Basic lore

Most of all this reminds me that I need to add a character introductions page because I'm NOT going to embed pictures of everyone. Hell no. Ok I just remembered the sprites so just look at the bottom of this post to refresh ur memory. I'm gonna try to write this as comprehensively as possible without actually structuring it because that's too much effort rn.

The main six
The main six are the six boys and girl shown in the first picture. Funny thing is, they all come from different worlds from back when I used to actively rp. They only really truly got together after I stopped roleplaying around 2020 or something. Lucius is my oldest one, both in canon and irl, he used to be this child soldier guy from a mystical scandinavian town with a french name and he was really edgy and gay and hated women. Really proud of that one. His appearance, funnily enough, is largely the same. Like really, really similar. Everything else about him has changed though. I'm gonna start this whole thing off with him and work my way up to everyone else.

While Luc used to be somewhat well off, weirdly abusive and also a little French, he's currently probably the worst off of all of them. He's technically homeless and he doesn't have a job either. He's isn't even a legal American citizen in the first place. His parents, who're very conservative, kicked him out of their home after they forced him to join the military and he got dismissed with disgrace for insubordination and negligent performance of duty. Luc became homeless for a good while (2003-2007), he spent most of his time out and about getting to know different people who were active in different scene's, but he doesn't remember much of it; for better or for worse. He travels a lot and eventually unofficially moves to the United States, though he remains homeless. He picks up odd jobs while couch-crashing a lot. He's genuinely trying to improve his life but is pretty much incapable of moving forward for reasons that are pretty obvious:
- He only has a highschool diploma
- He's homeless
- He has no income
- He has no stable social circle
- He has no family
- He "looks strange"
- He's gay

At this point (somewhere late 2008) Luc meets Reese who is about 21-22 years old. I don't know how they meet yet, I still need to work that out, but I imagine they meet at some kind of party. It has to be in New York though, not Florida yet. They hit it off to some extent, but this was mainly kickstarted by Lucius finding an opportunity to vent and Reese generally being a very empathetic person with a lot of resources to his disposal. It's only logical for him - he thinks - to help someone in need. So Reese sporadically offers to house Lucius, and Lucius accepts. Lucius is an incredibly emotionally unstable and unavailanble, sardonic, cynical, depressing, suicidal, rude and off-putting person. He's has no qualms being racist and doesn't seem to value anything other than hedonistic pleasures and the art he loves so much, nothing else matters to him and it's apparent. Reese considers kicking him out multiple times. The two of them barely know eachother and kicking Lucius out wouldn't change anything about his life, but Reese cannot bring himself to do it. Not out of genuine empathy, but because he wouldn't be able to live with himself. He couldn't bare living with the discomfort of having kicked someone like Luc out, so he doesn't. Lucius isn't entirely ungrateful though. He's not ungrateful at all actually, but he mainly shows his gratefulness through acts of service like cleaning up after himself and providing for himself however much he can. Which doesn't seem like much to Reese, but is a lot to someone like Lucius who is constantly on the verge of killing himself. They're connected through guilt and barely talk to eachother. Lucius isn't even 'at home' most of the time, neither is Reese for that matter, but they don't have time to get to know eachother despite living together. Still, Lucius grows increasingly attached to (the idea) of Reese-- being his rock and all. He doesn't like Reese as a person, he despises his ideals and he hates the people he associates with, but he would do anything for him, not just to keep his housing, but also because he feeld indebted to him (obviously). Reese is aware of this and it strokes his ego a little, but he's incredibly uncomfortable with the dynamic they've developed and this dependency, however subtle it is, is almost making him want to kick Lucius out more. It's a very implicit thing. Lucius doesn't depend on him like a child would a parent, instead it shows in Lucius trying to dictate Reese's life. He's trying to control his own life through Reese. This creates a lot of tension between them, but at least they're interacting now. At some point the two of them have a physical fight, a really unfair one because Lucius is emaciated and physically weak from years of abuse of all kinds. Still, he instigates this fight. Reese only hits him a few times because he's very aware of how much stronger he is than Lucius, revelling in the fact and kind of taunting him by refusing to fight back. It's a power play, but a fortunate one because it leaves Lucius with only minor injuries. The two of them never resolve this, they don't talk about it, but Reese feels incredibly remorseful and almost kicks Lucius out before deciding to move out himself, retiring to his Florida estate for at least a year where he meets Ellis.

