The Four

Vampires. Werewolves. Witches. Ghosts. They're all so cliche now, right? Dark Shadows, Buffy, Twilight, True Blood, Being Human, Vampire Diaries, etc. Is it wrong for me to want to do a fourway story about a werewolf, a vampire, a witch and a ghost? The stories I have so far would all come together, like destiny. The four who couldn't be more different, yet somehow belong together. The light, the dark, the high, the low.

• The Werewolf: As an awkward and listless teenager, he was bit by an aged werewolf withdrawing from his pack to die. With newfound energy and focus, he reveled in his new animal nature. After exhausting his petty adolescent desires, he found a pack that welcomed him into their ranks, but after surviving the dod-eat-dog world that is high school, the last thing he wanted to do was fall into just another clique. He rejected the pack and retreated into the woods to find his own path. Now a self-actualized man/beast of the forest, he contently lives in solitude, living off the land, maintaining a sustainable lifestyle and finding serenity in the simple joys of nature. Studies: Druidism, Shamanism, Craft
• The Witch: She grew up as most psychics did; being treated as crazy. She could hear voices in her head that were not her own. After years in an institution, she was eventually recognized for her abilitites and exploited. Finally, she made her way into the "right" hands: her peers. She found out that she came from a long tradition of mind over matter; knowledge is literally power. The more she studied, the more powerful she became. The school of Illusion and Mental Manipulation is the easiest to master, and she was already a talent at a young age. She could not only pull mental energies of others, but push. But again, she hits a glass ceiling. Finding herself in a androcentric beaucracy that discriminates and even persecutes its female members, she had to beat them at their own game to reach her full potential. Studies: Clairaudiance, Telepathy, Hermeticism
• The Vampire: Born in 1933, he grew up being bullied and abused for being different. Desperate to be accepted and loved, he did his best to fit in, only to be expelled by his family at 18. Being passed from man to man, he finally became the kept boy of a vampire. At age 20, he was turned and groomed by his maker to be a predator; to seletively exterminate undesireables. Finally knowing real power, he also wanted freedom. He quickly betrayed his maker and did the unthinkable: drink his own maker dry. With new purpose and ambition, he preyed on the weakest vampires he could find, growing unnaturally stronger with every kill. He eventually rose to challenge the Original, and successfully usurped him as king of the undead. An amoral individual, his only goal is a hedonistic exisitence, free from judgement or consequence. Studies: Necromancy, Hematomancy
• The Ghost: A shy, appeasing young girl in life, her desires were simple: to marry her sweetheart and live happily after. All that was shattered when she was murdered. Having no memory of what happened or who killed her, her only goal she had left was to say goodbye to her love, something she never could accomplish. Over the decades, she met other lost souls, scared and confused, stuck in their own grief. Her only purpose she has left is to help others find the peace that she never got. And she's good at it. Studies: Mediumship, Empathy