DYLAN COOPER
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Post by DYLAN COOPER on Mar 6, 2019 19:26:49 GMT
These trips to the sheriff’s office were becoming more frequent. Criminal law was bound to have become a part of his practice here eventually but Dylan just hadn’t expected everything to take off so quickly after he and his mom had arrived here. A few smaller cases, some family and business law and then the first class had come in from the station. It seemed like someone had seen one of his advertisements around town but he hadn’t been concerned enough about actually being represented. By the tie he’d made it to the station that first time the guy had already been released and he’d found himself dealing with a young woman who’d been found naked in the woods that morning ... the morning after the full moon. Empathy had him sticking around for Laney then. He knew what that felt like and it had turned out that they’d hit it off at least long enough to talk.
The full moon was still a week off but the doubting voice in the back of his head still warned about this maybe being Laney again. From the discussion they’d had Dylan knew she wasn’t a troublemaker, in fact her and her brother seemed to go out of their way to avoid it but if the local newspaper was anything to go by trouble seemed to find this town on an almost daily basis anyway. Pushing his way through the front door of the station, Dylan shot a vaguely familiar dark haired officer a slanted grin. ”Got a call from the station, someone asking for representation.” This time the look he got in return was almost relief. ”Serial shoplifter, seems he got your card from a wallet he stole when he tried to branch out. Come on back.” The gruff voice belied the empathy the guy radiated as he led him to an interview room. An hour later Dylan understood both. His client had been caught red handed and was entirely unrepentant about it. As a frequent flyer all Clyde had cared about was getting out on bail. Thanks to the late hour Clyde would spend tonight in the cells of the station before he could get him bailed out tomorrow. And that, Dylan thought with a sigh, meant more work tonight.
Blowing out a breath at the thought Dylan dragged a hand through his hair as he left Clyde behind in his cell. If he was lucky his mom would already be home, putting together dinner for the first time that week. He saw less of her now than he had since she’d spent every spare moment working for Mr Halstead. Catching sight of an officer at the end of the hall Dylan headed that way. If his mom was having a late one at the library there was always frozen pizza and a cold beer from the fridge. ”Hey officer,” he called as he finally reached the guy. ”Clyde’s all yuors overnight. He asked if someone could drop him off something to eat.” Clyde hadn’t put it quite so politely. An apologetic smile tugged at his lips, given how often Clyde had been through the station all the staff probably knew exactly what he was like. Glancing aside at the officer Dylan went to step past and found himself doing a double take. ”Nate? Christ. What the hell are you doing here? Don’t tell me you’re working here now.” Two guys from the same neighbourhood, probably hadn’t seen each other in the better part of a year and somehow they’d both ended up here. The likelihood of that was about as same as the likelihood that Clyde would leave his life of crime behind and become a monk.
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NATHAN BRYANT
Chimera
Werelion-Wolf Dread Doctors' Experiment
Posts: 115
Age:
26
Occupation:
Police Officer
Status:
In a Relationship
Partner:
Allison Argent
Played by:
Emma
Last seen Mar 25, 2024 17:30:21 GMT
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Post by NATHAN BRYANT on Mar 17, 2019 18:12:27 GMT
Even though he hadn’t been in Mystic Falls for long, Nate liked to think that he was at least starting to settle into his new life. He had already managed to endure his first full moon in the town and even though it hadn’t been without its surprises considering he had found that instead of turning into a wolf as he had done during every other full moon since he was bitten, instead he had turned into a lion. He didn’t know how that had happened but he could only assume that whatever it was that had brought him to Mystic Falls in the first place had to have something to do with it. He didn’t know how he and his sister had ended up waking up in the woods outside of Mystic Falls when their last memories were of being at home in Chicago but they had moved to the small town in Virginia so that they could figure it out and he was determined to do just that. After his first full moon he had bumped into an old friend in the form of Allison Argent and if he was honest it had helped knowing someone else that new about the supernatural world he had found himself thrown into. Allison had been through so much already since she had moved away from Chicago and she had filled him in on some of what he could expect from his life now but he had a feeling that there was still so much more for him to learn. He hadn’t known anything about the supernatural before the werewolf bit him on the night that his partner was killed and Nate himself was left for dead but he was learning as quickly as he could and he hoped that being in Mystic Falls might give him some of the answers that he needed. Leaving his friends behind in Chicago hadn’t been easy for Nate and he knew that it hadn’t been for his sister either but after losing both their parents and their grandparents he was pretty sure that a fresh start would do them good and he knew that she would be overjoyed to see Allison again so there was a silver lining at least. For Nate a lot of his friends had moved away after high school anyway to go to different colleges and even though he could have followed in their footsteps he had instead chosen to become his younger sister’s legal guardian the day that he turned eighteen and he had been working hard to provide for the two of them ever since then. He now had access to at least some of their inheritance but that was something that Nate wanted to leave for a rainy day if he could. Some of the money had been used to buy them a house in Mystic Falls when they had decided to move there but otherwise the rest of it remained untouched. While it was true that he hadn’t been able to go to college and take up one of the football scholarships that had been offered to him the way that he had wanted to he didn’t want to hold his sister back if she decided that she wanted to go when her senior year was over so he wanted to make sure that she had the money available to her if she needed it. Instead he was still working as hard as he could and he had taken up a job on the local police force the same way he had in Chicago but now his shift for the day had come to an end and if he was honest he was glad about that as it meant that he could take it easy for the rest of the day. Getting changed, Nate slung his bag over his shoulder and was on his way out when someone spoke to him and for a moment he had to do a double take. “I am, I started last week,” he nodded as he pulled his friend into a hug. “It’s good to see you Dyl, what are you doing here?” he asked before catching the eye of another of the officers who was passing by and promised that she would see to Clyde so he could get out of there. “Thanks Lou,” he said, flashing her a smile before turning back to his friend. “My shift has just finished so do you have time for a drink?” he asked, knowing that he had some time before he had to get back home and make sure that his sister was alright. DYLAN COOPER
