#its him the autism cowboy. neurodivergent people yearn for the wilderness

[yael-art-den]

I also finished Doran's (Sundown) designs a while back but never posted them either because they're not very clean; but now I've been thinking a lot about his lore and wanted to ramble a bit more!!! Info under the cut

Doran "Sundown" (or just Sundown as he is usually known) is an Ifrit, a race originally from the desert of Zer'Ja, in the New World. Born from a family of a wealthy merchant family, his life was pretty much already done for him. Even though he was never very social, he did have a good discipline for manual crafts and other forms of art, so as long as he was working on his family's business, he was guaranteed to be able to make a living out of it. His two older brothers were the ones who would inherit most of the business afterall, and they, along with their parents, were the face of the business, and most of his formative years were spent learning how to make money, learn the inner workings of how to take care of a business, and dealing with art pieces that fell into their possesion.

Still, he was never truly satisfied with that kind of life, which was never fully understood by his family, something that made him keep those feelings for himself even more. In his early-to-mid 20's he began to struggle with all of this, not being able to be fulfilled with his current life when he had all the reasons to be. He had a job, a good family, and enough money to live comfortably for the rest of his life if he wanted to, but he felt.. off with that. He longed for something else: making things with his own hands, living on his own, being left alone to do his own thing. Alone. On the wilds.

He buried that feeling (along with other.. gender-related ones) for years, until it reached a breaking point for him. He took everything he could carry that he considered to be useful, changed clothes, told NO ONE about it, and just...left. He didn't have a plan, just walk. He Will figure it out on the way where he was going.

Sundown spent almost five years traveling on his own. Had to learn how to hunt, how to make traps and fire, and how to survive on his own but it felt so??? Right??? Carving wood, hunting animals, making a shelter, it wasn't a "job" but It was definitely what he felt his life should be about.

He would end up setting on the most exterior part of Rey's kingdom (another OC Guy I'll talk about in the future), a frozen tundra mostly inhabited by Deathwalkers and Primordials, but a place he fit right in. Built a cabin, got a dog, and started trading with a nearby village.

Now, he just mostly lives on his own (with his dog), working on his land as a shepherd in the most literal cowboy sense, and carving wood in his free time. Good shit