#ghart

General:

-They dont really *have* genders/sexes in the human way but ones that live on earth and adopt human traits do generally present masc or fem or both or neither etc etc. They're shapeshifters too so its really fluid overall. This is my horny author way of going "anybody can have whatever junk is best for the time and anybody can get pregnant"

-Theyre shape shifters but they do have like a limit to that. Like theyre not gonna turn into animals or objects but they can change things about their appearances.

-Fire ghouls are generally leaders of their packs with serious demeanors.

-Quints all have a white streak in their hair and are generally caretakers of their packs, ranges from parental, to brotherly/sisterly, to body guard-like.

-Multis are simultaneously "combos" of other elements and their own thing. They're the least frequent type of ghoul. They can have multiples of body parts but its generally smaller parts (i.e. multiple eyes, horns, tail tips, but its exceptionally rare for them to have multiple sets of arms, legs, full 2nd tails, or heads or something)

-Multi ghouls are the rarest type of ghoul but end up in the modern band lineup the most for their versatile musical abilities and their beautiful voices :)

-Earth ghouls are the only ones that have "fur" to me, but its not long or anything. Its a very velvety soft peach fuzz that covers their body. It makes them slightly waterproof. The other elements have normal body hair patterns and textures.

-Earth ghouls can be inclined more towards plants or more towards rocks. Some are purely planty and love gardens and tea making, some are purely rocky and love crystals and hiking.

-Water ghouls are smooth like sharks and tend to have big floppy ears and tails that function like fins would. Genitalia can be more mammalian or more tentacle like depending on whatevers hottest to me at the time.

-Ghouls mostly wear monochrome colors, primarily black or grey

-There are exceptions to literally everything I said these are all just stereotypes and what's "typical" of a given element

-I AM A HORNS AND TAIL PIERCINGS BELIEVER

(Side note genuinely can you guys believe i was never ever a homestuck fan. You'd think I was with this design pattern of "Grey, color coded, only wears black, unique horn shapes".)

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Dew

Arthritic, uses a cane sometimes especially after breaking his foot and especially if its cold outside

3rd oldest (behind Aether and Mountain). Was summoned in the 1800s. Doesn't remember what he originally did.

Very classic cartoon devil shapes to his features i.e. short pointed horns, arrow shaped tail, a mustache he occasionally styles, sharp cheekbones, etc

Falls into "pack leader fire" stereotype. Big tsundere also. Pretends to be annoyed with his pack but would be so lost without them.

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Phantom

His "caretaker" type as a Quint is more akin to brotherly versus parental

Youngest. Summoned in the 2010s as a guitar tech and took over Aether's role after his retirement.

Hypermobile, uses braces on his elbows, knees and fingers

Very small and skinny for a quintessence since he's still really young. Will grow up to be shaped more like Omega and Aether :)

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Rain

Most gender fluid of the "male" ghouls, presents androgynously

2nd youngest, summoned in the 2010s specifically to be the bass player during Copia's reign.

Secret troublemaker. Comes off as the calmest and most level headed but enables Phantom and Dew in their stupidity. Never gets in trouble for it because he's smarter than them and gets away with things.

His horn piercings were a gift from the girls for his summoning anniversary, theyre a long chain of sapphires and diamonds meant to look like rain over his head. Usually only worn for rituals.

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Swiss

Combo of earth and quintessence. Got the protective nature and white streak(s. Plural. Because multi) of a quint and a connection with crystals/rocks of an earth.

Changes his hair often! Generally likes to keep it long but loves to experiment.

Multiple horns and tail tips. When Phantom was first summoned the other ghouls would fuck with him and tell him Swiss had 2 dicks and 2 assholes. (Dicks thing was true. The assholes thing was not.)

4th oldest (behind Aether, Mountain, and Dew), summoned in the late 1960s as a ghoul writer. Wrote some stuff for Nihil that unfortunately never ended up on a studio recording. Left touring to go back to writing.

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Aether

His "caretaker" type as a quint is more parental

Excellent cook, hoards snacks in hidden locations to give them to other ghouls and papa on the spot. Did it very often on tour but the habit never left.

Oldest, was summoned a LOOOOONG time ago. Thousands of years old (he thinks. Hes lost track of time by this point.)

Ghouls dont have siblings but he and Omega consider eachother brothers.

Retired and went back to kitchen work, does some guitar tech stuff still as well.

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Mountain

Weird girl. Big giant round eyeballs like a scared deer that never seem to blink. Not based on a deer though. He's more like a goat if anything.

Half planty earth ghoul half rocky earth ghoul. Loves collecting rocks and crystals but also keeps plants.

His velvety earth ghoul fur is mostly on his ears. Dew used to rub the fur between his fingers to soothe himself when he was first summoned and still does when hes in distress.