Tag: The Border Clan

Border: Hunter

Brisco County Jr. is the son of the famed US Marshal, Brisco County, Sr.  Growing up, all he wanted to do was follow in his father’s footsteps.  After he was shot and almost killed on a mission his father sent him on, his family decided to send him to Harvard.

At Harvard, Brisco earned his law degree, but realized that being a lawyer wasn’t what he wanted to do.  While traveling back to his home, he learned that his father had been killed by the Blythe Gang.

He vowed to carry out his father’s last job and bring in John Blythe, so he teamed up with two of his father’s US Marshal friends, James Hickok and Noah Dixon.

During a standoff with Blythe, Brisco was injured and subsequently Turned.

Border: Hunter

Brisco works as a Political Science teacher at Charles Xavier’s School in order to be close to his Mate.  While still works occasionally for Scurlock as a Hunter for Border Clan.

Brisco County Jr. is the son of the famed US Marshal, Brisco County, Sr.  Growing up, all he wanted to do was follow in his father’s footsteps.  After he was shot and almost killed on a mission his father sent him on, his family decided to send him to Harvard.

At Harvard, Brisco earned his law degree, but realized that being a lawyer wasn’t what he wanted to do.  While traveling back to his home, he learned that his father had been killed by the Blythe Gang.

He vowed to carry out his father’s last job and bring in John Blythe, so he teamed up with two of his father’s US Marshal friends, James Hickok and Noah Dixon.

During a standoff with Blythe, Brisco was injured and subsequently Turned.

Border: Member

Danny was born Daniel Michael McCoy in 1905. He was the oldest of three children and his father was the owner of a profitable construction company, who always wanted young Danny to follow in his footsteps and eventually become a powerful businessman. Danny however, is closer to his mother, who encourages him to do what he wants from an early age. His mother does what she can to shield him until she becomes ill when he’s fifteen. She passes away when he is sixteen and he and his father immediately butt heads, his younger siblings having been sent to live with relatives on his mother’s side. The one thing he and his father agree on is to take in his best friend Mary when it turns out that her father is abusing her. Danny goes to their home after he hears yelling, only to find her father beating her. He immediately steps in and fights her father off. Danny and Mary eventually enter a relationship that lasts until Danny turns 18.

Despite influence from his father and with not many other options available to him, Danny joins the military. Mary lost Danny’s protection, is forced to move to escape her father’s influence. A friend, who loves and cares dearly for her, offers marriage in order for her to escape.  She knows despite the fact, she cares for him, but doesn’t love him, Mary realizes he does love her, and accepts his proposal.

In 1929, after he completed his time with the military, Danny left the Marines to pursue other business ventures. When those do not pan out, he decides to use his training and enter the private security field. During this time he tries to convince Mary to leave her husband and come back to him. Mary wants to but feels that she owes it to her husband to stay with him after all he’s done for her. Danny is heartbroken and makes the decision to move.

In 1935 Danny is hired by Edward Deline to work at his Private Investigation Firm. The two quickly form a strong friendship.

Danny has several relationships through the years but never settles down. After working with Ed for years, while leaving the office one night, someone shoots at Ed. Danny shoves him away and takes the shot himself. Ed, knowing his protégé has little time, asks for Danny’s permission to Turn him.

Border: Hunter

John Grimm is the fraternal twin of Dr. Samantha Grimm. Their parents were geneticists and began teaching their children their trade at an early age. Early in their childhood their parents were killed in a tragic accident.  The siblings were outside in the playground, when an explosion ripped through the lab killing their parents.  John would never forget the screams of the people trapped inside. As a result of the accident, John and Sam were bounced around from foster home to foster home until their grandparents could finally get custody of them. Both have a knack for genetics, but Sam is the only one to follow this path. John decided he wanted nothing to do with the research that killed them and joined the military.

At the age of 18 he joined the Marines, quickly moving his way up the ranks and is recruited for the elite Rapid Response Tactical Squad. Where he met his commanding officer, Sarge, a man who would do anything to succeed. Although he hasn’t spoken with his sister in years, he kept up on all of her research and how she was doing. She was the one weak spot for the hardened Marine. He was tagged with the nickname ‘Reaper’ by his squad mates and quickly moved his way up to second in command of his unit.

In 1998 Sarge informed the squad of a special program they had been volunteered for.  It was supposed to make them faster and nearly invulnerable. This program was being operated by Donald Lydecker, head of the MANTICORE Corporation. After finding out what the experiment entailed, John decided that he didn’t want to take part in it, but was informed that refusing wasn’t an option. They held his sister over him as leverage and he reluctantly agreed to take part in the experiments in order to keep her safe. He was given different injections that allowed him to perform under various conditions. He was finally injected with something called Chromosome 24. Unfortunately, his body, like all others before him, began to reject the treatment after a few days. Lydecker ordered that he be Turned by a rogue vampire he had working for him because he didn’t want to lose one of his best test subjects.

Border: Hunter

Jason Doyle was born in 1802 to Pamela Winthrop and Sean Doyle, in Indiana. When he was twelve, a man named Chris Larabee arrived in town and became a farmhand on his parents’ farm. When he was nineteen, Doyle found out by accident that Larabee was a Vampire, and became a Chosen One for him. At the age of 31, after both his parents passed, he asked Chris to Turn him, because he was all the family Jason had left.

Border: Co-Leader

José’s mother was Navajo and father was from Mexico.  When he was young, his father disappeared, never to return, and his mother took him back to her people, where he learned about his Navajo heritage.  After they return, he was invited into the Medicine Man’s sweat lodge, and was told that one day he would meet a man who had survived death, and his life would be forfeit to him, but it would bring him eternity with his soulmate.  Soon after, his small village was destroyed by a band of Apache.  He survived the attack and was found by Mexican farmers, who took him to the nearest town.  José was given his father’s name and educated by the Catholic Church.

He ran away when he was sixteen, and spent years stealing food and money for shelter until he was caught by Tunstal.  The Englishman took him in and gave him a place to stay on the agreement he help worked the Ranch.  His life changed, the moment he met Josiah Scurlock and fell in love.  He didn’t know how to express his feelings to the other man, and over time he became content to be next to Josiah.

Fate soon found him riding with Billy the Kid and the Regulators.  As each day passed he felt the life the Medicine Man had described, slip  through his fingers.  He lost all hope when he watched Doc get shot down.  Wounded himself, he rode out into the desert to die in peace only to look up into the brilliant eyes of his soulmate.

Border: Researcher

Trinity Monroe was born to Steve and Marie Monroe in 1963 in Santa Barbara, California. She grew up with a normal, happy childhood and did her undergrad at USC and her graduate work at UCLA.  She worked as a researcher and archivist at various museums, while having a second job as a part-time trainer in various types of martial arts, which she had been training in since she was in pre-school.

Her parents died at different times while she was in her twenties, so she was alone for some time, having been an only child. Then Thomas Anderson walked into her life. She agreed to date him and a couple of months after they started dating, he revealed that he was a Vampire and that she was his Mate. She agreed to be Turned and Bonded to him shortly thereafter.

Border: Lead Hunter

Thomas Anderson was born in 1890 to John and Michelle Anderson. He grew up in Baltimore, Maryland and lost his parents to a house fire in 1895 while he was off visiting relatives. His uncle, unable to care for him along with his own seven children, sent him to live with his grandparents in London. He enlisted in the military in 1914 and was part of the African theatre in World War I. During these skirmishes, he befriended Morpheus, who Turned him when he was mortally wounded.