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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jkason" data-source="post: 4832482" data-attributes="member: 2710">Name: Gavin Peterson Background: Raised by his human father, Gavin didn't know about his true heritage until a drunken prom drive ended in disaster. Or nearly so. Though the car was demolished, all four teenagers in it survived unscathed. What Gavin kept from his classmates was his own part in their survival. Overwhelmed by a massive hunger, he had touched them, relished their pain, and only afterwards realized his feast left them all remarkably whole.Gavin's father, however, seemed to know what had happened. He revealed that Gavin's real mother had been a Poena Epulum ("Pain Feast") demon. One of her species' more benign members, she met Joshua Peterson in a hospital after a fire left his body covered in second and third degree burns. She bonded and mated with him in the euphoria of feasting on so much pain, but left the seemingly-human child behind, fearing it would not survive the demonic world.Hoping to control his hunger and learn about his mother, Gavin set off in search of his demon-kin. He found them, nomadic demon medics, 'psychic surgeons', all pointing him West in the search for his mother. There, in Los Angeles, he also discovered the nastier side of the Poena Epulum: sadistic torturers maiming innocents, healing them through feasting, only to torture them further. He fled South, wound up in San Diego where he used his natural talents to gain work as an EMT, trying to live a 'normal' life. But he couldn't un-know about the other world, and eventually he found himself once again drawn into it. This time recruited by the new Watcher's council. His ability to sense pain helps him find those in need, while his 'feasting' makes him a solid medic for the fighting which inevitably occurs.Skills & Abilities: Gavin is naturally observant, but also possesses extra senses through his demon heritage. His EMT training gives him a decent grounding in medicine, and as he's not a naturaly fighter, he's developed a fair number of defensive strategies, from bluffing to learning how to roll with the punches he does take.Poena Epulum demons have the ability to 'feast' on organically-generated pain, which has the side effect of healing. They can sense pain at a distance, and can project pain of varying forms at a distance--partly as a means of self-defense, but mostly to feed their young. Gavin inherited the pain-sense, but his own ability to heal and project pain (Nausea, Stun, etc.) is limited to physical contact.</blockquote>

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