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Malachai Dresden

Played by Lisa

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Name: Malachai Dresden

Nickname: Mal (his mother), Malki (Abby ONLY)

Age: 22

Birthday: August 6

Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual

Status: Single

Job: Plans on working at his mother’s store All Appliances

Religion: Zen Buddhism

Chronic diseases/Other Illness: Though he hasn’t been diagnosed, he is suffering from Depression

Allergies: None

Smokes: Whenever he’s not eating (mostly)

Drinks: Like a fish

Illegal drugs: Just call him The Cannabis King

College: Dropped out, don’t ask.

Glasses or contacts: He could probably use them but doesn’t for stupid reasons

Left or right handed: Both

Favorite feature: His hands (because they have the ability to fix things)

Least favorite feature: Being a bit bowlegged

Worst habit: Binge drinking and chain smoking

Biggest fear: His mother falling for the wrong man again

Greatest strength: Being the man of the family

Biggest weakness: Feeling he is a bad role model for his younger siblings

Most common misconception about him: That he’s satisfied with his life

Responsible Driver? Usually only if his siblings are with him.

The Meaning of his name

Malachai - Messenger of God.

Dresden - People of the riverside forest.

Appearance

At his full height, Malachai stands at 5' 11" with a lean but still fairly built swimmer’s frame. Mal, as his mother often calls him, has straight long brown hair, and eyes that can’t seem to make up their mind on what color they are. Loose jeans, old school Chucks and thrift store tees (with a long-sleeved shirt underneath if it’s cold out) are what he can usually be caught in when he’s not in a work uniform.

Tattoo: A Buddha head on his upper arm. By request, the artist made it to look like a bronze statue. To achieve this, the natural skin color is kept appropriately.

Personality

In the right company, Malachai is laid-back, quite entertaining and willing to play peacemaker. He’s relatively caring and giving and tries to live his life to the absolutely fullest. He’s loud, quick-witted and a total free spirit. But just as quickly, he can seriously not give a shit about anyone but himself and be your typical, acerbically, dark-humored smartass. Although in reality, his wit, unruliness and heavy partying covers his true and deep-rooted feelings as well as his widely unknown, bruised past.

Mal is a natural-born leader and can be very vocal about his objections and believes very strongly in his own morals. Usually, he doesn't like talking about himself and or his problems but is genuine, charming and outgoing at any other type of conversation; he carries himself incredibly well. He may have a lot to hide but seemly isn’t too be affected by it. Seemly being the keyword. Though the eldest Dresden son has a mouth like a sailor, he’s also, deep-down plagued with a heart of a saint. It's tricky and dangerous to try and figure this twenty-one year old out, Malachai himself wisely never tries.

Personal History

Malachai was raised in his grandfather's trailer until he was ready for school. Then his mother got a job in Austin and settled down to let him stay in one school. He'd go to the shop with her sometimes after school while she finished her hours. In '94, she married his stepfather, Claude Dempsey. At first Claude was pretty good to him, got him into a fancy private school and moved his mom and him out of the one bedroom apartment and into an enormous house. Then... things got bad, little by little. Finally things came to a head when his mother caught Claude hitting him. He told her it was the first time it had happened. It wasn't. It didn't matter. She yanked him, his brother and their unborn sister out of Claude's clutches.

In 2001, they moved to Pleasant Port and everything changed for the better. They struggled financially for a bit, both Mal and his mom working together to keep their family afloat. Malachai mostly just kept a smile on his face and a hop in his step to show his little brother that everything was okay. He made friends through high school, enjoyed being a bit of a class clown and loved coming home to his family at the end of his day. He’d play dress up with Abby, talk world history with Toby and sit out on the porch with his mom while they each talked about their day.

By the time Malachai was eighteen, he knew that he wanted to go to college to study Herbalism as his minor and Philosophy (specifically Buddhist Studies) as his major. He finally got to do that in 2005 but the school was far from home. It was a pretty hard adjustment but Mal got through it. For over two years at school, Malachai was happy. He had a beautiful girlfriend named Holly, awesome grades in all his classes, his own apartment and a part-time job at a Auto Shop that was more of a hobby than actual work. Everything was going good.

It wasn’t until the beginning of February of ‘07, that things went south. When his apartment was vandalized and robbed, Holly (who was living with him at the time) had viciously blamed him for it, saying that all the times he sold marijuana had finally came back to bite him in the ass. Malachai knew that wasn’t the case because the only people he ever sold to were his close friends (which was more trading favors than selling) and none of them would ever do that to him. Besides they were all with him the night it happened anyway. But Holly wouldn’t listen to reason (even though two other apartments were robbed that night as well) and the couple got into a huge fight (not their first) resulting in something that never happened before; Holly repeatedly hit Malachai in a fit of rage.