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DYLAN COOPER
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Last seen Apr 6, 2024 16:37:51 GMT
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Post by DYLAN COOPER on Mar 29, 2019 20:36:27 GMT
If there were two things that could leave you socially isolated they were being years younger than those in your class and finding yourself bitten and turned into some sort of anger riddled beast by your own father. Dylan had always made an effort not to let himself get cut off from people by either, finding friends both in the grades above him and in college who didn’t let the fact that he was younger than them, and in some cases far brighter, get in the way. There’d been people around the neighbourhood he’d grown up around, people he’d worked with at the pizzeria, at the other jobs he’d picked up around the neighbourhood. They were the people he spent time with when his mom was working long shifts for Mr Halstead, people who weren’t on his academic track who he could just be a kid with. At a time when there hadn’t been much opportunity for that, thanks to his dad, it had been important. Hell, it’d probably saved his sanity. As undergrad at college had become law school and more and more hours had been poured into studying, he’d started drifting away. Dylan still felt a little bad about that. Most kids in his building, in the neighbourhood didn’t have the same opportunities he’d made for himself, most were gonna be living there in that same blue collar area their whole lives. Having a brain had been his way to step outside of that and even though his dad had come close to ruining that for him, Dylan had held onto the dream of getting his mom into college, into giving her the same opportunity that she’d made sure he’d had. There’d always be time for friends after that, he’d told himself, but that didn’t necessarily mean that those same guys he’d played ball with or whose dinner tables he’d sat around were still going to be there for him when he headed back to Chicago for a visit at some point. If he ever made it back there. Life went on regardless of what was happening or what you wanted for it.
Life had led him to Mystic Falls, to the sort of job he’d wanted for himself from the moment his mom had told him that she’d wanted to be a lawyer before she had gotten pregnant with him. Dylan knew he’d been smarter than a lot of other kids, that he had the ability to make it if he really applied himself but thanks to his dad, it hadn’t looked like it was to happen. Nate had been the first friend he’d told about it, the one friend who’d known had bad it really was and really, amongst all of his friends, Nate was the one person who’d really been able to understand. He’d lost both of his parents, had ended up the guardian of his little sister and just as much as he had, Nate had been working his ass off to support the most important person in his life. That last bit, that was the biggest reason he hadn’t expected Nate to leave Chicago. It was home to both him and sister, Nate had been working as a cop there. Not here. That was why he’d found himself doing a double take, why he was laughing when Nate pulled him into a hug and he thumped a palm against his back. ”You following me?” he asked, entirely kidding. He hadn’t told anybody exactly where he was going, just that his mom had a spot at a college down south. ”It’s good to see you too, man.” Shifting on his feet, Dylan aimed a faint smile at the officer who promised to take care of Clyde. ”Thanks,” he murmured before he turned back to Nate. ”Absolutely. Clyde was gonna be my last customer tonight. I’ll catch you up on the whole sordid tale over a beer or two. It’s not so sordid…” Grinning, Dylan slapped a hand against Nate’s shoulder as he walked backwards towards the door. ”Your sister’s with you I take it?”
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NATHAN BRYANT
Chimera
Werelion-Wolf Dread Doctors' Experiment
Posts: 115
Age:
26
Occupation:
Police Officer
Status:
In a Relationship
Partner:
Allison Argent
Played by:
Emma
Last seen Mar 25, 2024 17:30:21 GMT
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Post by NATHAN BRYANT on Apr 15, 2019 20:11:06 GMT
There was a time when Nate never would have thought that any of this was possible but then again he would be the first to admit that his life hadn’t turned out the way that he had thought it would anyway. His parents hadn’t been able to cope after he was born so he had been left in the care of his grandparents and it was only when his parents learned that they were about to have a second baby that they decided that it was time they tried to be a proper family. Nate had doted on his younger sister from the day that she was born and he still did even now but going from being her brother and friend to her legal guardian at the age of eighteen after the two of them were left all alone in the world wasn’t something that he ever could have seen coming. It had been the two of them against the world for such a long time but now things were changing once more and Nate knew that it would be good to let others in. He’d had friends back in Chicago and leaving them behind hadn’t been easy but he needed answers and he knew that his sister did too and they weren’t going to get them there. He knew that there had to be a reason why the two of them had woken up in Mystic Falls even though they had never even heard of the place before and he was certain that if they were going to stand a chance at figuring out what was going on then their best bet was by moving there and that was exactly what they had done. Running into Allison not long after they decided to move to the town was definitely a bonus and so was running into Dylan. The two of them had been friends for a long time and out of all of his friends Dylan was the one