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XISTENTIA INFOSHEET
Jaden Cosgrove
| CANON: | Original Character |
| AGE: | 24 |
| GENDER: | M |
| SPECIES: | Werewolf |
| HOMETOWN: | Boston, MA |
| JOINED IN: | June 2017 |
PLAYER INFORMATION | |
| HANDLE: | Ellie |
| CONTACT: |
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| TIMEZONE: | GMT+0 (London, UK) |
PERMISSIONS/ETC.
HMD
BACKGROUND
About the world:
- an almost mirror of our normal every day Earth, only with magical creatures roaming it. Wizards, Vampires, Werewolves, Demons, and Fae make up the biggest races represented. They live in a world just hidden from normal humans, in every shadow and dark alleyway.
- There is another world, though, one that can be accessed through portals found throughout the world - think the upside down in Stranger Things, where things are reversed. Humankind is in slavery and magic rules the world; it’s a very medieval type of world, where technology hasn’t had a chance to advance due to magic being predominant.
About Jaden:
- Absolutely normal life, knows nothing of the underworld of magic and demons. Born and bred in Boston, Mass.
- At 15, he's a popular kid on the edge of a growth spurt, with well-off parents and a tiny brother that worships the ground he walks on. A football player with aspirations to play varsity. A bunch of friends. Average grades and attendance.
- One November night, Jaden comes home from a house party to a scene straight out of a horror movie. Blood everywhere, painting the walls. He has to take in the sight of his parents and brother, chests open, their hearts missing.
- He stops going to school.
- Some of his family members do try to get in touch with him; an uncle in Seattle, mainly, but Jaden evades all contact attempts, and his nomadic new life keeps him from being easily reachable. He only wishes to be alone.
- He's attacked by werewolves on the verge of his sixteenth birthday. They want him dead. It's a group of wolves - what are wolves doing in the city? - and they're merciless, clawing and biting at Jaden for what feels like forever but is really only seconds.
- They leave Jaden for dead, even though he isn’t - one of the werewolves’ bite was exactly what was necessary to turn him into one of them.
- He wakes up in the hospital and breaks out of it when he realizes he’s entirely healed - only scars reminding him of the ordeal. He knows it’s not normal.
- His world opens up. He discovers magic, werewolves, vampires, all of it is real. He meets an Imp that guides him through this new world he has to learn how to navigate - after playing a few shitty pranks on him - He starts taking on odd little jobs to keep himself alive, surviving at any cost. He becomes a bit of a bounty hunter, and also kind of a vigilante; he wants to keep the world safe, since he couldn’t do it with his family.
- He gets a very large, extensive tattoo all over the scars left behind by the werewolf attack. It’s done by a shady shady man in a shady shady shop and it costs him a pretty penny, but Jaden considers it like armor. His main goal in life is revenge - on whoever took his family away from him, and why.
EXIT STRATEGY: It starts with natural catastrophes where there should be none. Seismic shocks far away from any tectonic activity, spontaneous tornadoes and hurricanes forming over land. Like a plague, it spread, more or more, until the world couldn’t cope anymore. Crisis cells opened everywhere, cities were evacuated, but to no avail. They blamed it on global warming, they blamed it on the wrath of God, they blamed it on nuclear waste. Jaden didn’t know who to blame, but he knew he wanted to escape it; he sought one of the many portals to the other dimension; they weren’t easy to find, but when he finally found one, he went right through, without a single second of hesitation, only to end up in Xistentia.
- an almost mirror of our normal every day Earth, only with magical creatures roaming it. Wizards, Vampires, Werewolves, Demons, and Fae make up the biggest races represented. They live in a world just hidden from normal humans, in every shadow and dark alleyway.
- There is another world, though, one that can be accessed through portals found throughout the world - think the upside down in Stranger Things, where things are reversed. Humankind is in slavery and magic rules the world; it’s a very medieval type of world, where technology hasn’t had a chance to advance due to magic being predominant.
