Rae Sego Art

Characters and settings from various interrelated projects

[raesego]

Name: Donavin

Species: Human

Relationships: father to Sabriel, adopted father to Katziah

Raised Catholic with proud Italian-American roots, Donavin had a promising career in business ahead of him when he paid a mysterious woman to have sex with him one night. She stole his wallet and fled, completely destroying him financially. He struggled with alcoholism, changed careers, became a police officer and eventually found her again two or three years later, in the company of a toddler she claimed was his, named Sabriel. Donavin took Sabriel home, and raised him alone to age fourteen until, once again, he caught wind of the mysterious woman who’d ruined him, and ended up rescuing her other son, Katziah, from a dog attack. Katziah and Sabriel’s mother was arrested for child endangerment and theft. Donavin adopted and paid for extensive medical care for “K”, but his behavior toward the two brothers is anything but equal, and his hopes to control and live vicariously through Sabriel are frustrated more and more as time goes on. He looks on Sabriel and Hale’s friendship with suspicion. 

[raesego]

Name: Katziah

Species: ???

Relationships: brother of Sabriel, adopted son of Donavin

“K” and Sabriel were unaware of each other’s existence until Katziah was ten or eleven and Donavin rescued him from being mauled by his mother’s dogs. He required extensive medical care for years after that and at first would not even speak to his new family. Luckily, he and Sabriel and Hale share an affinity for some of the same videogames, and were able to bond a little over that. His relationships with others are guarded; in some ways he finds it easiest to talk about himself to strangers. Unlike Sabriel, he has memories of their mother, but some have been altered or dimmed by trauma. He rarely talks about her. 

[raesego]

Name: Sabriel Banks

Species: ???

Relationships: best friends with Hale, brother of Katziah, son of Donavin

Rescued by Donavin from an allegedly neglectful mother, Sabriel was the unintentional product of a one-night stand with a mysterious woman. By all appearances some kind of albino or leukistic human, Sabriel is no stranger to feeling displaced, and despite how hard he tries to be normal, it is never enough for some people. When Donavin tracks down his mother yet again and rescues Katziah, Sabriel discovers he has a brother he never knew, who he must now take care of, still knowing almost nothing about the mother who gave him away.

[raesego]

Name: Hale Walker

Species: Human

Relationships: Best friends with Sabriel

Hale is an only child and comes from a religious family. When he meets Sabriel in High School, the two bond over common interests in videogames and TV shows. Over the course of the story Hale finds himself at odds with his own self-concept, and drawn into more of the Banks family drama than he ever expected.