#eye-demon

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he very much is!!! i have a lengthy (and quite serious) headcanon in regards to charles and parenting, but it’s good that you ask me this question since i haven’t really talked about the more lighthearted aspects of charles’ relationship with his son. all in all, they have a pretty good relationship! and indeed, there’s no shortage of dad jokes :/

“i’ll call you later.” “don’t call me later, i’m dad.” – that’s a big one, because it’s so easy to make. cael has taken to hanging up on him immediately.

likewise, when the house phone rang charles had the habit of telling cael “if it’s for me don’t answer it.”

“just because you’re tall doesn’t mean you have to look down on your short friends.” literally whenever cael has a disagreement because 98% of his friends are shorter (cael is 6′3).

“are you alright, dad?” “no, i’m half left.” he would go on to literally make this joke in a hospital bed.

while reversing the car. “takes you back, doesn’t it?”

whenever cael didn’t seriously injury himself but still injuried himself, charles enjoyed telling him that it would feel better – once it quit hurting, of course. 

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thanks for your question!!! and what a great question this is, in fact :// i do have a bulk of werefolk and animal shapeshifters and all around people with some kind of connection to animals or an animal, and it’s not a coincidence at all. i’ve been thinking about why this is a lot, lately, and it might be because it’s something i definitely enjoy exploring, not just for the straightfoward aspects of it (the cool powers, the nifty animal forms) but for the symbolism as well. i see these kinds of characters as an interesting way to explore duality and inner conflict and intense emotions. in the event that i happened to write a book featuring any of these characters, you could probably, just as easily, read this ability of theirs as an analogy (or maybe an extension) for much more “real” issues (such as anger, grief and abandonment problems) that they have going on in their lives. and it would be a perfectly valid interpretation. i’ll probably talk about this more coherently at some later point, but i just wanted to share this since it’s an interesting – and very recent – realization i’ve had. at this point, im sure it makes zero sense tbh. 

to actually answer your question, a lot of these characters know each other one way or another, while some others are connected only incidentally. the reyes family is the one i talk about most frequently on this blog. they’re werepumas, a species whose lore is unique to me and to this blog, and that i made with the desire to make something that could be like the werewolf, but (in my eyes) better, since it’s more personal to the american (particularly, the south american) experience, the way the werewolf stems from european folklore. the puma is an animal unique to the americas, and so the werepuma is a species unique to this continent. the reyes in particular have a very interesting story that im still polishing the details on, but it has a lot to do with their special position in the supernatural landscape as one of the bloodlines for this very rare species that are still prominent and very much alive. the reyes are a big family, and so it includes characters that aren’t werepumas, such as saul, the adopted child of one of marcelo’s aunts and so a cousin. saul was raised amongst people that aren’t from his species and that shows in his mannerisms and the way he carries himself, and while his upbringing was great it also pushed him into trying to become part of a pack later down the line, just because, just to try to see what it’d be like. enter the predators pack, a group ive had for a long time too. saul belongs in the new york chapter, led by domingo. there’s a conflict there, for sure, even if the reyes and the predators keep a cordial relationship. pumas are very territorial and wolves don’t stay behind (the species don’t normally like each other) and so there’s bound to be some tensions over the perceived “theft”. nevertheless, the tensions will eventually resolve once the predators’ intentions are made clear. at the end of the day, the reyes are just protective of saul. 

that’s just one of the most prominent examples that connects a lot of my characters in some level. there’s other connections, like the fact logan is dating one of jerome’s cousins, and so is in turn connected to marcelo in some level, but their relationship is vague if not non-existant. charles, being a mutant, tends to exist on a different verse than the rest of the supernatural characters, and has in fact a werewolf verse where he is part of the predators pack, as a beta (he is also related to jackson, and the beckett siblings, who lead the mother chapter of the predators, in kentucky). and then there’s the nueva religión verse, which is a gang verse involving primarily werefelines, and it includes joaquin, who is not so much a werejaguar as he is a god first conceived to have a jaguar shape, and who only later on developed a human form. he’s kind of similar to fenrir in that way, but i made joaquin before i considered writing fenrir. in the NR verse they could feasibly interact tho, since it’s kind of american gods-esque in the sense that all gods exist at once. 

i don’t know if ludo would count as a shapeshifter. he is a minotaur which is a problem on its own right, but it does have an animal somethin’ so it should be also worth mentioning that he not only connects to red but to marcelo, except it’s only through marcelo’s maternal family (who are criminals ludo does regular business with) and his paternal family too (since ludo buys chichí from them to use in various weapons for supernatural creatures). 

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I’ve talked extensively about Charles’ fighting skill in the past, including how he started and how he first learned about KM, and how his process becoming a brown belt (or a G5) was like, and his tentative development into becoming an E1. So, I figure it does not hurt to add some updates to it.

Since it’s not a sport, KM doesn’t lend itself toward routines, certainly not ones he’d consider his go-to methods 100% of the time given the many variables of all situations that can present themselves in real life scenarios. Basically, he doesn’t have a “signature” move like a boxer or a MMA fighter might, at least that is specific to KM, and he does not believe in putting on a show for a camera or videos, much less doing some kind of choreography (though he does not mind if his students want to record him while he teaches -- that’s how his face has ended up on the internet). But when it comes to instruction, Charles does have preferred techniques that he enjoys, and it might come as a bit of a surprise since they’re actually the easiest or “dirtiest” ones. Charles takes special enjoyment out of providing people (especially women interested in learning self-defense) the motions of effectively using eye-gouging, biting, and groin attacks in a conflict situation. KM is made up of techniques that are, at their core, easy to perform but hard to master on the muscle memory and mental level. It requires a vital lack of self doubt that Charles tries to instill onto his students, and he finds it rewarding when he manages to achieve it. 

For example, among the basic (in the sense that they’re taught at the Yellow belt level) techniques he likes teaching, there’s the Makat Magal. There are three hard punches in KM; the Makat Magal is the second that is usually taught. Makat Magal really involves two punches (one to the kidney, another to the chin), but the technique is one, and the principle of it is that if the first fist hits the kidney, we get to immediately take advantage of it by punching the chin, and if the opponent managed to avoid the kidney punch, there’s still the chin punch to deal with. When used effectively and in full force, it’s enough to knock out an opponent. A bit difficult to explain, but very easy in execution. 

And the eye gouging previously mentioned? It’s considered a soft punch (since it’s done with the open palm), and it’s named Makat Etzba. 

He also likes to teach kicking. Already at the yellow belt level, Charles is teaching how to do a powerful groin kick succeeded by a punch to the nape that is enough not to knock out someone but to kill them. The groin kick is called Beita Regila Lefanim, and it’s a genuine element of KM that’s been in it since its inception. The punch is called Makat Patish. 

There’s also the other dozen types of hard and soft punches and kicks, and ground fighting techniques which he considers essential. 

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