About Jaden:
- Absolutely normal life, knows nothing of the underworld of magic and demons. Born and bred in Boston, Mass.
- At 15, he's a popular kid on the edge of a growth spurt, with well-off parents and a tiny brother that worships the ground he walks on. A football player with aspirations to play varsity. A bunch of friends. Average grades and attendance.
- One November night, Jaden comes home from a house party to a scene straight out of a horror movie. Blood everywhere, painting the walls. He has to take in the sight of his parents and brother, chests open, their hearts missing.
- He stops going to school.
- Some of his family members do try to get in touch with him; an uncle in Seattle, mainly, but Jaden evades all contact attempts, and his nomadic new life keeps him from being easily reachable. He only wishes to be alone.
- He's attacked by werewolves on the verge of his sixteenth birthday. They want him dead. It's a group of wolves - what are wolves doing in the city? - and they're merciless, clawing and biting at Jaden for what feels like forever but is really only seconds.
- They leave Jaden for dead, even though he isn’t - one of the werewolves’ bite was exactly what was necessary to turn him into one of them.
- He wakes up in the hospital and breaks out of it when he realizes he’s entirely healed - only scars reminding him of the ordeal. He knows it’s not normal.
- His world opens up. He discovers magic, werewolves, vampires, all of it is real. He meets an Imp that guides him through this new world he has to learn how to navigate - after playing a few shitty pranks on him - He starts taking on odd little jobs to keep himself alive, surviving at any cost. He becomes a bit of a bounty hunter, and also kind of a vigilante; he wants to keep the world safe, since he couldn’t do it with his family.
- He gets a very large, extensive tattoo all over the scars left behind by the werewolf attack. It’s done by a shady shady man in a shady shady shop and it costs him a pretty penny, but Jaden considers it like armor. His main goal in life is revenge - on whoever took his family away from him, and why.
EXIT STRATEGY: It starts with natural catastrophes where there should be none. Seismic shocks far away from any tectonic activity, spontaneous tornadoes and hurricanes forming over land. Like a plague, it spread, more or more, until the world couldn’t cope anymore. Crisis cells opened everywhere, cities were evacuated, but to no avail. They blamed it on global warming, they blamed it on the wrath of God, they blamed it on nuclear waste. Jaden didn’t know who to blame, but he knew he wanted to escape it; he sought one of the many portals to the other dimension; they weren’t easy to find, but when he finally found one, he went right through, without a single second of hesitation, only to end up in Xistentia.
POWERS & SKILLS
Wolf shift { Primary power. Werewolves can physically transform into wolves. Typically, the full moon forces a shift, but Jaden can also shift at will outside of the moon phases.
Physical enhancements { In both human and wolf forms, werewolves have enhanced regeneration, strength, speed, and senses, though these are typically more powerful when they shift. They have permanent nightvision, ultrasonic hearing, the capacity to track by scent, and usually heal without a scar. It takes considerably more to get them drunk, high, or tired than a typical human. On average, they eat more than other individuals their size and age.
Infectious scratch/bite { Some werewolves are born, others are infected by injuries from another wolf. The chances of an infection vary depending on the phase of moon, whether the werewolf was shifted, the intention of the werewolf, the age/control/power of the werewolf, and the number and severity of bites and scratches.
Physical enhancements { In both human and wolf forms, werewolves have enhanced regeneration, strength, speed, and senses, though these are typically more powerful when they shift. They have permanent nightvision, ultrasonic hearing, the capacity to track by scent, and usually heal without a scar. It takes considerably more to get them drunk, high, or tired than a typical human. On average, they eat more than other individuals their size and age.
Infectious scratch/bite { Some werewolves are born, others are infected by injuries from another wolf. The chances of an infection vary depending on the phase of moon, whether the werewolf was shifted, the intention of the werewolf, the age/control/power of the werewolf, and the number and severity of bites and scratches.
