Reese Connor

## The History of Reese Connor

When Reese was born, his birth parents abandoned him as soon as he was able to open his eyes, his sclera were black, and iris red. This made his parents and entire home village fear the boy. His birth parents put him in a small raft and sent him floating down a river in hopes that the boy would drown. Just as Reese's raft was out of sight of his parents, and right before he rolled over into the water, a shirtless feathery man scooped him out of the raft and saved the boy. This man was Cohen Connor, with his husband Pejay Connor behind him. These two decided they would take the boy in as their own, to raise the boy with their teachings, and train him to become a fierce warrior...

By age 5, Cohen already had Reese wielding training blades. Reese showed incredible talent with larger blades, in contrast to his lack of skill with lighter blades. By this time, Cohen and Pejay rescued another lost boy from a war torn village that they came across in their adventures, this boy was named Kub, and would train with Reese in their fathers teachings together for their early years. While Reese became proficient with his blade, his fathers also made it a point to teach the boy hand to hand combat, putting it in his head early on that he will not always have access to weapons, and should instead form himself into one. This is when Reese started to develop his own fighting technique that he would use to define his own fighting style.

At age 15, Reese's parents introduced him to their religion, and began to teach him about their heritage as vampires. Cohen was the one who converted Reese from human to vampire, while Pejay did the same with Kub. Reese found this new power to be vastly versatile and adapted extremely quickly to it, which made it incredibly easy to implement it into his fighting style and technique. Reese then devoted his life to the Cult of Rock and Rock D. Dragon, following in his fathers footsteps. Around this time is when Reese started to study the Demon race and their magic, which he devoted a concerningly large amount of time to. Reese would preform Demon rituals in his private room, which started to concern his family. Reese fell too far into the Demon rabbit hole and followed a ritual that caused him to grow horns on his head. Any attempt to remove them was futile, as they would just grow back, Reese decided it was not that big of a deal and just ignored them. Against his families wishes, he continued to study Demon magic, and learned their fighting styles so he could become a more versatile fighter.

Reese and Kub began to grow curious of the world that had been closed off to them their entire lives, and asked their fathers about it. Cohen ignored the question while Pejay encouraged that they do not concern themselves with the outside world, which only caused their curiosity to grow. One night Kub would venture outside of the walls without his fathers finding out, and did not return for days, once he came back he was not the same person. Cohen and Pejay lashed out on Kub and disciplined him as they saw fit, but it did not phase him. Reese tried to talk to Kub about what he saw but nothing was gained from that conversation, after that day Kub changed forever. Reese's fathers seemed to start to focus on him more than Kub, which really stunted his development in all aspects, Reese continued to excel in his combat and intuition.
In Reese's early 20's, he perfected his fighting style and technique, and turned his body into a weapon just as his fathers taught him to. Reese continued to dabble in the Demon arts, which his family learned to accept once they saw results. By this time Reese was allowed outside of the walls, with at least one of his fathers, and during this time Reese was able to locate a Demon ruin, which upon simply stepping into, caused Reese to flair up in flames. His father Pejay could do nothing but watch as his son burned in the ruin, but eventually the flames ceased, and out came Reese with tattoos all over his body in patterns that resembled demon runes. While Reese burned, he saw visions of a cold blue figure that whispered unintelligible nothings into his head, which only caused confusion, but Reese became determined to figure out what this meant.

As time went on, the family met a warrior that dawned a mask, Cohen and Pejay liked this man so much that they offered refuge in their home, and then proceeded to share the great word of Rock D. Dragon. After he accepted Rock D. as his new life devotion, the family gained a new friend. Everyone soon learned that this mans name was Sarn, and for reasons that he did not share, was able to talk to, and control Wardens, which Cohen and Pejay saw great potential in. Shortly after this, a Dwarf dug his way into the rock that the family called home. At first everyone anticipated hostility, but was then impressed by the Dwarfs resilience to go down, and gave the man a choice. Either die, or become one of them. The Dwarf chose life, and accepted their God as his own, becoming the 6th member of the home. Eventually Cohen anticipated that shielding his family from the outside world would not be possible, so he decided to give the land they called home a name. In a few days, Rock Gang was formed. A hierarchy of 6 was established, Cohen thought that keeping Kub in the bottom of the hierarchy would change Kubs ways and get him to have the same motivation Reese did. So that day, in the order of Cohen, Pejay, Reese, Sarn, Mada, and Kub, Rock Gang was set in stone.
As Rock Gang was now known to the world, many kingdoms were curious about these new people, and what they could do. The King of Hajesborg, Noah Rosenskold, invited all of Rock Gang to a banquet, to get to know all of nations that surrounded the land everyone called home. Reese was ecstatic, being able to interact with new people was something he had always wanted to do. Cohen accepted the invitation, and when the day of the banquet came, for the first time, all of the Connor family left their home at once. At the banquet, Reese finally got to see how people act around vampires, and it was not at all what he expected, Reese's family was insulted and ridiculed by the rest of the attendees. During the banquet, a combat event was held, this would be the first time Reese would get to test his abilities on opponents who were not his family, but the event was rigged against them, the arena blasted a large amount of sunlight and heat into the battlefield, which disorientated and confused Reese, giving his opponent the upper hand, and causing Reese to take a loss in his first fight outside of his home walls. As the family retreated home that night, Reese could not sit still as all he thought about was how deranged and repulsive the outside world was, and swore make every single resident of this new world pay.

Reese's fathers had a much different experience, and let it be known to the leaders of these new kingdoms, that Rock Gangs services would be available to purchase, and started was was supposed to be a grand trade deal.
Just a few days after the banquet, Reese got his first taste of real blood. Him and Sarn were exploring the mesa in hopes to collect some gold to increase the value of their Rock. As they were exploring the caves, Reese locked eyes with a member of Aurem, he recalled this mans name was Dust, one of the people who ridiculed Reese and his family at the banquet, and immediately bolted towards him. Dust tried to run away as Sarn warned Reese to stop, but Reese was blinded by rage and caught up with Dust, without a word Reese began to corner Dust and beat him to a pulp. This new taste was euphoric for Reese, and in that moment he made it his goal to taste the blood of as many people he could. The world learned about what Reese had done, and gave him a very bad reputation that he had to live with from that moment on, but this did not matter to him. All he wanted was more bloodshed.

To this day Reese collects the heads of his enemies and props them up in his home, using the shrine to remind himself every day that the people of the new world will never respect his family. Reese will continue to train and get stronger for anyone who has the gull to threaten him or his family.