REDINGTON;; declan grey

declan grey redington

• carolina boys ~ lee brice •

•• USERNAME ;; nyx
•• GENDER ;; female
•• AGE ;; 17.5 hehe
•• CONTACT ;; PM or AIM at LittleDhampirNyx
•• EXPERIENCE ;; uh…not sure anymore…
•• PASSWORD ;; edited
•• OTHER CHARACTERS ;;
~ vladimir dracula tepes
~ anasztázia freyja macnamara
~ bronwyn olympia pfeiffer
~ mabh ailbhe ceannaideach
~ lilia anne letha dragovich
~ dante adalfieri vicenzo

•• FULL NAME ;; declan grey redington
•• NICKNAME ;; dec
•• AGE ;; twenty - six
•• BIRTHDAY ;; December 1st
•• GENDER ;; male
•• SEXUALITY ;; heterosexual
•• PROFESSION ;; bartender, cowboy, mechanic
•• SPECIES ;; merman
•• ABILITY ;; animorph

•• PLAYBY ;; chris hemsworth
•• ETHNICITY ;; caucasian
•• COMPLEXION ;; slightly tan
•• HEIGHT ;; 6’4”
•• WEIGHT ;; 206 lbs.
•• BODY TYPE ;; muscular, athletic
•• HAIR COLOR ;; blond
•• EYE COLOR ;; blue
•• SCARS ;;
~ a scar on the back of his right shoulder where he was gouged by a bull’s horn
~ scar on his left calf when he fell out of a tree and broke his leg
•• BODY ART ;;
~ a tattoo of a horse hoof print on the front of his left hip
~ a celtic knot pattern tattoo that wraps around his right bicep
~ the word ‘loyalty’ in script above the celtic knot pattern
~ a tattoo of a leviathan wraps around his left calf
•• OVERALL PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION ;;

In his human form Declan is a rather attractive blond-haired, blue eyed man. His frame is well built and covered with plenty of muscle, especially due to all of the work he does on the ranch. He stands a couple inches short of six and a half feet at six feet four inches tall and weighs in at a few pounds over two hundred. His skin is naturally fairly pale however with how much time he spends in the sun both at the beach and on the ranch he has gained a bit of a tan. Around the middle of his right bicep he has a tattoo made up of Celtic knots. Right above this tattoo is one of the word ‘Loyalty’ spelled out in script. This is because he hates betrayal and believes in loyalty with all he has. Low on the front of his left hip is his left hip is a tattoo of a hoof print, the only way you will see that entire tattoo is maybe if he has no shirt on or of course if you happen to see him naked. There is a jagged scar crossed over the back of his right shoulder from when he was gouged by a bull’s horn once while trying his best to tame the beast enough so that it wouldn’t attack him all of the time. Then there is a mostly faded scar on the front of his left calf from when he broke his leg once and on the back and wrapping around his calf is a tattoo of a leviathan.


In his merman form his torso and upper body is mostly the same as in his human form. However in this form he has a set of gills which are located on the sides of his neck. They allow him to be able to breath underwater but make it more of a hassle to breath clearly when he is out of water, at least for now. Additionally his legs turn into the tail of a fish. His tail is a brilliant teal color with different shades of blue and green mixed in among his scales. With it he can swim swiftly through the water and dive deeper than he’d ever be able to in a human form.

•• STRENGTHS ;;
riding horses
swimming
his strength
fixing cars
making drinks
sex / seduction
bull riding
confident
street smart
camping / survival
observation/keeping watch
being silent when he wants to be
hunting
clever
hardworking
strategy
drinking / alcohol tolerance
•• WEAKNESSES ;;
overly protective
can be possessive
stubborn
controlling
often thinks his way is the only way
showing / sharing his emotions
doesn’t trust easily
people he cares about {can be used against him}
bold {speaks his mind}
alcohol {temptation}
women/sex {temptation}
horses {temptation}
the ocean {temptation}
•• LIKES ;;
horses
swimming
the ocean
his ranch
the countryside
bartending
cars
hiking / walking at night
guns
night
women
drinking
those he cares about
traveling now and then
adventure
bullriding
control
cake
brawls {when he needs to work off some steam}
•• DISLIKES ;;
liars
illness
death
thieves
politicians
traffic
betrayal
snobs / spoiled rich people
ignorance
not having control
being helpless
•• AMBITIONS ;;
protect those he cares about
staying near the ocean
find someone who actually cares about him / find a woman he loves
move on from Kensy, he’s been a bit hung up on her and hasn’t really moved on
stay alive
•• FEARS ;;
lose those he cares about
death
perky perky women
losing his ranch
•• SECRETS ;;
feels like his sister’s death is his fault
has a daughter

•• PERSONALITY ;;

The Hardworker:
Most of his life if Declan had wanted something he has had to work for it or figure out how to get or do it himself. He became very independent and self-reliant as he grew up. His work ethic was enforced when he went into the military, where he once again had to work hard and learned not to give up. He rarely gives up and doesn’t let things drop easily however but that’s just the way he is. Once he has his mind set on something he sticks with it until he succeeds in or finishes whatever he is doing. It came into work again when he started his own ranch. It took copious amounts of work to fix up the place, let alone get it running and keep it that way.