% WORLD SAVED
IN UNIVERSE
MORALITY:
Jaden’s morality compass points towards Good, generally. He was raised right, after all, and most of the things his parents taught him - compassion, manners, honesty, bravery - he has retained. But his few years in a darker place have also taught him that the world is far from being as black and white as he used to think, and he has come to terms with his own violence. He wouldn’t hesitate to kill if the situation required it, but said situation would have to be very extreme, and the fact would haunt him afterwards.
WAR ATTITUDES:
Jaden did a fair share of bounty hunting back home, so taking on missions and fighting is something he’s very used to and will appreciate being able to go back to. At first, he’ll definitely be more inclined to help in that way rather than with the whole community building/making connections part of things because he is not very used to making connections anymore.
INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS:
He thinks he is not interested and he will struggle with making connections. But the thing is? He kinda craves them, too. He’s a very ‘one and done’ type of guy, but it worked for him in the past because he was so nomadic. In Xist, being stuck in one place and building relationships with the same people, he might very well forge bonds faster than he’d expect. He’ll definitely have flings if that’s something that occurs, and he’s absolutely not closed off to them - he likes sex and doesn’t plan on stopping having it, it’s the whole… actual deeper, meaningful relationships thing that he is not very good at. But he’ll probably try, because he’s actually kinda craving human interactions and connections.
COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTIONS:
Jaden is a pretty good fighter; he’s happy to go exploring and do such things, especially as a wolf. He can hunt. But also, in something a lot more niche, and yet a lot more mundane, Jaden, for years, learned the art of tailoring from his father. His father was a reputed tailor back in Boston, and Jaden spent countless days, weekends, hours after school, in the store with his father, learning how to cut fabric and sew it back into beautiful garments. How to pair a body to the right suit or dress. How to choose the right colors and the right shoes and the right tie. How to measure a body. He wouldn’t necessarily want to open a tailoring business - at least not at first, but it would be something he could be working towards and would be willing to help the other Xistentia residents with. Meanwhile, he would absolutely be looking into ways to still get his revenge!
Jaden’s morality compass points towards Good, generally. He was raised right, after all, and most of the things his parents taught him - compassion, manners, honesty, bravery - he has retained. But his few years in a darker place have also taught him that the world is far from being as black and white as he used to think, and he has come to terms with his own violence. He wouldn’t hesitate to kill if the situation required it, but said situation would have to be very extreme, and the fact would haunt him afterwards.
WAR ATTITUDES:
Jaden did a fair share of bounty hunting back home, so taking on missions and fighting is something he’s very used to and will appreciate being able to go back to. At first, he’ll definitely be more inclined to help in that way rather than with the whole community building/making connections part of things because he is not very used to making connections anymore.
INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS:
He thinks he is not interested and he will struggle with making connections. But the thing is? He kinda craves them, too. He’s a very ‘one and done’ type of guy, but it worked for him in the past because he was so nomadic. In Xist, being stuck in one place and building relationships with the same people, he might very well forge bonds faster than he’d expect. He’ll definitely have flings if that’s something that occurs, and he’s absolutely not closed off to them - he likes sex and doesn’t plan on stopping having it, it’s the whole… actual deeper, meaningful relationships thing that he is not very good at. But he’ll probably try, because he’s actually kinda craving human interactions and connections.
COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTIONS:
Jaden is a pretty good fighter; he’s happy to go exploring and do such things, especially as a wolf. He can hunt. But also, in something a lot more niche, and yet a lot more mundane, Jaden, for years, learned the art of tailoring from his father. His father was a reputed tailor back in Boston, and Jaden spent countless days, weekends, hours after school, in the store with his father, learning how to cut fabric and sew it back into beautiful garments. How to pair a body to the right suit or dress. How to choose the right colors and the right shoes and the right tie. How to measure a body. He wouldn’t necessarily want to open a tailoring business - at least not at first, but it would be something he could be working towards and would be willing to help the other Xistentia residents with. Meanwhile, he would absolutely be looking into ways to still get his revenge!
