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[hider=Charlotte McCoy | The Park Ranger]
[color=#2e2c2c].
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[cell][color=2e2c2c]....................................................[/color][img]https://i.pinimg.com/1200x/c0/d4/e6/c0d4e67886771b506252f80b0c209134.jpg[/img]

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[sub][color=9FC9A8][b]C H A R L O T T E[/b] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] [b]M C C O Y[/b][/color]
[color=807B84][sup]________________________________________________________[/sup][/color] 
[color=9FC9A8]35     [color=808080][b]|[/b][/color]     female     [color=808080][b]|[/b][/color]     pansexual[/color]
[color=807B84][sup]__________________________________________[/sup][/color][/sub][/center][sub][color=2e2c2c]..................[/color][color=9FC9A8][b]▹ hair color  [/b][/color] [color=808080][b]|[/b][/color] [color=808080]  brunette[/color]
[color=2e2c2c]..................[/color][color=9FC9A8][b]▹ eye color  [/b][/color] [color=808080][b]|[/b][/color] [color=808080]  green[/color]
[color=2e2c2c]..................[/color][color=9FC9A8][b]▹ height  [/b][/color] [color=808080][b]|[/b][/color] [color=808080]  5' 5"[/color]
[color=2e2c2c]..................[/color][color=9FC9A8][b]▹ build  [/b][/color] [color=808080][b]|[/b][/color] [color=808080]  aethletic[/color]
[color=2e2c2c]..................[/color][color=9FC9A8][b]▹ species  [/b][/color] [color=808080][b]|[/b][/color] [color=808080]  human[/color]
[color=2e2c2c]..................[/color][color=9FC9A8][b]▹ faction  [/b][/color] [color=808080][b]|[/b][/color] [color=808080]  citizen[/color]
[color=2e2c2c]..................[/color][color=9FC9A8][b]▹ role  [/b][/color] [color=808080][b]|[/b][/color] [color=808080]  park ranger[/color]
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[/cell][cell][justify][sup][color=2e2c2c].[/color]
[color=9FC9A8][b]S T R E N G T H S[/b][/color]
[color=d6d6d6][b]survivalist[/b][/color] [color=808080][i]- Charlie is highly capable outdoors and knows the forests surrounding Pine Ridge intimately. She can navigate, track, camp, and survive in harsh conditions with very little assistance.[/i][/color]

[color=d6d6d6][b]resilient[/b][/color] [color=808080][i]- Loss and hardship have hardened Charlie without making her bitter. Even after painful setbacks, she continues moving forward rather than shutting down.[/i][/color]

[color=d6d6d6][b]approachable[/b][/color] [color=808080][i]- Charlie has an easygoing, warm personality that naturally puts people at ease. She enjoys making others laugh and often acts as an emotional anchor for those around her. She is, quite easily, one of Pine Ridges most universally adored citizens.[/i][/color]

[color=9FC9A8][b]W E A K N E S S E S[/b][/color]
[color=d6d6d6][b]abandonment issues[/b][/color] [color=808080][i]- The disappearance of her mother and departure of her sister left deep emotional scars she rarely speaks about openly. Charlie struggles with being left behind and quietly fears losing the people she still has.[/i][/color]

[color=d6d6d6][b]stubborn[/b][/color] [color=808080][i]- Charlie is deeply set in her beliefs and instincts once she commits to something. Convincing her she is wrong can be extremely difficult.[/i][/color]

[color=d6d6d6][b]insomnia[/b][/color] [color=808080][i]- Charlie has struggled with sleep for years, especially after losing both her mother and sister. Long nights alone in the woods and an overactive mind often leave her exhausted, restless, and running on far less sleep than she should be.[/i][/color]

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[color=9FC9A8][b]P E R S O N A L I T Y[/b][/color]
[color=d6d6d6][b]loyal [color=2e2c2c]....[/color] [color=808080]|[/color] [color=2e2c2c]....[/color] compassionate [color=2e2c2c]....[/color] [color=808080]|[/color] [color=2e2c2c]....[/color] sarcastic [color=2e2c2c]....[/color] [color=808080]|[/color] [color=2e2c2c]....[/color] independent [color=2e2c2c]....[/color] [color=808080]|[/color] [color=2e2c2c]....[/color] courageous[/b][/color]

[color=9FC9A8][b]H I S T O R Y[/b][/color]
[color=808080] Charlotte “Charlie” McCoy has spent her entire life in Pine Ridge and, unlike many others her age, never once felt trapped by it. The town was small, quiet, and deeply rooted in routine, but Charlie liked that about it. She liked knowing everyone by name and being known in return. Her family had lived in Pine Ridge for generations, tucked into the same stretch of valley beneath the mountain long before tourism ever started creeping back into town. Most of Charlie’s childhood was spent inside the Pine Ridge National Park, where her father worked as the town’s park ranger and taught her the woods as though they were something sacred.

By the time she was old enough to walk the trails on her own, Charlie already knew how to track animals through the brush, identify edible plants, start a fire in the rain, and survive overnight in the wilderness with little more than a backpack and a knife. Her father taught her how to respect the forest, but more importantly, how to listen to it. There were trails he disliked after dark. Parts of the woods he avoided entirely. As a child, Charlie thought little of it. She only understood later that her father had been genuinely afraid of certain parts of the mountain.

Her mother disappeared when Charlie was still very young. No body was ever found, no explanation ever offered. For years afterward, Charlie searched for her in the woods every chance she got, convinced she had simply missed something everyone else overlooked. Even now, part of her still searches without realizing it. Through all of it, however, her older sister Savannah remained the brightest and steadiest thing in her life. The two grew up inseparable, sharing secrets, clothes, heartbreaks, and dreams in the way only sisters close in age often do. That closeness eventually extended to the Boone brothers as well. Savannah began dating Harlan Boone sometime during high school, while Charlie naturally gravitated toward Warren until the four of them became nearly impossible to separate. They spent countless weekends camping beneath the trees together, staying up too late around campfires while laughter echoed through the forest around them. 

Before long, Charlie became less of a guest and more of a permanent fixture in the Boone household, wandering through the front door unannounced, stealing food from their kitchen, crashing on the couch, and generally making herself at home wherever they were and when she wasn't busy being the best Girl Scout leader Pine Ridge had ever seen. Sometimes she suspected the brothers were hiding things from her. They could be strangely cagey about certain hunting trips or nights spent deeper in the woods alone. Still, Charlie had long since accepted that people could keep secrets and still love you fiercely anyway. To her, the Boones were family.

It came as a shock to nearly everyone when Savannah vanished from Pine Ridge without warning. No goodbye. No explanation. No final conversation left behind for Harlan or Charlie to cling to afterward, she left the engagement ring Harlen had gotten her on her nightstand. One day she was there, and the next she was simply gone. The months following her departure were some of the hardest of Charlie’s life. She had never seen Harlan so devastated, nor Warren so helpless to fix it. More than once she sat quietly beside Harlan in the Boone living room while grief hollowed him out piece by piece, giving him space whenever words failed them both. 

In the years since, Charlie’s relationship with Savannah has soured into something bitter and unresolved. Her sister still calls occasionally. Charlie has not answered in years. There is something to be said for the loyalty of the people who stay. The Boone brothers stayed. When Charlie left Pine Ridge briefly to attend a community college five hours away, Warren and Harlan helped move her into her dorm. When she earned her bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science, the Boone brothers sat beside her father at graduation. When she returned home afterward, they helped her unpack all over again. And years later, when her father finally died, it was Warren and Harlan who stood beside her at the funeral and carried her grief alongside her without ever asking for anything in return.

