#cadebio

[snowburycade]

Cadence ‘Cade’ Robert Montgomery-Webster Warner

**Open to changing the name of his father should anyone want to pick up that character, or Cade’s half siblings.  My headcanon would be that Cade has one or two half siblings, one older, one younger.  

Character Name: Cadence “Cade” Montgomery-Webster Faceclaim: Rick Cosnett Character age: 34 Gender identity & sexuality: Cis Male, Panromantic/Demi-sexual Birthday: March 18, 1986 Character profession: Architect/Civil Engineer for the town of Snowbury Extra Skills: Landscaping/Gardening Hobbies: Drafting/drawing, reading biographies, hiking. Personality traits: + Determined, Responsible, Tenacious || - Secretive, Obsessive, Critical

(more under the cut)

Biography: (tw: deaths, infidelity)

Erin Montgomery was the assistant to Robert Warner for almost a decade.  She loved her job, even with the demanding hours, and it never really concerned her that she barely had time to find her own soulmate.  She felt confident it would happen when it happened.  When she became involved with Robert off and on, Erin held no illusions that Robert Warner was her soulmate.

When Cade’s mother Erin Montgomery found out about her pregnancy, she quietly resigned, left Snowbury, moving to where her parents were to enlist their help with raising him.  They passed away while Cade was in his early twenties and finishing his degrees in engineering and architecture.

Erin never revealed Cade’s existence to Robert. He seemed too powerful, and she had known going into this that it was never to be a relationship. Erin didn’t mind raising a child on her own, and she didn’t want to complicate the Warner’s family life or have a long drawn out legal battle for custody.  She never expected to find her soulmate once she left Snowbury.

Erin met James Cadence Webster after she left Snowbury and while she was still pregnant.  Almost immediately there was something about James that Erin was drawn to.  He was undetered by the fact that she had gotten pregnant by a married man and hadn’t wanted to complicate his life.  In fact, James respected Erin all the more for it.  It didn’t feel that surprising when soulmarks began appearing and they became a wonderful little family of three.  Erin gave her son the names of both men and she hyphenated both her and Cade’s last name to Montgomery-Webster when she and James married when Cade was a toddler.  The two never had any more children and Cade never suspected that James was not his father.  James died in a car crash two years before Erin.  

Cade’s mother passed away three years ago, and while putting her affairs in order, Cade found out his birth father’s name, because the state issuing the birth license required one and Erin didn’t lie. Cade did a little research, and found out who his family was. Cade resigned his job with an architecture firm in the city and moved to Snowbury, quickly landing a job with the city as an architect and civil engineer.  

Cade wants only to get to know his father a little, and hopes to find a missing piece of himself he’s felt most of his life.  Since his mother’s passing, Cade has become a little concerned that his own lack of real knowledge about the other half of where he’s come from has kept him from being ready to be who his soulmate needs him to be.  He’s has also been trying to get to know his sibling (s) since they’re the only family he has left.  At least until he hopefully finds his soulmate.

Secret: (tw:infidelity) Cade is the illegitimate child of Robert James Warner, who is one of the most successful and influential men in town.  Robert Warner has a spouse and family of his own, including at least one child (no more than two though) about the same age at Cade.  Cade’s mother worked as an assistant to Robert Warner for many years and they had an off and on affair during times of strife in his home life.  When she discovered she was pregnant, Erin, Cade’s mother, left Snowbury and never told him.  Cade grew up only knowing that his father was not in the picture, and nothing more until his mother passed away several years ago.  Upon discovering who his father was, Cade made his way to town, looking to find out more about himself as he tries to get to know his father and what little family he might have left.  Cade has not revealed who he is though to anyone.

if interested in connections with Cade click here

[tfcrp]

THIS IS YOUR GAME

Name: Cade Mitchell Age: Twenty Class Year: Junior Position: Vixen Hometown: Brookline, Massachusetts

Related Bios: Alanna Nguyen

THIS IS YOUR MOMENT

TW: inappropriate minor/adult relationship

He grew up hardly remembering his mother, knowing her mostly through his father’s stories, the grave they laid flowers on top of every weekend, the empty spaces she left behind. But the second chance he got at a family—that, he remembered far too well. He remembered how suddenly it happened, going from just him-and-his-father to a whole family, a new mother and two new siblings. And he remembered, too, how suddenly his father had changed: while Cade had never doubted his father’s love for him, he’d always thought of him as slightly serious, slightly distant, slightly lonely. Love seemed to lift and animate him, and it did the same to Cade in turn.

But what he remembered most of all was how it all went wrong, what it felt like to go from a happy family to just him-and-his-father again. The divorce was long and drawn out, and Cade was old enough to understand what was going on: his step-mother had cheated on his father, and his father had found out—and, in the end, no amount of tearful discussions or family therapy was enough to repair that rift. Or maybe his step-mother just didn’t want to repair it, because it was hardly six months after the divorce went through that she remarried. Cade still saw them sometimes, at first. He’d grown closer with his step-siblings than he had to any of his peers, and so both of their parents put on polite faces and let them spend time together for their sakes—at least until the man who had taken Cade’s father’s place got a job overseas, and then they were gone from his life like they’d never existed.

