"I didn't choose it, but its mine all the same. It's a family name, Landon. No escaping that."
Landon Daniel Seymour
Nicknames
"It's not my favorite name, but I won't answer to anything less than it."
Landon. Just Landon.
Age
"I'm not as experienced as some, but I can still hold my own."
Twenty [20]
Race
"Purely human, and quite pleased with it."
He's human, in fact coming from a long line of Cacciotori tracing from both sides of his lineage, though there are breaks here and there.
Sexuality
"That's a bit private, don't you think?"
Bisexual
Water || Swimming || Training || Large Knives || Exercise || Forests || Victory || Cold Weather || Dogs || Family Ties || Tradition || Good Leaders || Bars || Roman Mythology || The Cacciotori || Visiting his Family || Jackets || Camping || Competitions || Being Challenged || Efficiency || Bluntness || Straightforward People || Red Hair || Green || The Ocean || Hunting || War Histories
Dislikes
Impulsiveness || People Who Forget The Past || Traitors || Abandoning Family || Being Indoors || Mathematics || Deception || Underhanded Methods || Losing || Stalemates || Heights || Cats || Hot Drinks || Salads || Watching Movies || Most Novels || Summertime || Excessive Heat || Chattiness || Ambiguity || Bending Rules || Civilian Casualties || Small Handwriting || Idleness
Fears
Death - Death can be a very frightening prospect, especially for one who is not and never has been religious. It is a fear which he does his best to suppress at all times, concerned that it will limit his abilities. But the idea of being completely nonexistent, of just vanishing, terrifies him, at least a little bit.
Killing a Civilian - Landon is a person with a strict moral code, inherited from his mother's side and strengthened by his father. Even against Immortals, he prefers to avoid foul play. The idea that he might hurt an innocent keeps Landon careful, because he's done it before, and still has nightmares and is plagued by guilt.
Being Buried Alive - This isn't really a strange fear, is it? He doesn't particularly enjoy being underground, but the concept of being smothered or crushed from above terrifies him quite a good deal. As a general rule, he steers clear of deep holes in the ground, and cringes at the stories of people who were buried before anyone realized that they had actually been alive.
Dreams:
Landon has always been a somewhat traditional sort of person, placing a great amount of value in family and history. So, call him common, but he'd like to retire after a while and have children- people who can carry on the family name, even if they opt not to work for the Cacciotori.
When he was younger, Landon always secretly wanted to be a History teacher. He's always been enamored with the subject, after all. Of course, this would be something perhaps for later years, when he has done his duty for his family and the human race.
Secrets
When Landon was on his first hunt, he mistook a civilian for his prey and murdered an innocent girl, who was perhaps 15 years old, not much older than he had been at the time. Her face still haunts him, and makes the young man cautious. He also doesn't really like to talk about wanting to be a History teacher- it's not really the first career most people see him going into.
When people look at Landon, the first thing that tends to be noticed is his rather muscular physique. People see the muscles and have expectations- expectations for a health nut, or an athlete, or a witless powerhouse. Now, they aren't wrong in thinking him an athlete and a health nut- in fact, Landon would probably have the same exercise regime even if it weren't meant as part of his preparation for hunting. However, being muscular does not equate stupidity, a mistake that some people make with Landon. He simply has specific fields in which he is good. Landon, for example, has a skill for memorizing facts, especially if he's read or heard them more than once. He reads more than people expect of him, and knows more, therefore. So, yes, Landon is an intelligent individual, despite stereotypes he's had pointed in his directions. There is nothing that he hates more than people assuming him to be an example of all brawn and no brains, and can become very defensive on the subject, to the point where he is likely to become red in the face defending himself. Situations such as these often end in him looking the part of a fool, due to how involved he becomes, and have led to only further frustrations. Despite his tough exterior, he is oddly sensitive about that, and seems to always be trying to prove his intelligence, even when people have assured him that he has nothing to prove. It's a combination of sensitive and defensive that can have him struggling, and working far too hard to seem believable, to prove the value of his mind- at least as far as memorization goes.
