Atticus Roster

Atticus Roster
Atticus, fondly known as Atti by most, was born unknown to his father until a family friend brought him to the man's door. His mother had not survived childbirth, and so his father, Dean, wholeheartedly took on the task of raising this child.

His father was a kind man, for lack of any better terms, and worked as a private doctor treating people from all walks of life. He deemed himself as having no affiliation with his father, Dieter Roster, and attempted to look after Atti in the kindest and calmest environment he could possibly create. Around the age of 6 or 7, Dean took in his younger, teenage sister, Haley Roster, after the death of their other sibling, Poppy, and Atti grew very fond of his young aunt.

Throughout school, he became good friends with Freya Reaper, a feisty young girl who shared his taste for rebellion. They continued to be friends late into life, him often supporting (and betting on) her boxing hobby.

While still young Atti witnessed a violent vampire attack on his father and aunt, and the constant rehoming of his new baby aunt, Belle. Haley moved back in with her father Dieter, who was better equipped to deal with the adverse effects of vampirism, while his own father Dean struggled with the morality of killing others for life. His friends attempted to bring him bottled blood, and he stole as often as he could from hospitals, but he was constantly left in a highly weakened state that Atti fiercely noticed. It left him unable to defend himself when his own father, Attis grandfather, killed Dean and abducted Atticus for travelling. He doesn't, or claims this is the case, remember much of the journeys or how his grandfather was in character. He notes, often to Freya, who had no real reason to hate his grandfather like most other people, that he does not really remember what happened to his grandfather after they returned. Only that he is dead, and that it was easier to pretend his life onwards had always been that way.

Life onwards was his adoption by Noah Mason, a perhaps even kinder man who granted Atticus a peaceful upbringing. Kindness and attentiveness healed most of Atti’s wounds, and although his confusion was never answered, he found a lot of peace with his new guardian. He did, however ,feel he had the right to be a bit off the rails, and Noah wasn't much the type to stop him.