cheembs

Barnabas created Sleipnir when he was 18. that's incredibly young for a dominant to be able to conjure an egi - usually it takes years of training to fully master the art. but i believe it was unintentional. that point in time was around when his mother died, which led to the manifestation of his abilities as a dominant. but one does not simply create an egi immediately - unless there was an extremely traumatic event, leaving a hole in his heart that needed to be filled by any means.

so. Sleipnir. i believe he came to Barnabas not as an intentional creation, but out of the desperate mind of a lonely, grieving child, who needed companionship more than anything else at the time. Sleipnir was his 'imaginary friend', so to speak, a way of coping. a comforting, adult figure in his life that he needed at that time. someone to hold him and tell him it was all going to be okay.

Barnabas leaned on him as a crutch from then on. he was never without Sleipnir for long, being so attached to him and never really having gotten over the grief of his mother's passing. he was always withdrawn, unfriendly, Sleipnir being the only person he was ever close to aside from his mother. and of course, Sleipnir himself couldn't live without Barnabas. they kind of created an echo chamber amongst themselves, leading Barnabas to hate humanity even more because they don't treat him like Sleipnir does.

I FUCKING LOVE MUTUALLY CODEPENDENT RELATIONSHIPS