#imaginaryoc: brand

[portraitperpetuity]

Dieter Brand (he/him) and V. Scherer (any but they/them).

Their story is far from figured out, especially when it comes to worldbuilding and the level of strange mystical interference, but this much will stay true regardless: they are two very powerful people, both doing their best but one more corruptible than the other, very deeply in love.

Brand and Scherer are quite different, but their contrasting attitudes and traits only serve to strengthen their bond: Scherer's optimism, charisma, spontaneity, and occasional naivety serve well to balance Brand's honesty, skepticism, pragmatism, and heavily analytical nature—and vice versa. That, combined with their willingness and ability to intellectually spar and keep an open mind to one another has brought them close. They bonded through trust, through fire, through vulnerability; the years spent working in tandem in nearly every way strengthened them both together and as a unit.

Both of them are flawed human beings, however, and their ability to work together so well does not negate those flaws. Both can be very intensely emotional—Brand perhaps even more so than Scherer, though Scherer is far more open to her range and depth of feeling than Brand—and are incredibly protective over one another too. Brand especially falls prey to his own rabid protectiveness: he gave his word that he would protect Scherer, and as a man who values his word more than his life, he would do anything to keep his vow. Anything.

I'll have to write more about their story and world at some point as I flesh it out. For now, this is all.