Kailen Donovan - Free For Now

[Kailen Donovan]

Name: Kailen Michael Donovan

Age: 22

Race: Human (Free)

Occupation: Bar tender at Club Candella/ Part-time Bartender and Host at Mezza Luna Ristorante * Known to occasionally steal high priced cars for quick cash * 

Appearance:

Height: 6'1"
Weight: 155
Eyes: Hazel
Hair: Brown and Blond
Build: Long, Very Lean...trim. Tattooed...very, very tattooed.
Piercings: Just one - a belly button piercing. Usually wears a small ring or barbell through it.


*Note: Character has a noticeable southern accent. Eventually something will happen to him - whether it be he gets turned, gets made a Pet, or whatever. Will figure it out as the plot goes along.

Abilities:

The Blood - His blood is, for all intents and purposes, almost like vampire crack. It's rich, extra-potent, extra-tasty, and he's able to replenish lost red blood cells faster than other humans. This is not an 'ability' that he can control or put into use...it just simply /is/.

Skills:

1. Barroom Brawl - He might not look like much, but he can certainly put up a good fight if he needs to. He might not always win, but it's almost a guarantee that if what he's up against is human, it's not gonna walk away looking any prettier than he does.

2. Flare Bartending - He's a genius with the bottles, able to toss them up, spin them around - just about anything you'd need to do to put on a good show while mixing up a good cocktail. And he does mix a /mean/ cocktail.

3. High Tolerance (Liquor) - He can outdrink most people he comes across and still be relatively good to get himself home.

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4. High Tolerance (Pain) - He's human, and yeah, he's breakable...but it takes more to make him scream than a lot of other people of his kind. In fact, often the more pain he experiences the angrier he becomes - and this lets him put off feeling those horrible sensations just a little longer.

5. Knifeplay - He's good with an edged weapon, whether it's an actual knife or a broken piece of glass.

6. Basic Animal Care (Farm) - He grew up on an active farm, with cows, pigs, horses - all that stuff. He knows how to tend to their basic needs and some of their not so basic needs. He's no veterinarian, but he can deal in a pinch.

7. Farm machinery - He knows how to work a plow, and other such things.

8.Cooking - It's not just something he can do and do well, but he's something of a hobbyist-foodie. As a result of this, he can actually cook with the skill that a professional chef could wield. He very rarely will be seen cooking for anyone else, however, as he feels cooking for someone is actually quite a big intimacy meant to be shared with those that he is closest to.

9.Musician ~ Kailen can and does play the guitar and sing, and though he generally prefers rock and alternative , if you're his friend and ask him to learn something just to play for you - he will. He does this as a hobby - does not play or sing in a band and does not hope to make a future out of it - but he does enjoy it and is still certainly talented enough to be nice to listen to.

Weaknesses:

1. Race - As a human he is infinitely more breakable than a vampire, dhampir or lycanthrope. Just because he behaves as though he is indestructable does not, by any means, mean that he really is.

2. The Blood - Because his blood is so potent, it's scent is strong. While a normal human couldn't smell it, it certainly marks him clearly as 'prey' to the vampires that he's so curious to meet. Sometimes this can be a good thing and other times...well other times this can just lead to trouble.

3. Tactless - The boy does not know how to put things gently. Often times he's called 'blunt' - and even then that's being nice. He does not spare feelings, and this can be an issue with people he might actually want to be close to.

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4. Wild Child - He's reckless, to the point where it can often seem like he doesn't actually care whether he lives or dies. This can certainly get him into trouble rather quickly if he's not careful. And honestly...he usually isn't.

5. Anger Issues - Anger Management nonwithstanding, there are just certain things he finds intolerable...and these things, well these are things that are all too likely to spark his temper from just a mild irritation to something more violent.

6. Rage - When in a rage (and while this doesn't happen often, it does still occasionally happen), he tends to show a distinct lack of care for his well-being as his only real concern seems to be to get rid of the thing causing his anger.

