Jan Aksamit

• good childhood; reasonable parents
• stupid decisions as a teenager & hard time recovering from those
• finding a calling and getting his shit together

It was lively and rather uneventful - peaceful as only childhood can be. His parents made it a priority to provide him with a grounded upbringing within the human world, shielding him from most of the complexities of the supernatural realm - while they did introduce him to it, he did not expressed interest in learning more about it until he was older.

As a kid, he much preferred the company of other human children - he would not be able to name the feeling that he has had about the non-humans until much later: it was inadequacy, since his powers only started manifesting sometime during late adolescence.

However, that did not stop him from having a fulfilling childhood - he was allowed to explore and learn by himself, guarded by the elders from many different sides. He was a rather curious child and, while he did not like playing with other non-humans, he liked hearing stories about the other realms.

By the time he reached adolescence, he was well-educated and prepared for any possible complications puberty can throw at him; however, that wasn't enough to combat the feeling of inadequacy he has felt throughout his childhood. Thus, as an effort to rebel, he enrolled in army.

He never talked much about his experiences there; but people around him knew that he ended up going to a field mission in a different country - and that is where his powers manifested for the first time.

He, himself, remembers only fragments - the sounds of bombs, hot and heavy air, screams of people running for their lives, buildings crashing around him, and the blood moon growing closer and closer until it swallowed the sky.

He doesn't know how he survived; he doesn't remember how they returned him home. Shock from that event has spread and corrupted the memories of that entire part of his life; and he knows it's something he won't ever get back... nor does he want to.

Uneventful, yet again. He started working as a night-shift security guard in a nearby apartment complex; thought about pursuing a degree but never really felt up to it. His parents did not pressure him to change - they let him discover what he wants on his own terms. However, they did suggest different professions for him, as time passed and they all grew to understand that there's no future in a job such as this one.

At first, he did not listen at all; he worked long hours no one else wanted to pick up - he tried to lose himself in his job but, after an intervention from his friends, he grew to understand just how unhealthy it is to live solely to be a good tool for others to use. And so, he asked his parents for suggestions, this time intending to listen.

The ones that stuck were being a bodyguard, or a security officer - both parents stressed how he would be an amaizing protector, with or without his powers; and he started seriously thinking about it. He had a strong desire to protect people; and he felt no small amount of guilt for... whatever happened during that blood moon. However, he did not jump at the opportunity immediately - first, he wanted to learn how to work with his powers.

Both parents happily helped him learn more about both sides of his uncharacteristic transformation - father focused on the physical, while mother focused on the magical. They also asked for help of some of their old friends; so he had many a teacher and, for the first time in his life, he socialized in the supernatural circles without feeling like an outsider - this time, he felt like he belonged.

At the same time, his mother recommended that he started therapy; and an acquintance of hers was someone who was a known psychologist for those belonging outside of the regular human world. There, he learnt a whole lot more than he ever thought he would - about himself and his inner workings, as well as the psyche of humans and other beings. It was in no small part thanks to this that he managed to learn how to master his powers - his magic was influenced by emotion, most often those primal ones, such as fear and anger. Through therapy and training, he learnt how to harness it out of desire to protect, stabilizing it and, finally, understanding how to be in full control.

With this newfound confidence, he finished some courses and obtained needed certifications to become a bodyguard; and slowly he made a name for himself, changing employers as he got better and better offers, until he ended up working for an entertainment agency which was the one Heath has recently become a part of.

Two rising stars, each in their respective fields, were brought together as a match at Jan's request. He and his family were aware of Heath's existence for years; and they have suspected he's one of them since he appeared not to age at all - which sparked an interest that turned into a forest fire. Agency has assigned Jan to personally oversee Heath's security; both as a bodyguard (his primary request) and as a chief security officer - someone who oversees an entire team of people dedicated to the safety of Heath and his staff.

Jan was fell in love the moment he laid his eyes upon the other man, in the office where they first met; but he didn't let those feelings sway him or impact his work - he even tried to get over it by getting in different relationships as years passed. The feelings only grew stronger, turning from idolization to genuine affection; and the final tipping point was an attempt on Heath's life - that was the moment when Jan allowed himself to do something he thought he'd never do again -- to take a life.

However, he did come to his senses and, after a scuffed confession of both love and what he did to the person who tried to end Heath's life, he found out that his powers don't need to be used only for offence; which led to a myriad of other tiny discoveries - simply by changing his view on one thing, a much bigger change followed, and he grew into the image of himself he made over the years.