#ash moriah

[kittyskeletal]

my sister's partner drew ash for artfight and let me color it in! they're @/the_red_tigon2 on instagram, check out their stuff!!

for this one, ash is pictured in the birchwoods to the north of the kohoe compound. the land up here is flat, with little undergrowth or rock formations to speak of. the trees are uniformly spaced, with papery white bark and a sparse canopy. post-exile, ash does his best to avoid it, especially during the day, preferring the clandestine darkness and varied terrain of the oak and pinewoods.

i'll eventually get around to making a proper map (although it is technically a spoiler). i already have a forest pinterest board with individual sections for the different types of woods!

[kittyskeletal]

ash! lore under the cut

ash is the protagonist of body & blood, and the only son of victor moriah, one of the highest ranking kohoe members save for warren himself. the duo arrived at the compound in the dead of night when ash was a neonate, and ash was thrust upon given to a begrudging new mother with a baby of her own.

ash grew up lonely and unwanted amidst swirling rumors about his Pagan mother. not much is known about her, other than she was apparently a nasty piece of work. ash seemed to take after her, with a ferocious temper and cutting wit that earned him many a "disciplinary action". despite this, he found a friend and mentor in claire, a brilliant, eccentric young mother, and a bitter rival in her equally brilliant, by-the book daughter helena.

as a teenager, victor began to take an interest in his son, and taught him to hunt. combined with the kohoe's paramilitary training, ash became a skilled and incredibly dangerous fighter and marksman, trained to shoot both crossbows (for the deer) and rifles (for the Pagans).

warren regularly pitted him against other kohoe members in combat training, a move that doubled as both entertainment and punishment for the combatants. the more time ash spent with his father, the more he was forced to fight, the worse his outbursts got- and the more closed off he became.

now twenty years old, he's a broken, terrified person teetering on the edge of nihilism and despair. claire and helena feel him slipping away, but are powerless to stop it. whatever hope there is for his salvation, or even his survival, it won't be found within the compound borders.

[kittyskeletal]

when you get out of the shower and slip and fall on top of your platonic bro and then nothing sexual happens to either of you because that would violate the community guidelines