Rhys Kane

=== Who is Rhys? ===
Rhys is Rowan's older brother and acting as a father figure of sorts to him growing up. During the series, he's someone that not only Rowan looks up to, but Grim and Ren too, with both (mainly Grim) going to him for advice.
=== Backstory ===
Rhys was born in Ireland to his parents Brihanna Lyons and Kaymar Kane on the 10th May, 1998 and other then his mothers brief postnatal depression, the vast majority of his childhood went quite smoothly. In 2005, the three moved to England and two years later, his younger brother Rowan was born.
Their mother was very removed from Rowan when he was born and would even make comments about wishing he hadn't had him at times, but no one thought much of it due to Rhys' birth causing the same thing, although admittedly less severe. After multiple years however, Brihanna's avoidance didn't waver like with Rhys, but instead drastically increased, which caused Kaymar to become suspicious and begin looking into it after she refused to talk about it.
Kaymar found out that the reason why she was so on edge was because she had repeatedly cheated on him during their relationship, both before and after Rhys' birth and she feared that Rowan wasn't Kaymar's son and by proxy was also worrying about Rhys' father not being him either. This expose caused a massive strain in the family for all 4 members, with Rhys and Rowan taking it the hardest. -'s alcohol abuse worsened and Kaymar's dissociation became worse, causing Rhys to have to take care of Rowan most of the time, Rhys wanting to return to the family's prior happiness but also now questioning if that was even his family in the first place and Rowan was now developing problems due to having two parents that where actively avoiding him, with his mother gladly making it clear that she hated him on multiple occasions.
Due to this increased stress at home, Rhys developed his own alcohol addiction as he grew older, causing him to become a party animal who would go to literally any event he found out about, desperate to feel some sort of happiness. One day, he went to a house party a classmate threw at their house for their year exclusively. This is where he met a girl in called Enya, who he immediately hit it off with, bonding over their mutual love of parties and a few nerdy TV shows they watched. Rhys helped her with her vaping addiction so when Rhys' alcohol addiction worsened, Enya was there to help him though it. Due to this, the two developed an extremely close bond and became partners. Rhys confided in her about the situation at home and Enya would occasionally let Rhys and Rowan stay with her. 
On one occasion, just after Rowan's 10th birthday, Rhys had a massive hangover and was laying in bed when Rowan had come back from school asking if he could have some food. Rhys told him to go downstairs and make himself some toast and he'd be down in a minute. Rowan did as he was told and went down to the kitchen and was down there for a while before he started hearing lots of shouting coming from downstairs. He came down into the kitchen to see his brother holding his face, dripping with blood while his mother stood over him holding a blood covered knife; He looked at his mother and brother horrified, desperately trying to register what he was looking at before running over to Rowan to try and help him. 
Rowan was so shaken up that he refused to let Rhys touch him, scared he would also hurt him. This caused the two to get in a screaming match while Rowan desperately tried to stop the blood pouring out of his face. Their mother kicked them out and went upstairs to bed, saying she wanted them gone by the time she woke up, leaving the two in a state of shock. Rhys noticed Rowan trying to reach the medkit and got it down for him, the simple act convincing Rowan to let Rhys bandage him up. He felt guilty for getting Rhys kicked out and apologized to him, to which Rhys assured him that it wasn't his fault and that he was going to make sure he was okay. He packed up all their things and stole some money from his mum before taking Rowan to A&E.
He got a female doctor at first but he freaked out so much that they ended up having to get him a male doctor instead. After the switch, he was more crying then panicking and the doctor started asking Rhys questions about what happened. While Rhys did tell him what happened, he didn't say who did it which made him suspicious. When the doctor starting asking Rhys why he wasn't saying who did it, Rowan told him that his mum did it and when asking if true, Rhys confessed that he was scared to say it because he didn't want his mum to have a reason to keep harassing them after they left. The doctor explained to the two that if Rhys wanted custody of Rowan like he planned, having a documented case of domestic violence would help a lot and convinced the two to report it. They did and after some questioning both stayed at Enya's for the rest of the week, awaiting a house viewing the next week anyways.
In April 2017, Rhys moved out with Enya, taking Rowan with them and getting custody of him. Rhys got lots of therapy after it all and nowadays is doing a lot better, pretty much completely over his alcohol addiction and happily enjoying life with (his now wife) Enya.
===Criminal Record===
*Vandalization
*Perverting the course of justice
*Assisting an offender
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