who had been in a similar position to Nate’s own so it had been easier to relate to the guy. They hadn’t seen each other since Dylan had left Chicago and even though it was easier to keep in touch these days the truth was that Nate really hadn’t expected to see his friend again, let alone in Mystic Falls. He knew from Allison that the supernatural population in the town was pretty big but as far as he knew Dylan was human and he couldn’t deny that he was curious as to why his friend had ended up here of all places. “I could ask you the same question,” he chuckled, his tone making it clear that he was only teasing. Neither of them had mentioned the town to the other so it seemed like it was nothing more than a coincidence but after everything that he had been through, Nate wasn’t entirely sure that he believed in those any longer. “Sounds good,” he nodded, knowing that they probably had quite a bit to catch up on. As Dylan spoke again, Nate couldn’t help but laugh. “You don’t honestly think she would let me leave her behind, do you?” he chuckled. The two of them had only ever been able to count on each other so he knew that he was never going to leave her behind, not to mention that she was still a minor so until her eighteenth birthday he was responsible for looking after her. “She’s at school at the moment but I know she’ll be pleased to see you,” he added. Mystic Falls seemed to be a good place for reuniting with old friends at the moment and as far as Nate was concerned that was a very good thing. DYLAN COOPER
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DYLAN COOPER
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Post by DYLAN COOPER on Apr 25, 2019 20:52:21 GMT
Dylan’s definition of what was possible had always been different to most people’s, he’d skipped grades, had never been on an academic or social level with those his own age, had always known exactly where he was going and he was going to get there as fast as possible to make sure it didn’t happen too late for his mom to still have the opportunities she never should’ve been denied. It had changed though, twisted into something that included things that he once would’ve scoffed at as utterly ridiculous. Eric had been determined to get under his son’s skin somehow and with fangs and claws in the neighbourhood he’d scuttled away from years before, he’d managed it. Everything had changed that day, only, he’d been the only one to know exactly how much. His mom had been blind to it all, still was for the most part. Some part of him didn’t want her to get a glimpse into this world. There were nightmares in it and not just in the things that found you, in the things that didn’t too, the things that lurked in the dark, haunting you until you almost wanted them to emerge, just to break the constant worry finally. If he had his way, he’d be keeping his old friend out of it too, Dylan thought, his throat working as he stood in the hallway next to Nathan. Nate had already been too much, his sister too, this would be a tragedy too far. It wasn’t like he could order Nate out of town, not with him being a cop, not without the sort of explanation that would open up a can of worms that would likely swallow both of them whole.
Trying to push the thought of any of this going badly from his mind, Dylan chuckled, shaking his head at his friend. Mystic Falls was a strange enough place to have drawn the two of them here separately just for fate to play some sort of game. There’d been no mention of Mystic Falls like there had been law school, no conversation in Nate’s apartment while his sister and her friends had been giggling in another room. ”Considering I left you behind in Chicago, it’s definitely you chasing me,” he teased with a grin. Honestly, he couldn’t be sure of it. He and Nate had started to drift down different roads before his dad had even turned up again, before he’d known he’d be able to get his mom’s tuition together for Whitmore. Things had grown a little more concrete in his world again since then. The move had gone well, his mom was finding her feet here, slowly settling into a life she should’ve had all along and his business was booming, even if the majority of his customers were guys like Clyde, small potatoes – just the sort he’d wanted to help all along. Turning before he backed himself into a doorway or another office, Dylan slipped his hands into the pockets of his jeans. He kept them there as he shrugged, his grin broad, bright against the scruff darkening his jaw. ”Nope, but she might’ve left you behind, headed off to college maybe. She’s gotta be … about that age now.” And suddenly that made him feel old. He’d only been about her age when he’d been considering law school but still, it felt like there was a lot of water under the bridge since then. Grimacing good naturedly, Dylan shook his head. ”High school then, not quite as old as I was worried she’d got. It felt like an eternity since I’d seen both of you. How’s she doing? How’re you doing?” There was a little weight to Dylan’s question, unintentional weight that he hoped Nate didn’t feel as he headed back out past the reception desk and held the exterior door open for his friend.
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NATHAN BRYANT
Chimera
Werelion-Wolf Dread Doctors' Experiment
Posts: 115
Age:
26
Occupation:
Police Officer
Status:
In a Relationship
Partner:
Allison Argent
Played by:
Emma
Last seen Mar 25, 2024 17:30:21 GMT
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Post by NATHAN BRYANT on Jun 12, 2019 21:36:26 GMT
Nate hadn’t even heard of Mystic Falls before he and Leanne had ended up there and the truth was that he was still learning about the town but he already knew that there was so much more going on than met the eye. The town wasn’t really anything special on the face of it, it seemed like nothing more than any other small town in the country but it seemed to have a habit of drawing the supernatural to it. Nate had never felt that pull towards the town until now but something had taken not just him but Leanne as well from their home in Chicago and had dragged them across the country to Virginia for some reason and he was determined to get to the bottom of why that was. He knew that something had been done to him, after all while he was in Chicago he had started turning into a wolf every month with the full moon and now all of a sudden he had started turning into a lion instead. Nate would be the first to admit that he knew next to nothing about werecreatures but even he knew that this wasn’t natural. Something had been done to him and to Leanne as well and if he was honest he was more worried about his sister than he was about himself. He had confided in Leanne after he was bitten and even