would it be funny if i started talking about the werebuck!au verse i have for arthur ? great because i am .
any kind of shapeshifter can be born to any kind of shapeshifter . while arthur's father was a full-blooded werewolf , and his mother was human , arthur ended up being born a werebuck . since his birth , his father constantly ran with bad bunch of other shifters . you know , the type that commit crimes and other crimes against humanity , etc . when he was little , his father was often gone , and he would stay with his mother , who had to learn how to take care of her small , slightly feral , bitey little child with a very annoying oral fixation on her arms and hair . when she eventually passed away , his father , who had at that point not been very present or responsive in his life , swooped in and filled his mother's good influence with his own unstable teachings about thee place of shifters in the world . these teachings were basically : they are meant to operate outside the realm of human law , and they don't need to heed supernatural law either ; they do what is in their self-interest . so for the first ten years of his life , arthur grew up with a lot of corrupt notions about his place in society , which were not helped by the fact that his father and his accomplices would often make fun of and insult him for only being half-blooded , and for not being a predator-shifter on top of that . his father was eventually caught and hanged when arthur was eleven , after which arthur ran off on his own . he was eventually found in his early teens by dutch and hosea , where he would be educated in reading and writing and society , and they would come to grow and form the gang of outlaw , outcast supernaturals .
being that he's the son of a wolf shifter , he does carry a few genetic similarities to werewolves . namely , he tends to become more lethargic during the day time , and is prone to staying up into the early hours of morning . arthur thinks the moon is very pretty to look at , and sometimes he will sit out and sketch it , but it does nothing for him . he also possesses tapetum lucidum, and has the ability to elongate his teeth ( all , not just canines ) and grow his nails out sharper at will . these particular traits take hours to return to normal , as he is not as easily able to control these traits .
he is considered a half-buck . being only half-blooded , this means that he cannot fully transform into a solid bestial form , the way other shifters can . instead , he can partially take on the characteristics of a buck , such as growing out his antlers or growing out his human nails into claws . he prefers to stay in limbo in terms of his physical form , primarily human with longer and sharper teeth and antlers long enough for him to run through anyone who tries to fight against him . he's also fuzzier than other humans all year round . all of this is because he wants to be : he is entirely capable of returning to something resembling almost fully human , save for his reflective eyes and a small branch of velvety antlers that poke above his hair . because of this , he tends to stay away from people whenever he can . and he always wears his father's hat to hide them .
because he is the enforcer of the gang , arthur is generally inclined to feed in to the common stereotypes that regular people / other supernatural creatures hold . since many people are freaked out by the supernatural , he uses this to his advantage when he is trying to intimidate others who do not often deal with shifters . this includes growing out his antlers to unnatural and scary lengths , velvet included , and showing off his fangs when he is arguing with or threatening someone .
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there is no sun today . the clouds linger across the vast expanse of the sky , leaving little room for any light to peek through . by all means , there is no reason for arthur to be walking about outdoors with a hat on , as little as he needs to . but he's worn his hat for every day and almost every minute since he was a child . but he does regardless , picking up the pail of water from the small river and making the minutes-long trek back toward camp . he arrives with little fanfare and a tip of his hat toward the vampire that stands off guard near the butcher's table . arthur's gaze flickers to the carcasses hanging a few feet away . they haven't been sliced into just yet .
@coyotlindo . " you can take it off in camp , you know . " vampire!javi gesturing to arthur's hat with an encouraging toothy smile (he probably has no other option for it but to be toothy lmao)
he hauls the bucket the last few steps before setting it down where pearson wanted it . his hat doesn't move a centimeter from its comfortable place atop his head , settled just perfectly around his small antlers so as to be perfectly held in place by their tips . ❝ i take it off all the time , ❞ he drawls right back toward the vampire , his gaze meeting javier's only for a moment before sliding down to his display of fangs . at least , he thinks , he's smilin' about it . ❝ ain't my problem you ain't around to see when i do . ❞
he's lying through his teeth , of course . he rarely ever takes off his hat , except to sleep and even then , he usually has the thing propped over his ear , that he might cover his hair and the antlers while he's unconscious . it's obvious he likes to keep his hat on . arthur is also fully aware that he's being obvious about it , no two ways about it . so his lip twitches ❝ maybe i'm just wearin' it so you don't practice sharpenin' your teeth on 'em . ❞ and he reaches up , resting his fingers on the brim of leather . ❝ why you askin' ? you wanna see ? ❞
╰ ゜UNPROMPTED . / 𝚊𝚕𝚠𝚊𝚢𝚜 𝚊𝚌𝚌𝚎𝚙𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 .
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