Chester Smith

Chester Smith is a fourth year Werewolf student who attends Lefebvre School of the Arcane. While he comes from no notable supernatural family to be deemed powerful in the schools eyes, he's worked his way up the social hierarchy by doing what he does best, beating up those who deserve it. Chester originally comes from Leeds, England but has traveled abroad to Vermont to attend this school shortly after being attacked and subsequently turned into a werewolf at age 14.
While he doesn't stand out physically, being another tall white boy at the school. His cold and narcissistic personality usually leaves a lasting impression on new people he meets, he isn't someone to be messed around with because he will shut up anyone who does him wrong and make sure he gets away with it. 
To the dismay of some people, Chess is the Alpha of the local werewolf pack. Chess wants to fight for the equal treatment of werewolves within the school, like not being caged up during full moons like animals to get injured in their confines. Thus he isn't afraid to put his own werewolf kind back in line if they slip up and make them all look bad. 
== History ==
=== Birth ===
Chester James Smith was born in Leeds, England on May 13th, 2003. He was born to Charlotte and Edward Smith as an only child due to his parents having trouble conceiving. As a result of this his parents pampered him growing up, more specifically his mother who managed a local bakery with her mother, giving her more time to spend with Chester.
=== Early Life ===
As Chess grew up and entered schooling he gradually took a liking to it, his mother encouraged him to read outside of school and take up other extra curriculars. It started out tame with gymnastics and piano lessons outside of school hours but as he grew up she slowly started to sign him up to more and more things, giving him barely any time to breathe. Charlotte slowly became fixated on having this “perfect” and “talented” child that she began pushing him to work even harder around the clock, and scolded him whenever he didn’t do something as perfect as she expected. While she didn’t lose her loving side towards him, it just paled in comparison to this new alter ego she seemed to adopt when it came to his studies. She was living vicariously through Chess believing it was genuinely not harming him. 
While his mother pushed him to do more things, he gradually began to spend less time with his father. Though his father never put in the effort to change that and replaced what time they could spend together with working in his office. Anytime that Chess did interact with his father, he tried his best to appeal to his father by making him proud. He’d show what he learned in x music class, or how well he did in y class, but his father didn’t humour him and more often than not he found a way to twist it to be disappointed in him. His father claims this was all just tough love.
Chess still found comfort in the occasional times he did get a break from his parents, and when he was rewarded for his school grades. 
=== Middle School ===
Entering year seven at his school, the demands placed on him by his parents and teachers slowly began to get to him. He’d spent so much time stressing over his lessons and classes that he never ended up retaining any of his actual studying and his grades slowly started to suffer as a result.  It started out as a few less than spectacular test marks, something that his parents shrugged off and pushed him to improve, but as they became more frequent his parents slowly started to worsen their attitude towards it. Expressing relentless disappointment in him and taking away his already sparse free time in turn for tutoring. His father started to become more hard on him and placed restrictions on who/what/where and when he was able to do things, Chess hated this rule from the start and just wanted to be able to take a break but his father didn’t care and enforced those rules on the regular. Chess slowly started to push away his friend and lash out at them when they got upset towards him, managing to lose his first group of friends during the middle of year seven. 
The next few years followed the same trends, he’s grades would start to improve, he’d gain back a solid group of friends before it all fell apart again. By the middle of year eight he had given up on trying to gain back friends, and slowly grew more apathetic towards his parents and their constant belittling. Slowly but surely he began to disappear from classes, frequently came home late, purposely missed after school lessons, and started ignoring his studying habits because as much as he tried nothing got better, so he gave up.
Also during year eight his mother forced him to work at the bakery as punishment for his failing grades, and while sitting behind the counter of the bakery one day he saw a boy steal from the shop. Upon approaching the boy he fled out of the store and Chess pursued him back to a rundown cottage in the woods. This is where he finally made a friend that lasted longer than a couple of months, Blyth Pearce. He quickly found home in Blyth and his sister Kennedy, something that he lost from his parents a long time ago. While Blyth wasn’t the nicest to him in the beginning, seeing the conditions he and his little sister lived in he felt obligated to help them. Though this wasn’t without a few drawbacks, while he knew Blyth didn’t mind his company he started to believe that his value as a friend was more based on what he could give the other person. He felt that he had to buy Blyth's continued friendship and if he didn’t he’d lose him too, Blyth wasn’t someone Chess pushed away so he didn’t want to get pushed away as some sick form of karma. Things were nice for a little while.
