(age.) thirty three
(species.) werewolf
(occupation.) firefighter
(residency.) born and raised in Hollow Grove
(mirror.) scott eastwood
The Hastings line is derived of the oldest werewolves, their history going all the way back to the beginning of the werewolf line. The Descendants of Nate Greyson’s child, the Hastings were a prestigious and brave line of wolves. For Dash Hasting’s being born a Hasting had been a fairly normal life. His grandparents had lost their lives in the supernatural wars and when it came time for his parents to settle down they knew there would be no better place then Hollow Grove. It gave his two wild wolf parents a place to raise their new family but gave them the safety of a place they could still be themselves. In Hollow Grove, they had a place they could raise their children in light of what they were and the Hastings were able to embrace their lineage once more. It wasn’t long after the town was settled that word of the soon to be birth of Dash Reginald Hastings came to Andy and Fiona Hastings.
For Dash being a Hasting meant loyalty, it meant family, and there wasn’t anything he wouldn’t do for his family. The Hastings had a good life, they were something right out of a painting, healthy children, happy parents, it was the best life a kid could ask for growing up. His father was the town sheriff, his mother a local jewelry maker and together they gave Dash and his siblings everything they could ever want. Dash was an adventurous kid, always running through the woods and dreaming of someday becoming a wolf himself. Although as a born werewolf he knew that most likely meant triggering and that was a reality of who he was that he never could get comfortable with. As he grew he was everything you would expect out of Hollow Grove’s golden boy, he played football, baseball, and basketball for the local high school and was even named prom king. It was something that Dash carried with him, the expectation to do the right thing and to be the good guy always hanging over his head.
These were the very things that pushed him into his future. After graduating, Dash began working toward his dream of becoming a firefighter. By twenty-five he’d established a good life for himself, he’d made the squad at the Hollow Grove Fire Department and was getting to place where he was ready to settle down with his longtime girlfriend. He’d taken all the steps laid out for him, done everything he was told to do, and Dash had expected the happily ever after to follow. Of course, as most things go, things were picture perfect right up until the moment they weren’t. It had been Sunday tradition since the day the children had been grown and ready to leave the house that the family would get together for Sunday dinner. Unlike most Sunday’s though Dash was running late this April day in 2012. They’d gotten a call at the end of his shift and they’d gotten back late. Oliver was waiting for him at the station when he returned and the two headed to their childhood home for dinner.
Everyone would tell him he and Ollie were the lucky ones that day, for if they had been on time they would have suffered the same fate of their family. Dash and Ollie returned to their childhood home that day prepared for BBQ in the backyard and playing in the tree house with his little brother Tommy, instead when they arrived they found their family murdered in cold blood. The act of a vampire or possibly multiple vampires. It was the most brutal crime in Hollow Grove history that would go unsolved, while it was a safe haven there had been crimes throughout its history that would never be solved. The murder of the Hasting’s family would go down in its history as one of them. Dash had quite literally lost his mind that day, the downward spiral of guilt and grief tearing at his very seams. To his relief he hadn’t lost everyone, he still had Oliver. Regardless though it was a tragedy that would eat away at him for the next five years.
For over, a year Dash hid behind his golden boy charm letting those who remained live in ignorance that he’d be okay. First, he pushed his fiance away, calling off the wedding and watched as she fleed from town in her heartbreak. Once he’d successfully self-destructing that relationship things really grew dark for him. Beneath that though brewed a rage inside him that could not be calmed, the werewolf in him scratching desperately at the surface as it tried to break out. It was a darkness that Dash hadn’t even known he was capable of but it reared its ugly head often. Violent outburst began to worry people but Dash seemed capable of brushing it under the rug with one charming smile. Then his rage became too much and his violent outburst couldn’t be stopped. December 2012, he’d find himself at a dive bar just outside of town. The night is mostly a blur for Dash but does remember the man starting in on him and it ultimately led to the two getting into an altercation in the parking lot. The werewolf gene that had been dormant for so long burst its way to the surface and that night Dash triggered his curse.
Naturally, the pack welcomed him in hoping to give the young wolf some guidance and Dash would spend the next five years trying to atone for what he had done. Every day he tries desperately to suppress the underlying darkness in himself and to never allow those violent tendencies to show themselves. He wants so desperately to be that golden boy everyone sees him to be. Last few years, Dash’s life turned upside down once more. His former fiance returned to town with news that she had been pregnant when she’d left and he had a five-year-old daughter Darcy, he also discovered not long after that that he was the father of another child as the result of a one night stand he had with a friend. From the life of an eligible bachelor to the father of two his life changed rather quickly. Just as quickly as Dash settled with the idea of being a father, things would change quickly once more during the Bitter Ball when his ex-fiance was murdered for a blood sacrifice to create hybrids of Cassie Cresswell and the mother of his other child. She went crazy leaving Valarie behind with Dash and with Darcy’s mother gone he was left on his own with two small children. Then Callie, his oldest sister, came home and Dash’s world changed once more. He was so beyond happy that his sister was alive. She instantly moved in with Dash and Oliver and their family felt a little more complete as they helped him raise the two girls. After the bombing of Summerdale, their home would get a little more crowded when his cousins moved in with them. Dash loves the businesses of his life and his home and it almost feels as though things are back to normal or at least a new version of normal.
❝ the nature of the beast
Dash Hasting’s is every bit the golden boy people paint him to be. At least most of the time he is. Charming and rather endearing most of the time he has an easy way of talking to people. It helps after all that he has a good sense of humor and strong need to protect the ones he loves. As a werewolf he was born and raised on pack law, something instilled in him from the very day he was born. Because of this Dash is loyal and true, and he is constantly trying to do what he believed to be right. Underneath the golden boy image though Dash greatly struggles with the grief and loss of his family. The pent-up rage over the last five years has left him struggling to contain an underlying darkness. It’s a side of him that Dash never wishes to embrace but at times it feels like its scratching at the very surface of his life.
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