#characternotes

- lives in a cave deep within the phantom zone located in Mt. Shiver.

- Doesn't like bee wandering around alone in phantom zone due to dangers

- A secret sweetie pie to those he likes

- Big

- Hates being teased

- Likes to watch horror movies

- Secretly likes to pick up and hold Bee

- Hides bee in his shadow if other phantoms are around

- Will visit den sometimes at night to hang out

- Thinks the alphas are annoying

- Often Bails bee out of trouble

- Begrudgingly will accompany bee around phantom zone if asked enough

- Hates making bee upset

- Takes his sleep schedule seriously

- AJ economy expert💀

- Didn't like bee at first

- Used to be meaner in early days of meeting bee

- Tried to keep intimidating/frightening image but didn't last long

- Hermit

- Scary when mad

- Hates when he's wrong

- Turns into giant phantom monster when extremely angry

-doesn’t like sharing

-Can grow his size, but can't get any smaller than his normal size

- Electric powers (duh)

- Low-key evil when sleep deprived

- Loves to read he has a giant archive library deep within his cave

- Serves the phantomking

-a sleep deprived Dave is a very bad thing

Design fun facts

-Dave originally had 12 arms, but changed to usually having 8 arms like most other phantoms

- bee originally was going to be a rabbit/hare or alternatively be able to shapeshift into any animal like a player is able to in game.

- Bee was also almost going to be boy with the name Fish!

Bee notes

- sunshine extroverted personality

- Likes exploring haunted scary parts of Jamal

- Interest in the strange and unusual

- Likes to tease Dave

- Always on the go and wanting to explore

- Goes to Dave with worth questions frequently

- Originally was afraid of Dave and found him scary

- But kept coming back bc he seemed Lonely + Deal she made with him when they first met

- Doesn’t get enough sleep, has a hard time falling asleep

- Is Dave’s best friend

- Is a Cape Fox

- Sometimes spends night in Dave’s cave

- Loves to play hide and seek with Dave

- Gets tired easily

- Never packs enough paintseeds, hard to maintain a supply with how often she goes to the phantomzone

- Which usually ends up with her running into trouble

- Sensitive to Dave being snarky with her

- Will run away from Dave to make him mad for fun

- She’s friends with a python and cougar

- She loves being in the phantomzone

- Night owl

- Her den is canonically the haunted drive In den

- Her bed is an abandoned roadster car

- collects pet tarantulas

- hates scary movies but watches them with Dave to make him happy

- Gets lost easily, has a bad sense of direction

- Wants to know more about the phantomzone

- Secretly wishes she lived in the phantomzone

Dave/Bee dynamics

-Best friends/partners

- Protective of each other in their own ways

- Dave will deny knowing/being friends with bee for his reputation

- Bee used to be afraid of Dave

- Dave is subtly possessive over Bee when it comes to other phantoms (comes from a place of protectiveness)

- Bee is oblivious to it

- Partnership started incredibly rocky along with some blackmail💀

On the other hand, to one certain Other he’s a surrogate father who feels he’ll never be able to bring the kid up to what he believes is proper father business.

His reaction to it is probably fairly understated; he just treats it like it’s ordinary. It’s others that have the reaction of fear to it. Specifically, ‘others’ being Rune-Midgardeans/Runeans - Septimus’ ancestors are not from the Kingdom, and where he’s from ‘steel for humans’ is in fact part of his culture. To him, it’s part of his cultural identity and noble lineage. To others, it’s the dissonance between knowing that ‘steel for humans’ is merciless and without remorse, and that it is part of his life.

Septimus comes off as the nicest person you could possibly meet. He’s polite, well-mannered, courteous, respectful of other people’s needs. He’s soft-spoken, listens to people despite being in a position of authority, and makes time to hear out his beloved protegés in private. He discusses personal matters with little bias and baggage (seemingly), dispenses advice but doesn’t force people to abide by them, and doesn’t guilt trip or victim blame people over mistakes. He is like a near-perfect diplomat and mentor.

And yet there’s always that sense that Septimus is that way because he’s hiding something because of the way he uses his words. Whenever he talks, he occasionally implies or alludes to past experiences that seem more than dark, which brings up the question as to why he was in those circumstances in the first place. He is capable of keeping detail light and sparse in those situations, but it leaves you wondering what more was to that story...

He seems careful, almost cautious with speaking, as if he’s watching what he says. Given the nature of his job of course this would be a valuable skill, but he does this all the time. Even with his protegés he seems guarded, never revealing his own personal life in full.

There are rumous about the Runebird HQ that Septimus is far more deadly and ruthless than that. Whispers of previous events where his passiveness has come off as terrifying more than comforting are passed around on quiet evenings and nights. To November, however, Septimus extended a hand to him and understood his predicament on being unable to understand social body language as well his anxieties while trying to be less of a burden on others, and that’s something he can’t forget. He looks up to Septimus for this.

Because of this mistake, he feels that he should right that wrong and make up for it somehow. He still stands by his original mission to extend a hand to Others who feel misguided and lost in the new age, but his footing is shaky - he secretly questions his actual knowledge and understanding of humans and Others, and the connection between the two. 

The truth is, he’s not as confident as he looks. He’s not in denial per se, but he worries that whatever he does is insufficient in the capacity of being a founder of a task he very well knows will become quite a burden in some ways and a delight in others. Is he ready for that? He’s not sure. He’s never been a leader. He’s spent ~600 years doing whatever he likes, and only when he settled into human society did he become aware of others’ feelings and state of existence. Though he sympathised with humans early on and stopped killing them while getting his sustenance from them, it was more out of self-interest - people were less likely to, cough, demonise him and more likely to seek him out again til he could probably make a calling card - than empathy.

first batch of things.