ABOUT BOWIE | I'm asking you God how come.
CHARACTER BASICS
NAME: Jeb “Bowie” Bediah Boregard
AGE: Twenty-Seven
GENDER & PRONOUNS: Cismale, He/Him
FACE CLAIM: Tom Holland
EYE COLOR: Brown
HAIR COLOR: Brown
HEIGHT: 5′8″
DATE OF BIRTH: April 10th, 1995
ZODIAC SIGN: Aries
LEVEL OF EDUCATION: High School Diploma, Watcher's Training
RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: N/A
OCCUPATION: Waiter at Black & Blue, Janitor at Republic, Sailing Instructor
SPECIES: Watcher
CHARACTER HISTORY [TW: CHILD NEGLECT, CHILD ABANDONMENT]
Jeb Boregard may have never met his father, but the man’s reputation set a path that would make it difficult for him to stray from. With his father in prison indefinitely following a failed attempt at a robbery, living in the slums would be the only way of life the Boregards would ever amount to. His mother had learned how to work her away around raising a son on her own at fifteen in the absence of Jeb’s father and her step son.
Jeb had been named after the man, a sad syllable that went like Jed, but his mother regretted it after a month. She would tie bows in his hair as a child and send him along for a second time in lines where they were given free things, pretending that it was her second child that needed a serving, a sample, a free thing. Eventually, the Boregards would be recognized and Jeb was dubbed Bowie for his mother’s attempts against the system.
Bowie has lived in Vancouver his whole life, and the mobile home and its residents had seen him grow up to be the man he is today. From sticking his head in windows to scope out what he didn’t have in comparison to the other trailers in the park and hiding from CPS when they came around because of his absences from school, Bowie was the child without any parental figures that the trailer park wanted anything but the responsibility to raise.
At sixteen, Bowie’s mother left the Vancouver after running off with a man who won the lottery His mother paid off their trailer and rent for nearly four years with the intention of coming back, but she never did. Postcards stopped coming just as quickly as they started, and Bowie was left to his own devices early on. However, Bowie looked for some kind of guidance and reconnected with his father who would instruct him that he had to clear the family name. His father had failed his duties as a watcher, abandoning his responsibilities, and he instructed Bowie to take his place. He would find his father's materials and put them not only in practice, but to use. As soon as it became evident that Bowie was studying, the Watcher's Council summoned him. Bowie rejected their traditional methods of schooling, but proved to be proficient.
After finishing most of his schooling and working at the Black & Blue as a waiter, he met the woman who would soon be the bane of his existence. She flirted with him the moment they met and a soft familiarity with the other during high school became infatuation and trust that was driven by the approval of her family, the taste of the Kook life, and someone who wanted to teach Bowie rather than scold him. This didn’t last very long, though. She wanted an escape and Bowie’s independence offered her that, and she would swallow it whole and make it her own soon enough.
Despite Bowie's training, he failed to recognize that the girl's family were vampires that aspired to make their own clan. The girl had been a reject that was promised prosperity and riches by helping them in their endeavors, and they would turn her. She put off her transition as much as she could, but eventually succumbed to the terms of her agreement. Instead of cutting ties with Bowie, she used her new abilities to ensure he'd never leave her and their constant up and down relationship never seized.
Even though he knew what she was, Bowie never left her. The strength of their relationship never outgrew childish threats of leaving him and following him until the end of time and the threat to turn him herself. Bowie feels that he needs her to survive, to keep some part of him more than human against just killing every scribbled creature of the night in the books his father hid away.
PRESENT DAY
Bowie has settled in Vancouver with the same lifestyle he's always had of working too much and never making enough. He thrives on what he can manipulate out of people, and falling in and out of the turmoil of his relationship with his vampire-ex. When it comes to being a watcher, he's pulled back from the severity of it as expected considering his father's reputation. There's an infamous excuse given to everyone who's attempted to fit under his wing— "I don't have time, I have work that actually pays me."
WANTED CONNECTIONS
Co-workers
Regulars at Black & Blue
People from the local sailing club whether its just members, socialites, co-workers, people always walking around the deck
Partners in crime
Hook-ups
Enemies
Anyone he could have crashed with when he was growing up in Vancouver
Childhood friends
People he wronged in school by being the worst partner in a project
People he used to party with in Vancouver
