Wichtlein Investigations
Character Bios
I. Brief Descriptions
Name: Hector Wichtlein
Gender: Male
Species: Homo sapiens/Poltergeist
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Grey
Race: Caucasian
Status: Employed, Alive
Name: Desdemona Rodriguez
Gender: Female
Species: Chupacabra
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Red
Race: Latino
Status: Dismissed, Assumed Dead
Name: Orla McIver
Gender: Female
Species: Homo sapiens
Hair Color: Dark brown/black
Eye Color: Green
Race: Caucasian
Status: Employed, Alive
Name: Glenn McIver
Gender: Male
Species: Homo sapiens
Hair Color: Blond
Eye Color: Blue
Race: Caucasian
Status: Employed, Alive
Name: Paige Collins
Gender: Female
Species: Homo sapiens (Medium)
Hair Color: Dark red
Eye Color: Blind (milky white)
Race: Caucasian
Status: Employed, Alive
Name: Chase O’Bannon
Gender: Male
Species: Werewolf
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Yellow (blue contacts)
Race: Mixed
Status: Employed, Alive
Name: Nathaniel Donovan
Gender: Male
Species: Vampyr
Hair Color: Bald
Eye Color: Cloudy Aqua
Race: African-American
Status: Employed, Undead
Name: Sarah Thornton
Gender: Female
Species: Spiritual Residue (once Homo sapiens)
Hair Color: Black with white streaks
Eye Color: Grey
Race: None specified
Status: Resident, Deceased
Name: Kilroy
Gender: Unspecified (assumed male)
Species: Unspecified shape-shifter demon
Hair Color: Bald
Eye Color: Purple
Race: Unspecified Clan
Status:Unofficially Employed, Alive
Name: Michael Rockne
Gender: Male
Species: Homo sapiens
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Grayish blue
Race: Caucasian
Status: Client, Alive
Hector Wichtlein- The Beginnings of the Supernatural PI
§ Co-founder of Wichtlein Investigations (formerly “Eclipse Investigations”)
§ Born in Germany in 1962. Abandoned at birth. Lived in an orphanage as a child. Birth surname unknown.
§ Telepathic abilities first manifested age 14.
§ After several “poltergeist” incidents, Hector was thrown out of the orphanage and moved from squat to squat, honing his talents by “haunting” the neighboring houses.
§ Age 19. While walking one evening, Hector witnessed the brutal assault and mugging of a young woman (Magda) but was too shocked to act. The woman died in his arms as he tried to carry her to a hospital.
§ From there onward, he realized he could use his talents to help others, as he failed to help Magda.
§ Moved to the US, age 21.
§ Age 22. Meets Desdemona Rodriguez and sets up Eclipse Investigations in a supposedly “haunted” office block, along with paranormal nerd/amateur demonologist Glenn McIver (aged 16)
§ Romantically involved with Desdemona.
§ Age 27. Discovers Desdemona’s true identity and goals while investigating a “vampire” reported by Orla _____ (later Orla McIver)
§ Goes AWOL, activities unknown. Glenn takes over the business with Orla.
§ Aged 30. Hector returns out of the blue, half dead, experiencing hallucinations and raving about an artifact known as ‘the Disc’. Continues in this manner for six months.
§ Wakes up one morning with no recollection of the last three years. Business returns to normal. Hector becomes more withdrawn and disinterested, nodding boredly at Glenn and Orla’s engagement and confining himself to the office for hours at a time in deep thought. Eclipse Investigations becomes Wichtlein Investigations when Hector changes the sign in a thunderstorm.
§ Aged 34. On the McIver’s advice, Hector goes on his first “night out” since his return. He gets into a barfight with a group of thugs who are harassing a young blind girl (Paige, age 19). He’s backed up by a stranger (Nathaniel). After they win the fight, Paige has a violent seizure (which they later learn is a possession). They rush her back to the offices of Wichtlein Investigations. The creature inside her speaks of “a Disc” and “a successor coming to light” before dispersing, leaving her exhausted. Nathaniel explains that he has been tailing her for a while, helping her along without her knowing as he suspected she was a spirit medium. Nathaniel and Paige stay the night. The next morning, Nathaniel is burned when the rising sun shines through his window and he is forced to reveal he is a vampyr, albeit a benign one. Nathaniel and Paige also take up residence in Wichtlein Investigations.
§ Age 36. (Day before full moon) Paige is haunted by tortured howls and cries for help. Hector takes her out on the street so she can trace the source of the screams. As they approach the source, they are attacked by a wolfish creature that Hector manages to fight off. As they flee, a business card falls from Hector’s coat.
§ The next day a battered young man, who introduces himself as Chase O’Bannon, arrives at the offices of Wichtlein Investigations. He explains that he woke up in an alley with the card beside him. Nathaniel enters and picks up a scent off of Chase and attacks him. The others manage to break them up and lock them both in separate cells. However, when night falls, Chase takes on the form of a werewolf and escapes from his cell, wounding Nathaniel in the process. Hector and the McIvers go after him while Paige tends to the injured vampyr. They locate him downtown, where he’s staking out his prey, a homeless man. They try to stop him but he fights them off and moves in for the kill. Just when it seems too late, the homeless man lashes out with clawed hands (Kilroy). Paige appears, bearing a gun loaded with silver. She shoots Chase in the gut, curing his involuntary lycanthropy. Chase becomes able to take on his wolf-form whenever he wants and still retain his human thought, thus preventing him from becoming a bloodthirsty monster. Kilroy (a shape shifter with a fondness for appearing as celebrities, recognizable only by his clothing and purple eyes) becomes an unofficial employee of Wichtlein Investigations, providing information and assistance for cash in hand.
This is just a bit of history so some of the more confusing parts of the story make sense (and also because I haven't finished that continuation I promised yet, sorry!). All suggestions welcome...no matter how big or small. And I'll try to get that continuation up ASAP too.
~D'Inkweaver
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