Adam Conant

NAME: Adam Conant
NICKNAMES: N/A
AGE: 18
GENDER: male
HAIR: auburn
EYES: hazel
HEIGHT: 5'10"
WEIGHT: 170lbs
BUILD: fairly lithe

MARITAL STATUS: Not married. Not single. It's complicated.
SEXUALITY: Straight
OCCUPATION: Student and witch

CONTACT: Dropbox.
TIME ZONE: EST

Adam Conant is a teenage witch who stands about 5'10" with messy auburn hair and hazel eyes. He comes from New Salem, Massachusetts, and is a descendant of the original witches of Salem from the 1600s. Adam is quiet and likes his own company; even if he enjoys the company of the Circle more often than not, it’s not unusual for him to disappear for weeks at a time and to turn up without expecting anyone to have noticed or been upset and he draws strength from ritual and from research, not from parties and the trivialities of being a high school student. He’s good-looking without vanity and calm even when those around him get fired up but he’s not without his passions and weak points: he merely keeps them close to the chest instead of laying his cards out on the table. When someone he loves is threatened, Adam can be more volatile than any of the other Circle members combined and while it takes a while to stir him to anger, once he’s there, he’s fiercer than the ocean itself. He is fiercely protective of both Diana and Cassie, willing to sacrifice himself on their behalf without a second thought and he’s loyal, loyal enough to deny his own heart and his feelings for Cassie in order to be faithful to Diana. His loyalty doesn’t just extend to the women in his life, though, and he’s faithful both to the idea of the Circle and the rituals they carry out, even when petty squabbling would tear the twelve of them apart. He feels a very strong connection to his past and always keeps a witch’s holidays and traditions, even when most kids his age don’t look past the surface of anything, and in this way Adam is an old soul trapped in a very young body. Adam’s emotions run deep and true and once he sets himself to a task, he will do anything to see it completed. A vow is not something to be trifled with in Adam Conant’s world, even if that vow is painful to keep, and his sense of integrity pushes him toward research and hard work over the quick fixes and flashes of intellect that abusing his power might bring. This makes him less able to make split decisions and stubborn but Adam, unlike most of his friends, is at least willing to entertain the notion of bringing witchcraft forward into the 20th century and making compromises to protect their way of life. Adam Conant is not what he seems. Touched by tragedy early in life, Adam’s parents died in a violent storm and left him to be raised by his well-meaning, if a little odd, grandmother and he’s known nothing other than the charmed life in New Salem, Massachusetts ever since. Adam is one of the Circle, one of the descendants of twelve families who fled persecution during the Salem Witch Trials and practiced their magic in secret far away from the original Salem. While witchcraft isn’t practiced anymore (as far as the townsfolk know, anyway), Adam’s friends are given a wide berth and the freedom to do anything and everything they want. While some take advantage of this and twist it for material gain, Adam doesn’t, and he’s content to practice the old rituals in secret with his close friends and ethereal childhood sweetheart, Diana. All that changes the summer before senior year, though, when the Circle hungers for more power and sends Adam on a quest to retrieve the Master tools, powerful magical artifacts that will allow them to stop playing at magic and start actually doing magic. It’s while he’s on the hunt for these artifacts that he meets outsider Cassie Blake and, due to a spark he felt between them and her willingness to keep his secrets, he entrusts her with a kiss and a protection amulet. Cassie, too, is not all she seems to be and things get complicated when she enrolls at New Salem High for the fall semester and becomes the twelfth member of the Circle, causing the tension between she and Adam to get that much higher; matters become more complicated when Diana, too, considers Cassie a dear friend. Both Adam and Cassie promise to keep away from one another in order to keep faithful to Diana but there are more serious matters at hand: Adam finds a crystal skull he believes is one of the original tools of the Salem coven and accidentally raises Black John, a dark witch, from beyond the grave to wreak havoc on New Salem in the form of four gruesome deaths and a killer hurricane brewing offshore that threatens even more lives. What starts out as fun becomes a race to find the real Master tools before Black John and Circle member turned traitor Faye get their hands on them and Adam, Cassie and Diana have to put aside the personal for the good of the Circle and, more importantly, the fate of New Salem itself.