#thesprings : intro

[exterastris]

( BRIANNE HOWEY , 33 , SHE/HER , CIS WOMAN ) - have you seen IMOGEN BARTOWSKI?  they’ve been living in everwood for THEIR ENTIRE LIFE and they still don’t know the truth. people say that they’re GENUINE but i heard they’re WILLFUL. you can always find them at LEO’S GARDEN or working as an OWNER OF NANA’S KITCHEN. rumor has it they are a SHIFTER (FLYING SQUIRREL) and MEMBER of the SHIFTER COMMUNITY but i wouldn’t dare to ask them. a few things that remind me of them are … fresh cut flowers in eclectic planters, dreams of soaring through the air, the familiar hum of a country classic, family recipes and secrets written in polish, a strong woman raised by other strong women

BIOGRAPHY — 

[kirazsoral]

𝐊𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐙 𝐒𝐎𝐑𝐀𝐋 ! ⸺ 𝚊 𝚜𝚝𝚞𝚍𝚢 𝚘𝚏 𝚖𝚎𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚢 𝚒𝚜 𝚊 𝚛𝚘𝚙𝚎 𝚊𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚗𝚎𝚌𝚔, 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚕𝚘𝚞𝚜 𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚞𝚛𝚎, 𝚐𝚒𝚛𝚕𝚑𝚘𝚘𝚍 𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚏𝚎𝚒𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚒𝚗 𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚞 𝚘𝚏 𝚜𝚞𝚛𝚟𝚒𝚟𝚊𝚕, 𝚍𝚘𝚎𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚎𝚗𝚍 𝚓𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚏𝚢 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚎𝚊𝚗𝚜?

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𝚍𝚎𝚙𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚖𝚞𝚜𝚎 𝚋𝚕𝚘𝚐 𝚊𝚜𝚜𝚘𝚌𝚒𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐒𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒𝐇𝐐.

[rydersavage]

Statistics

Name: Ryder Savage “Kaye Bye”

Age: 149

From: New York, NY

Occupation: Collector for Everwood Clan Nail Technician at Beautello

Gender & Sexuality: Genderfluid - Queer

Species: Vampire

Personality: Passionate, Sentimental, Flirtatious, Loyal, Addictive, Oversensitive, Pretentious, Catty

FC: Cody Fern

Biography

(TW: Drug Addiction, Violence, Domestic Violence, SA, and Blood)

Ryder’s life had never been full of love and respect. In fact, a lot of it was him spending many nights alone. He didn’t know his family, didn’t really have one that he could call a family in general. He has vague memories of his parents, probably from when he was still a toddler who couldn’t talk. From what he knows, his parents died from some disease or a fire. He wasn’t taken in by anyone loving, only workhouses that needed an extra hand. After being kicked out of the workhouses since he kept getting fired, he lived out on the street. That was at age seven. 

A lot of his youth was spent doing odd jobs and giving people the paper. He used to steal food so he could eat, living in barns amongst animals. The warmest hug he ever felt was from a cow who he’d sleep next to on a pile of hay. She’d lick his hair and curl around him like she would her own calves. This was the warmest experience he’d ever had in his life thus far. The fact that animals showed him more comfort and reprise than humans did had been the biggest answer to his life’s question: why him? Animals had more compassion than his own species. He didn’t belong among humans, that was something he could easily live with.

He grew up into the Edwardian era, becoming a rather big opium user and drunk to the point he had to work in bathhouses. Though, one night, he had an overdose which he was in public dying from. His Sire, who had seen him working the streets for awhile, decided that it was best to save this young man’s life. He was too beautiful to let rot in the ground, even if that seemed morbid to Ryder. Once he was turned, though, he promised to not indulge in his addiction again. So, during the time he was in New York, he got into dressing in drag, which made him feel far better about himself than anything else had before. He didn’t need drugs, not anymore.

Of course, though, life could only be so blissful. When his Sire died after hunters had found their home, Ryder saw red. Indulging on all of that blood at his disposal had not been good on his recovering addiction. In fact, it made the whole situation so much harder for him to keep his promise to his now deceased Sire. Through his grief, he started to give into drugs again, especially more modern ones that had a harder habit to kick.

During this whole binge, he met someone who had been pretty awful for him. But Ryder, he was desperate for someone to care, and this person was easily able to manipulate Ryder. What they didn’t expect was for Ryder’s own addiction to influence a whole other part of his mental state. It took everything in their own power to keep Ryder from actually going on a rampage. It was powerful, something they found appealing in the highest form of compliment. But, truthfully, they wanted to keep it for themselves. Ryder didn’t know this, of course, because he was usually too drugged up to know what the man was up to.

One night, though, Ryder and him were out. Both of them drugged and drunk out of their minds to the point that Ryder needed to feed. In a drugged up haze, his lover tackled him against the wall and started to fondle the unwilling Ryder. Sure, he wasn’t fighting back, but he didn’t want it. They finally had enough when the man got his face against the wall. Fighting back with as much rage as he felt inside, he tore the man apart and shook as he came out of his drugged up haze. He thought he just killed him out of cold blood, but that wasn’t the case. Ryder couldn't see the difference, though, as he only remembers part of what happened.

Instead of hiding anything, he took off as fast as he could and came across Everwood in his travels West. He'd heard about this place from many people in other supernatural safe havens and figured this was the place he could finally reset himself. Having cleaned himself up, they found himself enjoying the nightlife and joining the Everwood Clan as he was still a bit on the run. With great gratitude, Ryder has become loyal to their kind.

