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Niall Riley
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Niall Riley

~Child of the Moon~

<Character Information
Name: Niall Gregory Riley
Age/DOB: November 19th, 1985/23
Affiliation: Child of the Moon
PB: Nick Stahl
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moonwolf
Height: 5'10"
Abilities: Inhumanely strong, though less so than vampires or werewolves. In his werewolf form, Niall is faster than any human could run, and capable of taking a punch from a vampire, or giving one the vampire will feel. When human, his strength remains, but the rest of his senses and abilities revert to only a little more advanced than a human's. He cannot control his change, and must change into a wolf on every full moon, and will lose control of himself during the change - attacking any human he encounters.

Appearance:
As a human, Niall is of average height with shaggy brown hair, and something of a baby face that looks older because of his frequent stubble. He has light green eyes and is lean, though fit-looking. He speaks with a faint but discernible Australian accent, and his clothes are usually practical and worn looking.

Personality:
Niall is restless and a little bitter, but maintains a strange hopefulness that most born into and hating their own condition don't have. He is a loner by necessity, not choice, and craves contact and friendship.

Even with that craving for company, Niall is shy of crowds though. Afraid of his own wild nature, even though it's not a threat when the moon isn't full. He's never encountered a vampire, but is wary of them - having heard of the werewolf packs that were destroyed by the Volturi.

He is an honest young man, one of those rare people who seem incapable of real artifice, always speaking the absolute truth, even when a white lie would be easier for someone to handle. He loathed the constant politics of who was in favor and who wasn't in his own pack, and left largely to avoid that, even before he heard of the wolves in La Push.

History:
Born to an Aussie mother who made her living photographing wildlife, and an Irish father, Niall's life was one of travel right from the beginning. Born in Sydney, his mother and father had a whirlwind romance that ended in a wedding. Less than a month after Niall was born his father vanished, leaving Hannah to raise her so alone.

They did well enough, and Niall was an accomplished world traveler by the time he was ten. It was while they were back in Australia though, his mother on a year long job to photograph Australian wildlife for a coffee table book, that it happened. Niall found himself restless, just thirteen and on the verge of maturity. He left the reserve he and his mother had been staying on and wandered out on the edge of nightfall.

He woke up the next morning with no real memory, and blood all over his clothes, the carcass of a dead dingo nearby. He went back, and his mother made a fuss, yelling and grounding him and hugging and worrying, eventually sending him to a shower and bed. One of the men who worked on the reserve watched Niall though. A few days later, he was kidnapped from his bed in the middle of the night and taken away to meet with the wolves who would become his pack.

They explained what he was, one of them claiming to be his Uncle, telling him his father had left to protect Niall's mother, and was now dead. Niall didn't want to believe them, but the next month, when he felt the same strange restlessness, he locked himself in one of the animal cages, kept to rehabilitate injured animals, and set up a camera, in case he didn't remember. The footage confirmed it, as did the shredded clothes and the ache in his bones.

He packed his things, left a note for his mother, and went to live with his Uncle in the Pack, who promised to teach him how to survive without hurting anyone. The Pack was small, made up of family members, and stragglers they'd picked up. His Uncle was the alpha of the pack, but the rest were in a constant state of flux - trying to gain influence and rise in status. Niall wrote to his mother to let her know he was okay, never leaving an address, and did his best to read textbooks and the like - teach himself what he would have learned in school, though his uncle considered it a waste. They weren't human, he saw little point in pretending they were.

When he was twenty, his uncle died, leaving a void of power in the Pack. Some pushed Niall, as his closest blood relative, to try for the spot, but he had no interest, and when the constant manipulations got to him - he left.

His uncle had some money left, and his father had left some for Niall too, and he used that to travel from place to place, never letting himself be caught without a place to lock himself in on full moons. Eventually, he heard of a pack of wolves that could change at will - or not at all, if they chose. Niall immediately tried to learn more about them, planning to travel to wherever they were and see if they could help teach him to do the same. Or cure him entirely, as Niall wanted nothing more than a normal life - turning into a monster once a month and being scared of yourself kept that a hard to reach dream, though.

((I am not Niall Riley. I am also not Nick Stahl. This is for the Role Playing game, Break the Dawn. No copyright infringement intended. For more information about Niall's player, see her Character Development Journal. Banner by nihil_est @ lj!))

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