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it’s been awhile since I’ve made art for @avianhurst so here’s some more of my favorite vampire completely normal and human character in Avianhurst rn!
We still need more time to collab on the Act 1 wrap up, so we're probably still not going to be posting for a while (especially with a lot of people still in exam seasons/busy academic schedules). Avoiding burnout and taking breaks after so much posting is important!!! But Avianhurst will be back in due time. Thank you for your patience^^
We will be slowing down the posting schedule since we'll be reaching a lot of major events within our story and the ending of act 1 soon. With plot starting to pick up exponentially, we'll be needing more time to prepare certain scenes, and collaborate on posts! Things will definitely get... interesting.
Betty had just one friend back in her hometown. Dorothy. A lovely old widow who didn't judge her, and even agreed with her life philosophy. They both were misunderstood, but as long as they had each other, they didn't feel lonely
Some people are withdrawn, quiet and distant, keeping busy with mundane affairs. Some people think their life is already over. That doesn't mean their past is insignificant and not worth digging up though. Today, we grab a shovel.
(Aka Bernie's full backstory written out by his creator under readmore! Please mind the content warnings in tags!)
Childhood:
Bernie grew up in a small cozy village as an only child of two loving parents, they were known as a very tight knit family. His father sired no sons so he sometimes took his, at the time, daughter on hunts with him had taught him proper ways to hunt. Despite occasionally hunting with his father, Bernie’s childhood was mostly spent at home with his stay at home mother learning to cook and sew in hopes of becoming a good wife someday. He had loved his mother dearly and didn’t mind the feminine activities as long as he got to spend time with her. The talks of becoming someone’s wife did often make him scared because of the prospect of being stuck in such feminine role.
What Bernie and his mother bonded most over was their hair, they used to brush and then do each others hair in elaborate hairstyles involving the use of braids, hair sticks, flowers and bows. Unfortunately one winter his mother, who had always been a frail woman had fallen ill and died not long after. Both Bernie and his father were devastated. His father began going hunting more often and became quite absent leaving Bernie, who as not a particularly social person who’s only friend was his mom, home alone as the primary homemaker. That was the time where Bernie has realised that he may be trans and as a person who grew up religious immediately felt incredibly guilty and has attempted to „pray it away”. When the method of prayer has not worked and Bernie has build up enough courage, he has decided to confine with his father in search of help.
Unfortunately though is father had reacted negatively to given information and had instead had pushed his „daughter’s” face into the table by his hair, breaking her nose, and promptly disowned him, telling him to get out of his house. With nothing but the clothes on his back Bernie has left his childhood home at the age of 16.
Adolescence to early Adulthood:
After he had been disowned, Bernie spent the next few days walking to the next town over and sleeping in the woods, usually on sturdier of branches. When he managed to get to the town he had been given shelter at the local church for a few weeks while he worked to get enough money to leave the church. He had felt guilty using churches kindness while they thought he was a young woman and not a trans man. During those few weeks at the church, Bernie has found work as a bar maid where thanks to a very open minded and kind owner he had later became a bartender.
With a much better pay of a bartender, Bernie was able to rent a place to stay and left the church. During that time he had saved every spare penny to get a very much needed makeover. During one of his shifts at the bar he had heard of an evil witch which was supposed to be able to change peoples gender. Through eavesdropping and a couple of drinks on the house, Bernie was able to find out where to find said witch.
Not wasting any time Bernie left to find the witch as soon as he had some free time from work. Upon finding the witch Bernie has found out with not so little disappointment that said witch is neither evil nor powerful enough to change his gender like that. Thankfully after explaining the situation the witch was sympathetic and agreed to prepare some potions which he were to take regularly for intended result (FUCK YEAH FANTASY HRT).
Thankful that he had the foresight to save money, Bernie has emptied his savings for the full set of 12 bottles he were to take every full moon for a year for the best effect. During that time Bernie has found another work hunting and selling animals for money, hoping to gather up enough money to be able to leave the town. If the witch was to be believed the effects will be quite visible in a few moths and by then he must leave or else he might get accused of dark magics. Thankfully everything had went according to plan and Bernie was able to leave by the fourth month. Bernie then has spent the rest of the year moving from place to place so that he wouldn’t get found out. The results had truly had been astounding. Having to support himself through his hunting Bernie has gained quite a bit of muscle which served to make him look even more masculine.
Early adulthood to Adulthood:
After years of wandering from town to town in search of a place for himself, Bernie has settled in a tiny town and even managed to open his own bar after some time, using what he has learned from the kind man in his adolescence. After a few years he had met a local farmer and the two fell in love. After a few years together they moved in together still keeping their relationship secret and passing it off as good friends. They became well loved in the community so no one had a big problem with them when they eventually adopted a young girl which had recently lost her parents. The little girl was named Alice and quickly became the light of their lives. When Alice turned 12 she had for the first time, joined Bernie in a hunt having begged for him to take her on her birthday for months. So, having promised his daughter, he had taken her on a hunt.
It should have been fine. He himself joined his father on hunts since he was only 10 years of age. He had taken every precaution and taught his daughter how to use a crossbow in preparation. Unfortunately when they have found themselves in the forest a pack of abnormally large wolves has surrounded them and managed to injure Alice quite heavily. Bernie was able to chase them away but unfortunately his daughter had passed in his arms just a few minutes later. With a heavy heart and a heavier conscience Bernie had brought back his daughter’s body back to town for the burial and the funeral. After all of the pleasantries, the burial ceremony and the funeral, Bernies husband in everything but on paper had an outburst and had blamed him for their daughter’s death. Bernie having already felt responsible for the whole thing only stood there and allowed his husband to yell at him.
Afterwards the only thing Bernie had in him was to beg his partner for forgiveness. After the death of Alice, Peter (the husband) turned verbally abusive and gradually got more aggressive and Bernie fell to alcoholism. Having felt deserving of such punishment for his failing to protect his child Bernie never left his partner until Peter had eventually committed suicide.
After finding his husband dead after he had killed himself, Bernie felt that he had failed yet another loved one and decided to leave yet another town as soon as funeral proceedings were done. After packing his alcohol and hunting equipment along with several articles of clothing into a big travel backpack, he had left in a random direction with no further plan. It just so happened that Avianhurst was the first town he had stumbled upon.
Enjoying the new bar in Avianhurst and finding actually drinkable wine does wonders for town morale ❤️ Also Why is Zoyander's wine glass redder than the others-
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Avianhurst (Vampires SMP Original Universe)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Betty Laufer, Bernie Bovine
Additional Tags: topics of death, Vampires, bonding over melancholic gloom, animal corpse, burial, Grave, gravedigger and an old man
Summary:
Bernie thinks about death quite often. Betty does too. Maybe it's not a bad thing.
Today something light, one vampire yaoi cosplaying another vampire yaoi, could this be a foreshadowing? Or maybe the author just wanted to combine her favourite things together? I'm afraid you'll never know
WATCH VNC *cough* Fern and Mihel as Vanitas and Noé from Vanitas no Carte, cheers
