I’ve been enabled <3 @daltonsnightmare is officially in the top ten people.
Finally made enough art of them to ramble about these blokes. I’ll be tagging posts like this ‘Lupine’s original fiction’ so if you only want to see my generally fandom related content feel free to block the tag.
First off, we got Aubrey, Matthias, and Sylvia.
Aubrey and Matthias are brothers, Matthias is three years older. Growing up, Matthias very much filled the protective older brother role, while Aubrey had his head in the clouds. They were both somewhat antisocial and pretty introverted, so they leaned hard on each other until Matthias enlisted at eighteen-ish. After that, they both had diverging paths. Aubrey pursued art and they kept contact for a few years until Matthias ghosted everyone. Mostly because he'd gotten wrapped up in urban-fantasy hijinks and become a monster-hunter, but also because both brothers have an unhealthy tendency to self-isolate.
Eight-ish years later (still writing the story, so all dates are subject to change lol) Matthias is forced home due to an injury, and has to reconcile with all the damage he's done to his various relationships. My novel mainly focuses on the estranged brothers reconnecting, figuring out how to build back a relationship as adults that has been left to gather dust since childhood, etc etc. Of course it's also paired with an urban fantasy setting that Aubrey initially knows absolutely nothing about but will soon make itself his problem.
Matthias has a very ‘rub some dirt on it’ approach to any problem, mental or physical. A very practical guy, ineloquent, sarcastic, and pragmatic. Even if what he’s doing is irrational, the way he’s doing it rarely is. A lot of his sense of ego is tied to being self-sufficient, being able to take care of the people around him, and being trustworthy/reliable. Despite his abrasiveness, he’s a good listener which will reflect in his actions far more than words. Despite his more callous-seeming traits, he is anything but. He might struggle to say the right thing, but he will always try to.
Aubrey always feels like the outsider. He’s thoughtful and considerate of others, but struggles to form long-term connections. He can also be a bit awkward and soft-spoken unless he’s dealing with his brother in which case he abuses his younger brother privileges to be a petty bastard. He’s deeply obstinate but also chronically gentle. He’s also pretty eccentric, always head in the clouds and when he is two feet on the ground he’s usually single minded on one specific thing which can lead to him being oblivious. His main asset is a freakish ability to commit things to memory, especially visually. This ability incidentally leads to him becoming the strongest living sorcerer by technicality alone (he still can’t actually do magic) but that’s a whole other story.
Sylvia, generally called Sylvie, is a lone werewolf estranged from her pack that Aubrey obliviously let crash on his couch for a few weeks several years before the start of the story. She’s a chronic wanderer, and is abrasive and aggressive (bite first, ask questions later). She’s pretty street smart, but only as a side effect of being defensive, kinda feral, and highly suspicious. She’s well acclimated to a very brutal, instinct driven way of living which means she’s running on adrenaline, spite, and survival instincts all the time. More positively, she’s very loyal and protective over her people, which comes to include Aubrey and — more begrudgingly — Matthias. She also has a soft spot for anyone or anything that she doesn’t see as a threat, such as kids, the elderly, or pretty much any non-fighter. It can be a little insulting, but it’s well meant. She also stands up strongly for what she believes to be right, or more so to oppose what she believes to be unfair.
She is very fond of Aubrey, but mistakenly sees him as kinda naive and helpless (mainly because he let a dangerous stranger crash on his couch, which is honestly kinda fair enough) but he’s a lot more cynical and clever in reality. She has to adapt to see and acknowledge strength in traits other than aggression and ruthlessness.
