History Characters / CalLeandros

* CoolGun: A Desert Eagle with explosive rounds. At least, Cal thinks it's cool.

* AnythingThatMoves: Women, men, nonbinary genders, various supernatural beings, you name it, Robin has tried to screw it.

* ExtremeOmnisexual: Robin seems to have slept his way through the entire species roster of paranormal creatures, and takes great pride in it.

* AnythingThatMoves: Inverted. Unlike Robin, Hob only masturbates because nobody else is worthy of him.

* SinisterScythe: His WeaponOfChoice

* SiblingYinYang: Niko is the older, responsible, hard-working, polite, always serious, MasterSwordsman vegetarian BadassBookworm, for whom everything has its place, while Cal, the younger brother, is bad-mouthed, [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]], [[TheGunslinger gun-toting]], hot dog-loving, addicted to the TV and [[LazyBum so lazy]] Niko considers his room a bubonic plague-infested minefield. It even extends to their looks, with Cal being an EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette and Niko a DarkSkinnedBlond.

* UltimateEvil: How other creatures, even killers like Cerberus, regard them. They have everyone scared.

* KnifeNut: "Guns were preferred, knives were practical." Cal always has at least one knife on him.

* HeroKiller: Has this reputation. [[spoiler:More then lives up to it.]]

* KnifeNut: Favours Spanish-style poniards, more ice pick than dagger.

* HumanMomNonHumanDad: Unlike his fully human half-brother, Cal has an Auphe father.

* LivingForeverIsAwesome: Averted, since almost no one lives long enough to stay around.

* TrueCompanions: Robin and the Leandros brothers have spent countless lifetimes together fighting side-by-side and taking comfort in each others' presence.

* SuperpowerfulGenetics: Cal's Auphe half gives him a PerfectHealth -- other than getting injured all the time, he's been sick once in his life -- and the ability to [[TeleportersAndTransporters open gates to other worlds]]. It also gives him genetic memory of his past lives, eventually. [[RuleOfCool Just go with it.]]

* VillainTeleportation: The ability to create gates is an Auphe one Cal inherited. Basically portals to wherever they want to go.

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* BashBrothers: Cal and Niko are a battle team, and eventually, Robin joins in the combat alongside them.

* SonOfAWhore: Cal's father paid her to have him.

The half-human half-Auphe son of Sophia Leandros, Cal was bred by the Auphe for the purpose of ending the world. Nineteen when the series starts, Cal has spent four years of his life running from his heritage. Sarcastic, sullen, and prone to angsting, Cal alternates between taking nothing seriously, and sinking into full-on depression.

* BerserkButton: Hurting Niko, or Robin, or George, or any of the other people he actually cares about will send Cal into mindless rage.
* {{BFG}}: Both his Desert Eagle and his .50 Caliber Magnum qualify as such. He keeps a jacket to try to hide them, but has to leave them being when trying to be incognito, which causes some inconveniences.

* CoolGun: A Desert Eagle with explosive rounds. At last Cal thinks its cool.
* DeadpanSnarker: All the time, as a first person narrator. He basically lives off sarcasm.

* TheDreaded: Monsters who recognise Cal's Auphe scent are scared to death of him.

* ProperlyParanoid: Cal is suspicious of everybody's motives, sleeps and bathes with a knife on him, and is ready for fight or flight at the drop of a pin. He's right more often then he's wrong.

* DeadpanSnarker: His wit is dryer and more restrained then Cal's, but definitely there.

* GoshDangItToHeck: Does not swear, as he thinks its crude. So when one slips past his lips, you know shit is going down.

* PromotionToParent: The day Cal was born, since their mother refused to care for Cal at all.

A puck who works as a used car salesman, Robin is a several million year old being, who, desperate for companionship, has become one of the boys' few genuine friends. Enthusiastically pansexual, and the original party animal, he provides a lot of the comic relief in the series.

* MrViceGuy: {{Lust}} and {{Pride}}, in spades. At some point he probably inspired a myth about them.

* TimeAbyss: Robin remembers the dinosaurs. He hasn't changed at all in that time, and will go on forever, barring an untimely death.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Promise does not like to talk about her history, her failures with her daughter, her exes, or anything other then the here and now.

