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William Hannon

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William Hannon in an Imbued and user on hunter-net, where he posts as Violin99. He is most known among Hunters as the mouthpiece of Fyodor. 

Although William fears Fyodor, he also frequently publicizes his views. He organized the publishing company Anchorite Press and published Fyodor's book Hunter Apocrypha. Additionally, he frequently posts materials and comments from Fyodor on Hunter-Net. 

Overview[]

As the only child of an ambitious Bostonian banker and his timid wife, William was expected to follow his father into the financial world. He was raised as a young gentleman - tutored to be life his father, hiding behind a thing veneer of polite civility.

To the old man's fury, William was not interested. Despite plenty of arrogance, he had no inclination for commerce, no natural sense of financial ambition and little viciousness. He was far more at home with scholarly pursuits, avidly seeking knowledge of the past as a means to escape the present and the future. Hannon St. took his anger out on his wife and child in equal measure, but succeeded only in driving his son deeper into books.

William's parents inspired him more to guilt and loathing than love - his father for being a tyrannical bully, his mother for being weak enough to accept the abuse without fighting back on his behalf. The boy withdrew from them completely, never even realizing how much of a failure he felt. He was sent away to weather his puberty and teenage years in impersonal boarding schools and given to ever-changing domestic staff when home for the holidays.

Eventually, the withdrawn child grew into a well educated but emotionally stunted young man, hiding his sense of inadequacy behind intellectual snobbery, even from himself. The death of his father and his mother's subsequent decline barely pierced his self-absorption. He performed well at collage, earning a solid post-graduate degree in his preferred major, History. The politics and brown-nosing required for life in academia eluded him, though. To the irritation of his professors, he abandoned college. He didn't much care what they thought, anyway.

William's credentials got him regular work writing articles for magazines and journals, doing research and checking historical facts for journal papers and documentaries. History and folklore remained his first loves and only true passions. His work also paid well, and over time he started to dabble in the acquisition and sale of antiquities, which proved profitable. A number of half-hearted relationships eventually gave way to a listless marriage, but William never really connected with his wife, or with the girlfriends who had come before her. In the end, his wife filed for divorce and marched out tearfully, leaving him wondering what all the fuss was about.

As the years passed, William failed to gain any real empathy for people. Always judgmental, he considered most of the population his intellectual inferior, and - at best - a necessary evil. Those he saw as equals could at least expect some degree of respect, but rarely genuine fondness. William channeled his emotional needs into studying and writing, letting his social life atrophy into exclusively work-related contracts.

His imbuing, when it came, seemed to be a validation of his notions of superiority. As the static - "babble," as William calls it - continued to overwhelm his mind, however, he was forced to accept that it would be with him to a greater or lesser extent for the foreseeable future. With all of his ego drives channeled into his mental abilities, the confusion and distraction of the static left him devastated and extremely depressed.

William was brought back from the brink by a Russian colleague, a fellow historian and antiquarian named Fyodor with whom he had corresponded on a number of issues. The Russian turned up unannounced about a week after William's imbuing and shocked him with all sorts of information about what was happening. In a moment of panic, William went into the kitchen and tried to kill himself, but couldn't even succeed at that. Fyodor bandaged him up and helped him come to terms somewhat with his new life.

William has worked closely with Fyodor ever since, disseminating his colleague's writings and helping with his research. William is one of only two people in the United States to have a contact number for Fyodor. William regards Fyodor as a mentor, patron and friend, perhaps the only one he has. The Russian, in return, has an undeniable interest in the Hermit and seems fond of him, although Fyodor's enigmatic manner makes it difficult to tell.

Recently, after a long absence, William posted a detailed and shocking plea for help to hunter-net, begging assistance from any and all volunteers in eradicating a witch who had brainwashed him into sharing secrets about the imbued. The various hunters who responded all insist that they found his house unlocked and unoccupied. Two groups claim - separately - to have found and killed the witch in question. William has not come forward to announce his escape. If he is alive and free, he's in hiding. It may be that he has been persuaded to join Fyodor on his travels for a time. If so, William could turn up safe and well in any part of the world.

Character Sheet[]

Attributes: Strength 2, Dexterity 2, Stamina 3, Charisma 2, Manipulation 2, Appearance (Distinguished) 4, Perception 3, Intelligence (Incisive) 5, Wits 2
Abilities: Academics (History) 5, Alertness 2, Bureaucracy 2, Computer 2, Crafts (Cooking) 3, Drive 2, Etiquette 3, Expression (Writing) 4, Finance 1, Intimidation (Superior) 4, Linguistics (French, Spanish, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian, Mandarin, Hebrew, Potomac) 4, Melee 1, Occult 2, Performance (Violin) 4, Research (Reference Libraries) 5, Science (Demographics) 2, Security 2, Tolerance (Visionaries) 4
Backgrounds: Contacts 2, Destiny 1, Mentor (Fyodor) 5, Patron 5, Resources 3
Edges: (Hermit) Reach, Send, Edict; (Judgment) Discern, Burden; (Redemption) Bluster, Insinuate
Mercy: 4, Vision: 7, Zeal: 3, Conviction: 8, Willpower: 6
Derangement: Megalomania

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