While the fact that he was born into a family of hunters did have great influence over Landon's decision to follow suit, he also did so for another reason: he felt morally obligated to help protect humanity in any way that he could. Given his training, the best way to do this, he saw, was to help in the eradication of those who pose a threat to the innocent. His mother and father were both the sort of people who had strict moral codes and believes, and they passed this on to their son, who developed into an honorable sort of person. He dislikes using dirty methods in hunting, despite the fact that they are often the most effective method, and will avoid them to the extent of his abilities. Something about relying on foul methods doesn't sit right with him. After all, he's the guy who holds the door open for a long line, gives his seat up on the bus, and wouldn't hesitate to throw himself in front of traffic in order to protect another person. He holds himself up to a high standard of responsibility, just as his parents did. Of course, Landon understands that those who use different methods are doing what they believe is best, and respects that, but he feels very uncomfortable with such methods. He has before stopped and handed a person he was fighting their weapon back. If possible, Landon avoids fighting those who have no weapon, and definitely avoids those who are sick. It just isn't in his nature to use such a thing in his favor. At times, this can make him a rather poor hunter, but usually Immortals are quite capable of defending themselves, and so he feels no need to hold back in anyway.
Landon was born as the youngest of three sons in an extremely tight knit family, and his relationship with his brothers and his parents have influenced him greatly, in more than just his moral standards. He has also come to place a great amount of value on families and loyalty. Even if the family is not one related by blood, as he accepts that there are many types of family, it is something to be cherished and protected at all costs. This can be a great weakness for him, because to capture a member of his family is to have the young man as puddy in your hands. There is likely nothing that he will not do for the good of his family, whether it be his blood family or the members of the Cacciotori that he has grown closer to. To him, family comes above all else, and as thus he values loyalty greatly in those he befriends. Betrayal is one of the highest offenses that he can think of, and the idea of him betraying the trust of another is ghastly. As with all of his values, he sticks to this as best as he can- which is usually pretty well, luckily. He doesn't leave a comrade behind, even if it results in being captured as well. It simply goes against his wiring.
Loyalty aside, he has no qualms with competing against his family and extended family. Rather, Landon is a very competitive sort of person, loving challenges and competitions- anything that he can use in an attempt to measure his own skill. Challenges provide both a chance for growth and a chance for testing one's own competency, after all. He often has small competitions with himself, pushing to surpass whatever his last score was. The young man can be almost insufferable in his ability to make everything a contest- even when he is only ranking it as so within his own head (people can often tell when this is the case). He's not a show off, really, but he does value the insight that comparative analyzing can give regarding one's own potential for growth and such. Growing up as the youngest, it's only natural that he should end up being the sort who measures himself against others- he always had two people who were faster, stronger, and older to compare himself to. He's very straightforward about competing against people as well, most of the time. Of course, he's generally straightforward about everything. It's been mentioned that he isn't one for foul play or sneaky tactics, and the same goes for common deceit and dancing around subjects. He is, in practical situations, honest and direct about things. He doesn't like those who are otherwise, to be honest. Those things aside, he obviously isn't going to be a shining pinnacle of honesty if captured by the enemy and interrogated for information. He just doesn't lie to those he respects, likes, or works with. Not usually, anyway.
