We have been waiting for a while, but CADE LYNCH was finally spotted in the village today. People heard whispers that he is a FAERIE that is hellbent on [ avoiding ] the veils. Will he succeed? Only time can tell. Until then we will keep a close eye on him as he listens to “BE MY ESCAPE” by RELIENT K.
~ THE BIOGRAPHY ~
Cade grew up believing he was human. He had human parents, went to a human high school and university, and everything about his life in Ireland was mundane. However, there was something about it that just felt . . . incomplete. It felt like there was something off about himself. He interacted with humans like he was one of them, but every once in a while he would get the sense that things were moving too quickly around him. He often preferred to spend time out in nature rather than with people, feeling a kinship with it. He even had a small garden that he tended to in the front lawn of his home. When he tried to explain the feeling to his parents, that life was moving too fast for him to keep up, they told him everyone felt that way sometimes.
He tried to put it behind him, deciding to go backpacking throughout Europe once he graduated, for the experience. It was then that he ran into a strange person that seemed to recognize him. They revealed the existence of magic to him, and told him that they were the same: they were both fae.
Cade immediately distrusted this information. How could that be possible? But after doing the research on changelings, and discovering his own latent magical abilities, he eventually believed it.
With the newfound belief came anger and resentment toward the Seelie Queen that abandoned him. As he’d been born weak and sickly, he seemed a suitable sacrifice to take the place of the real son of his parents, due to them offending the Seelie Queen. Knowing this meant his parents knew about magic the entire time, he grew resentful toward the humans that had called themselves his parents, as well. They hadn’t told him about his true identity. They’d kept this a secret his entire life. He didn’t confront them, but instead cut off all communication, never returning to his home in Ireland.
Instead he wandered Europe practicing his magic. Unfortunately, he caught the attention of the Seelie Queen, who wanted to bring him back under her rule, now that he knew the truth. He rejected her and, in a reckless attempt to break all control from her, he offered himself up to the King of the Wild Hunt, Riordan. All he knew about the Hunt was that they operated outside of the rule of the Seelie and Unseelie courts, and that they took the souls of the dead fallen in battle into their ranks.
He quickly discovered that things were much more brutal than that. He participated in the wiping out of villages, cullings that took the lives of hundreds. It sickened and traumatized him, but he was bonded to Riordan now. The only way to leave the Hunt was to either die, break the bond and kill the King, or find a way to convince Riordan to give him the permission to leave. He doesn’t want to die, and he doesn’t want to kill anymore. He doesn’t believe he deserves the peaceful life he craves, but he wants it too badly to give up on it.
Unfortunately, it’s more difficult than not. The bond keeps the Hunters loyal to the Wild Hunt and their King. To even think of betrayal makes Cade feel like he’s dying. Every day is a struggle to resist the bond while maintaining the status quo to avoid suspicion. It shouldn’t be possible, but the human influence in his upbringing helps. To think of his human parents, his human friends, his life before . . . it calms the storm inside his spirit, and more than anything he wants to find his parents, before it’s too late, and apologize for running away when all they did was love him as their own.
Recently, he asked Riordan if he can move from the ranks of the warriors to the recruiters, seeking other fae to join the Hunt. He hopes that if he’s successful in this mission, he’ll earn the King’s favor, and he can formally request to leave the Hunt permanently.
~ PERSONALITY ~
Positive: Resourceful, Kind, Compassionate, Observant Negative: Cunning, Manipulative, Reckless, Traumatized