Now Charlie works as Pine Ridge’s park ranger, following the same trails her father once walked before her. She knows the forests surrounding the mountain better than almost anyone else in town and has spent enough nights beneath those trees to understand something is deeply wrong within them. There are sounds in the woods that do not belong to any animal she recognizes. Trails that seem to shift when no one is looking. Places where the forest suddenly falls silent for reasons she cannot explain. Yet despite everything strange and unsettling lurking around Pine Ridge, Charlie remains rooted there all the same. The mountain took pieces of the people she loved long ago, and whether she realizes it or not, part of her has spent her entire life trying to take them back.[/color]

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[center][color=808080][color=9FC9A8][b]hexcode[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color] #9FC9A8 [color=2e2c2c]........[/color] [color=9FC9A8][b]faceclaim[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color] evangeline lilly  [color=2e2c2c]........[/color] [color=9FC9A8][b]creator[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color] Sleepy Tani[/color][/center][/sup][/justify][/cell]
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[hider=Charlotte's Home & Truck][center][img]https://i.pinimg.com/1200x/b5/fe/a0/b5fea0fec1886834d38d740800585a6e.jpg[/img][/center][/hider]
[hider=Arabella's Relationships][indent][indent][indent][indent][indent][indent][indent][indent][indent][center][color=2e2c2c].
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[justify][sub][color=808080][i]words words words[/i][/color][/sub][/justify][/center][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent]
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[right][color=9fc9a8]C H A R L O T T E [color=2e2c2c].[/color] M C C O Y[/color][color=2e2c2c].....[/color][/right][/center][/b][/h3][/sup][/center]

[indent][indent][indent][justify][color=808080][color=ffffff][b]relationship[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color] [i]comforted & respectful[/i]

[color=ffffff][b]brief description[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color][i][color=9FC9A8]"Park Ranger? She seems nice, has that sort of... sunshine personified vibe. I saw her featured in a news article when I looked up the town."[/color][/i][/color][/justify][/indent][/indent][/indent]
[center][color=2e2c2c].[/color][/center]
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[right][color=a04535]H A Z E L [color=2e2c2c].[/color] M I L L E R[/color][color=2e2c2c].....[/color][/right][/center][/b][/h3][/sup][/center]

[indent][indent][indent][justify][color=808080][color=ffffff][b]relationship[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color] [i]hesitant[/i]

[color=ffffff][b]brief description[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color][i][color=9FC9A8]"Who? A waitress? You realize I got in at three in the morning last night, right?"[/color][/i][/color][/justify][/indent][/indent][/indent]
[center][color=2e2c2c].[/color][/center]
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[right][color=2e6f40]W I L L O W [color=2e2c2c].[/color] H Y D E[/color][color=2e2c2c].....[/color][/right][/center][/b][/h3][/sup][/center]

[indent][indent][indent][justify][color=808080][color=ffffff][b]relationship[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color] [i]curious[/i]

[color=ffffff][b]brief description[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color][i][color=9FC9A8]"You mean the town only has one doctor? God, I'd kill to see what her schedule looks like. I'd be willing to bet money that she needs a stiff drink and a vacation."[/color][/i][/color][/justify][/indent][/indent][/indent]
[center][color=2e2c2c].[/color][/center]
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[right][color=c71585]N E L T H E A [color=2e2c2c].[/color] A N D E R S[/color][color=2e2c2c].....[/color][/right][/center][/b][/h3][/sup][/center]

[indent][indent][indent][justify][color=808080][color=ffffff][b]relationship[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color] [i]cautious[/i]

[color=ffffff][b]brief description[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color][i][color=9FC9A8]"You keep saying names like I'm suppose to know these people, come back in a week."[/color][/i][/color][/justify][/indent][/indent][/indent]
[center][color=2e2c2c].[/color][/center]
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[right][color=6e4685]V A L E R I A [color=2e2c2c].[/color] C A R R I N G T O N[/color][color=2e2c2c].....[/color][/right][/center][/b][/h3][/sup][/center]

[indent][indent][indent][justify][color=808080][color=ffffff][b]relationship[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color] [i]cautious[/i]

[color=ffffff][b]brief description[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color][i][color=9FC9A8]"You said she owns the grocery store? Good for her, I guess."[/color][/i][/color][/justify][/indent][/indent][/indent]
[center][color=2e2c2c].[/color][/center]
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[right][color=315b70]S A M U E L [color=2e2c2c].[/color] H O L T[/color][color=2e2c2c].....[/color][/right][/center][/b][/h3][/sup][/center]

[indent][indent][indent][justify][color=808080][color=ffffff][b]relationship[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color] [i]charmed[/i]

[color=ffffff][b]brief description[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color][i][color=9FC9A8]"He's in a lot of the news articles I've read, seems like a great mayor, someone whose really for the people. Though, he's also a politician, and they're all bloodsucking rich assholes, so who knows."[/color][/i][/color][/justify][/indent][/indent][/indent]
[center][color=2e2c2c].[/color][/center]
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[right][color=89684d]C L I N T [color=2e2c2c].[/color] W E S T O N[/color][color=2e2c2c].....[/color][/right][/center][/b][/h3][/sup][/center]

[indent][indent][indent][justify][color=808080][color=ffffff][b]relationship[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color] [i]surprisingly friendly[/i]

[color=ffffff][b]brief description[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color][i][color=fcb9c1]"Clint’s relationship with the Mayor is a little weird. It’s not a friendship I would have pegged, but there’s a trust there that I can’t begin to understand. I don’t know what I expected out of one of Mr. Holt’s friends, but Clint is very nice and polite. He never ignores me, makes an effort to include me in conversations, and greets me whenever we cross paths. I enjoy when he visits the Municipal Building. Mr. Holt is always in a better mood those days."[/color][/i][/color][/justify][/indent][/indent][/indent]
[center][color=2e2c2c].[/color][/center][/hider]
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[hider=Arabella Crowe | The New Arrival]
[color=#2e2c2c].
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[cell][color=2e2c2c]....................................................[/color][img]https://i.pinimg.com/736x/aa/a7/cc/aaa7cc7701f7a28e5de2d0c032ce4c35.jpg[/img]

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[center][color=807B84][sup]__________________________________________[/sup][/color] 
[sub][color=d19a73][b]A R A B E L L A[/b] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] [b]C R O W E[/b][/color]
[color=807B84][sup]________________________________________________________[/sup][/color] 
[color=d19a73]31     [color=808080][b]|[/b][/color]     female     [color=808080][b]|[/b][/color]     pansexual[/color]
[color=807B84][sup]__________________________________________[/sup][/color][/sub][/center][sub][color=2e2c2c]..................[/color][color=d19a73][b]▹ hair color  [/b][/color] [color=808080][b]|[/b][/color] [color=808080]  ginger[/color]
[color=2e2c2c]..................[/color][color=d19a73][b]▹ eye color  [/b][/color] [color=808080][b]|[/b][/color] [color=808080]  blue[/color]
[color=2e2c2c]..................[/color][color=d19a73][b]▹ height  [/b][/color] [color=808080][b]|[/b][/color] [color=808080]  5' 7"[/color]
[color=2e2c2c]..................[/color][color=d19a73][b]▹ build  [/b][/color] [color=808080][b]|[/b][/color] [color=808080]  slender[/color]
[color=2e2c2c]..................[/color][color=d19a73][b]▹ species  [/b][/color] [color=808080][b]|[/b][/color] [color=808080]  witch[/color]
[color=2e2c2c]..................[/color][color=d19a73][b]▹ faction  [/b][/color] [color=808080][b]|[/b][/color] [color=808080]  the circle[/color]
[color=2e2c2c]..................[/color][color=d19a73][b]▹ role  [/b][/color] [color=808080][b]|[/b][/color] [color=808080] Academic Researcher / Professor [/color]
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[/cell][cell][justify][sup][color=2e2c2c].[/color]
[color=d19a73][b]S T R E N G T H S[/b][/color]
[color=d6d6d6][b]quick thinking[/b][/color] [color=808080][i]- Arabella adapts rapidly when confronted with unexpected problems or unfamiliar situations. She is able to process information quickly and make practical decisions even under intense pressure.[/i][/color]

