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Eyes: Brown
Personality: Years of being pushed from one home to another have taken their toll. He rarely smiles and not much gives him pleasure other than performing for an audience and singing to himself. Trust is a hard thing to win from him as he always think everyone has a motive or wants something. He is completely submissive and will do anything anyone who he considers dominant to him asks him to. He suffers from chronic dyslexia so can at times become very frustrated with himself and is prone to bouts of violence and anger, lashing out at anything near by, by animate or inanimate. But underneath all the anger and sadness is still a lost little boy who wants to be loved and find a place to call home. Not all hope has died within him…yet. 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. Strengths: He knows the sort of survival skills that keeps people alive on the street and also a little about vampire politics from his time with Magnetta. He appears more tolerant to silver than most lycanthropes and his quickness and fluid movement can put some other lycanthropes of a similar power in the shade. Weaknesses: Many. He knows nothing about leopard culture, due to the fact he hasn’t spent any time with others since he was turned. His emotional state makes him unpredictable and he finds social occasions hard. His control over his beast is none existent; extreme emotions will force him to shift as will certain situations. Once shifted it takes him over a day to recover and he has to be in beast form for at least twelve hours. He still craves the attention of vampires and could relapse on the drugs front at any point. Quirks: He can be very catlike, acting such when around other shifters. Even though he can’t write, he creates songs in his head which he will occasionally sing out loud when he thinks no one is listening. He is a big fan of rock music and used to carry a CD player around him with everywhere; he’s since had to sell it but hopes to get a new one. Other: His beast is a snow leopard with the scent of evergreen forests. It has black spots and a pattern of spots above both eyes which makes it look like it has eyebrows.
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