* MayDecemberRomance: As a hundreds-year-old vampire, with twenty-two year old Niko.

After Cal gets fired from a bartending job, Ishiah hire hims to work at his peri bar catering to the supernatural. He's also eventually Robin's boyfriend.

* BigBad: The race as a whole plays this role in ''Nightlife'' [[spoiler:and ''Deathwish'']]. Even afterwards, fighting their nature is Cal's major conflict.

* TheOlderImmortal: Predate even the pucks, though in a bit of a twist, individual Auphe rarely live as long as their lifespan would allow.

Cal and Niko's mother, a Roma of the Vayash clan who ran away when she was a teenager and spent the rest of her days travelling, telling fortunes and conning customers and drinking. She was paid by the Auphe to carry Cal, but was horrified when he was born and spent his childhood calling him a monster. She burns to death when the Auphe show up to steal Cal back.

* LaughablyEvil: Darkling's warped sense of humour is genuinely funny a lot of the time. It doesn't make him any less frightening, though.

A member of Cerberus' crew, Flay is Caleb's agent within the Kin, and acts as Cal's aide during his infiltration of Cerberus' organisation. Albino, and barely able to speak, Flay is nevertheless far smarter, and far more capable, then his own poor self-esteem lets him believe.

* EqualOpportunityEvil: Having overcome Kin prejudices against difference, Cerberus offers employment to all the outcast in the wolf world, and is even willing to hire the likes of Cal, a human/Auphe cross.

One of Robin's fellow pucks, and the oldest member of the species alive today, he operates a bar frequented by the Kin. Utterly cold and without scruples, and void of all emotions but want, this particular Pan will gut you for a penny. He's the only puck Cal meets who instantly registers on his monster radar.

* BigBad: He's the primary antagonist [[spoiler:of ''Moonshine'']], after the Auphe have been taken out for a while.

* FantasticRacism: Towards Cal, but then, who isn't prejudice against Auphe?

* KnifeNut: Favours Spanish-style poniards, more ice pick then dagger.
* LackOfEmpathy: Whatever emotion lived inside of Hob died a long time ago. All that's left is a near emotionless killer who takes what he wants, irrespective of who has to get hurt.

* {{Narcissist}}: He doesn't care about anyone other then himself, and lives to ram his superior status down the throats of all those around him.

A serial killing Scottish Redcap with a penchant for butchering travellers, Sawney goes on a killing spree that leaves dozens of people dead after being resurrected in the present day, recruiting an army of revenants to spread his special brand of madness through New York.

%%* ImplacableMan: Though faster moving than most.

* SerialKiller: Sawney murders lots of people, but he is especially fixated on travellers. In modern day New York, that means just about everybody.

%%* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:When he realises he actually is going to die again.]]

* EvilerThanThou: With Oshossi, whom she stole [[spoiler:Xolo]] from. They spend most of the book trying to sic the Leandros's on each other to use Xolo for their own ends.
* ManipulativeBastard: Cherish manages to use her mother completely to sic the Leandros brothers on Oshossi to save her own skin.

* PetTheDog: Ultimately recognises Niko and Cal as fellow victims of [[spoiler:Cherish]] and parts with them on neutral terms. There's also his genuine concern for his pets.

A human/Auphe hybrid with dreams of repopulating the species, and making hybrids like himself, rather than humanity, the fastest breeding race on the planet. He currently has 1000 young at his disposal and plans to breed many, many more. Having far better control over his Auphe abilities then Cal does, he enjoys toying with the other half-breed's emotions.

* CallingTheOldManOut: Cal and Niko spend most of ''Doubletake'' doing this, for all his many lies and his racisim against Cal.

* ActionGirl: Delilah becomes the first femal Alpha of a Kin pack.

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[[folder:Ishiaih]]

%%* TheDon

%%* SerialKiller: Of travellers. In modern day New York, that means just about everybody.
%%* SinisterScythe: His WeaponOfChoice

%%* EvilerThanThou: With Oshossi, whom she stole [[spoiler:Xolo]] from.

