Ellis John Weber- Aaron
Stats:
Gender: Male Age: 32 Nature: Cougar Occupation: Ellis is a former special forces scout and current military trainer. Appearance: Ellis is of average height at five feet, ten inches tall. He is well muscled and quite fit, weighing about 180 pounds. His hair is dark blond and his eyes blue. He still keeps his hair short, though his nature sees it grow fast. His face has no sharp edges, and one gets an impression of softness when they look at him, despite his military background. He retains something of a boyish look about him, even at his age. His ears poke out to the side a bit. Ellis still does not grow much facial hair - only rough patches, and his body has little hair as well. |
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Personality: Ellis is quiet and reserved, though not at all timid. Though even more soft-spoken and timid indeed in his teens, Ellis grew more confident in himself and much more optimistic because of Dallas's upbeat influence and his military experience. He is very gentle and peaceful - something that might seem at odds with his military occupation, but he is very capable of making a clear separation between his work and his personal life. He never starts fights except to defend someone he loves or cares about, and this translated well to the battlefield, giving him an edge - something of a sixth sense - for determining hostile intent in the local populations. He has always striven to make peace between friends, acquaintances and subordinates who are upset with each other. He does not like to see people unnecessarily angry or sad and does his best to help them. He is absolutely terrified of being alone, and he will avoid it at almost all costs.
History: Born: 16 May 1984
Ellis was born on 16 May 1984 to an unwed, drug addicted mother in Nashville, Tennessee. Her drug use while he was in the womb contributed to his sickly, small stature, and he suffered from chronic lung illness as an infant - something his mother could do little to care for. She took him to free clinics and churches, though she never stayed in one place long enough to permit the authorities to take away her child.
However, in 1987, when he was three years old, his mother died of a drug overdose while staying at a "safe house" in Dayton, Ohio. He was there, alone, with his mother's dead body for three days until, frightened and hungry, the little boy ventured out alone from the house - something his mother had told him never to do - and was discovered by a friendly passerby who alerted the authorities to his situation. Ellis was quickly taken into state custody and within a year, was adopted by a family who had been striving for years to have children of their own with no success.
Though he was always deathly afraid of being left alone anywhere, Ellis grew up to be otherwise normal. Growing up, he forgot about his birth mother and his traumatic experiences through memory suppression and believed that his adopted parents were his birth parents. He started school in his family's small suburb of Dayton later that year in 1988.
Ellis's father, John Weber, was an Ohio Army National Guardsman, a non-commissioned officer in a cavalry squadron. When the United States entered operation Desert Storm in 1990, his father was mobilized and deployed. In 2002, Ellis graduated from high school and immediately enlisted in the army - a surprise to many of his friends and family, but not to his father. His father was immensely proud of his son who successfully completed Cavalry Scout One-Station Unit Training and Air Assault training shortly after his enlistment.
It was at cavalry scout OSUT that Ellis met Dallas. Though he had never considered his sexuality before, Ellis had never been interested in women. It had never occurred to him that he might be interested in men until then. Though they refrained from taking their relationship beyond a friendship at their basic training due to anti-fraternization rules, as soon as they were assigned to their first unit - and they were, luckily, given the same first duty station - they began secretly dating. Dallas made Ellis feel warm. He made him feel calm and safe - something that very few people could really do, given Ellis's phobia.
Only months after their assignment to their first duty station, their unit was deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in the initial assault on Baghdad, and over the course of their military service, they would serve three tours of duty. For their last deployment to Afghanistan, Ellis and Dallas - now staff sergeants - were both recruited to a top secret Special Forces unit composed of infected cougar shifters, and their sense of duty compelled them to accept the assignment.
After the deployment was over, both men were promoted once more and not long after, offered jobs as trainers of a new, much larger, and much less secret unit of boys from age 16 to 22, who would be infected and serve as cougars against the new vampire threat.
Abilities: Ellis has a good bit of military training.