The Military Man:
In the military he became adept with guns however he doesn’t use them willy-nilly. He often may carry one around however for protection of himself and others but he doesn’t just wave it around threatening to shoot people. Not only that but he had learned a good sense of self-discipline and control from enlisting. Declan keeps in touch with several of the men he worked with in the military and is good friends with them. That’s one thing he’s especially good at making and keeping friends.

The Protector:
Declan is an extremely protective men of anyone who he cares about or anyone who may need help in any way. He hated it when first his sister and then his fiancé died, he had felt helpless, useless, and like there should’ve been something he could have done about it in both instances. If anyone is ever to threaten someone he cared about a gun might just get involved, or a fist or two. Just wait until his daughter eventually starts dating, he’ll probably be so protective he’ll scare off all of the boys.

All Alone:
He had fallen hard for Kensy, he loved her until the day she died and loves her even now. Dec knows that it would be healthy to move on but so far he has not been able to. Often when he looks at Ariel he is reminded of Kensy, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing but it doesn’t exactly help with him moving on. In his mind he has to find someone who can make him feel love and excitement again. Bring to life emotions he feels as if are lost. Who knows if he ever will but he clings to the hope at times.

The Gentleman:
While he may not have had a serious relationship he has gone on several dates and in general just respects women. He will open doors, pull out chairs, and all of these other chivalrous behaviors. He is a Southern man to the core, not only does he love the country and his ranch but he has a Southern accent along with a respectful attitude for women despite how his mother acted. Any woman who dates him will find little things happening ‘just because’ like flowers or small gifts as well as picnics or other such activities.

Listening Is Key:
He is a bartender at a local bar a few nights a week, after all the ranch life isn’t always exactly a steady source of decent income. He has become an excellent listener and finds that he enjoys it as well. Declan can listen to a heartbroken woman, or man, and know how to deal with it. He can listen to tales or the ‘old days’ or what not and enjoy himself and politely treat his customer. All the while he stays charismatic and serves drinks to the patrons of the bar.

The Father:
Dec is an amazing father even if he doesn’t care for his little girl or live with her. He loves her with all of his heart and didn’t just cross the country and abandon her, he left her with his adoptive parents for now knowing it was the best environment she could be in at the time. Some of his money he has even begun to put in an account for her, maybe someday for her to go off to college, but it could be for anything really if she needed it, even though she’s not quite three yet even. She is probably the most important person in his life at the moment and he makes sure to visit her often.

•• HOMETOWN ;; Montgomery, Alabama, USA
•• ACCENT ;; southern (U.S.)
•• LANGUAGES ;; english , spanish
•• WEALTH ;; somewhat above average, the Williams offered to help him with money but he felt they had given him so much already and politely declined
•• RESIDENCE ;; ranch house in Southern California
•• MOTHER ;; naomi lynn jones, who knows where she is… possibly deceased
mary lou williams, 54, no job was a stay at home mome, adopted mom
•• FATHER ;; austin redington, deceased
maxwell williams, 58, adopted father, CEO of Williams Corporations
•• SIBLINGS ;; lexie redington (deceased)
luke williams (26) (adopted brother)
marcus williams (28) (adopted brother)
liam williams (23) (adopted brother)
•• EXTENDED FAMILY ;; ariel redington {daughter, 2.5 years old}
•• PETS ;; many animals on the ranch including horses, cows, pigs, chickens, a bull, dogs, and some barn cats… he’s especially fond of his horses

•• HISTORY ;;

Declan entered his screwed up life in the early morning light of another chilly December 1st in Montgomery, Alabama. Growing up he lived in a rundown old house on the edge of town with his parents, who were never married. His mother was rarely around and whenever she was she paid him no attention at all really or was wasted or high. His father was slightly better however he was so preoccupied with trying to cope providing for them and taking care of everything, including Declan, that he wasn’t much fun to be around for the young child. As a young boy Declan often just wandered around all over the place with little supervision, getting into anything and everything.

