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― DAVID & ZEPHYR.

Sometimes all Zephyr did was people watch. Being half-angel, he assumed that’s what most of his kin did. The angels that were on Earth were rare. And it was even more rare if they actually stayed. The angels he had met were usually fallen. The ones who wanted to protect humanity were imprisoned in this prison, too. But it was rare he met one that wasn’t tarnished and sided with the supernatural. For the last six or so months, his eyes always locked on multiple people. But there’s been one in particular that always amused him. Every time he saw this boy, he always had a book. It was always the same book – and he never did anything with it. Reading had been something Atticus taught him. So, he was more than capable of reading books. But he had to wonder if the other half-breed had been taught. Why else would he just stay on the same page for hours without doing anything else?

“I don’t think jeopardy was the whole problem.” Zephyr sat himself across from the other, offering David a small smile. He tried to get along with the half breeds, if only for his own sanity. They were easier to understand than the humans were because they were one of the same. Born for things. Created for war. Just some were born for other things and he’d never understand why. “What are you reading?” This was his way of approaching the subject as casually as he could.

David didn’t look up, even when his offhand comment was surprisingly met in kind and he was joined at his table, but his face did contort fractionally as if to concede his agreement. He offered a short and soft snort to this effect. His gaze did drop, however, as he considered swinging himself out of his chair to make his exit, but he never got that far. What was he reading? Reflexively, he jerked the book up onto his lap and his eyes flicked between the well-worn cover and his companion. Too late, he realised his fatal error. He hadn’t meant to initiate more than a tit-for-tat kind of exchange, hadn’t even really expected a reply, and he definitely hadn’t meant to open a dialogue. "Huxley,” he recovered quickly, dropping the novel onto the table between him and Zephyr. “It’s not my thing.” Not remotely because he didn’t know enough of the content, despite his daily routine, to give a more solid review.

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He can’t read. Well, that’s a lie. He’s minimally self-taught, he’s got nothing but time to try, but the effort usually outweighs the will. But he pretends. He’ll drape himself over a chair in the rec room when he’s sick of his four walls littered in graffiti and the long abandoned attempt at day tracking - why bother when the only likely end to those scribbles is an abrupt death - and the same old book on the same old page, never turning or ending, will be the invisibility cloak nobody ever notices...

Except today his book dangled limply, uselessly, from one hand as he watched the quickly escalating brawl evolve across the room. His spidey senses tingled, alerting him to someone rudely invading his bubble of personal space. He didn’t look up. “Guess they got bored of Jeopardy,” he commented, dropping the foot curled onto his chair and making himself ready to disappear as if he'd never been there at all. It had been a year, but even without the ability to literally warp light to render himself invisible it, being invisible, was still his superpower. (Personally, given the choice, he would have picked something cooler.)

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( DYLAN O'BRIEN; CISMALE; PANSEXUAL ) — DAVID WELLS is a TWENTY year old FAIRY HYBRID, and is in Blackford because HE WAS CAUGHT UNWILLINGLY ASSISTING BACK WATER HUNTERS IN THE CAPTURE OF VAMPIRE NESTS. Some call HIM CHARISMATIC, but also HE can be RECKLESS.

× david’s mother was unseelie fae. basically, cue sad music for sad story here, a disgusting half blood abomination for a kid was not remotely her choice and she wins exactly no mother of the year awards. she escaped a while back, fucking shit up because she’s a bad bitch, and she’s got a bit of a chip in her shoulder about her offspring.

× david was raised by the hunters who, ahem, knocked up his mom. he received no formal education, struggles with reading and dyslexia, but he’s whip smart and he slays at poker. he’s never used a computer, his hunter fam being pretty “mountain people,” but he’s full of obscure references and shit. if he’d been born right, he could’ve been in and out of any top-tier college by now.

× fun fact about fairies tm: their blood is like crack to anyone that finds blood pretty tasty. (yeah, just like true blood.) that’s why they hide out in their own world and they don’t give a shit about the human world. because vamps hunted them nearly to extinction once upon a time so they were like right fuck that we out. more fun facts about fairies to come...

× back to david. so he’s sort of taught how to fight, he got a baseball bat for his birthday once that wasn’t for baseball, but mostly he’s just vamp cat nip. it’s a shitty life, and scary, and probably why he's captain sarcasm. coping mechanisms and shit. he’s a dirty fighter, by the way. but all the kids learned to fight that way.

× so the powers that be eventually got clued in about david and his hunter fam, and the camp got raided and whoever wasn’t killed got arrested and that’s how david ended up in prison. he protested, of course, that he isn’t a hunter and he wasn’t particularly into the idea of being vamp bait, but he was condemned by association and literally just for existing.

× he’s been in a prison roughly a year. he used to keep track of the days but gave that up pretty quick. no point, after all, with a life sentence. he’s got the art of being invisible down, because it’s not easy being super tasty, but he’s learned his lessons the hard way. he’s got spirit, though, and probably a surprisingly strong sense of will and person because he’s too stubborn for life.

× with access to his powers, david can manipulate and control light and energy. that said, he sucks at it and he can’t control it for shit, but under extreme duress he’s been known to repel bad guys and become invisible. he’s got nothing on actual fairies, though. human limitations and all that. plus, he doesn’t know anything about fairy magic. he’s pretty useless really.