Name: Avery Prescott
Age: 23
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 150
Background: Avery grew up in the small town of Blackwell with his mothers sister, his Aunt Clara. His parents died before he was able to know either of them, his mother being taken in labor, and his father taking his own life months later, and while Avery was never 100% sure about it, there was always something at the back of his mind telling him that it was because of his antlers. Clara took custody of him, and he grew up happily alongside her. She was a warm, kind woman, and despite the death of her sister and brother in law, she raised him well, as if he were her own. Because of this, Avery grew into a warm and kind soul himself. This, along with his antlers, are what lead to the constant bullying. He never fought back, so he was an easy target. "Sensitive" is what the principal and guidance counselor at school said he was when he told them what the other kids would do to him. Bigots, Avery came to realize, were all around him.

Despite his rough and patchy upbringing, Avery grew into a happy, quiet, and very kindhearted person. Because of his antlers, he began to study animals and nature in his spare time. He thought that maybe it would help him find out why he was the way he was. While he was never able to discover that much about himself, he did develop a very deep connection to the world around him. Nature was beautiful, ugly, multifaceted, always changing, inescapable. It was like him, he thought, because it was unexplainable. His studies turned to nature walks, and he found that he always wanted to capture what it was that he was seeing. Clara bought him a very expensive camera that year, and he discovered what it was that he wanted to be. So, two years after graduation from high school, he moved out, got a place of his own, and began a new journey of self discovery.

As a nature photographer, Avery was...less than happy with the location of his apartment in the middle of the city. It was a thirty minute bike to the forest, there were people everywhere, and he was a little frightened of all the noise, at times. However, as a collector of vintage Polariod cameras, he was more than happy to discover the various Pawn shops and thrift stores that were scattered throughout the city. He was scared by normal people rather easily, but he liked the people that ran the bakery under the apartment, and he was quick to become their friend when he discovered that they didn't discriminate against him. There are, of course, plenty of assholes in the city, as well. But for now, he was... content with it. As long as he could do what he wanted to do (sell his prints, take photos, go to pawn shops) and not get physically threatened, he was...okay.

Name: Lilith Fairfax
Age: 23
Height: 5’4”
Weight: 124ibs.
Bio: Lilith’s father was a deeply religious man, so when his daughter was born, Mr. Fairfax was convinced that his wife must have had some kind of unholy congress with a beast. How else could this little girl be born with a red and black ringed tail? After seeking council from his local pastor, Ezra Fairfax left his wife of six years, denouncing her and little Lilith both as monsters.

While heartbroken over her husband’s actions, Amelia Fairfax loved her child deeply, and vowed to raise her as best as she could on her own. The now single mother started looking into getting the extra appendage removed, but quickly learned about other children with the same type of afflictions having similar surgeries and becoming gravely ill, some even dying. In the end, she decided that the tail removal was too big a risk, and came up with a new plan; they would conceal it.

The plan was much more difficult to implement than Ms. Fairfax had suspected. Now five years old, young Lilith was a willful and rambunctious child and threw temper tantrums when told she had to hold her tail still and wear long, baggy skirts. Lilith liked her tail, it made her feel special, and she wanted to show it off to all the other kids in her kindergarten class. So, despite her mother’s advice, Lilith let some of the other girls see it while they were all playing princesses on the playground.

It did not go well.

Lilith was suspended from school and came home with a blackened eye and a split lip. “It could have been so much worse,” her mother had said to the five year old as she tended her wounds. “They’ve never seen anyone quite like you, so they’re afraid of you. That’s why you can’t let them know about you, little darling. Because they’ll always try to hurt you.”

Later that night, as Amelia tucked her daughter into bed and kissed her goodnight, she promised that she would make it all better. They moved to a new town the following month and Amelia came up with a way to bind Lilith’s tail to the inside of her leg using a series of belts. It was uncomfortable and she still had to wear long skirts, but it kept the youngster from accidently giving herself away. Lilith made new friends and most importantly, she was happy.

The rest of Lilith’s school career was uneventful, and she graduated from her high school at the top of her class. She received a scholarship to the local college and began studying there to become a nurse, but after an unfortunate incident with her dorm mate during her junior year, her secret was discovered and the professors began failing her. Lilith ended up dropping out and finding work at a local flower shop called, ‘The Enchanted Florist’. She is currently living in a small studio apartment not far from where she works and is still hiding her animal features.