#thomas mccobb

Karmerant would see herself the closest to how trichromats see her (though less orange), but Grott would see himself as a REALLY dull blue-grey instead of purple. McCobb would see himself as a mid-2000s first person shooter greyish brown.

December 2023

The reason I created Grott was so I'd have an OC to submit to YCH auctions (I never won any....)

Thomas McCobb Sr. was an unknown ambulance chasing lawyer in the Miami suburbs until a high profile defendant catapulted him into a household name. Now, his face is on nearly every bus stop and billboard from Key West to Pensacola. His adopted son, Thomas Jr., a gargoyle like Grottweiler, was eager to join the family business just as soon as he could pay someone to pass the bar exam for him.

Thomas the Elder spends most of his time commuting back and forth between client offices in Tallahassee and Palm Beach, but Thomas the Younger has set up shop in Flagler, a small city about an hour south of Miami proper, where he represents the mayor, Frank DeMarco.

DeMarco (not seen here) is an ambitious politician with nowhere to go. Every higher office he has his eyes on is already filled by a member of his own party and he doesn't have the muscle to challenge any of them, so he has spent the last few years amassing as much power as a municipal government will allow (and then some), ruling over his 4.65 square mile kingdom with an iron fist. He's biding his time until an incumbent retires so he can pounce and get the hell away from "Downwind Miami."

McCobb thinks of himself as DeMarco's Number 2, but in actuality he's his Number 3. His real Number 2 is his daughter, Delaney, the brains to McCobb's brawns. The three of them have unchecked power over every facet of the city, and the biggest thorn in their collective side is Grottweiler. Grott has neither power nor ambition for it, but he's popular with the people of Flagler because he's always willing to lend a helping claw. He's a community organizer, a volunteer, an activist, and that doesn't sit well with the de facto triumvirate. Frank and Delaney see Grott as a woke radical demon, and McCobb sees him as a malformed homunculus with whom he's ashamed to be a member of the same species; although he is a gargoyle, Thomas McCobb is his father's son through and through, and his peers consider him "human on the inside."

The vast majority of gargoyles do not wear any clothes, but Thomas Hobbes McCobb Jr. is a special case. He was raised by humans, hence his human name, and thinks that other gargoyles are obscene for walking around naked as a jaybird. Because he's over 7 feet tall and has a tail, wings, goat legs, and hooves, all of his clothes had to be custom made.

He resents his physical appearance and wants nothing more than to assimilate into human society; his self-loathing manifests as a vitriolic hatred of his entire species, especially Grottweiler. He thinks Grott is an ungodly, malformed homunculus, and the fact that anybody could look at that purple monstrosity with anything less than revulsion is proof in his mind that there is no hope for gargoylekind. If Grott is the best they have to offer, then he wants nothing to do with them.

McCobb has almost 3 feet and a deuce and a half over Grottweiler, but he's all bark, no bite. He's never been in a real fight before. If he had, he'd at least take off his jacket and undo his cuff links. He's a trust fund baby, a frat boy, he's never worked a day in his life outside his daddy's law firm. He thinks going to the gym to post dehydrated workout pics on Instagram means he's invincible. He's so confident he's not even taking off his watch which costs more than most people's cars. Grott may be small, but he's feisty, like a cornered raccoon. Mess with him and he'll gnaw your arms off! Look at him, he knows what's up. Like David and Goliath, their fight will be short and decisive.

Reference:

Grottweiler: 4'10" without horns (6'6" with) Thomas Hobbes McCobb: 7'1" without horns (8'10" with)

Grott is a late bloomer by gargoyle standards, barely taller than a juvenile. His wings are underdeveloped so he can't fly yet, but his horns and thagomizer (tail spikes) are fully grown. McCobb, on the other hand, is larger than average and still growing. They are exactly the same age.