Dean Hale

> It does no good to fear death. Why run from the inevitable?
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## About

Living in a small, old-fashioned town, Dean Hale is the French/American younger brother of Cecilia Hale. He is biromantic and demisexual. Dean is a spiritual medium, who has the ability to see and commune with ghosts. Due to his overexposure to the dead, his skin is naturally cold to the touch. Dean suffers from Insomnia and Generalized Anxiety Disorder and is known to have episodes of severe paranoia and persecutory delusions, though these are rare.

## Appearance

Dean has dark brown hair that is kept short, no longer than the nape of his neck. It is often described as having a "messy, bed-head" look, and it has been stated he does not take care of his hair, along with other manners of appearance. He has brown eyes, with his left eye having a milky or cloudy white film over it. He is also blind in this eye, and there is a scar going down from this eye, stopping just under his cheek bone. He often presents with dark circles under his eyes as well. Dean has a lanky figure, and moves very jittery and slowly. He wears a white button up shirt with a black sweatshirt over it, grey slacks, brown loafers and a gold cross necklace he keeps on at all times.

## Personality

Just like his sister, Dean presents himself with formal speech patterns and a distinctly tidy, prim and proper appearance (save for the mess of hair on his head.) In every other way however, Dean is the polar opposite of his sister! Where she appears composed and nonchalant, easily able to socialize, Dean is a jittery, nervous wreck. Dean is a highly paranoid individual, who is almost always on edge. He's frequently throwing glances over his shoulder, even in conversation. He also has quite an array of anxious tendencies, such as wringing his hands, picking at his skin and clothes, and reciting prayers to himself. Even when he is less jumpy, Dean's a guy who finds it extremely hard to place his trust in others. Being friendly is one thing, but to trust you and call you a proper acquaintance is another.

He's quiet, and keeps to himself whenever possible. Dean however, is also extremely academic, and knowledge oriented. He loves to research and study any topics that particularly fascinate him, with his own independent focus on spirits and the supernatural. His love of learning is quite the driving force, and his curiosity and searching for answers has gotten him into trouble more than once.

## Biography

Adopted at the age of 18 months by a local priest (granted special permission by the head of his Roman Catholic church) alongside his older sister, Dean had a religious upbringing very early on in his life which provided him with a sense of security and coping mechanisms (such as prayers and physical comforts like a crucifix) to combat his already intense anxiety issues. Dean did not know nor question much about his birth family, instead content under the loving care of his adoptive father.

At the age of five, his medium abilities began to develop and become more apparent, with Dean able to see spirits periodically and only having encounter lasting an hour maximum. At the age of eight, they developed fully, allowing Dean to see ghosts consistently, and without any time limitations on his sight or communication periods. In the midst of trying to manage these new abilities, Dean met Alexander Moore, the ghost of a boy his age, who became a friend and guide of sorts, helping the frightened boy understand what he was seeing. Alex stuck around and quickly became fast friends with Dean, who did not fit in with his peers and appreciated having a friend, dead or not.

At the age of eleven, Dean watched from the ground as his sister jumped to her death from the church's clocktower after two years of her displaying odd behaviors and being unexplainably sick. At the age of thirteen, still unable to come to terms with the loss and with his own paranoid thoughts and anxieties adding to his suspicions on the nature of what was labeled a suicide, and with therapy not being enough to soothe him, Dean began to look into what had been going on in his sister's life below the surface. Digging through her belongings and reading through her diary, he turned up more questions than answers the more he learned, the entire process of digging for hidden truths causing him to withdraw and isolate from his father, until his discoveries and new knowledge of who his sister was became too much to bear and he finally left home at the age of sixteen.

He is now currently living in the abandoned summer cabin belonging to Alexander Moore and his family where he continues his work with spirits as a paranormal investigator. He still talks on rare occasion with his father as he still (infrequently) attends church, and is slowly training to be an exorcist under his father's guidance, though the relationship has never been as close as it once was before Celia's death. Likewise, Dean still attends therapy sessions with Dr. Mary Davis. Attending these sessions is where Dean met his current girlfriend Stella Davis, who he has been together with for 6 months, though the two had been friends since his original sessions from the ages of thirteen to fourteen (the original sessions stopping after it was deemed to be doing him no good, and resumed at 17 when Dean left home for counseling for his anxiety.)