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Category: <span>Border Clan</span>

Sylum Inspiration: Walter Crow Horse

Border: Member

Walter Crow Horse was born and raised on his tribe’s reservation. When he was able, he became a police officer on the reservation. His work is rather mundane until the murder that happens in their territory in 1973, which brings an FBI agent named Ray Levoi to the reservation.

Crow Horse finds himself alternately drawn to and annoyed by the man, but he aids him and they discover a conspiracy involving strip mining uranium on reservation land and destroying the water supply in the process, an act which was the cause of several political problems the tribe was having. They manage to capture the ones responsible, and Levoi goes on his way. Crow Horse thinks its the last he would see of the man, but he was proven wrong when he returned to continue their hard-earned friendship.

On one of those return visits, Levoi came back different. He explained about Vampires and how he was certain that Crow Horse was his Mate. Crow Horse agreed to be Turned.

Sylum Inspiration: John Ringo

Border: Hunter

*Figured would showcase the Mates 🙂

John Peters Ringo was born to Martin and Mary Ringo on May 3, 1850 in Washington, Indiana. John was the eldest of five children. He had one brother, Martin, and three sisters: Fanny, Mary, and Mattie.

The family moved from Indiana to Missouri, where the three girls were born, and then in 1864 they began making their way out West, toward San Jose, California. While traveling to California, Martin Ringo Sr. died from an accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound, witnessed by his family.

The family continued on to San Jose, where John Ringo remained until around 1871. While in California, he worked the farm for his family.

After leaving California, he went back East to visit family in both Indiana and Missouri before ending up in Burnet, Texas in 1874, where he committed his first criminal act: shooting a gun in a public square.

In 1875, in Mason County, John was involved in the HooDoo, or Mason County War, where much of his reputation was created, though he did not have nearly as much to do with the killings as rumor reported. He was originally charged for the murder of a man, but since no witnesses would testify against him, he was free to go. He remained in Texas until 1878, when he began traveling West, through New Mexico and ending up in Arizona in late 1879.

In December of 1879, Ringo shot a man in a saloon in Safford, Arizona. In 1880, Ringo met Joseph Isaac “Ike” Clanton, and they began traveling together. He was having fun wreaking havoc with Ike and his men, but when things began to heat up and become too much, he decided to leave.

However, Ike Clanton did not want him to leave the gang. In order to keep him there, Clanton Turned him without consent and made Ringo dependent on him for information and threatened the lives of his brother’s family, who lived on the California-Arizona border, should he try to leave. Since Clanton wasn’t the only Rogue in the Cowboys gang, which numbered over 300 members, Ringo decided to stay and bide his time before escaping.

Sylum Inspiration: Raymond Levoi

Border: Member

 

Raymond Levoi, of Irish and Native American descent, was born and raised in Sioux City. He decided to train to become an FBI agent after getting his four-year degree. He rose through the ranks fairly quickly, due to his exceptional skill at his job and his analytical mind.

His life would change with a murder on a reservation. There he met Walter Crow Horse and the two worked together to solve the murder and uncover corruption that even reached to the FBI itself. He became friends with a man who he would come to know as Chief Joseph, and took the offer of being Turned.

Sylum Inspiration: Doc Holliday

Border: Hunter

 

John Henry Holliday was born in Griffin, Georgia on August 14, 1851 to Henry Burroughs and Alice Jane Holliday. His father was known to have fought in the Mexican-American War and the Civil War.

When he was fourteen, his mother died of “consumption” (the most common name for tuberculosis), and this is where Holliday picked up the disease that plagued him for all of his human life. His father remarried soon after and they moved to Valdosta, GA where he went to the Valdosta Institute and received a classical education. Holliday went to Philadelphia and got his degree, becoming a doctor of dentistry. He then opened a dental office in Atlanta.

It was in adulthood that he was finally diagnosed with tuberculosis, which prevented him from having a successful dental practice, both in Atlanta and in Dallas, Texas. In Dallas he discovered that gambling was far more lucrative, and so he left Dallas after being convicted of illegal gambling and headed West. Because of the disease that would eventually take his life, he became hot-tempered and reckless.

In 1877 he met Wyatt Earp through a mutual friend. The two became close friends, particularly after the events in Dodge City, Kansas, where Holliday came to Earp’s defense and kept him from getting killed. It was here he also met his longtime lover, Mary Katharine Horony. This wasn’t the only time he saved Earp’s life, and it was in Dodge City where his legend began to grow.

