#jca oc

Sweet

Named after her Finnish great grandma, Helga, he's only called by her real name by her mother. Anyone else calls her either Ellie, to mirror her father's name, Elliott, or simply by her last name upon her own request. Because, according to her, her real name resembles the sound you make when you rinse your throat.

Her father, Elliott Sweet, an ichthyologist and host of a documentary show "Bigger fish to fry", was constantly away during his research, and her mother Sasha worked in another town, so Sweet was left on various babysitters. Due to her tomboyish nature and an interest for mythical creatures, she had a hard time dealing with mostly conservative ladies thinking girls "should imitate beautiful princesses, and not disgusting monsters". Her father, however, shares her interest in dragons and doesn't give up on finding a perfect babysitter. He also shares stories about four dragon kingdoms uniting against demon's rule.

Eventually, Sweet runs into her neighbor's son Tohru, who's having a hard time finding money to buy treatment for his sick father and is getting a earful from his mother and brother because of that. They make a deal to get him a job as a babysitter, which, thanks to Elliott's TV show is being paid extremely generously. In exchange, Tohru doesn't scold her for her interest in cryptids, which he was fine with anyway. However, he begins to notice that the kid he's supervising acts more like an animal cub, even during fights with other kids she moves like "an angry wildcat", holding them in headlock and kicking at the same time.

Twelve years later, Chans coincidentally come to the exact same town for excavation. Presumably, this digging site could contain magical artifacts since it dates back to the times of demon rule. They discover that Sweet, now a grown woman, took an interest in magic. Particularly, transformative potions. Completely lacking fear of anything gross or dangerous, she created things such as venus flytrap with venomous snake fangs, tarantula with dragonfly wings and a litter of kittens mixed with pufferfish. (It is unknown, however, how prominent their fish part is, since upon contact with water they inflate and refuse to sink) She also managed to tame a massive kelpie named Sushi.

Turns out, father's tales about dragons were true, and Shendu's ally, Prince Hadal, is following close behind Chan Clan, plotting revenge. Sweet, with her extensive knowledge on dragons, helps Chans defeat him, hoping she'll be the next pick for chi wizard apprentice.

One of her feet was amputated, and she wears an enchanted prosthetic made of her own bones on silver hinges. She stuffs cotton in her sock to hide it.

My concert art and @goldiemilrose 's interpretation, which is honestly closer to how I imagined her, with messy hair giving her more feral mad scientist look.

Kazbek

Her dad was never in the picture, and he was taken care of by mother's childhood friend, principal of martial arts school. As a kid, Kazbek was weak and tiny, relying on Sweet, who recently moved in their town, for protection. Even though she was also tiny, she, as Kazbek says, "has personally of a honey badger" and doesn't hesitate to fight larger enemies.

When Bartholomew Chang's competition and subsequent capture was aired, Sweet recognized her babysitter and told Kazbek about him. Even though he always liked the idea of fighting evil, and slowly growing much bigger than her peers and supernaturally strong, he's still a bad fighter. During sparring he freezes up, unable to defend himself. His father, however, had plans for his son. He convinced himself his son dreams of becoming the member of J-team, and isn't just admiring them. Knowing Sweet has the same dream, he sets her up for failure every day at school.

And, when Chans came to town for excavation, Kazbek's dad, Eugene, went out of his way to advertise his son to Tohru and belittle Sweet, who, because of growing competition, cut ties with Kaz.

Kazbek makes it clear he isn't fit for the team, but he goes with them against Hadal anyway, to return what he owes to Sweet. Despite them being on the other sides of Eugene's plan, he still admires her courage and knowledge. Whereas Sweet is book smart, Kaz is people smart, open-minded and communicable, he becomes irreplaceable guide in the town where no one else speaks English.

Kazbek is hyperactive, Sweet describes his as someone who's "on weed, on the spectrum, or both", ("i am on the spectrum and even I don't act like this") and Tohru calls him a second Jade when they pair up to investigate, meaning two people with pretty much the same personality on the group is too much and offering him to go with slower but more attentive person: either Sweet or him.

It is revealed that his dream career is a musician. Which his father doesn't approve because it isn't manly enough.

It's a tradition in his family to name kids after landmarks. His mother is named Sayana, which is a mountain range in Siberia, and his grandfather's name is Yenisei, which is a river.

He has a gene for an early loss of hair pigmentation, giving him a large streak of grey hair since the age of 12. His clothes pallette is a slight nod to Russian design of concentrated milk cans.