#torbek

The song Bugbear by chloe moriondo feels very Torbek coded

Here’s my foul fan baby I made almost a year ago lmao.

OKAY. lore (LONG POST)

The Krew was camping in Scabbatha’s Domain. One morning after breakfast Gideon was complaining about still being hungry (after housing 3 plates of biscuits with sausage gravy, mind you). This, naturally, pissed Kremy off so he sarcastically told Gideon to go find something in the woods to eat (insert a wild hog joke from Gricko) So Gid stomps off into the forest and ‘forages’ for food.

Gid wonders around the woods, heading deeper and deeper and getting himself lost. And after what feels like hours, Gid stumbles on to a cottage. Of course, this being Gideon, he immediately breaks in to steal these people’s food. Instead of food, Gideon ends up finding 2 dead Dragonborn’s and what looks to be a giant egg. He(once again being Gideon) immediately goes “Hell yeah giant omelette!” and takes the egg, completely ignoring the dead people. Gid takes the egg back to camp and realizes that time hasn’t passed for more than a few minutes (He could’ve sworn it’d been hours…but maybe that’s his starvation talking).

Kremy immediately is like “aw sweet free egg! Omelette time! Start the fire up Gid-Gid” not realizing it’s a dragonborn egg. At this point Gricko sees Kremy about to crack the egg open and is like “wait that’s people. I know we’ve done some pretty fucked up shit but I don’t know about cannibalism fellas that’s kinda sick!” The whole krew then spent like, 45 minutes arguing about whether or not an egg is a baby. They eventually decided that yeah, maybe this is too far.

After Gideon explained where he got breakfa- I mean the egg, Kremy wanted Gid to put “that thing back where it came from. We ain’t responsible for that thing!’ But Gricko pleaded with them that the egg wouldn’t hatch if they put it back! “Ooourrr! Can we pleaaase keep him, Kremy? Please please please!”. Kremy was annoyed, but as long as it wasn’t going to be his responsibility he didn’t care what they did with “it”, but they could not. Under ANY CIRCUMSTANCE. Keep whatever hatched out of the egg. If it hatched at all. And DO NOT get attached to it. The plan was that when/if the thing hatched, it’d be dropped off with the getaway gang or with the least-scary looking person they could find. And that’s FINAL.

Anyway Gricko named him Eggbert, drew a face on the egg, and gave him a hat. Gricko then assigned Gideon to egg incubation duty because he’s a walking space heater. (Torbek was VERY down to eat the egg, and Gricko wasn’t sure that the talk about cannibalism staved off his appetite. Frost would turn the egg into a nerd so he was out of the question, too.) Gideon reluctantly did what Gricko asked and at first he was pretty annoyed about it. Why should he have to hold the fuckin’ thing? Gricko’s the one that wanted to keep it! So Gideon begrudgingly kept “Eggburt” swaddled to his chest in a makeshift baby carrier, keeping the thing warm. Meanwhile, Gricko started calling himself ‘Uncle’ Gricko and talked to the damn thing constantly which ALSO pissed Gid off. Kremy was…unhappy to say the least. For as much as Gid said he wasn’t getting attached to it, Gid spent an awful lot of time with “Eggburt” much to the (jealousy) “dissatisfaction” of Kremy. Kremy even went as far as to tell Gid he doesn’t wanna hang around with him because of his “mother henning”. Gideon was so frustrated at Kremy’s whole attitude towards him that he actually confronted Eggburt about it. After he was done he asked Eggburt what he had to say for himself, and what happened next surprised him.

It twitched against his chest. The egg actually MOVED. Was the egg always this warm? Huh. Well maybe Eggburt wasn’t such a bad dude after all. It’s not like he asked to be taken from his home or nothin’…kinda like how he didn’t ask to be taken from his home either. Oh man. Was he crying’? Stupid egg…always making things complicated.

Over the next few weeks Eggburt actually started to move more and more. And eventually Frost even noticed that Eggburt had a crack. Oh my gods he was hatching!

While everyone was excited Kremy was the most out of all of them. Soon it wouldn’t be his problem anymore! Then everything would go back to normal. Gricko was the one who over saw the whole thing and when it came time for Eggburt to hatch the whole krew was sat in Kremy’s big ass tent. Kremy didn’t want to be there naturally but he begrudgingly sat there with them. A few minutes later, Eggburt hatched! Gricko stared for a moment…then declared it was actually a “Shelly” instead of an “Eggburt” so to speak. Kremy wanted to waste no time in finding someone else to take care of the thing so he walked over to pick it up (after Gricko cleaned it of course. Yuck!) and…it opened its eyes and immediately imprinted on him. To Kremy’s horror it-(or “she” now, Kremy guessed.) crawled towards him and wrapped her little hand around Kremy’s finger and CHIRPED at him.

When did Kremy start crying again? And the rest was history. Torbek got to eat the shell.

Gricko was very busy with his own little one (hootsies basically an adult atp but don’t tell Gricko that) so that means Gid and Kremy HAVE to take care of her most of the time like real parents or something haha can you imagine? Kremy and Gideon taking care of a baby together? like a married couple? that’s so ironic…ugghh they basically have to oh well...(never mind that Frost volunteered to raise her first).

All and All, the Krew aren’t the perfect parents, but they definitely try their best. The Krew never changes their lifestyle around Shelly, in fact one of the first things Kremy taught her was how to pick pocket people. But they do genuinely love the little rascal and want her to be happy.

Shelly is a typical toddler. She likes story books, coloring, throwing tantrums when she doesn’t get her way, making mud pies, chewing on her fingers, setting things on fire, and generally making a mess. And now thanks to Kremy, she also likes to hide and steal things. (Like I said, typical toddler)

torbek and frost teaming up to fucking HATE hurley for stealing gricko by becoming his new best friend is soooooo good

frost being the first one to jump up when torbek is being tortured by endolyn AND running over to him when she drops him, holding his head, calming him, and pushing away his pain