King Family

* Niclas
* Levi
* Alice †

 * Works as at the Flagstaff Police department as a detective, specializing in homicide.
* Met and married his high school sweetheart, Alice Grant. They lived together in Flagstaff for 5 years before Alice left him and moved back to her hometown of Dry Lake, located roughly 100 miles north, just south of the Grand Canyon. They never officially divorced.
* About a year into their marriage they had Levi. When the two separated, Levi moved to Dry Lake with Alice.
	+ Niclas visited Levi in Dry Lake frequently, and Levi would spend summer vacations in Flagstaff with him.
* Despite wanting to spend time with his son, once Niclas was promoted to Homicide Detective he found himself working several back-to-back cases that consumed more and more of his time. When compounded with Alice's seeming hatred for him, this meant that Niclas spent less and less time with Levi as he got older, especially once he was in his teens and Alice became very sick.

 * Works the night shift at Gas Heaven. A small gas station and market on the outskirts of Dry Lake that's almost ten miles outside of town. It rarely gets customers.
	+ Most nights his friends come in and they spend his shift talking or fucking around and eating food that's nearly expired.
* Hobbies include playing guitar, watching movies, writing, and recreational drug use.
	+ He especially loves sci fi and horror flicks.
* He took care of his mother, Alice, by himself when she started getting sick and stayed with her until the end, as she pushed everyone else away.
* Even though he saw less and less of his dad, Niclas, as he got older, he doesn't blame him for not visiting often, due to his mother being generally uncooperative.
* He lives in a poorly maintained mobile home that was his mother's.
* Doesn't have a car, but rides a beat up old Harley Davidson motorcycle.

 * Lived in Dry Lake for most of her life. Her parents divorced and she moved with her father to Flagstaff during high school, where she met Niclas. The two wed soon after high school and had Levi a year into their marriage.
* After their marriage Alice suffered from a number of mental illnesses, most commonly manic depression. She constantly felt as if Niclas was abandoning her and Levi and cared more about work than his family, despite that being obviously untrue.
	+ Though she was prescribed medication, this rarely helped her, and she simply turned to drinking, as it made her feel happier and less stressed.
* After moving back to Dry Lake her mind seemed to "settle" a bit, and she raised Levi more appropriately. As if being back home somehow put her at ease. She stopped drinking during this time.
	+ Despite this, in her mid-30's she took a debilitating turn for the worse and became increasingly depressed and paranoid. During this time she struggled with crippling insomnia, and once again began drinking profusely, usually until she would pass out.
	+ Eventually her mind and body degraded. Levi and Alice's family managed to get her to a number of doctors, but they could never properly diagnose her, and her symptoms largely went unaffected by medication.
	+ She eventually drank herself to death at age 38.
* In the years leading up to her death, she would violently attack Niclas whenever he'd try to help, largely because she didn't want him seeing her in the state she was in and not out of pure malice. This drove a wedge between her, Niclas, and Levi, and they saw less and less of each other over time.