Post by Calder Seaton on Sept 17, 2019 1:15:51 GMT
CALDER SEATON
BASIC INFORMATION
NAME: Calder "Cal" Seaton
AGE: 45 physically, "died" in 1753
RACE: Siren
GENDER: male
ALLIANCE: Sirens, Seaton Clan
OCCUPATION: information broker
FACE CLAIM: Idris Elba
ORIENTATION: pansexual
RELATIONSHIPS:• none
PERSONALITY
Ambitious | Charming | Duplicitous 
Calder Seaton has no love for humans; in fact, it has been long rumored that he has no love for anyone but himself. Even among his fellow sirens, he doesn’t seem to fit in nicely. He has all the coldness characteristic of his species, without the reverence or the tradition, and the result is a man who often comes off as more flippant than anything else. Humans and short-lived species tend to fascinate him; they care so much. They have so little time upon the earth, and yet they spent it worried about their petty little lives. It makes their ambition easy prey, a fact which Cal has exploited again and again. More a professional drifter and grifter than anything else, Cal spends a lot of time among the humans he cannot make himself care for. His reputation is a bit cavalier, but he is a man who has a finger on the pulse of all things human and supernatural. Working from the underground, Cal is able to track shipments, people, and information through contacts. As an information broker, Cal is used to getting what he wants with a bit of plying and cash to grease the transaction. He knows how to work a room and get what he needs, and he tends to do so with the same charmingly, emotionally vacant way he does everything else in life. His loyalty is not won with money or charm or any other discernible measurement. The seemingly arbitrary pattern of what he does and why he does it could fill up several books, but it all boils down to one simple fact.
After all this time alive, he's bored.
HISTORY
Calder Seaton remembers absolutely nothing about his human life. His earliest memory is of the ocean closing over him and the darkness that followed and seemed to stretch forever. He remembers reawakening with lungs full of water, his heart beating again, and his body drastically changed. He remembers that sights and sounds were suddenly sharper and crisper, and he remembers the man who pulled him from the water and told him of his new life. Douglas Seaton gave him a home and a new name. Whoever he had been before his death did not matter; he had become Calder Seaton, of the siren clan Seaton.Cal’s life with Seaton’s clan was the closest he had ever come to a life without strife. Douglas provided for nearly everything for the small, seven-man clan. Life had made Cal strong, and his life afterwards saw him grow sharp. Douglas had an extensive library, and there Cal first learned to read and then to learn. He became a voracious collector of information, teaching himself about the sciences, history, literature, everything that his life had denied him access to. Never once did Douglas pressure Cal to reclaim his own history, and before Cal knew it, he had passed decades in the isolation of the Seaton manor, among his brethren. So much time had gone on without him, and the traces that might have been life had washed away with the tide.
Cal expressed an interest in seeing the world that books could only let him glimpse, and Douglas agreed that he should accompany him to his next jaunt to London. Once there, however, Cal realized that humans felt…different to him. Lesser. And they treated him so. Slowly, Cal’s interest warped into something darker, a fascination in seeing the humans work. Time had begun to pass so quickly for him, but frustratingly, humans seemed to stay the same. This, Douglas informed him, was their curse. They had all the time in the world, but the world was never kind nor ever what they wanted. They were destined to find it disappointing, the people lower than snakes. Cal took the message to heart and stayed among the humans when Douglas returned to the clan. He used his low class and supernatural knowledge for his own benefit and carved out a trade in secrets and whispers.
Cal grew tired of his London toys, however, and found that returning to Seaton didn’t feel right, either. He unmoored himself from London and traveled the world for a while, both in siren form and without. As he went, he journaled extensively and sent them back to Seaton, with the hopes that they would be collected and added to the library he loved so much. None of them were ever sent back, so he assumes that is where they landed. Cal has not had any physical contact with the Seaton clan since he and Douglas parted ways in London in 1868, but occasionally, he still sends letters to the last remembered address. They are never returned, but they are also never replied to.
At the turn of the twentieth century, Cal followed the tide to America and let his money and penchant for secret-keeping to afford him a comfortable nest in New Orleans, with its mix of cultures and supernatural populations. Even from the beginning, Cal made it clear that he would not play nice and fall in with local sirens. He has been there ever since, building up a reputation as a bit of an information broker. Need to find something out? Cal probably knows someone who has seen something. Need an ancient legend for research? He might remember it - for the right price.
PLAYER INFORMATION
PLAYER ALIAS: bree
PLAYER AGE: 24
PLAYER PRONOUNS: she/her
OTHER CHARACTERS: Temperance J. Devereaux , Margot Claire Anders
PLAYER AGE: 24
PLAYER PRONOUNS: she/her
OTHER CHARACTERS: Temperance J. Devereaux , Margot Claire Anders
