Name:  Dakota Thompson Face: Nathan Parsons

What: Hybrid (mother was a werewolf, father was a hunter) Duties: Odds and ends jobs Age: appears late 20′s-early 30′s

Dakota has no idea where he came from. He knows he was “adopted”, knows it wasn’t strictly legal, but that’s about all he knows. He didn’t even know werewolves were real until he was about twelve and shifted for the first time. That had come easy, a response to abuse more than anything, and he had ended up killing his adoptive parents before bolting. 

His birth mother was a werewolf that went by the name Claire. No one really knows if it was her real name or not. His father was a man named Coltrane. He hadn’t known Claire was a were when he bedded her, but he definitely found out during when she ripped him up with her claws and left him for dead. 

He survived. 

By the time he had caught back up to her, she had ditched the kid, basically sold him for a couple hundred dollars. It hadn’t been a lie when she told Coltrane that she had gotten rid of his little bastard and the kid was as good as dead. 

She did not walk away from that encounter. 

Dakota doesn’t know he has living siblings. Doesn’t know about Talyse and Cian in New York or William out in Nevada. He’s sort of a drifter, mostly living in eastern Kentucky. 

Despite his upbringing, he’s a pretty upbeat kind of guy. Goes out of his way to help people, makes sure he’s not in any populated areas around the full moon, take precautions with most of the things he does. 

What he doesn't know is that his other two siblings have connections to the bar. Will was adopted by Zia and Leo when he was just a baby. Zia's sister, Colette, still actively lives at the bar. Addison's mom knew Cord's oldest son, Robert, and Robert owed her a favor, so he raised the girl with Yin. The odds of either one of them crossing paths with Ryland are extremely high, but it's unknown if any of them will make the connection that they're siblings aside from Addison with Ryland. This is because Addison knows Coltrane is her biological father and knows that Ryland exists, but Ryland does not know Addison exists.

Carla tends to run the grill on the morning shifts with Donna and Sara, Dakota and Annie usually work the evening shift. Afternoons on Fridays and Saturdays, as well as off days for the full time employees, are handled by a rotating door of transient workers (often paid under the table) and younger folks fresh out of high school.

5. Do they go looking for love or do they prefer for things to happen naturally? 

Naturally. He’s never been all that big on looking for a relationship.

6. What is their hygiene / makeup routine? 

He showers daily. He works in a diner kitchen so he’s usually covered in grease. On his days off, he does a lot of hunting/wood chopping, etc. 

7. What do they do for self care? 

He doesn’t, really? He’s pretty laid back in general but hunting is his stress relief.

8. What hobbies do they have, or what do they do for fun? 

He reads or goes for a run.

9. What career did they want as a child?

The thing Ryland does not like is knowing that, even if his brothers are still alive, if Coltrane found them he’d kill them. Or worse, make Ryland do it as some bullshit loyalty test. 

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Pros: 1. His body temperature tends to run warmer so he’d be very good at warming someone up 2. When he lets his guard down, he can be very playful 3. He’s got decent first aid skills

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Pros: 1. Cooks for a living so he knows his way around a kitchen 2. He’s relatively quiet so he won’t be annoying 3. His cabin’s electricity is all solar power and his heating is through a wood burner so power loss and heat loss is never an issue

You are a willow tree, providing shade and security

You protect the only way you know how. You are a safe place, a lantern in the dark, the one who is a home to everyone you love. Your anger is big but quiet. The kind of white-hot rage that does the most damage when someone you love is at risk. You bend but do not break. In this way, no one is stronger than you are.

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