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Background and Characters: The Sanctuary was built long ago by Helen Magnus and her father to give a safe haven to the various cryptids, legends, and abnormal animals/people with certain extraordinary powers and abilities – what most people would consider monsters. The Sanctuary Network is the network of Sanctuaries around the world all under the Sanctuary in Old City run by Helen Magnus. Every Sanctuary offers safety to abnormals and helps to keep them a secret from the human population. Every Sanctuary is run by the Head of the House and has a full step and abnormals who live within the Sanctuary. Sanctuaries will keep dangerous abnormals locked up and let those who came for help or on their own free will wander out freely. They both protect and study abnormals and even work with some of the countries leading governments which aid in keeping the Sanctuary network a secret from the average citizen. Helen Magnus has said about the Sanctuary Network that it was built as a necessity. Not to study the abnormals but give them some place to fit in and feel safe since it was so desperately needed. So many abnormals were wandering about unable to fit into society and the Sanctuary gave them more then just a place to stay but a home and often times a family.
Helen Magnus: 213 year old Victorian Scientist who lead the group called The Five. A group of five scientist who injected themselves with vampire blood and gained extraordinary abilities. She also runs the Sanctuary Network which was started by her father. Her and John Druitt were long ago engaged but she broke it off... and learned shortly after that she was pregnant. Fearing for the safety of her child she froze the embryo. Centuries later when she figured John was long gone, and she could take the loneliness no longer she brought the child to term. Has wavy dark brown hair-dyed.
Ashley Magnus: Ashley is the daughter of both Helen Magnus and Montague John Druitt. She is the only child to be born from two members of the Five. She and her mother mainly run the sanctuary, both clashing personalities. She's a bad ass preferring just to kill the monster unlike her mother who always wants to save and protect them. She was kidnapped by the Cabal and was injected with vampire blood aka the source blood. It brought out the teleportation gene that was in her from her father. Under their control she, along with others, attacked the Sanctuary Network. She eventually had a moment of clarity when about to kill her mother. But instead saves her, by teleporting out of the Sanctuary, through the EM shield.
William Zimmerman: Was rescued from a dangerous abnormal by Helen as a child. His mother had been killed by it to save him. Later William becomes a forensic psychologist and is recruited by Magnus. He is human but has the unusual gift of profiling, being able to see things, small details no other person would be able to see. Like a new day Sherlock Holmes. Magnus trains him to take her place if ever her eternal life ends. For along time he was in a sturdy relationship with an FBI agent named Abby, but just before the war started she was kidnapped, never to be seen again. A few years later he started a thing with Kate.
Henry Foss: A werewolf orphan taken in by Magnus. He was abandoned by his mother years before. He grew up to control his powers and now runs all the tech in the Sanctuary as well as the defense programs. He grew up with Helens daughter who was just a few years younger than he was when he arrived. He gained a crush on her as she got older and hit her late teens. When she died it killed him, but he grieved and moved on. Meeting another female Lychin like himself they eventually got engaged and she became pregnant. The pregnancy was killing her so Magnus prolonged it to a two year thing, where the child would grow more slowly. But Erica went into labor months early, and because of this it killed her, along with the newborn child.
Kate Freelander: Worked for the Cabal when Ashley was taken. But when she helped try and save Ashley, Magnus took her in, and she now helps save and protect Abnormals.
Bigfoot: Came to the Sanctuary long ago where Helen saved his life. Since then he has refused to leave and now acts as bodyguard and handyman.
John Druitt: Old lover of Helen Magnus and was the father of Ashley. He is a member of the five and the vampire blood or what they called the source blood gave him the ability to teleport. And he was also the notorious Victorian killer Jack the Ripper.
Nikola Tesla: Another member of the five he had the most unusual power from the vampire blood, it had actually brought out dormant vampire genes that were already there. He is a brilliant scientist with a crush on Magnus. He is also known for always getting the Sanctuary crew into danger, and also saving them from it. For years his only goal was to bring his race back from extinction. It had been a few years since Helen Magnus and her crew began to use the new underground Sanctuary. The war between humans and abnormals had slowly died down, and few fights remained. The sanctuary crew still went out and protected all abnormals, from both themselves as well as other. A few new additions to the crew had been made, including a new girl named Blaine Lucia Cortez. She was about the same height and weight as Helen, with long, dark, wavy hair and dark brown eyes. She was saved by Helen and afterword returned to pay off her debt, leaving two younger sisters back in foster care. Helen had no idea about her sisters... but she did know about Blaine being an abnormal, a shape-shifter to be exact. She had soft bones and was able to shift into any creature with the exception of humans and other abnormal species. Another addition to the network was the previously dead Ashley Magnus, Helens daughter.