Holliday stayed behind when the Earps moved to Tombstone, Arizona in 1879, but when the Earps asked for his assistance there because of the Clanton Gang, he became embroiled in the problems of the area, which escalated with the incident of the Gunfight at the OK Corral and peaked with the murder of Morgan Earp.

While in Tombstone, he met one of Clanton’s men, John Ringo. Holliday disliked the man on sight, though after further investigation and conversation with Ringo, they discovered they had much in common. He wasn’t all that surprised when Ringo refused to fight them and fled the area.

After the Gunfight at the OK Corral, fighting with the Clanton’s Cowboys continued to escalate, and after Virgil Earp sustained a permanent injury and Morgan Earp was killed, Holliday and the Earps fled the area in early 1882. Holliday and the Earps fled to Tuscon, and shortly thereafter they became involved in what would be known as the Earp Vendetta, in which they went after those who killed Morgan Earp.

After they hunted down those responsible for Morgan’s death, Holliday moved to Colorado. In 1884, as his health continued to deteriorate, Holliday found himself once again faced with John Ringo. John explained his Vampirism and their destiny as a Mated pair, and offered him a way to ease the suffering of his illness. Holliday agreed and was Turned.

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Sylum Inspiration: David Crockett

Border: Member

 

David Stern Crockett was the fifth child born to John and Rebecca Crockett on August 17, 1786 in modern day Greene County, Tennessee. Four more children would come after him, giving him eight siblings. His family, who descended from a captain in the Royal Guard of France’s King Louis XIV, fled first to Ireland, and then later on to America, where his great-grandfather was born in New Rochelle in 1709. His name comes from his father’s father, who was killed by Native Americans.

During the 1790s his family moved to Morristown, Tennessee, where they owned a tavern. In 1794, in an attempt to show his father how much he was ready for a rifle, he began hunting with his brothers, learning to use the guns. A little while later, when his father began trading goods for an education for David, David immediately dropped out after being embarrassed by a bully. When his father found out, he was livid with David, who ran away and spent the next few years exploring Tennessee, which is how he got much of his frontier training.

He returns home when he’s fifteen, and his family is happy to see him. A couple of years later, he became contracted to marry a woman named Margaret Elder, who decided she didn’t want to marry him (he was 19 at this time). A year later he married Mary ‘Polly’ Finley and had two children with her, and after she died, he married Elizabeth Patton, with whom he had three children.

In 1813 he was part of the Tennessee Volunteer Mounted Riflemen and eventually was made a Lieutenant Colonel in the Tennessee Militia (1818).

In early 1821, Crockett was in Washington, DC, just visiting the area and getting a feel for the political climate, already thinking of a run for Congressman in a few years, where he came face to face with Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. Santa Anna recognized him as a recently returned enemy and shot him and left him for dead. Diego de la Vega, however, sees Santa Anna commit this crime and knowing who the man was, rushed to Crockett’s side.

Knowing Crockett was important enough to Santa Anna for him to risk exposure by killing him in the open, Diego offers Crockett the chance to be Turned, for vengeance and for his family, and Crockett consents.

Sylum Inspiration: Daniel Boone

Border : Spy Liaison

 

Daniel Boone was born on October 22, 1734 to Squire Boone, Sr. and Sarah Morgan, and was the sixth child born to the couple, out of eleven. He lived in Pennsylvania with his Quaker family until 1750. After his sister and then his brother married people outside the Quaker faith, the entire family was expelled from the Quakers and they all moved to North Carolina. Daniel, though he considers himself a Christian, has never attended church since then.

Education-wise, he wasn’t given any formal education in his childhood or adolescent years. His full education didn’t actually occur until after he was Turned and his wife had died of old age and he went to reside in Sylum Manor.

He participated in the French and Indian War around 1755 as a wagon driver for General Braddock at the Battle of Monongahela. After his return in August of 1756, he married Rebecca Bryan, and with her, he had ten children prior to becoming a Vampire (one of whom was actually his brother’s child; his wife began a relationship with Daniel’s brother when Daniel went missing for two years after the “Cherokee Uprising” in 1759.)

In 1767, Boone and his brother, Squire Boone, Jr., met John Francis and Benton Fraser while on a long hunt that led them into Kentucky. When Boone decided to make a thorough, two-year expedition exploring Kentucky, he sent notice to John, who joined him for a brief time, luckily for Boone. An accident left him with a mortal wound, requiring John to Turn him, once Daniel gave his consent.

