#╰ ゜verse. * where he roams in the land of dust and bones.

[redemn]

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 .

[redemn]

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 .