Years back the Cabal had kidnapped Ashley, injected her with the source blood, and she became one of their super-soldiers used to try to take down the entire Sanctuary network. Helen had recruited an old friend, Nikola, to help build a weapon to destroy her and the rest of the super-soldiers, but instead of killing her, it gave Ashley a moment of clarity. And in that moment she saved her mother from another one of her own by teleporting out of the London sanctuary. It was thought that she teleported straight through the Electro-magnetic field protecting the building, tearing apart her atoms and molecules instantly. Come to find out, years later that the shield that night had only been up to ninety-eight percent capacity and she managed through, winding up in Finland. She had no memory for three years until the war happened, everything came back to her and she showed up on her mothers doorstep before Helen blew up the old sanctuary. After several tests and being deemed mind-control free, they welcomed her with open arms. Though her teleportation remained, she was indeed back to her original self, back to her bad-ass attitude, intense monster hunting skills, and her caffeine addictions. Many things had changed when the war erupted, not only was Helens long since thought dead daughter was back, she was also no longer single, nor was many of the crew. Helen had finally come to terms with her love for Nikola... even if it did take two hundred and thirteen years to figure out. John Druitt was baffled and hurt beyond repair at the news of their engagement. He left but eventually came back and was welcomed by the two. Ashley teased her mother and Nikola profusely when she heard, her and Nikola have a closer bond than her and her father, John. Though the teasing back fired when it was revealed that Ashley and her long time best-friend Henry Foss became an item. They had grown up together and it wasn't until she came back that they both realized their intense feelings for one another. Her mother never let her forget the night her and Henry hooked up for the first time and Helen walked in on them. But that was two years ago and her and Henry have been together since, and she was now eight months pregnant. They knew not the sex of the baby, or even if the baby would have any abnormal abilities. Henry's last fiancé had died giving birth to their lychin son, and the child died soon after, not more than a week before Ashley's surprise arrival. They weren't the only ones that had hooked up Will and Kate and had become something too, but have only been together a few months. Abby had been taken by the Cabal right after the war started and Will was devastated, broken to the point where he focused on nothing but work. He slept little and when he had made several extreme errors during a few missions, Kate finally talked to him and he broke down in front of her. That was when Kate caught his eye, and slowly they became more than just friends and co workers. Things certainly had changed for the Sanctuary.
Many many years ago, back in the Victorian Era, when Helen was just a young girl of eight, she had a twin sister named Evelyn. When they were playing in the yard of their parents giant home, two men came out of no where and grabbed Helen. Screaming, kicking and crying, she yelled for her sister. Evelyn loved Helen more than anything and would die for her sister, with these feelings she jumped at the men, biting and clawing, screaming for them to let her sister go. The men took more interest in Evelyn at that moment thinking she was strong, a fighter, that she would be useful, so they dropped Helen and took her twin instead. These men were from the Cabal when it was first formed back in the 1800's. They were just a small science clan at first, kidnapping random children for their tests. Their tests of making a normal human child into an abnormal and training them for destructive purposes. For years they kept Evelyn, eventually convincing her than her sister, and family never looked for her, that they just counted their loses. They tested her with fire, injecting small doses of Fire Elemental particles. At the age of twenty-four she was both human and fire elemental, able to heat up a room to over a thousand degrees in under thirty seconds. Because of this she had prolonged life... which no one of the Cabal realized just how long. After the failure of Ashley and the super-soldiers, Dana Whitcomb, head of the Cabal moved operations to France but soon after was hunted down and killed by John. Many agents were killed by him, but the Cabal survived. Dana's niece, Delilah Whitcomb, took over operations. Eventually when the war hit its climax, the Cabal moved operations back to Canada and began planning to take down the Sanctuary yet again... this time though they had a much more deadly weapon than Ashley, and this one Helen would never see coming. Evelyn was to take out the last of the Five, Helen, Nikola, and John... and anyone who stood in her way. Evelyn had no choice... she didn't want to kill her sister, but if she didn't she knew the Cabal would kill her daughter. Whom was created by the Cabal using her DNA. The child was now ten years old, and was pyrokanisis. She couldn't... wouldn't put Rebekah in danger... she refused. Not only that but she knew she had to keep another child safe, one that went to school with her daughter. The child's name was Faye Collins. Eleven years ago, the Cabal had somehow procured some DNA from a certain Nikola Tesla. They grew the child in a test tube until it could be implanted into a surrogate mother. The woman gave birth and suddenly disappeared. Evelyn didn't know where her boss never told her. The child was placed into the care of Delilah. The whole purpose was to see what kind of abilities would come out of a pure genius and part vampire. As of late, no vampiric abilities have emerged but she is telekinetic, and with one thought she can cause a persons brain to bleed, to have an aneurism, or for ones brain to completely fry. They also learned that she was wicked smart like Nikola. Of course he nor anyone else knew of her. Evelyn had no choice but to kill her sister, but she didn't know if she could kill Fayes father... even if they both don't know.