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Welcome to Nowhere

Short but if anyone wants to interact, Tholo's at the coffee shop...
Sorry for the minor delay on the post, crashed way earlier then a thought I would.

Welcome to Nowhere

Bartholomew Whitlock

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Having completed preping his normal station, Tholo looked at the time on a clock that hung on one of the oiled stained walls of the shop. Seeing how he still had some time to kill before the business would be up and ready he decided that he could use at least another cup of coffee. He left the shop locking the door before walking down the street a ways before entering Coffee Central. While he wasn't a regular, Tholo liked to think he came by enough to at least be somewhat familiar. His order hardly took long, it was alsways the same, just straight black coffee. While the repair shop did have a break room with it's own coffee maker, most of the time it tasted awful and half the time it just seemed to not work.

Once getting his cup of coffee he sat down at an open booth grabbing a free paper to look over the latest news in the town. Of course the disappearances were at the top of the paper but he decided to skim over that instead of focusing on it. Looking out the window, it still somewhat surprised him how many stalls were going up so early in the day. A part of him felt disappointed he wouldn't be able to make it during the night but safety was more important then risk turning in the middle of the town.

Welcome to Nowhere

I'll get a post up this evening

Pokemon Uprising

Name: Sidia

Species: Lycanroc (Midnight)

Level: 26

Gender: Female

Orientation: Straight

Alignment: Neutral Evil

Belongings: Old chain collar around her neck

Abilities: Bite - Rock Throw - Rock Tomb - Scary face

Affiliation: The Howlers, her plus the five others (a Zoroark, a Houndoom, a Lucario, a Delphox, and an Arcanine)

Appearance:

Sidia

Except you know the usual red/maroon colored fur and red eyes that midnight Lycanroc's normally have

History: Sidia was raised to be a starter Pokemon for a new trainer. Eventually that trainer came and chose her but whatever bond that was suppose to be between a Pokemon and trainer never form. Her trainer only cared about one thing and that was winning. In order to win she had to be trained, constantly. No matter how hard she seemed to train though it never seemed to be good enough. In her younger age she at first thought it was indeed her fault that somehow she wasn't pushing herself hard enough so after every verbal lashing or physical attack from her trainer on her only made her want to please him more and train harder. Evolving made her finally realize though, her trainer was just a cruel monster. Finally fed up with her master's abuse, not only to her but to the other Pokemon he had caught on their journey, she lashed out during one of their training sessions and snatched the pokeballs, or for her miniature prisons, that he had on him and escaped into the city streets.

Once figuring out how to free her comrades she made certain to protect them. It a few weeks to find a territory that could sustain five Pokemon without capture but eventually they did, still within the city but also close enough to the neighboring woods on the outskirts.

Personality: Sidia has a short temper and quick to anger. She rules over her territory, allowing any free Pokemon to wander with its boundaries as long as they don't cause trouble or attempt to claim it as their own. Sidia is highly protective of her six fellow Pokemon comrades she saved from their old trainer. Has a strong distrust and hate for humans and chases them away from her alleyways when they stumble into them.

Theme Song:

Hider

Pokemon Uprising

My interest is peaked. Probably would go with midnight lycanroc as my character pokemon.

Welcome to Nowhere

Bartholomew Whitlock

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Bartholomew was awoken from his slumber by the piercing ringing noise that resonated from the bedside alarm clock. Without opening his eyes he swiftly hit the top of the alarm clock to turn it off and slowly rose from his bed. Upon exiting his room, he began his normal everyday routine starting with making coffee before heading to the shower and letting the water help get him fully awake. Once dressed and having eaten and had his coffee he made his way out the door of his home and began the walk to work.

As he made his way to work his mind went to the preparations he needed to completed before the fall festival. It had been seven years since he had stumbled into the new world of Nowhere, seven years of discovering what it meant to be a shifter as well as a lycanthrope. While being a shifter provided benefits, the lycanthrope portion provided problems, at least only under the full moon. Thus he needed to take precautions as to keep the beast from doing harm to actual citizens, be it human or other supernaturals. The first couple of years of changing under the full moon, he had locked himself in his own basement, having built a quick home made cage room for him to contain the beast during those nights. It had not always worked out, and occasionally the beast did escape though luckily not to far off from home he would notice when waking up the next morning. He devised a better idea over time deciding to build a large shed out in his back yard, a little ways into the treeline of the woods. It had a concrete base, and four sturdy steel walls. He had managed a means of locking the door on the inside while not allowing the beast access to unlocking it, if it was even smart enough to do so. Commonly he brought fresh meat with him on those nights to the shed, as a means of hopefully in some way appeasing the monster that came out on the full moon.

Having the shed as a safe spot to change without harming anyone was good, but the monster still had always wanted out and did do a number on the walls that at time needed to be repaired so they kept there integrity. It was more important now with all the recent disappearances around Nowhere. He had garnered little trust from the local shifter population. Wile he was part shifter, he was still part lycanthrope something that shifters had strong hatred towards. He would rather not have fingers being pointed as him as some murderer that stalked the full moon nights from unwilling victims to disembowel and become some form of scapegoat.