[color=d6d6d6][b]tenacity[/b][/color] [color=808080][i]- Once Arabella sets her mind on uncovering something, she pursues it relentlessly. Obstacles, setbacks, and resistance tend to frustrate or motivate her more than discourage her.[/i][/color]

[color=d6d6d6][b]composure[/b][/color] [color=808080][i]- Arabella remains calm and rational in situations where most people would panic. Even when frightened or overwhelmed, she prefers to think through problems logically rather than react emotionally.[/i][/color]

[color=d19a73][b]W E A K N E S S E S[/b][/color]
[color=d6d6d6][b]obsessive tendencies[/b][/color] [color=808080][i]- Arabella can become so consumed by a problem that she neglects her own wellbeing. Once fixated on finding an answer, she often ignores exhaustion, stress, and even basic self-care until the issue is resolved.[/i][/color]

[color=d6d6d6][b]fierce loyalty[/b][/color] [color=808080][i]- Once Arabella truly cares about someone, she becomes deeply protective of them and struggles to let them go, even when they may deserve it. Her loyalty can sometimes cloud her judgment and make it difficult for her to walk away from unhealthy situations or relationships.[/i][/color]

[color=d6d6d6][b]reckless curiosity[/b][/color] [color=808080][i]- Arabella’s need for answers can sometimes override common sense or personal safety. If she believes important knowledge is within reach, she has a habit of pushing forward despite obvious risks or warnings.[/i][/color]

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[color=d19a73][b]P E R S O N A L I T Y[/b][/color]
[color=d6d6d6][b]intellectual [color=2e2c2c]....[/color] [color=808080]|[/color] [color=2e2c2c]....[/color] perceptive [color=2e2c2c]....[/color] [color=808080]|[/color] [color=2e2c2c]....[/color] curious [color=2e2c2c]....[/color] [color=808080]|[/color] [color=2e2c2c]....[/color] stubborn [color=2e2c2c]....[/color] [color=808080]|[/color] [color=2e2c2c]....[/color] observant[/b][/color]

[color=d19a73][b]H I S T O R Y[/b][/color]
[color=808080] [color=d6d6d6][center][b]1852[/b][/center][/color]
Lenora stumbled through the front door sometime after three in the morning with dirt packed beneath her nails and blood dried in dark flakes along the hem of her white ceremonial slip. The house groaned softly around her as the door slammed shut behind her, though she could still hear the mountain. Even here. Miles from [i]it[/i], she could still hear stone grinding somewhere deep beneath the earth like teeth against bone.

Her hands would not stop shaking. The things she knew, in this moment, would be lost to history. She had already made her decision. 

Lenora moved quickly through the house, nearly stumbling as she yanked drawers open and shoved clothes haphazardly into a leather satchel. Soot smeared across her bare arms and throat. Her long ginger hair hung tangled down her back in damp strands while bruised fingerprints darkened one side of her wrist beneath the worn leather bracelet wrapped there. A polished blue labradorite sat at its center, though the stone no longer gleamed the way it once had. It looked cloudy now. Sickly.

The feeling beneath her skin had not stopped since she left the mountain. Like something breathing just behind her. Lenora froze suddenly in the center of the kitchen. For one terrible moment, she thought she heard movement somewhere deeper in the house. A soft scrape. A shifting creak. Her eyes darted toward the dark hallway before silence swallowed the sound completely. A moment passed as she stared down toward her bedroom, toward the darkness that seemed almost inky as it surrounded her. The woman blinked, as if she'd seen a ghost, and her lips trembled as she whispered something only the shadows could have heard. 

Then, she hurried to the table and scrawled two rushed notes with unsteady hands. One bore the name of her High Priestess, her closest friend. The other simply read; [i]Clint.[/i]

She stared at his letter the longest. Then, with trembling fingers, she slipped the bracelet from her wrist and placed it atop the folded paper. When Lenora finally stepped back outside, she did not look toward the mountain again. The trees swallowed her before dawn ever had the chance to rise, and by morning, nobody in Pine Ridge could find a trace of where she had gone.

[color=d6d6d6][center][b]Now[/b][/center][/color]
Arabella Crowe had always been a brilliant child. She took her first steps earlier than most, learned to read with startling speed, and possessed the sort of quiet intensity that often unsettled adults who didn't know what to make of her. Her first word should perhaps have been Mama. Or Dada. Or even book, which would have been fitting enough. Instead, Eleanor Crowe sat beside her one winter evening reading from a worn clothbound collection of fairy tales while Arabella rested propped against a nest of pillows in her tiny nightdress, solemn and wide eyed beneath the glow in the-dark stars fixed carefully across her bedroom ceiling. The story spoke of forests and impossible tasks, of whispered blessings and old women hidden deep within the woods. When Eleanor softly read the word [i]magic[/i], Arabella slowly pushed herself upright with immense concentration, wild red hair tangled from sleep as she stared first at the page, then at her mother.

[color=d19a73]“Mah-gic,”[/color] she had said with complete seriousness.

In the end, she always ought to have been a witch. Not that Arabella knew it then. Instead, she grew into a scholar with an insatiable curiosity and a mind far too sharp for her own good, as she was often told throughout her life. She buried herself in ancient languages, historical texts, and religious manuscripts with obsessive focus, quickly gaining recognition for her intelligence long before adulthood ever found her. By the time she was a junior in high school, she had already published her first academic paper, [i]Thwarting The 'Evil Eye' Through Achaemenid Aramaic Sources[/i], earning quiet attention within academic circles for her work. From there, the path ahead of her seemed obvious. Arabella Crowe was meant for lecture halls, research archives, and scholarly acclaim. The strange pull she always felt toward forgotten things simply seemed like another symptom of an overactive mind.

By thirty-one, Arabella had achieved the sort of career most academics spent their entire lives chasing. She taught Classical Studies at Yale, published regularly within respected scholarly journals, and had built a reputation for her work involving ancient translation and reconstructed texts. Her life was orderly, structured, and painfully earned. Then Eleanor Crowe vanished without explanation. Months passed without answers, without sightings, without so much as a body. The police found nothing. Her colleagues urged her to move on. Arabella refused.

While sorting through her mother’s house, she eventually discovered a box tucked away in the attic with her name written carefully across the side. Inside sat three things; an old leather-bound journal, a strange historical text resembling a Grimoire, and a single folded note written in Eleanor’s unmistakable handwriting. [i]“Back to the mountain. Back to the end. Back to where it all began.”[/i] Both books were written primarily in Latin, though fragments of another older language appeared throughout the pages, making translation painfully slow even for someone with Arabella’s expertise. For weeks she buried herself in the texts, sleeping little and working obsessively until eventually one name surfaced repeatedly between the pages. Pine Ridge. The rest, as it were, became inevitable. Eleanor Crowe had gone there for a reason, and Arabella intended to find out why, no matter what waited for her.

