Ajay Bindari

**Ajay Bindari** is an afflicted werewolf and the best friend of **Morgan Laufey.** He is a member of **Team Humanity.**

## Description

### Appearance

Ajay is average height with a slim build. He has dark eyes and hair, and is of Indian descent. He usually dresses in loose, casual clothes, rugged jeans, and weathered plaid shirts. Like his friend Morgan, he favors secondhand clothes which fit more in line with his punk sensibilities.

### Personality

Before becoming a werewolf, Ajay was an energetic punk, who spoke with boldness and was a person who held very little respect for authority. He was vocal about his opinions, sometimes calling authority figures "fascists fuckheads". He was somewhat more softspoken than Morgan, his best friend, but he was always right beside her for whatever over the top scheme she thought up.

He is a nice guy who doesn't judge. Of course, he's also a bit thick sometimes, to Morgan's amusement/frustration. Despite his sometimes bad social instincts and poor sympathy skills, he is a good friend and tries to be there for others however he can.

He was always passionate about music, even from a young age, and as he grew older he started trying to pursue music as a career, much to the chagrin of his parents. He shows great ambition and talent, and has a good head for business as he also functions as the band's manager.

As a punk, Ajay has a never say die attitude. He is the first to jump into a fight and he won't back down from a challenge. Becoming a werewolf has only served to exacerbate these tendencies, along with making him become a bit more outspoken and more brutal when fighting.

He is a loyal friend, having never hesitated to fight monsters, face evil things, and even risk his life for the people he cares about; reckless and fearless, Ajay would fight to the bitter end for those he loves.

Unlike many others in his position, Ajay doesn't appear to be too bothered by becoming afflicted with lycanthropy, to the point that he forgot about his first full moon entirely. He does not brood or let what happened change his life in any real way; he's a werewolf, sure, but that isn't the entirety of who he is.

## Biography

### Background

Ajay is the only son of Indian immigrants and grew up in a comfortable neighborhood in suburban Glendale, California. He was always a strange child who has a tendency to get into trouble. He rarely watched television, unlike other children, preferring to lay down and listen to his parents' old records and tapes instead.

Starting in the fourth grade, his father--a veteran in the Indian military--began teaching Ajay how to survive in an emergency and how to defend himself, skills that would come in handy later in Ajay's life.

When he was in the sixth grade, Ajay's family moved to West Hollywood following his father's promotion at work. At middle school, he met Morgan Laufey and the two became fast friends and were inseparable. The two got into all sorts of trouble, notably one time that they filled a bunch of waterballoons with paint and then started lobbing them at other students and teachers on the second-to-last day of school. Summer school was totally worth it.

In the tenth grade, Morgan introduced Ajay to **Sven Ellicott**, who was in an art class with her. It wasn't long before they found a common interest in music. By the end of the year, they formed a band--*Beerthoven's Fifth.* They weren't very good, but they would get there. They played a gig at the school talent show at the end of the year and were heckled by **Colin Fairbanks** and some of the other members of the preppy crowd afterward, leading to Ajay starting a fight. Of course, he and Morgan were the only ones to get in trouble.

### Recent History

At the start of their senior year, Ajay was becoming more serious about turning the band into something legitimate. This lead to some friction between him and Sven, who just saw the band as a fun hobby he could use to relax. Regardless, Ajay was sure senior year would bring some pretty big changes.

And, as he would find out when Morgan found him on the first day of school with the new girl in tow, he was very correct about that much, and in many ways he could never suspect.

## Appearances

### Urban Arcana

#### Season 1

* **S01E02 -** *"Mirror Mirror"*
* **S01E03 -** *"Queen Bee"*
* **S01E05 -** *"Party Hardy"*
* **S01E06 -** *"The Coming Shadow"*
* **S01E08 -** *"Broken Mirrors"*
* **S01E09 -** *"Mother Dearest"*
* **S01E10 -** *"Homecoming"*
* **S01E12 -** *"Tremors"*
* **S01E13 -** *"Rave On!" (mentioned)*
* **S01E14 -** *"Running with the Wolves"*
* **S01E17 -** *"Storage Wars"*
* **S01E19 -** *"The Clouds Burst"*
* **S01E20 -** *"The Blood We Spill"*
* **S01E21 -** *"Into the Hellfire Forge"*
* **S01E22 -** *"This is How the World Ends"*

#### Season 2

* **S02E01 -** *"Happy to Behir"*
* **S02E02 -** *"A-MAIZE-ing"*

## Relationships

### Morgan Laufey

Ajay has been enamored with the strange redhead with eternal bedhead from the day they met in the sixth grade. Free spirited, possessed of endless chaotic energy, she is a kindred spirit and the two spend nearly all of their free time together. She has been his best friend and biggest supporter through the years, and he has been equally supportive and positive toward all of her own varied, constantly-changing sets of goals.

