Post by miliat on Sept 12, 2008 13:49:56 GMT -5
Character's Name (Nicknames): Donovan Sinclair
Gender: Male
Age: 17
Category: Werewolf
Sexual Orientation: Bi-Curious but tends towards the ladies.
Family: Dead, see history.
Character History: Donovan was one of those kids looking forward to his 18th birthday. He knew that once he turned 18, he could be on his own, and maybe, he would be able to take his little brother with him.
Donovan's mother died when he was 7 and his little brother was 4. The police seemed to believe it had been an accidental overdose, but Donovan knew it wasn't an accident. His father, a drunk and an abuser, would beat the hell out of his wife nightly. His mother just couldn't take it anymore, and he watched her swallow the pills from the bed he and his brother shared in the corner of the small trailers living room. She came and laid down in that tiny bed with them, curling her arms around them both. When Donovan woke up, his mothers arms were cold around him. It was a traumatic experience for a child, and Donovan blocked most of that out of his mind.
It only took his father three weeks until he started beating him. He dealt with the physical pain of it, and he became a shield to his younger brother. David was the only thing that he cared about, the only thing left in the world that mattered. He got used to going numb at the beatings, to accepting them as part of everyday life, and then his father went a step further. Along with daily physical abuse, Donovan suffered now at the hands of his father's sexual proclivities. Outside of the home Donovan was more or less a zombie, he made average grades, and kept to himself. At home, he was a shield and a victim.
On his 17th birthday, the great forest fires were raging near their home. The rest of their neighbors had evacuated, but his father wouldn't let them abandon their home. Donovan got his jaw broken and told to go back to bed. He eventually drifted to sleep watching the orange glow of the skyline. He woke up to smoke, and the trailer on fire. His brother David was unconscious next to him, and he tried to wake him up. He couldn't rouse him so he began to drag him to the door, kicking it open. The smoke burned his eyes, the fire singed his skin, all that mattered was to get David out, to save his brother.
The entire park was in flames, and Donovan didn't go back in to try and save his father. He sat there on the ground watching the trailer burn, as he felt his brothers raspy breathing in his arms. Then a crash was coming through the forest of flames, and this agonized howling scream. Donovan didn't know what the creature was, or what it could have been before it was covered in fire. All he knew was that it was a living nightmare. He felt his flesh burning, felt teeth ripping into him, felt his brother torn from his arms, then blackness.
A few days later Donovan woke up in a hospital, his torso was bound and he had bandages all over various parts of his body. The doctors told him that he was the only survivor found, that he must have been attacked by a wolf that had gotten trapped in the flaming woods. All Donovan could think of was that he was the only survivor he found. Years of being the victim of his father to save his brother, and now David was dead.
Miraculously a week later, most of his wounds and burns had healed. They released him from the hospital with a few pieces of clothes and a pat on the back. Donovan had no home to go back to, had nothing at all. He wandered the streets of the small town, occasionally staying in the homeless shelter. The years of being empty, being friendless, only became aggravated as he slowly found an anger burning inside him he had never known before.
A month after losing the last of his family, and his home, Donovan changed. He had found a small overcrop of trees in the woods near town to stay under, he thought he just had a fever. Then the pain, the rage, and then he wasn't Donovan anymore, he was a wolf. He hunted, he ran, and he was free.
Since his change, Donovan has been running north, and has yet to go back to human form. He's currently lost in the wolf, lost in his new existence.
Character Appearance: As a wolf, he is a dark gray color, with flecks of silver. As a human he is of average height, 5'11-6' with bright blue eyes and a messy light brown hair.
Strengths/Weaknesses: He's nothing special, just a newly made werewolf. Thats all.
Personality: Currently, his personality is shy, he's been a victim his entire life, it shows in his face, but with his change, when he is the wolf he's more daring, he feels like he is a different person completely.