Shadami's posts

Gideon James Gambit
Age 22

Gideon went straight from his high school graduation at seventeen to start college with an online summer program to get a head start on his degree. Four years later at 21 he had a teaching degree as well as a secondary degree in science, as that was the subject he had wanted to teach. Over the summer of the year he graduated he turned 22 and got a job as a science teacher in a high school.
The reason he had pushed to get a job so early and not have a childhood, or take his college years to act crazy was because he had to be responsible early. His parents needed him to be on his feet and taking care of himself as soon as possible because his uncle had a stroke and they needed to move so they could take care of him. His uncle was alone and had no one. If he wanted to stay living around his friends he needed to have a steady job that wasn't going to get pulled out from underneath him, that way he could afford a home to take care of himself. It worked really well as encouragement, but his friends all went in other directions, they didn't understand that he needed to be responsible.
He could have left, he could have enjoyed his childhood, he could have partied in college and taken his time. Now he had a job where the students didn't respect him because he was hardly older than they were. One of his students worried him. He always seemed to have his assignments done, but he was always tired and falling asleep in class. There had to be something that Gideon could do to help him out, but he was always brushed off. Undeterred as he continued teaching, he always kept an eye on Kyrin Jurelles, looking for an opportunity to try to help the boy. For whatever reason, he was reminded of himself. How he acted when his favorite uncle almost died and he wanted to shut off from the world. His math teacher had noticed and pulled him out of the slumps and he was going to return the favor to another person that seemed to need it.

Krista
Age 25

She grew up in a small town in New York that no one had ever heard of, with a dream to travel the world. Poor, and unable to afford college or a passport, she started small, choosing to explore her own country first. So one of the first places she started with was New Orleans. Not only was the food their delicious (or so she had heard, and only tried recipes on her own but it wasn't the same as the authentic stuff) but she had heard about the heavy believe in spirits there. She'd been raised to not believe in anything supernatural, ghosts, monsters, cryptids, it was all part of her imagination.
But with so much evidence, and so many people around the world beliving in them, she couldn't shake the idea that maybe, just maybe, their was a hidden world that was being kept secret from the nonbelievers.