( 𝒊𝒏𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 )

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CW: MENTIONS OF ABUSE AND VIOLENCE GENERAL. NAME: Rafe Sheppard AGE: 37 HOUSE: Werewolf, with abilities including enhanced strength and agility, enhanced sense of smell, taste, hearing, and dark sight, transformation into half-wolf and wolf form. HEIGHT: 5'10" HAIR & EYE COLOUR: Dark brown, hazel brown DISTINCTIVE FEATURES & BUILD: Scars literally everywhere on his back (upper and lower), backs of his thighs, backs of his calves. The scars on his knuckles are winding down from the base to the center of the back of his hands. The names "Rhianne" and "Rotem" on his heart and pinky finger tattooed in a solemn serif font, a tattoo of a pack of wolves fighting on his chest (like this.) He has a pair of matching, healed over divots on the sides of his jaw that look a lot like scars. He gets bitey when they're touched and very seldom holds still when people put their hands on his face. He's built tall and strong from all the years of fighting, wider in the shoulder, powerful in the leg. He's a brawler, but oddly compact and fast. BACKGROUND. — Born to a fairly wealthy New England family that lived in comfort and style in Salem, Massachusetts. Mother was a kind matriarch who lived with (and basically took charge over) a myriad of male consorts, all full-blooded wolves and meant to keep the bloodline pure and strong. It was great. Rafe has brothers and sisters, all with "R" names, it's a family name. His litter mates are Rhianne (older sister) and Rotem (older brother). — The slaughter of his entire family occurs when he is twelve, because they pissed off SOMEONE (it is a mystery who they pissed off--just kidding it's not a mystery. It was vampires. Vampires killed his entire family.) Rafe escapes, but after a few years fleeing from shelter to shelter trying to hide his werewolf side, he ends up being sold off to a Texan prize fighting circuit when he's in his teens (15 or so). He is thrown into the thick of it and the assumption is that they can break the human portion of his brain as they've done with the other wolves they have. He goes through intense physical abuse including severe beatings until he'd turned and having a muzzle forcibly screwed into the bone and meat of his jaw. Of course, this doesn't sit well with him. He bides his time, however, since he is still young and prize fights for a good 7 years. His handler attempts to sell him off to another ring (when he's about 21) but when he enters his cage and unscrews his muzzle, he kills both his handler and the prospective buyer, escaping. — Travelled primarily through the Southwest alone and exhausted, but is eventually picked up by a small group of nomadic desert witches who (very slowly) earn his trust, heal him, and basically keep him around as protection in exchange for giving him a weird and comforting human family. Eventually he leaves them (purely because he is always full of wanderlust) and travels further up north along the Northeastern coast of the US, running in the Appalachians with another pack who is less than accepting but lets him travel with them. This pack is a small, rogue group, not the esteemed lines of lycan families that you usually see. He's runs with them for a year, living the wolf life, before managing to break off again, more wanderlust. — He makes his way up to Canada, crossing the border as a wolf (fuck you who needs passports) and working for a while, as a fisherman on the coastline and a logger in the deep forests. Eventually moves towards some of the cities in an attempt to find a more permanent home, but it never sits well with him (a la the Call of the Wild.) He makes a home for himself in the less inhabited and more wooded areas of the country. He buys a cabin in cash monies from working from a traveling witch looking to sell her properties before moving overseas. It is here that Rafe lives on his own, very seldom entertaining travelers and sometimes running/hunting with the occasional pack that's passing through. Occasionally he gets escort gigs with traveling witches, which is pretty good money. — There, a runaway witch finds makes a home in his shed, which at first is a little weird. Rafe decides to take him in, offering him home and hearth. He's a little aggressive with the cleaning, which makes his nose tickle unpleasantly, but Esme is more than helpful when they get jobs helping witches move from point A to point B, and he's probably the best company that Rafe had had in a long time besides the kids who breeze in and out of his small cabin in the woods. PERSONALITY: Easy-going and somewhat laid back, but the undercurrent of vigilance is something you can see in the depths of his gaze. He's very hard to lie to, almost immune to deception. Wears a lot of soft flannel and rugged materials as you might expect. Hard-working and often times tender because of it. You would think he's averse to all forms of strangers landing on his doorstep, but he's prone to taking in strays. Will protect any and all witches and wolves at all cost. Doesn't really care much for plain-flavored humans, they tend to ruin everything. Vampires are mauled on site, and make his vision go red, which leads to terrible and violent decisions and often times getting hurt.