It that moment, it took him back to all the times Claude had struck him. Brought back the feelings of absolute helplessness. Obviously, the two were done. She moved out that night, closely followed by Mal since their dispute had caused such a disturbance, he was kicked out of the complex. Malachai stayed with close friends until he got another place but since the break up had drudged up old memories of his abusive past, his whole being changed. His grades dropped, he stopped showing up at work due to hangovers until he finally got fired, he started getting into fights, something he never did before. Anything and everything was going wrong. Mal found himself overwhelmed and drowning and the only life-raft he knew was back in Pleasant Port, back with his family. Without much of a farewell, he dropped out of school, packed up very few things into his Impala and headed back home.

Job

His mother owns All Appliance so it just seemed like the place to start out for the time being.

Living Situation

Address: College from 2005 -2007 but is currently staying at his mother's house (18 Farmer's Avenue)

Transportation

1970 Chevrolet Impala 4-door. This baby is his heart and soul.

Family Background

Mother	Cadissy Dresden	38	Mal is very close to his mother. He considers her one of his best friends even if he wouldn’t outright admit it to other people. He’s always felt very protective of her which is why he never told her how bad things got with Claude.
Father	Richard Winters	Deceased	Malachai doesn't know much about his father. He died before Malachai was born. But when his mother talks about him, Malachai can tell that she loved him, even though he was a convicted felon
Brother	Tobias Dempsey	11	Toby impresses the hell out of Mal sometimes. He's proud of how smart the kid turned out and likes to think it has a lot to do with himself helping raising him. He loves his little brother fiercely but sometimes, in the right light, Malachai sees a bit of Claude in Tobias (his features) and it scares the hell out of him.
Sister	Abigail Dempsey	7	Abby is Malachai's hero. He wished he could be as carefree and happy as she is all the time. He showed her how to ride a horse, likes to teach her little songs and is determined to see to it that no man every hurts her.
Stepfather	Claude Dempsey	43	While Claude was married to his mother, he would beat Malachai occasionally for whatever reason he could come up with. As soon as Cadissy found out, she took her other children and Malachai, and left.
Grandfather	Sam Dresden	76	His grandfather is probably one of the most positively influential people in his life. Malachai respects the hell out of the man and has always seem him as a father figure.

Relationships with other Characters

Scott Archer: Mal met Scott when he moved to town in 11th grade. They became pretty good friends in high school and remain good friends to this day. Mal considers him to be one of his best friends if not his only best friend.

Fletcher Montgomery: Malachai met Fletcher on the top of a cliff when he was 17. They dove off of it together, wild, and that was the beginning of their friendship. For almost a year, they would often go on day hikes and climbs together. Then Mal left for college. Now that he's back, Mal hopes to continue their friendship like it used to be, care-free and wild.

Josephine McConnell: Mal met Jo on the boardwalk when her energetic Jack Russell Tink got away from her and came straight for him. After only a few minutes of conversation, Malachai thinks she's one of the nicest (and shortest) people he's encountered. He also hopes he might be able to get some free ice cream out of it too.

Michel Decker -

Ren Alden -

Rylee Romsland -

What Other Characters Have to Say About Malachai

Life

Activities: Cliff diving, rock climbing, kayaking, camping, fixing up old cars, hanging out with friends, partying, sleeping in late.

Likes: His family, sushi, his mom’s laugh, horror movies, being spontaneous, liquor, Mary Jane, partying, Buddhism, radio up and windows down, driving fast and not getting caught.

Dislikes: Claude Dempsey, the government, law enforcement, shitty drivers, seedy hash, bullies, meatheads, snobs, traffic, holier-than-thou people, debt, organizers.

Favorite film: Funny Games (1997/2007)

Favorite song: Over The Hills And Far Away by Led Zeppelin

Favorite quote: “My whole goal is just to live my life for story and experience."

Favorite food: He can literally have Sushi everyday if he could

Favorite beverage: Moosehead Lager

Favorite color: Earthy hues

Favorite book: Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha

Favorite actor/actress: Robert England (only because he played Freddy Krueger)

Schedule

to be determined

Day	Time	Activity
Fri
Sat
Sun
Mon
Tues
Wed
Thurs	8:30pm-9:30pm	Climbing Club

Facts about Malachai

Malachai is a huge horror flick buff and has seen just about every film in the genre. He likes to think that if he were to be plunged into one of those situations, he’d know what to do in order to survive.
Malachai considers the infamous plane hijacker from the 1970s, D.B. Cooper, one of his biggest heroes even if he was a criminal. The man didn’t hurt a single person during the ordeal and was apparently a friendly and civil hijacker according to the flight crew. Mal completely believes that D.B. survived the jump out of the plane and is living it up in the Bahamas.
While Malachai’s hate for Spider-man isn’t a secret, the reason as to why is. When he was a child, living under Claude’s roof, he picked up this issue and couldn’t understand why Spider-man never rescued him from his bully.
For the past four years, Malachai has been secretly writing a script of what he thinks will be the greatest horror movie ever made. His biggest fear is that Stephen King has already thought of it.