SIBLING DYNAMICS...
I'm curious about how how much sibling dynamics/relationships end up affecting OCs, especially in horror spaces...
Like take Grim, alright. He hatches from his egg and suddenly he's not just a brother, he's the baby brother. He has a millenial bug alien sibling named after Tony Hawk who does VTuber stuff, he has a pair of Gen X sisters who are a nosferatu and a werewolf respectively, and he just hatched as a dude in his late 20s in 2016 and thus far has not conquered human anatomy enough to remember to have consistent bones and organs every day, much less figure out the complex march of the aging process. He's undead - he's always going to be a guy who was murdered in his late twenties and never got to get older - but he's also a new thing, new to personhood - but he's also a guy who remembers the simultaneous existence of a human life and the six lives of the seedling alien lives whose existence is inescapably intertwined with his. he was born in a boiling sea of billions of identical sisters. he was the oldest of three daughters.
grim is the baby brother now, but he was the first of three girls for a long time - even after he was driven out of his parents' house at 12, even though he was barely allowed to speak to his younger sisters when he did live there, he thought so much about how badly he'd failed as an eldest child every day of his miserable first life. would knowing them better have changed him? would knowing his sisters thought about and missed him have changed the miserable trajectory of his first life?
he's the baby brother now, and the memory of not being the baby is hard to fully understand now, except for the fact that he really does hope every stop his circus makes brings at least one person into the family who maybe didn't otherwise have someone to look out for them....
...and I guess the question is, for Grim, whether he knows that he makes the laughable idea of "running away to join the circus to find your REAL family" bend reality around itself to become possible for people now. (Is the horror that he's making people join the family regardless of whether they would have done so without his influence, or is the horror that otherwise they'd have nowhere to go?)
