Hale

role: cursed cowboy
goals: to control his curse and "i'm gonna put that bratty ingrate mercer in his dang place!"
fears: losing what is left of his family
gender: trans man
sexuality gay
pronouns: he/him
paired partner(s): *cracks knuckles* "definitely not mercer, if that's what ya were wondering."

hale was the leader of a notorious band of mercenaries called the deadloch gang. he ran his operation out of a dried sea inlet on the edge of the starfall isles. it was full of rare and explosive minerals. it was beautiful. powerful. volatile. it matched hale and his bois perfectly. his gang was his family. he took care of them. kept them safe. kept their pockets and their bellies full. they were his. loyal to him and he was loyal to them.

"sure, it wasn't all dandelions and sunshine. we used ta get into fights, but what family doesn't? so what if we settled our disputes with brute force? so what? we were a bunch of rowdy bois making our way together in a world that had spit in our faces and told us we weren't worth a frikkin dime. we were family. family...

"yeah sure, i picked on him extra. the yellowlivered upstart deserved it. he was dangerous. a liability. he was family, but too damn reckless. thought himself a frikkin widow maker. his damn hero complex got someone in my family killed. he crossed the line. this whole damn mess is *spits* mecer's fault."

"we got into it. into it bad. he crossed a line i couldn't forgive. it didn't matter what we had. he screwed up big time and he had to go. course, a boi like him wasn't gonna take it lying down. nah, he always gave me a harder time than that."

hale's fight with mercer destabilized and caused a massive explosion of volatile arcane energy in the loch. the minerals he used to build his family's power and wealth brought everything crashing down. everything. everything. everything was rubble. barely alive and warped by volatile magic he saved everyone in his family that he could but most of them were gone... he found his way to the coven and brought what was left of his family with him. even mercer.