WELCOME TO XISTENTIA
. bio .
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poenitudo |
Name: Jaden Cosgrove DOB: April 22nd Zodiac: Taurus Species: Werewolf (bitten) Height: 6'5'' (198 cms) Weight: 240lbs (110 kgs) Family: Holly & Richard Cosgrove (parents; deceased); Cody Cosgrove (brother; deceased)
PB: Greg Finley | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ADDITIONAL INFO:
About the world:
- an almost mirror of our normal every day Earth, only with magical creatures roaming it. Wizards, Vampires, Werewolves, Demons, and Fae make up the biggest races represented. They live in a world just hidden from normal humans, in every shadow and dark alleyway.
- There is another world, though, one that can be accessed through portals found throughout the world - think the upside down in Stranger Things, where things are reversed. Humankind is in slavery and magic rules the world; it’s a very medieval type of world, where technology hasn’t had a chance to advance due to magic being predominant.
About Jaden:
- Absolutely normal life, knows nothing of the underworld of magic and demons. Born and bred in Boston, Mass.
- At 15, he's a popular kid on the edge of a growth spurt, with well-off parents and a tiny brother that worships the ground he walks on. A football player with aspirations to play varsity. A bunch of friends. Average grades and attendance.
- One November night, Jaden comes home from a house party to a scene straight out of a horror movie. Blood everywhere, painting the walls. He has to take in the sight of his parents and brother, chests open, their hearts missing.
- He stops going to school.
- Some of his family members do try to get in touch with him; an uncle in Seattle, mainly, but Jaden evades all contact attempts, and his nomadic new life keeps him from being easily reachable. He only wishes to be alone.
- He's attacked by werewolves on the verge of his sixteenth birthday. They want him dead. It's a group of wolves - what are wolves doing in the city? - and they're merciless, clawing and biting at Jaden for what feels like forever but is really only seconds.
- They leave Jaden for dead, even though he isn’t - one of the werewolves’ bite was exactly what was necessary to turn him into one of them.
- He wakes up in the hospital and breaks out of it when he realizes he’s entirely healed - only scars reminding him of the ordeal. He knows it’s not normal.
- His world opens up. He discovers magic, werewolves, vampires, all of it is real. He meets an Imp that guides him through this new world he has to learn how to navigate - after playing a few shitty pranks on him
- He starts taking on odd little jobs to keep himself alive, surviving at any cost. He becomes a bit of a bounty hunter, and also kind of a vigilante; he wants to keep the world safe, since he couldn’t do it with his family.
- He gets a very large, extensive tattoo all over the scars left behind by the werewolf attack. It’s done by a shady shady man in a shady shady shop and it costs him a pretty penny, but Jaden considers it like armor.
- His main goal in life is revenge - on whoever took his family away from him, and why.
-Jaden’s morality compass points towards Good, generally. He was raised right, after all, and most of the things his parents taught him - compassion, manners, honesty, bravery - he has retained. But his few years in a darker place have also taught him that the world is far from being as black and white as he used to think, and he has come to terms with his own violence. He wouldn’t hesitate to kill if the situation required it, but said situation would have to be very extreme, and the fact would haunt him afterwards.
POWERS:
Wolf shift { Primary power. Werewolves can physically transform into wolves. Typically, the full moon forces a shift, but Jaden can also shift at will outside of the moon phases.
Physical enhancements { In both human and wolf forms, werewolves have enhanced regeneration, strength, speed, and senses, though these are typically more powerful when they shift. They have permanent nightvision, ultrasonic hearing, the capacity to track by scent, and usually heal without a scar. It takes considerably more to get them drunk, high, or tired than a typical human. On average, they eat more than other individuals their size and age.