He was nearly ten years old his mother became pregnant with Declan’s younger sister. They shared the same father, Austin Redington, however before his sister was born their father was killed in an automobile accident. A drunk and exhausted trucker had ran his semi-truck dead on into the side of Austin’s pickup truck, killing him instantly. Declan hadn’t quite realized completely what Austin’s death meant at first when he heard the police tell his mother the news. He would wait at the front window each afternoon waiting for his father to come back home. Meanwhile his mother began to sleep around quite a bit yet was able to quit drugs long enough to finish out her pregnancy at least. Once his sister, Lexie, was born their mother began searching for someone to take care of them, a man to use for money essentially.

Within a year she had found an averagely wealthy man who worked in an office building who was willing to date her. So they moved in with this man for a while. He offered several times to marry Declan’s mother however each time she rejected him, after all she only wanted him to pay for her and her kids. The entire time she was supposed to be dating this man she was blatantly sleeping around with multiple other men. Both her ‘boyfriend’ and Declan knew what she was doing but neither tried to stop her. Declan was too young and as for her boyfriend, well he still loved her for some reason and didn’t want to see her children starve.

Another couple years passed in this manner however things took a turn for the worse once again when Lexie was three. Declan was about thirteen and had taken his baby sister to the park nearby to play on the jungle gym. He had stood back near the swings and watched as she climbed up and down the stairs of the jungle gym. For a moment he had looked away to watch some teenage boys play basketball in envy when he heard his sister’s shrill cry. In that moment, even before he turned his head, he knew something had gone entirely wrong. He had turned around to the sight of his sister on the ground, her limbs sprawled at wrong angles. He had rushed forward but it had been too late, she had died instantly of a broken neck at only the tender age of three. Upon further investigation it turned out that a bar on the jungle gym had become loose and fallen out when his sister had leaned upon it, causing her to fall from just about the tallest point of the jungle gym. To this day he often blames himself for her death in that moment in which he wasn’t watching, if he had only been closer when she had fallen maybe it wouldn’t have happened.

Two days later they held a funeral for Lexie. By some odd chance their mother showed up and played the part of the grieving mother, soaking up all of the attention. After that she had taken off with her latest man of many to never return. This was when Declan was thrown into foster care, for years he was thrown around from house to house. He stayed with his first foster parents for just over two years before being moved to a new foster home. At fifteen he entered a household where the couple had two children of their own and were taking care of him and a girl about a year younger than him, her name was Kensy.

At first everything seemed fine around his new foster home until his foster father began to come home drunk every night. The man was loud and yelled all over the house before passing out sometime in the early morning. This went on for a few months before Declan began to notice the bruises that were appearing on both his foster mother and Kensy. Kensy had done her best to hide them under long sleeves, makeup, and sunglasses however once Declan was fixed on something he didn’t let it drop easily. He had confronted her about it until she admitted to him that their foster father had been hitting and touching her when he was drunk. He was fifteen and while at the time he wasn’t entirely grown he was grown enough to be able to take on a drunken man if need be. Kensy had begged him not to do anything rash but Declan had grown fond of her the past few months. So he began to keep Kensy out of their foster father’s way late at nights, comforting her when they could both hear him shouting and yelling for her and stumbling around the house. Often Kensy would shake out of fear when this happened and Declan would hold her until she was calmed down again, even sometimes until she had fallen asleep.

Finally one night when Declan was sixteen he had to fight back when his foster father broke down the door to Declan’s room where he was sitting with Kensy. Declan socked him in the face before rushing Kensy out of the house with him and running with her several blocks away. He knew it wasn’t right but they had to get away from there so Declan hotwired a car and drove for miles and miles, taking them anywhere but there. Maybe it would’ve been smarter to take this matter to the police however it was known that many of the local police were rather corrupt and Declan didn’t trust any of them to take care of it. So they went as far as they could get that night before stopping in the early morning and falling asleep in the back seat of the car. Sometime in the night a tapping on the window and a bright light woke them up. Soon enough Declan was standing up against the side of the car with his hands cuffed behind, being arrested for hijacking the car. Luckily enough Kensy was let free however he knew they would send her back to their foster home instead and hated the thought of what might happen when she was back there.

After he was taken in to the police station he was sent to a juvenile detention facility for the car theft and additionally for ‘assaulting’ his foster father. He was in there for about two months when he met Luke Williams, who was Declan’s age, and his father, who was a successful businessman and CEO of his company. At first the son and father, who volunteered at the facility, thought that he was just another youth who needed help. But soon Declan began to hang out with Luke when he was there until he eventually opened up and told Luke what had happened to land him here. Luke had then related this to his father and while they didn’t think stealing a car was right they admitted Declan had had few options. They soon began like a family to him with how they treated him when they were there. When he was released from the facility at the age of seventeen he moved in with the Williams, who adopted him with open arms and treated him like family. He appreciated all of their help and all of the kindness they showed him.

