#feral!

So this is Jason Brodeur, originally Jason Myers. He's 5'11", has bluish green eyes, and was a blond, but has been dyeing his hair white since he was 25. All the men on his mom's side of the family go grey before 30 and he started sprouting white hair back when he was around 16-17. He's 28 now, his birthday is July 27th. He's a florist and former metal singer, husband to Olivier Brodeur (oc of @wretchedshade and the actual reason I brainrot over a certain banker), and father to a little girl named Alice. Today is actually her official birthday :D

(I don't draw him enough so most of my references are old art and picrews)

So Jason came from a Christian household and was the only child to his parents Beatrice and Matthew. Both of them are religious, but while Beatrice is the more loving/accepting side of Christianity, Matthew is your average bigot with a temper. He thinks homosexuality is an affront to god, trans people are abominations and perverts, and men should act like men and women act like women. Jason realized early on that he liked boys and wasn't particularly masculine growing up, so you can imagine what living with a father like that would have been for him.

This caused Jason to spiral into a depression and as a teen, he turned to drinking, smoking, and self harm to deal with these feelings. He also inherited his father's temper, so he'd often get into fights at school and would have these explosive arguments with his dad over everything. It all culminated in Jason running away to start his band Radium Hearts with his friends at 18.

When he was touring, his addictions and mental health kept spiraling out. He got hooked on harder stuff, mainly cocaine, and he would often hook up with fans and strangers. This led him to meet his girlfriend Paisley, who would use his addictions and mental illness against him. She'd bait him with drugs to get him to do whatever she wanted, or she would get him so drunk and high he literally couldn't fight her off. This abuse ended when she smashed a glass into his face the one time he stood up for himself, and she was arrested. He wouldn't open up about how bad it actually was for years as he was so ashamed he "let her" hurt him. She's smaller than him, he should have fought her off.

Shortly after this he would overdose on stage. It was the last time his band ever performed before they put Jason into rehab. He was 21. By the time he turned 23, he was finally sober after seven relapses. His friends opened a flower shop called Everyday Persephone and hired him on.

Little did Jason know that the tattoo parlour just across the street was run by Oli, a French transman and beloved member of the community, and his future husband. Oli has his own fucking traumatic backstory, but this is already getting long. To best describe their dynamic, they're both two broken men who don't think they're truly worthy of love, but they love each other so much and think the other person deserves the world, so they get better to love each other more. Now they have a three year old who is the light of their life, so now she is why they want to get better and stay better.

(Art by Shade and one of my favourite drawings of them uwu)

Shade and I have had these ocs for almost 6 years now. Not only is there literally too much lore to get into in the canon, but we have, I am not kidding, at least 58 aus for them. I have been keeping track of them on a note in my phone for the entire time we've had them. This is JUST the BAREST BONES of Jason's lore. I haven't even touched on Oli's ex Dima, or Jason and Oli's break up then make up arc (or "the fucking off" as we have dubbed the incident), just so. SO MUCH.

Also, while looking through old messages I actually found this ask from Ivy where I gave the even shorter and more sanitized version of Jason's lore. There's been no changes to the lore since writing this, this post is just the more in depth version of that post because I'm more comfortable talking about the darker parts of their lore.

Quick lightning round of fun facts that I feel are important

Jason's favourite band is TOOL

His favourite food/dessert is his mom's sourdough cinnamon buns

He has a three legged black cat named Brick

His husband rejected the transmasc stereotype of being short and is 6'1", which puts Jason at forehead smooching height, something Oli would take advantage of constantly

He's bisexual and nonbinary, he goes by he/they but I keep forgetting and the four hours of sleep does not help

He likes frogs