Lorraine
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Lorraine Angela Greaver, aged forty-seven, is the widow of Lowell Greaver, and mother of the Haunted characters, Keil Greaver and Anabelle Greaver, as well as a second son and a set of triplet girls, all of which were conceived during her second marriage. As a single mother, Lorraine is somewhat protective of all of her children, despite the fact that the oldest two are technically legal adults, aging at twenty-nine (Keil) and twenty-one (Ana). She is a skilled cook in all manner of kitchen areas, and a stern homemaker, despite the fact that being a mother is not her only full-time job.
Past
Born under the name Lorraine Marianna-Belle Fennan II, named after her great-grandmother, Lorraine was reared in a single parent home, much like the one she currently raises her children in, due to her mother's death in childbirth, along with the little brother she'd been pregnant with. The eldest of two children, she learned to overtake the responsibilities of the household early, to allow her father time for both work and general providing for their small family. She lived in a two-bedroom apartment rented above a closed liquor store, in a small, inexpensive part of Dreary, New Jersey until she was thirteen, when her father and younger sister, Lousie Angelina-Gracie, who was ten at the time, were assualted by several men seeking money. Her father was killed, and Louise lost the use of her legs. Both were separated and placed in foster homes due to an inability to locate living relatives. Lorraine was sent to live with a family in Neverever, Washington.
Lorraine met her first husband, Lowell Jonathan Greaver at age fifteen. Four years her senior, Lowell worked partial-time at the local record-divison of the police station and came from a well-established family, of which he was the only surviving member. With his aid, Lorraine located her sister who had been moved to a town several states away and was living happily enough with two 'brothers' and a 'grandmother' to call her own. Afterwards, Lorraine insisted she and Lowell remain in contact, and made several trips to visit his family on school holidays.
Three days after her graduation from high school, Lorraine married Lowell at age seventeen, moved with him to Listless, Scotland, and had their first child, Keil, a year later. It would be eight more years before their daughter, Anabelle, was born, two years after their return to the United States, and settling in Hades, Ohio.
As their children aged into the proper stage for public schooling, Lorraine turned her attention to creating a separated source of income from Lowell's own job—which she knew not the details of, officially—and looked into gaining a nursing degree. She became an RN at the nearby St. Grace's hospital three months after Keil's eleventh birthday. Placing Ana in the hands of an able daycare, she worked her way through the medical levels until she was approached by a representative of The Institute. Informed that her services, mostly those she had acquired in infant care, were sorely needed, Lorraine partook in a ritual exorcism of a stillborn-infant spirit which had been tormenting the Western Wing for months, steadily gaining strength off of the sorrow of mothers who had lost their children, and the powerful dipersal of energy that came from young children dying. Proving that she had an inherent talent for the work, Lorraine was recruited into the services of The Institute as a civilian worker, and her employment classified from general knowledge.
Within the next year, several tragedies occurred. Louise—who had married, been divorced, and was expecting a child—lost her baby in miscarriage, and commited suicide shortly afterward. In memory of her sister, Lorraine change her middle name to 'Angela' and set up a small memorial at her hospital office. Two months later, a snarling beast broke into the Greaver home and attacked the children and babysitter while Lorraine was on an emergency call by the Institute. The babysitter was killed almost instantly by the battered door slamming into her spine as the creature entered, but the children attempted to hide. Keil was found relatively unharmed, save for several lacerations on his arm and chest. Anabelle was heavily mauled.
Using the best combination of magic and technology, the Institute managed to completely erase Ana's mind of the incident, and physically heal her for the most part. The story fabricated was that the babysitter had attempted to take the children to the store with her and been in a terrible car wreck. Anabelle had been in the front seat refusing to put her seat belt on, against safety regulations, and had been hit with the diluted force of a truck that slammed into the car on the driver's side, at an angle. Keil, who had been in the back and seated behind Ana, with his harness on, had remained intact. Keil did not undergo a successful mind-wipe, though not for lack of trying. He was told the attack by the monster was a nightmare he'd had while unconscious after the crash.
Seven years later, in the line of duty, Lowell was killed and Lorraine left widowed. The secret her husband had been attempting to hide from his family, involving a blood-curse and transformation into a great beast, passed on to Keil, who had no idea as to his mother's knowledge of his unwanted inheritance. Keil immediately distanced himself from his family, and Lorraine supported him as any mother would.
When Anabelle was nearing her thirteenth birthday, Lorraine encountered Oliver Wynstoane working at the Institute, a fellow widower who was mourning his late wife; a woman named Katherine who had died two years earlier. The two of them became very close, and eventually married. Within the second year of marriage, Lorraine gave birth to her second son, Mason Louis-Karver Wynstoane, named for her second husband's father, her sister, and his late wife. Anabelle, at age fifteen, rebelled for a short time against her lost status as the youngest, but overcame her sibling rivalry after turning her attention to others of her age group, much to Keil's chagrin.
To their extreme surpise, Lorraine was found to be pregnant again four years later, and gave birth to triplet girls, which were named Jadina Leanne, Masina Lenore, and Emina Lennae. There was a falling out shortly after the triplets' birth, due to Wynstoane's wish that the girls all be named a variant of 'Katherine' and Lorraine's refusal to change her mind. The marriage dissolved from there, with several accusations on Lorraine's part that Wystoane was comparing her to a woman who had passed on and become his 'ideal' role-model for a wife. They were divorced before the girls' first birthday, with Lorraine having full custody of their four children due to the intervention of The Institute during the court proceedings. Oliver Wynstoane was officially on the payroll of a dangerous-work-oriented organization. Lorraine was not.
After her second marriage ended, Lorraine changed her name back to 'Greaver' as a way to apologize to her late husband for the last few years, and asked Maxwell if he'd like his name changed as well. To her surprise, he affirmed the change, and the triplets became Wynstoane-Greaver, so that at any later time they could decide to edit out either name.
Lorraine continues to work at the hospital under the pay of the Institute, and supports her four children from her second marriage as well as putting Anabelle through local college. She is well-aware of her eldest son's involvement with the Institute, though she does not entirely approve, and is very supportive of the team he is assigned to. She approves of his partnership with Whisper, and often encourages Keil to be nicer to 'her' and the others. She sends grocery money every other Friday.
