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Cathal Keary

Requested by Pyrate · Associated with Alasdair Keary
Human · 45-55 · Male · Runs the Buffalo Heart Gambling House
FC: Callan Mulvey · Negotiable
Relationship: Family (Father)
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Requested by Pyrate · Associated with Alasdair Keary
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His name had been Ó Gadhra at the time. He was just a wanderer — a vagabond travelling alone from place to place. But when he came upon a sickly baby in a sea of corpses and ruined wagons, Cathal’s life changed.

He didn’t take to fatherhood immediately. The child was strange, and Cathal liked his solitude. Kept trying to abandon the child with other people, but he always ended up feeling off about it and going back for him. It was about four years before he finally accepted that they were stuck with one another and he gave the kid a name. Alasdair Ó Gadhra.

Having a child to raise, Cathal gradually shifted from wandering and trying to settle down where they weren’t welcome to giving up on being good and robbing their way across the country. They made a name for themselves as father and son bandits. Tall tales were told about them with strange truths twisted into legends. Eventually, a fateful shootout in California led to the world believing the Ó Gadhra bandits had been killed, so Cathal and Alasdair fled to New Mexico to start a new life in the town of Never.

They changed their name to Keary. They joined a gang of train robbers there, though Cathal’s injuries from the shootout leave him mostly bound to town where he operates the Buffalo Heart Gambling house.

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Dellaphina Jones

Owner of the Silk Rose Saloon
Human · 52 · Female
Played by Lyricality
FC: Lisa Bonet
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Played by Lyricality · Group: The Silk Rose
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Della learned early to let go of everything that doesn’t matter–you need both hands to hold on tight to anything you want to keep. Don’t get bogged down by the weight of inconsequential bullshit, or somebody or something will snatch what matters right out of your hands. She’d lost two daughters and a son before she’d seen twenty years. When she finally escaped the misery of her past, she promised herself that she’d never again lose anything she truly loved. She built the Silk Rose Saloon in St. Louis with blood money taken from the last man who’d laid a hand on her. That seemed like a square deal, but Missouri was still a dangerous place for a woman to openly defy the expectations of gender, race, and society. When the Silk Rose went up in flames one night, taking most of its staff with it, the neighbors shook their heads and clucked their tongues and whispered What else could she expect, living like that? Evidence of arson was brushed under the rug. But Della had made a promise to herself, and she knew her soul would never rest easy anyway, so she bargained with the only thing she had left to lose.

Twelve years ago, the Silk Rose unfolded itself whole on a street corner in Never, New Mexico, with Dellaphina Jones on the deed as sole proprietress. Customers may find that the rooms have a whiff of smoke–or maybe brimstone–now and then, but everything is otherwise circumspect.

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Alasdair Keary

Card Dealer at the Buffalo Heart
Human · Mid-20s · Male
Played by Pyrate
FC: Miles McMillan
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Once a notorious outlaw, Alasdair Keary rode the legends of his death at the hand of bounty hunters all the way to freedom. He and his father found safety and community in the town of Never under new names and a new way of living, but Alasdair will always be an outlaw at heart.

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Edward Jackson

Site Canon Character
Co-Owner of Jackson Bros. Store
Human · 30s-40s · Male
FC: Jesse Williams
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Edward and his younger brother Theo grew up together in a working-class family in Manassas, Virginia. Their schoolteacher mother ensured their education and encouraged their aspirations. Six years ago, after several trips west and a good deal of careful research, the brothers took their savings and invested in a modest, well-kept general store in the growing town of Never, New Mexico. The two have since become fixtures in the town, their business an undeniable success. Lately, they have been looking to expand into other investments to serve the booming population, and have been at loggerheads: Edward, the more disciplined and cautious of the two, remains unconvinced by many of his younger, more impulsive brother’s ideas.

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Julián Aguilar

Site Canon Character
Blacksmith
Human · 30s-40s · Male
FC: Juan Pablo Di Pace
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Always a solemn child, Julián embodied the archetype of the eldest son–responsible and obedient. His personality combined the best of his father’s determination and his mother’s patience, and even his adolescent years were mostly absent the usual teenage rebellions. When it became clear that he hadn’t inherited his mother’s magic, he channeled that disappointment into proving himself useful in other ways: excellence in his work; care for his siblings; expansion of the family business. He kept any uncertainties or insecurities contained behind a serene exterior. His family teased that he showed more affection toward the horses they stabled than toward anyone outside the family, and he smiled along, but the truth was that he kept his passions just as secret as his doubts. No one knew that his great romance ended in tragedy. No one understands that when he buries himself more thoroughly in work than ever before, they’re witnessing the aftermath of personal catastrophe.

