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Callum

Name: Callum Darling
Nicknames: Jack
Age: 15
Parents: Wendy and Edward Darling
Gender: Male
Pronouns: He/Him
Sexuality: Bisexual
Siblings: Jane and Danny
Relationships: Crushing (Calyspo Hook)

Appearance: Callum has the same curly brown hair as Wendy. He also inherited her dreamy blue eyes, adding his own far-away smile that would be attractive if he ever owned it. He's a medium height for most boys his age, but holds himself in a way that makes himself appear smaller. Callum knows nothing about fashion and dresses like a grandmother when in London, complete with an oversized sweater and an array of dull pants. (It's rare that he has matching socks on.) When in Neverland, Callum usually wears a simple top lent by the fairies made of a grey material he didn't question. He keeps a hairband around his wrist even though he doesn't tie his hair up, using it to fidget with whenever he's nervous. Which is often.

Personality: Callum's a dreamer, not a fighter. Thanks to anxiety, he has difficulty when it comes to social interaction and prefers to keep to himself when he can. He hates all conflict, meaning his typical coping mechanism involves avoiding stressful events entirely. Callum isn't particularly street or book smart, but he has a curious soul and loves inventing new ideas for things. He's a story-teller and finds a kind of beauty in anything he hears given time. Callum loves the idea of being someone else due to years of self-hatred, not understanding how he could have much worth to any universe. He's kind to anyone who can tolerate him, understanding those who've been shut down like he was so many times before.

Powers: n/a

Alignment: Neutral Good

Loves: drawing, pirate ships, fantasy stories, pixies, discussing dreams, cloud-sorting, bumble bees, sun-lit days

Hates: public speaking, social interaction, flying, bullying of any kind, muddy pavements

Backstory: Callum grew up in London to a family of five. Callum had the youngest age and heart within the three children, being the one who actually believed in the stories Wendy told at bedtime. When Jane and Danny grew out of 'Neverland', he started making up his own adventures through art.

Callum never fit in at school. He spent his classes doodling on notebook paper and turned in many math assignments with fairies and pirate ships sketched onto corners. The only class he didn't get consistent C's in was art: where his talent for bringing 'Neverland' to life was actually appreciated. Wendy loved her son's creativity and encouraged it the best she could without disrupting his education any further. Edward, Callum's father, didn't understand his fascination quite as much but Wendy instructed her husband not to bring it up.

Soon Neverland became Callum's form of escapism. When he was sent to boarding school for highschool, the other boys there didn't see art as something to show off and didn't treat an anxious stutter kindly. Callum was shoved into walls and developed an awkwardness at interaction that he couldn't shake. His anxiety only got worse as his grades dropped again and Callum started wishing on anything he could that he could be somewhere else.

At age 15, the wishing came true. Callum saved a firefly's life on his window sill without thinking before bed one night. Said firefly turned out to be a fairy, one who knew Callum's pain well, and without asking she whisked him away to Neverland. Wendy's son woke up on a beach with no knowledge of how he got there and ran right into a pirate's daughter...