V!Howell Muybridge Masterpost^^
Main info:
Name: Howell Muybridge
Pronouns: He/Him
Identity: queer, aro, guy
Appearance:
Extra: the camera he uses is a second hand canon prima zoom shot!! (Same camera I use irl, but w/ the European name since oakhurst is ambiguously Europe lol)
Lore:
Howell is a shutterbug and completely obsessed with the supernatural, namely Oakhurst, a town rumoured to be somewhere deep in the woods near where he lives. He’s been searching for it from a young age hoping to be the first to bring back real, tangible evidence that the stories were true, often running away for days on end just to be found collapsed from exhaustion miles into the forest. What started off as worry from his parents quickly turned to anger when no matter what they tried he wouldn’t get this idea of a magical place out of his head. They’d regularly destroy his things, especially his cameras, books on folklore, and the photos he had hung up around his room in hopes that it’d kill his obsession at the source, but it just made him retreat further into it as a method of escapism. Kids at school picked on him relentlessly for still believing in childish things like vampires, leading him to skip most days and spend even more time in the woods searching for anything that’d prove them wrong. After a while he got better at navigating the woods, finding his way back himself most times before anyone really noticed he wasn’t where he was supposed to be, though when he didn’t he was always met with a very angry search party.
Howell barely scraped through highschool, was forced into university for a short time before he flunked out, his parents tried getting him jobs and volunteer gigs, just to find out he wasn’t showing up to them. The obsession hit its peak in 2006, which was, to his knowledge 200 years after the last massacre, meaning if he could just find the town he’d be sure to see something supernatural. He was certain everyone who mocked him would have to eat their words, people would think he was so great and cool and important and they’d never hurt him again. So he ran off like usual, and this time no one bothered to search for him.
He’s incredibly close with Méabh, who was the first person to ever take him seriously, and also gets along very well with Violet