[i][b]cited:[/b][/i] Thwarting the Evil Eye Through the Prism of Achaemenid Aramaic Sources [i]is an actual academic article published by[/i] Gad Barnea. [i]Yes, I read the article, no, you really shouldn't read it unless you have a particular interest in painstaking analysis of letter shapes, damaged inscriptions, alternate readings of origins of religious rituals, and linguistic reconstruction. I certainly don't, so reading it made me re-evaluate a few life choices. That is all.[/i]
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[center][color=808080][color=d19a73][b]hexcode[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color] #d19a73 [color=2e2c2c]........[/color] [color=d19a73][b]faceclaim[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color] nicole kidman [color=2e2c2c]........[/color] [color=d19a73][b]creator[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color] Sleepy Tani[/color][/center][/sup][/justify][/cell]
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[hider=Arabella's Relationships][indent][indent][indent][indent][indent][indent][indent][indent][indent][center][color=2e2c2c].
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[justify][sub][color=808080][i]Arabella, quite literally, knows next to no one.[/i][/color][/sub][/justify][/center][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent]
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[right][color=9fc9a8]C H A R L O T T E [color=2e2c2c].[/color] M C C O Y[/color][color=2e2c2c].....[/color][/right][/center][/b][/h3][/sup][/center]

[indent][indent][indent][justify][color=808080][color=ffffff][b]relationship[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color] [i]comforted & respectful[/i]

[color=ffffff][b]brief description[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color][i][color=d19a73]"Park Ranger? She seems nice, has that sort of... sunshine personified vibe. I saw her featured in a news article when I looked up the town."[/color][/i][/color][/justify][/indent][/indent][/indent]
[center][color=2e2c2c].[/color][/center]
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[right][color=a04535]H A Z E L [color=2e2c2c].[/color] M I L L E R[/color][color=2e2c2c].....[/color][/right][/center][/b][/h3][/sup][/center]

[indent][indent][indent][justify][color=808080][color=ffffff][b]relationship[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color] [i]hesitant[/i]

[color=ffffff][b]brief description[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color][i][color=d19a73]"Who? A waitress? You realize I got in at three in the morning last night, right?"[/color][/i][/color][/justify][/indent][/indent][/indent]
[center][color=2e2c2c].[/color][/center]
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[right][color=2e6f40]W I L L O W [color=2e2c2c].[/color] H Y D E[/color][color=2e2c2c].....[/color][/right][/center][/b][/h3][/sup][/center]

[indent][indent][indent][justify][color=808080][color=ffffff][b]relationship[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color] [i]curious[/i]

[color=ffffff][b]brief description[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color][i][color=d19a73]"You mean the town only has one doctor? God, I'd kill to see what her schedule looks like. I'd be willing to bet money that she needs a stiff drink and a vacation."[/color][/i][/color][/justify][/indent][/indent][/indent]
[center][color=2e2c2c].[/color][/center]
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[right][color=c71585]N E L T H E A [color=2e2c2c].[/color] A N D E R S[/color][color=2e2c2c].....[/color][/right][/center][/b][/h3][/sup][/center]

[indent][indent][indent][justify][color=808080][color=ffffff][b]relationship[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color] [i]cautious[/i]

[color=ffffff][b]brief description[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color][i][color=d19a73]"You keep saying names like I'm suppose to know these people, come back in a week."[/color][/i][/color][/justify][/indent][/indent][/indent]
[center][color=2e2c2c].[/color][/center]
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[right][color=bca346]N O A H [color=2e2c2c].[/color] I R V I N G[/color][color=2e2c2c].....[/color][/right][/center][/b][/h3][/sup][/center]

[indent][indent][indent][justify][color=808080][color=ffffff][b]relationship[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color] [i]friendly & comforted[/i]

[color=ffffff][b]brief description[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color][i][color=d19a73]"He's amazing, he actually listens, which is a lot more than most cops have done so far. I trust him."[/color][/i][/color][/justify][/indent][/indent][/indent]
[center][color=2e2c2c].[/color][/center]
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[right][color=315b70]S A M U E L [color=2e2c2c].[/color] H O L T[/color][color=2e2c2c].....[/color][/right][/center][/b][/h3][/sup][/center]

[indent][indent][indent][justify][color=808080][color=ffffff][b]relationship[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color] [i]charmed[/i]

[color=ffffff][b]brief description[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color][i][color=d19a73]"He's in a lot of the news articles I've read, seems like a great mayor, someone whose really for the people. Though, he's also a politician, and they're all bloodsucking rich assholes, so who knows."[/color][/i][/color][/justify][/indent][/indent][/indent]
[center][color=2e2c2c].[/color][/center]
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[right][color=565a8f]S A B L E [color=2e2c2c].[/color] P R I T C H A R D[/color][color=2e2c2c].....[/color][/right][/center][/b][/h3][/sup][/center]

[indent][indent][indent][justify][color=808080][color=ffffff][b]relationship[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color] [i]hesitantly friendly[/i]

[color=ffffff][b]brief description[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color][i][color=d19a73]"She seems so nice, but... she might be a touch crazy. Which is totally fine, really."[/color][/i][/color][/justify][/indent][/indent][/indent]
[center][color=2e2c2c].[/color][/center][/hider]
[hr]
[hider=Warren Boone | The Alpha]
[color=#2e2c2c].
.[/color]
[indent][indent][table][row][sup][h1][color=181818][b]▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅[/b][right][b]▅▅▅▅▅[/b][/right][/color][right][color=3c6c6b]Warren Boone[/color][color=181818]...[/color][/right][/h1][/sup][/row][row]
[cell][color=2e2c2c]....................................................[/color][img]https://i.pinimg.com/1200x/86/26/de/8626de47554af0ea0ef203b5c40f7cad.jpg[/img]

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[center][color=807B84][sup]__________________________________________[/sup][/color] 
[sub][color=3c6c6b][b]W A R R E N[/b] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] [b]B O O N E[/b][/color]
[color=807B84][sup]________________________________________________________[/sup][/color] 
[color=3c6c6b]36     [color=808080][b]|[/b][/color]     male     [color=808080][b]|[/b][/color]     pansexual[/color]
[color=807B84][sup]__________________________________________[/sup][/color][/sub][/center][sub][color=2e2c2c]..................[/color][color=3c6c6b][b]▹ hair color  [/b][/color] [color=808080][b]|[/b][/color] [color=808080]  dark brunette[/color]
[color=2e2c2c]..................[/color][color=3c6c6b][b]▹ eye color  [/b][/color] [color=808080][b]|[/b][/color] [color=808080]  hazel/green[/color]
[color=2e2c2c]..................[/color][color=3c6c6b][b]▹ height  [/b][/color] [color=808080][b]|[/b][/color] [color=808080]  6' 5"[/color]
[color=2e2c2c]..................[/color][color=3c6c6b][b]▹ build  [/b][/color] [color=808080][b]|[/b][/color] [color=808080]  muscular / athletic[/color]
[color=2e2c2c]..................[/color][color=3c6c6b][b]▹ species  [/b][/color] [color=808080][b]|[/b][/color] [color=808080]  werewolf[/color]
[color=2e2c2c]..................[/color][color=3c6c6b][b]▹ faction  [/b][/color] [color=808080][b]|[/b][/color] [color=808080]  pack[/color]
[color=2e2c2c]..................[/color][color=3c6c6b][b]▹ role  [/b][/color] [color=808080][b]|[/b][/color] [color=808080]  mechanic / alpha[/color]
[/sub]
[/cell][cell][justify][sup][color=2e2c2c].[/color]
[color=3c6c6b][b]S T R E N G T H S[/b][/color]
[color=d6d6d6][b]protective instincts[/b][/color] [color=808080][i]- Warren places the safety of his pack above almost everything else. He takes responsibility for the wellbeing of others very seriously, even when it comes at personal cost.[/i][/color]

[color=d6d6d6][b]mechanical expertise[/b][/color] [color=808080][i]- years spent working in the garage has made him highly skilled with vehicles and machinery. He enjoys working with his hands and often uses the shop as a way to clear his head.[/i][/color]

[color=d6d6d6][b]natural leadership[/b][/color] [color=808080][i]- though he never originally wanted the role, Warren has a bright presence people naturally gravitate toward. His loyalty and consistency earn trust far more effectively than intimidation ever could.[/i][/color]

