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Character Portrait: Aaron

Full Name: Aaron Zephyr

Occupation: Financial Analyst at Carressa Industries

Gender: Male

Sexual Orientation: Hetero

Hair: Blond

Eyes: Hazel

Height: 5′ 9″

Weight: 190 lbs

Hobbies: Squash, basketball, hanging out with friends, dancing close to the fire

Background: As a senior financial analyst at Carressa Industries, Aaron lives a posh and comfortable life with his high-maintenance wife, Lacy. He occasionally see Max at meetings.

Beneath the Surface: Aaron is a real people-person, liked by basically everyone and blessed with dozens of good friends. However, behind closed doors he indulges in his baser impulses and then feels guilty about it, engaging in self-flagellation to assuage his guilt.

Appears in: Reckoning

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Character Portrait: Eleanor

Full Name: Eleanor Fatou

Occupation: Prostitute / hostess at Jones’s bar

Gender: Female

Sexual Orientation: Hetero

Hair: Blond

Eyes: Green

Height: 5′ 7″

Weight: 130 lbs

Hobbies: Reading the Bible, traveling, obsessing over God’s plan

Background: Eleanor has been…around, to say the least. She has a long rap sheet under different names in different places throughout the country. Where she originally came from is anybody’s guess.

Beneath the Surface: Eleanor answers to only two people: Father, who art in Heaven, and Mother, who art on earth. She obeys them without question as they map out her divine path. But what do they want? Only Mother knows.

Appears in: Reckoning

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Character Portrait: Jamal

*WARNING: This post contains mild spoilers for people who haven’t read Vengeance or Retribution yet*

Full Name: Jamal Williams

Occupation: Nanny

Gender: Male

Sexual Orientation: Hetero

Hair: Black

Eyes: Brown

Height: 5′ 8″

Weight: 150 lbs

Hobbies: Basketball, reading, being stoically loyal

Background: Jamal moved with his family from Georgia to Seattle when he was a teenager. He earned a BA in child development and instruction from Pacific Lutheran University. The Carressas hired Jamal to be their children’s nanny.

Beneath the Surface: Jamal knew all about Val and Max’s bizarre history when he accepted the job to nanny their twins, but he thought that was old news since they’ve been scandal-free for nearly five years. He never expected to be caught up in yet another series of strange occurrences centered around the couple and their exceptional children. All he wants is to make some good money and live to see the day he can score a safe gig at a private boarding school.

Appears in: Reckoning

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Character Portrait: Simon and Lydia

*WARNING: This post contains mild spoilers for people who haven’t read Vengeance or Retribution yet*

Full Name: Simon and Lydia Carressa

Occupation: Children

Gender: Male & Female

Sexual Orientation: TBD

Hair: Blond (Simon), Black (Lydia)

Eyes: Hazel (Simon), Blue (Lydia)

Height: ~3′ 4″

Weight: ~40 lbs each

Hobbies: Reading, coloring, interpreting the secrets of the universe through a five-year-old’s POV

Background: Lydia and Simon are the fraternal twin children of Max and Val, born about a year after the couple was married in Fiji. Their parents shower them with love, trying to ensure they have the happy childhoods that neither Max nor Val had growing up. They both inherited their father’s genius-level intelligence, their mother’s grit – and their parents’ strange ability.

Beneath the Surface: Though the children are unusually bright, they’ve also been gifted – or cursed – with the ability to see multiple versions of the future at will, which makes them seem even smarter than they actually are. They’re both extremely rare Alpha seers, like Cassandra, and the reason Max and Val were brought together to begin with. As such, Northwalk will do anything to get their hands on these special children.

Appears in: Reckoning

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Character Portrait: Julian

Full Name: Julian du Lothgard

Occupation: Northwalk “fixer”

Gender: Male

Sexual Orientation: Hetero

Hair: Blond

Eyes: Blue

Height: 6′ 2″

Weight: 180 lbs

Hobbies: Listening to music, collecting teeth, torturing people

Background: As the son of Northwalk’s ruling matriarch Honora, Julian holds a special place in the top echelon of the organization, along with his sister Claire, as an excellent doer of “odd jobs.”

Beneath the Surface: “Psychopath” is such a strong word; he prefers “mono-emotional.” Unburdened with such useless feelings as compassion and love, he’s able to get a lot done for the organization when the job calls for getting one’s hands dirty.