Frankly, Landon is more of a follower than a leader. If given the proper instructions, he is a force to be reckoned with, because he can do anything he is told to do. Unfortunately, the young man is not particularly creative himself, and therefore might not be quite enough to finish a job on his own. He's intelligent, of course, but when it comes down to it, he works best when guidelines have been set for him. In fact, he can be quite a martinet at times, following rules and such so strictly that it is annoying for other people. While he isn't exactly going to be able to follow everything to a T, he does what he can in order to keep in line with rules and values and the like. When the enemy can look innocent at times, holds the same face and emotions as the people he strives to protect, rules and such give Landon the consistency to be confident in his actions. If he is constantly flexing and breaking such things, everything will begin to feel so unreasonable, and he might doubt what he has been taught to do for the entirety of his life. Of course, on a different note, there aren't always clear rules or guidelines in things like romance, and while he can carry on a conversation as well, Landon has never exactly been the sort who can easily flirt with other people. He just can't. So, honestly, expect no romantic talent from him- if he's interested in someone, they'll know, but it will hardly be tactful or tempting in any way. Probably.
Intelligent || Defensive || Honorable || Family-Oriented || Loyalty || Competitive || Straightforward || Romantically Awkward || Stickler For Rules
Landon was born in Seattle, but his family spent a lot of time traveling. Still, they always ended up back in Seattle at some point or another between their travels, so they kept an apartment there for the entirety of his life.
History
Landon was born the third and final child to the Seymour family, a family which had been members of the Cacciotori for generations. While his parents did both have degrees and day jobs, these jobs were minimal effort for them in order to preserve energy for the nights, when they would join other Cacciotori in the area to hunt for those creatures which posed a threat against the human race: immortals. It's only natural that he grew up with stories of creatures like vampires and werewolves, but these stories were told more gravely to the young boy than they were to other children who were hearing them from parents who were ignorant to the reality of things. Children tend to know that things are real, and lose that knowledge as they grow older. This was not true of a family in which the parents knew with certainty the actuality of the stories, more warnings than anything else, that they told their children before bed.
So, as was natural for children of a family with such a history, Landon was started in various means of training very early on in his life, like his elder brothers before him. In fact, having elder brothers, one five years and the other three years his senior, motivated him to work harder, because he wanted to be able to do it just as the 'big kids do'. Such drives were not lost simply due to an unconventional childhood. In many ways, his childhood might have been more normal than that of other hunters, who were homeschooled or kept out of normal society to devote themselves to their training. His parents believed in integration to normal culture as well as Cacciatori culture, and so, when their sons reached the age at which they could be trusted not to expose themselves, enrolled the boys into school. They often missed school for various reasons, as they grew older, but they were not deprived this experience.
Landon did relatively well in school, where he was valued for his ability to surpass others in sports (though unable to provide valid reasons when, later in his school career, asked how he did so well). However, he often preferred those frequent trips his parents would take, to France or Italy usually, when he was old enough to be taken with the rest of his family for journeys to the home of the Cacciotori, or for particularly large-scale exterminations that required extra reinforcements. His family put great importance over family and tradition, and this was strengthened when the family fought together, looking out for each other's backs before their own. It wasn't uncommon for them to take trips simply to visit sites of significance for their ancestry and such. Through this, Landon began to develop a love for history, even going so far as to have a secret dream for being a history teacher. A dream his parents likely would have accepted, but he hid for fear of being teased by his brothers.
The young man did not go on the hunt by himself until he was around sixteen, and at first it was a difficult experience for him, who had grown accustomed to working in a team that ran like a well-oiled machine. After a while, he began to develop, though he never really gained the skill for improvisation and such that others might. His family was a collectivist one that relied more on strategy than thinking on one's feet, and the method had never failed him enough to prompt the young man to realign his thinking processes. When he was eighteen, Landon was sent by his family to Rose city for a mission, as the others were currently busy. When he returned, it was to find that his parents and his eldest brother had been murdered by a vampire, inspiring a particular hatred for them. He lost his head a bit seeking revenge, and inadvertently murdered an innocent, mistaking them for the vampire thanks to that particular vampire's power of changing their appearance. This experience taught him to keep his cool in the face of loss as much as possible, and continues to plague him with nightmares.
Ultimately, he and his brother went separate ways as far as work went, his brother becoming a lone hunter and he returning to Rose City, where he began working with the area's local branch of the Cacciotori against a particularly disturbing amount of immortals in the area.
