after that first meeting with Eden. His life is inextricably interwoven with the hill, now. A talisman Othniel gave him hanging from his rear-view mirror, the box full of strange substances and objects he was requested to acquire through his trading kept carefully separate in the back of the car, the strings around his heart that Othniel has the habit of tugging randomly through the day, the baby daughters he keeps photos of on his noticeboard at work. Just as hopelessly trapped as he was with Matt, though the signs of it will never be as visible as the scars on his back, and he just doesn't feel it. Has a family, a lover, employees that worry he has a heart condition, dark strings slowly sinking deeper into his soul, and he's happy.
The drive up to the hill is a long one, but he sings along to the radio the entire way there.
✧ ORIGINAL CHARACTER QUESTION: Kelly will be alarmed at first, but he's adaptable and has a lot of experience with magic. He's been reading Sci-Fi and Fantasy since he was able to read, so he has some escapist tendencies, and a curiosity that will have him feeling quite a bit of excitement for being in such a place, and he'll be exploring as soon as he can. However, he will still be concerned about getting home to his daughters, and that will start to weigh on him quickly.