 

Sylum Inspiration: Brisco County Jr.

Border: Hunter

 

Brisco County Jr. is the son of the famed US Marshal, Brisco County, Sr.  Growing up, all he wanted to do was follow in his father’s footsteps.  After he was shot and almost killed on a mission his father sent him on, his family decided to send him to Harvard.

At Harvard, Brisco earned his law degree, but realized that being a lawyer wasn’t what he wanted to do.  While traveling back to his home, he learned that his father had been killed by the Blythe Gang.

He vowed to carry out his father’s last job and bring in John Blythe, so he teamed up with two of his father’s US Marshal friends, James Hickok and Noah Dixon.

During a standoff with Blythe, Brisco was injured and subsequently Turned.

Sylum Inspiration: Brisco County Jr.

Border: Hunter

 

Brisco works as a Political Science teacher at Charles Xavier’s School in order to be close to his Mate.  While still works occasionally for Scurlock as a Hunter for Border Clan.

Brisco County Jr. is the son of the famed US Marshal, Brisco County, Sr.  Growing up, all he wanted to do was follow in his father’s footsteps.  After he was shot and almost killed on a mission his father sent him on, his family decided to send him to Harvard.

At Harvard, Brisco earned his law degree, but realized that being a lawyer wasn’t what he wanted to do.  While traveling back to his home, he learned that his father had been killed by the Blythe Gang.

He vowed to carry out his father’s last job and bring in John Blythe, so he teamed up with two of his father’s US Marshal friends, James Hickok and Noah Dixon.

During a standoff with Blythe, Brisco was injured and subsequently Turned.

Sylum Inspiration: Danny McCoy

Border: Member

 

Danny was born Daniel Michael McCoy in 1905. He was the oldest of three children and his father was the owner of a profitable construction company, who always wanted young Danny to follow in his footsteps and eventually become a powerful businessman. Danny however, is closer to his mother, who encourages him to do what he wants from an early age. His mother does what she can to shield him until she becomes ill when he’s fifteen. She passes away when he is sixteen and he and his father immediately butt heads, his younger siblings having been sent to live with relatives on his mother’s side. The one thing he and his father agree on is to take in his best friend Mary when it turns out that her father is abusing her. Danny goes to their home after he hears yelling, only to find her father beating her. He immediately steps in and fights her father off. Danny and Mary eventually enter a relationship that lasts until Danny turns 18.

Despite influence from his father and with not many other options available to him, Danny joins the military. Mary lost Danny’s protection, is forced to move to escape her father’s influence. A friend, who loves and cares dearly for her, offers marriage in order for her to escape.  She knows despite the fact, she cares for him, but doesn’t love him, Mary realizes he does love her, and accepts his proposal.

In 1929, after he completed his time with the military, Danny left the Marines to pursue other business ventures. When those do not pan out, he decides to use his training and enter the private security field. During this time he tries to convince Mary to leave her husband and come back to him. Mary wants to but feels that she owes it to her husband to stay with him after all he’s done for her. Danny is heartbroken and makes the decision to move.

In 1935 Danny is hired by Edward Deline to work at his Private Investigation Firm. The two quickly form a strong friendship.

Danny has several relationships through the years but never settles down. After working with Ed for years, while leaving the office one night, someone shoots at Ed. Danny shoves him away and takes the shot himself. Ed, knowing his protégé has little time, asks for Danny’s permission to Turn him.

Sylum Inspiration: John Grimm

Border: Hunter

 

John Grimm is the fraternal twin of Dr. Samantha Grimm. Their parents were geneticists and began teaching their children their trade at an early age. Early in their childhood their parents were killed in a tragic accident.  The siblings were outside in the playground, when an explosion ripped through the lab killing their parents.  John would never forget the screams of the people trapped inside. As a result of the accident, John and Sam were bounced around from foster home to foster home until their grandparents could finally get custody of them. Both have a knack for genetics, but Sam is the only one to follow this path. John decided he wanted nothing to do with the research that killed them and joined the military.

At the age of 18 he joined the Marines, quickly moving his way up the ranks and is recruited for the elite Rapid Response Tactical Squad. Where he met his commanding officer, Sarge, a man who would do anything to succeed. Although he hasn’t spoken with his sister in years, he kept up on all of her research and how she was doing. She was the one weak spot for the hardened Marine. He was tagged with the nickname ‘Reaper’ by his squad mates and quickly moved his way up to second in command of his unit.

