#kit calloway

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Hello hello! 🍰 for Meg and 🧐 for Kit, please!

🍰 SHORTCAKE — what is/are your oc's favorite sweet(s)/dessert(s)?

Ooh, this isn’t something I’ve thought about a lot until now — I think she loves making and eating apple pie, it was always something she’d do with her aunt when she was growing up.

🧐 FACE WITH MONOCLE — is your oc more logical or emotional?

This is such a good one for Kit! And may help contextualise later events…. He likes to think that he’s very logical, but more often that not if he’s feeling very strong emotion it will massively impact on his decision making. For example, a lot of the motivation behind this post was guilt for not being able to provide Meg with the life he thinks she wants.

Thank you for asking!

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kit calloway (he/him) | for @plumdale's galia

meet kit, chestnut ridge's most lovelorn cowboy...

rancher

gloomy

family-oriented

minimal cc (hair and skin details) / private download (if you want him, no worries if not!)

backstory (+ more pictures) under the cut!

ok y'all, i may have gotten a liiittle overexcited, but this is kit! i suck at writing character backstory but i have a lot of Thoughts about him so bear with me.

chestnut ridge born and raised

youngest of four brothers brought up on a farm by their father

growing up his family was pretty distant, so he's always yearned for a large, close family

he's very shy and quiet, but such a romantic

happiest working out on the land

he seems pretty intimidating when you first meet him, but once you get through the shyness he's a complete softy

this guy would do anything for someone he loves, even give it all up and move to the city

though there's no saying he won't regret it when he's done it

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The thought of the coming baby was weighing heavily on Kit's mind -- as was the thought of how tiny and cramped their cabin already was. Although Meg insisted that it was home, they'd make do and be happy, he couldn't help but feel that it was woefully inadequate. His Meg deserved the world, yet all he could seem to give her was a shack in the woods. Not only that, but the baby would need somewhere to grow up, a proper home with room to play.

It was with these thoughts swirling in his head that he set out early to town. It was time to do what he could to make things right for Meg, and their family.

Transcript

Banker: What can I do for you?

Kit: I'm Christopher Calloway, sir, I believe you've received my loan application? Well, I haven't heard anything back, so I thought I'd pay you a visit. In all honesty, my wife's pregnant, and we really need this. I need to do this for her.

Banker: Christopher Calloway. I have it here -- $2000 against the mortgage for Maple Farm. Hm. That's an awful lot to borrow when it says here you're a farm labourer.

Kit: I know, sir, but I'm a hard worker -- I've farmed all my life, and I'll make a success of it.

Banker: *sigh* We're a bank, not a charity, son.

Banker: But I'm willing to give you a chance.

Kit: Thank you, sir.

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After wishing for a family of her own for so long, Meg had hardly dared to believe the signs that she might be expecting. But there came a point where they couldn't be ignored, and it was time to give Kit the tentatively happy news.

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a tale of four pictures....

i just had to use this wonderful posepack by @cattermelons for some portraits!

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In the months after their marriage, the cabin blossomed into summer. With Kit taking a job as a farmhand, Meg often found herself whiling away the days alone -- though with the company of her beloved chickens she struggled to feel lonely.

Despite their family being small, and the majority of it being feathered, there seemed to be an endless number of tasks to keep Meg busy, so many that there were some days where Meg hardly felt she had a spare moment until her husband returned home.

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Nestled in the woods of of Northern Brindleton is the tiny cabin to which the newlyweds returned home. There may be tiles slipped from the roof, and paint flaking off the walls, but it's home, and it's theirs. Within the four small walls, nothing seems to touch their happiness.

This sweet cabin build is from the Antiquated Brindleton save file by @antiquatedplumbobs!

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Mr and Mrs C. J. Calloway on their wedding day, June 1890.