#belram family

[lostingham]

It’s been a while I haven’t draw Mona’s family ! I really enjoy their designs ! ✨

[theauthorinblue]

Okay, so Sirnus, previously named and probably tagged as Silvanus. Hotheaded singleminded bipolar-if-I-can-write-it inventor and current holder of the legendary Green Poleaxe.

We first meet him months into running from his own then-best invention, a magically-powered bronze robotic wolf, which he’d made on a commission to his local representative to show off at the tech fair, because that’s what the city they live in is known for. It broke down and a different magic powering part connected with the behavior controlling magic item which made it break down and kill the representative’s son (whom technically Sirnus proposed to when he was like ten after fleeing a war and immigrating to the city with what remained of his family). Then he gets the weapon, finds a famous vet of that war, Chrisama, who also has another weapon in that set, hers is the Orange Swallow, and falls hard and fast for her, to the point he decides he’s happily die for her after maybe a week of knowing her and she tells him off because that’s unhealthy and actually joins a whaling crew temporarily to distance herself from him so he’ll realize it’s not healthy.

Then the whole group gets together, and he ends up becoming really good friends with this random guy who’s really good with a mace and also with pencil and paper and that’s about it. His name is Maydok. Sirnus makes a bunch of mechanical songbirds for him and also for himself, because he loves them and is proud of them and himself for being able to make them. Nobody else really pays attention to his stuff, which he finds really hard because he wants to be acknowledged for his skill, because he literally invented robots a century and a half early.

This culminates after a week of running around an infinite labyrinth on his own and then bargaining his and his friends’ way out of the labyrinth even the god who’s running their party, Frii (aka Frewin), can’t escape from, and gets about as much recognition for it as when the storyteller character sings a particularly good tale.

So he makes a deal with the enemies, and decides to leave the group. The conversation is overheard by Frii, who’s dragged out of his hiding spot by the captured other god, Belram, and immediately blows off Sirnus in attempt to rescue the clearly captured and mind-controlled Belram, until Sirnus gets so close to killing Frii that Frii brings out his own legendary weapon, which was believed to be entirely made up. This utter betrayal of trust, as Frii had previously refused to get involved in battles or even slaughters like the one Sirnus escaped from as a child that lost him his brother, who was five at the time, at the beginning of the recent war. That Frii absolutely could have helped and saved him, and he didn’t, and he lied when he said there was nothing he could’ve done about it, that betrayal is the last straw and Sirnus joins fully with the bad guys.

Maydok actually goes after him, thinking he might be able to convince him back, and also because he has a massive crush on Sirnus and refuses to believe he’s evil. He does eventually find him, with his right leg replaced by a bronze prosthetic that was clearly designed and built by him. Maydok asks about how he lost his leg, but Sirnus repeats that he doesn’t want to talk about it until he’s had enough and just blows up at him. Maydok basically just confesses his love and leaves after that. Sirnus just encourages him to leave, and doesn’t let himself react until what’s probably several weeks later, once he finally walks himself to the bad guy’s facility, thus ending his loyalty test from when it started, when Belram cut off his leg.

At the facility Sirnus is immediately placed as head engineer/inventor and basically held prisoner to his workbench. The bad guys use a magic object to keep him in a manic state so he’ll keep working, which does work to some extent, but Sirnus keeps doubting himself and destroying his work. They finally put him in solitary confinement when he starts to destroy his masterpiece, a four hundred-ish foot bronze mechanical dragon that he was forced to make into a weapon. After that he starts to realize he hates it and wants to go back, but he can’t, because he’s still being held prisoner, so he makes another mechanical songbird, who can fly, and starts sending letters back and forth with Maydok, with some unknowing help from Frii, who keeps using portals to get the bird back and forth quickly and safely. This is finally when Sirnus actually reacts to Maydok’s confession, and admits his own crush on him. That doesn’t really do anything, though, since Sirnus is still trapped.

Cut to the final battle, when Frii decides to trade his freedom for Belram’s. The person who’s been controlling Belram the whole time takes it, and orders Sirnus to kill Frii. Sirnus really doesn’t want to, because, he may not like this god but a) he’s done a lot of good and technically he still owes him his life, and b) he’s the god of the continent, he’s a huge deal, and killing him will fuck up absolutely everything. Frii actually encourages him to do it, and has a whole emotional death speech about how he’s at peace with this end and all that, and eventually, Sirnus does work up the nerve to kill him, and Frii doesn’t fight it. That pushes Sirnus over the edge again and he joins the good guys again, and uses his magic over air (it came with the weapon) to end the battle before it really begins, and nobody else dies in that battle.

After that, though, Sirnus is a fugitive from basically everywhere because he murdered Frii, and the belief that only gods can kill gods starts to spread, and due to the magic of the world, this makes Sirnus a god. He doesn’t know though, he just finds a place where he’s allowed to live, gets married to Maydok, who came with him, and starts helping as many people as he can to pay for everyone that he’s harmed. He actually invents electric street lamps while he’s at it, and starts a massive prosthetics trade.

Around three years later, for entirely unrelated reasons, a foreign goddess of exploration shows up, meets Belram, and starts to learn the culture of the world. She decides she wants to show off her homeland, so the old group of adventurers, plus some of their significant others sail off to the new continent, Alemi.

While on Alemi, Sirnus does several things only a god could do without knowing, including turning down the god of lust (who will happily use magic to force whoever he wants to fuck him, whether or not they want to), survive the first artificial heart transplant, which was a magic-and-titanium heart he made himself and got a god known as The Godhealer to do the procedure, and go into and out of the underworld with help from Zhakan, the accidental merge of the dead Frii and the live Alimen god Lallow, god of storytelling and philosophy. That leads to so many other things, but the main thing for Sirnus is that Zhakan actually gives an explanation to Sirnus that he’s a god now, and starts up the subplot of that Sirnus is stuck with the immortality, but it’s most likely possible to abuse the magic system and make the others of the group gods as well, if they wish, and allow Sirnus to have friends in his new endless life. I haven’t decided what will happen entirely yet, but I know several of them were okay with immortality, although at least one will not. It’s kind of cut short when the main plot brings in an end-of-the-world prophecy from Alemi and the gods who are supposed to be responsible for stopping it decide to do nothing so the team has to stop it themselves.

And that’s as far as I’ve got at the moment with this guy and this story!

who wants to talk about their wips and ocs?

[lostingham]

Family picture! The Belram sisters and their daughter/niece in Alger during the sunrise. ☀️

Also I wanted to present their nationality and their true names :

Mona : Desdémona Cassandre : Magda Agatha : Irâne