Name: Aspen Gallagher Nickname: Age: 35 (When turned)  Real age: 55 Spouse: none Children: none Parents: James and Monica Madison Occupation:  Psychiatrist to the US Eastern Branch

Height: 6' 1”
Weight: 169
Hair Color: Light brown
Eye Color: Blue

Distinguishing Marks: None

Abilities: Werewolf

Aspen has the ability to shape shift into a wolf or wolf like creature during night hours.  Werewolves have an aversion to bright lights and wolfs bane.  They are allergic to silver, in all forms.  This allergic reaction can range from being blisters from the touch on skin or to killing them if taken internally.  Can be killed by fire, decapitation or silver poisoning.  They age at a slower rate then humans but are not immortal.  They can have children but they do chance in passing on the werewolf curse.

Hobbies: Aspen plays the guitar, is an exercise junkie and has learned a few dozen magic tricks over the years.  His greatest are card tricks; he’s great at slight of hand.  Still drinks a little too much as well.

Psychological Background: Aspen is a compassionate, caring individual.  He’s a great shrink because he’s willing to go that extra mile to help a patient.  He’s also not very stable himself and currently taking medication for bipolar disorder.  He presents himself as a happy, healthy person, but he’s still struggling with his disorder and his sister’s death.  But he’s been known, even before his breakdown, to be totally unpredictable in everything he does, he’s still that way.

Personality Quirks: Aspen rides his bike everywhere he can.  Reads a lot and spends a lot of time alone, doing research on whatever he happens to need to work on at the time.  Has disregard for the advice, opinions and views of others if they contradict his own ideas.  Willful (not so good as a team player).  Possible concern about the genetic component of schizophrenia (which may contribute to his reluctance for a seriously committed relationship).  Also, has three black belts in Martial arts and can shoot very well.

Aspen and his fraternal twin Aston were born to their parents, in London, England.  Their father was a Magistrate and their mother was a registered nurse.  So they had a good life, they went to private schools and were in the upper class elite of England.  They were also, being twins, were very close to each other.

It was the type of life a lot of people would have loved to have, till their father was killed in an accident.  Monica and the kids didn’t know what to do; they tried to go on with life, the kids seemed to manage it, but Monica after a while got lonely.

She had moved the kids out of the house, it held to many memories for her and to a smaller house.  Thomas, her husband, had left all the money to the kids in a trust fund, but enough to keep Monica going for a few years, he of course thought that he’d die years later and Monica probably a few years later.  But that’s not what happened. 

So she had to get a full time job.  She got a job on Naval Base close by and there she met an American Naval officer.  They started dating, it took the kids a while to warm up to him, but soon they did.  A few years of dating and James asked Monica to marry him, she agreed.

They stayed in London a few more years and then James was transferred back to the States.  They were sent to New York and that was a bit of a culture shock to the kids, but amazingly, the kids adjusted well and made friends.  Most were in love with their accents.

Time went on and Aston started to have some problems.  First, it was little things, odd things that Aspen and his parents started to notice, but later Aston was having visual and auditory hallucinations.  Monica and James didn’t know what to do, at the time the technology of the mind hadn’t caught up to reality.  So they put Aston in an institution. 

That was the worse day of Aspen’s life. 

He’s resented James ever since.  But his life had to go on.  Then and there, he decided to become a shrink.  It had been kind of tickling his mind since the day he went to visit his mother at the military hospital and he was called by a soldier.  He went into the room and the man asked him to itch his foot, he couldn’t reach it.  Problem was, the foot the man claimed was itching was amputated.  That intrigued Aspen then, wondering how the human mind worked. 

But after Aston’s institutionalization, he threw himself totally into school and seeing her when he could.  He started to date as well, but every time he got close to someone, he did something to sabotage it.  He won’t admit it, but he has an irrational fear that he’s going to end up like Aston.  Even today.  So he won’t have a life with someone, won’t put them threw that. 

He soon graduated College and Aston at this point was doing well on her medication.  So Aston stayed at home with James and Monica and Aspen went on with his life.  He got a job, and moved up in life.  Given the fact that his father was in the military, he found he had an ability to understand the military mind and cause of that, he moved up, actually opening his own clinic to help the vets. 

During the time of Aspen’s life, he did the dating and sabotaging it, while dealing with his sister who would go off her meds periodically.  He’d deal with that, his sister would get better and Aspen would always feel like nothing was worth it.  Even being a shrink, he’d never let himself admit he was clinically depressed and had been for a long time, just one of those rare people who could force themselves to get up and work.

He went like that for a few years, when he was approached by a man named Daniel Cassidy, he seemed to have a young man whom he needed help with and every other shrink he went to, recommended Aspen.  First Daniel offered Aspen money, when that didn’t work, he told him honestly about the case. 

Aspen soon found himself involved with the Center, helping those unique individuals deal with the changes in their lives and amazingly moving back to England. 

He stayed there for a few years till his 35^th birthday, but a bit before that Daniel started to notice the depression that Aspen had been hiding for years.  But right before Daniel could do or say anything, Aspen’s life was totally changed.

He was attending to a man who was a werewolf.  The man wasn’t dealing with it well, he was an old werewolf and Aspen was beginning to think the strain of living that long, was too much for him. 

He soon found out he was right.

The man, named only Artero, attacked Aspen, biting him and killing several other individuals.  The Center was left with no choice but to kill Artero.  When it was over, Aspen pulled himself up off the floor, leaning on the wall, all bloody and in a terrible daze, Daniel came to his rescue. 

Daniel and Aspen both knew while Aspen was healing, that he’d been infected by the Lycanthropy gene and there was nothing they could do about it. 

Aspen tried to handle it, but with his already fragile mental state and the fact that at that same time, Aston killed herself, Aspen lost it as well.  He never figured out why, she was on her meds and doing great, but she took James’ gun and killed herself.  After his first change, he took off and it took Daniel a few years to find him. 

Played by Rob