#alan dorner

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Several of these have listed "contributing to the delinquency of a minor". Who's the minor in question?

That would be Alan! Whom I might just rename Anatole after all (long story) because the current name scans the same as another pack member. :|c He’s technically a runaway after his father killed his mom and forced him to become a skinwalker and Alan in turn killed and ate his father. I’m-a use this as an excuse to do the thing~

Full Name: Alan James Dorner (I’m totally not married to this z_z)

Gender and Sexuality: Male, ostensibly heterosexual but curious.

Pronouns: Traditional masculine

Ethnicity/Species: Originally written as white American mutt but I’m not married to that either; he doesn’t need to be white so there’s a strong chance he won’t be; human/skinwalker

Birthplace and Birthdate: Baltimore, MD; 22 December 1992

Guilty Pleasures: Playing childish pranks on people he catches asleep.

Phobias: Not sure if it counts per se but he’s had nightmares about his father finding him since he was little, and they persist well after his father’s death.

What They Would Be (In)Famous For: Being one of the Hellhounds’ youngest spirit callers in generations and contributing to the end of the world.

What They Would Get Arrested For: Underaged drinking, driving without a license, drug use, homicide, cannibalism, aggravated assault, grand theft auto (what can I say, the pack steals cars and drives them across state lines a lot), arson, larceny, breaking & entering, vehicular manslaughter, arson, destruction of government property, using counterfeit documents, resisting arrest, and probably other things I haven’t come up with yet or am forgetting.

OC You Ship Them With: Frankly none given he’s underage at the story’s beginning.

OC Most Likely To Murder Them: Mason, if he were to act on his jealousy.

Favorite Movie/Book Genre: Sci-fi/action.

Least Favorite Movie/Book Cliche: Supposed orphan finds their parents and everything is hunky-dory.

Talents and/or Powers: He’s a skinwalker, so there’s the whole shapeshifting, curses, spirit world, rituals thing. He’s also a trueseer, which means he can see spiritual phenomena like possession, ghosts, “demonic” influence, and the spirit-skin of other skinwalkers.

Why Someone Might Love Them: This poor duckling. As much as he wants others to believe he’s capable, he’s actually quite needy and thoroughly frightened, constantly uncertain of where he stands or what the future holds. This leads him to a desperation for the approval of a replacement parent figure which in turn leads to certain ingratiating behaviours subconsciously designed to create an emotional bond.

Why Someone Might Hate Them: He is a teenager, and teenagers are pretty terrible (sorry to any followers who are still in your teens but you know it’s true ♥). Most teenagers don’t kill and eat people though.

How They Change: Alan definitely becomes a stronger, more confident person even if it’s a Hail Mary; if nothing else he grows to embrace his dubious gift.

Why You Love Them: I like damaged characters who struggle to make the right choice. This incarnation of the character is far less helpless than the original which makes him a bit more sympathetic in a way.

It’s an ask box game! 

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Another one! My OC has a weird habit of sleeping in cramped spaces like chairs, benches, and bay windows. Regular beds feel uncomfortably large and empty to him.

Alan prefers sleeping under the bed or in a closet when he's upset or insecure, a habit picked up from the years he spent with his mother on the lam from his father. He tries not to think about the implications of these being the places that most children believe monsters hide.

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My OC is a red-headed Irish girl who is panromantic demisexual and can see/communicate with ghosts.

Alan is a trueseer: he can see normally-invisible phenomena like spirits possessing the living, the seams of other skinwalkers’ pelts, tears in the fabric between worlds, and trails left by the spirit-touched, plus he’s uncannily good at catching people in lies. It also makes him particularly good at channeling spirits, such as the malevolent entity he and the others serve.

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More old W:TA concept sketches for Black Spiral Dancer NPCs: Allen Dorner (revised as Alan Dorner in "Fivecollar"); one of the pack's offpspring called Cecil; the wolf form of Chris, one of the hive favourites, after his tail transplant; and Jeremy "Highball" Twuirdowszczak (revised as Jeremy Twardowski in "Fivecollar"), who was originally an antagonist but got forcibly adopted (read: abducted & converted) by the player pack and became a PC.

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no you don't understand drawing Alan in wolf form is gonna be my favourite part of this entire fuckin' thing

'cause here's these Hellhounds, right, Mal and Mason and Darren and Jerry, a bunch of big impressive or at least rangy and intimidating-looking skinwalkers

and then there's Alan, who's 16 at the story's beginning

so when he changes he's this stupid gangly puppy with long-ass legs he doesn't know what to do with and giant ears and paws and he's so ridiculous compared to the rest of them

Alan's wolf form is based on Canis lupus lupus, the Eurasian wolf, 'cos he a white boy.

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Alan Dorner, Take 1.

Because this team needs a rookie.

I can't tell you a hell of a lot about Alan because GIANT SPOILERS but suffice to say he Did Not Sign Up For This Shit.

Original incarnation was a BSD philodox introduced about a year before his First Change. When he finally went, he cracked hard. The Skinwalker version did too at a key point in his backstory, but that's going to take a back seat to other elements of the redesigned character, and he's no younger than sixteen.

It'll also be a hell of a challenge to draw a character's physical changes as he grows up. IDK yet how long it'll take for Mal to bully him into getting a haircut, BUT IT WILL HAPPEN.

I'm including the rough sketch too 'cause why the hell not.