%%* EvilerThanThou: With Cherish
%%* MacheteMayhem: As part of his South American vibe.

%%* ActionGirl
%%* CanisMajor: The size of a small pony.

* BlackSpeech: The Auphe language, which he only understands subconciously. He slips into it when really, really angry.

* SuperpowerfulGenetics: Cal's Auphe half gives him a PerfectHealth -- other than getting injured all the time, he's been sick once in his life -- and the ability to [[TeleportersAndTransporters open gates to other worlds]].

[[folder:Ishiaih:]]
After Cal gets fired from a bartending job, Ishiah hire hims to work at his peri bar catering to the supernatural. He's also evnetually Robin's boyfriend.

* BelligerentSexualTension: So much with Robin. Neither are even trying to hide how they feel, but Ishiah demands mongamy and Robin refuses, so they spend all of their time bickering instead.
* ResemblanceReveal: Sort of an odd case with Niko. After Robin and Ishiah finally hook up, Cal realizes Ishiah's long blond hair and pale blue eyes look ''an awful'' lok like Niko's, who Robin has been hitting on since they met.

!!Introduced in ''Moonshine''

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!!Introduced in ''Madhouse''
[[folder:Delilah]]
Flay's sister, and a member of the Kin in good standing, Delilah meets the brothers when they use her saliva to heal an injury that Cal had suffered at the hands of Sawney Beane. As she cannot have children, she and Cal eventually enter a sexual relationship. Ambitious and driven, Delilah plans to rise as high as she can in the Kin, despite her bad breeding.

%%* ActionGirl
%%* CanisMajor: The size of a small pony.
* BloodKnight: Works as a bouncer at a bar because she relishes getting into fights. She repeatedly aids the brothers for similar reasons.
%%* DarkActionGirl
* FriendsWithBenefits: With Cal. Cal is in love with George, but he still sleeps with Delilah for quite a while.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Massive set of scars on her stomach from where Cerberus ripped a child out of her. Played for all the sympathy that it deserves.
* KlingonPromotion: [[spoiler:Kills her Alpha and becomes leader of her pack.]]
* TakeAThirdOption: Her Alpha forces her to choose between going against the pack and killing Cal. She [[spoiler:kills her Alpha]] instead.
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[[folder:Sawney Beane]]
-->''"Travellers..."''
A serial killing Scottish Redcap with a penchant for butchering travellers, Sawney goes on a killing spree that leaves dozens of people dead after being resurrected in the present day, recruiting an army of revenants to spread his special brand of madness through New York.
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%%* BackFromTheDead

%%* EvilLaugh

!!Introduced in ''Deathwish''

%%!!Introduced in ''Roadkill''

%%!!Introduced in ''Blackout''

!!Introduced in ''Doubletake''

%%!!Introduced in ''Slashback''

%%[[folder:In General]]
%%* TrueCompanions
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!!Introduced in ''Nightlife''

%%* BloodKnight

%%* DeadpanSnarker
%%* DemonicPossession: Does it to [[spoiler:Cal, taking over as narrator for most of the book.]]

%%* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Repeatedly shocked by the actions taken by Niko, Promise, and Robin.
%%* FirstPersonSmartass: [[spoiler:As the narrator]]

%%* ManOfWealthAndTaste: Going so far as to mug a businessman for his expensive clothes.
%%* MirrorScare: Travels through mirrors.

%%* SinisterShades: Uses them to cover his silver eyes

%%* IHaveYourWife: Informs Cal that Caleb has George. [[spoiler:It turns out that Caleb is holding his son, Slay, as a hostage.]]
%%* TheUnintelligible: Flay can barely talk, his jaws are so wolfish.

%%* AnythingThatMoves: Inverted. Hob only masturbates because nobody else is worthy of him.

%%* BigBad: [[spoiler:Of ''Moonshine'']]

%%* CreepyMonotone: If Cal's description of his dead, flat voice is any indicator.

%%* EvilTwin: To Robin. "It was Goodfellow's voice, only arctic and empty. Goodfellow's face, although set with a supercilious sneer. His eyes lacking even the sliver of a soul."

