Sinclair Family

The Sinclair family is an ex-council member family and founding family of the town of Hawkins, alongside the Goode and Delveaux families. The Sinclairs were the most prestigious and prosperous family in Hawkins, peaking in power at 1820. After 1820, the remaining Sinclairs transitioned into vampires and were ultimately exiled due to their barbaric actions against the human community in the town. The Sinclair family's transition into vampires created a new sub-species of the vampiric race, Sainclair vampires.

## The Sinclair Family

### Notable Family Members

* Arthur Sinclair (Vampire)†
* Catherine Sinclair (Vampire)
* Priscilla Sinclair (Vampire)
* John Sinclair (Vampire)†
* Edward Sinclair (Heretic) †
* Kieran Sinclair (Vampire) †
* Eleanor Sinclair (Witch)
* Irene Sinclair (Heretic)
* Isobela Sinclair I(Witch)
* Isobela Sinclair II (Heretic)
* Lara Sinclair (Heretic)

### Species

* Witches
* Vampires
* Heretics
* Humans

### Related Families

* Goode Family
* Diablo Family

### Properties

* 1900s Sinclair House
* Sinclair Estate(formerly)

## Background

### Pre-1820s

The Sinclairs are a line of witches turned vampires. The family originates from Salem, Massachusetts in the late 17th century where they established a prominent trade business that was a staple in colonial New England. When the Salem Witch Trials came around, the family was accused of witchcraft and their company fell off heavily because of it. Before they could be put on trial and executed, they fled the village and crossed the Appalachians into modern day Illinois. The Sinclairs along with the Goodes and the Delveauxs established Hawkins. The three families became known as the three witch families of the region, establishing law and order through the use of magic and the supernatural until the humans began to outnumber them in the settlement.

### 1820

In the year 1820, The Sinclair family had been at the top of Hawkins for the past 100 years. Arthur Sinclair ascended to become the Patriarch of the Sinclair family, overseeing not only his family but the council and town of Hawkins itself. He arguably was the most powerful man in the town at his time. This lasted until the discovery that the newest generation of Sinclair children, John, Catherine and Priscilla were stunted in their magical growth and their untapped witch side would last long into their 20s. Arthur was a very confident man, but in secrecy he was very paranoid. He was concerned that if the council had found out about this then they would use it to take him out of power and the Sinclairs would fall.

Arthur made a deal with who at the time was an unknown witch, but later was known as Rita Payne, who agreed to help him if she would be granted a large amount of land north of town. Arthur agreed reluctantly, but did not regret it due to his desperation to save his family. Arthur had read tales of the original vampires, and how they were created through a spell that used the sun, as well as a doppelganger and true and requited love. Luckily for Arthur, his son John had just happily married a doppelganger named Natalyna Aurina on the day of the summer solstice, where the Earth is closest to the sun. Seeing his opportunity, he sat 7 Sinclair family members down at the dinner table and started apologizing greatly. At first, the entire family laughed it off but until Arthur started becoming an emotional mess is when they all became very concerned, not just for Arthur but for themselves. Meanwhile in the backyard, Rita had casted the spell, **taking the life of every Sinclair family member not sitting at the table.** While casting the spell, her neck was snapped by Natalya, causing for it to malfunction, turning her too. The witch as well as the remaining Sinclairs soon transitioned into vampires. As Rita had turned into a vampire, half of the Payne family had also suddenly perished as a consequence of the spell and the magic used.

Arthur, Emilie, Priscilla, Catherine, John, Natalyna, Samuel, and Victoria all suddenly fainted. The 8 of them woke up to a feeling of immense hunger and left the estate to find 'something to eat'. Strangely, Natalyna and Samuel did not feel this hunger so they stayed back. The 6 Sinclair family members proceeded to walk into town and eat and kill every civilian they saw. The massacre was the most atrocious of its kind in the history of the state, being covered up heavily by the council. The combined might of the Delveaux and Goode families exiled the Sinclairs, pushing them out of town for the next 125 years, until 1945.

