double, double, toil and trouble

We'll call her Scout.

Atticus's dad was way into Americana, specifically To Kill a Mockingbird, so when he came along it was no surprise that he'd get named Atticus. When his wife (Atti's mom) passed away when he was a kid and he got remarried it was only a matter of time before they had another literarily inspired kid. In this case it's "Scout".

There's a pretty big age gap between them but that never really bothered Atti. It's his little sister, who cares that she's following him around? She was always down to try his latest food when he came home from culinary school and he was a pretty cool big brother to have since he's kind of a stoner and was always prepared to make a pillow fort. They've had their fair share of sibling fights but they get along really well, it's adorable. Just a nice sibling dynamic.

We're calling him TWIN for the ad. They look almost exactly alike but they couldn't be more different. Their mother and father were addicts, they basically had to raise themselves and then finally got taken away when someone picked up on it. They were basically treated as one kid up to that point, their mother used either name for either of them, and they have basically never been farther apart than a few apartment buildings. So they kept to themselves for the most part. When they were put into the system it became incredibly obvious that Lucio avoided confrontation, and TWIN went head first into it. Where Lucio would be the caretaker, TWIN was the fighter, where Lucio was the one to talk ad nauseam and sarcastically TWIN is generally quieter and more serious and far less ADHD. That's probably why when they ran off from yet another foster home TWIN was the one that got busted.

They've got the kind of relationship where Lucio had trouble sleeping when TWIN was in juvie, and TWIN was probably going nuts a little while he was away, because they just don't know how to exist totally separate from one another. So TWIN, who has a job and maybe a little questionable thing on the side, always runs to Lucio when he needs help and Lucio's always there to help. They're at best co-dependant. It's ok, because they can manage without one another, but it's not Lucio's fault if he texts his brother all the time just to make sure he didn't get arrested again, or if TWIN calls him every few days to be sure he ate and didn't just work through lunch, again, forever.

I personally would find it really funny if they wound up in Hearthwick cause TWIN got turned or developed magic or something like that because Lucio is just a guy and it would be funny to me. This also comes with a secondary plot idea for a character who starts hitting on Lucio but Lucio is kind of with someone so they redirect her to TWIN instead. It's cute and fun and honestly impressive she picked someone with a twin to hit on.

Also Lucio is the younger one by five minutes, so TWIN needs to call him kid, k thanks. Hit me up if you have the ideas! His face is Marlon Teixeira, they have their original names despite having found a family eventually.