#Alterity Szereban-Webber

[freckleshine007]

Alterity and Agency! The siblings ever <3

I love these guys sm (Agency is my brother, @viridianvales’s character)

[charonean]

I've seen the art of Szereban-Webber family and so far only understood they are characters from your dnd campaign? Like honestly they look very cool and I would love to know all about them so I hope I did not miss some post with their backstories or anything because I would just love to ask in very generic sense who they are? What's their story? Who are they? Sorry if you'd like to get some more specific questions I've just came here, saw your cool little guys and I'm intrigued

Thank you for your ask!!

We haven't actually posted any proper lore for them yet, so I'll share it here.

For context, my character is Jonas Webber, otherwise known as Lore. His husband is Niles Szereban (aka Partisan), created by @doonthestair. They have two kids: Magnus (Alterity) by @freckleshine007 and Evangeline (Agency) by @viridianvales.

From the point of view of my character, he was a tiefling born to human parents in a formerly aristocratic family. Tieflings weren't uncommon in their family, so he was raised pretty normally. His mother died when he was a young teenager, and he later moved out to pursue a degree in history. From there he went on to a Masters and then a PhD. During the last year of his PhD, as he was repressing a lot of things at that point (specifically the fact that he was gay), he ended up in a relationship with a young woman named Cordelia (Prudence) who was working on her Masters in Business. She became pregnant with their first child, a daughter named Antonia (later, Resolve). He became a professor of history, and later also had a second child, a son named Wesley (later, Loyalty). However, Prudence was having an affair with her boss (she was a secretary) for most of their marriage, and both were incredibly unhappy in their relationship, but didn't divorce one another because of societal expectations. At some point, Jonas has a bit of a midlife crisis and starts studying magic, finding himself making deals with a genie named Manahimeko (as a dnd character, he's a mix between a wizard and the 3.5 prestige class Malconvoker that has been modified a bit).

Eventually, Niles Szereban was hired as a professor of Criminal Justice at the university Jonas taught at. Niles was a former prosecutor who was disbarred following a public affair with a judge in a high profile case. When Jonas first met Niles, he was rather annoyed because he realised that he quite liked the other man, but he was still repressing a lot of things at that time, so they didn't interact. Later, however, they had to work together as they were often called to meetings to discuss requirements for the Politics degree (where their fields overlapped) and they got to know one another.

One night, Niles and Jonas go out to a bar, just drinking and talking, and Jonas gets really drunk and kisses Niles. However, Niles doesn't do anything further and Jonas forgets about that night. A couple of weeks later, they're talking late into the night again, and Niles notices that Jonas is looking intensely at his lips and they end up making out one more time. This progresses into something more and ultimately leaves Jonas with the conclusion that he has to leave his wife.

From here, Jonas and Niles eventually marry one another once Jonas' divorce has gone through (he got custody of Resolve; Prudence got custody of Loyalty and eventually married her boss with whom she was having an affair). Through surrogacy, Jonas and Niles have their first child, Magnus (later, Alterity). When Magnus is a year old, Jonas decides to put away his serious pursuit of magic and binds Manahimeko to a cane he created, sealing her away in a demiplane. This leaves him with what is known as the Fantasy Cataract™ which blinds him partially in general (for context, he has shit vision already, so he's Not vibing) and to things within Manahimeko's domain (namely water, but also anything currently imbued with her magic, such as the cane itself). When Magnus is 7, he sneaks into Jonas' office and steals the cane and becomes blind and bound in a pact to her.

When Magnus makes the pact, he wishes for a sibling because he is lonely, and eventually the Szereban-Webbers adopt a young girl named Evangeline (later, Agency) who was a tiefling born to human parents but cast out. She went from home to home, facing much discrimination, before making a deal with a genie named Idalia so that she could find a family. Jonas and Niles adopted her, and they all became a family.

The story then follows Alterity and Agency as they learn more about magic and the genies. At some point, Manahimeko breaks lose and wishes to cause chaos upon the world, and Jonas needs to stop her. In sealing her away, back in the cane, he dies. This leave Niles, Alterity, and Agency scrambling to pick up the pieces and actually solve the problem as Manahimeko has only been delayed, not stopped entirely.

This is essentially the whole story. We've all worked out some more, and, personally, my current obsession is this au we made where Jonas doesn't actually die but is rather sealed away in the cane for a year before he breaks out and returns to his family. But that doesn't fit within the larger narrative, so it's only an au.

Yeah! That's the story! Hope it makes sense lol. I am ever so slightly tipsy right now (coming out of being properly drunk), so I can only hope this is coherent.

[freckleshine007]

The siblings!!

I finally finished this lol. School has unfortunately been keeping me away from my blorbos smh

(Agency is @viridianvales character:3)

[freckleshine007]

Szereban-Webber family portrait!

Characters:

Partisan/Niles (@doonthestair), Lore/Jonas (@charonean), Alterity/Magnus (my character :3), and Agency/Evangeline (@viridianvales)

[freckleshine007]

Fuckass blind kid and his best friend win gold once again

[freckleshine007]

(Tumblr please let me actually post this)

Alterity and their newly acquired wild magic! Yippie!!

[freckleshine007]

Alterity and his best friend, Masha!

They’ve been friends for as long as they can remember. Masha is working on becoming a cleric so she can work in the medical field.

[freckleshine007]

Pov: evil Mitski is your patron

I’ve changed Alterity’s horns a bit because I finally figured out how to draw ones that curve up.

Alterity’s patron is a marid genie named Manahimeko and she has a crazy amount of beef with his dad, Lore.

[freckleshine007]

Alterity doodles <3

They’re a figure skater just like their dad, Partisan. He picked it up at a young age but got more into it after losing his eyesight.

He’s not the best but they enjoy it a lot and it’s one of their favorite things. Also, their best friend Masha is their figure skating partner.

[freckleshine007]

A collection of drawings I’ve done recently ft. @doonthestair’s characters: Partisan and Samick and @charonean’s character: Lore

[freckleshine007]

“For a moment, Partisan recalled the first time he’d held Alterity. Baby Magnus. He’d be damned if this was the last time he got to hold his son.”

Gotta love angst. @doonthestair and I have been writing a scene that happens between our characters Partisan and Alterity. Basically they get into a fight and Alterity storms off to go ice skate on a frozen pond (the pond is not as frozen as he hoped). Partisan finds them about an hour later and yeah, hypothermia goes crazy.

[freckleshine007]

Lore and his son Alterity!

(Their non-virtue names are Jonas and Magnus bc it’s funny)

(Lore is @charonean’s character :3)

[freckleshine007]

He’s just a little guy who loves hot chocolate and has zero issues

[freckleshine007]

More Masha and Alterity content cause they’re the besties ever and I love them

[freckleshine007]

Various Szereban-Webber sketches I’ve done recently. It’s almost ArtFight time, how are we feeling?

(Partisan is @doonthestair’s character and Lore is @charonean’s character <3)

[freckleshine007]

Some sketches + a work in progress

(Can you tell I have Alterity brain rot?)