One of the characters for the comic that is in development
Since the introductory story of OutInside became a planned comic and not a textstory, some of the characters and plot actions have not changed radically, but rather supplemented, helping the plot to work and show either the characters or the world they live in.
So Hugo, who was an unnamed assistant in the text, acquired both a first name, a surname, and appearance. And he even became a faun, although initially there were no socially adequate magical creatures except for Tsepel, the dryad Pippin and [spoiler] in the district.
So I'm more than satisfied.
By the way, in the world OutInside, a faun and a satyr are different words for the same creatures.
With the industrialization of society, the separation of people from the fairy folk became much more distinct. Production is going on, cities are growing like mushrooms, people need more natural resources to use. Not having time to adapt and get used to such a world, non-humans are not very happy with the progress. They are pushed further and further away, losing homes, forces or followers, and most conflicts today are based on the fact that people have again expanded their borders without asking, for example, some dryad about her willingness to cut off part of her territory in their use.
Many magical creatures are no longer able to openly oppose the human race - the times when a pointed stick broke on the horns and got stuck in the skins of forest spirits are long gone. So many Old Gods turned out to be just greedy magical creatures, so people, feeling their ability to fight back, began to reshape the world in their favor with renewed vigor. Guns, battle magic, and Kindred who choose to progress will pacify any magical imp, and therefore compromise is the only way to peaceful coexistence. Beside banditry and lynching on the one hand, and arbitrariness and genocides on the other, of course.
But people are not completely lost guys after all, so the majority of representatives of humanity had no desire to destroy and deliberately oppress their magical neighbors.
However, cities must be built. Resources and territories are needed. What else is needed? That's right - workers!
So one of the compromises proposed by humanity was the integration of magical creatures into their society. The skills of certain representatives of the magical folk were useful in a variety of industries, and for those who were most successful in socialization, all roads were completely open. Unless, of course, we close our eyes to some nuances, but we'll talk about this later, just like about savage creatures who refused to become "full members of society."
The first and most numerous of those who successfully managed to get used to the urban environment were the folk of the fauns. Throughout all times, they have been extremely close to people (ah, remember only common holidays....), gradually moving further and further away from their wild nature, so that when they faced a choice between leaving their acquired territories and go further into the forests to start all over again or try to get a regular job, there were many who chose the second option, even though it entailed the loss of some of their magical talents. The seething and rich city life seemed very seductive...
Of course, mature and old forest spirits preferred to stay closer to the ground and agreed to the vacancies of foresters, border guards, farmers and hunters, or even won the dispute, leaving their forest untouched, but on the other hand, the young, on the contrary, enthusiastically go to people, very quickly learning how the advantages of the city life and its disadvantages.
A case in point is Hugo Juholt, who handles the valuable documentation of a noble gentleman named Benjamin Braggins.
It can be said that Hugo is the chief secretary and deputy, and only Benjamin himself stands above him in the whole company, but this does not particularly give the youngster Juholt respect among his colleagues. Why? Well, certainly not because of the stereotypical opinion that fauns are
parasites, lechers and drunkards. Hugo is not like that at all. He is a capable and even a little workaholic fellow, but at the same time very pliable, modest, clumsy and indecisive to the point of cowardice. From the outside, it sometimes even seems that Braggins keeps this grown-up lamb with him not as a subordinate, but as a goofy son, who needs to be placed in a profitable spot and pushed to work so that after the death of his father he will not be drowned by other business sharks.
But this opinion is erroneous: although Hugo does not give the impression of a strong-willed and predatory personality, he is still quite independent and knows his duties, therefore he is aware of the deplorable situation in which their company finds itself. And when Braggins disappears, having previously concluded a very strange deal, Hugo takes all his sheep's courage into a fist, seasons it with ram's obstinacy and goes to solve this issue, taking with him a lawyer and, just in case, a psychiatrist magician with a profile in the field of narcology. Because it was only a bewitched man, and certainly not Mr. Braggins, whose working principles Hugo knew all too well, could make such a deal, which essentially puts production in the hands of a competitor and throws out the entire staff of dedicated workers.
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