#magic teens

Quentin: Lion

Ripley: Anteater

Charley: Hippo

Gisa: Koala

Hippa: Horse

Charley is ADD + slightly ASD (like someone we know bfsnsbdjbd)

Quentin has anxiety + more than slightly ASD (what’s his special interest(s) I wonder??)

Ridley is dyslexic + probably some other unspecified LD + deaf in one ear

Need to refine Rid’s design

Need to decide if it’s Charley’s mom or dad who is the merperson

Charley is an only child…… Ridley and Quentin have sibling(s)……….. Quentin has an older sister who doesn’t live at home anymore. Yes. They have a good relationship.

Charley likes to cook. His father taught him and after high school he basically wants to go work at his dad’s seafood restaurant on the coast of Mexico. His mother is Mexican and that’s where the two of them met, dated and got engaged. It’s super-corny so I may change it but basically his mom realized that his dad was in love with the ocean and with the merfolk lifestyle and Mexican culture, more than he was with her. So she split and raised their son inland. This happened when Charley was five or six years old so all his memories of Mexico are happy early childhood memories of playing and swimming in the ocean. He tends to kind of idealize the coast for this reason. Charley is still in contact with his dad via phone and letters and email. I haven’t decided yet if he flies out to see him or not.

Can’t decide if Quentin’s heritage is African or Afro-Caribbean I know one of Ridley’s parents should be an oni but idk about the other one. I should look up demons from different places, esp Asia and Europe

Quentin is super-interested in biochemistry and alchemial magic and wants to get into a good university to study it. He wants to research the effects and applications of botanoalchemy and his ultimate goal is to improve the lives of impoverished people with new scientific breakthroughs. His family is largely supportive but his grandmother disapproves of scientific study of magic

Ridley doesn’t know what the fuck they want to do after high school, they want to take a gap year and/or work… somewhere? Sometimes they feel inadequate compared to Quentin. wtf these pronouns don’t feel right? Maybe Ridley is a demiguy/trans man. Sometimes he feels inadequate compared to Quentin. No, that’s not right either. Sometimes xe feels inadequate compared to Quentin. ???????????? no

I just realized that Rid should probably have a tail. That’d be fuckin’ neat, wouldn’t it?

what if demons have black blood? oh that’s cool. I like. I’m keeping it.

Charley strikes me as ace????? idk though

speaking of sex stuff, I’ll probably design genitals for each of these species/races, but idk I’m not gonna think too much abt sex/sexuality for these characters becos they are child’s and thats grose (well like Charley is 18 but still)

………..I do like the idea of merfolk having pelvic fins/claspers tho. like, below the belly but above the crotch, spaced far apart. I’ll draw it. since Charley is only half fishy, he has lil teeny ones. very very cute

……..what if his dad is a sasquatch……..

what if Charley is a fucking mersquatch

maybe. maybe maybe maybe. I will think about it

……….what if I put. braces. on the demon

relating plant reproductive anatomy to human vulvas and dicks is gonna be fun

what if Ridley has cloven hooves. or duck feet.

holy shit it’s 4:30am

I kind of want Rid to be an obnoxious vegan but I don’t even know what demons normally eat in this Universe. meat? blood? souls? none of that sounds vegan

actually wouldn’t it be neat if Ridley were adopted/raised by non-demons

idk maybe not. I’m really attached to the oni idea

because Charley is of mixed species, he’s infertile (like a liger or zonkey). he’s okay with this though

actually u know what. Charley’s grey-ace & gay

when he was like thirteen his mom sat him down and explained that he wouldn’t ever be able to have kids of his own and like she was so apologetic about it that he figured that just coming out to her would be less awkward. so he just went “mom it’s fine, I’m gay” and she was like “…….oh. ok then, in that case thank god” and that’s how Charley came out to his mom lmao

interesting question: is he out to his dad?????? maybe his mom told him not to tell his dad yet????? or maybe his dad’s cooler than that???? idk. I feel like Charleys dad is not a homophone actually

Charley is naturally very smart and a quick learner. lots of people come to him for help with homework

CHARLEY