Infectious scratch/bite { Some werewolves are born, others are infected by injuries from another wolf. The chances of an infection vary depending on the phase of moon, whether the werewolf was shifted, the intention of the werewolf, the age/control/power of the werewolf, and the number and severity of bites and scratches.
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| (character relations) |
Carmela | "Just you and me. And the pack. That's enough." ♥♥♥♥♥ ∞ Talia | "i'm not responsible for your dick" ★★★★★ ∞ Wyatt | "you’re not alone now. you got me" ★★★★★ ∞ Drake | "Drake with tits, definitely up for it." ★★★★♥ ∞ Jay | "if u wntd a hed in ur crotch i culd do that rite now EZ" ★★★★ Ely | "I've got a serious weakness for guys in tuxes." ★★♥♥ Andy | "I'm not going to dignify that with a response." ★★★★★ ∞ Yolandi | "I dunno, I've never tried to have a baby." ★★★ Aurelien | "your steak's waiting for you" ★★★★ Jaehyun | "I see you trying to mooch off of me" ★★★★ Vee | "And I thought I was an above average horny person. Clearly I'm just basic." ★★★★ |
. history & worldbuilding .
It's a world of fire and ash. It's a world of sadness; hiding away all sins beneath a layer of grime and dirt. It's a world loved by many, oblivious, and it's a world hated by many, all too aware.
There is evil lurking, in shadows and alleyways. In the chirpy ringtone of your brand new phone.
[...]
But that isn't Jaden Cosgrove's reality. His reality is all too normal, one of the oblivious, happy people. At 15, he's a popular kid on the edge of a growth spurt, with well-off parents and a tiny brother that worships the ground he walks on. A football player with aspirations to play varsity. A bunch of friends. Average grades and attendance.
His world tips on its axis. One November night, Jaden comes home from a house party to a scene straight out of a horror movie. Blood everywhere, painting the walls and permeating the air with a metallic smell, burying itself under his skin. He falls, knees buckling under his own weight, as he takes in the sight of his parents and brother, chests open, their hearts missing.
Jaden never goes back to school.
[...]
He's attacked on the verge of his sixteenth birthday. A normal night, by all accounts - Back Bay is surprisingly quiet, and maybe it should have been his first warning sign. The attack is a swift, uncompromising. They want him dead. It's a group of wolves - what are wolves doing in the city? - and they're merciless, clawing and biting at Jaden for what feels like forever but is really only seconds. And just as fast as they appeared, they're gone, leaving Jaden for dead.
At the time, he wished he was. He only has broken memories of what happened after; the first clear thought happens a week later, when he wakes up in the hospital. He breaks out of it only a few days after he first wakes.
[...]
The tattoo artist doesn't say anything about the scars - the jagged claw marks running down Jaden's arm and side, the prominent bite on his neck. He just says, "I'll do what I can."
It doesn't look like much of anything - starbursts of black ink, galaxies relating to Jaden's history - but he doesn't need it to.
[...]
At 17, he is angry as all hell, and lashing out at everyone and everything he meets. He's gone through his expected growth spurt, growing almost a foot in a mere few months, ending up at an imposing 6'4'' mountain of an almost-man. The life he leads keeps him in peak physical shape, which shows in the overall size of him, even if his frame was never meant to be small.
He's still learning how to shift, how to hunt, how to keep himself from attacking humans when in wolf form. He hates everything about it, but uses his new powers to the greater good, discovering the underworld of supernatural creatures and how happily they'll pay for jobs to be done for them. He becomes a bit of a bounty hunter, and survives the dangerous world of the supernatural.
He learns about the Other World, too; a parallel universe in which supernatural creatures reign over mankind, accessible through portals.
[...]
When he meets Ephram, he's 20, still angry, and still hating everything he is. Ephram doesn't help much, at first, with his laid-back attitude and total control. But he becomes invaluable in a few months, and quickly becomes Jaden's best friend.