though it had taken her a while to process what he’d had to tell her she had ended up sticking by him the way they always had and she had helped him as much as he could. Now that she too had been turned into a werecreature he knew that he wanted to be there to help her as much as he could as well and he hoped that together they would be able to figure out exactly what had happened to them both. In a way Nate knew that it would be easier if he was able to focus all of his attention on that but he and Leanne both had lives and he knew that that was just the way that it should be. She had school to focus on and as far as Nate was concerned he had his job to keep him busy. Settling in at a new station was taking some getting used to but it was something that he knew he would be fine with. While it was true that he wasn’t always good at letting people get close to him he was pretty good at getting along with them and so far that was something that he was having fun with. Back in Chicago a lot of people had heard about what he and Leanne had been through with their parents and grandparents but there wasn’t any of that in Mystic Falls. Here people only learned what he wanted them to learn so for the first time in years he had the chance to start over. He still needed to be there for Leanne but she was older now and she was capable of looking after herself more so he had more free time than he had when he had first become her legal guardian. There was a time when he might have worried about what she would get up to around the town but Allison was there too and he knew that he could trust her to keep an eye on his sister for him when he couldn’t. She wasn’t the only familiar face in Mystic Falls it seemed, though, as Dylan was there too and as far as Nate was concerned that was definitely a good thing. “Not intentionally, I swear,” he chuckled. So many of his friends had left Chicago after graduation and had things worked out differently then Nate knew that he could have joined them but going to college had never been on the cards for him. He never would have been able to forgive himself if he’d left Leanne behind after she had refused to let herself get adopted so that they could stay together and he had known that he’d needed to make good on his promise to always watch out for her. As he said that Leanne had to be around college age now, Nate couldn’t help but laugh. “Don’t remind me,” he laughed. “She’s in her senior year already, how scary is that?” It seemed like only yesterday that he had turned eighteen and become Leanne’s legal guardian and if he was honest he wasn’t sure what was going to happen after she graduated but he knew that they would figure it out and if she wanted to go to college then he would make that happen. “We’re both doing ok, it was a tough decision to leave Chicago behind but I think it was the right thing for both of us,” he admitted as they headed outside. “How long have you been in town?”DYLAN COOPER
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DYLAN COOPER
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Post by DYLAN COOPER on Jul 1, 2019 18:07:27 GMT
Had they put ‘come to town, find yourself at the mercy of the supernatural’ on tourist adverts for the town people would undoubtedly still have come. That reputation, however, was buried beneath the more appealing offers of Whitmore college, the woods and the falls that gave the town its name. From what he’d learned from his former pack, the Founder’s Council worked their asses off to make sure the supernatural was one thing that the majority of the town never heard about. For hundreds of years they’d been eradicating what some had undoubtedly seen as a plague on their town. In part Dylan could see why they did it, to protect their families and the town they’d lived in their whole lives, that generations of their family had lived in, but now that he was one of those things they chose to destroy just because of what they were, he could see it from the other side too. As much as anybody else in Mystic Falls he’d come here to try and live a peaceful life, to give his mom the opportunities that his dad had snatched away from her. Pregnancy was never the end of the world but thanks to Eric it had been the end of his mom’s dreams time and time again. After graduating from law school with their debt off of their backs and a little nest egg finally put away Dylan had known that he could finally make those dreams come true and they’d moved here planning to start anew. Leanne was of an age where maybe Whitmore was the sort of option that could draw Nate and his little sister in but Dylan didn’t think it would be that easy. Not in a town where the easy explanation was never the right one. That was a story he’d get out of Nate later though, he hoped, over a couple of beers.
They’d always been able to kick back that way. Well, over sodas before they were old enough for beer, but they’d always been able to talk through that stuff that only the two of them could really understand, the stuff they didn’t want to burden his mom or Leanne over. Things seemed a little less weighty now, his life at least, a little less stressful than it had once been. Dylan found himself grinning now at Nate’s chuckled words. ”Uh huh,” he teased. ”Long as you don’t tell me you’re off to law school in your spare time I’ll believe you.” Law school hadn’t been Nate’s path, it had been his. His friend had followed his own into the sheriff’s department. A pretty noble profession all the same and looked down on far less than his own area of the law. Ambling backwards through the station as he regarded his friend Dylan let out a low whistle. It had only been a couple of years at most since he’d been able to catch up with his friend but that was enough time for Leanne to go from being Nate’s little sister to almost a woman. ”Seriously scary. I still remember like her first day of second grade.” He’d been a handful of years older but far more grownup thanks to Eric. Luckily when they’d lost their parents Nate had been able to step up and become guardian for his little sister. Dylan’s smile dimmed faintly as they headed outside. His shoulders hunched under his shirt, the memory of Eric biting him and starting the process of him needing to get out of town off unintentionally. ”I can totally understand that. Was the right thing for me and my mom too. Feeling homesick for the pizzeria yet?” Puffing out a long breath Dylan started in the direction of the town square. ”About six months. We came down just before the start of the first semester so my mom could get settled in and I could get the office started up.” There was pride in his voice at that. Dylan Cooper, lawyer. Standing on his own two feet and managing to do pretty well.
