honestly they’ve come a long way from their first incarnations

i made these like a year ago so there has been slight altercations to their designs since then but yeah they are hardly the same characters they were before. i think really the only thing about them that hasn’t changed is their names. their stories were also wildly different and had nothing to do with each other. the progression that’s shown in their designs actually begins in 2012-2013, so i’ve had these characters for like 6-7 years. they’ve had a lot of room to change and grow. also i know that’s the pagan moon symbol behind simon, but he has nothing to do with the moon or paganism, i just didn’t realize what i had done until i was done drawing

donovan, instead of being the angel of the night sky, used to be like a bounty hunter for heaven and simon was just like . edgy i guess. can’t remember his exact purpose. i actually used to use these two in like roleplays with my friends,  but i fell off of that when i was like 15 and ive basically been trying to redo their characters since then. 

often times they sort of function as one character; whenever i want to write about donovan’s personality, i think about how it might mesh with simon’s personality and vice versa. unfortunately i don’t get to pay a lot of attention to them so i haven’t completely worked them out but they are getting........ somewhere

the universe that they are apart of has also been under construction since 2013. it doesn’t even have a name yet and im still trying to work out the rules of the universe, so until then they just have their backstory and that’s about it, other than some cute tidbits about them like

simon being a hardcore flirt, much to donovan’s embarrassment

i think i mentioned this once before, but they met because donovan hit simon with his truck. simon is immortal, however, so while donovan was panicking simon was just like “wow you have the most beautiful eyes ive ever seen”

donovan used to be scared of thunderstorms until he met simon

a lot of their dates took place in the bed of donovan’s truck, mostly stargazing in any secluded place they could find 

so when donovan was diagnosed with cancer, he already knew simon was immortal and a thunder, they had also been together for a few years. he thought it would be best if simon moved on without him (as they both knew that day would come anyway) and began to try and distance himself from his other. when simon wouldn’t back off, donovan started to get mad, as much as it pained him to try and let simon go.

they had an argument, and finally simon relented and was like “ok, but can i please get one last kiss?” 

so they kissed BUT there was a crack of thunder and suddenly they were together in the night sky and donovan was like “WHAT did you do”

simon explained that he had already asked his family for permission to make donovan immortal, so he just decided to do that. however, donovan was pissed because 1) you didnt leave me alone when i asked you to and 2) he was a school teacher on earth. he had siblings and parents and kids at his school that would wonder where he went. how could he have done this?

simon, in his immortal mind, neglected to think about this and they actually didn’t speak for a few years. donovan was mad mad, but simon understood. he acted selfishly and gave donovan the space that he needed

eventually simon was able to help donovan see his family again with the help of his thunder family and they slowly started building their relationship back up to the point that it was, and that’s where they are in their current timeline