Reese and Ellis are really made for eachother. They're both incredibly shallow people who seem to play off of eachothers schtick perfectly. Reese being the big, strong black guy to Ellis' effeminate white snowbunny. There's a very fetishistic character to their dynamic, at first at least. It's obvious they're only into eachother because they're into the dynamic they're playing into; one that allows Reese to comfortably be bisexual without crossing his heteronormative boundaries by pretending Ellis is a woman while simultaneously fetishizing him for being a faggy sissy. This allows him to both "dominate a weak male" while also being in a completely heterosexual relationship whenever he feels like it. Completely denying Ellis of his agency to expres himself however he wants to and denying him of his manhood in the first place by genuinely refusing to acknowledge his biological gender whenever he doesn't feel like being gay. Ellis however equally gets off to all of that, if not more. He doesn't necessarily enjoy being emasculated and objectified but it's a constant in his life he's tired of fighting back against and also feels very uncomfortable not experiencing. He lives his life as a woman despite himself. In fact, he seems to be the only person who doesn't consider himself to be a woman. However, he cannot bare to face the humiliation of attempting to present masculine. It's torturous having to justify his inate masculinity to people who will never accept him as such, despite his biological gender (Can you believe a transgender man wrote this? Wow). Both manhood and womanhood are a performace to him. He cannot expres himself as a man, but he isn't a woman and he knows that. So, instead of being any person at all he starts being a bunch of people. It all just depends on whoever he's interacting with. He's a very smart and socially savvy guy so this isn't hard for him, and he enjoys it because his lack of central identity allows him to be whatever and whoever he wants without having to worry about being accepted as being whoever he is: because he isn't anyone at all. This dissociation coping mechanism develops when he's like 14 and it helps him cope with the numerous times he's been sexually assaulted and raped, mainly by his mothers boyfriends, but it never really goes away. Ellis blames himself for a lot of his sexual trauma, because, although he knows he's been taken advantage of and that children can't consent, he still believes that he shouldn't have "propositioned people". His mother agrees with him. (It's important for you to know that Ellis is a pervert both despite and because of this. His past trauma has left him with a lot of very skewed and fucked up views on life as well as leading him to develop some unfortunate sexual proclivities. But these narrative developments only really came into being after I'd written him to be a sexually devious pervert. Those aspects of his character are obviously connected because reasonably they should, but I feel like Ellis should still be able to have and enjoy sex despite his sexual trauma and I don't want him to be defined by his sexual trauma either. Re. a lot of these characters: their backstory explains but doesn't define who they are currently and they are actively changing throughout the story. It's not something you or they actively think about.)

Despite this and despite the rocky start of their relationship, Reese and Ellis grow to like eachother a lot. They never start dating, but they do become very close friends who can depend on eachother and confide in eachother with regards to their sexual trauma. Although neither of them truly understand the extent to which it affected them. Reese is actually quite proud of having "hooked up with" some of the older women present at whatever gatherings his dad used to take him to back when he was way too young to be there. Through Reese, Ellis ends up meeting Ovid, but that's only because Reese is best friends with Marin who is also best friends with Ovid. Marin and Reese, as well as Francis, have known eachother since childhood back when Marin was a toddler. The three of them went to the same daycare and sometimes their parents would take them to meetings where Reese (6) would have to babysit little poopy baby Marin (2). Their parents, though aquainted, didn't become friends until their children became friends around 10, 8 and 6, but ever since then all of families have become very close. The three of them, but the two boys especially, are inseperable with Marin being like a little brother to Reese and Francis. He also came out as trans to them way before he came out to his parents and despite the times they were both really chill about it. Reese didn't really care much because he was like 15 years old and Marin was very boy-ish already. It did take him some time to adjust, way more than Francis (13) who was in the process of discovering that she was a lesbian and thus had bigger fish to fry. Marin was allowed to socially transition pretty much the second he came out. His mom was pretty on-board with her son being trans on account of it being disruptive and against social norms, she thought it was cool and poetic and that he was an extension of herself, her previous rebellious spirit that she had lost to marriage. His dad, however, not as into it, but unwilling to face scrutiny he let his son transition as quickly as possible in an effort to play it off like Marin had just been born a boy. Which worked by the way. Marin is thus a very privileged little boy who has been coddled his whole life and it shows. He's a huge fucking asshole, he loves cyberbullying people and also in real life bullying people and has spent most of his life seeing what he could get away with. Which is a lot when you have neglectful parents. to be continued I'm wickkeddd tired rn

01 mei 2026