Wren Bailey | Renfield (![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} certainostrum) wrote,@ 2010-03-15 16:35:00 |
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Character Info; Premade: Renfield Name: Wren Bailey Age: 19 Played By: Jamie Campbell Bower Personality: Wren lives in the now. He does not plan for the future, and he does not worry about tomorrow or the next day. His upbringing, crafted as it was by women condemned to execution and life sentences, wasn't forward looking. It was very much about finding pleasure in the moment, and Wren embodies this belief perfectly. He is well mannered, refined even, having been raised entirely by women. He's also accustomed to gallant little sayings and pleasing comments. He's equally accustomed to hiding in the shadows, evading capture, and living on his wits alone. His angelic, harmless appearance is deceptive, because he is exceptionally capable. One way or another, he will win out, regardless of the situation. He has a plethora of ways of interacting with people, and each one depends on who he's interacting with. He can play the sweet boy, the hardened seducer, the expert pick-pocket, the experienced lover, the trusting fool, or the vicious murderer. With Wren, it's difficult to tell which version is true. He is a man completely comprised of mirror images. Reflections of things he wants others to see. His medical record says he suffers from tactile-hallucinations within the parameters of Delusional Disorder. It also mentions nightmares of bats, flies, spiders and birds, and he has a prounced fear of all four of these creatures (even the birds, given his name), and night terrors involving a woman named Mina (believed by medical professionals to reference his mother.) History: Wren was born to 18-year-old Jessalyn Bailey in HM Prison Holloway, a closed women's prison in London. The prison, which is known as Holloway Castle, was opened in the late 1800s and is considered one of England's most haunted places. Wren lived with his mother for the first 12 months of his life, at which point he was taken in by the kindly woman (Maud) who ran the Family Visitor's Centre for the prison. Maud lived in three cells on the prison's lower level, which had been converted into a small studio apartment for her. She was in her 60s when she took Wren in, and she died at the kitchen table when Wren was five. Unfortunately for Wren, no one noticed until the Visitor's Centre was meant to open for monthly visits two weeks later. Wren, being only five, spent those two weeks with the corpse of his adopted mother- they talked, had tea, played cards- all the sort of things a boy does with a corpse. When Maud's corpse was finally found and taken away, Wren was nowhere to be found. He spent the next ten years in the prison, always impossible for the warden and correction officers to pin down. He slept in this cell or that cell, and his mother and the other inmates all hid the details of his comings and goings. A woman on the D cellblock, Laura, taught him to read. A woman on the C cellblock, Diane, taught him math and science. A woman on the A cellblock, Valerie, taught him manners and refinement. Wren loved the prisoners, and they loved him. He also loved the prison itself. You see, Wren was a touch-see. He could touch inanimate objects and get images of things that had happened with those items- pictures, like movies, moving frames of life. To Wren, every tangible thing was a memory, and every memory was a tangible thing. When he was eighteen, the women who had raised him presented him with a gift- money. Enough money to leave Holloway, to fly like the bird his mother had named him after. Reluctantly, Wren did as they wished. His first choice was London, and he spent a year in that city. Everything he touched there had a story, which he liked. Layers of stories, actually, layered one upon the other. It felt like home, what with all its grayness. He took a flat with two boys from the local uni, and he fell in love with the older of the two. Riley was 22, blond, lanky and bookish, and Wren adored him. He was quiet, unassuming, kind. With him, Wren felt warm and protected. He was glad he'd left Holloway. Three months later, Riley and his remaining roommate (Spenser) were caught raping a woman in a nearby park, and they were both shot to death while attempting to flee. Wren was questioned by authorities, detained for observation by [John Seward], and forced to spend the next six months in a dank, dark London institution while charges were pending. Charges were never filed, and Wren was eventually released. His first stop was the pauper's cemetery and Riley's grave. He slept there for three nights, clawing at the dirt. If he could touch things, like the wooden nameplate at the head of the grave, and see the burial, he wondered, then why couldn't people live on in the way those memories did. If he could just figure that out, he could see his Riley again. He needed to find someone with a lot of dead memories, a place mired in death. That's where he'd start his search. He stole the wooden name plate, the one with the burial memory, and he began his search for such a place. Two years passed until he found Bellum; years spending the money he had been given at the most famous haunted places he could find - Waverley Hills, Sanatorium, the Winchester House, San Zhi, Prypiat. And now, now Bellum Letale. Future Plans: [Dracula], obviously. I'd also like him to interact with [Mina Harker], developing a fondness for her so that he can (ultimately) turn away from [Dracula] in an attempt to help her. Ability/Powers: Wren is a touch-see. He can touch inanimate objects and get visuals of things that have happened to/with that object. It is an ability that [Dracula] will be able to influence, depending on proximity, controlling what Wren sees. He will, eventually, be able to use this ability to see and interact with the (un)dead. |