[cxnstcllations]

. ✧ . * . ⌜ the lingering scent of burnt sage & cigarettes, chipped black nail polish, an inherited denim jacket frayed and hanging loose over slight frame ⌟

BASICS

full name : catriona niamh camberwell

name meaning: pure, bright, well of the britons

nickname / alias: cat, cc

gender / pronouns: she/her/they/them

sexuality: pansexual

species: witch

age, birthday + zodiac: 25, may 22nd, gemini

place of birth: everwood, utah

accent : neutral american accent

occupation: barista at java joes, dealer of herbal highs

song: silk chiffon by muna

APPEARANCE

faceclaim: maya hawke

height: 5″5

eyecolor: blue/green

haircolor: blonde/brown

build: slim/athletic

tattoos / scars: sage leaves on her ribs, scar on her knee

PERSONALITY

positivetraits: outgoing, quick witted, imaginative

negativetraits: unfiltered, distrustful, distracted

RELATIONSHIPS

parents : x camberwell ( mother ), x camberwell ( father )

siblings : younger twins, two older siblings

children : none

pets : ratsputin ( black and white rat )

ADDITIONAL INFO

cat - never catriona - was born and raised in everwood. they’re one of five camberwell children, a prestigious witch family within the town. and with the name camberwell comes responsibility. an obligation to be more than just your average witch, to climb the ranks, to be a force to be reckoned with.

but as a typical middle child, cat is the forgotten camberwell. overlooked by her parents apart from when they have time to remind her that she is a disappointment.

cat’s affinity has always lain within nature, she has no interest in the dark magic her family align themselves with. they’re a person of simple pleasures, healing spells, whipping up a salve, tending to her herb garden.

since turning 18, she has made it clear that she has no interest in being part of the family and their focus on a darker path. rather than be an outcast, she has joined the lunar coven as a neophyte. but for the most part, she spends her time with her new family - an unlikely collection of misfits, of all species, that live together.

on paper, her job is barista at java joes - but anyone that knows them knows well enough that she’s where they can go to pick up. cat is a dealer, though a careful one. they supply only natural herbal highs, a different kind of healing in their mind.

[exterastris]

( TENOCH HUERTA, 42 , HE/HIM , CIS MAN ) - have you seen RAPHAEL MENDOZA?  they’ve been living in everwood for TWENTY YEARS and they still don’t know the truth. people say that they’re INGENIOUS but i heard they’re ENIGMATIC. you can always find them at JAVA JOE’S or working as a PARK RANGER at WASATCH MOUNTAIN STATE PARK. rumor has it they are a HUMAN but i wouldn’t dare to ask them. a few things that remind me of them are … coffee the life blood running through him, a knowing look, the smell of nature, learning to braid a little girl’s hair, the faint mark where a wedding ring used to be.

BIOGRAPHY 

[cxnstcllations]

. ✧ . * . ⌜ a penchant for the finer things in life, tongue sharper than a knife, an unwavering devotion to those who have earned her trust ⌟

BASICS

full name : river lee wentworth

name meaning: flowing body of water, plum tree, pale man’s settlement

nickname / alias: riv

gender / pronouns: she/her

sexuality: pansexual

age, birthday + zodiac: 23/223, june 10th, gemini

place of birth: london, england

accent : general american accent, very rarely does she sound english

occupation: owner of the evermore

song: you should see me in a crown by billie eilish

APPEARANCE

faceclaim: tati gabrielle

height: 5″9

eyecolor: chocolate

haircolor: bleach blonde

build: slim

tattoos / scars: none

PERSONALITY

positivetraits: charismatic, driven, loyal

negativetraits: unforgiving, short-tempered, callous

RELATIONSHIPS

parents : open wentworth ( adoptive mother ), open wentworth ( adoptive parent )

siblings : open wentworth ( 0 / 3 )

children : none

pets : none

ADDITIONAL INFO

tw: sex work, illness, child death, death

ada baker was born in east london in 1800 to violet baker and a travelling foreign soldier. violet was a sex worker, she had come from a poor family and gotten pregnant young. while the baby had died, she was disowned by her family and had to find a way to support herself. violet took to the brothels and there she remained for much of ada’s life. ada was the first of 7 children that violet gave birth to, though each child was fathered by a different client

as the eldest, ada became as much of a mother to her siblings as their actual one. while violet worked, ada cared for the children - did what she could to raise them. but with little education of her own, she could only do so much. she stole, robbed, and begged, to help them get by.

when ada was nearly 18, violet decided that they needed a chance to start over. she’d been sold the american dream and was willing to believe it. ada, her mother and her siblings travelled to new york but the journey was too much for violet, who had already been suffering with an unknown illness. she didn’t make it to the new country.

on arriving in the US, ada was now the only caretaker of her younger siblings. it was her responsibility to find them a home, to find them opportunities. they moved from place to place until ada found work as a maid in a small household.

it was in this house, with its elderly and chronically ill governess, that ada met x wentworth. x wentworth cared for ada’s employer and the two became unlikely friends. ada saw a kindness in x that she had not experienced before. it was this kindness that led her to seek x’s help in the end....

consumption. it was common, quick and deadly among the poor. and it consumed her small family in a matter of days. with her brothers and sisters barely hanging on, ada sought out x in the hopes she might have a solution. but the young maid had sent for help a little too late, only ada herself was able to be spared by the time x had reached them. thus began ada baker’s new life.

reborn, she renamed herself, desperate to bury the memory of her human life. river lee; taking on her sire’s surname wentworth. and with the new life, came a new personality. the sweet, caring girl who had carried the weight of her family was gone. in its place, a sharp, cold, creature - revelling in the luxuries that were now available to her.

200 years have passed since her turning and she had remained at the side of her adoptive parents, accepting ( however reluctantly ) any further siblings acquired along the way.