%%* FamedInStory: Infamous in-story to be precise.
%%* FantasticRacism: Towards Cal.
%%* FirstOfItsKind: More than likely. He's the oldest puck, and Robin suggests that he might well be the first.

%%* HeroKiller: Has this reputation. [[spoiler:More then lives up to it.]]

%%* KnifeNut: Favours Spanish-style poniards, more ice pick then dagger.

%%* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:To Caleb, the novel's apparent villain]]
%%* ManOfWealthAndTaste: Better dressed than even Robin.

%%* TheOlderImmortal: Older than all the other pucks, he might be the first.

%%* {{Pride}}: His cardinal vice.
%%* SingleTargetSexuality: Himself.

%%* TechnicallyASmile: The dead smile that he eventually does give falls into this territory.

%%* FriendsWithBenefits: With Cal.
%%* GoodScarsEvilScars: Massive set of scars on her stomach from where Cerberus ripped a child out of her. Played for all the sympathy that it deserves.

%%* LightningBruiser: Fast as an Auphe, hits as hard as Abbagor.
%%* NighInvulnerable: Sawney will come back from just about anything you throw at him. And even if you can hurt him, his HealingFactor ultimately kicks in.
%%* OneManArmy: If his ability to take on Niko, Cal, Promise, and Robin all at once is any indicator.
%%* PowerBornOfMadness: Most Redcaps are not this dangerous. Sawney's madness is where his power comes from.

%%* SlasherSmile: Fixated on his face. It mimics the look of his scythe.

%%* DisappearedDad

%%* ManipulativeBastard

%%* TheBeastmaster

%%* DualWielding: Dual wields machetes.

%%* EvilCounterpart: To Cal, sharing his tastes in fashion, style, and attitude, as well as his Auphe heritage. Where Cal hopes to exterminate the Auphe, however, Grimm plans to recreate the race.

%%* {{Retcon}}: His entire existence is this. Where was Grimm when the Auphe were looking for a male sperm donor? Or when they were out to use Cal to destroy the world? Sidle messed up. Grimm managed to gate away from the hellhole he was in, but Sidle didn't know that's exactly what the Auphe wanted. He told them Grimm had died rather than admit he let one of his prisoners escape, and why would they care about that? They didn't use him or seek him out because they didn't know he existed.
%%* SinisterShades: Used to hide his telltale red eyes.
%%* WhiteHairBlackHeart

%%* ActionDad
%%* ArchnemesisDad

%%* CallingTheOldManOut: Cal and Niko spend most of ''Doubletake'' doing this.
%%* EvilAllAlong
%%* ItRunsInTheFamily: Blonde hair and skills with a sword, apparently.

%%* FamilyEyeResemblance: Gray eyes.
%%* BashBrothers: With each other, and eventually, Robin.
%%* HeterosexualLifePartners

%%* SiblingTeam
%%* SonOfAWhore

%%* AntiAntiChrist: Cal has no interest in ending the world.
%%* BadPowersGoodPeople: Cal finds some good uses for his gate-opening ability.
%%* BerserkButton: Hurting Niko, or Robin, or George, or any of the other people he actually cares about.
%%* {{BFG}}: Both his Desert Eagle and his .50 Caliber Magnum qualify as such.
%%* BlackSpeech: Slips into it when really, really angry.
* CantHaveSexEver: He is so afraid of impregnating the human he loves -- he doesn't trust birth control at all -- with his half evil [[TheFairFolk fairy]] sperm that he will only have sex with other species that he's biologically incompatible with. So far he's slept with a plant creature, and a werewolf whose reproductive organs are not in working order.
%%* CoolGun: A Desert Eagle with explosive rounds.
%%* DeadpanSnarker: All the time.
%%* {{Determinator}}: Powers through some truly horrendous injuries.

%%* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Night black hair, moon pale skin.
%%* EmoTeen: Serious shades of this, especially in the first book.
%%* FirstPersonSmartass

%%* IJustWantToBeNormal: Cal, of course. By the end of ''Blackout'', [[spoiler:he's accepted his Auphe half and his humanity is slowly slipping away.]]

