sweet / MELODIES.

PLOT SPECIFIC WANTED CONNECTIONs:

SIRE: The woman who passed herself off as the survivor of an attacked ship, was a vampire who had killed the ship she was on and all of James’ crew, then turned him and forced him to then kill his adoptive father. 

FRIENDS: They’re few and far in between but he does make ‘em. 

ENEMIES: Easier to make for him.

EXES: Same as friends. 

ABOUT.

Born as a result of an affair between his mother, a maid originally from Zimbabwe and his father, a navy veteran who was set to become Governor. Conceived on the boat from England, he was settled in Port Royal, Jamaica where he was raised in the Governer’s household as a member of staff alongside his mother. 

His mother died when he was ten, and the next three years spent in abject misery being ignored and unacknowledged by his father, and missing his mother. 

In 1657, when he was thirteen, pirates attacked Port Royal. They were ruthless, and his father soon died after an attack. Yet, with them he saw the freedom that he didn’t have here, and in turn one of them saw something in him. He left with them, leaving the Port city behind without a second thought.

Through the ship he gained a second family with the pirates, learnt how to sail and to fight and to cheat, but it was the life of freedom that he so sorely craved.

Growing into a respected member of the crew, he was first mate by the age of thirty, under his adoptive father figure, it was the Golden Age of Piracy. 

[DEATH TW] At the age of 33, they came across a ship that had seemingly been attacked and the crew dead bar one survivor, a woman. She pleaded sanctuary, and came aboard their ship, however on her second night her true nature was revealed. 

The woman was a vampire, and she killed his entire crew without a thought, leaving James and his adoptive father. He had tried to fight but been knocked unconscious and when he awoke, it was to be told he had been turned to a vampire. 

She forced him to kill his adoptive father, before leaving him to deal with what he had done. [END OF DEATH TW]

He forced himself into isolation, never stopping in one place for long and eventually when he felt he had the ability to control himself he began to find ways to deal with his immortality and boredom. 

He trained as a lawyer under a new name, and began his own law firm. He tends to only take on a few non supernatural cases, to cover his own ass but he focuses on supernatural clients. 

Legally the business will “change hands” from father to son over the years as James doesn’t age, and he transitions from each alias. 

PLOT SPECIFIC WANTED CONNECTIONs: 

EX BOYFRIEND: Shortly after being bitten, she met a vampire through work in New York, and they fell in love over the course of their time at work. He had been a vampire for a few centuries, and helped introduce her to the supernatural world and cope with the way things were now. They went from hating each other to something else, but the age gap proved too much, and he left her in the middle of the night. 

CHILDHOOD BEST FRIEND: They grew up together, and Livia abruptly cut of contact after the death of her family and her turning. Now they’ve run into each other in Portland, and things are awkward. 

ROOMMATES (0/3): They live in a loft together that’s not entirely safe, there’s always something broken there and there’s always something chaotic happening (Think New Girl), it’s chaotic but she loves it. 

ABOUT:

Born the youngest of two daughters to Carlos and Ana, Livia was the moon to her sister Luisa’s sun. They were complete opposites, Luisa loved pink and painting nails, content with sitting and reading a book in the corner whilst Livia would be skating around on her roller skates singing the latest song stuck in her head whilst trying to play guitar. 

Her parents were loving and chaotic in their own way, their father was a mechanic who sang to the rolling stones at the top of his lungs whilst cooking them breakfast on sunday mornings. Their mom was an artist, most comfortable in paint splattered dungarees with a paintbrush twisted into a knot in her hair. 

Basically their childhood was filled with music, art and laughter, and Livia adored it. She loved her family, and loved their life. 

As predicted, Livia grew from a wild child to a hellion teen and her parents constantly dealt with people knocking on their door with complaints, “Your Livia did this,” and as she entered her twenties, it was brought up with laughter and jokes about how Mrs. Hendersons cat still suffered the trauma of her wild antics and pranks. 

Livia became a mechanic like her father, earning a job in the same shop as him and joking about how they’d open their own mechanic shop one day, a father and daughter empire. 

[DEATH MENTION TW] However, their idyllic life came to a halt when she came home from work later than her father. She had been delayed getting a package, shirts with a potential business names and her father and hers name on them, and her father had gone ahead of his daughter. 

When she came home, she saw her sister first, lying on the couch with her throat torn out. She found her parents in the kitchen, with her father crouched over his wife like he spent his last moments protecting her. 

Her stomach dropped, and the woman stood so quietly, so numb that she was unaware of someone approaching. The attack should’ve killed her, but she survived the bite to the throat and woke up the next day. [END OF DEATH MENTION]

In the wake of the death of her family, she withdrew into herself. She moved to New York, where she met a vampire who’d been around for a long enough time to understand what she had become. She was a lycan, and she needed to adjust to that. 

He began to help her adjust, and slowly she was trying to get used to what she was. Over time they also fell in love, something that didn’t last. Their age gap became too much, he felt there was too much life for her to experience and he didn’t want to hold her back so he left.