Caine Bayarri-Ha

Caine is the tallest of the three siblings at five-foot-seven-inches tall. He's got messy brown hair that he just lets do its own thing — partially by choice, partially because it's just untamable — and brown eyes. He's so pale that he glows in the moonlight and his expression is almost always a scowl. He's got plenty of scarring, mostly on his arms and hands, but the most obvious one is a big, straight line on his right shoulder. He's constantly wearing layers, and his closet is full of hoodies and jackets and any other bit of warm clothing he can get his hands on, as well as heavy-duty boots. If lace law was still a thing, he would definitely be following it.

## Personality

Caine, as opposed to his cousin Hye, has no fuse at all — rather, he's just angry basically all the time. Anger is his natural state, and it's how he reacts to just about anything. As such, he's a naturally aggressive person. He tends to think that he can solve any problem that comes his way physically, and if he can't then he's obviously not trying hard enough. Most of the people around him get on his nerves, and even the ones he likes (like his siblings and dad and *sometimes* his cousin) can be victims of his constant ire. More than once, he's told people to "go die", and he certainly will say it again in the future. When he gets particularly angry, he spits out the ol' reliable murder threat. In general, he is definitely the white kid who goes "and here's my room, over there is the hole I punched in the dry wall." For all that he doesn't like most people, though, when he gets attached to someone then he can stick to them like a burr. He does try and stick to himself for the most part, but he does actually care about his family, no matter how conflict-prone he can be and how bad he is at showing affection to his loved ones. When it comes to them, though, he can be surprisingly thoughtful, taking into account what they'd be comfortable with or what they'd like, or even factoring them into some of the actions he takes (whether they want it or not). For the most part, though, he's a very independent person, and he doesn't like having other people intrude on his business or intruding on other people's. He's a very goal-oriented person, and if he finds something to aim for then he can be relentless in his pursuit of it. He's got a love for video games, and he often shuts out the rest of the world whenever he's playing them in order to get to the next level or finish the game or whatever else that needs doing in it (and his love of gaming can sometimes feed into his perpetual rage: more than one controller has been thrown). He's an assertive and sometimes attention-seeking type of person, and he likes for everyone around him to know that he's the best, and if he knows that he isn't he will *make* himself the best. He most certainly wants to be at the top of the totem pole, and he hates *not* being there. He doesn't like it when things don't go the way he wants them to or when something (or some*one*) gets in his way. He can be stubborn in his world-view, refusing to adhere to any rules but his own and unafraid of any authority. He's confident in just about anything he does and he's got thick-skin — feel free to insult him all you want, because he certainly won't care. He doesn't really consider anything in the long-term other than in a few vague possibilities, and he tends to keep his concerns relegated to the short-term. He's definitely someone who lives in the moment and doesn't really consider the future, and especially not the far future, when he does something. That aspect of him is the entire reason he ended up on the streets, and his standards for his surroundings and the people around him have dropped greatly since then — even though he seems like he would be, he's not very picky about plenty of things in his life. He's also a pretty prideful person: he is sure to brag about any accomplishments he's made and make *sure* that you know about it, and is similarly boastful about the things he knows he's good at. His most recent bragging spree has been about Pleiades settling. He also still views himself as being responsible for his siblings, and whenever something bad happens to them he tends to blame himself, and as he really isn't all that good with any of his emotions then it can lead to him breaking things.

## Dæmon

Pleiades. Mute Swan. Female.

Pleiades is an average-sized swan with well-maintained white feathers — the ones on her wings are especially well-groomed. She has some black on her face, around her beak and dark eyes, and her beak is a dull gray color aside from the tip of it, which leans into light gray. There's some black on her beak, too, but not very much of it.

Where her human tends to be constantly on the edge of explosion, Pleiades carries herself with a far more sophisticated manner. She has a tendency to look down on everyone around her and only *tolerate* others, and the only thing that she has a real concrete bond with is Caine, and even then he can get on his nerves. She is snappish and arrogant, and typically thinks of herself as above the people and daemons she is surrounded with. She's also quite a bit more picky than Caine is, but like him, her standards have lowered greatly and she will accept quite a bit more than she once did, but she still has standards for what she will and will not accept (but she generally gets told to *fuck off* by Caine whenever she complains that her standards aren't being met).

Recently settled.

## History

Caine was born as the only child to the Bayarri family, and even though there were multiple requests for a little sibling on his part, they were never granted. He lived a pretty average but privileged life, living in a house in Farthingway and had plenty of friends that all thought he was *so cool!* but when his house burned down with his parents inside his life took a nosedive. He was tossed straight into a group home, where the adults were far too overwhelmed and detached to actually care for so many kids. They weren't always well-cared for, even if the staff did try (a good portion of the time, at least), and he decided that he'd had enough of all that shit after about a year of staying there. When he was eight he left the group home behind, and spent about a month on the streets on his own before he met Eli, who he only let stay with him because he figured that Eli was too stupid to live on his own. And he was starting to get a bit lonely, but he wouldn't admit to that. When he was eleven they met Melody and took her in — though the pair of them did butt heads pretty often, especially at first, he saw himself as the protector and leader of their little group and wasn't about to leave the youngest one to live on her own. They met Young-Chul roughly a year later, and after some stubbornness on both of their parts and him unwillingly getting closer to him (he did, after all, have a good disposition to deal with all his anger and bribed him with video games) and having to be tossed back into the system for a while while paperwork went through, before they were officially adopted by him. Unlike Eli, though, when the prospect of changing their names came up Caine opted to just hyphenate his name; mainly because he still cared about his parents even though they'd been dead for years now, and didn't want to just toss that name to the side.