Personality:

Reckless, Honest (sometimes interpreted as rudeness), Confident, Cocky, Sexually Open-minded(very much so ), Thrill-seeking , Quick Tempered (conditional), Anti-commitment (He believes that he should be able to love wherever and whoever he wants, and tends to shy away from those seeking to claim him as theirs and theirs alone - this is something that could eventually be worked around, but right now he's young, and he's just looking for fun.)

Kailen is a man of excesses - he drinks too much, smokes too much and likely parties too damned much as well. Tell him to try and care about it and he's likely to laugh in your face. It's his life and he will do what he wants, when he wants and make no apologies for any of it - and if you can't live with that then perhaps it's best not to try and make an association with him. He also 'loves' often and 'loves' freely, and is of the mindset that just because you give him orgasms doesn't mean that you own him.

Brief History:

Kailen was born the son of Andrew and Kayla Donovan - good, hard working folk that honestly never quite understood just where this odd son they had birthed had actually come from. From an early age, Kailen would hear his parents joking about how the 'stork' must have left him at the wrong house. It never much bothered Kailen though - no. Despite the fact that he had a hard time relating to the people he called 'Mom' and 'Dad', they were really great people who never failed to show him the affection that he knew he deserved.

Still, Kailen was trouble for them. Constantly getting into fights at school, not making friends easily because what he called 'truth' everyone else just called 'mean' - but hey, things were the way they were and Kailen saw no need to sugar-coat it. If a girl looked fat in a dress, he'd tell her so. If a guy got a dumb haircut, Kailen had no problems telling him he looked stupid. Not to mention the fact that Kailen couldn't stand bullies - to the point where he'd bully /them/ until a fight would start and they'd both get kicked out school with black eyes and split lips. Eventually, his parents got sick of talking to principals and just took Kailen out of school altogether - homeschooling him instead.

Kailen dealt with all this pretty well, especially since 'school' couldn't last all day and when it was out there was still plenty to do. Eventually though, the wild child landed himself in trouble that was too big to get him out of. The kind of trouble that found him ending up being tried and convicted in the state of Alabama for assault and battery with a deadly weapon - that 'weapon' being his own fists.

He didn't know what had him taking a different route home that night...all Kailen knew was that he'd just gotten very, very laid, had a decent buzz on and was more than happy to crawl into bed so he could grab a few hours before the sun rose and he had to start his chores. He was fifteen and on top of the world, and high as a kite...until he heard screams coming from down the road. Because he'd never been one to run from a fight, he instead ran to it - finding one of the guys he'd often fought with in school pummeling the heck out of a smaller male. A smaller male with eyeliner on and noteably effeminate ways.

Kailen didn't know what happened, one minute he was fine the next minute he was seeing red. He tapped the bigger guy on the back to get his attention, and as soon as he turned - the fight was on, leaving the effeminate boy to run off and get the police, which he did. By the time the police arrived on the scene, all they saw was Kailen on top of this guy, punching him over and over in the face, while his other hand gripped the guy by the throat. Blood (and not all of it his own) was on his hands, his clothes, some had even streaked up his face - and Kailen was just wordlessly screaming his rage. Even when the police came he would not let up. How /dare/ someone pick on a person just because they had different views, or different sexual preferences? Even as the police dragged him off of the guy, Kailen was kicking and cursing - and he wound up kicking himself right into a juvenile correction center until he was 18, only to be re-released into his family's care for the mandatory probation period. During that time, his father made it pretty clear that he was no longer 'welcome'...and though his mother cried, once his probation was up - Kailen took off - living in his truck for a while before finally finding a job and an apartment and just kept his head down for a bit.

Recently he's upgraded in life, finding a newer, better apartment and a newer, better job - and though some would claim that bartending wasn't particularly lucrative, it so far has turned out to do a bit more than just 'support' him. To this day he /still/ has limited phone contact with his mother and no contact at all with his father - and that would be his father's choice, not Kailen's. Occasionally he gets a little sad about it...but for the most part Kailen's the sort of person that doesn't stay down for long. And he doesn't waste time feeling badly for himself at all.