#and i stg i AM gonna find the time to draw him and jenny i NEED that in my life

[marigoldbaker]

before i go to bed here are some fun facts about arthur cervenak:

his favorite parent is jenny. jenny has absolutely no idea that this is the case and has always secretly assumed that art would gravitate towards giles because they’re so similar, but one of the many things that art and giles have in common IS ACTUALLY the fact that they both think jenny is the most special and incredible person in the world. also like she’s the one who’s been there since he was a baby so that kinda accounts for a lot

his middle name is john. it’s for his mother. it was also selected BY his mother, who was a hair away from naming him john on an ego trip before deciding to go with arthur for ..... reasons. (if you look closely enough at the fic, the reason is woven into one of the chapters that is currently up!)

he has absolutely no idea what he wants to do with his life, and this hasn’t changed by the time he’s in high school. he’s kinda coasting. both of his parents are actually very happy about this because neither of them had the opportunity to not know what the fuck they wanted.

he comes out as gay in high school and it’s this whole Dramatique Production because he is his parents’ child and he has no fucking braincell, so he goes through this whole “mom...dad...i’m so sorry, but i will never marry a woman and give you the happy little nuclear family you so desire to see me start” and then jenny looks at giles and starts immediately going “this is your fault. YOU said we needed to WAIT to tell him about ethan. YOU said w” and giles is like “jenny please please jenny please just address this” and once it gets sorted out it ends up being fine

he goes fully nonverbal around pretty boys. like it is BAD. it’s the deadly combination of his mom’s laser focus on someone hot and his dad’s INTENSE anxiety and it is really just too much for him to handle

he calms down as a teenager from a high energy baby into this very quiet and sweet kid who is temperamentally a whole lot like his dad. this however also means that there’s sometimes a lot of biting and sideways combativeness that drives giles and jenny up the WALL

he and his cousin bella have been at each other’s throats since birth, but around middle school some switch flips and they are suddenly besties and this continues for the rest of their lives. no one understands this but jenny and nora, who have this exact dynamic somehow despite like two decades of estrangement. 

giles taught him how to play guitar! he is incredibly good at it. he doesn’t want to go into music professionally, though, because it’s his stress release, so mostly he just jams with his dad and plays cute little mini concerts for his family.

he and buffy are incredibly tight and she spoils him rotten whenever she’s given the chance. when he gets a little older, they start having some more candid talks about the difficulties of eight years without a dad.

ellie ADORES him. who is ellie, you ask? well, [radio static cuts me off before i can finish my sentence]