Contrasting views and personalities? But all my characters are the same.

Okay so I guess I’ll talk about…

Eirik, who I don’t think I’ve mentioned to anyone in twoish years, is not, at all, comfortable with the idea of homosexuality (he tends to pretend it doesn’t exist instead of protesting angrily against it). A lot of his friends make gay-jokes about him and his best-buddy Micheal which he really does not take well to. He wouldn’t be happy about dem gays getting marriages all up in here, but he wouldn’t directly oppose it, either (unless he’s drunk in which case he gets loud and blunt but the people he associates with when he’s loud and drunk would agree with him so THERE YOU GO). So he just wouldn’t be comfortable with it, but I don’t think he’d be angry or anything - it’s not that gays really offend his beliefs or anything (though he’ll get loud and derogatory toward them around his friends since they are) he just doesn’t like the idea of dick on dick action. Though, if someone pointed out that seeing two chicks making out on the street was a thing that could totally happen as a result he’d be ALL FOR IT (well, not really, but he’d joke about how awesome that would be). And though he doesn’t do marijuana he has friends who do and probably wouldn’t realize it wasn’t legal so the news would come like “Hey maaaaaan! Marijuana’s legal now!” and he’d be all “Aye knew.” and they’d be all “Sweet brah!”

Meginna would be pissed, at both. For her she thinks homosexuality is a complete abomination (and doesn’t know her son is gay and would probably, literally, kill him if she ever finds out) she’s one of those hunters I talked about on Sunday from the super-high-end-family and kind of has a stick up her ass. She thinks engaging in same sex intercourse is completely unproductive and something only the disgraceful things they hunt do (which are worse than animals). She thinks it’s the result of people just wanting to have sex without understanding the importance of bearing children (which is really important within the hunting community) and that anyone who understood that would never, ever, engage in pointless same sex sexing. So she’d be really disgusted by same sex marriages being legalized, and would start to question why they’re protecting those stupid humans that are COMPLETELY BELOW US HUNTERS. She might, since she’s sort’ve gone whacko, start insisting that homosexuals are just individuals possessed by malevolent lustful spirits and must be purged and would probably try and get her son to go out and kill them (he wouldn’t, but she would try). She has a similar extreme view that all drugs are evil the ones that supposedly ‘help’ you just leave you weak, in her opinion, because your body doesn’t learn to fend for itself and then the other drugs just flat out harm you (she knows next to nothing about much of anything medically speaking). SO she’d also be all NO toward the legalization of marijuana but I guess she wouldn’t be too worried about it since she knows he precious son would never do that sort of thing. She’d just sneer at the human race a whole ton.

Then there’s Claire. Claire doesn’t care about sex, she doesn’t care about drugs, she doesn’t care what you do with your body (whether it be in private or public, paid or gifted) she doesn’t care what you take into your body. She just doesn’t care about you. You came from her mind, after all. No, what she would care about is ‘Why is my mind making such a big point of this? Why all the hubbub? There must be adventure surrounding this stuff somehow, I just need to find it, it’s a message, I know it is.” So she’d go out to find every pot smoking homosexual she could find and see if they’ll lead her into an adventure. When that fails she’ll go after the protestors, she will exhaustively search for someone to lead her into an adventure until she finds something more interesting to look into.

I guess the largest real family I’ve actually gone to sit down and create would be the Huthian family (and it’s off-shoots and relatives and what not). I was TOTALLY GOING TO SAY Veene’s family but his family isn’t “a” family it’s a bunch of families who aren’t really related except through him and are all SCATTERED THROUGHOUT TIME so I didn’t think it really counted.

The Huthians are a family of extremely well known monster/demon/supernatural-entity killers, they sort’ve hunt these things for bounties but the system is ridiculous and needs to be re-thought out. They’re set in a world similar to ours, modern day and everything, just with monsters and stuff (just the majority of the population doesn’t really know the monsters exist). Their family goes back, though, the Huthian branch itself was prestigious it (and few other families) were known for raising incredibly successful hunters and were (and still sort of are) the families everyone in the hunter community wanted to marry into. RICHES AND STATUS FYEAH.

