it was time I reintroduce the cast of Mourn the Day, beginning with my belovéd brambly boy.
With no regards to his health or safety, Bram delves straight into harm’s way with the hope of a miracle: an end to his eternal suffering.
His past is marred with as many scars as his body, haunting reminders of what he is, who he used to be, and what he can never be again. No more than a laboratory rat, an experiment, a mistake … something far from human.
Unfortunate for him that he cannot die.
Since the gruesome death of his parents at the mouths and hands of hungering Fangs, Bram has collected crystals and jarred specimens—a bee found drowning on the cobblestones, butterfly wings lost to the marsh’s surrounding field, a frog gifted to him by a blue-haired boy he might have called friend in a past life. Counting them helps to ease the obsessive thoughts rattling through his skull. Not a night goes by where he doesn’t tally off each and every one, often to the familiar tune of insomnia.
A fear of intimacy and loss has left him bitter and alone for much of his life, but he dreams of one day finding a love alike that of the fairy tales that accompany him on these sleepless nights.
on the night his parents were slaughtered, Bram was rescued by a horrible piece of shit scientist named Balthazar, who later went on to experiment on him for years and ultimately ended his mortal life at the eternal age of twenty-four
relies on drinking blood to live and loathes everything about it. Balthazar won’t tell him the source and Bram is better off not having an answer
limited use of his legs after they were trampled on by horses as a boy, relies on a cane for stability
prefers up-close combat with the aid of his twin daggers, this often leads to him becoming a literal bloody mess by dawn
has a pet black rat named Seven who likes to sleep under the lapel of his vests
suffers from severe obsessive compulsive disorder
spends his free time at the archives, a library of fiction and local history, and finds comfort in the presence of the tomes and the kindness of its elderly owner
