Full Name Brennan Kilduff Doyle
Gender Male
Age 23
Orientation Heterosexual
Role Camper
Gender Male
Age 23
Orientation Heterosexual
Role Camper
Personality Brennan is a very serious person. Because of his ability to feel the emotion of those around him, he feels the need to maintain a stoic demeanor so that he doesn't go insane. He believes that, as a channel of a Celtic goddess as well as a channel of other people's emotions, his sole purpose is to absorb and carry: never to project. This stoicism is his way of keeping himself sane; he disregards his emotions and motives so that he can carry others'. Therefore, everything about Brennan is very minimal. Meaning he shows minimal emotion, makes minimal contact with people, and feels minimal connection to them.
Strengths
Strong Will: Doesn't give up easily on things that he knows must done. It's not so much a display of his own passion, but rather a feeling of obligation to get necessary things accomplished.
Stoicism: Is able to take hardship without much complaint or signs of distress.
Loyalty: Once he opens up to a person he knows he can really trust, he will stay with them and always be there when needed. It may even evoke emotion in him, though that is very uncommon.
Weaknesses
Lack of Emotion: Because he is so stoic, he displays minimal emotion which makes it hard for people to know what he's thinking.
Distrust: He is very cynical and often sees the worst in people before seeing their best. This leads him to open up only to people he really gets close to.
Insecurity: At his very core, he believes his power strips him of anything that makes him his own person. He feels other people's emotions, only does what a goddess wills him to do, and has mind severely altered by his raven-like enhancements. Also, because of everything going on in his own mind and body, he can easily be broken when his front of stoicism is knocked down. This contrast between the front he puts up and the person he really is leads him to go to two extremes: either he is stoic and emotionless, or so full of emotion and distress that he does very undesirable things.
Fears His main fears are losing control and being inadequate. Being around a lot of magic, he isn't afraid of much else.
Backstory Born to parents who were very learned in arcane magics, Brennan has always been exposed to strange happenings. Since his parents' magic was gained from praying to gods and goddesses of old Celtic paganism, Brennan was also exposed to many history books that filled the shelves of his parents' home library. When Brennan was young, even though he was allowed to read up on the lore, his parents didn't let him involve himself in these magics. Instead, Brennan was home-schooled and restricted to only portions of the house (the ones that didn't contain the parents' magical equipment). In this way, strange events that resulted from his parents' practicing of magic were blamed on normal circumstances, rather than magical ones. He grew up thinking magic was normal.
It wasn't until his 13th birthday that Brennan's parents began to pass their knowledge onto him. Now understanding that magic was something dangerous and abnormal, Brennan was allowed to attend traditional high school. But, despite his adoption of a more normal lifestyle, weird things began happening to Brennan: weirder than what he was accustomed to. Ravens began crowding around his room, he began having visions of seemingly random people, and he was very susceptible to feeling emotions of those around him. That's when his parents realized he was being targeted by one of the old Celtic goddesses, the MorrĂgan, whom the parents used to contact in the past for not-so-moral reasons (but that's another story). In the end, the MorrĂgan decided they'd curse the parents' 13-year-old son. This curse would be how Brennan received his powers.
Power Brennan, a channel for the MorrĂgan, has powers related to that of a raven. One of his powers is that he is able to communicate with ravens and sometimes have them do his bidding. This power proves useful because of ravens' ability to mimic human speech. He is therefore able to get surveillance on persons of interest by getting recordings of what they're saying. Another power of his is that, like a raven, he has empathy. This power enhances his empathy to the point where he is able to detect and feel the emotions of those around him. It proves useful when he is trying to get a read on someone he is talking with. Another skill Brennan adopts form ravens is their high level of intelligence. Though already well-learned and well-read in his human years, this power has given him an increase on his critical thinking and analytical skills. He is able to retain a lot of information and adapt to most any problem or environment. However, this doesn't mean he always follows his common sense. His next power, one that stems from his ties with the MorrĂgan, is that he is able to take the form of a man-raven. This power, the only power that makes changes to his physical form, is still developing and isn't something he can achieve often. Right now, at best, he can sprout black wings. But even then, he seems to only be able to do so in extreme situations and never on his own free will. Finally, because the MorrĂgan (and the raven in most myths) often come as an omen of death, Brennan sometimes has visions of those who are about to die. Like his other MorrĂgan-related power, this ability to foretell people's death isn't something he can do at his own free will and it only comes to him in his dreams.
Quirks
Clenches his fist or bites his lip when worried.
Sometimes taps random rhythms on his leg when he's waiting or really bored.
Clenches teeth (visible signs are shown along his jaw and temple) when angry.
Hobbies
Listening to music in order to calm himself down.
Studying history and mythology.
Playing piano by himself.
His Song Edward by Marlais
