Bryan McKenzie

     Meet your local devil, who’s more likely to steal your coffee than your soul. Not that he could even if he wanted to. Turns out he isn’t much of demon; aside from the tiny red horns, pointed ears and forked tail, he could pass for your normal, everyday office worker. He can’t even cast any magic! Except for the one time, but we don’t talk about that.

     Bryan McKenzie is an altogether unexceptional man just too far left of normal to be left to his own devices. He was recruited (read: forced) by the Bureau of Magical Affairs at the age of fifteen in exchange for protection & persecution, thanks to his father’s unholy gifts. There, he’s under the strict watch of his handler, Agent Abel, as he… files paperwork? Surely there’s more to life than chasing down contracts in triplicate!

     He might be chronically late and criminally fatigued, but that doesn’t mean he's a slouch. What he lacks in magic thanks to a thimble-sized pool of mana, he more than makes up for with a sharp mind and desire to improve. When not finishing his handler’s paperwork for him, he spends his days down in the archives, reading through old case files and confiscated tomes he probably shouldn’t have access to. If the Bureau ever found out what he was doing in his spare time, there would be hell to pay.

     Not that he isn’t aware of the dangers. As the sole demon working topside, half-breed he may be, his every action is scrutinized and judged by the humans who would send him back to Hell if they could. Bryan has spent his life watching his every step and trying not to rock the boat, but he can’t help but feel like there has to be more he can do. Surely there’s a reason a demon sired him, a reason for his damned, cursed existence?

     Metaphorically chained to his desk, Bryan lives an uninspired ten years just barely getting by and being plagued by dreams of green flames and a mist shrouded cabin that leave him chronically exhausted. Nothing seems to be going right, except for his magically replenishing fridge. At least he doesn’t have to spend money on food! All that changes when a case file comes across his desk (one Agent Abel is too busy to take care of) about a certain Headless Horseman sighting that’s out of season, and far away from home. Little does he know of the hardships, and heartache, that await him if he gives chase down that dark forest path in the village of Sleepy Hollow, New York.

     But that’s a story for another day! In the meantime, Bryan continues to push his way forward through each day until the call to adventure calls to him, bearing the scent of evergreens and M&Ms...