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thelaurenshippen · 4 months

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💜 for the oc ask game (love your stories so much <3)

for the oc ask game 💜 PURPLE HEART — what is your oc's ancestry/genetic background?

(thank you!! <3)

Sawyer is Black, his parents were originally from the West Indies before moving to the states - Sawyer was born in Montana.

Tex is, as far as he knows for most of his life, Irish. his dad came over when he was an adult and met a woman that he then got pregnant. she died when Tex was eighteen months old and his dad never really talked about her - it's only when he tracks his dad down much later in life that he learns his mother's mother was Osage and also had a child with a white guy (Tex's mom). he doesn't know his maternal grandfather's heritage at all.

#desperate hollow #lauren answers things #I've got to go record dashboard diaries now but I love this!#keep sending things folks!#all this stuff is subject to change to an extent #I still need to get sensitivity readers to read a draft #so some minor details may change #but for the most part both these characters are influenced by real life examples #for all intents and purposes in how he experiences the world Tex is white #but it was important to me to have my version of the wild west be filled with the actual historical reality #which is a lot of queer people and POC!#though also it should be noted that most outlaws were white!#bc white men felt they could do whatever they wanted #which is what tex is sort of taught to believe by Barlowe

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