Weaknesses: Though he has been an effective leader in the military, Ellis is autophobic - meaning, he is afraid of being alone.
Quirks: Ellis is very touch oriented due to phobia and even more-so because of his shifter status. He developed a need to be in physical contact with someone - usually Dallas - at all times so that he knew he was still with him, and he is not alone. That need for touch never went away.
Weapons: Ellis is equipped with all necessary weaponry by the US military
Family:
Father, John Weber, +25 years
Mother, Rebecca Weber, +23 years
Partner, Dallas Thorsen
Vehicle: Kawasaki motorcycle
Home: Ellis and Dallas live with a barracks full of raw recruits at Camp Stone Mountain.
Character image portrayed by: Russell Tovey
History: Born: 16 May 1984
Ellis was born on 16 May 1984 to an unwed, drug addicted mother in Nashville, Tennessee. Her drug use while he was in the womb contributed to his sickly, small stature, and he suffered from chronic lung illness as an infant - something his mother could do little to care for. She took him to free clinics and churches, though she never stayed in one place long enough to permit the authorities to take away her child.
However, in 1987, when he was three years old, his mother died of a drug overdose while staying at a "safe house" in Dayton, Ohio. He was there, alone, with his mother's dead body for three days until, frightened and hungry, the little boy ventured out alone from the house - something his mother had told him never to do - and was discovered by a friendly passerby who alerted the authorities to his situation. Ellis was quickly taken into state custody and within a year, was adopted by a family who had been striving for years to have children of their own with no success.
Though he was always deathly afraid of being left alone anywhere, Ellis grew up to be otherwise normal. Growing up, he forgot about his birth mother and his traumatic experiences through memory suppression and believed that his adopted parents were his birth parents. He started school in his family's small suburb of Dayton later that year in 1988.
Ellis's father, John Weber, was an Ohio Army National Guardsman, a non-commissioned officer in a cavalry squadron. When the United States entered operation Desert Storm in 1990, his father was mobilized and deployed. In 2002, Ellis graduated from high school and immediately enlisted in the army - a surprise to many of his friends and family, but not to his father. His father was immensely proud of his son who successfully completed Cavalry Scout One-Station Unit Training and Air Assault training shortly after his enlistment.
It was at cavalry scout OSUT that Ellis met Dallas. Though he had never considered his sexuality before, Ellis had never been interested in women. It had never occurred to him that he might be interested in men until then. Though they refrained from taking their relationship beyond a friendship at their basic training due to anti-fraternization rules, as soon as they were assigned to their first unit - and they were, luckily, given the same first duty station - they began secretly dating. Dallas made Ellis feel warm. He made him feel calm and safe - something that very few people could really do, given Ellis's phobia.
Only months after their assignment to their first duty station, their unit was deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in the initial assault on Baghdad, and over the course of their military service, they would serve three tours of duty. For their last deployment to Afghanistan, Ellis and Dallas - now staff sergeants - were both recruited to a top secret Special Forces unit composed of infected cougar shifters, and their sense of duty compelled them to accept the assignment.
After the deployment was over, both men were promoted once more and not long after, offered jobs as trainers of a new, much larger, and much less secret unit of boys from age 16 to 22, who would be infected and serve as cougars against the new vampire threat.
Abilities: Ellis has a good bit of military training.
Weaknesses: Though he has been an effective leader in the military, Ellis is autophobic - meaning, he is afraid of being alone.
Quirks: Ellis is very touch oriented due to phobia and even more-so because of his shifter status. He developed a need to be in physical contact with someone - usually Dallas - at all times so that he knew he was still with him, and he is not alone. That need for touch never went away.
Weapons: Ellis is equipped with all necessary weaponry by the US military
Family:
Father, John Weber, +25 years
Mother, Rebecca Weber, +23 years
Partner, Dallas Thorsen
Vehicle: Kawasaki motorcycle
Home: Ellis and Dallas live with a barracks full of raw recruits at Camp Stone Mountain.
Character image portrayed by: Russell Tovey