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Eyes: Brown
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. |
