Keil

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Keil Greaver, aged twenty-nine, is the son of Lorraine and Lowell Greaver. He is a main character of Haunted, currently holding the occupation of "Companion" to Whisper. Keil is also the unwilling victim of a werewolf bloodline curse that struck him prematurely due to the death of the curse's previous host before Keil's twenty-first birthday. The curse and his condition led to his first meeting with Whisper, and eventually his position in the Institute.

Personality

Keil's primary response to any remark that he construes as an insult, whether intentioned or not, is the threat of violence. Indeed, he is easy to anger, and can hold a grudge for a long time. Most of his anger seems to be directed toward his human anchor, Whisper, and fellow Companion, Vivi. However, he is not completely angry by nature, and is just as willing to associate with those who do not get on his bad side.

That being said, Keil is fiercely loyal to his friends, even the ones he claims to hate. Despite his constant threats against Whisper, one would be hard-pressed to see any extreme amounts of violence actually occur. This is not quite as true in Vivi's case, though one could make the argument that Keil is fully aware that Vivi is safer from physical assaults than others.

One could say, above all else, that Keil is embarrassed about his newfound status as a werewolf. He told none of his family or close friends about his condition, and very quickly set up a means of keeping himself hidden and safely away from others during his monthly transformations.

Physical Attributes

Keil appears younger than he actually is, due mostly to his curse. His aging process is severely slowed for as long as he carries the curse, making him appear approximately twenty years old, even though he's nearly a decade older. His hair is best described as a dark copper in color, with bangs that fall to his eyebrows, and the rest which falls past his shoulders. He's fairly muscled, but still quite lean, though his full strength is far greater than his body would suggest, rivaling a professional football player or regular weight lifter. He stands at five foot ten inches, and has medium tan skin and dark blue eyes. Due to a short time in which he operated as a solo freelance Hunter, he has a number of scars about his body, and a small handful of tattoos he received to mark him as an honorary member of a werewolf pack he assisted.

While transformed into a wolf, he is mostly indistinguishable from a real wolf, except for a slightly larger size and a peppering of the same dark copper color of his hair in his coat. His eyes are the same dark blue he possesses as a human. He is not bipedal, like some breeds of werewolf, though his speed and strength are a mark above normal wolves and most other werewolves. As a wolf, though, his own mind is mostly pushed aside by the wolf's instincts, though some hint of his humanity remains in his ability to differentiate friend and foe, and the ability to take basic command and direction.

Weaknesses: After shifting from wolf to human form, he usually requires some time to adapt to bipedal movement and a change in fighting tactics. He doesn't have full conscious control over his wolf form, so at most he is a mildly suggestible berserker. It's also suggested, though not proven, that part of his aggressive response to perceived threats is due to fragments of the wolf's personality and instincts filtering into his human side. If he goes too long without shifting from human to wolf, his curse will force him to transform, without regard for his surroundings. Also, a side effect of his curse leaves him weak to ghost and spirit possession, a weakness that Vivi takes frequent advantage of.

Strengths: Even as a human, his senses are strengthened beyond a normal human's. His strength and speed are enhanced, though those benefits tend to vary, depending on the amount of energy left in his curse at the time. Also due to the curse, he appears to be more resistant to sickness. The unique nature of his curse allows him to change from wolf to human and vice-versa at any time, rather than only during full moons, though he can only shift as long as his curse holds enough energy to allow his transformation. It takes roughly twenty-eight days for his curse's energy reserve to change from depleted to full.

Abilities: He is a decent fighter, focusing mostly on hand-to-hand combat, or, to be more correct, foot-to-hand combat, as he prefers kicks and leg blows. His main weapon, wolf-form aside, is a set of greaves he wears to protect himself and inflict extra damage with kicks. His senses, both as a wolf and human, are higher than a human's, and his strength and speed as a wolf allow him to make jumps many humans would fail at.

Before the Institute

Previous Life: He was born to Lorraine and Lowell Greaver in Listless, Scotland, and lived there for six years before moving to Hades, Ohio. Two years after, he was graced with a younger sister, Anabelle Greaver.