[color=3c6c6b][b]W E A K N E S S E S[/b][/color]
[color=d6d6d6][b]self-sacrificing[/b][/color] [color=808080][i]- Warren has a habit of putting the needs of the pack ahead of his own wellbeing. He often carries burdens alone rather than asking others for help.[/i][/color]

[color=d6d6d6][b]avoidant[/b][/color] [color=808080][i]- when emotionally overwhelmed, Warren tends to bury himself in work at the mechanic shop rather than openly discussing what is bothering him.[/i][/color]

[color=d6d6d6][b]emotional suppression[/b][/color] [color=808080][i]- Warren spends a great deal of energy trying to maintain control over his emotions and instincts. The more stress, anger, or fear he experiences, the harder it becomes to keep the wolf beneath the surface contained. He has an awful temper, but struggles to keep it hidden.[/i][/color]

[color=d6d6d6][b]harlen[/b][/color] [color=808080][i]- Warren would accept any terrible fate the world seemed fit to bestow upon him if it meant standing between his brother and said fate. He would also, given the opportunity, punch Savannah McCoy straight in the face.[/i][/color]

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[color=3c6c6b][b]P E R S O N A L I T Y[/b][/color]
[color=d6d6d6][b]warmhearted [color=2e2c2c]....[/color] [color=808080]|[/color] [color=2e2c2c]....[/color] dependable [color=2e2c2c]....[/color] [color=808080]|[/color] [color=2e2c2c]....[/color] vigilant [color=2e2c2c]....[/color] [color=808080]|[/color] [color=2e2c2c]....[/color] playful [color=2e2c2c]....[/color] [color=808080]|[/color] [color=2e2c2c]....[/color] protective[/b][/color]

[color=3c6c6b][b]H I S T O R Y[/b][/color]
[color=808080]The Boone family had belonged to Pine Ridge for generations, their bloodline tied closely to the werewolf pack long before Warren himself ever existed. For three generations, the pack’s Alphas had come from the Boone line, though Warren never expected the responsibility to fall to him personally. That role had always belonged to his older brother, Harlan. Harlan was stronger, more commanding, more naturally suited for leadership in Warren’s eyes, and Warren had always been perfectly content letting him carry the weight of the pack while he remained the easiergoing younger brother who spent more time fixing engines and running around with Charlotte McCoy than worrying about politics.

Unlike many within the pack, Warren never craved authority. He liked simple things, long nights in the garage, camping trips with Charlie, old trucks held together with stubbornness and duct tape, cheap beer shared around bonfires, and making the people around him laugh whenever life in Pine Ridge became too heavy. He worked at his dad's mechanic shop almost every day, eventually taking ownership of it himself, though most suspected he continued working there less out of necessity and more because it gave his restless hands something to do. Beneath the lightheartedness, however, Warren carried the instincts of the wolf heavily. He loved deeply, protected fiercely, and felt responsibility settle into his bones whether he wanted it there or not.

Everything changed when Harlan stepped down as Alpha. Warren never pressed him for the full reason, though he understood enough to know the decision had not been made lightly. The role passed to Warren soon after, not because he fought for it, but because the pack trusted him enough to follow [i]him.[/i] For a long time, he believed they had made the wrong choice. Warren viewed himself as too carefree, too relaxed, too emotionally messy to lead something as important as the pack itself. Yet instead of running from the responsibility, he accepted it fully. If the role belonged to him now, then he intended to do it right.

Since becoming Alpha, Warren has worked tirelessly to keep the pack stable as tensions within Pine Ridge continue worsening. He remains deeply loyal to Harlan and would do nearly anything for him, even if it means carrying burdens he never originally wanted, and just as loyal to his best friend Charlotte, even if it seems like a world separates them sometimes. While other faction leaders often lead through fear, Warren tries to lead through trust, loyalty, and protection instead. Whether that approach will be enough for what is coming to Pine Ridge remains to be seen. [/color]

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[center][color=808080][color=3c6c6b][b]hexcode[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color] #3c6c6b [color=2e2c2c]........[/color] [color=3c6c6b][b]faceclaim[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color] Jason Momoa [color=2e2c2c]........[/color] [color=3c6c6b][b]creator[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color] Sleepy Tani[/color][/center][/sup][/justify][/cell]
[/row][/table][/indent][/indent][color=#2e2c2c].
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[hider=Relationship code template][center][color=2e2c2c].[/color][/center]
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[right][color=ffffff]N A M E [color=2e2c2c].[/color] S U R N A M E[/color][color=2e2c2c].....[/color][/right][/center][/b][/h3][/sup][/center]

[indent][indent][indent][justify][color=808080][color=ffffff][b]relationship[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color] [i]stranger, friend, enemy, etc.[/i]

[color=ffffff][b]brief description[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color][i]Sed ut ligula ut ante ullamcorper porta quis vel metus. Phasellus lacus augue, imperdiet id nulla in, dapibus maximus lectus. Donec iaculis tortor felis, condimentum efficitur risus convallis ut. Suspendisse fermentum, ligula ac venenatis blandit, neque ipsum ullamcorper sapien, ut ultricies magna dui ac lorem.[/i][/color][/justify][/indent][/indent][/indent]
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[right][color=ffffff]N A M E [color=2e2c2c].[/color] S U R N A M E[/color][color=2e2c2c].....[/color][/right][/center][/b][/h3][/sup][/center]

[indent][indent][indent][justify][color=808080][color=ffffff][b]relationship[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color] [i]stranger, friend, enemy, etc.[/i]

[color=ffffff][b]brief description[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color][i]Sed ut ligula ut ante ullamcorper porta quis vel metus. Phasellus lacus augue, imperdiet id nulla in, dapibus maximus lectus. Donec iaculis tortor felis, condimentum efficitur risus convallis ut. Suspendisse fermentum, ligula ac venenatis blandit, neque ipsum ullamcorper sapien, ut ultricies magna dui ac lorem.[/i][/color][/justify][/indent][/indent][/indent][/hider]

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[hider=Samuel Holt | The Mayor][color=#2e2c2c].
.[/color]
[indent][indent][table][row][sup][h1][color=181818][b]▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅[/b][right][b]▅▅▅▅▅[/b][/right][/color][right][color=315b70]Samuel Holt[/color][color=181818]...[/color][/right][/h1][/sup][/row][row]
[cell][color=2e2c2c]....................................................[/color][img]https://i.pinimg.com/736x/bb/12/e9/bb12e952ac827c8575bb0d27a6c15b7c.jpg[/img]

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[center][color=807B84][sup]__________________________________________[/sup][/color] 
[sub][color=315b70][b]I S A I A H[/b] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] [b]H O L T[/b][/color]
[color=807B84][sup]________________________________________________________[/sup][/color] 
[color=315b70]215     [color=808080][b]|[/b][/color]     male   [color=808080][b]|[/b][/color]     pansexual[/color]
[color=807B84][sup]__________________________________________[/sup][/color][/sub][/center][sub][color=2e2c2c]..................[/color][color=315b70][b]▹ hair color  [/b][/color] [color=808080][b]|[/b][/color] [color=808080]  black / greying[/color]
[color=2e2c2c]..................[/color][color=315b70][b]▹ eye color  [/b][/color] [color=808080][b]|[/b][/color] [color=808080]  brown[/color]
[color=2e2c2c]..................[/color][color=315b70][b]▹ height  [/b][/color] [color=808080][b]|[/b][/color] [color=808080]  6' 2"[/color]
[color=2e2c2c]..................[/color][color=315b70][b]▹ build  [/b][/color] [color=808080][b]|[/b][/color] [color=808080]  toned / atheltic[/color]
[color=2e2c2c]..................[/color][color=315b70][b]▹ species  [/b][/color] [color=808080][b]|[/b][/color] [color=808080]  vampires[/color]
[color=2e2c2c]..................[/color][color=315b70][b]▹ faction  [/b][/color] [color=808080][b]|[/b][/color] [color=808080]  coven[/color]
[color=2e2c2c]..................[/color][color=315b70][b]▹ role  [/b][/color] [color=808080][b]|[/b][/color] [color=808080]  mayor / the mayor[/color]
[/sub]
[/cell][cell][justify][sup][color=2e2c2c].[/color]
[color=315b70][b]S T R E N G T H S[/b][/color]
[color=d6d6d6][b]manipulative[/b][/color] [color=808080][i]- Samuel is exceptionally skilled at influencing people without them realizing they are being guided. He understands how to leverage fear, ambition, loyalty, and desperation better than most.[/i][/color]

