Okay so Will. Right. William Bartholomew Morgan, son of Elizabeth Morgan (a whore) and an unknown father ( lol Demetri lol ). Up until age 9, Will’s life was pretty boring, he moved from London to Capitol and got two baby brothers that he probably contemplated returning and/or feeding frogs to or something. Occasionally this weird guy comes to visit them and asks Will questions and plays with his mom. By this I mean he’s a bishop and he pays her so he can get his jollies off.
After his ninth birthday, however, things basically turn into a giant crapsack. His mom gets sick after having her third kid (Zach) and then one day Will comes home from school and oops there’s mom dead on the floor. (Which totally had nothing to do with Demetri slowly poisoning her because he wanted things, but whatev, it’s cool. I mean, bitches man, srsly, all up in your grill about wanting to do things to their kids, what’s their deal). And then, hey, that weird guy comes around and offers Will a way to keep what’s left of his family together as opposed to all of them being split up in orphanages so of course Will fucking goes with it. This option happens to be Will training to become a Hunter (see previous post about them) and generally learning to be Demetri’s “assistant” (no, this is not pervy, Demetri is so homophobic he would turn purple with rage and strangle things if you suggested any undertones). This uh... “training” pretty much consists of Demetri working Will half to death and attempting to make him an emotionless slaveboy/fighter that will defend Demetri to the death and follow orders without question. So it’s less “omg gay incest rape fic” or whatever and more “omg yess control trips and mindfucking.”
So yeah, training. Right. Starts out fairly simple. Will gets lessons and learns how to use guns and fight. When he’s 10, shit starts getting real and Demetri starts trying teaching Will that emotions other than anger are useless and pointless. He does this by punishing Will for doing things like crying. This punishment takes the form of Will being locked into rooms under Demetri’s church, they’re made of stone (old basement, yes) with no light, no heating and barely any airflow. Sometimes there are corpses in these rooms. Usually there are rats. It depends how “bad” Will has been. Generally this confinement lasts between a few hours and a few days (in the latter case, bread and water may be provided occasionally). By the time Will gets out he’s usually half-crazy with hunger and hallucinating and feeling sick. Then Demetri wraps him in a blanket and gives him food and water and lets him cling and Will’s just so grateful to have something warm and alive to hold onto that he doesn’t even care. This pretty much goes on with diminishing regularity until Will is 20 and generally explains his horrible crippling claustrophobia and people issues. Demetri also tends to have anger issues when Will doesn’t do as he says. His general response to this is to beat the holy hell out of the kid and see how many things he can break. Will’s nose winds up a little crooked from all the times Demetri has broken it (by kicking him in the face when he's down). This year’s only real plus is meeting Edgar who becomes like his BFF/older bro or something. Basically Ed is a teenager at this point and kinda takes Will under his wing a little so things are a BIT less gay.
When Will turns 11 (yes, on his fucking birthday, it’s like the worst Hogwarts letter ever), Demetri makes him kill his first person. It’s a 7-year-old girl (a werewolf girl, but whatev man, still a little girl and still a dick move) who stares at Will in confusion for a while. And then Will shoots her in the head like a good little soldier and hugs her body and cries. So Demetri locks him in a room with her body for 3 days. He spends most of the time crying and telling her everything will be okay. And then he starts hallucinating and thinking she’s still alive and talks to her. And defends her corpse from rats (he has developed a hatred/fear of them because of this) until Demetri lets him out and takes the body away from him and disposes of it. This is pretty much the last time Will cries. Like ever. He does, however, occasionally see the little girl when he’s freaking out or being an alcoholic later in life. He tends to talk to her when this happens but it worries people so he tries not to do it too much but he also doesn’t want to hurt her feelings by ignoring her. Yeah. This does eventually stops when he stops constantly being drunk and/or having mini-panic attack things because of Demetri or being surrounded by people constantly.
Twelve is like the shittiest shit shit for Will because he starts actually working as a Hunter. Yes. A 12-year-old. Hunting werewolves. Nothing could possibly ever go wrong here. And thus Will is totally super surprised when he gets assigned to a solo mission and gets his ass bitten. Okay. Not his literal ass. Technically the bite is on his shoulder but you know what I mean. After this he is reasonably freaking the fuck out. Because he is now illegal. And likely to get his ass arrested and sent to the exorcists if anyone finds out. So being the intelligent boy he is... he starts doping himself up with injections of colloidal silver. The first time he almost ODs because he doesn’t have the dosage right but it’s cool, eventually he figures that shit out. Also starts drinking because alcohol makes the poison induced shaking quiet down and helps him sleep at night. Eventually he figures out a way to combine asphodel and a few chemicals to inhibit symptoms and keep himself in a general state of “drugged out of his fucking mind” during full moons. Fortunately for him, this also has the side effect of making him pretty much unaffected by silver. So people don’t make hmm noises and wonder why he suddenly can’t handle the stuff.
However, silver isn’t cheap. Nor are chemicals and needles. Nor is feeding and housing his brothers... or sending them to good schools. And his job really doesn’t pay all that much. So how does the son of a whore decide to earn extra money? By being a whore. Yeah. Thirteen and he starts selling himself. Mostly his customers are men because well that’s who buys pretty young boy whores. Not that he doesn't get his share of female clients eventually but at the start it's almost exclusively men. And he hates this with a fiery fucking passion until he learns to stop taking it personally. This also further cements Will’s general hatred/fear of older men. He does lose his virginity before becoming a whore, though. It’s to a young nun-in-training and they do it on the pews in the main Hunter church. Yes, this is blasphemous and would probably get them both in trouble but no one finds out so whatev, it doesn’t matter.
From about 14 to 17 he is busy alternating between drunk off his ass and hungover. Sometimes he manages to combine the two into the worst form of multitasking ever. Mostly he’s just angry and hating everything and working all day to sell himself all night and then go home to try to sleep for a couple hours but get bitched at by his brother Mark instead. A lot of his free time is spent getting in bar fights and generally causing trouble. For his sixteenth birthday, instead of a car, Demetri gets him a tattoo. And by that I mean he brands “Forgive me Father, for I have sinned” into Will’s back and then spends the next like.... year and a half tracing over the words with a knife every few weeks to remind Will of what they say and what a horrible person he must be to need reminding of them. He also starts smoking around this point, if only so that he won’t be able to smell things all the time (it permanently fucks up his sense of smell to some extent) and also because 1) werewolves don’t smoke and 2) it confuses the dogs that are sometimes used to hunt down wolves.
Then one day when he’s 17 he meets a girl in a bar and she offers to buy him. He agrees to this because hey, it’s money and she’s kinda cute. I should probably stress that he’s also pretty smashed at this point. Well he goes home with her and uh... finds out she’s a he. This is how Will meets James and starts to slow down his drinking habit. Because srsly man. Thinking a dude is a chick. Okay so it's a gay girly dude in a dress but that doesn't make it better. He also meets Tanya and Kirill at this point, because.... that’s where James lives. Tanya pretty much spends all her time telling Will and James that they’re too skinny every time she sees them. She probably keeps Will from starving himself a couple times. A few months later, Will gets assigned to a new case. By all accounts it seems that there’s a female werewolf luring men into dark alleys and then killing them in horrible ways and eating pieces. Well. That just won’t do. So it’s Will’s job to find her and bring her to “justice.” And I think that’s where I’m going to end this ramble because now we’re getting into plot things.
