Name
- Tobias (Toby) Schippers
Species
- Human, weak sorcerer
- Not affiliated with SCION
- Pleasant, soft, unremarkable face
- 6'0"
- Mouse-brown, wavy hair
- 24 years old
- Male
- Reserved and polite to a fault
- Noteable block-stutter speech impediment tends to keep him quiet around strangers
- Book smart and loves to read, but sometimes a little bit common-sense dumb
- Senses cryptid presence and can subtly manipulate the effects of their abilities
- Empathetic sensitivity and influence
- Dead shot with most any gun
- Lack of formal military training
- Refuses to use verbal or symbol based spells to help structure his power
- Just...generally not very powerful
(Also see Spire Schippers' profile)
While the eldest Schippers Spire was in therapy for vivisecting helpless mammals, the middle child Toby was in a different kind of therapy: communications therapy with a speech pathologist for his crippling stutter, which would never fully eliminate the problem. It didn't stop him from being an avid reader.
His no-nonsense parents never gave much credit to the strange sensations he experienced from the time he was a child, but they were never fond of his bringing it up. Toby wasn't too fond of the ability, either, given that following the pull of two hikers' pain and a third presence of a Thing was got his little brother killed and his older one turned into a werewolf.
From then on, through helping Spire find safe places to transform and places Toby could practice his manipulations on his brother, through shooting practice, and through eating up any bit of reading material on anti-magic and counter-occult he could find (when his parents weren't looking, of course), Toby prepared to become a slayer of monsters.
And, well, he also had high school and then later classes at the community college where he put in just enough time to pull passing grades in literary studies so that he could fulfill his dream to be an English teacher. BUT IN THE SUMMER AND ON THE WEEKENDS AND IN BETWEEN CLASSES, he totally prepared to become a slayer of monsters.
(He has yet to be hired as a teacher. His resume looks pretty good, but he--he d--doesn't tend to interview well. For the present he does okay publishing scholarly literature analysis in journals and magazines. He wrote a good one on the "development of vampires from classical literature to modern teen-fiction.")
Today
Just because the Schippers brothers found themselves forced to believe that the supernatural did exist, they were certainly not convinced that it should, especially not after what happened to Kole.
Months of agony in learning to handle Spire's transformations, pages of vigorous study of the supernatural, hours of combat practice, and nearly ten years later, Toby and Spire turned self-appointed crusaders against all things magical or mystical. Between Toby's pale brand of sorcery (cryptid-sensitivity and manipulation, as well as weak emotional empathy and influence), and Spire's lycanthrope senses and (eventual) ability to force shift, they made a solid team when it came to finding and slaughtering the nightmarish things that terrorize the fringes of reality.
Toby tended to get a bit apologetic about the whole thing.