THE REBEL RED AU

Blurry:

He’s always been cautious of his surroundings, regardless of what world he’s in. Despite this, he’s more curious about the world than scared, especially about Trench. It’s such a different and unfamiliar world, even if he’s spent over half his life there. He’s not sure he’ll ever get to see everything on the continent, or if he even wants to. There’s things out there that he’s either had to learn to stay away from, or places others have told him he shouldn’t go to, and the Banditos know this world far better than they do, even if they don’t necessarily trust them still. They feel outnumbered and cornered by people he feels he can’t trust because of the actions of the Bishops. Humans have been helpful and welcoming, but Blurry isn’t sure their positive actions can ever outweigh the harm others of their species have caused him. They don’t like him, he knows it, one day they’ll stop pretending to be friendly, and he’ll have seen it coming. At least he hopes he’ll be able to see it coming.Blurry’s incredibly wary of people. He struggles to connect to anyone or make any friends besides Spooky (who doesn’t really count because they’ve been friends for as long as Blurry can remember) and Tyler. He’s very close to them, sometimes getting a bit too clingy. Tyler’s different, though. He didn’t really have a choice when it came to getting close to Tyler, he could hear his every thought for years anyways.He’s just glad it didn’t work in reverse, nobody needs to know what they’re thinking. Nobody needs to, or wants to, worry about them. If things get too bad, well, they don’t know what they’ll do. It’s not like anything people in Dema did worked for them, they’ve tried. Blurry thinks he’s good at hiding how he’s doing, good or bad, but he’s terrible at it. Everyone just basically lets him think he’s doing a good job at it, but are preparing for when things inevitably go wrong. They’re not going to force him to talk about it if he doesn’t want to, they already know how paranoid he is of them all, and making things worse isn’t a good idea in the slightest.They get frustrated easily. If they can’t get things right the first time, they usually give up. They also get scared, startled, and overwhelmed easily. When they do get scared, sometimes they’ll calm down fast, other times it’ll be days before he fully calms down again. If it isn’t noticeable already, he’s very pessimistic. He’s also self-destructive, and has a tendency to isolate himself when things get bad.For a long time, Blurry has struggled with his identity and self image. He’s gone through multiple names over his life, and most of them have been forced onto him by someone else. Made to pretend to be someone else he wasn’t. Now imagine being a shapeshifter on top of all of that. His reflection scares him sometimes, making him question if any of his forms are really “him”. His corruption made this issue a lot worse. And now, when he’s in a place where people can be themselves, he feels like he shouldn’t be here. He feels undeserving of his situation, like maybe he was supposed to die all those years ago, or if he wasn’t even supposed to exist in the first place.

Spøøky:

Spooky had to learn how to survive on his own in an uncaring world from a relatively early age. This experience translated well in Trench, paired with his natural fascination with the world around him and the need to record everything he sees. It’s almost obsessive, but not anything harmful. He wants to know everything, both past and present, and how everything works. How things rise and fall, and what they left behind. It happened to his own species, and the perpetrators did a very good job at making sure almost nothing survived to the present day. He usually doesn’t write it, though, preferring to draw because of him not having known a written language until arriving in Dema. And once he learned that language, he made sure to write down everything he knew. This mostly carries over into Spooky enjoying talking about these things in excruciating detail for long periods of time to people, all the while being very enthusiastic about whatever it is.Another thing that’s helped him in the past is his determination. Spooky isn’t persuaded easily, and once he gets an idea in his mind he will stick to it (unless there’s a good reason to alter it, and in those cases he’ll go along with it). He can’t really be deterred easily, and will get what he wants if he knows he can get it. He can go too far with this, though, and ends up hurting others in the process. In these situations, he gets bad tunnel vision, and only sees the end goal.He’s very competitive, something which stems from his time alone before he found Blurry. It was a necessary trait to have then, paired with his natural aggressiveness and tendency for physical violence. Spooky knows what he is, and knows what he’s capable of. But he’s smart enough to know that this place, with the Banditos, doesn’t require him to be like that all the time. He isn’t just going to give up being a Voidstalker, though, instead channeling his aggressiveness into things like hunting. He’s also extremely protective about those he cares about, especially towards Blurry.Spooky has a tendency to overthink things and unknowingly lets himself get caught up in his own anxiety and fear that things will go terribly wrong. It gets hard for him to bring himself up out of these types of pits of thinking. He thinks too much and starts to spiral further into it until someone else helps him get out of it.He’s good at working in a team, and has always been good at leading others. He’ll cooperate pretty easily if he agrees with whatever it is someone’s asking him to go along with, but if he doesn’t see the point of it, there is no way anyone can get him on their side. It’s worked in his favor many times before, but it’s also backfired and gotten himself or others hurt. This has led to his tendency to overthink things to get worse.Spooky is also incredibly blunt in his actions and words. He’s had issues with this for years, ever since his time in Dema, and it goes hand in hand with his inability to recognize his own emotions getting worse at that time. He tries, though.He likes to think optimistically, but can easily get dragged down into the realms of realism and pessimism.

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