Landon Hastings

Background
Landon was born into a long-line of witches, the powers falling through the generations, landing on the first born daughter of each. Landon was the first son born in a hundred years. He grew beneath the shadow of an expectation, forever stuck trying to make up for the fact that he was born a boy. Landon basically grew up alone, having to fend for himself while his mother doted on her nieces and his father made sure that they weren’t going piss poor broke. They lead the lives of witches but that didn’t mean that everyone fell into the lap of luxury. And Landon knew first hand just how that felt. He was wearing years old hand me downs, having to wear and rewash all his clothes within days of being worn simply so he would have something to wear. And as Landon grew older his body grew weaker, more frail until he was a skeleton dressed in clothes. His parents couldn’t figure out what was wrong with him, nor did they care until Landon accidentally almost killed his cousin by sucking away energy from her. The Hastings quickly realized that magic had not skipped Landon, instead it was coiled in him like a taut wire, ready to spring. Landon grew up not only being scorned for a boy but grew up knowing that he’d forever have to siphon off energy from others. Landon has better control when he’s around the witches in his coven, the only reason why he sticks around. He doesn’t want to have to live with knowing that he’s killed someone, even though he plays it cool. Most of the time Landon and the other coven witches are at their ends with each other and cannot stand each other. Landon tries to go as long as he can without an energy siphon but when he does go too far, he’s always teetering on the edge of killing himself or siphoning some poor soul of his life source.

Personality
Landon has proven himself to be condescending, untrustworthy, very forward, and unapologetic, on more than one occasion. He cares little about what people think of him and sometimes even comes off as a big snob. It’ simply because Landon knows that his physical body cannot keep a hold of him for very long so he relies on his acerbic personality to keep people away so that he does not accidentally take too much energy from them. When people get to know him, they see his incredible mind and his dry humor; yet it’s even rare that he cracks a smile.