Brett Hastings

Background
Brett is first born in the Hastings household. Which automatically meant that from birth he was to be the sole provider for his family. His father worked closely with him as he grew, getting him ready to take over his occupation: as necromancer. Brett’s life was filled with spell books and incantations. Instead of games of baseball and homework, he worked on raising his deceased pets and making sure they were restored to near perfection. All of that changed when Brett’s little brother Landon was born. Landon threw a wrench in Brett’s plans. All of a sudden Brett went from being the only child, working to take over the family business to a child left his own devices and having to learn the spells on his own. Landon’s birth had put another strain on his parents that hadn’t been needed before. Now his mother worked, his father was always gone away on a job and Brett was left alone to care for Landon. He had to raise his little brother in their small home, provide for him with means he didn’t have. And when it finally came time for Brett to leave and start working, he found that he couldn’t quite leave everything behind. Landon fell deathly sick, his body withering away until he was nearly nothing. Brett knew he should have left and never looked back, he didn’t want the burden of Landon on his soul but he simply couldn’t let him die. He had practically raised him. Yet Brett didn’t quite know what to do. He was versed in spells to raise the dead and for as much as his brother looked dead, he was still alive. Brett scourged the books until finally he just decided to transfer the residual energy from a raising. And just like that, Brett realized that he and his brother would have to be paired at the hip to keep him alive.

Personality
At face value, Brett is a man who is never satisfied with what’s going on his life. Especially not in the life that he’s in. Brett isn’t the kindest in the Hastings bunch. He only cares about keeping his family happy and keeping his brother alive but the rest of the world can fuck off in his book. He travels with his brother, jumping from job to job, not leaving any roots behind because he simply doesn’t see himself ever settling down. That isn’t to say he doesn’t want happiness. But when you’re raising the dead for other peoples personal gain, Brett simply waits for the sickle of the reaper to come after him and take him from the norm he’s fallen into.