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ethanreed · 2 years ago

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Ethan Reed

last pic art by my gf

this post is a work in progress

Short Bio

age(s): 14/15 at the start of the canon story, > 18 as illustrated above (finale of the canon story), the older twin

gender: male

sexuality: straight-questioning (the entire canon story), bisexual (alternate universe)

class: human, vampire hunter

birthday: 20 November (2008) (year is tentative, it was the year he was created/written)

parents: Lithium Everlastine (vampire), Jillian Reed (human)

height: 175~185cm (age 15~18), 190cm (age 25)

Early Years

parents and the "curse"

Ethan Reed was born in the Everlastine-Reed household.

Lithium and Jillian fell in love and ran away. Lithium was one of the highest rank vampires while Jillian was an opera singer who came from vampire hunters family. They settled somewhere in the north and made a small family of four - them and their twin children, Ethan and Evan.

At first, they were just a normal nuclear family (save for the fact that their family consisted of two races and the couple bought a rather secluded house and never interacted much with their neighbors hundred meters away). That changed when someone from Lithium's family found them. With some struggles, they managed to negotiate that Lithium were to leave his wife in exchange of his wife's safety. If Lithium came back to the Everlastine family, his family were to never touch the Reeds and his small family.

Granted, Lithium planned to go back to his family. Lithium promised Jillian he would come back after he settled everything in his part, in return Jillian promised she would take care of the twins.

For their safety, Lithium sealed Evan within Ethan's body, so that Jillian would appear to be a normal widow with a normal human child. This was meant to be temporary as Lithium thought he could come back to his wife and kids. Though, magic/mana within Evan is attracted to the full moon. Every full moon, Evan's natural mana grows stronger than his seal container's, Ethan. This causes Evan to be able to take over Ethan's body - or rather, reverse the situation and instead seal Ethan within him.

Being too young, Ethan gradually had forgotten that he had a twin brother. Jillian let this happen because it (supposed to) made the situation easier and it collided with Lithium's plan. On the other hand, Evan had to know everything, so since he was a kid he had been tasked to pretend to be Ethan and no one must know he even existed.

However, Lithium wasn't the only one who planned to break their promise. Lithium's close sibling was tasked by the Elders of Everlastine to kill Jillian. Jillian was killed in front of Ethan, driving Ethan to harbor great hatred toward vampires. It took weeks (months?) for Jillian's closest sibling to find out and years for Lithium.

The only one left who knew about the seal was Evan (and Lithium who was absent for roughly a decade). Ethan, never finding out about the seal, lived until the age of 16/17 thinking he was a half-vampire. He always thought he was cursed, living as a half-human, half-something that he hated deeply.

Reed family

Ethan went by the name Ethan Reed, the name he was registered as at school when Jillian was still alive. His uncle, Zabbath Reed (I genuinely don't remember well about him tbh aaaaaaaaaa I'm gonna find another name for him lmao), Jillian's closest brother, adopted him and took him into his house, where he then lived with his cousins, Rhabtoth and Regina Reed.

Outside of these three people, he wasn't well-liked among his mother's family, as they are the family of vampire hunters (and the fact that humans naturally hate vampires).

On full moon nights, Zabbath, Rhabtoth, and Regina worked together to contain Ethan and hide Evan's existence from the whole world. Evan roamed during his out time, yet the world managed to never finding out about this (save for some people).

Self and Personality

Generally, he was a calm guy with reserved nature.

Major self-hatred and depression

Until the middle of the canon story, he believed he was a half-vampire. This caused great inner turmoil and he suffered depression in the big chunk of the story.

"People Pleaser"

Generally, he tended to not care too much about what people think of him. Yet, there was a great desire to be wanted and useful due to his status as a "halfling" living in human society.

In addition, his uncle received a lot of hate from his mother's big family due to adopting him who is a "halfling", and it also complicated his uncle's relationship with his wife that was already strained prior the adoption. This made Ethan wanted to be anything but a burden, driven him to take care of the house and do splendid job at trainings and works related to vampire-hunting.

This tendency went on even as he reached adulthood.

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ethanreed · 2 years ago

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world building

honestly this is tricky to write, and will probably be a forever work in progress

the whole story was written/made up when i was twelve and barely out of grade school but now i have been thinking about it and trying to remember and fill the blanks from my memory additionally, sometimes i stay faithful to the original story i came up with, but sometimes i also change parts i no longer like/agree with, so sometimes it will make no sense or be contradictive. THIS IS WHY I'M SAYING THIS IS GONNA BE A FOREVER WORK IN PROGRESS

i will add links to individual posts of the world building if i write any in the future

the story (or at least most of the storyline) was set in the United Kingdom, i'm still thinking about the precise location (tbh haven't researched much, never been there haha) but i'm thinking of northern part of uk.

but, the general worldbuilding goes like this:

this world is a mix of low-fantasy - as in we have magic and non-human races in the world that is similar like ours - and modern dystopia (kinda??? it's not so modern, like, the tech more or less is the same save for some parts)

Magic

magic is a sensitive and complicated topic in this world. just like ours, magic is commonly taboo for normal humans, and humans who do not know better, even though they mostly get the benefit of it.

this means the witch hunt that happened in real world also happened in this world.

every single person, human and nonhuman, has Mana.

if you have mana, it means you can do magic. yet, not everyone has the chance or even privilege to learn about mana and regulate/control it. it's being gatekept for a lot of reasons

magic also differs from one another. most common people immediately think about witches and wizards when they're talking about magic. in reality, everything 'magical' that humans and nonhumans can do is considered magic, e.g. vampire powers; whenever a vampire uses their ability, they use mana.

Races

honest to god i never considered if there are more races than human and vampire (and likely werewolf)

(please don't judge me it was 2008) (also I CAME UP WITH IT BEFORE TWILIGHT WAS RELEASED? help? i thought it was the other way around)

but i'm thinking the most complicated relationship would be between humans and vampires since they are natural enemies

i remember i came up that there was a time when vampire and human race had a truce but it was broken at some point until the canon story comes to its end (at the beginning of the story it was already many years after the truce was broken)

so, yeah, since the story is about Ethan Reed (and Evan Reed), the main focus would be about vampires and humans.

#oc #world building

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