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Born Jack Kramer, Jack Cain (who I used to call Achan) is the aberration-vampire brother of  Benjamin Kramer IV, great-nephew of Benny the Cat, and owner of a bookstore called Ripper's Books. He appears to be in his late twenties, early thirties, with short dark brown hair, blue eyes and the same well-built form of his younger-older brother. He's devilishly handsome, tortured, and a lot of trouble. Jack didn't set out to be a vampire with eternal youth. He just wanted to practice magic with his brother, but Benjamin Kramer IV fell victim when one of their rituals went horribly wrong (in the original story). Jack needed to save his brother at any cost because he loved his younger brother who he had  to protect. They were the only family they had left, you see. So, Jack performed another ritual, sacrificing a random homeless woman to save his brother, turning himself into a vampire. He must  drink the blood of others, sacrificing them, or Benjamin Kramer IV will die of t...

After I thought up Benny, I'm not sure when, I sort of had this idea for a pair of brothers. At the time I was trying to flesh out my Council of Magic (now called the Council of Thaumaturgy). So, my first idea was that there were two brothers at odds, one worked for the Council and the other was a creature that ought to be hunted down and killed by the Council. Benjamin Kramer IV (My brain couldn't decide if he was the fourth or fifth for a long time. I chose fourth because it just seemed nicer.) is the brother who is actually a high-ranking Council official (in charge of the North American Chapter) who happens to be the brother of Jack Achan, a creature that is considered and "aberration"... and a type of vampire. I had this idea going in my head that Jack became a vampire to somehow save Benjamin's life. Benjamin couldn't handle it, so he enlisted in the help of the Council to kill Jack. However, Jack knew this, and he couldn't allow his brother to ...

Benny the Cat is a big, fat, orange tabby cat I came up with during my first year of college... sometime around the time Nemo and Cassandra Troy were created. He looks something like... This. Well, he's fatter and his eyes are usually green in my head. The picture above is some stock photo I found somewhere once. Benny wears a black collar with a watch instead of a tag or bell. This is important. You see, Benny was once a human named Benjamin Kramer III, who grew up around Civil War Era... somewhere in America. Not really sure where.  Anyhow, on his eighteenth birthday, he received a fob-watch that looked like just like any other except if he wound it a certain way he could teleport and even do some limited time travel. Well, that's because Benny's watch wasn't any watch. It was The Watch, a receptacle of power supposedly from the creators of the universe holding power over time and space within its gears. It's one of the most powerful items in any un...

So, I have signed up for NaNoWriMo. For those of you not in the know, that's National Novel Writing Month. Basically, starting on November 1 until November 30th, I'm going to sit down and try to write a novel, or at least 50,000 words of a novel. If I win, I submit what I have to the site and there can be prizes and such though mostly I just want to have the flush of victory of having written 50,000 words in a month and probably being done with something worthwhile. I have the next... twenty four days to decide what I'm going to write and get together an outline. On the bright side, going over all my permanent characters in my universe is giving me ideas for stories and making me go back and look at stories I stopped writing ages ago to see ideas I had that I could rework if I wanted to. Basically, I have the whole month to plan how I'm going to write 50,000 words (that's roughly 2,000 words per day) in a month and what the content will be rather than me starin...

Yes, she was that  Cassandra... Cassandra Troy was a character that I created. She didn't pop up like Azrael or Nemo. Instead, I needed a character for a very specific purpose and... because my brain connects things in weird ways, Cassandra Troy became the right peg to fit into the hole my world had at the time. See, I was working at a senior living facility ( not  a nursing home) called Sunrise Senior Living ... or I'd moved on from working there to Crestwood Nursing Center . I'm a bit fuzzy on when she was created, it was in my early college years. In fact, Cassandra Troy may have existed before Nemo. I don't have very clear notes from that time with dates on them. Either way, I had this crazy/genius/silly idea: a sort of hospital for the supernatural beings that populated the world... that looks like a nursing home to everyone else. The patients are even disguised to some of the lower-level workers as residents ... especially the long-term patients because...