At the age of twelve, his father, in wolf form, attacked Keil, Anabelle, and their babysitter. The babysitter was killed almost instantly, and Keil suffered only lacerations to his arm and chest, despite his attempts to protect his sister, who took the brunt of the attack, surviving a severe mauling. Despite the Institute's best attempts, he resisted a complete wipe of his memories of the attack, and so he was told that those memories were a nightmare after being in a terrible car accident.

Seven years later his father died, causing the bloodline curse that had formerly plagued him to move on to his son. Along with the curse, he was granted full knowledge of the curse's former victims, and it's purpose: to protect a silver medallion that contained the spirit of a dangerous demonic force; the unique curse left its' bearer immune to the effects of the demon mind inside the medallion, but weakened to other possessions. Knowing nothing of his mother's connections with the Institute, or her knowledge of her late husband's curse, he came into full knowledge of the connections between the attack he suffered as a child and his father's former curse, and hid his affliction and distanced himself from his family, in fear that he might harm them as his father had.

He attended college in Sanctuary, Ohio, keeping from getting too close to anyone, and would take a monthly trip to an unpopulated piece of land outside of town where he could transform without endangering others (except the occasional cattle). But that didn't last for long, as a trio of high school students met a grisly end when their visit to the abandoned area coincided with Keil's. He began searching for another way to contain himself, and met a group of shamans on his own college campus. They agreed to bind him once a month when he transformed, and the arrangement lasted until his graduation, when he took a job as a truck driver, which would grant him an escape from large amounts of contact with others and the ability to transform away from populated areas, and in the unfortunate event of human casualties, a low possibility of being linked to random 'wild animal' attacks. He survived that way until the age of twenty-seven, fending off the occasional Hunter who discovered him, until finally he found himself on the opposite end of a sword from Whisper, a Hunter-in-training. He succeeded in severely wounding the Hunter (although wounded himself) and was about to flee when his human mind was able to take enough control to attempt to keep the young hunter from dying. He was captured by Whisper's hidden companions, and was promptly bound to the repaired hunter, in the hope that each would be able to teach or control the other.

He and Whisper learned to operate as Hunter and Companion for about two years, forming a very tenuous and begrudging respect for one another, though neither would admit to any kind of positive feelings toward the other. Eventually they were both forced into working for the Institute by Whisper's family, where they were assigned to work with two other groups of Hunters.

Interactions and Relationships

Personal Feelings Toward Teammates:

Liam - He holds no strong feelings toward Liam, though given his fellow hunters, the young mage is probably the closest to a 'friend' he has within the group. Both share a similar situation, in that both were normal humans who had their supernatural abilities dropped onto them suddenly, and forced to deal with them.

Arty - Keil does share some sense of camaraderie with the half-demon, though Artemis' superiority makes him more of a teacher to the other Hunter pairs, rather than a friend to them. Both share a bestial nature they wish to control or do away with completely, but this neither strengthens nor breaks bonds between them.

Whisper - On the surface, Keil and Whisper appear to truly despise one another, never having anything good to say about one another, and their arguments will, occasionally, come to physical blows. And, given how they found themselves working together and their personalities, there is a certain amount of friction between them. That said, Keil is fiercely loyal to his partner, and if given the choice, he would never abandon Whisper in a dangerous situation. The two can even occasionally even be seen on quite friendly terms, though usually with the aid of liquor.

Vivi - Given Vivi's propensity for pranks, and Keil's weakness toward possession, he is often her favored victim. He doesn't take her pranks very kindly, and reacts with more than his share of hostility, so they share a mutual dislike for one another. On the surface it would appear that his dislike for Whisper is stronger, but there is no deeper level to his relationship with Vivi like there is with his partner.

Marigold - Keil is slightly wary of her, given her status as a full-blooded demon, but overall has no reasons to suspect her of being dangerous to the rest of the team. The two don't seem to interact much, and what interactions do occur are usually on missions, so said interactions are short and hardly personal.

Bottom Line: He seeks a way to break the curse of his bloodline for good, without leaving his medallion unprotected.