= Vulpactia =
[lineage: Rhiannon x Fenrir]
[progen descendant (Razanei G3)]
Fraternal twins with Benji. Their mother Fen was hoping they'd help run the family fishing business, but the twins wanted nothing to do with country living and left for the big city on the eve of adulthood.
(A land of glittering lights and endless parties, or so they thought. A dangerous place for a duo of wide-eyed fledglings.)
Faced with rapidly dwindling funds, the twins split up: Vulpactia became a street performer/musician, while Benji went to explore the forbidden depths of the Kaiator Library. Following Benji's disappearance and presumed death, Vulpactia composed a ballad to his memory. It was an instant hit. Crowds gathered in the streets to listen to her. She got multiple lucrative contract offers from competing music labels.
(But she would trade it all to have her brother back.)
(Or would she? This is her dream, after all: fame and fortune in the big city. Part of her is satisfied with how things turned out, although she would never admit it to herself. Mostly, she avoids thinking about it. There is always another concert, another party, another drink...)
= Fimbulvetr =
[lineage: Cryotosis x Vulpactia]
[progen descendant (Razanei G4)]
Vulpactia's son. Born when she was still a street musician struggling to make ends meet. Fim has distinct childhood memories of looking longingly at the corn dog stand near their usual corner. They were too expensive to buy, but sometimes the dragon running the stand would sneak him a corn dog anyway.
He feels a weird sense of nostalgia for those days, even though they were objectively awful. Corn dogs are still his comfort food.
All his younger siblings came after Vulpactia hit it big, born into lives of fame and fortune. Fim has never been able to connect with any of them. He feels like they look down on him, although he's not sure if that's true or he's too much in his own head.
= Zanziya =
[lineage: Camlann x Arrokoth]
21st child of Arrokoth and Camlann. Cybernetic warrior. Specializes in close-range combat using lightning-charged claw strikes.
Has a hair-trigger temper. Is banned from the Miragia Bar and Lounge, and the Albumuth Nightclub, and dozens of other establishments city-wide for starting too many fights.
(honestly what does Fim see in her. get out, bro)
update (6/2/23): Fim's decided he's had enough. After their latest fight (featuring Zanziya screaming at him and hurling crockery at the wall) he slipped out in the middle of the night, with no thought except putting as much distance between them as possible.
(She never hit him, never threw an object directly at him, and he convinced himself for a long time that things were okay...but that night, a final spark of self-preservation took over, and he fled.)
He did not know if Zanziya would pursue him once she realized he left for good, but he didn't intend to stick around to find out. He did not stop his headlong flight until he was outside Kaiator. It was his first time beyond the city's walls. (The world was too quiet. The sky was too empty. It made him feel very small.) This was the existence that Vulpactia ran away from.
It didn't seem too bad, Fim thought.
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