### Post 1820, pre 1945

Victoria Sinclair was the final Sinclair member left in Hawkins after making a deal with the council to suppress her vampirism, rendering her as just a witch. She had a child and built a house with her husband which is still standing to this day. Her child was named Johnathan, and was born a witch and not a vampire. Despite having vampire blood in his body, the spell that was placed on Victoria passed down genetically onto Johnathan. When Johnathan had his child, **Eleanor II**, she too had vampire blood but did not turn when she eventually died. Johnathan went on to have a second child named Isobela, who ended up breaking the spell on herself and transitioning into a Sinclairic vampire.

### 1945

Catherine and Kieran, John's son, along with a 10 year old Edward returned to Hawkins in 1945 in an attempt to rebuild their lives in the town. After discovering the Sinclair estate was confiscated and now riddled with the Goode family, they visited Eleanor. Eleanor spent her time in the house practicing magic, and eventually discovered a new form of magic called Natura magic that involved no incantation. This form of magic however made her mentally unstable, and changed her way of thinking. She viewed vampires as threats to nature and to see two of her own vampiric family members in front of her sent her over the edge. She demanded that they leave town and never turn back. They denied and Eleanor then attacked Kieran. Kieran and Eleanor fought until Catherine got involved. While Kieran was binded by a spell, Eleanor casted an insane curse that drained her of most of her energy onto Catherine. Catherine dessicated immediately and wasn't able to wake up when Edward tried to feed her blood. Catherine's body slowly slid into the house and buried itself under the floorboards. Eleanor used her remaining power to finish off Kieran, but also killing her in the process. Edward was left alone and lived in the house in secrecy, nobody knowing that he would live there for the next 30 years until his death in 1970.

### Post 1945

Edward built a nice life for himself in Hawkins, having disguised his identity as a Sinclair and a vampire. He married and had a child, which he named Jean. Jean Sinclair was sheltered from the Sinclair history her entire life until she turned 18, which is when she started getting curious about her lineage and family history. Edward saw no other choice and told her the entire truth, including the events that happened in 1945. Jean moved out and went to college out of state, returning 20 years later to Hawkins and met a nice man named Jacob Goode. Jacob had no idea Jean was apart of the Sinclair family, but the two managed to have a happy relationship and even had a daughter that Jean named Isobela II. Jacob knew the name Isobela and its specific spelling from the Sinclair history that he was taught by his father. Jacob eventually discovered Jean and Isobela were Sinclairs and had Jean locked up in a cage. Jean would eventually die, transition, and then dessicate in this cage.

Isobela was briefly adopted into the Goode family until too many problems arose about the child's origin, and how it looked nothing like the rest of the Goode family. Jacob, worried about his own image as well as his family's reputation, packed up a box of Isobela's things, including some Sinclair heirlooms and sent her off to an orphanage to forget her. Isobela would eventually be adopted by a man who took her to a labratory and experimented on her with the **sunstone**. These experiments with the sunstone turned Isobela into a **Soul Hunter**, causing her to relinquish the name Isobela Sinclair and take on the alias of **Nixie Stewart**.

### 1990

Eleanor's spirit reawakens 45 years later when Nixie, her distant descendant, discovers her tomb is actually in the Hawkins cemetary. Nixie goes to visit and briefly argues with the cemetary keeper, Melody Goode. Melody prohibited her from going inside of the Sinclair tomb. Meanwhile, Ruby, Nadia, Aria, Seb, and Angel visit the now abandoned Sinclair house. They explore briefly, but all run out of the house scared, except for Nadia and Ruby. Nadia is called up to the attic by an unfamiliar voice. Ruby follows her, trying to stop her from getting tricked by the spirit but in the end, failing. Nadia is tricked into opening Eleanor's tomb, unsealing her from it and releasing her into the town.

Shortly after Eleanor's release, John returns back to Hawkins after 170 years, having explored the world many times and had 2 children over that time, with Kieran unfortunately dying 45 years earlier in 1945. Veronica, John's 2nd child and daughter, moves back shortly after and lives in the Sinclair house with him. John, Veronica and Nixie get involved with the supernatural teen squad in Hawkins and John helps them solve the hunter mystery. Veronica also helps "Annie" with getting use to vampirism, unaware that it was actually Natalyna.