#and i dont like the pink design being the first image since i scrapped that

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continuing the lore exploration here im just gonna jot down whatever comes to mind *throws dart*

maybe his mother could be a shaman... and his father might be dead or disappeared under mysterious circumstances... maybe his mother is sick or dead too. not sure if he has siblings... mother being a shaman/psychic = another connection w monsters; see/communicate w ghosts, spirits; this kind of stuff can clearly be connected to the monsters lore. (I think western-style priests could also fit in the setting... briefly considered that for his father but idk if a priest & shaman would go together... maybe that could be another chara. KSJSKS *bangs my head against the wall* ive been accidentally biasing too many fantasy catholic/christian coded charas lately and its been infecting me... i actually think the aesthetic is cool now kms💀💀)

i was thinking maybe his father was a member of the org... i think he also has a history with monsters too... + maybe either his mom is sick and needs support or he'd have a younger sibling to take care of... as another incentive to join the "org" (pays well + needs money)... having a dependent is a good motive...

tried drawing the mc from a dream i had recently... design and colors tbd(+placeholder clothes) but i decided to give him pink hair lol (more info under the cut)

ok im going to ramble a bit abt the lore now.... all this is tentative/im not sure bc it's based on a dream... he works for this organization that's basically like a super powered "peace keeping" police force/FBI type deal that paints itself as like super heroic & good & all abt justice... but it's secretly an evil organization that oppresses/experiments on monsters and hides this from the officers(except the higher ups) and the public... i think maybe 1 of the officers' jobs is to defend the public from monsters? (the monsters include animal-like ones but also magical creatures w human-like intelligence) but they secretly capture + do cruel experiments on monsters... and oppress them in other ways(?)

+ in the dream there was a resistance group of fox/werewolf-like shapeshifting monsters... ok im just gonna copy what i wrote here:

just gonna add that the mc prob joined the police force bc of the childhood friend incident (wants to protect ppl so this doesnt happen again?) + he was prob also chosen as a target by the resistance group bc of this incident too... like it's all connected... the childhood friend incident is related to the monsters... only they (and the evil org) know what rly happened... mc is chosen bc of his ties to that friend/the incident... maybe the childhood friend was a monster..? I'm not sure lol but def connected. MC also has superpowers but I haven't decided for sure what they are (i rmbr his ability in the dream but idk if im going w that kdfjdj like it has to make sense...)

also in the dream the mc guy had like unassuming brown haired just some guy energy but after waking up i was considering other colors and pink popped into my head lmfao... also if he looks kinda like yeseo LOOK AWAY... I RLY TRIED OK... this is why i made him pink and not brown🤧

the mc also had like 2-3 fellow officer friends in the organization... i vaguely have an afterimage of what they looked like... 1 of them was a more srs type... mc himself is p laid back... kinda dense and disarmingly nice type lol. Also he's a young adult... maybe 24ish? (or older cuz i can do whatever i want)

Bonus: i also drew this yesterday, it's another mc from a dream i had the other day (but im not satisfied w this lol + dont rmbr enough of the dream to flesh it out)