%%* MeaningfulName: Cal is short for Caliban. His mother made sure he knew why he had the name.
%%* OnlyYouCanRepopulateMyRace: [[spoiler:''Deathwish'' reveals Cal to be the only male Auphe left.]]

%%* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Has a penchant for doing this once he gets angry, at one point absolutely dismembering a bodach that had killed a little girl.
%%* TraumaInducedAmnesia: Cal' can't remember the two years he spent with the Auphe.
%%* UnstoppableRage: An angry Cal is a scary Cal. Niko comments that Cal has the sin of wrath all to himself.
%%* WarringNatures: Cal is half-human, half Auphe.

%%* BerserkButton: Don't hurt Cal. And don't lie to him.

%%* FirstPersonSmartass: Whenever he narrates.
%%* GoshDangItToHeck: Does not swear. So when he does...
%%* HeroicBSOD: In ''Deathwish'' when [[spoiler:he believes that Cal has been killed.]]
%%* HonorBeforeReason: Cal, Robin, and Promise all accuse Niko of suffering from this.
%%* ImplacableMan: How he appears from the other side, especially when in BSOD mode.
%%* KatanasAreJustBetter: Niko certainly believes this.

%%* MayflyDecemberRomance: With Promise.
%%* MoralityChain: To Cal, keeping his Auphe side under control.

%%* PrecisionFStrike: In ''Deathwish''
%%* PromotionToParent: The day Cal was born.
%%* TheQuietOne

%%* SuicideByCop: [[spoiler:His goal at the end of ''Deathwish'' is Suicide by Oshossi.]]
%%* UnstoppableRage: Slides into it during the HeroicBSOD.

%%* AnimalMotifs: A fox.
%%* AnythingThatMoves: Women, men, various supernatural beings, you name it, Robin has tried to screw it.
%%* TheAlcoholic: Though with an absolutely legendary tolerance.
%%* ColourCodedEyes: Forest green and foxlike.

%% * GuileHero

%%* LadykillerInLove: Robin, after getting involved with Ishiah, considers monogamy. [[spoiler:He puts the word "monogamite" on his business card--along with the number for the suicide hotline, which Robin figures everyone will need when they learn he is no longer available.]]
%%* LivingForeverIsAwesome

%%* MrViceGuy: {{Lust}} and {{Pride}}.

%%* TheTrickster
%%* WhoWantsToLiveForever

%%* GoldDigger: Promise has had five rich, elderly, now-dead husbands.

%%* MayDecemberRomance: With twenty-two year old Niko.
%%* MayflyDecemberRomance: Niko will die long before Promise does.

%%* NeckSnap: Done to one of the assassins in ''Madhouse''.

%%* SerialKillerKiller: Cal suspects that Promise did this back before the iron pill cure for vampirism was discovered.

%%* SuperStrength

%%* AxeCrazy: Relentlessly mad.
%%* BigBad: The race as a whole plays this role in ''Nightlife'' [[spoiler:and ''Deathwish'']].

%%* ColdBloodedTorture: What they do.

%%* FamedInStory
%%* FullFrontalAssault: The Auphe don't go in for clothes.
%%* TheLegionsOfHell

%%* OurElvesAreDifferent: Our elves make the drow look sane.
%%* PointyEars
%%* RedEyesTakeWarning
%%* UltimateEvil: How other creatures, even killers like Cerberus, regard them.
%%* VillainTeleportation: The ability to create gates is an Auphe one.
%%* ZergRush: Their usual tactic.

%%* AbusiveParents: She messed Cal and Niko up for the rest of their lives.

%%* ChildrenRaiseYou: Subverted. She didn't want kids and she made that clear.
%%* EvilMatriarch

%%* AllTrollsAreDifferent: A mass of tentacles wrapped in the shape of a man.

%%* OurElvesAreBetter: Our elves make the drow look sane.

%%* HalfHumanHybrid

[[folder:Darkling]]
The last male banshee, Darkling is, in Cal's words, a nightmare for hire. Willing to do anything if the pay is right, Darkling is an integral part of the Auphe's plans for Cal and the world.

