Rohan Persaud - 34 - Witch
G H O S TÂ L I G H T
âI have heard myself say that a house with a death in it can never again be bought or sold by the living. It can only be borrowed from the ghosts that have stayed behind.â
Below the cut is some quick background on Rohan. His full biography goes into a little more detail, but please feel free to hit me up any time with ideas or plots!
TW: Death; Terminal Illness
I. Basics
Name:Â Rohan Persaud Gender/Pro-Nouns: Cisgender Male (He/Him/His) Birthday & Age: March 4, 1988 (34) Place of Birth:Â Maine, USA Species: Witch Element:Â Air Special Abilities:Â Spirit Raising Current residence: Manhattan Occupation: Playwright Faceclaim:Â Raymond Ablack Sexuality: Homosexual
II. Stats
Height: 6â˛0âł Eyes: Brown Hair: Black MBTI: INFP Alignment: Chaotic Good Affiliations: Coven Member
III. Background
Rohan was raised in a gargantuan seashore house in a small Maine tourist town. His adoptive parents, an older couple with successful professional careers under their belts, had converted the place into a successful inn, known for its antiques, its charm, and the ghost of a bride who walked its halls.
At a young age, Rohan became involved as a child actor at a local semi-professional, semi-community playhouse, where he appeared in A Christmas Carol, Oliver!, Oklahoma!, and The Innocents, the plot of which he found especially funny.
In middle school, he encountered a plump black and white stray cat, which he eventually named Bustopher. This animal, his familiar, ingratiated its way into Rohanâs life and revealed to him his magical origins.
Still, with no coven and only a surface-level understanding of his species and skills, Rohan remained largely powerless, beyond his ability to talk with Bustopher and rally the wind by accident from time to time.
He went to New York City for college, studying theatre and eventually specializing in playwriting. Upon his arrival, he found himself at the Supremeâs door and has since been a member of the coven for fifteen years.
Rohanâs proficiency lies in conjuring and communicating with the dead. His play Indignant Desert Birds was willingly inspired by a story dictated to him by a murdered man.Â
The two-act drama won a prestigious grant award and a production in the city, launching Rohanâs career as a fresh face emerging in the American theatre. He now has five professionally produced works to his name, adapted tales shared with him by the dead.
Rohan views the drama artform as something of a service he can provide: a tool to help confused spirits remember the moments leading to their deaths, a tool to create happier endings for those who want them, and a tool to achieve monumental immortality, a life played out on stage forever.
To that end, he gives spirits that want them pseudonym credits in playbills and even sends anonymous portions of monetary royalties to families or loved ones when asked to. The foreword of all his published plays dictate that the story has been dictated to him by the protagonist and only his creative revisions and additions are his own. Most audiences read this is a cheeky joke.
Lately, Rohan has been perturbed by a spirit he calls âThe Crackling Man,â so named for his raspy voice and crumbling appearance. This entity, shrouded in shadow, butts into conjurations to which he has not been invited, and Rohan has been hounded by his presence in dreams and out the corners of his vision. The witch believes the man wants to be revived from the dead and is thus targeting him in an effort to wear down his defenses.
IV: The Plays
Rohan has five full-length published plays to his name and is working on his sixth. They are listed below, in order of premiere, and may be familiar to theatregoers.Â
Indignant Desert Birds: A man in hospice wins a sizable prize from a scratch-off lottery ticket gifted to him by a nurse on his final birthday. His loved ones begin to circle like vultures and raise questions of mortality, family, and mercy.
Strephon: A Tragedy:Â A married woman begins an eight-week affair with a much younger man, an employee at an annual autumn festival. This play was applauded for its unique scenic design, the labyrinthine center of a corn maze that grows thinner and more rotten as the winter approaches, mirroring the charactersâ own spiral into disarray.
This House with Many Stairs:Â Rohanâs most personal play, it was penned in the wake of his motherâs death and details the interwoven stories of the people who have made lives in an old seaside home: the bride for whom it was built, an immigrant couple, and their son, who must cope with its empty halls once the others have gone.
Captains: A couple and their teenage son, a star high school athlete, welcome the boyâs grandmother into their home as her age advances. As her memories of the distant past grow more vivid than those of recent events, a dire new meaning is given to the portrait of the deceased family patriarch, a military Captain for whom his grandson was named.
Uses of a New Metal:Â Taking place over a single Monday morning, this play reveals the cracks among four co-workers who inhabit a solitary row of cubicles after an intern does not return to work after the weekend with no explanation.
V: Possible Connections
Rohan is open to any and all plots and connections, but below are some potential ideas to kick off brainstorming.
The Neighbor: Rohan lives in Manhattan. He knows this person from the neighborhood and may or may not get along with them.
The Fellow Artist: Rohan loves to create, and heâs always more than willing to come together to try to collaborate with people who spark his interest.
The Mourner: Rohan can conjure up the spirits of the dead. This person finds out and would love to know or pass on a message.
The Knowledge Holder: Rohan knows very little of his birth parents, who were witches that could not raise him on their own, for whatever reason. This person either knows something or is interested in helping him solve their mystery.
The Haunted: Rohan is being plagued by a vengeful ghost looking to be revived. This person is as well or may be willing to help him combat the entity.












