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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 ...

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...

So... One of the first criticisms I received about my short stories was that it seemed impossible that a character who had suffered long periods of torture could save himself from a vampire as powerful as Gaia without a hitch. They were right, but I didn't have to be happy about it. Around the same time, I had these weird... dreams. A couple times I woke up and I could swear I could see some woman's face above me... almost like she was sitting on the ceiling. Usually I'd wake up again and realize that I was dreaming. Either way, the two stimuli... literary criticism and bad dreams led to the next character I created: Nemo. For those in the group who are young, under-educated, uninterested in words, ignorant, or just plain stupid, "Nemo" isn't the name of a fish from a Disney movie... Well it is, but first it was a name used in The Odyssey  by the clever Odysseus to trick a cyclops. You see, "nemo" means "nobody". So, Finding Nemo , the...

I used to have a bit of a fixation on Mary Shelly's famous book, Frankenstein . I read the book. I watched all the movies. I took the tests on the book to earn points for my school's reading program. It happens when something piques my interest in some way and this happened to happen when I was working on the first book I ever finished writing which I called Eight (it was my lucky number at the time, nothing in the book had anything to do with the number eight when I first started writing it). Everything in the book was going pretty well. I had characters/players established, I had a plot I thought would work but had room to surprise me. I was still early into the book, but I thought everything was set up... And then Chapter Six happened. I was a junior in high school. I stayed up late frequently. I finished Chapter Five and I was going to go to bed... And then Chapter Six happened. It may have been exhaustion. It may have been stress because my mom was getting married...

Well, in the past few months, I've had a lot to think about, mostly revolving around life, death, escapism, Doctor Who, friendship, loyalty, cruelty, Harry Potter, Doctor Who, autoclaves, work place injuries, low fat diets, sexuality, Doctor Who, unicorns, nature, pets, ferrets, the Ender's Game movie, Doctor Who, aliens, Power Rangers, paint chips, ghosts, Doctor Who, Agrippina the Younger, Game of Thrones, American Horror Story, Frozen, the British Royal family, sanity, what makes people insane, schizophrenia, what makes people homicidal, homicide, Doctor Who... You know, a lot of things. Most of it did involve Doctor Who and I'll give you my reviews of the 50th anniversary special and the Christmas Special, and Frozen, and everything else in a timely manner. I'm going to have to go into overdrive to get this blog back fully online. I've got movies and books to review, opinions to express, story ideas to work on, and by New Years, a new fictional blog to star...