A weird concept that just won't leave me...
Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2014 3:37 am
Ever since playing Year Walk and noticing how dichotomous the Brook Horse is, I figured there'd be two entities associated with that loose moniker. Both are Fae and they're technically brothers à la Wilbur Whateley-and-his-invisible-brother, perhaps indicating some fuckery courtesy of the Others. I dunno.
One of 'em more or less looks like a standard horse anthro. He's got the palest skin imaginable for a horse, and a mane that's actually cut in a sort of prim-and-proper blond haircut. In lieu and place of eyes, he's got two glowing pits of light he tends to keep closed during the day and that he opens during the night, as these things are headlights-on-the-highway-at-2-in-the-morning bright. So, during the day, he sort of moves around like Jughead Jones; with his eyes closed and somehow able to do just fine. In keeping with my decidedly untraceable Victorian fetish, he's a true sir and wouldn't harm a fly. On paper, he maybe is some kind of Rare Books salesman, but he spends half his time out of his store... Now, why is that?
The other brother got hit pretty hard by the Eldritch Abomination ray, and exists as a kind of monstrous cross between a white horse, a bull's muscle structure, a snake in place of a tail and human hands instead of hooves. Horse Jughead is trying to do right by his brother while keeping him from drowning people or trampling them to death with his hand-hooves, so he frequently takes off whenever Eldritch Brother leaves his secret corral in the basement and uses his attunement with water to escape through the city's water supply. Insofar, Horse Jughead's spent centuries learning to predict his brother's patterns and knows fairly well how and when he goes looking for a new victim. Using his eye-lights in the cover of darkness, he tries to lead most, if not all of his brother's kidnapped people to their homes.
Eventually, Shield would confront him. Why didn't you call the cops, yadda yadda - but they'd receive a frustrating and yet understandable response: would you really want to betray your brother's trust if you were the only person who ever cared for him and treated him as a potentially decent person? Horse Guy would admit to having waited for someone like Shield to come along and to be grateful for them, as he just can't do anything about Horse-Hands Brother on his own. It's just too damn hard, even though he's bought a gun and a couple rounds way back when, but keeps chickening out of pulling a bullet in his brother's head.
How's that sound?
One of 'em more or less looks like a standard horse anthro. He's got the palest skin imaginable for a horse, and a mane that's actually cut in a sort of prim-and-proper blond haircut. In lieu and place of eyes, he's got two glowing pits of light he tends to keep closed during the day and that he opens during the night, as these things are headlights-on-the-highway-at-2-in-the-morning bright. So, during the day, he sort of moves around like Jughead Jones; with his eyes closed and somehow able to do just fine. In keeping with my decidedly untraceable Victorian fetish, he's a true sir and wouldn't harm a fly. On paper, he maybe is some kind of Rare Books salesman, but he spends half his time out of his store... Now, why is that?
The other brother got hit pretty hard by the Eldritch Abomination ray, and exists as a kind of monstrous cross between a white horse, a bull's muscle structure, a snake in place of a tail and human hands instead of hooves. Horse Jughead is trying to do right by his brother while keeping him from drowning people or trampling them to death with his hand-hooves, so he frequently takes off whenever Eldritch Brother leaves his secret corral in the basement and uses his attunement with water to escape through the city's water supply. Insofar, Horse Jughead's spent centuries learning to predict his brother's patterns and knows fairly well how and when he goes looking for a new victim. Using his eye-lights in the cover of darkness, he tries to lead most, if not all of his brother's kidnapped people to their homes.
Eventually, Shield would confront him. Why didn't you call the cops, yadda yadda - but they'd receive a frustrating and yet understandable response: would you really want to betray your brother's trust if you were the only person who ever cared for him and treated him as a potentially decent person? Horse Guy would admit to having waited for someone like Shield to come along and to be grateful for them, as he just can't do anything about Horse-Hands Brother on his own. It's just too damn hard, even though he's bought a gun and a couple rounds way back when, but keeps chickening out of pulling a bullet in his brother's head.
How's that sound?