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NATHAN BRYANT
Chimera
Werelion-Wolf Dread Doctors' Experiment
Posts: 115
Age:
26
Occupation:
Police Officer
Status:
In a Relationship
Partner:
Allison Argent
Played by:
Emma
Last seen Mar 25, 2024 17:30:21 GMT
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Post by NATHAN BRYANT on Oct 25, 2019 21:13:41 GMT
Nate had seen himself following a few different career paths when he was younger but that had all changed when his mom died and his dad was unable to cope. After that Nate had done everything he could in order to make things easier for his grandparents but it was only a few years before they too left him. Now Leanne was the only family he had left in the world and even though he had tried to convince her to leave him so that she could get adopted, if he was honest not a day went by when he wasn’t glad that she had refused. Instead she had chosen to stay with him so that neither of them would be alone and he had been doing his best to make sure that she didn’t regret that decision ever since. Instead of heading to college with his friends after school he had decided to go straight into the police academy so that he could get a job and make enough money to keep their heads above water and even though there were times when his job wasn’t particularly easy he couldn’t deny that he enjoyed it. Leanne wasn’t a kid any longer she was a senior in high school herself so she didn’t need him as much as she once had. That meant that he could change the course of his life now if he wanted to but if he was honest aside from the whole kidnapping part things had worked out a lot better than he had thought they would after losing everyone else. He knew that they could have gone back to their lives in Chicago but instead they had decided to stick around Mystic Falls and figure out what had happened to the two of them and Nate was still certain that they had made the right decision. They still hadn’t managed to get to the bottom of what had happened but he didn’t doubt that sooner or later they would. For now he knew that he didn’t want to worry about that, though, as it seemed that another old friend was in town. It had been a surprise to run into Allison but it was even more of a surprise to run into Dylan. It had been a while since the two of them had last seen each other and Nate had known that his friend had left Chicago but he hadn’t known where he had ended up. As it turned out they had perhaps both been drawn to the same town but he knew that that definitely wasn’t a bad thing. Nate wasn’t finding it that difficult to settle in despite having lived in Chicago his whole life but it definitely helped to have another familiar face around. “You’re safe there, I like being a cop,” Nate grinned. He had been lucky to get accepted into the police academy straight out of school but after he had left there he had quickly found that he enjoyed his job and right now he knew that there wasn’t anything else that he would want to do. He’d had to work in order to support them both but it wasn’t something that he regretted. “You and me both,” Nate chuckled. “She’ll be able to head to college soon if she wants to.” That alone was a scary thought and he wasn’t sure if it was something that Leanne was going to want to do but the option was there for her if she wanted it although he knew that he would support her no matter what she decided to do with her life. “A little but I’m hoping there’ll be somewhere around here that is just as good,” Nate admitted. He hadn’t been in town for too long so he still had plenty of different places to try but he was hopeful that there would be somewhere like it in Mystic Falls. “Good on you,” he said, a smile working its way across his face as he looked over at his friend. “How’s it all going?” he asked as they headed towards the square. DYLAN COOPER
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DYLAN COOPER
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Post by DYLAN COOPER on Apr 6, 2020 15:44:16 GMT
At the age of 6 most kids would’ve said they wanted to be a firefighter or a cop, a superhero or a pro football player. Dylan had never been the typical six-year-old though. By then he’d already been pretty sure he wanted to be way more like his mom than his dad. Eric had wanted him to be the next Slow Hand, living up to the man he’d been named for. Bolting in the other direction Dylan had declared he wanted to be a lawyer. That resolution only grew more firm when Eric split a few years later. Lawyers were the people who managed to get justice for people, standing on the shoulders of the cops to put that final nail in the coffin of guys like his dad. Being able to afford to go to law school had seemed like a pipe dream then, his college fund blown entirely by Eric’s crimes, he’d held onto it though. Every day he’d clawed a little more money into the pot, using it to help pay off his dad’s debts first, then doing everything possible to make sure that his mom wasn’t worrying about paying for school for him. Dylan hadn’t been sure he was going to make it until aged sixteen he’d gotten into college. He’d hoped that one day Nate would have the chance himself but it looked like his buddy had found something that was a better fit for himself, something that had taken him on as long a journey as he’d made himself. Dylan smiled at the thought, clapping a hand against Nate’s shoulder. It suited him.
Dylan had no intention of talking his friend out of his chosen career but he hitched his brows as he spread his hands anyway. It wouldn’t be so bad having Nate around the office every day if his friend ever did decide to make some kinda leap from one side of the law to another. ”I guess you’re not then,” he drawled softly. ”You ever wanna make the leap though … my door’s open. You’d look great in a suit.” Not that he himself had a tendency to wear one the way most lawyers did. Most of his work was done in his office, not in front of a judge and while he dressed smartly Dylan couldn’t imagine spending all day every day strangled by the noose of a tie. The one he’d been wearing tonight was already loose at his throat, tugged at a dozen times while he’d been dealing with Clyde. Dylan tugged it free entirely now as he blew out a breath. ”She looking at schools already?” he asked, knowing that he’d been doing it before he’d even been old enough for high school. ”Whitmore’s pretty good. They’ve got a fantastic law program … you know, in case she wants to join Cooper and Not Quite Any Associates yet.” Cooper and Mom had seen off the table from the start but Dylan had hoped it would be a family firm in time.
He swallowed hard as he pushed the thought of his father out of his mind, managing a pfft sound as Nate admitted he hoped there was a place around here as good as Gennaro’s in town. ”Not for pizza. The Grill’s pretty good, the Diner too, but there’s definitely a gap in the market if you ever wanted a sideline.” Damn it was enough to make him a little homesick himself. Dylan strolled alongside his friend, scrubbing a hand over his hair before he glanced sidelong at Nate. ”Picking up steadily. I thought I’d be sitting around for months twiddling my thumbs but I guess it got around that I was a little soft hearted. I’m already getting frequent flyers. Clyde back there was new but I’ve got a feeling I’m gonna be getting more calls like that soon. How is it on the other side of the fence?” For all he knew Nate was the one who’d brought Clyde in this afternoon. Good luck to him if he was.
