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EMRYS DAFYDD BOWEN
T H E B A S I C S
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`` FULL NAME Emerys Dafydd Bowen
`` NICKNAMES Dai
`` GENDER Male
`` ORIENTATION Heterosexual
`` OCCUPATION Student
`` LANGUAGES English, some Spanish
`` BIRTHPLACE Felwulf, New Mexico
`` BIRTHDAY April 1
`` AGE 16
`` EYE COLOR Blue
`` HAIR COLOR White-blonde
`` HEIGHT 5'7"
`` WEIGHT 140
`` DISTINCTIVE MARKINGS None
`` SCARS None
`` PIERCINGS None
`` TATTOOS None
`` FACE CLAIM Lucky Blue Smith
`` MEMBER GROUP Shifter
T H E P A R T I C U L A R S
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Emrys has grown up watching his mother manipulate people. He has watched her train Ygraine to do the same, stripping his twin of everything she could have loved and replacing it with tricks and walls. Except for him. He knows that she let them stay attached and grow closer every year because she could use each of them to control the other. He knows that. Ygraine knows that. It doesn't change anything. All he can do and all he has ever been able to do is to try and pull negative attention away from his sister to try and shoulder some of her suffering himself. Against his dissension, Ygraine seems a golden child.
Raised such, Emrys is highly suspicious of everyone's motives. He sees deceptions and manipulation everywhere, even where it may not exists. People who seem too friendly, kind, or interested in him are immediately the most suspect. Strangely enough it's often people who don't like him that Emrys feels most comfortable around. At least around them, he knows where he stands.
It's often hard for him to reconcile his suspicion with a naturally social nature. He likes to be around people, even if he doesn't really know how to be part of a group. Sometimes his greatest joy is to simply be a weird 'dog' and lay at his sister's feet while she's socializing, knowing he's around people but not directly under scrutiny. Not forced to join in on social games he doesn't know how to play.
Never forced to guard his emotions, Emrys doesn't deal with them well. He tends to either try to lock down or explode, with very little in between. He tends to always be on edge, always alert for anything that might mean his sister harm. Harm to him doesn't matter that much. He understands that he isn't valuable- not to anyone but Ygraine.
`` FAVORABLE TO knowing where he stands with people
`` UNFAVORABLE TO Authority figures, people who like they're his friend
`` ENJOYS Hanging out with chill groups of people, reading
`` AFRAID OF Losing his twin, being alone in the dark
T H E H I S T O R Y
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The Felwulf Pack has dominated the shifters of New Mexico for the past thirty years. By virtue of being massive they have driven out many other varieties of shifter or forced the smaller 'prides' to swear fealty and tighte to the Felwulf Pack. The town of Felwulf itself is entirely made up of shifters and their families, established some hundred years ago when the Pack began to grow large. Morgan Bowen has been alpha since shortly after the founding of the town when she challenged and slew the previous alpha. Through cunning, strength, and an incredibl force of will she has grown the Felwulf pakc into a force to be reckoned with. However, there were many who took issue with the fact that she never took a mate, nor conceived of any children.
But you see, Morgan Bowen had a plan.
In her younger years she had met one of the rare few shifters born of a gifted parent who had inherited some of the Gift themselves. Though he was a weak and skittish thing, she saw the possibilities immediately. Though only thing she needed was a suitable candidate. And Morgan was picky. So years passed. Then she saw him. A young man from Wales on vacation who she saw light a cigarette without a match. He was strong, attractive, and Gifted. She wanted him and Morgan Bowen gets what she wants.
Ygraine and Emrys know little of their father. They were never introduced to him and when they continually failed to show any hint of Gift Morgan killed him in a fit of pique. They do know that his part in their conception was not necessarily willing. So the twins were born a disappointment, and Morgan's body barren from the hard pregnancy despite the typical hardiness of a shifter. So she went to work on what she had. The girl was clearly, to her eyes, far superior to her male twin purely by virtue of gender. She quickly saw that trying to turn them against each other did not work so well as encouraging their bonds and leveraging their affection for one another to get what she wanted.
Emrys, strangely, escaped much of the pressure of his sister's upbringing. He was a tool, used for leverage and then left to itself. He attended the same prestigious schools but while his sister was also being forced into classes on etiquette, communication, dance, singing, etc, he was left to do what he wanted. All he had were the same self defense classes. So he was free to try a lot of things. In elementry school he learned to play the recorder, play drums, was in choir, and joined a running club. Frequently he tagged along when his sister went to her variety of classes. He would generally just sit in the corner or the lobby and read.
Reading was his escape. It didn't matter how much he hurt, reading always let him put his mind on something else. It helped his mind go quiet as he became more and more suspicious of everyone around him, driving away school friends and isolating himself without every realizing what he was doing. When he couldn't accompany his sister somewhere, the library became his favorite place because he could find a place to sit near other people, listening to them breathe, turn pages, chat with their friends. It helped him feel less alone, even when he wasn't part of things.
His authority issues have grown into full-blown rebellion since entering his teenage years at Masquerade and he's something of a known trouble maker. His love of learning and an innate competitiveness means his grades are excellent despite his tendency to argue with the teachers and pick fights with hot-headed students.
`` MOTHER Morgan Bowen
`` FATHER Unknown Gifted man
`` SIBLINGS Ygraine Alis Bowen
`` SIGNIFICANT OTHER None
`` CHILDREN None
`` OTHER None
T H E A B I L I T I E S
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`` ABILITY/POWER Emrys's shifted form is that of a maned wolf. Already the tallest of canines, his form is not much larger than a natural maned wolf. His fur is rich auburn with black legs and a black, ridged mane. A white bib on his throat and at the tip of his tail mark him just like any other maned wolf. It is only his pale blue eyes that mark him as something unusual.
`` STRENGTHS Typical shifter strengths, fighter
`` WEAKNESSES His affection for his twin, distaste for authority, emotionally volatile
T H E R P ' E R
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`` PREFERRED NAME Rien
`` TIMEZONE MST
`` AGE 26
`` OTHER CHARACTERS All 'ems. (Twitch, Kat, Ig, Remi, etc)