Usually I only really think or focus on one of the modern families (Arro, Illya, their mother, Meginna, their father, Crestin, and their grandmother on Crestin’s side, Gratia as well as their vampire, Denre) but there’s another set of Huthians living elsewhere who never interact with that family, ever. Those Huthians are amazing hunters but they’re also completely ruthless and sort of think themselves above basic moral codes.

I’m going to get the rest horridly confused because I have it written out somewhere but I’m not entirely sure where “somewhere” is and I think about the rest of their family so little that I’m positive I forgot things.

SO.

On the lesser end of the spectrum of OMG AWESOME HUNTER FAMILIES they’re related to the Vithia family who aren’t so much hunters anymore and are more researchers (they look into faeries, mostly). Crestin used to keep in contact with them but since he died they haven’t been in touch. They’re never home much since they travel around a lot, but they have three kids who see their nanny as more of a parent figure then they do their parents (what they don’t know is that the nanny is a shape-shifter BUT THE CHILDREN KNOW and think it’s awesome even if she has weird habits as a result).

There’s two other families I forgot the names of and don’t really remember much about them but THEY DO EXIST.

And then there’s the Lavine family who are pretty much AVERAGE except not really. As far as other hunters are concerned their the equivalent of a “middle class” family, which they’re fine with. The kids (of which there are five) are all better hunters than they should be given their upbringing, in a way they have MAGICAL POWERS (except not really) which they’ve collectively decided has to be a result of the father none of them have ever met. Their mother swears he’s just busy and never comes home but loves them (she’s also failed to come up with a name for him that would align with a hunter family and not be suspicious) but then she tells her friends she was totally knocked up by an Incubus (her friends don’t believe her). They have a serious ghost/spirit problem at home since one of the kids just ATTRACTS benevolent spirits who wind up making a mess of things around the house.

OH there’s also the Shadewither family who CLAIM TO BE DISTANTLY RELATED TO THE HUTHIANS but aren’t, at all. Their eldest son, Itziin, was two years older than Arro and they were all “Yeah our boy will partner with yours and he’ll make sure Arro’s safe and stuff” and then Arro had to protect Itziin and on their second hunt together Itziin died and Arro was royally pissed off. The Shadewithers stopped claiming to be related after that.

I HOPE THAT MADE SENSE.

She used to be pretty strict but she was always pretty careful she didn’t push Arro’s limits too much, but she always wanted him to be the best he could be so she wasn’t exactly the best parent ever but she was really worried that if he wasn’t the best and didn’t know everything he’d wind up being killed or screwed over by another hunter and she hated the idea of that happening. Despite being pretty pushy and trying to make him the best ever she really did care for him and was really supporting, she was kind of hard for Arro to approach though since, even in being supportive, she was pretty uptight about rules and how things are done and should be done, she did try though.

Ever since Crestin died she sort’ve lost grip on the idea of moderation. She thinks that, despite the fact that she’s nearly killed Arro more than once, she’s doing an awesome job of raising him - she got really attached to the phrase ‘whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger’ so it makes her feel better about what she does with Arro, he’s not dead so he’s clearly stronger for it. In a way she’d rather she kill him than have him go out and die like Crestin did and she does think nearly murdering him is a perfectly fine way to raise a child especially in their line of work. I don’t know if I’ve ever mentioned this but Arro’s grandmother on his father’s side, Gratia, took his sister away when she found out how bad Meginna had snapped. She tried to take Arro away, too, but Meginna had threatened to kill Arro if Gratia tried.

Gratia tried anyway and Meginna seriously did try to kill Arro (Denre intervened and got pretty badly wounded which left Meginna worse off since Denre was sort’ve one of Crestin’s “investments” in a way so by injuring him she felt she’d betrayed Crestin IT DID NOT HELP HER MENTAL STATE). So Arro wound up having to stay. He doesn’t see his younger sister too often anymore but she’s being trained in a less brutal environment.