[[folder:Abbagor]]
A troll who lives under the Brooklyn Bridge, Abbagor knows a little bit about everything, making him a useful, if homicidal informant for Robin and the Leandros boys. He is as old as the Auphe and longs to fight them again.

%%* AllTrollsAreDifferent: A mass of tentacles wrapped in the shape of a man.
* AndIMustScream: Traps his victims within his body and feeds on their minds forever.
%%* BloodKnight
%%* BodyHorror
%%* TimeAbyss

[[folder:Sophia Leandros]]
Cal and Niko's mother, a Roma of the Vayash clan who ran away when she was a teenager and spent the rest of her days travelling, telling fortunes and conning customers and drinking. She was paid by the Auphe to carry Cal, but was horrified when he was born and spent his childhood calling him a monster. She burns to death when the Auphe show up to steal Cal back.

%%* AbusiveParents: She messed Cal and Niko up for the rest of their lives.
* AlcoholicParent: Sophia would go as far as throwing empty bottles at Cal when he was a kid and ranting at him about how much of a monster he is, even though it was ''her'' who sold her womb to an Auphe for a pot of gold, which she quickly spent on more alcohol. At least on one occasion she also stole Niko's college money. While she burned to death prior to ''Nightlife'', the experience of growing up with Sophia as a mother teaches even resident bad boy Cal to never drink more than one beer as he believes to have inherited his mother's penchant for alcoholism.
%%* ChildrenRaiseYou: Subverted. She didn't want kids and she made that clear.
%%* EvilMatriarch
* OlderThanTheyLook: Was 38 when she died, but said to look much younger, with not a spot of gray in her hair.
* ParentalNeglect: Sophia barely acknowledged Cal or Niko's existence, leading to Niko's PromotionToParent.
* RoguishRomani: She was the Greek Romani mother of the protagonists Niko and Cal. She was also a scam artist, a thief, and a jailbird.

!!Introduced in ''Moonshine''
[[folder:Flay]]
A member of Cerberus' crew, Flay is Caleb's agent within the Kin, and acts as Cal's aide during his infiltration of Cerberus' organisation. Albino, and barely able to speak, Flay is nevertheless far smarter, and far more capable, then his own poor self-esteem lets him believe.

* HiddenDepths: He's far smarter, and much less evil than his initial appearances would suggest.
%%* IHaveYourWife: Informs Cal that Caleb has George. [[spoiler:It turns out that Caleb is holding his son, Slay, as a hostage.]]
%%* TheUnintelligible: Flay can barely talk, his jaws are so wolfish.
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[[folder:Cerberus]]
A pair of single-minded Siamese twins who act as a Kin Alpha, Cerberus is the target of Cal and Niko's mission in the novel.
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* BadBoss: Cerberus punishes failure very harshly.
* CanisMajor: An enormous wolf, with two heads. Fully transformed, Cerberus is the size of a Buick.
%%* ConjoinedTwins
%%* CreepyTwins
%%* TheDon
* EqualOpportunityEvil: Having overcome Kin prejudices against difference, Cerberus offers employment to all the outcast in the wolf world, and is even willing to hire the likes of Cal, a human/Auphe cross.
%%* ManOfWealthAndTaste
%%* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast
%%* SingleMindedTwins: Cerberus thinks of himself as one being.
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[[folder:Hobgoblin/"Hob"]]
-->''"I'm the original reason there is no honour among thieves."''
One of Robin's fellow pucks, and the oldest member of the species alive today, he operates a bar frequented by the Kin. Utterly cold and without scruples, and void of all emotions but want, this particular Pan will gut you for a penny. He's the only puck Cal meets who instantly registers on his monster radar.
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A human/Auphe hybrid with dreams of repopulating the species, and making hybrids like himself, rather then humanity, the fastest breeding race on the planet. He currently has 1000 young at his disposal, and plans to breed many, many more. Having far better control over his Auphe abilities then Cal does, he enjoys toying with the other half-breed's emotions.

* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: Insists that a life on the road hunting monsters was no life for a child, which was why he left Niko with his abusive mother Sophia. Neither Cal nor Niko buy it.