Appears in: Reckoning

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Character Portrait: Honora

*WARNING: This post contains mild spoilers for people who haven’t read Vengeance or Retribution yet*

Full Name: Honora du Lothgard

Occupation: Leader of Northwalk

Gender: Female

Sexual Orientation: Hetero

Hair: Blond

Eyes: Blue

Height: 5′ 6″

Weight: 135 lbs

Hobbies: Manipulating the stock market and world events, destroying people with her icy glare

Background: Originating from England, Honora has been in charge of the powerful cabal Northwalk for a long time…almost an inhumanly long time. She rules the organization with an iron fist, directing cells across multiple countries in order to keep tight surveillance/control of the world’s seers.

Beneath the Surface: Everything is a means to an end to Honora, and the ends always justify the means. She will do whatever it takes to stay in power, and she’s smart enough to realize her continued reign is dependent on getting her hands on the young Alpha seers before the rival organization Yongjai can.

Appears in: Reckoning

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Character Portrait: Dani

*WARNING: This post contains mild spoilers for people who haven’t read Vengeance or Retribution yet*

Full Name: Danielle Shepherd

Occupation: Unemployed

Gender: Female

Sexual Orientation: Hetero

Hair: Red

Eyes: Blue

Height: 5′ 6″

Weight: 140 lbs

Hobbies: Meditating, camping, crying at the drop of a hat

Background: Dani left her family when Val was just eight years old, moving up to Canada in protest of the first Gulf War. She wandered around the country, and in and out of the US, for the next thirty years, unable to hold down a job or have a stable life as she suffered from mental illness.

Beneath the Surface: Now that she’s finally received adequate treatment for her mental illness, Dani wants to make amends with the family she left behind. Though Val is understandably resentful and reluctant to open up her heart to this virtual stranger, Dani hopes their relationship is salvageable, and would love to get to know her grandkids.

Appears in: Reckoning

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Character Portrait: Zach

Full Name: Zachary Quinn

Occupation: Master hacker / high school student

Gender: Male

Sexual Orientation: Hetero

Hair: Black

Eyes: Blue

Height: 5′ 7″

Weight: 140 lbs

Hobbies: Computer anything, video games, delicately applying eyeliner

Background: Zach has spent all of his life so far in the Seattle area, where he lives in the suburbs with his mom. After mastering every conceivable hack for his PlayStation 4 and X-Box One, he graduated to building his own supercomputers in his room while covertly hacking other people’s systems for fun, and a little cash on the side. One of his regular clients is the tightly-wound P.I. Valentine Shepherd. Hey, it’s better than working at McDonald’s.

Beneath the Surface: Despite his Goth look, Zach is a good kid who keeps out of trouble in the physical world (the cyber world is another matter…). When he graduates from high school, he plans to work for Google or Microsoft, or maybe another start-up in the area who could use his particular set of skills. Wherever he goes, he needs to stick near his mom. He’s all she has, you know?

Appears in: Retribution

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Character Portrait: Ginger

Full Name: Eugene Westford

Occupation: Westford Company Regional Shipping Manager

Gender: Male

Sexual Orientation: Hetero

Hair: Red

Eyes: Green

Height: 5′ 9″

Weight: 160 lbs

Hobbies: Drinking, attending wild parties, mooching off his parents

Background: Eugene – nicknamed Ginger for obvious reasons – is Abby’s brother. Though many people would consider him unemployed given how little work he actually does, he technically works for his father as the regional manager of several warehouses in the Seattle area.

Beneath the Surface: Ginger spent most of his life in his sister’s shadow, since she was always the “good one” while he was the “loser.” Eventually he embraced the moniker, and now prioritizes sex, drugs, and partying above all else. Still, he sticks close to his sister because she’s the only person who treats him with any semblance of respect.

Appears in: Retribution

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Character Portrait: Abby

*WARNING: This post contains mild spoilers for people who haven’t read Vengeance or Retribution yet*

Full Name: Abigail Westford

Occupation: Philanthropist

Gender: Female

Sexual Orientation: Hetero

Hair: Blond

Eyes: Blue

Height: 5′ 6″

Weight: 120 lbs

Hobbies: Pilates, attending charity events, ignoring the obvious

Background: As the daughter of a wealthy shipping magnate, Abby was part of Max’s rich circle of acquaintances. She met Max at a charity event for disadvantaged children a few months after the strange events at the Pacific Science Center. Though they didn’t know each other long, they bonded over their shared love of giving back to the community, and she happily accepted Max’s marriage proposal. Convinced he was really a good man despite what her father thought of him, she knew she could rehabilitate his bad boy image.

Beneath the Surface: Though Abby loves Max, and he says he loves her, she knows there’s still something between him and the P.I. who helped clear him of his father’s murder months ago. But Max shuts down whenever she tries to pry info about the mysterious Val out of him, claiming it’s over and he just wants to move on. In fact, there’s a part of him he won’t let Abby see, seeding in her doubts about the future of their relationship.

Appears in: Retribution

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