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NATHAN BRYANT
Chimera
Werelion-Wolf Dread Doctors' Experiment
Posts: 115
Age:
26
Occupation:
Police Officer
Status:
In a Relationship
Partner:
Allison Argent
Played by:
Emma
Last seen Mar 25, 2024 17:30:21 GMT
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Post by NATHAN BRYANT on May 17, 2020 18:23:24 GMT
Nate hadn’t thought that he would end up running into any of his old friends from Chicago while he was in Mystic Falls but he had been proved wrong when he had run into Allison the morning after his first full moon in the town and he had been proved wrong again now. He and Dylan had gone their separate ways years ago but that hadn’t stopped them from being friends and if he was honest it was a relief to know that there was another friendly face around. Nate had lost so many people over the years and if he was honest he wasn’t entirely sure who he could trust right now but he was doing his best not to let that cloud his judgement too much. He and Leanne had decided to start over in Mystic Falls so they could try and figure out who had taken them and why and those were answers that they still didn’t have just yet so he knew that he needed to keep looking. Something had been done to not just him but Leanne as well and he was determined to find out what that was. He had promised himself and Leanne that he would always protect her and he knew that he had failed by letting them both be taken from their home and brought here even if he had no recollection of what had happened and he knew that he wasn’t going to end up letting her down again. A part of him wondered whether Dylan had been brought here for another reason as well but it wasn’t something that was exactly easy to bring up so he knew that ne needed to tread carefully even if the person he was speaking to was an old friend. Allison and her dad were proof that anyone could be a hunter and he knew that the last thing he needed was to end up bringing that kind of trouble to their door after everything else that he and Leanne had been through. “Thanks but I’m good. College has never been on the cards for me,” Nate admitted with a shrug. It just hadn’t been an option when he’d needed to work to earn money to support himself and Leanne but he didn’t regret the decision that he had made at all. He had tried to talk his sister into letting herself be adopted so that she could have the best chance at life but she had refused so he knew that he wasn’t going to turn his back on her. “I’m not sure if she has a major picked out yet but I definitely like the idea of her sticking close to home,” he nodded. They only had each other now and it had been that way for a long time so he knew that his preference would be for her to go to Whitmore but at the end of the day it was a decision that only Leanne could make. “I’m a decent cook but I wouldn’t want to push my luck. Besides, my shifts keep me pretty busy,” he shrugged. Not too busy that he didn’t have time for anything else but he knew better than to try and split his focus with something like that “At least they’re keeping you out of trouble,” he offered, knowing that that was never going to be a bad thing in Mystic Falls. “There always seems to be a lot going on around here but at least it’s not boring,” he chuckled, knowing that he would much rather be busy than sit around twiddling his thumbs. DYLAN COOPER
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DYLAN COOPER
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Posts: 127
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ANGE
Last seen Apr 6, 2024 16:37:51 GMT
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Post by DYLAN COOPER on Jun 16, 2020 19:04:10 GMT
College had always been his mom’s dream. When she’d been a high school kid starting to fall for the handsome jerk of a rock god who’d worked his way through half the school, she’d wanted to head to a good college, get a law degree, stand in front of a judge and argue for those who couldn’t do it for themselves. Eric had ruined that, not just because he’d managed to get her pregnant, Dylan didn’t honestly want to think about that exact part of things but even as a teenager he’d known that it took two people to make that happen, because he hadn’t been willing to do what was necessary to make sure that his mom could still do that. Getting himself gigs, working his way up to a real recording artist had been his dream and having a kid threw a spanner of Statue of Liberty sized proportions in that. A sullen father barely willing to work, a mom who was working her fingers to the bone to take care of them. Was it honestly a surprise which one of them he’d taken after? Dylan knew that was one more bone of contention with his dad but there was no way he could imagine standing on a stage in front of thousands, playing lack luster guitar, which was all he was sure he was ever gonna manage. After Eric had gone that fire in his belly to take after his mom had only grown hotter. It wasn’t just a matter of expectation then, a lot of kids in their neighbourhood didn’t have the opportunity to go to college, it had been a matter of wanting to do something to help others in the situation he’d been in, even if they’d managed to put themselves there.
Maybe working as a cop wouldn’t have been a bad backup plan, it certainly seemed to be suiting Nathan. Dylan had made the offer to leave the office door open for Nate at any time but didn’t take offence when his friend said he was good. ”It’s not for everyone,” he admitted. ”You look like you’re doing great, man.” His mom and Nate were both proof that it wasn’t absolutely necessary to have a good life, to support the people you cared most about. He was glad he could give his mom the option now though, earning enough to make sure she didn’t have try and work and take classes at the same time. It was almost turnabout, although he’d never listened when she’d told him he didn’t have to do all he was for them. Dylan’s mouth curled up at one corner. ”The door’s open if she ever decides on law. Maybe I didn’t have the whole normal college thing, but honestly, I was pretty glad I stuck close to home when I did go.” Of course, he hadn’t been 18 at the time. Going to college across country would’ve meant dragging his mom with him. Dylan snorted, shaking his head. ”You’d probably do better than me. Unless people want the fine dining of grilled cheese sandwiches and microwaved soup, they’d be out of luck.” The job kept him busy too, hence the trip to the station. He winged a dark brow at Nate as they got closer to the square. ”You saying I’d be in trouble if they weren’t calling me at all hours of the day and night?” he asked, feigning innocence. Clucking his tongue, Dylan dipped his head in acknowledgement. ”A little more than I bargained for when we picked the place out. You deal with much of that on the job? All that stuff’s that’s on the front page of the newspapers?” The stuff that he knew was most definitely supernatural in origin.