All of the time spent together has made them more than best friends. They share a unique bond. She was his first kiss, his first...well, pretty much everything, though it was all agreed to have been "casual and in fun". Over the past few months, however, Ajay has finally admitted his intense feelings for Morgan to himself--though he's still too scared or nervous to actually admit them to *Morgan*.

Regardless, despite things never quite being settled or defined between them, Ajay would do anything for her and she is consistently the one person he shows the most concern or care about.

### Odessa Nulph

Odessa is certainly a one in a million type of girl, someone just as strange and out of place as Morgan and himself--though for very different reasons. Regardless, their energy seemed to mesh and Odessa quickly fit in with the two punks. Throughout Odessa's many struggles Ajay and Morgan have been among the most loyal of her friends, often the first to jump to her aid.

Ajay thinks highly of Odessa. They weren't especially close at first, but Morgan seemed to like and trust Odessa so, when Morgan had to leave for a few weeks after becoming a **vampire**, Ajay sort of gravitated toward Odessa. He hung out with her more, sitting with her at lunch sometimes, and he even invited her to his family Diwali celebration.

Since then, Ajay has counted Odessa among his best friends and one of the few people whose opinions he actually cares about.

### Sven Ellicott

The two were never quite "good friends", mostly just hanging out through band stuff. Ajay always respected Sven's talent at the bass and, when Sven began to awaken as a demigod and started changing, Ajay was among those who were legitimately worried about him. Ajay was among those who came to try to subdue Sven when he "went crazy", and was the only one present beside Odessa who didn't get their ass beat.

Despite everything, Ajay wishes Sven the best.

### Walt Chin

The two barely ever spoke outside of school for years, but since they have started fighting monsters and worse together, Ajay has grown a lot of respect for Walt. He admires Walt's enthusiasm and bravery, and between hunts and other big events, Walt is one of the others that Ajay will hang out with beside Morgan and Odessa.

### Colin Fairbanks

Ajay actively dislikes Colin. Even after fighting beside him for so long, Ajay holds a grudge--Colin hurt him much more deeply than Ajay would ever admit when he heckled the band nearly two years ago. Colin represents most of what Ajay rails against, and his condescending demeanor reminds him a lot of his father. A modicum of respect has built in Ajay's mind by now, of course, but he doesn't like Colin.

Maybe he never will.

## Abilities

### Notable Items

* **Chain:** Ajay notably carries a heavy, iron chain with him on hunts. It's usually wrapped around his right arm, but he can use it like a whip in a fight. He has shown considerable natural talent with it, and since he's been regularly practicing with it for months he's actually become a formidable opponent with it.
* **Demolition Hammer:** This enchanted hammer, recovered by Odessa in Jamaica, appears to be a normal sledgehammer. However, the head and handle are etched with dozens of small, intricate runes with a "seed of destruction" inside the hammer (whatever that means). The hammer is enchanted, making it a devastating weapon. He can also activate that seed of destruction to turn the things it destroys into a fine layer of dust.
* **Lucky Guitar Pick:** It's not magical, but Ajay has carried this neon-pink guitar pick with him for years now. He calls it his "lucky pick" and claims that it brings him good fortune. Whether this is true remains to be seen, but he believes in it.
* **Music & Sound Equipment:** Ajay has saved up for years to buy a number of amps, instruments, and digital recording equipment, transforming his garage into a makeshift, amateur recording studio.

### Skills

* **Lockpicking:** Ajay has known how to pick a lock since he was fourteen years old.
* **Melee** **Fighting:** Ajay has shown himself to be one of the more competent close-combat fighters in the group from his first fight; he killed three of the six orcs with his chain in that fight alone. He has been practicing fighting from a young age, and that appears to have payed off. He's not quite on Arthur's level, or the level of the other **Hunters**, but he is shown to be more consistent than, say, Walt or Colin.
* **Multilingual:** Ajay is fluent in Hindi and English, and has taken three years of Spanish.
* **Musician:** Ajay is a skilled musician and songwriter.

### Werewolf Abilities

Ajay is an afflicted werewolf. This means that he was not born a werewolf and contracted lycanthropy through a bite. This has had some effect on his physiology, but he is not as strong or as fast as a true werewolf. He is forced to transform during a Full Moon, though there is a danger of him transforming other times if he isn't careful.

Truth be told, Ajay does not have a lot of experience using his lycanthropy abilities quite yet, and is still trying to get used to his newfound strength and senses.

He otherwise has **standard werewolf abilities.**

## Trivia

* Ajay is one of three members of Team Humanity who do not have a car, along with Donny and Arthur.
* He has visited India four times in his life, making him one of the few members of Team Humanity to have left the country before **S01E21 -** *"Into the Hellfire Forge".*
* One of the few members of Team Humanity who has never died and the only one who has never fallen in combat.
* His favorite food is bacon cheeseburgers and his least-favorite food is "eggplant anything". Neutral about fish, and doesn't particularly like soup.
* Shown to have a sweet tooth. He is always the most excited about Odessa's cooking.
* Has some training in "proper", classical dance.