#quite frankly triggering as someone who has a toxic relationship with their boss

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Next up on the list of charas to info dump about are: The Nichols boys! Austyn and Samuel are the only ones of the three I really got anything done for though.

First up is Austyn, the oldest brother. Austyn is, quite frankly, something of a mess. He’s been through a lot over the years and has been rejected, abused, manipulated, and criminalized for so long that he doesn’t find it in the least bit surprising when he’s treated horrendously. Truthfully, Austyn’s got the biggest heart of the brothers and a great moral compass. Yes he has killed people and yes it eats him up. If that wasn’t the case do you think he would have plead guilty the first day of the trial and told the judge to just send him to jail? He served his time, got let out a little early actually thanks to one of his friends intervening. Austyn has nightmares. Lots of nightmares. About his time  in jail, his time with his exes, his time with his foster family, his time in the orphanage....there’s a lot that makes sleeping a far from desirable thing to the eldest Nichols boy. But he doesn’t open up about it, not without a lot of effort from the other party. More often than not, he tries his best to gloss over it, act like it wasn’t as bad as it truly was. Austyn doesn’t like to worry others, not when it’s to do with him.

Austyn finds physical contact to be disconcerting most of the time. He’s not used to harmless contact, especially from strangers. The only ones whom he’s more often than not fine with are his brothers. He’s got extremely limited knowledge or experience in romance or partnerships, having only been in a single highly toxic relationship.

Austyn currently works as an intern at a private investigation office. What this means in his particular case is he’s the one who cleans up the insane messes his bosses get into and runs their errands for them. Most of the time, his bosses are completely exasperating to him but he wouldn’t trade it for anything. After all, as much as they’ve tried to hide it from him, he knows that having him working there has been quite a risk for them and they’ve certainly lost business because of it.

Samuel is very good at picking up on subtle cues and while he doesn’t know everything that his brother went through, Samuel is probably the most aware of the things that trigger Austyn, sometimes even more so than Austyn realizes. Samuel isn’t prone to anger but it does burn him up to know that Austyn suffered so much over the years. He wants the best for his brothers but especially so for Austyn. While Evan, the youngest, may not have seen much of Austyn sacrificing for them, not that he really remembers, Sam still remembers being carried through that forest by his big brother when the other should’ve been too busy with his own wounds. He still remembers sitting by his big brother’s bed in the hospital, terrified that he might loose another member of the family because they chose his life over their own. The knowledge of his big brother’s nature have helped to shape Sam as a person. To know that his happiness and safety meant so much to someone has always driven Sam to do his best in everything he puts any sort of effort into. Sam’s at the top of his classes and known to tutor others in his free time.

Like his brother, Sam’s got quite the moral compass. He’s the sort who will drop everything to be there for someone else in their time of need nad while he’s certainly conscientious of the law, if he needs to ‘bend’ a few rules to get the right thing done, he won’t hesitate to do so. He doesn’t outright break any rules but he’s quite good at finding loopholes and discrepancies.  

As members of the Nichols family of Wyddloezyl, the boys have the power of plasma/energy manifestation, manipulation, and negation. How this manifests is slightly different for each Nichols member. In Sam’s case, he can emit beams of plasma from his eyes. He’s got no control of this when his eyes are open so he always wears specialized glasses to contain his power. For Austyn, he’s able to emit his power through rings around his body that he  can propel outwards. His control isn’t exactly the greatest but unlike Sam, he doesn’t always emit it without specialized gear. He can sort of control when he releases it but without his own specialized gear, he can’t control the direction it’s aimed. And unlike Sam, Austyn’s prone to outbursts of his power tied to his emotions. Sam has rarely had his power unleashed by his emotions whereas Austyn’s outbursts are nearly all due to his emotions.