Benedict Fitzgerald

### Family

Cormac Fitzgerald (Father), Brian McFerguson (Butler, Father Figure), Angela Sweets (Chef/Baker, Mother Figure)

### Friends

Aurora Duncan, Thaddaeus Smith, Midnight, Thea Lowell

## Ooc Info

### **Early Life**

Benedict grew up in Stars Haven. His father, Cormac Fitzgerald, was a wealthy whiskey distillery owner, well known and respected. Cormac is the founder of Raven's Distillery and The Raven Tavern. Cormac focused on his work, and left the raising of Benedict to the family butler, Brian McFerguson, and the family cook, Angela "Nana" Sweets.

Benedict spent most of his childhood playing with Thaddaeus Smith and Aurora Duncan. He has known Thaddaeus since Thad was about 1 and he was 5. Benedict met Aurora when she moved into town when she was 5, and he was 8. They grew up like siblings, spending so much time at the Fitzgerald Estate that Thad and Rory (Aurora) were given their own room their to decorate and keep things at. Every summer and weekend, they would go out the the 300 acre forest out back and work with McFerguson on a treehouse till Benedict went off to college. They would also play games with Rory's shadows, imagining they were various monsters.

During his high school Benedict was the top in Speech & Debate Club and Chess Club, lettering in both. He had tried to teach Thad chess and failed, but would play Chess and Chinese Checkers regularly with Rory. He also played on the Football team as a Tight End and on the Track Team as a Thrower and Sprinter, lettering in both.

Benedict was also skilled in Judo. He spent a month after his sophomore year in Japan training in the top dojo. He was also taught dancing by McFerguson, as well as politics, debate, and proper speech. Nana taught him how to cook, and gave him his love of Frank Sinatra. At 16, Benefdict got his first job at Lucy's, being a waiter and helping her bake pies on the weekend. After high school, Benedict went off to college to eventually attend law school.

### **Note-Worthy Abilities & Skills**

**Main power:** Body Manipulation: He can control the bodies of those alive and undead/supernatural if they have corporal forms. He can control the body down to the cellular level.

**Sub power:** Mind Control: He can control someone’s thoughts and actions. His current control count at one time is in the thousands thanks to training from his mother in the Otherworld. Intuition: He can sense if a peoples actions are going to have positive or negative effects long term with near perfect accuracy. This is a subset to the mind control. Also, due to this skill he is is really good at reading people and being able to read their body language, quirks, tells, mannerisms and tone to tell if they are lying, and telling the truth.

**Judo:** He is a fifth degree black belt in Judo, and is also a skilled swordsman.

**Marksmanship:** He is an outdoorsman, going out hunting and fishing when he can. Due to this, he is quite skilled with bows, rifles and handguns.

### **Professional Career**

Benedict is an accomplished politician. He graduated second in his class from law school with his Masters in Law. Youngest Senator, at age 25 he is the Senator of Eastern North America. He was third in the polls for becoming President of the America's.

Benedict is also an accomplished business man in his own right. He took over his father's distillery as CEO, naming Thaddeaus as his COO, and his cousin Fiadh the Manager of the Raven Tavern. He also is the majority owner of a coffee company and the oldest winery in Italy. Due to his business ventures, he is the second richest family in Stars Haven.