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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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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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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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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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Duke Aguilar

Site Canon Character
Blacksmith
Human · 40s-50s · Male
FC: Pedro Pascal
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Like generations of his forefathers in Argentina, Duke Aguilar has always had a way with horses. Even the most spirited stallion or ornery pack horse would yield to his murmured words and calming hands. When his family fled the growing political and social unrest of their homeland, that skill proved just as valuable to the ranchers of California as the ones in Buenos Aires. For years, he coasted on those talents and his charm, weaponizing a sheepish smile and soulful eyes, getting what he wanted with as little effort as possible.

That worked perfectly well until he ran headfirst into Gloria Mata, whose determined disinterest drove him to absolute distraction. Winning her heart took time and effort, but when she finally gave him her hand, she also offered him the truth. She was a witch–the first he had ever known, though he’d long believed in magic. To protect her and soon enough, their children, Duke left his family legacy behind and bent his skill with horses into a slightly different direction. In Never, he runs the livery and works at the forge, with his children following in his footsteps. If the closest he gets to a horse these days is hammering on its shoes… He tries not to let nostalgia sour his overall satisfaction.

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Jim Plunket

Site Canon Character
Bouncer
Human· 30s-40s · Male
FC: Brian Tyree Henry
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Jim Plunket is a mountain of a man, tall and broad-shouldered, with a presence that commands respect the moment he steps into a room. As the bouncer at the Pearl, Never’s upscale gambling hall and brothel, he is known for his unshakable calm and steady demeanor. His patience is legendary: Whether it’s breaking up a brawl or quietly escorting an unruly drunk out into the night, Jim always handles things with a measured hand. His deep voice is as soothing as it is firm, and he’s earned a reputation for keeping the peace with little more than a raised eyebrow and a well-timed word.

But beneath Jim’s calm exterior lies a past he’s worked hard to bury. Before Never, he was once part of a notorious outlaw gang, skilled in violence and strategy. His life with them ended in a brutal ambush that left him the sole survivor, carrying the weight of betrayal and regret. He walked away from that life, seeking peace in the Pearl, but his past still haunts him, and he is quietly waiting for the day it catches up.

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Albert DuCarmont

Site Canon Character
Bouncer & Maintenance Man
Human · 30s-40s · Male
FC: David Dastmalchian
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Albert DuCarmont is a man who keeps his head down and his fists ready. As the bouncer and handyman at the Silk Rose, Never’s rough-and-tumble saloon and brothel, he’s seen just about every kind of trouble a lawless frontier can offer. Drunken brawls, sore-loser gamblers, men who think “no” isn’t an answer — Albert handles them all with the same steady, unshakable presence. He isn’t the fastest gun or the sharpest tongue, but he is strong, reliable, and not easily rattled.

Yet, despite his simple outlook, Albert isn’t blind. There’s something wrong about Never, something that prickles at the edges of his instincts. He’s worked in plenty of towns, but nowhere else have shadows seemed too dark, or whispers carried from empty rooms. He’s seen men walk into the night and never come back—but no one seems to grieve them. He’s heard laughter in the Silk Rose that didn’t belong to any living throat.

Albert doesn’t have a name for what’s wrong with Never, and he isn’t a superstitious man, but he keeps an iron nail in his pocket and a Bible under his bed. Just in case.

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