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Aaron Bayliss

Never Sheriff
Human · Mid-30s · Male
Played by Keaton
FC: Lee Pace
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Played by Keaton
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Aaron Baylis came west from the Midwest in search of freedom, fresh air, and a new start. He traded the crowded streets of the city for the open skies of New Mexico, thinking the job of sheriff in a small, quiet town like Never would offer a slower pace and a chance to settle into his own skin. But Never is anything but ordinary.

Still new to the role, Aaron is adapting to the town’s oddities — Strange behavior, unusual disappearances, the occasional unexplainable event — with the kind of steady patience that makes him well-liked by locals. He doesn’t yet realize the town hides supernatural forces in plain sight, but he’s beginning to suspect there’s something off about Never. Oddly enough, it’s a feeling he doesn’t mind. Perhaps it’s because Aaron himself is no stranger to secrecy. Quietly gay in a time and place that offers little safety for it, he’s learned how to guard pieces of himself from the world.

As the mysteries around him grow deeper, Aaron begins to wonder if this strange, watchful town might be the one place where a man like him — One with secrets, heart, and hope — might actually belong.

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Theodore Jackson

Site Canon Character
Co-Owner of Jackson Bros. Store
Human · 30s-50s · Male
FC: Michael Ealy
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Theo and his older brother Edward grew up together in a working-class family in Manassas, Virginia. Their schoolteacher mother ensured their education and encouraged their aspirations. Six years ago, after several trips west and a good deal of careful research, the brothers took their savings and invested in a modest, well-kept general store in the growing town of Never, New Mexico. The two have since become fixtures in the town, their business an undeniable success. Lately, they have been looking to expand into other investments to serve the booming population, and have been at loggerheads: Edward, the more disciplined and cautious of the two, remains unconvinced by many of his younger, more impulsive brother’s ideas.

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Clara Klein

Site Canon Character
Schoolteacher
Human · 30s-40s · Female
FC: Michelle Williams
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Clara Klein is the new schoolteacher in Never, a town where the air always seems to hum with secrets and the land holds stories of its own. Clara is unmarried, having never found a match who could quiet the restlessness in her heart. She is a natural optimist, with a deep love for nature and a genuine affinity for the children in her care. Her classroom is a sanctuary of warmth and encouragement, where she fosters curiosity, kindness, and a love for learning. The children are drawn to her gentle spirit, eager to soak in her lessons and feel her unwavering belief in their potential.

Clara’s passion for the outdoors is also evident, and on her rare days off, she can often be found wandering the hills and meadows that surround the town. Nature has always been a source of solace for her, its simple beauty a balm for the emotional scars she’s long carried.

Though she exudes positivity, Clara’s past is marked by tragedy. Many years ago, she lost her fiancé in a tragic accident that left her broken, forcing her to leave her old life behind and start anew. She never speaks of it, but the pain still lingers just beneath her serene surface, a silent companion to her every step.

What Clara doesn’t know is that her presence in Never is no accident. A hidden power stirs within the earth around her — An ancient force that seems drawn to her, one she’s unknowingly connected to through her love of nature and her personal loss. As Clara continues to settle into her new life, she will soon learn that Never isn’t just a place of refuge, but a town with a past that will inevitably intertwine with hers.

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Clarence Barron

Site Canon Character
Owner of the Pearl
Human · 50s · Male
FC: Michael Stuhlbarg
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Clarence has always been easy to underestimate. As a child, he was frail and bookish, a stark contrast to the two strapping brothers who followed him. His father expected little and his mother even less. When his father died, he dared to hope that the world–or at least the rest of his own family–might start to take him seriously. Instead, his younger brother stepped into the role of man of the house without so much as a word of discussion, and Clarence settled into the kind of resentment that either poisons a man from within…or sets him free. Whatever his private truth might have been, he refused to box himself up small to fit the old container designed by his family. He left them back east and headed out west, where a man could supposedly make his own destiny.

Several decades (and deviances) later, he’s become one of Never’s most well-established residents. The demon that heeds his commands is a double-edged sword, but even his detractors can’t ignore the political, financial and social influence that she’s given him.

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Gladys Daugherty, aka Molly

Site Canon Character
Prostitute
Human · 20s-30s · Female
FC: Nicola Coughlan
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Strictly speaking, Molly Daugherty doesn’t really exist. Neither did Gladys Daugherty, or Gilda Cartwright before her, or Glenna Gordon before her. None of them lasted longer than a series of letters, each one sealed with a perfumed kiss and mailed to a man looking for love in the personal advertisements of various Midwestern papers. After the letters, a meeting; then a wedding; then a few weeks or months of wedded bliss before tragic accidents befell Mr. Gordon, Mr. Cartwright, and Mr. Daugherty, each in his turn. Each one’s worldly possessions went to their newly-minted widow, who sold everything for a quick profit and then…summarily disappeared.

Of course, the money of a relatively poor lonely heart doesn’t stretch very far, and sometimes a woman needs to make ends meet while she’s looking for her next true love. The Silk Rose is just a starting point for a lady with ambition.

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