Maybe it’s just meant to be the two of us, his dad would joke, trying to put a brave face on it. But Cade saw how lonely his dad was, how much he struggled when he was on his own—and despite wishing he could be different himself to avoid it, he saw in himself the same thing. It didn’t look like that on the outside: Cade seemed just fine with being a loner, not disliked by much of anyone but without a close circle of friends to call his own. He filled his time, skateboarding in the summer and snowboarding in the winter, teaching himself how to play the guitar—but it all seemed a little empty, and sometimes it seemed like it was because his house and his family were a little too empty, too.

And so he was glad when his father met Lisa Nguyen. Cade remembered the whirlwind courtship from his father’s second marriage, and he wasn’t really surprised when they were married within a year, a third marriage and a third family: father, step-mother, son—and a brand new step-sister, Alanna. They weren’t close immediately: he was sixteen and she was fourteen, and both of them had reasons to be wary of a seemingly good thing. But Cade wanted to be close, and over time that seemed to be enough to bridge whatever gap there may have been between them. At school, they ran in different circles: Alanna had quickly joined the school’s cheerleading squad, but Cade never had much time for those social games, was more likely to be found smoking behind the school than holding court in the hallways. But he still let Alanna talk him into joining the squad when he was a senior—he wanted to look out for her, wanted to keep the goodwill he’d so patiently earned, and it didn’t hurt that she promised him her allowance from then until he graduated.

The squad was catty and brutal, but he didn’t really get involved in that part of it, and didn’t really question it either—it was just how girls were. What he did get caught up in, however, was their Coach: Ava Chandler was barely out of college, and she treated them all like the years between them didn’t matter, shifting seamlessly between critiquing their tumbling passes and inviting them to alcohol-soaked squad bonding parties at her house. Cade might have joined the squad for Alanna, but he stayed for Ava—and she knew it. Maybe when you’re older, she’d purr at him, and he couldn’t tell if it was his own wishful thinking that made it seem like she said it with a wink and a smile, like she wanted him to change her mind. So he tried: tried to prove himself a man by sleeping his way through the squad; tried to make her happy by doing everything she asked of him, whether it was picking her up from parties in the city when she was too drunk to get home or listening to her complain about whatever was bothering her that day—which, often, was men. I’d never treat you like that, he’d say to her, and she’d just laugh: You’re sweet, aren’t you? And, encouraged, he’d keep doing it all, over and over again. 

He thought maybe when he graduated it’d be different—but it was at the squad’s post-graduation party that he met Ava’s boyfriend, and realized that he’d been around for far longer than Cade had ever known. You’re pathetic, man, he’d said to Cade in the driveway of Ava’s house, leaving Cade on the asphalt with a black eye and crescent moons pressed into his own palm from a punch he’d failed to land. He was angry—angry and humiliated, because he knew that the other man was right. He’d made a fool of himself for an entire fucking year for nothing, for someone who’d just been playing with him, letting him think that he was older than he was, letting him think that he had a chance, only for him to prove how young and dumb he really was, even if it took too long for him to see it. And he knew who he was really angry with, but he’d felt powerless in front of her for a long time, and so it felt easier to shoot the messenger—or, at least, to slash his tires. 

SEIZE IT WITH EVERYTHING YOU’VE GOT

He didn’t think he’d get away with it, but it was still humiliating to have the police show up in his driveway, to know there was security camera footage of him slashing someone’s tires—and it felt even worse to know that the only thing keeping him from a misdemeanor was that Ava’s boyfriend decided not to press charges, even worse still that he couldn’t silence the part of him that wondered how much Ava had to do with it. His father and Alanna’s mother were more concerned than angry, full of gentle questions and proclamations of this isn’t like you, Cade to try and encourage him to talk. But he sullenly kept his mouth shut, worked all summer to pay for a new set of tires, and left for Palmetto State relieved that the whole fucking ordeal was over. 

What he hadn’t counted on, however, was that it wasn’t over for Alanna. He heard from college that she’d changed schools, and he realized that he hadn’t been the only one suffering on that squad—that he’d joined to look out for Alanna but had gotten too caught up in his own shit and failed utterly. When she followed him to Palmetto State, he promised himself he wouldn’t make the same mistake. And, though he hadn’t known it at the time, that meant following her onto another cheerleading squad—this time, onto the Vixens. But he’s not on the squad to make friends, doesn’t know how long he’ll have to stick around before he’s confident that nothing terrible is happening when the pom poms are down—and, most of all, he doesn’t know long he’ll be able to get away with keeping exactly what he’s doing from the few friends he’s made at Palmetto, because the whole thing just seems too embarrassing to explain.

CADE MITCHELL is portrayed by MATTHEW HITT and is OPEN