the coronation of dead kings.

Picture this:

Their first real vision of life is a mother eating their father alive. 

Both are deeply affected by this, raised by a mother in the cliffs of Ireland more beast than anything, and they grow from this trauma; Cadogan embraces the monster within, and his sister vomits it out of her, ashamed of what her mother gave her and who her brothers tries to be. When their mother dies, murdered by a non-wix, they bloom in this sort of strange love for one another, tethered together by their hearts but fractured by how they view themselves. They hate one another. They’d die for one another. It’s a constant back and forth.

Add to this dynamic their lots in life—Cadogan has dedicated himself to a life of rebelliousness and crime, a member of a being boostergang consumed with bringing down the New London establishment. His sister, consumed with her vanity, starts camouflaging her appearance at the age of 13. She’s become wholly dependent on beautification potions to remain ‘presentable,’ afraid of the world seeing her for what she really is, and lives a double life in the city, no one aware of her hag heritage. The ingredients for said potion are rare—expensive—and so she resorts to unspeakable lengths to scrounge up the money for them, involving herself in circles spilling over with danger. 

Her dependency on the potions has become akin to a drug addiction, and Cadogan wants to save her, but also wants to respect her choice to live her life and not expose her by exposing their relationship.

This pretty much devolved into serious trash near the end, but I hope I got the gist across! I just want toxic sibling relationships, two people wholly devoted to one another though they live on opposite sides of a divide, struggling to deal with their own demons as well as each other’s. 

I imagine his sister very fiery, almost as a defense-mechanism to her extreme insecurity about her physical appearance. Re: names, anything that sounds exceedingly Irish/Welsh works for me. I do like the idea of it starting with a C just for trend’s sake, but das not a dealbreaker.

I don’t have any specific face portrayal in mind, though I am partial to models! Anyone that looks like they could be a sister to Ernest Klemo is a-ok.