He arrived at the Fireball Auto Repair an hour earlier then he needed to be there, as usual the first to arrive for the day of work ahead. He enjoyed having a little time to himself before his coworkers came into the shop as well. It let him focus on the idea that despite becoming part of something bigger he still was just a man making a living, still in some ways human. Thinking on the idea of being human he was reminded that he needed to give his family a call and see what had been going on since he had last checked in. He wished to tell them at times of all the things that had happened to him. They knew about the attack and the death of his friend but none of the things he had come to learn shortly there after, probably because saying it aloud without proof made it sound crazy.

Welcome to Nowhere

I'll be working on a post and get it up this evening.

EDIT:
Also did a slight modification of my character. Instead of just Lycanthrope I decided to go with Shifter/Lycanthrope hybrid. Of course I changed the history up to explain how that came to be and a few details on where he learned the truth of the bigger world he has come apart of. Also added in the shifter form as well when there isn't a full moon to call the beast out.

What Are You Listening To?

Welcome to Nowhere

Bartholomew Whitlock

Bartholomew Whitlock

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Nicknames/Alias/AKA: Tholo, Beast of Erehwon

Age: 35

Gender: Male

DOB: 24th October 1982

Occupation: Auto Mechanic at Fireball Auto Repair

Race: Lycanthrope-Shifter

Hair Color: Dark Brown

Eye Color: light bluish gray

Height and Build: 6'1, Athletic, well toned

Other Appearance:

The tamer wolf

The Beast under the skin

History/bio: Bartholomew Whitlock or Tholo lived a mundane life. He had grown up in a relatively small town in the state of Montana but had aspired as he got older to travel the states and see all its sites. Upon his final year of college at the age of 24, he did just that and went forth into the world. For a year he traveled across the country making new friends and trying new experiences yet one place had oddly stuck out to him to which he moved to and that was Erehwon in Vermont, when it came time to settle on a place to live and start working he choose that little town buying a house slightly outside the towns limits near the edge of some woods. For three years he lived in his home with little problem, enjoying his job as a car mechanic.

The event that changed his world unleashing the beast beneath the skin, was an attack that happened on the 15th of July 2010 (age would be 27, few months before turning 28). It had been a nice day, a day he planned to visit the woods and do a bit of hiking, go camping and then return home, something he had done countless times before in the woods outside of Erehwon. That week had invited a long time friend ,Evan Huntson, of his who had been visiting to join him. Tholo and his friend had just finished making camp that night when they had started to hear odd noises just beyond the dim light of the fire. It sounded like a wolf or dog growling yet it was deeper as if coming from something much larger then a wolf. Tholo had spotted the glow of piercing yellow eyes in the darkness, lit by the fire, just before the attack.

Tholo remembered little of what happened after the attack. Their camp site had shortly been found later by another set of fellow campers, who turned out to be shifters. They managed to drag Tholo and his friend down the mountain just before daybreak and get help but even before being found by the good samaritans it was to late to save Tholo's friend.

With the full moon after the accident came around all Tholo remembered from that night was agonizing pain while making his way to bed and then waking up in some strange part of the woods with no clothes and the decomposing carcass of what remained of a deer. Horrified at the site he had ran off before assessing the situation. He only ran a few hundred yards before luckily coming across a road. He appeared to remain in the same town as he found the street name and was able to find his way home. His home had been in a mess on return. The back door was ripped from the frame, the living area turn apart along with the kitchen and dinning area.

He had no explanation on what had caused all the damages to his house. He had to hire someone out for repairs, making up the story that his house had been robbed while he slept. The repairmen seemed to of bought it and went to work. The truth wouldn't come to Tholo until after the second full moon. Before that he chalked most of the recent changes to him with seasonal changes or perhaps overworking himself (first night of the new moon). The second change had him awaken in another part of the woods with the same pair of strangers that had saved his life before. That was when Tholo learned that the world was a bit bigger then he once thought. These people revealed that they themselves were what were called shifters, people able to change form into wolves and that after finding Tholo and Evans and getting them to safety they had investigated into what had attacked them. They had learned that the attack was caused by a lycanthrope, a terrible wolf beast. It seemed whoever the lycanthrope was, they were not from Erewhon, or commonly called Nowhere by the nonhumans usually.

Since that day Tholo tried to learn as much as he could on the new world he had been thrown into. While he had gained the means to be a shifter like his two fellow saviors and teachers, he also had the more sinister wolf beast creature lurking, waiting for those full moon nights to be unleashed. For seven years he has lived with his curse, developing his routine. After learning of the beast underneath the skin, he withdrew into himself becoming quick to anger and preferring to be left alone. While seemingly desiring to join a pack, he fears the other half that comes out at night thus he had determined it was best to just withdraw and keep contact with others to a minimum. To keep the beast from hurting anyone usually before the full moon he goes to a metal shed he made that so far has kept the beast contained during the night.

Family/Relationships:
James Whitlock - Father
Katalina Whitlock - Mother
Nathaniel Whitlock - Brother

Other/Extra:

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