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NATHAN BRYANT
Chimera
Werelion-Wolf Dread Doctors' Experiment
Posts: 115
Age:
26
Occupation:
Police Officer
Status:
In a Relationship
Partner:
Allison Argent
Played by:
Emma
Last seen Mar 25, 2024 17:30:21 GMT
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Post by NATHAN BRYANT on Jun 29, 2020 21:31:56 GMT
Nate had known that the moment he turned eighteen he would have to step up and support him and Leanne since she had made it clear to him a long time ago that she wasn’t going to let herself be adopted without him but the truth was that he had been taking care of them both long before that. While their mom was sick he had done everything he could to help and it had been the same while they were living with their grandparents as well. After they ended up in a group home he had worked every job he could fit in around school to earn some money to make sure that Leanne could have everything that she needed and even though it hadn’t been easy the truth was that it wasn’t something that he regretted one bit. She hadn’t wanted to be separated from him and the truth was that even though he had tried to talk her into letting herself get adopted he had been pleased deep down when she had refused. She was all he had left in the world and he had known that he hadn’t wanted them to end up in different places so they had made a promise that they would always stick together no matter what. It had been that way ever since they were young and they had made the decision to move to Mystic Falls together. Starting over wasn’t easy but if he was honest it was something that they had both needed and given that he had been reunited not just with Allison but with Dylan as well the truth was that he was glad that they had decided to make the move. Now they had the chance to put everything that had happened behind them and move on with their lives and that was something that he wanted more than anything. Going to college had never been on the cards for Nate since he’d had to get a job to support the two of them as soon as he finished high school but he liked his job despite the fact that he had been on the job for a few years and had already seen one partner get killed. Nate knew that he didn’t want to go through that again so things needed to be different here and he hoped that they would be. “Thanks. I enjoy it,” he admitted with a nod. “You look like you’re doing pretty well for yourself as well,” he added, genuinely proud of Dylan for making it as far as he had. Nate knew that his friend hadn’t exactly had it easy either so he was glad that things had worked out for him. “I hope Lea decides to stay close to home, we’ve stuck together this far so it would be strange to have her move away now,” he admitted. It wasn’t something that he wanted to think about too much if he was honest but he knew that it was a possibility. After everything they had done in order to stay together he knew that he just had to believe that Lea wouldn’t decide to leave him behind while she started the next chapter of her life now. “You still haven’t mastered the art of cooking, huh?” Nate chuckled, an amused smile working its way across his face as he looked over at his friend. Nate knew that he wasn’t the best cook in the world but he tried and he had learned a few things so he knew that that had to count for something. “It’s when things are quiet that you need to watch out,” he laughed. As Dylan spoke again, Nate nodded. “Some of it, yeah. There always seems to be something going on here,” he admitted, unaware that he was so comfortable being around his friend again that in that moment his eyes chose to glow gold. DYLAN COOPER
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DYLAN COOPER
Werecoyote
Posts: 127
Played by:
ANGE
Last seen Apr 6, 2024 16:37:51 GMT
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Post by DYLAN COOPER on Jul 22, 2020 19:02:15 GMT
This move could’ve ended badly. Control hadn’t been easy at first, the full moons in the months immediately after he’d been bitten saw him losing all control. His Alpha had made sure he’d been restrained for them and had done everything he could to start teaching him how to keep that little bit of himself during the turn, but it had been just about the hardest thing he’d ever had to do. Dylan knew his Alpha hadn’t been just been dramatic when he’d said there was a chance he’d backslide without his pack around. The pack wasn’t his anchor, that was that deeply rational part inside of himself that he’d always trusted more than anything, but this was the first time he’d been cut loose from them all since he’d been turned. The stress of setting up the office, no pack, the heightened chance that his mom was going to work out that there was something going on with him. It all could’ve spelt trouble. There was no way he’d have ended up going back to Chicago with his tail between his legs but he might’ve ended up in real trouble.
Instead there was an honest grin on Dylan’s face as Nathan said he looked like he was doing pretty well for himself too. Dylan slipped his hands into his pockets, bobbing his head slowly as he considered it. ”I am,” he admitted. ”I enjoy it too. Wasn’t sure I would once I got going but there’s something to be said for standing up for just about anybody who needs help.” If he’d only been interested in prosecution he’d maybe have gone to work for the PD here. That wasn’t him though, the little guy had always been the one that mattered, even if on occasion that little guy was guilty of breaking the law. Dylan supposed that was him taking after his mom. Eric couldn’t have given a damn, if it had given him the chance of cutting a record or getting up on stage in front of an audience he would’ve cut the little guy off of the knees. Tugging his hand free, he slugged his friend lightly on the arm. ”She’ll do the right thing for both of you. Can’t see her trusting you to take care of yourself after all.” Smirking, his dodged back a step. They both knew it had always been the opposite, like him Nate had been self-sufficient and looking out for someone else way before he should’ve been.
Watching out for himself hadn’t made him any sort of gourmet cook and Nate knew it. Dylan narrowed his eyes at his friends, trying for peeved and just ruining it by chuckling. ”Nope. I can heat stuff up, I can toss a couple of cans together but you’re never gonna get me rustling up a five course meal.” Most of the time it had been unnecessary. He’d gotten by and he’d always made sure there was something on the table for his mom. That had been enough. Now though … it kinda left him at a loose end. That was something he was grateful for tonight though. As Nate said they needed to watch out when things were quiet Dylan held up a finger. ”Oh man, now you’ve cursed it,” he joked. ”I get called in again, I’m dragging you along as my newest paralegal.” Dylan’s throat worked as Nate confirmed he worked the weird stuff in town. Lifting his hand, he swiped the back of it across his mouth and then froze. ”Damn,” he breathed, staring at Nate’s face. ”I guess you would be. What happened?” There was a serious edge to his voice now, his hand falling away as his brow furrowed. Well that had to be the other shoe dropping, he wasn’t the only one who’d ended up something different.