[color=d6d6d6][b]strategic[/b][/color] [color=808080][i]- he thinks several steps ahead in nearly every situation and plans carefully for long-term outcomes. Samuel values patience and precision far more than impulsive action.[/i][/color]

[color=d6d6d6][b]charismatic[/b][/color] [color=808080][i]- Samuel knows how to present himself in ways that make others trust, admire, or follow him. Even people who dislike him often find themselves listening when he speaks.[/i][/color]

[color=315b70][b]W E A K N E S S E S[/b][/color]
[color=d6d6d6][b]resentful[/b][/color] [color=808080][i]- Samuel still carries deep anger from the life he lived before becoming a vampire. Old wounds surrounding powerlessness and humiliation continue shaping many of his actions centuries later. This has made him ruthless, and sometimes needlessly cruel[/i][/color]

[color=d6d6d6][b]clint[/b][/color] [color=808080][i]- Samuel's loyalty to Clint overrides nearly every other priority in his life, including logic, politics, and self-preservation. He would destroy relationships, sacrifice stability, or make catastrophic decisions without hesitation if it meant protecting him. He is, in every sense of the word, his brother.[/i][/color]

[color=d6d6d6][b]controlling[/b][/color] [color=808080][i]- he struggles to trust others with authority and prefers keeping people firmly beneath his influence. Samuel often views relationships through the lens of power and control, even unintentionally, if it's not Clint he needs to have control over them in some way.[/i][/color]

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[color=315b70][b]P E R S O N A L I T Y[/b][/color]
[color=d6d6d6][b]resourceful [color=2e2c2c]....[/color] [color=808080]|[/color] [color=2e2c2c]....[/color] charismatic [color=2e2c2c]....[/color] [color=808080]|[/color] [color=2e2c2c]....[/color] calculating [color=2e2c2c]....[/color] [color=808080]|[/color] [color=2e2c2c]....[/color] guarded [color=2e2c2c]....[/color] [color=808080]|[/color] [color=2e2c2c]....[/color] bitter[/b][/color]

[color=315b70][b]H I S T O R Y[/b][/color]
[color=808080] Samuel  was born into slavery more than two centuries ago somewhere far south of the Black Hills, though he rarely speaks of the exact place anymore. Time had worn away many things, but not the memory of chains, hunger, and the sound of men screaming beneath a whip. He watched members of his family die one by one beneath the ownership of men who viewed cruelty as entertainment rather than punishment. His mother died sick after being worked beyond exhaustion. His younger brother was beaten to death for stealing food after being starved. By the time Samuel reached adulthood, hatred had already rooted itself so deeply inside him that he no longer knew what living without it would feel like.

Clint found him while traveling westward during his years as an outlaw. The man often traded labor for meals and shelter while moving across the country, drifting between farms, ranches, and small settlements without much permanence to his name. Samuel remembered Clint as loud, reckless, and far too willing to mouth off to men who deserved killing for less. The plantation owner they stayed with had been especially vicious, the kind of man who hurt people simply because he enjoyed watching fear settle into their faces. One night, after Samuel was beaten so severely he could barely stand, Clint finally snapped. He shot the man square between the eyes without hesitation, then calmly handed Samuel the keys needed to free the others before the body had even grown cold.

Samuel asked to travel with him afterward. Clint only grinned and admitted he had been hoping Samuel would ask. From there the two became nearly inseparable, drifting westward together through the growing frontier. They robbed trains when money ran low, stole from wealthy landowners, and developed a particular fondness for ruining the lives of slave owners whenever the opportunity presented itself. For the first time in his life, Samuel experienced something resembling freedom. It did not erase the rage inside him, nor the memories he carried, but Clint gave him something he had never possessed before; the ability to choose the life he wanted for himself.

Eventually, rumors of gold buried within the Black Hills drew them toward the growing mining settlement that would later become Pine Ridge. They arrived intending to do what they had always done, take advantage of greedy men and leave richer than they arrived. Instead, deep within the mines, both men encountered something neither fully understood. They were attacked, turned, and abandoned beneath the mountain by a creator they never truly met. The transformation nearly killed them both, and everything they learned through trial, error, and surviving together, nothing was ever offered.

Pine Ridge slowly became home not because Samuel loved the town, but because leaving it never seemed fully possible afterward. The mountain had changed them, strengthened them, anchored them to the valley in ways neither entirely understood. While Clint adapted to immortality with surprising ease, part of Samuel never truly escaped the man slavery had shaped him into. He remained deeply resentful of weakness, humiliation, and loss of control. Even centuries later, that buried bitterness still surfaced in ugly ways, making him colder and crueler than he often intended to be.

Over time, Samuel and Clint decided survival alone was no longer enough. If vampires intended to remain hidden within Pine Ridge, they needed influence, structure, and control over the town itself. Samuel eventually entered local politics and, through years of careful manipulation, charm, and strategic alliances, he recently secured the position of mayor. The role granted him access to information, law enforcement, finances, and nearly every important decision made within the town. While other factions openly ruled through fear or tradition, Samuel  preferred quieter methods. People rarely noticed how much control he truly possessed until they found themselves entirely beneath it.

It was Samuel who found Valeria dying in an alley after another vampire lost control feeding from her. Pine Ridge had rules regarding reckless killing, not out of morality, but survival. Dead bodies invited attention. Attention invited outsiders. Samuel viewed Valeria less as a mercy case and more as wasted potential left bleeding in the dirt. He turned her, then quietly asked Clint to deal with the vampire responsible. Under Samuel's guidance, Valeria rose steadily through the coven until she eventually became its acting leader, though the position was never entirely hers. Samuel and Clint remained the true power behind the faction, carefully pulling strings from the shadows while allowing others to underestimate how much influence he still maintained.

For all his ambition, however, there remains only one person Samuel trusts fully... Clint. More than two centuries later, their loyalty to one another remains absolute in a way that borders on dangerous. Samuel would destroy nearly anyone or anything threatening the life they built together, and Pine Ridge itself has suffered more than once because of that devotion. Though Valeria grows increasingly independent and tensions within the town continue rising, Samuel remains convinced he can maintain control over both the coven and the town itself. 