When Declan was eighteen and fresh out of school, which he passed with a C average with all of the shit that happened in his life, he enlisted in the military alongside Luke’s older brother, Marcus. Within a year they were sent off to a base where Declan stayed except for when he was given breaks to go and visit family and friends. During these breaks he would go visit the Williams but when he was 20 he decided to search for Kensy one week when he was home with them. He found that she was still in Montgomery and headed drove there in search of her. When he got there he found her working at a diner as a waitress. Declan had gone in and sat down at a table, holding a menu up as if he was looking at it. When she had come to take his order he could see the shock and surprise on her face as she realized who was sitting there, they had been close back at their foster home anyways. So they sat there for hours together catching up until it was dark out and he escorted her back to her apartment. He had kissed her for the first time that night when he had told her good night.

They began to write each other and keep in touch even when he was at the military base and when he was off he would often spend most of his breaks with Kensy in Montgomery instead of spending them with the Williams, who were fine with this and even teased him about his budding romance. A couple of years later he was on a weeklong break and spending all of his time with Kensy when he found out that she was pregnant. He was overjoyed and he was already thinking about marrying her before this but it drove him to propose to Kensy the next night over dinner. They would be a family, a real family. Unfortunately he had to leave at the end of the week but she sent him pictures and updates each week.

Several months later he was honorably discharged when he was shot in the abdomen at the age of 23. Originally he went back to the Williams’ mansion home however he called Kensy and filled her in, asking her if she would want to come live with him in the Williams’ home. He still had to finish healing and additionally there were still too many painful memories to stay in Montgomery for long periods of time. Besides he found out that she had lost her job at the diner so she came and lived with him at the Williams’ home. Luckily his adoptive parents were glad to help out and house them until they were able to find a place of their own. Kensy was about eight months pregnant at the time and it was only a couple of more weeks before she went into labor.

They had rushed to the hospital as soon as it happened and Declan sat by Kensy’s side the entire time. However when Kensy was most of the way through her labor the doctors noticed that her blood pressure was too high and upon further inspection found that the baby was facing the wrong way and that more complications were likely to happen if she gave birth naturally. They decided that a c-section would be the best course of action both for mother and baby, to avoid further complications. Declan was made to wait in the waiting room as they rushed Kensy to the OR. He waited impatiently, pacing the room the entire time. About a half an hour later the doctor walked in and informed Declan that they had done everything they could but that there had been severe hemorrhaging and while the baby had survived that Kensy had passed away. Declan had gone into a rage before crying to himself for an hour straight. Finally he asked a nurse if he could see their baby.

She led him over to the nursery and told him that she would be right back before she walked out holding a baby swaddled in a blanket. The nurse had placed the baby in his arms informing him that it was a baby girl. He held their daughter that night until the nurse told him that she had to go back in her crib. He hardly slept for the next few nights. When he was finally able to take her home his adoptive mother went with him to help but his daughter still needed a name. Thinking for a while he finally came up with Ariel Lexie Redington. Ariel had been a name Kensy had said she liked before and Lexie was after his sister.

For a year they lived with the Williams however he was having trouble moving on and while he loved Ariel with all of his heart he couldn’t take care of her on his own. Declan moved out to the West coast, to California, to have some time to himself and figure out what he wanted to do with his life. Ariel was left with Declan’s adoptive parents, who he knew would and could take better care of her than he could. So he took off and found a setting and activity he loved. He loved being on a ranch. After working as a ranch-hand for a time he decided he’d love to own his own and found one that was for sail. Using what money he had saved from when he was in the military Declan bought it and did everything he could to bring the ranch to life. Maybe someday he could bring Ariel out here with him to live, but for now he keeps to visiting either at the Williams’ home or having Ariel and some of his adoptive family visit him at his Californian ranch home.

When the meteor showers of 2012 began he had some serious doubts as to whether these events were actually causing mutations in average people, appearance of supernatural abilities and such. One night he had gone down to the beach to try to relax, he was having memories of Kensy and missing her greatly that night. He was wading in the water when a meteor crashed down a little ways away in the water, causing massive waves to wash over him. He was underwater for a while before he woke up and found that he had been washed out to sea and was still underwater! He was breathing underwater. Looking himself over and feeling at his neck he recognized the newfound fact that he now had gills and a giant fish tail, which had allowed him to survive in the water for this long. Making his way back to shore he had laid there on the sand for a few hours, passing in and out of consciousness, before he found himself in a human form once more. He had gained the ability to shift parts of himself into a fish! He was a merman. Declan has recently visited the beach more and more often, exploring the ocean’s depths as well as discovering what he could do in this new form of his. At the same time he has expanded his ranch by several acres and been working on adding to it.