#octaviancore

[lady-menrva]

[corpus-incorporated]

my oc’s

CW for discussions of: murder/cannibalism/drowning/undead/terminal illness/etc

Nathaniel “Nat” Corpus (he/it/she)

the son of a billionaire and the heir to his father’s fortune and company as the youngest of six but the only “male heir” available. Nathaniel is unfit in every way to meet his father’s expectations and will always find himself failing whenever he tries.

nat struggles to control his impulses, one of them being his tendency towards violence. when he does allow himself to unleash himself he will go as far as to commit cannibalism in the process of dismemberment since he likes to use his teeth. he is not human no matter what he looks like, and it is at moments like this that it is the most apparent.

he is not human, but he is also divine. he does not work from our moral framework. he feels no remorse for killing a man, just shame that he lost control and fear for how he might be punished next. should we shame him for a nature he cannot change? what does it mean to be loved when who you are is unforgivable?

could you love yourself?

could you bear it?

diagnoses: autism, schizophrenia, anxiety, substance use disorder

gender: none

orientation: homosexual

(6’4 muscular build 24-31) art

Anthony “Tony” Wolff (he/him)

tony was forced to become friends with nat when he was a child in order to help his father integrate into the corpus family with their companies’ recent merger, although he grew to become fascinated with him. he is also the son of a billionaire, but one who made his billions rapidly within his lifetime, which comes with its own social realities their family and tony himself is compensating for.

Tony will do anything for the upper-hand, and yes, that means killing someone if it’s as convenient as asking your lover to do what he wants in his heart to do anyway. he may regret it for a moment but it never stays long. he’s doing what he needs to survive.

gender: male

orientation: aromantic bisexual

diagnoses: npd

(5’9 thin & bony 24-31) art

Anatole “Toli” Lamarque (he/him)

i have four different versions of this guy so he’s hard to explain. he’s a liar and a thief and a survivor to the core. he is a sewer rat. he has a genie deadbeat dad. in one version he was raised in a cult where children are human sacrifices to save their parents’ souls and he escaped after seeing his crush die trying to escape. he stows away on ships. he owes mountains of debt to the mafia. he is constantly coming up with scams. he’s a fire genasi that looks like embers and smoke. he’s french. he smokes weed.

names we call him: marq, lam, the mark, lame mark, lam R Q

diagnoses: adhd, ptsd

(5’7 very slim but athletic 18-19) art

Octavian Ghens (he/him)

human clone doomed to not survive to adulthood, wether he knows about it or not. he was made by a scientist in her hubris, competing against her lover and rival in their field of research, and due to his “mother’s” deception, she was able to keep his clone identity a secret even from her lover, who knew it couldn’t be her’s either.

octavian has big dreams of changing the world and the drive to do it if the world would just let him. he is persuasive and measured but persistent and driven. he was raised by academics and has a profound love for philosophy and the natural sciences.

he fell sick when he was 12, his time running up and a man approached his mother with a bargain. more time and all he has to do is write his name in this book. so he did. six more years. his time is running short and the more his body starts to decay the more magic it takes to keep him upright the more it spills out of him by spells he is able to cast. he is rotting and he doesn’t know it.

he wants to run for president when he grows up.

gender: male

sexuality: bisexual

diagnoses: bipolar 2, probably also npd i’m not gonna lie. with his everything.

(5’5 average build 18) art

Bitter Sweet (she/they)

pink teifling loves the swamp loves her mom loves her friends the undead she accidentally summoned. wants to be best friends with everyone, trusts everyone, and is easily fooled. she was thrown overboard by her traveling group for being too much of a bother, and is only still alive because she was revived by her underwater patron. they are the embodiment of a stuffie left on the playground, trampled and covered in dirt but still with an unyielding smile.

gender: sort of a girl

orientation: [INCORRECT BUZZER NOISE]

diagnoses: autism, adhd

(5’4 average build 16) art

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thinking about those tags that i put on a post about building characters around what they’re afraid of and i thought i’d list what those fears are.

Nat: punishment and pain mostly. the dark too

Tony: humiliation and failure - looking foolish or incompetent or less than picture perfect in comparison to others

Lamarque: honesty and commitment, anything that he can’t just run away from

Octavian: death, insignificance, not getting to achieve his goals, time, decay, loss of the self

Bitter: she has no fears and that’s the problem

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it’s great to have two characters whose central issues involve having massive decisions about their lives be made not just without them present, but without the facts of their personhoods and right to autonomy even being considered in the first place. they’ve had deals with the devil* made for them when they weren’t in the room, and now they have to live out the consequence of being someone else’s life lesson as to why you shouldn’t make deals with the devil* just a pawn in the game of someone else’s destiny