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full name bracken gunner hemming v

alias if he never hears "kenny" again it will be too soon

age 42

d o b july 2, 1981

zodiac cancer

pronouns he/him

hometown jackson hole(ish), wyoming, USA

species werewolf (hereditary)

department/job action / head wrangler

connections

briar hemming: twin, estranged.

they haven't seen each other since falling out ~20 years ago. it's fine.

elias hawthorne: tried to kill bracken!!! ~~ish~~

maybe elias was hunting something else and bracken, a wolf, thought he was the mark so he went on the offensive. maybe it didn't go so well for him. maybe. who can say!!!!!!!!!

BRACKEN HEMMING

🌕 disowned alpha-in-waiting from an old & prominent generational pack 🌕 a bit messed up from living as a wolf for six years 🌕 footage of his first shift back to human after ↑ went viral before it was deemed a hoax 🌕 more outgoing (and nicer) on the network than in person

personality

gentle • honest • reliable • hard worker • (really) wants to help

sensitive • not booksmart • deferential • ~~territorial~~ protective • physical • goofy when comfortable • bratty when TOO comfortable

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standoffish • brusque • diffident • indecisive • bad at reading people • iffy communicator • withdraws • stubborn • catty • being a human person is hard • self-worth based on his usefulness (i.e., low)

🌕

less... anxious • cautious • quiet • gentle more... competitive • confrontational • temperamental • energetic • r o w d y

appearance

slouches. plenty of scars including a nasty one stretched across his abdomen (thanks elias). dresses like an LL Bean catalog model who got jumanji'd; mostly flannel, denim. mends clothing until it falls apart. thinks "camo" is a colour. can't resist a shiny belt buckle.

in fur. a black mackenzie valley wolf that's ONE BIG MOTHERFUCKER: whereas mundane wolves max out at the height of an irish wolfhound and werewolves grow larger than their mundane counterparts, bracken is larger still. he's just a really, REALLY big dude.

height 6'5"

build brick shithouse

eyes brown

hair black & greying

abilities

werewolf abilities

enhanced senses, agility, strength, speed, and stamina. accelerated healing. decent night vision. body temp runs high. can eat raw meat. a very real and potentially fatal allergy to silver.

shifts. at will. can also shift small bodyparts like fingernails into claws and teeth into much pointier teeth.

full moons don't force bracken to shift. instead, they replace inhibitions with a vigor for whatever's on tap — and little in the way of filter or common sense. it comes earlier than it did before his wolf era, presenting in a few extra days of Behaviour that merely peak at the full moon.

bonus ability

elemental control. control of one element per day (earth, air, fire, or water), which seems to be decided by ~~RNG~~ the universe. he doesn't know what the element of the day is until he figures it out himself.

mundane abilities

animal handling. animal husbandry, especially cattle & horses. tracking, acquisition. general care. basic veterinary first aid skills with a number of supernatural & mundane creatures. wildlife interpretation.

cowboy shit. riding horseback. hunting. camping with neither tent nor shower. outdoor survival. knows so many knots. bygone rodeo athlete: roping events. redneck engineer: can fix almost anything with a steel hammer & an iron will but the results would make OSHA cry.

he's musical. can: sing; play guitar, banjo, and harmonica. (can: kill country covers of pop songs.) cannot: read music, perform for an audience, ever write lyrics for his own tunes. knows too many pop dance routines.

background

parents. bracken (ken) hemming iv & delilah hemming
siblings. briar (slightly younger twin brother), five more younger siblings
goddaughter. brook parish, 8. inherited lycanthropy. while his biological daughter, they call each other niece & uncle. lives in the UK with her mom and (step)dad, francine and grant parish.

growing up: the hemming pack.
the hemmings are a prominent and long-standing pack of hereditary wolves who own and operate a cattle ranch in jackson hole, wyoming. apply "as fuck" modifier to: prideful, territorial, intense, ~~superstitious~~ traditional.

the role of alpha and name Bracken had always passed onto the firstborn son, so from the first possible moment, bracken (slated to become alpha) and briar (slated for beta) were raised to protect the pack and run the ranch. their parents were hardasses who only focused on the longevity and strength of the pack.

briar was the natural — bracken wasn't born to lead. he wasn't born to protect their territory with as ruthless a tooth as was expected, to network at livestock auctions, or to make the tough decisions, but nothing convinced their parents to shuck tradition. he let briar take the reins every time, which was 18 years of times too many for their parents who saw it as insubordination & a lack of discipline.