Whether that belief proves true as Pine Ridge begins unraveling remains uncertain. [/color]

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[center][color=808080][color=315b70][b]hexcode[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color] #315b70[color=2e2c2c]........[/color] [color=315b70][b]faceclaim[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color] idris elba [color=2e2c2c]........[/color] [color=315b70][b]creator[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color] Sleepy Tani[/color][/center][/sup][/justify][/cell]
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[right][color=ffffff]N A M E [color=2e2c2c].[/color] S U R N A M E[/color][color=2e2c2c].....[/color][/right][/center][/b][/h3][/sup][/center]

[indent][indent][indent][justify][color=808080][color=ffffff][b]relationship[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color] [i]stranger, friend, enemy, etc.[/i]

[color=ffffff][b]brief description[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color][i]Sed ut ligula ut ante ullamcorper porta quis vel metus. Phasellus lacus augue, imperdiet id nulla in, dapibus maximus lectus. Donec iaculis tortor felis, condimentum efficitur risus convallis ut. Suspendisse fermentum, ligula ac venenatis blandit, neque ipsum ullamcorper sapien, ut ultricies magna dui ac lorem.[/i][/color][/justify][/indent][/indent][/indent]
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[right][color=ffffff]N A M E [color=2e2c2c].[/color] S U R N A M E[/color][color=2e2c2c].....[/color][/right][/center][/b][/h3][/sup][/center]

[indent][indent][indent][justify][color=808080][color=ffffff][b]relationship[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color] [i]stranger, friend, enemy, etc.[/i]

[color=ffffff][b]brief description[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color][i]Sed ut ligula ut ante ullamcorper porta quis vel metus. Phasellus lacus augue, imperdiet id nulla in, dapibus maximus lectus. Donec iaculis tortor felis, condimentum efficitur risus convallis ut. Suspendisse fermentum, ligula ac venenatis blandit, neque ipsum ullamcorper sapien, ut ultricies magna dui ac lorem.[/i][/color][/justify][/indent][/indent][/indent][/hider]
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[hider=Lucy Hale | The Librarian] 
[color=#2e2c2c].
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[indent][indent][table][row][sup][h1][color=181818][b]▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅[/b][right][b]▅▅▅▅▅[/b][/right][/color][right][color=d19a73]Arabella Crowe[/color][color=181818]...[/color][/right][/h1][/sup][/row][row]
[cell][color=2e2c2c]....................................................[/color][img]https://i.pinimg.com/736x/62/10/04/62100446d488824b07ff075b762a95d0.jpg[/img]

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[sub][color=d19a73][b]A R A B E L L A[/b] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] [b]C R O W E[/b][/color]
[color=807B84][sup]________________________________________________________[/sup][/color] 
[color=d19a73]31     [color=808080][b]|[/b][/color]     female     [color=808080][b]|[/b][/color]     pansexual[/color]
[color=807B84][sup]__________________________________________[/sup][/color][/sub][/center][sub][color=2e2c2c]..................[/color][color=d19a73][b]▹ hair color  [/b][/color] [color=808080][b]|[/b][/color] [color=808080]  ginger[/color]
[color=2e2c2c]..................[/color][color=d19a73][b]▹ eye color  [/b][/color] [color=808080][b]|[/b][/color] [color=808080]  blue[/color]
[color=2e2c2c]..................[/color][color=d19a73][b]▹ height  [/b][/color] [color=808080][b]|[/b][/color] [color=808080]  5' 7"[/color]
[color=2e2c2c]..................[/color][color=d19a73][b]▹ build  [/b][/color] [color=808080][b]|[/b][/color] [color=808080]  slender[/color]
[color=2e2c2c]..................[/color][color=d19a73][b]▹ species  [/b][/color] [color=808080][b]|[/b][/color] [color=808080]  witch[/color]
[color=2e2c2c]..................[/color][color=d19a73][b]▹ faction  [/b][/color] [color=808080][b]|[/b][/color] [color=808080]  the circle[/color]
[color=2e2c2c]..................[/color][color=d19a73][b]▹ role  [/b][/color] [color=808080][b]|[/b][/color] [color=808080] Academic Researcher / Professor [/color]
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[/cell][cell][justify][sup][color=2e2c2c].[/color]
[color=d19a73][b]S T R E N G T H S[/b][/color]
[color=d6d6d6][b]quick thinking[/b][/color] [color=808080][i]- Arabella adapts rapidly when confronted with unexpected problems or unfamiliar situations. She is able to process information quickly and make practical decisions even under intense pressure.[/i][/color]

[color=d6d6d6][b]tenacity[/b][/color] [color=808080][i]- Once Arabella sets her mind on uncovering something, she pursues it relentlessly. Obstacles, setbacks, and resistance tend to frustrate or motivate her more than discourage her.[/i][/color]

[color=d6d6d6][b]composure[/b][/color] [color=808080][i]- Arabella remains calm and rational in situations where most people would panic. Even when frightened or overwhelmed, she prefers to think through problems logically rather than react emotionally.[/i][/color]

[color=d19a73][b]W E A K N E S S E S[/b][/color]
[color=d6d6d6][b]obsessive tendencies[/b][/color] [color=808080][i]- Arabella can become so consumed by a problem that she neglects her own wellbeing. Once fixated on finding an answer, she often ignores exhaustion, stress, and even basic self-care until the issue is resolved.[/i][/color]

[color=d6d6d6][b]fierce loyalty[/b][/color] [color=808080][i]- Once Arabella truly cares about someone, she becomes deeply protective of them and struggles to let them go, even when they may deserve it. Her loyalty can sometimes cloud her judgment and make it difficult for her to walk away from unhealthy situations or relationships.[/i][/color]

[color=d6d6d6][b]reckless curiosity[/b][/color] [color=808080][i]- Arabella’s need for answers can sometimes override common sense or personal safety. If she believes important knowledge is within reach, she has a habit of pushing forward despite obvious risks or warnings.[/i][/color]

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[color=d19a73][b]P E R S O N A L I T Y[/b][/color]
[color=d6d6d6][b]intellectual [color=2e2c2c]....[/color] [color=808080]|[/color] [color=2e2c2c]....[/color] perceptive [color=2e2c2c]....[/color] [color=808080]|[/color] [color=2e2c2c]....[/color] curious [color=2e2c2c]....[/color] [color=808080]|[/color] [color=2e2c2c]....[/color] stubborn [color=2e2c2c]....[/color] [color=808080]|[/color] [color=2e2c2c]....[/color] observant[/b][/color]

[color=d19a73][b]H I S T O R Y[/b][/color]
[color=808080] [color=d6d6d6][center][b]1852[/b][/center][/color]
Lenora stumbled through the front door sometime after three in the morning with dirt packed beneath her nails and blood dried in dark flakes along the hem of her white ceremonial slip. The house groaned softly around her as the door slammed shut behind her, though she could still hear the mountain. Even here. Miles from [i]it[/i], she could still hear stone grinding somewhere deep beneath the earth like teeth against bone.

Her hands would not stop shaking. The things she knew, in this moment, would be lost to history. She had already made her decision. 

Lenora moved quickly through the house, nearly stumbling as she yanked drawers open and shoved clothes haphazardly into a leather satchel. Soot smeared across her bare arms and throat. Her long ginger hair hung tangled down her back in damp strands while bruised fingerprints darkened one side of her wrist beneath the worn leather bracelet wrapped there. A polished blue labradorite sat at its center, though the stone no longer gleamed the way it once had. It looked cloudy now. Sickly.

The feeling beneath her skin had not stopped since she left the mountain. Like something breathing just behind her. Lenora froze suddenly in the center of the kitchen. For one terrible moment, she thought she heard movement somewhere deeper in the house. A soft scrape. A shifting creak. Her eyes darted toward the dark hallway before silence swallowed the sound completely. A moment passed as she stared down toward her bedroom, toward the darkness that seemed almost inky as it surrounded her. The woman blinked, as if she'd seen a ghost, and her lips trembled as she whispered something only the shadows could have heard. 

Then, she hurried to the table and scrawled two rushed notes with unsteady hands. One bore the name of her High Priestess, her closest friend. The other simply read; [i]Clint.[/i]

She stared at his letter the longest. Then, with trembling fingers, she slipped the bracelet from her wrist and placed it atop the folded paper. When Lenora finally stepped back outside, she did not look toward the mountain again. The trees swallowed her before dawn ever had the chance to rise, and by morning, nobody in Pine Ridge could find a trace of where she had gone.

