Name: Kurt Wakeman
Nicknames: none
Sex: male
Species: were-lion
Ethnicity: English
Age: 35
Position: Mane
Occupation: mortician/restoration artist
Residence: Sahara

Family: parents Harold and Diane Wakeman living in England, older sister Rita, younger sister Megan
Children: daughter Sandrine
Significant Other: ex wife Hannah Smith

Appearance: Kurt is fairly average looking. He's medium height, medium build, though does have a strong upper body and a nicely shaped chest from sculpted from hours at working out in the gym. His hair is very dark brown, almost black in appearance, his eyes are a deep brown as well. His nose is fairly large, and flat at the end, his lips are thick, his teeth white with hints of yellowing from caffeine and nicotine addiction. Kurt's smile though, usually, always is warm and friendly.
Dress Style: Kurt tends to like smart casual, he's not one for designers, and can appreciate a good bargain when he finds one. His favourite item of clothing is a worn leather jacket he's rarely seen without.
Marks/Scars/Tattoos: none
Carried Possessions: wallet, credit cards, cash, cell phone.

Personality: Kurt is a fairly easy going guy, he tends to like to try and get along with everyone, find something he can relate to. He doesn't always jump into conversation, has a habit of watching things, and sometimes getting lost in his own thoughts and musings, thinking about what's going on, what could be happening, rather than actually saying anything. Despite seeming almost passive - Kurt can actually be surprisingly devious, he doesn't get squeamish and won't hesitate to kill or get involved in frowned up on activities. He actually works for a funeral home restoring bodies for funeral viewings.
Talents: Kurt is a dominant lycan, and has complete control of his beast, he also has typical lycan speed and enhanced senses and healing power. Kurt is also quite bilingual, he's good at learning languages quickly. He can speak fluent French and German and is learning Italian. Since he was a child Kurt always liked to make things - model kits, like cars and planes, and work with clay. He studied art in college, though never developed talents as a sculptor even with clay, instead, he went to mortuary school, interesting in sculpting the broken bodies of dead people to make them beautiful.
Weaknesses: Kurt isn't particularly good at socially interacting. He has a somewhat odd and almost disturbing sense of humor, despite his trying to get along with people; he over tries sometimes. Other times, he's completely in his own world and doesn't seem to have a clue what's going on. Its hard to know if he's there or not. He's a chain smoker as well, and not just cigarettes, he's a pot smoker. He also drinks far too much caffeine, and was in rehab (court ordered) for an alcohol related car accident that was his fault.

History: Kurt grew up in England with a regular middle class family. He wasn't the brightest student but that didn't seem to bother him much. He was fourteen when he smoked his first cigarette (because all his friends were) and sixteen when he had his first joint, Kurt has not quit either habit yet. Kurt left school at sixteen, not really knowing what to do with his life.

A few of his friends thought it would be neat to tour the various cities in the States. So they worked whatever jobs they could get, and the group went to celebrate various eighteenth birthdays. On the trip, they stayed in Chicago for a while, passing through Illinois, and Milwaukee. In Milwaukee, Kurt met a girl, Melissa Smith, with whom he had a few dates. One night ended with them sleeping together. Kurt left the next morning before she woke up. He didn't think he'd see her again.

Until a few months later, when his trip was almost over. Kurt was in New York, about to go back to the UK, when he was attacked by a strange group of men, and knocked out. Kurt woke up and found himself seeing the girl again, Melissa. Only Melissa had a surprise for him. She was pregnant. The guys who brought Kurt to her were Melissa's older brothers. They were an old fashioned family who believed that Melissa and Kurt should be married and raise the child as a family. Left unsaid was an underlying threat to Kurt if he didn't agree. So he agreed, the wedding was held in Milwaukee and Kurt moved in with Melissa and her family. Since they were only eighteen, Melissa's parents wanted them close by. Melissa's family had a large house with an apartment over the garage that she and Kurt occupied.

Kurt needed a job, he expressed an interest in sculpture, Melissa's father thought artists were idiots, Melissa's mother suggested mortuary school and restoration - a sort of art form and something that was useful. So they sent Kurt to mortuary school. Once completed Kurt got a job in a local funeral home. Late one night, after work, Kurt stopped on his way home to get some pot, and pick up a hooker. Unknown to him, the hooker was a lycanthrope, and through some scratching, Kurt was infected. He found out when he changed at the next full moon. Melissa, now having had her baby, a daughter they named Sandrine, was horrified and so were her family - they were anti lycan. And tossed him out.

Kurt went to a bar to drown his sorrows, where he was approached by the hooker who had infected him. She apologised, and took him to the Milwaukee Pride. Kurt moved in with them. Only to get into a fight with the Pride's third in command who claimed the hooker Kurt had come in with was his girl. The fight resulted in the other guy's death, landing Kurt in the Third in Command position by fight to the death. The result boosted Kurt's confidence in himself as a lycan, and his swiftness in victory establishing his dominance quickly.

He recently travelled as a guest to the Chicago Pride with his own Pride's Regina.

Model:
Robert Beltrane

Quote: Radiohead