Ephram's mother is in the Other World and he is determined to follow. Jaden has found out, through his myriad of odd jobs and contacts, that the people responsible for his family's massacre also live in the Other World. They decide to join forces.
[...]
Meanwhile, turns out the demons responsible for the deaths of Jaden's family knew he would be one of those to take them down, through augury and the gift of Sight. Which is why they tried to anticipate and kill him as a kid, and ended up killing his family, sending the werewolves after him later. Jaden has to live with the knowledge that his family dying is his fault.
But the question remains: if his family hadn't been killed, would Jaden have turned into the man he ends up being? Would he be hell-bent on destroying those who took his family from him? Or would he be a normal kid, with no care in the world but his football career?
[...]
There is evil lurking, in shadows and alleyways. In the chirpy ringtone of your brand new phone.
[...]
But that isn't Jaden Cosgrove's reality. His reality is all too normal, one of the oblivious, happy people. At 15, he's a popular kid on the edge of a growth spurt, with well-off parents and a tiny brother that worships the ground he walks on. A football player with aspirations to play varsity. A bunch of friends. Average grades and attendance.
His world tips on its axis. One November night, Jaden comes home from a house party to a scene straight out of a horror movie. Blood everywhere, painting the walls and permeating the air with a metallic smell, burying itself under his skin. He falls, knees buckling under his own weight, as he takes in the sight of his parents and brother, chests open, their hearts missing.
Jaden never goes back to school.
[...]
He's attacked on the verge of his sixteenth birthday. A normal night, by all accounts - Back Bay is surprisingly quiet, and maybe it should have been his first warning sign. The attack is a swift, uncompromising. They want him dead. It's a group of wolves - what are wolves doing in the city? - and they're merciless, clawing and biting at Jaden for what feels like forever but is really only seconds. And just as fast as they appeared, they're gone, leaving Jaden for dead.
At the time, he wished he was. He only has broken memories of what happened after; the first clear thought happens a week later, when he wakes up in the hospital. He breaks out of it only a few days after he first wakes.
[...]
The tattoo artist doesn't say anything about the scars - the jagged claw marks running down Jaden's arm and side, the prominent bite on his neck. He just says, "I'll do what I can."
It doesn't look like much of anything - starbursts of black ink, galaxies relating to Jaden's history - but he doesn't need it to.
[...]
At 17, he is angry as all hell, and lashing out at everyone and everything he meets. He's gone through his expected growth spurt, growing almost a foot in a mere few months, ending up at an imposing 6'4'' mountain of an almost-man. The life he leads keeps him in peak physical shape, which shows in the overall size of him, even if his frame was never meant to be small.
He's still learning how to shift, how to hunt, how to keep himself from attacking humans when in wolf form. He hates everything about it, but uses his new powers to the greater good, discovering the underworld of supernatural creatures and how happily they'll pay for jobs to be done for them. He becomes a bit of a bounty hunter, and survives the dangerous world of the supernatural.
He learns about the Other World, too; a parallel universe in which supernatural creatures reign over mankind, accessible through portals.
[...]
When he meets Ephram, he's 20, still angry, and still hating everything he is. Ephram doesn't help much, at first, with his laid-back attitude and total control. But he becomes invaluable in a few months, and quickly becomes Jaden's best friend.
Ephram's mother is in the Other World and he is determined to follow. Jaden has found out, through his myriad of odd jobs and contacts, that the people responsible for his family's massacre also live in the Other World. They decide to join forces.
[...]
Meanwhile, turns out the demons responsible for the deaths of Jaden's family knew he would be one of those to take them down, through augury and the gift of Sight. Which is why they tried to anticipate and kill him as a kid, and ended up killing his family, sending the werewolves after him later. Jaden has to live with the knowledge that his family dying is his fault.
But the question remains: if his family hadn't been killed, would Jaden have turned into the man he ends up being? Would he be hell-bent on destroying those who took his family from him? Or would he be a normal kid, with no care in the world but his football career?
[...]
