These guys are from an RP with alachatte (aka Minty) that was a reboot of an RP forum game that she'd been running before. That forum was called Mandala Mists, the reboot has not really got off the ground, mostly due to my tendency to think I'm bothering people if I haven't spoken to them in a while.
Anyway. The top one is a guy who was made from scratch and never got played at all. His name's Owen, he's a Welsh dragon (as opposed to Cyrus, Minty's Chinese dragon who owned the place). If he had been played, his story would probably have been that he would be hired on as a labourer to help build the spa, and then as a security guard/bouncer. He is fiercely loyal and honours contracts to the letter. Also, he's technically royalty and very proud of this, except that the Welsh dragons were chased off their land several centuries ago. You should not bring this up.
The other guy is the reboot of the character I had in the original Mandala Mists. He's basically what happens after you create a character, then have five years maturing and learning about things like culture stereotypes, sexuality, how to write genders other than your own, personalities, realistic talents, why prostitution is not romantic - all that fun stuff.
Cyrus still found Reishen in a puddle after he'd been beaten up by one of his johns. Rei was a lot less starry-eyed about it, though. He doesn't know the tea ceremony, he plays the samisen very badly and if anything he'd be wary of anyone who tried to make him wear bright colours and grow his hair out now. Oh, and he doesn't think Cyrus is some kind of blessed lord and saviour, but he knows he owes him big-time.
That picture there, with him wearing servicable grey and blue with short hair, and planting sakura trees in the spa's grounds, that's the happiest he's been in years.