In 1998 Sarge informed the squad of a special program they had been volunteered for.  It was supposed to make them faster and nearly invulnerable. This program was being operated by Donald Lydecker, head of the MANTICORE Corporation. After finding out what the experiment entailed, John decided that he didn’t want to take part in it, but was informed that refusing wasn’t an option. They held his sister over him as leverage and he reluctantly agreed to take part in the experiments in order to keep her safe. He was given different injections that allowed him to perform under various conditions. He was finally injected with something called Chromosome 24. Unfortunately, his body, like all others before him, began to reject the treatment after a few days. Lydecker ordered that he be Turned by a rogue vampire he had working for him because he didn’t want to lose one of his best test subjects.

Sylum Inspiration: Jason Doyle

Border: Hunter

Jason Doyle was born in 1802 to Pamela Winthrop and Sean Doyle, in Indiana. When he was twelve, a man named Chris Larabee arrived in town and became a farmhand on his parents’ farm. When he was nineteen, Doyle found out by accident that Larabee was a Vampire, and became a Chosen One for him. At the age of 31, after both his parents passed, he asked Chris to Turn him, because he was all the family Jason had left.

Sylum Inspiration: José Chavez

Border: Co-Leader

José’s mother was Navajo and father was from Mexico.  When he was young, his father disappeared, never to return, and his mother took him back to her people, where he learned about his Navajo heritage.  After they return, he was invited into the Medicine Man’s sweat lodge, and was told that one day he would meet a man who had survived death, and his life would be forfeit to him, but it would bring him eternity with his soulmate.  Soon after, his small village was destroyed by a band of Apache.  He survived the attack and was found by Mexican farmers, who took him to the nearest town.  José was given his father’s name and educated by the Catholic Church.

He ran away when he was sixteen, and spent years stealing food and money for shelter until he was caught by Tunstal.  The Englishman took him in and gave him a place to stay on the agreement he help worked the Ranch.  His life changed, the moment he met Josiah Scurlock and fell in love.  He didn’t know how to express his feelings to the other man, and over time he became content to be next to Josiah.

Fate soon found him riding with Billy the Kid and the Regulators.  As each day passed he felt the life the Medicine Man had described, slip  through his fingers.  He lost all hope when he watched Doc get shot down.  Wounded himself, he rode out into the desert to die in peace only to look up into the brilliant eyes of his soulmate.

Sylum Inspiration: Trinity Monroe

Border: Researcher

Trinity Monroe was born to Steve and Marie Monroe in 1963 in Santa Barbara, California. She grew up with a normal, happy childhood and did her undergrad at USC and her graduate work at UCLA.  She worked as a researcher and archivist at various museums, while having a second job as a part-time trainer in various types of martial arts, which she had been training in since she was in pre-school.

Her parents died at different times while she was in her twenties, so she was alone for some time, having been an only child. Then Thomas Anderson walked into her life. She agreed to date him and a couple of months after they started dating, he revealed that he was a Vampire and that she was his Mate. She agreed to be Turned and Bonded to him shortly thereafter.

Sylum Inspiration: Thomas Anderson

Border: Lead Hunter

 

Thomas Anderson was born in 1890 to John and Michelle Anderson. He grew up in Baltimore, Maryland and lost his parents to a house fire in 1895 while he was off visiting relatives. His uncle, unable to care for him along with his own seven children, sent him to live with his grandparents in London. He enlisted in the military in 1914 and was part of the African theatre in World War I. During these skirmishes, he befriended Morpheus, who Turned him when he was mortally wounded.

Sylum Inspiration: Sheldon Sands

Border Clan: Hunter

 

Sheldon Jeffrey Sands, a CIA agent, met Enrique Bastidas Montoya, also known as El Mariachi, in Mexico when he recruited Montoya to kill Mexican army general, Emiliano Marquez, who worked for Armando Barillo, who is the biggest drug lord in Mexico.

Marquez’s goal was to assassinate the Mexican President.

At one point his mission becomes compromised and Barillo drills out his eyes, leaving him completely blind.

Eventually, on the Day of the Dead, Sands, Montoya, and Sands’ team fight Barillo and the others outside the presidential palace, and though they win, Sands is mortally wounded. Montoya offers him an immortal life and Sands consents to be Turned.