NAME: Matt Hogan aka 'Graves'
( full name : Mattias Garfield Hogan Cavallaro however he does NOT use it or let people know about it )
AGE: 33 yrs
CREATURE: Half-drow, half-witch , *necromancer
ABILITIES: some Drow abilities - shadow glamour, limited self healing, night vision, excellent hearing,
no witch abilities - was born with the necromancer ability instead.
- As necromancer - can communicate and command the dead, both in
spirit and body.... can control even some vampires during the day and
has some ability over them at night as well. Can raise the dead and
create zombies as well.
HEIGHT: 6' 6"
HAIR: ( natural chocolate brown ) Dyed a vibrant bright blue . Slightly wavy mid-chest length.
EYES: lavender
APPEARANCE: Graves prefers the ' tough guy' look when 'working' but
goes for comfort over anything else. His wardrobe is largely black and
dark coloured clothing. His ears bare a slight point to them due to his
fae blood and he wears a silver ear cuff on the tip of his right ear.
Both earlobes are pierced and although he generally only wears two
plain silver hoops on the right, he wears a variety on his left- most
often some sort of skull or other death related emblem. When he's driving his motorcycle, he wears biker leathers, which only add to the bad boy image.
He has a tattoo that runs the entire length of his right arm of a
sword piercing several skulls. He has another 'bejeweled' Aztec styled
skull done in a vibrant blue on his stomach. He has a black and white
ying yang symbol over his heart made of skulls and his back is covered
in a black work of a ghouls face peering out through ripped skin.
HISTORY:
Refused by his Drow father,(later revealed to be Mournrin aka Rin
) Matt was raised by his mother until he was ten and his necro
abilities manifested, at which point he was cast out by the entire
witch community ( or so he believed). A brief stay in a mental institute, followed by a
string of foster homes until he ran off on his own at 12, Matt had few
friends and preferred it that way. He hooked up with one of the Chaos
Inc. teams while in New York and wound up working for them, traveling
solo where ever he was needed. Matt tends to handle cases involving
vampire troubles that go beyond what the teams normally handle, as well
as anything involving zombies or other undead.. or anything that needs
the dead involved....
Matt has been working for the company off and on for five years,
officialy signing on as a full time employee three years ago. He has
no 'base', receiving his work orders over the phone or online,
preferring to keep to himself as much as possible.
Matt owns a renovated church (graveyard included) that he calls home
in the western half of Massachusetts, that he inherited from a friend
upon her death. He leaves it in the care of a groundskeeper while he's
on the road, knowing that the man will look after the place as well as
which ever vehicle he's left behind... He owns both a classic 1961
Cadillac hearse and an old Harley that he 'rescued'. Both boast his own
little flare with zombie artwork airbrushed onto them.
Matt has a side job that he enjoys as much as, if not more than, his
work for Chaos Inc. He's a writer for an online magazine, where he has
a column featuring his views on various horror-related movies and other
media, as well as his own Question and Answer section. He also
contributes the occasional article on various undead topics and
happenings to various magazines and newspapers. While he doesn't use a
pen name, he doesn't advertise his part in this either, so not many
connect him to the writer.
Recently Matt was waylaid and claimed by a rather ugly little kitten
named Iggy ( or Ugly Iggy as she's better known ) who has made him her
guardian... when Matt's on the road she either has the run of the
property to terrorize everyone, or moves into the hearse and joins him.
During his last job at the Chaos Inc. headquarters ( "In Search of
Sanctuary" ) he meets a kindred spirit in Saffron, the Death Elemental
and the two strike up a friendship.
