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Bailey Norwood - The Grimoire

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MY NEW BAE :iconoohmrdarcyplz: say hello to the new leader! bye Archie </3



Name: Bailey Norwood
Nickname: Bails, Nory.
Age: 28
Gender: Male
Sex: Male
Orientation: Bit of this, bit of that.
Species: Human
Division: Leader - he’s the boss!
Height:6’1”
Physical State: Buff, fit.
Mark Placement: Back. A large tree branching out across his back, moving in the direction of his chest to wrap around. The tree is a symbol of him - protective, strong, broad, and natural. It is also symbolic of his surname - Norwood, which means “The North Wood”.

Powers/Strengths: No powers. Bailey is human, the only “powers” he has is being able to eat 20 cheeseburgers in one sitting and having some sic dance moves.
His personal strengths include; being observant, resilient, practical, adaptable, resourceful, creative, protective, diplomatic and charismatic.
Weaknesses: Unknowledgeable about a lot of supernatural creatures, naive, too trusting, not the best at multitasking but he gets by, can become overwhelmed very easy, constantly doubts himself, sometimes things fly right over his head, stubborn.

Personality: From a young age, Bailey has always stood out as being a leader amongst his family and his peers. Having to take care of his sister and mother as the man of the family as a young teenager, Bailey had responsibility and expectations thrust upon him sooner than most and always had a greater emotional maturity than others his age.

Priding himself on being approachable and friendly to others, Bailey always tries to get along with others the best he can, but he is not one to sugar coat things and will not allow others to push him around.

Despite constantly doubting himself, especially since he has been in the leadership position in the group, Bailey keeps it well under wraps and is good at putting on a bravado and acting as though he knows what he is doing.

This can be a downfall as he is often too stubborn to admit that he does not readily know something and can trap himself by pretending that he does.
Rather than becoming cold and hard from his childhood, Bailey chose to take the alternate route and be a very loving, trusting person wherever possible.

Though he is not stupid and knows all too well the evils of the world and the bad things that people can do, his trusting nature makes him quite naive and he is all too gullible, and can very easily be taken for a ride, simply because he would rather believe somebody than insult them by doubting them - as he knows what it is like to have severe doubt plaguing you.

Since he has started working with supernaturals, Bailey has found himself becoming a lot more suspicious of things, simply because he is in a relatively new environment and does not know how to gauge these very different kinds of people. Therefore if something sounds simply too outlandish, he will investigate.

Bailey tries to run the team by being an authoritative leader who lays down the law in order to keep others safe, and can be a little too protective at times, not often willing to take risks unless someone really convinces him to.

Bailey has a great amount of respect for anyone who has respect for him, otherwise he will not be too hospitable if there is anyone acting out or causing conflict with him or with others.

Bailey is the type to go for the friendly, charismatic approach first over the hard, stoic way, to get things done or give orders. Be warned, however, he does not like having to ask for things to be done more than once, as he is fond of practicality and efficiency.


History: Originally born in Sierra Leone, Bailey’s family moved to the UK when he was only three, so he does not have many memories of it, and most of his accent is gone. Living in East London until he was twenty with his mother and little sister, Bailey’s upbringing was not easy.

Bailey’s father passed away when he was thirteen and Bailey had to quickly become a man to help his mother take care of his sister, and to help pay the bills by doing labouring work for his neighbours and family friends to earn anything he could.

Much of Bailey’s youth was spent on being an adult, but he would often go out to clubs and go drinking with his friends as a teenager whenever he could, and was always sociable and friendly.

Working here and there throughout the years, Bailey has never once been without a job since he was thirteen, and enjoys working and being active - a sedentary life is not for him.

Bailey first found his way into the supernatural world by taking a job as a logistics crew member in a nightclub working on their lighting rigs. Little did he know that there had been a mistake in the recruiting process, and he got the job when he shouldn’t have, leading him to discover that the nightclub was actually one catered specifically to supernaturals.

After a good while almost losing his mind over the discovery of paranormal creatures, Bailey soon found out that there were some pretty awesome people in the supernatural community, and realised that they were all often incredibly colourful characters.

It was a bad run-in with some of the … Not so kind creatures which set him on his journey to meeting Dave and assisting in the protecting and maintenance of civility within the community. After his incident, Bailey decided not to live in fear or reflect the actions of particulars on others who were more pure of intent, and was sought out and offered a position in a small group in Sweden.

A, very, small group. Bailey’s team there was only three, not including himself, and quickly within the folds he stood out as their team leader, and worked for Dave for a good five years there until an issue with the dragons who were situated in Norway created more problems than were worth.

The small group attempted to fix the situation and even had an audience with the dragon clans themselves there to try to stop them pressing their territory boundaries, but they failed, and were sent away from the region unsuccessful.

Meeting a particular dragon on the mission, the team recruited one more. But by this time, it was too late, and the team moved on to other units in other places of the world.

It was then, at the end of 2015, when Bailey was asked by Dave to take over leadership of his main team situated in London. Ecstatic to be going back home, and deeply honoured by the job offer, Bailey snapped up the opportunity immediately and took the next flight out to land there by the new year and take over his new role as the team leader of the London group.

Family/Relatives: Mother, sister, father (deceased).

Relationship: Currently single.

Other/Facts:
- East Londoner Accent, Hackney dialect tendencies and slang. example, very similar to Curtis from Misfits
- Bailey constantly has his phone with him, it is like his life jacket when it comes to quickly having to pull up research on the supernatural creatures around him. Losing it or having it broken is like losing a limb or breaking an arm.
- Though he has done it before, and though he tries not to let it show, Bailey is incredibly nervous about leading a team of supernaturals. The team he is going into is so much bigger than what he is used to, and he is a newcomer, and is nervous about being in over his head wiht them all (which honestly he is).
- Bailey enjoys dancing (not professionally) and sings on occasion. 
- Loves music. 
- Loves partying/clubbing.
- Good presentation/likes to dress neat and tidy, most often clean shaven/rarely has stubble and even rarer a beard.
- Enjoys drinking, will take party drugs when he's out.
- FRECKLES!!

theme song: You're A Man Now, Boy - Raleigh Ritchie 
(more to come)
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gothculture's avatar
he's beautiful and i want 2 join asap