#also i did not emphasize it enough in the texts. algol loves his mother. he and his mother are best friends.

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possible designs for the guys in this story idea,,

guy on the left is Algol, a half-gorgon half-ghoul who works on the administrative branch of a university. he is the bastard son of the university's dean, born out of a college fling. he doesn't like his father's side of the family very much at all, but he lives close to them because his mother (the ghoul half) is like. an activist and/or anthropologist who is always traveling as part of her work. his father is married to a gorgon from a super conservative family, and they have two daughters. the older one is about college-aged. because of his ghoul side he is an exclusive carnivore. he can kinda shift into a hyena-like monster shape but it's pretty inconvenient so he mostly doesn't. as a half-gorgon he can "petrify" people but only if he stares at them for a while, and it's not like "physically turn to stone" petrification it's "become unable to move for a while" petrification. ("turn to stone" petrification is a very rare power only extremely purebred gorgons have. most just have the snake-looking hair and "freeze up" petrification) his fumblr (fake tumblr) blog is like 40% (mostly gay) erotic art 40% horror art 20% discourse. instead of tagging stuff he has one million sideblogs for categorizing stuff, and reblogs everything to main and to the fitting sideblog(s) he makes paintings but never posts them because he doesn't want anyone irl to find his blog. he is well-versed in a bunch of activism stuff because his mom uses his dms to save pdfs and articles and he reads them when he has downtime in his job.

guy on the right is Galileo (or Leo for short), a psychology post graduate student who works in the university's associated elementary school as part of his doctorate. he's a cosmic witch (witch whose magic is powered by the stars) but he's not that into magic so he can only do simple spells like floating small objects or projecting constellations. it makes him very popular with the kids he teaches. his fumblr blog is like 40% memes and positivity 30% hornyposting 20% "friendly" banter with Algol 10% discourse and complaining about his life Algol's sister is also a psychology student, and they're both in their department's "student council" so they talk a lot. they are good friends. (she is the one who told him about Algol having a fumblr blog)

Galileo is like the psychology department's "mascot" since he's been there for about 10 years (between graduation and post graduations) and he's so friendly and good with people, so he's relatively famous around campus. Algol is also pretty famous in the university, but because he has gotten a bunch of faculty members fired over the years, some for good reason like abusing students or being racist, some just because he decided to make their lives hell. so they are like polar opposites in personality and fame, which is why they avoided each other for the most part. and then Algol's sister made them exchange usernames and they looked at each other's blogs and decided that the other sounds absolutely insufferable. and Algol decided that was the start of a wonderful enemyship. because he loves antagonizing people on purpose. and Galileo just kinda. went along with it. great way to vent his aggression that he usually just keeps to himself.

.... that's about all I can think to say right now. good night <3