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Summary: A disabled self-described βEtsy witchβ and a tiny law firmβs junior accountant roommate together in a small house in Montreal, bought with the paganβs abusive late fatherβs inheritance. Corduroy is antagonistic, self-destructive, and struggles with people but has been deeply, painfully in love with Randy, their slightly emotionally constipated yet witty caregiver since high school. Working peripheral roles in the cityβs port mafia makes their livesβ¦ relatively uneventful, actually, and the few brushes they make with its inner workings make them thankful for where they are. The webcomic would focus on the duo as they navigate their joint lives, particularly the things that bring them together, and how their relationships, disability, mental health, and soon their feelings for each other play into it all.
The Character: Randy [born Randal] Martinez-Herrera is a 29 year old nonbinary mixed Argentinian afro-latina man[note: he uses masculine and feminine terms, no neutral terms]. He has medium brown skin with cool undertones, an almost-black brown buzzcut, and deep mahogany eyes [note: all characters have atypical eye colors for fun character design]. He has a dusting of facial hair, wide round-ish nose, and larger lower than top lip. Heβs fat and about 6 feet or 185 centimeters tall. His typical βuniformβ consists of a grape polo, navy blue jeans, and brown loafers. In his free time he enjoys cooking, singing, playing FPS games, guitar, and visual novels, reading romance novels, and reading/writing fanfiction for said romances and visual novels. Other interests of his include pure math, meteorology, and music theory. If life had panned out differently and teachers were paid more, he wouldβve enjoyed making a living as a math professor.
His stature and tendency for RBF may make him seem closed off, but anyone who gets to talking with him knows him as a smiley, soft-spoken, smart-mouthed extrovert who knows how to keep a conversation going. In truth, heβs more of an ambivert, and in private comes off as calmer and a bit of a complainer. His dry and sarcastic sense of humor pairs well with Corduroyβs casual-rude humor and the two often end up looking like the same snickering idiots they were in high school. Randy is equal parts emotionally constipated and intelligent: not open with anyone other than close friends, and defaults to irritation and/or quiet anger when upset, but able to recognize what heβs doing when it matters and step back to work through his feelings. He is making progress, if slow, to be more open with the people around him. Corduroy is one of the few people who he feels comfortable crying around/to, which he appreciates beyond words. At his core, heβs a bleeding heart who cares deeply for people; those who know him best would describe him as βkind, but not necessarily niceβ.
Randy offered to become Corduroyβs caregiver after being by their side through the worst period of their adult life, wherein they lost their father and permanently disabled themselves due to overwork, which altogether made them further incapable of independent living [for context: they had previous disability, undiagnosed moderate support needs autism, and an untreated TBI]. This period also alerted him to their practice of blood self-sacrifice as a method of worshipping the universe, connected in part to their job as a βspiritual advisorβ (read: curse bringer) for the CEOs of a local construction company. With recognizing it as mental instability, and his promise to always be there for them, heβs learned to live withβ though certainly dislikeβ the Meat Room. As their caregiver he is responsible for most βadminβ tasks(prescriptions, appointments, bills, occasional transit), though he also does smaller things like maintaining the house calendar and reminding them to take medications and care for their personal hygiene. They split house work, with respect to Corduroyβs chronic symptoms. Heβs been in love with them for nearly three years now, but is conflicted on confessing it. If he does, he risks losing their trust, or worse, pressuring them into an unwanted relationship. If he doesnβt, heβll keep hiding something that is just about ready to burst out of his chest.
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