Full Name: Kieran Beverley
Nicknames: Sykes, Quicksilver (stage name)
Age: 26
Occupation: Stripper
Residency status:  LTR 
Species: Lycanthrope - Leopard
Status: Beta
Outed: Yes
Group: Member
Position: None

Eyes: Brown
Hair: Black 
Height: 5'8"
Weight: 185 lbs
Tattoos/piercings: None


Appearance: Sykes is back to the strapping lad he used to be, then some. Nights spending dancing on stage and several days a week being spent in the gym have toned and bulked him up. His long glossy mane is now shortened and usually put into a big bunch of spikes on his head. His eyes no longer hold sadness. He usually dress in casual t-shirts, jeans or cargo pants and trainers, except on formal occasions and at work. At work his costumes are more revealing and tantalizing to the eye, mainly consisting of PVC, mesh and leather.  

His leopard form is a snow leopard of the same size of an average one in the wild. His spots are black and there are patterns of spots above both his eyes which make it look like he has eyebrows. He has the unusual scent of evergreen forests; the usual snow leopard scent is of snow.

Personality: Sykes has mostly gotten over his time in the home, though it still lingers in his mind and causes him upset from time to time. He still gets the most pleasure out of life when performing for an audience and singing to himself. Trust is still something which needs to be earned from him but he isn’t as suspicious as he was anymore. He is still however completely submissive, mainly due to his power level and his respect for his dominants. 

His chronic dyslexia is still frustrating to him and he still has a tendency to lash out when angry with himself. He tends to now though only do this in private and not in public or in front of others. 

For the past four years, Baton Rogue has been his home, but home properly to him is the Bellevue Plantation. Having now totally gotten over his crush of Callie, he is planning on returning and rebuilding his life in the Big Easy. 

History: Kieren’s mother was a young, slim, gorgeous girl of sixteen, the type who turned heads as she passed and could have become a model had the seedy life not tempted her away. The temptation came in a young man, six years her senior, who slowly coaxed her into his world of sex and drugs and made her into a nightwalker who trolled the streets of New York, looking for their next pay cheque. He already had her heart when he persuaded her to move in with her and soon she was sharing his bed, amongst other things, and she shortly afterwards fall pregnant. That’s when things started to do wrong.

Only a few days after he was born, Kieran was left outside the local hospital in a cardboard, a message scrawled onto the side saying merely “Please take care of Kieran”. He was found shortly afterwards by staff and cared for until he was well enough to be sent to a home.

Kieran was a bubbly baby, always smiling and looking about as if interested in the world. It was just a pity that as the other babies and children start to be taken from the home, he was left behind. No one could figure out why but it was almost as if people were getting bad vibes off him or something, as if the word outcast was printed on his forehead. Soon it even started to affect him and as he grew up, the sunshine exterior the staff loved so much began to fade; it would never return.

Eventually he was adopted at five and went to school. It was soon found that not only did sweets or any sort of additives such as those found in drinks sent him hyperactive, but that he had learning difficulties. This caused him to at times become frustrated with himself and he soon became violent, lashing out and breaking anything in his way. He started to attack people and the last straw for his adoptive parents was when he bit his mother’s hand so hard, it punctuated the skin. He was sent to a children’s home where he would stay for only a few months before he was moved to another after attacking a boy with a broken plank of wood he had found in the homes’ garden.

The next few years were spent being tossed to and from different homes, occasionally being fostered but always being sent back. His learning disabilities became worse and at the age of ten, he was still unable to read or write; he couldn’t even spell his name. He got the nickname Sykes from his verbal outbursts and continuing violent tendencies, which were now getting him expelled from school. At one home he discovered drugs, first trying cannabis at twelve and smoking it in a group of trees at the end of the garden with some other boys. Later on, he experimented with different and harder types, eventually just going to heroin. He started to deal a few months after his fifteenth birthday but was discovered by staff; before they could move him, he fled into the night and onto the streets, where he hooked up with some fellow homeless people and continued to deal.

Little did Kieran realise, but his friends were in fact rogue leopards who were being hunted by the local pard. It was only months later, after the group had been attacked, that Kieran discovered the truth about his now dead friends. During the attack, he tried to defend his friends, earning himself a split arm and several nasty gashes to his torso. When he woke up, the gang had gone and his friends were all dead, butchered for not being part of something Kieran didn’t understand.

After the incident he struggled to pull himself together. He managed to spend a few days here and there in a safe house but the majority of the time was spent on the streets, wasting away on drugs. It was in a dingy back alley that he first shifted and he would never forget the experience, the seething pain. But the next day all his wounds had gone and he regained a small glimpse of hope.

Deciding to clean up his act, he stopped dealing drugs and went cold turkey, nearly relapsing several times but eventually he got through the other side. Once he was clean, he started to get money by stripping at local bars and clubs, earning a good reputation and having the stage name ‘Quicksilver’ because of his quick and smooth motions and the fact he appeared to not be affected as silver as much as other weres (fact was that he just got used to the pain). Through the club scene, he met a vampire called Magnetta one night who offered to give him a place to stay in exchange for being able to feed on him. He agreed eagerly and stayed with her for almost a year before she moved on.

Kieran decided it was time for him to move on too; there was no one left for him in New Year so he smuggled himself aboard a train and ended up in New Orleans. With no money and only the clothes on his back, it could be a case of same scenario, different streets for the young were if he isn’t careful.

Over the past four years Sykes has been through a lot. He’s come face to face with vampires again and only just not succumbed back to his old life. He’s OD’d and just survived. Just before Hurricane Katrina hit, he decided to move out of New Orleans and go travelling. His infatuation with Callie, even with the return of Jory, had refused to fade so he felt it best to get away for a while. 

He ended up in Baton Rogue, owning a living by dancing. One night he met Simon, a local who was living in an apartment nearby the bar he was dancing in. A couple of months later, he was living with him and did so for the next three years.  

Sykes barely had any contact with the leopards from New Orleans in this time but did keep in contact with Maggie who eventually moved to New York. When the apartments lease ran out, Sykes decided it was time to return to Bellevue and was pleased when Simon decided to join him. 

Unfortunately whilst just outside New Orleans, the pair was attacked on a night out by a group. Simon got caught up in the fight despite Sykes attempt to keep him out of it. He managed to get Simon back to the hotel. Sure that he had seen a claw during the fight, Sykes tried to get a description of the attacker. The next day though, Simon’s injuries had healed and Sykes managed to deduced from more information from Simon that a lion had swiped him.

The pair is now at the shifter clinic, Simon having now gotten a fever and started to spasm, confirming his infection.

Strengths: Teaching Simon about lycanthropes has in turn made Sykes more aware of the community and the different cultures. His knowledge of vampire politics have also grown over the years. He is still faster and more fluid moving than other lycanthropes and is more tolerant to silver. He has great survival instincts, knows how to survive on the street and now knows Martial Arts as he was trained by Julian and Jory before he left NO and has been practicing ever since. He also has slightly better control of his beast.

Weaknesses: His control over his beast is still poor; heightened emotions will still cause a shift. He still has to stay in the form for hours and takes at least half a day to recover. In terms of power, he will never gain more and will always be a beta.

Quirks: He carries his mp3 players everywhere and still creates songs in his head. He is a big fan of rock music, street and belly dancing, which he learnt off Teti.