[color=d6d6d6][center][b]Now[/b][/center][/color]
Arabella Crowe had always been a brilliant child. She took her first steps earlier than most, learned to read with startling speed, and possessed the sort of quiet intensity that often unsettled adults who didn't know what to make of her. Her first word should perhaps have been Mama. Or Dada. Or even book, which would have been fitting enough. Instead, Eleanor Crowe sat beside her one winter evening reading from a worn clothbound collection of fairy tales while Arabella rested propped against a nest of pillows in her tiny nightdress, solemn and wide eyed beneath the glow in the-dark stars fixed carefully across her bedroom ceiling. The story spoke of forests and impossible tasks, of whispered blessings and old women hidden deep within the woods. When Eleanor softly read the word [i]magic[/i], Arabella slowly pushed herself upright with immense concentration, wild red hair tangled from sleep as she stared first at the page, then at her mother.

[color=d19a73]“Mah-gic,”[/color] she had said with complete seriousness.

In the end, she always ought to have been a witch. Not that Arabella knew it then. Instead, she grew into a scholar with an insatiable curiosity and a mind far too sharp for her own good, as she was often told throughout her life. She buried herself in ancient languages, historical texts, and religious manuscripts with obsessive focus, quickly gaining recognition for her intelligence long before adulthood ever found her. By the time she was a junior in high school, she had already published her first academic paper, [i]Thwarting The 'Evil Eye' Through Achaemenid Aramaic Sources[/i], earning quiet attention within academic circles for her work. From there, the path ahead of her seemed obvious. Arabella Crowe was meant for lecture halls, research archives, and scholarly acclaim. The strange pull she always felt toward forgotten things simply seemed like another symptom of an overactive mind.

By thirty-one, Arabella had achieved the sort of career most academics spent their entire lives chasing. She taught Classical Studies at Yale, published regularly within respected scholarly journals, and had built a reputation for her work involving ancient translation and reconstructed texts. Her life was orderly, structured, and painfully earned. Then Eleanor Crowe vanished without explanation. Months passed without answers, without sightings, without so much as a body. The police found nothing. Her colleagues urged her to move on. Arabella refused.

While sorting through her mother’s house, she eventually discovered a box tucked away in the attic with her name written carefully across the side. Inside sat three things; an old leather-bound journal, a strange historical text resembling a Grimoire, and a single folded note written in Eleanor’s unmistakable handwriting. [i]“Back to the mountain. Back to the end. Back to where it all began.”[/i] Both books were written primarily in Latin, though fragments of another older language appeared throughout the pages, making translation painfully slow even for someone with Arabella’s expertise. For weeks she buried herself in the texts, sleeping little and working obsessively until eventually one name surfaced repeatedly between the pages. Pine Ridge. The rest, as it were, became inevitable. Eleanor Crowe had gone there for a reason, and Arabella intended to find out why, no matter what waited for her.

[i][b]cited:[/b][/i] Thwarting the Evil Eye Through the Prism of Achaemenid Aramaic Sources [i]is an actual academic article published by[/i] Gad Barnea. [i]Yes, I read the article, no, you really shouldn't read it unless you have a particular interest in painstaking analysis of letter shapes, damaged inscriptions, alternate readings of origins of religious rituals, and linguistic reconstruction. I certainly don't, so reading it made me re-evaluate a few life choices. That is all.[/i]
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[center][color=808080][color=d19a73][b]hexcode[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color] #d19a73 [color=2e2c2c]........[/color] [color=d19a73][b]faceclaim[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color] nicole kidman [color=2e2c2c]........[/color] [color=d19a73][b]creator[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color] Sleepy Tani[/color][/center][/sup][/justify][/cell]
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[hider=Arabella's Relationships][indent][indent][indent][indent][indent][indent][indent][indent][indent][center][color=2e2c2c].
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[justify][sub][color=808080][i]Arabella, quite literally, knows next to no one.[/i][/color][/sub][/justify][/center][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent]
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[right][color=9fc9a8]C H A R L O T T E [color=2e2c2c].[/color] M C C O Y[/color][color=2e2c2c].....[/color][/right][/center][/b][/h3][/sup][/center]

[indent][indent][indent][justify][color=808080][color=ffffff][b]relationship[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color] [i]comforted & respectful[/i]

[color=ffffff][b]brief description[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color][i][color=d19a73]"Park Ranger? She seems nice, has that sort of... sunshine personified vibe. I saw her featured in a news article when I looked up the town."[/color][/i][/color][/justify][/indent][/indent][/indent]
[center][color=2e2c2c].[/color][/center]
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[right][color=a04535]H A Z E L [color=2e2c2c].[/color] M I L L E R[/color][color=2e2c2c].....[/color][/right][/center][/b][/h3][/sup][/center]

[indent][indent][indent][justify][color=808080][color=ffffff][b]relationship[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color] [i]hesitant[/i]

[color=ffffff][b]brief description[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color][i][color=d19a73]"Who? A waitress? You realize I got in at three in the morning last night, right?"[/color][/i][/color][/justify][/indent][/indent][/indent]
[center][color=2e2c2c].[/color][/center]
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[right][color=2e6f40]W I L L O W [color=2e2c2c].[/color] H Y D E[/color][color=2e2c2c].....[/color][/right][/center][/b][/h3][/sup][/center]

[indent][indent][indent][justify][color=808080][color=ffffff][b]relationship[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color] [i]curious[/i]

[color=ffffff][b]brief description[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color][i][color=d19a73]"You mean the town only has one doctor? God, I'd kill to see what her schedule looks like. I'd be willing to bet money that she needs a stiff drink and a vacation."[/color][/i][/color][/justify][/indent][/indent][/indent]
[center][color=2e2c2c].[/color][/center]
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[right][color=c71585]N E L T H E A [color=2e2c2c].[/color] A N D E R S[/color][color=2e2c2c].....[/color][/right][/center][/b][/h3][/sup][/center]

[indent][indent][indent][justify][color=808080][color=ffffff][b]relationship[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color] [i]cautious[/i]

[color=ffffff][b]brief description[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color][i][color=d19a73]"You keep saying names like I'm suppose to know these people, come back in a week."[/color][/i][/color][/justify][/indent][/indent][/indent]
[center][color=2e2c2c].[/color][/center]
[center][sup][h3][center][img]https://i.imgur.com/Z7DAque.jpeg[/img][/center][b][center]
[right][color=bca346]N O A H [color=2e2c2c].[/color] I R V I N G[/color][color=2e2c2c].....[/color][/right][/center][/b][/h3][/sup][/center]

[indent][indent][indent][justify][color=808080][color=ffffff][b]relationship[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color] [i]friendly & comforted[/i]

[color=ffffff][b]brief description[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color][i][color=d19a73]"He's amazing, he actually listens, which is a lot more than most cops have done so far. I trust him."[/color][/i][/color][/justify][/indent][/indent][/indent]
[center][color=2e2c2c].[/color][/center]
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[right][color=315b70]S A M U E L [color=2e2c2c].[/color] H O L T[/color][color=2e2c2c].....[/color][/right][/center][/b][/h3][/sup][/center]

[indent][indent][indent][justify][color=808080][color=ffffff][b]relationship[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color] [i]charmed[/i]

[color=ffffff][b]brief description[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color][i][color=d19a73]"He's in a lot of the news articles I've read, seems like a great mayor, someone whose really for the people. Though, he's also a politician, and they're all bloodsucking rich assholes, so who knows."[/color][/i][/color][/justify][/indent][/indent][/indent]
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[right][color=565a8f]S A B L E [color=2e2c2c].[/color] P R I T C H A R D[/color][color=2e2c2c].....[/color][/right][/center][/b][/h3][/sup][/center]

[indent][indent][indent][justify][color=808080][color=ffffff][b]relationship[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color] [i]hesitantly friendly[/i]

[color=ffffff][b]brief description[/b][/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] | [color=2e2c2c].[/color][i][color=d19a73]"She seems so nice, but... she might be a touch crazy. Which is totally fine, really."[/color][/i][/color][/justify][/indent][/indent][/indent]
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