22: outcasts & coal. (2003)
over half the ranch's herd fall to brucellosis. the loss is devastating to the ranch and their parents point to bracken and briar, the twins who seem determined to upset the pack's careful balance and hierarchy — apparently this is the natural consequence of their so-called rebellion. for the first time, ken and delilah (desperate) go against tradition and abjure both bracken and briar. the disowned boys get lost to elsewhere in the state and dig coal for a while before they have their own falling-out and part ways.

cowboy shit.
bracken spends a few years working on various ranches across arizona and new mexico. while he tries to keep his head down, run-ins with his pack's ranch happen too frequently.

26–32: the wolf years. (2007–2013)
restless, spiteful, unemployed, and depressed, bracken does what any sensible werewolf ~~shouldn't do~~ would: go full-time wolf so he doesn't have to deal. eventually he tries to take down a dhampir that'd been too long on his turf. they exchange blows, bracken retreats, and the well-earned wound on his side becomes infected, leading a disoriented and fevered wolf to pass out in the middle of a field. its farmer later finds him, calls the authorities, and when bracken comes to he's in a veterinary hospital, under the knife. he panics! in the confusion he shifts back to his human form! the vets, also super confused, also panic!

a few seconds of grainy, shitty cellphone footage from this ends up on twitter and goes from niche "proof of supernatural lifeforms" circles to viral sensation overnight, claiming this confused & naked guy is real footage of a werewolf. it's branded as a hoax and most people probably forget about it when the next video of a cat singing along to billy joel comes along.

back to being a person.
bracken spends the next few years reacclimating to human society. one of the vets who was meant to tend to (wolf-)him introduces him to a supernatural wildlife refuge in the midwest because, hey, werewolf, check it out. he sticks around, volunteering and later working there. his time's split between interpretation and going on runs to help find reported injured/lost/etc. creatures in the big wide world.

with a ?kid?.
a few years ago, he got a call from a woman he'd hooked up with a couple times: he had a kid and while she neither wants nor needs his participation in her child's life, some concerning stuff was happening and she needs his medical history. it takes a while to sort everything out and convince her that lycanthropy's real, but eventually everyone's on board. they're in frequent contact with bracken answering all of brook's "is this a werewolf thing" questions and he's become good friends with both of her parents. he spends a couple weeks a year with their family, helping brook acclimate to wolf life.

adventure society!
bracken is, at his core, someone who wants to be wanted and needed and deemed helpful in whatever way he can be. while the raven's job offer was unexpected, it was also exactly the shit he dreams of: being requested specifically to help out with... uhhhhhhh... something. you know, he's not really sure? but somehow this dude found out about him so he wants to know what that's all about, and he can't resist the siren's call of being Requested.

miscellaneous trivia

🌕 will eat anything and everything. endless appetite. 🌕 has been banned from: five bars (full moons), three restaurants with all-you-can-eat rib deals (appetite). 🌕 says "don't feed the wildlife!!" and then turns around to feed neighbourhood cats. 🌕 loves his shitty old truck to death and will be heartbroken when he learns what hell toronto driving is. 🌕 not precious about nudity & spends enough time in the buff that there's sweatpants by his door for when unexpected guests drop in. 🌕 likes going places where enthusiastic and excited people congregate like clubs, exercise classes, and bars on game nights; the sport doesn't matter. 🌕 his apartment is one-floor ~~studio~~ open concept with full-length windows and probably too much hardwood. aside from a truly 70s-esque conversation pit (it's even carpeted!!!), there's a ton of rugs, pillows, and armchairs that create endless nooks-in-noonday-sun potential.

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