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death_glare) wrote2015-06-28 03:15 am
death_glare) wrote2015-06-28 03:15 am
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Updated headcanon
I've thought about it, and I think I've refined what my headcanon is for William's mortal life. Also for why he despises demons so much, why he likes pigeons, why he hates overtime and how it all affects him in his reaper life.
william was married. his wife christine and him had a baby girl, but shortly afterwards (perhaps when she was 2-3) they divorced. it wasn't a pretty divorce as christine felt that william spent too much time on his work and had grown cold and distant, not giving enough attention to her. so christine took abigail and left. a year or so later, christine had a fatal accident of some kind...doesn't really matter what right now. abigail was returned to living with her father. William of course still had to work to be able to take care of everything so a caretaker lady was hired to watch and care for abigail while william was at work. one day abi asked will if they could go to the park and feed the pigeons bc mom would always take her. it hurt him initally that he wasn't there for that, but he happily took her. And they would go nearly every weekend. abi called all of the pigeons mr. coo and really loved seeing them because they reminded her of her mom.
eventually one night, when william had to work overtime, he came home to find the care taker perched over abigail with a vicious glint in her eyes. she was a demon and had been eying abigail since shed been hired. She gained abi's trust, having always been there to watch over her and when abi was upset about her parents that night, she enticed her by saying she could bring them back together if she wished. this was her way of offering a contract to abi, and excited by the prospect and not knowing the caretakers true intentions, willingly agreed. william came home to find his daughter's soul being devoured and after the demon fled spent the remainder of the night in despair with abi in his arms. eventually, he decided to end it, and going to the kitchen to get a knife, he found one of abi's drawings atop the table. it was of 'mommy and daddy and mr coo.' he took the drawing and returned to abi's body where he disemboweled himself with the knife, falling in a pool of his own blood beside her.
so, obvs this is why he hates demons, because they took what was precious from him in the most deceptive way. He also hates overtime for this reason bc he keeps telling himself that if he'd come home on time, abi would have been okay. he loves pigeons because of abi's love of them, and he has teh drawing framed and on his nightstand.
william probably seems like the one reaper who would overcome their fate and be granted forgiveness - what with his professional attitude all the time. but his work ethic is merely something that carried over with him from his mortal life, combined with necessary distraction. He really sees no reason to even try and make it out of his life as a reaper. It won't allow him to see his daughter again, and he almost feels as if he doesn't deserve it, having failed her. he may seem very collected on the outside, but being a reaper with no purpose is slowly starting to weigh on him, but being william, he can't get himself to open up and talk about it all with any of the others.
william was married. his wife christine and him had a baby girl, but shortly afterwards (perhaps when she was 2-3) they divorced. it wasn't a pretty divorce as christine felt that william spent too much time on his work and had grown cold and distant, not giving enough attention to her. so christine took abigail and left. a year or so later, christine had a fatal accident of some kind...doesn't really matter what right now. abigail was returned to living with her father. William of course still had to work to be able to take care of everything so a caretaker lady was hired to watch and care for abigail while william was at work. one day abi asked will if they could go to the park and feed the pigeons bc mom would always take her. it hurt him initally that he wasn't there for that, but he happily took her. And they would go nearly every weekend. abi called all of the pigeons mr. coo and really loved seeing them because they reminded her of her mom.
eventually one night, when william had to work overtime, he came home to find the care taker perched over abigail with a vicious glint in her eyes. she was a demon and had been eying abigail since shed been hired. She gained abi's trust, having always been there to watch over her and when abi was upset about her parents that night, she enticed her by saying she could bring them back together if she wished. this was her way of offering a contract to abi, and excited by the prospect and not knowing the caretakers true intentions, willingly agreed. william came home to find his daughter's soul being devoured and after the demon fled spent the remainder of the night in despair with abi in his arms. eventually, he decided to end it, and going to the kitchen to get a knife, he found one of abi's drawings atop the table. it was of 'mommy and daddy and mr coo.' he took the drawing and returned to abi's body where he disemboweled himself with the knife, falling in a pool of his own blood beside her.
so, obvs this is why he hates demons, because they took what was precious from him in the most deceptive way. He also hates overtime for this reason bc he keeps telling himself that if he'd come home on time, abi would have been okay. he loves pigeons because of abi's love of them, and he has teh drawing framed and on his nightstand.
william probably seems like the one reaper who would overcome their fate and be granted forgiveness - what with his professional attitude all the time. but his work ethic is merely something that carried over with him from his mortal life, combined with necessary distraction. He really sees no reason to even try and make it out of his life as a reaper. It won't allow him to see his daughter again, and he almost feels as if he doesn't deserve it, having failed her. he may seem very collected on the outside, but being a reaper with no purpose is slowly starting to weigh on him, but being william, he can't get himself to open up and talk about it all with any of the others.