==== Eighth Grade (Year Nine) ====
Year nine things got bad again, on top of the constant berating from his parents, he started to develop feelings towards Blyth that were much more than he had ever felt towards any of his other friends previously. It confused and scared him, so he chose to run away from it like he did with everything else, that’s when he began running away for days on end from home. Sometimes he’d crash at the odd person from his school's place, or take a spontaneous trip to London and spend a few days there, it didn’t really matter as long as it was an escape for him. His mother would constantly post on her social media pleading to bring Chess home if anyone knew where he was, but he knew the second he got home he’d get scolded for putting himself in a dangerous situation. When he did return that’s exactly what happened. Without fail his father would berate him for putting his mother through so much stress, and blames all his shortcomings on himself, while his mother didn’t help but guilt him by telling him how much she had missed him and spent nights trying to find him. 
Again this behaviour continued to worsen as Chess got more daring with what he was willing to do just to get attention, or just out of spite of all of his father's rules. He started to street fight with the neighbourhood kids when his allowance got cut off, and fought in general with anyone who slighted him in school or otherwise. He began to pick up underage drinking and smoking and was frequently found stealing from small shops and even other people around the neighbourhood just for something to do. As much as his parents would punish him for his spiraling behaviour, he didn’t let up and would only find work arounds and worm his way out of punishments. He frequently threatened to run away from home again, and his mother usually caved and gave him his way just so he wouldn’t run away on her. 
Later on during this year, Chess finally befriended two new friends. Cameron White and Daniel Johnson. Two young werewolves who were big troublemakers just like Chess, while Chess didn’t know of their magical background the three got along very well. They’d bond over getting trouble during school and would frequently disappear from their afternoon classes to go steal, or drink in their forest hideout. 
==== The Pink Moon of Eighth Grade ====
It had been a few months since Chess befriended Cameron and Daniel, and they had an established hangout spot near the outskirts of Chess' families gated community. All was going well as the three showed up to a fort they had built near a hill, they spent most of their time there until Cameron and Daniel disappeared from sight around 5pm. Chess didn’t really seem to care as he continued to sit on the vantage point they had in the woods. A few hours later Chess finally got sick of waiting around for the other two and started to walk back, He had been drinking and didn’t fully understand what was going on around him as he turned his back on the campsite they had set up, he was attacked by one of the boys and he doesn’t remember clearly the events after that as he slipped into unconsciousness. Hours later he woke up in the hospital with his concerned mother at his side and no sign of his father. Due to this event he had two large horizontal scars across the sides of his upper arms that are still visible to this day, and a new identity that he had no knowledge of up until the days before the next full moon when Cameron and Daniel admitted to everything that happened. 
=== High School Prior to Lefebvre ===
After middle school nothing else major seemed to happen to Chess, not physically anyways. He began high school which went about as well as middle school did, trends from then carried over to the present and he found himself once again alone and void of any long term friends, the only person he still had was his boyfriend at the time Blyth Pearce. His worsening self-esteem once again showed itself following his attack as the scars he gained from that event paled in comparison to any other wound he ever got during a fight. He couldn't ignore them as people believed he wasn't to be messed with because of them, and who was he to tell them otherwise? Chess enjoyed the attention, to be feared and envied and because he was once again being given what he wanted, he took the attention and ran with it. He'd fill any doubt within himself with material things and things seemed to get a little better again, finally. 
Chess wouldn't fess up to his parents what had actually happened to him until after Blyth had been turned into a vampire, and after much convincing his mother sent out a plea to any supernaturals in their community to help them find a suitable institution for the two of them to go to that would cater to their supernatural needs. The person that stepped forward to help was Evelynn Marriott, a witch who took great pride in helping non magical families cope with adolescents who had gotten turned from attacks. They researched many European schools along with north American schools and ultimately decided that Mrs. Waterford’s institution Lefebvre seemed most fitted to take on two troublemaker teens and whip them into shape. 
