Officer McCormick

Name: Riley McCormick

Creature Type: Fetch

Description: After nearly 15 years with the NYPD, getting shot at, getting stabbed, seeing things he may never forget, dealing with crooks and lowlifes, worrying about his own safety, worrying about his family's safety, and that one horrible day when his own wife was held hostage at gunpoint, Officer McCormick sees the transfer to the Volusia County Sheriff's Department as a mini-retirement. These days, his duties mostly consist of overseeing the transfer of teenage shoplifters into diversionary programs, giving "Say No To Drugs" speeches at the local middle school, and dealing with the occasional belligerant drunk at closing time. And that suits him just fine.

To mortal eyes, McCormick looks like the perfect stereotype of the Irish cop - a broad face that's more friendly than handsome, curly red hair just starting to grey, hard muscle with a layer of middle-aged fat over it. If a Changeling gets too close, however, the illusion dissolves and the creature beneath can be seen - an amalgamation of New York City detritus, brought to life. Broken beer bottles; fluttering, faded playbills; discarded newspapers; empty cups and cigarette butts and an abandoned babydoll all appear at times, walking around and wearing the face of a man.

McCormick is and was an honest cop, and it's that more than anything else which informs his interactions with Changelings. Other than his own "other self" and a few carefully-vetted others, he trusts most of the Lost about as far as he can throw them - but he knows a power imbalance when he sees one, and if a Gentry begins to threaten the town... well, it's his job to protect those who need protecting.

McCormick lives with his wife and two children, neither of whom know they were adopted at birth.

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