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NATHAN BRYANT
Chimera
Werelion-Wolf Dread Doctors' Experiment
Posts: 115
Age:
26
Occupation:
Police Officer
Status:
In a Relationship
Partner:
Allison Argent
Played by:
Emma
Last seen Mar 25, 2024 17:30:21 GMT
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Post by NATHAN BRYANT on Jul 25, 2020 11:49:56 GMT
Mystic Falls was meant to be a fresh start for both of them and so far it had definitely proven to be that but if Nate was honest he hadn’t expected to see any faces from his past in the small town in Virginia. Allison and Dylan had both left Chicago what felt like a lifetime ago now and yet here they both were in town. It was strange to say the least but he couldn’t deny that it was good to see both of them again. A lot of Nate’s friends had moved away after they finished high school and even though he kept in touch with some of them it just wasn’t the same as having them around all the time. He still didn’t know who had taken him and Leanne or why they had been brought to Mystic Falls in the first place but they had moved to the town so that they could get some answers and it was good to know that there were people around who knew the two of them. Nate had been eager to get away from the memories that they’d left behind in Chicago after losing his mom and grandparents as well as his partner but there were a few people that he had always hoped that he would end up seeing again one day and two of them were in town so he knew that it could easily be a lot worse. He knew that things had changed, none of them were the same people they used to be but one thing Nate had learned was that change could be a good thing sometimes and he hoped that that was going to prove to be the case this time. “I’m glad it’s working out for you although we sometimes end up with people in the cells who don’t deserve someone like you representing them,” Nate admitted. Some of the people he had ended up arresting so far had been real scumbags and it always made him feel angry when they were allowed to walk free so he hoped that Dylan wouldn’t end up representing too many of them because he knew that his friend would fight for just about anyone regardless of whether they deserved it or not. Nate couldn’t help but laugh as Dylan spoke again and even though his friend dodged backwards he wasn’t quite quick enough to stop Nate from hitting his arm in return. “Thanks,” he chuckled, knowing that it had been completely the other way around just like it had been for Dylan. “I know she can look after herself now but I still like the idea of keeping her close,” he admitted. They were the only family that the other had left now and he knew that it wouldn’t be right doing any of this without Leanne around. At the end of the day it was her life to lead but he still hoped that she would choose to stick around. No matter how old she got Nate was always going to be her older brother and he knew that he was always going to want to protect her. Nate rolled his eyes as Dylan tried to look annoyed but his friend ended up giving himself away anyway. “I’m amazed you’ve lasted this long,” he teased. Nate knew that cooking wasn’t for everyone but given that he’d had Leanne to look after he’d had no choice but to learn and if he was honest a part of him enjoyed it sometimes. As Dylan said he was dragging him along as his newest paralegal if he got called in again, Nate shook his head. “No chance. I much prefer putting people behind bars to getting them out of there,” he said, knowing that he was never going to want to be on his friend’s side of things. Nate much preferred being where the action was. Nate caught sight of his reflection as Dylan asked what happened and he cursed under his breath, lowering his gaze as he made his eyes return to normal. “Back in Chicago my partner and I were attacked during a full moon. He died but I was bitten,” he explained, making sure to keep his voice low so that no one else would overhear. From Dylan’s reaction Nate knew that his friend somehow knew about the supernatural too so he knew that there was no point in lying to him but he wasn’t ready to tell him the whole truth just yet. “How do you know about all this?”DYLAN COOPER
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DYLAN COOPER
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Post by DYLAN COOPER on Aug 9, 2020 16:55:15 GMT
There’d been plenty of routes out of law school open for him. Pure defence work had never been an option. It was where most of the money was, and the glory, if you were prepared to practically sell your soul to the devil for it. Dylan had shook his head the moment one of his professors had suggested it as an option in a seminar. Defending people you knew were guilty as sin every day, using any loophole you could find in the law to get them off. Just the thought of it had left him sick. Could he had have done that if his own father had been the one sitting beside him at the defence table? The answer had been an instant no. Part of what he had always wanted to do was keep things like that from happening to others? Dylan knew he could’ve gone into working for a DA’s office somewhere to try and make that happen every time but that hadn’t felt like the right fit either. He hadn’t wanted to wait for someone to see their life destroyed before he stepped in. Round and round he’d gone, talking it through with his mom a thousand times over before the pieces started to fall into place. A firm of his own, one he could build from the ground up. He might not have complete control over who he could choose to take on yet but he’d get there.
Dylan raked his teeth over his lower lip as he glanced at his friend. Still, there were people he would not take on as clients, people he wouldn’t have even been able to stomach looking at. ”They’re the people who can look for representation elsewhere,” Dylan managed gruffly. ”There’s people in a bad place and then there are there those who deserve everything the law can throw at them.” Eric included. Wherever the hell he’d ended up. The only blessing was that he wasn’t here, tearing up this town, trying to destroy the lives of his son and wife again. They were out of his reach now though, building their lives back up here, the way that Nate and Leanne seemed to be. Kidding about Leanne sticking around just to watch out for her brother had Dylan dodging backwards, squawking out a laughing complaint as Nate slugged him back. ”Pleasure,” he snorted, pretending to pout for a moment as he rubbed his arm. ”I can’t blame you man. It’s kinda why I always wanted to stick around for my mom. She needs someone to watch out for her.” Eric was never gonna do that.
Dylan stuck his tongue out at his friend as he walked backwards for a moment. Getting by had always been enough. Eventually he’d have the time to kick back and learn how to cook. It just wasn’t now. ”It’s cause ramen’s so nutritious,” he promised, pretending to pop a muscle before he dropped his arm. Clucking his tongue sadly, Dylan turned around. His hands worked their way back into his pockets as Nate revealed what he was. The question had almost stuck in his throat, leaving him trying to swallow it away. ”I’m sorry man. Nobody deserves to go through that, you have my condolences.” Rking his teeth over his lower lip, Dylan sucked in a breath. He lifted his head slightly, let his own eyes flash yellow for a moment. ”My dad…” he explained hoarsely, coming clean to someone for the first time since it happened. ”He got turned, decided he wanted his boy to be just like him. It happened about a year before we moved. My mom … she still doesn’t know.” She wouldn’t, not until he was really sure that telling her wasn’t going to put her into any more danger from his dad.
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