Lastly in February of 2020, before Chess and Blyth left for America, Chess’ father dropped the bomb on him that after he graduated he had to take on a role at his company so he could inherit it in the future. If he didn’t live up to his parents expectations when he returned he didn’t want to know the consequences, but he supposes he’ll deal with it when he has to in the future.
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== Appearance ==
Chess Smith stands at 6'2" without his obnoxiously big combat boots, and vaguely taller with them on. He's 175lbs and has visible muscle but he is no bodybuilder. Various scars can be found across his whole body, the most obvious of which are two horizontal scars across his upper arms from where he was attacked and turned into a werewolf. The second more obvious scars are the ones on his hands from various fights where knives have been pulled on him and he had to fend them off. He has steely blue colored eyes and naturally brown straight hair, though he is most commonly seen with an array of dyed hair. As well as it being parted down the middle like a typical e-boy. His skin is fair with a few freckles here and there. He is attractive, this isn't a secret as he was the self-proclaimed king of "The Hot Bitches Club" before that group fell out, but he's still hot.
Before Act Five Chess typically sported the plaid uniform pants and a white button up, with a few of the top buttons tastefully unbuttoned. As for accessories he wore a light blue ascot around his neck, light blue sunglasses gifted to him by Blyth Pearce and various rings on his fingers one of which was a promise ring that paired with a ring he gave Blyth Pearce. 
As of Act Five Chess has gotten back to his true e-boy roots and usually wears layered black t-shirts on black long sleeved shirts, dark grey pants and or occasionally the uniform pants with his prized shoes, his chunky combat boots. For accessories he wears different types of silver chains and necklaces, and the same rings he wore prior to Act Five except for one. The promise ring that matched Blyth's was thrown into the bonfire at the Midsummer's festival.
In Season three Chess returned with the same e-boy aesthetic albeit a bit more grudge/punk, and his uniform is often variations of the same few pieces which include a white button up, grey sweater, dark grey blazer and black tie. The pants and shoes of his uniform stayed the same from Season two. Also in season three, Chess got a new scar on his left upper after a particularly bad encounter with Sol Belmonte where Sol stabbed him in with ice. While he did get his wound treated, he still has fairly visible scar that can be seen when he is wearing t-shirts. 
== Personality ==
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== Abilities & Powers ==
* Enhanced Speed: Being able to run faster than a typical human as a result of Lycanthropy.
* Enhanced Strength: Being able to perform more physically demanding tasks with a lot more ease than a typical human.
* Enhanced Endurance: Being able to sustain more physical damage than a typical human.
* Heightened Senses: Like real wolves, Werewolves possess much better senses than the other playable species.
** Scent: Having a developed sense of smell, which can be used to identify and track people around them.
** Hearing: Being able to hear things said at much farther distances as well as things being whispered closer by. 
** Sight: Werewolves are able to detect slight movements a lot easier than other species, helping with reaction time.
** Night Vision: Being able to see in the dark without the aid of a light source. 
*Lie Detection: The ability to determine when others are lying by reading their auras
*Conjuration: Being able to summon objects at will, Chess can only summon a select few things.
== Possessions ==
* Light Blue Sunglasses: While he doesn't wear them anymore, they were one of his more identifiable features for a long while and still hold sentimental value to him of times that were much easier and that he misses, though they kinda tacky. They are currently hidden in the depths of his wardrobe in his dorm room.
* Journal: In a vain attempt to be more in touch with his feelings, he writes entries in his journal most nights. The embarrassing secrets inside are only for him to see and is also hidden deep in his wardrobe in his dorm. 
* Lantern of Revealing: As of the Midsummer's festival, Chess won the firefly competition and was rewarded with a lantern that can reveal invisible things within a certain area at max power. Though he doesn't really know what to do with it he enjoys having it and will only lend it out to those he truly trusts.
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