#batolor

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still thinking about batolor..... did you know baby bats are called pups

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I know they haven't interacted much yet but. Gently presents batolor for the "how does bobbin feel about this character" thing

"Magolor is so delightful! I'll admit, he's a little different from the Magolor of my realm, but oh he is just as chatty with many great things to say! I love his attitude, he's such a funny fella. Also, has GREAT taste in themeparks. I do quite enjoy Merry Magoland, he did a great job putting it together!"

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some sketches from earlier... been in a humanoid mood

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Okay, I’m curious; I don’t think you’ve mentioned any of this on this blog, but I felt like a question like this would be better suited here…

Batolor’s backstory! He has a brother, Gam, and he left him at some point; what happened to make that happen? How’s his relationship with his family anyway, does he only have a brother? He has smaller wings… would his family have regular sized ones? Would he feel lesser because of that??? Jealous, even? Is that what wedged them apart? What drove Magolor to do what he did? (Other than the crowns own thrall, of course.)

If he had won back then, and saw his brother again… what would have happened?

Hehe what a good ask! I ended up writing a long rambling response so the tldr is:

yes, Magolor is a flightless runt and was bullied for it as a child

his family was not abusive, but also did not really give him the support he needed and he ended up leaving home because of it

eventually he did reconnect with Gamiel, but I haven't decided what became of his parents, if anything

Magolor did not believe the crown was real before he encountered it and so he had no real plans for it going in, except maybe to prove to everyone that he was more than just the runt (i like to think the crown took advantage of this vagueness to plant its own ideas into his head, but that's not set in stone yet)

I don't know what would have happened if he had encountered Gamiel again while crowned, but... I don't think it would have been good,

(also, if you're wondering what all this is about then you should go read my Magolor askblog! I promise I'll get back to it someday)

anyway here's the long winded uncut version that I mostly wrote in one sitting stream of consciousness style:

I feel like Magolor's species tend to have litters of two to three pups, with Magolor and Gamiel being a litter of two. Magolor was a runt, smaller than he's meant to be and with stunted, flightless wings. He was bullied for this by other pups and his family probably did not handle it as gracefully as they could have either, so it did indeed drive a wedge between him and the others from an early age

He learned to make himself bigger, literally and figuratively; he was loud, he was rambunctious, he trained himself to float higher to appear taller. There was no meaningful change in how he was treated when he tried to be good, so he decided to stop trying and fully embrace his label as "the problem child". He schemed to get what he wanted, he learned magic to feel powerful, he wreaked havoc on the people who dared continue to torment him. Giving gets you nothing, you've got to take, take, take.

And eventually he left altogether. It may have been after a fight, or he may have simply vanished one night, never to return to that place again. He carried his childhood lessons with him, though. He continued to lie, scheme, and steal his way through life, all the while bolstering his magical abilities so he could get out of the many situations he landed himself in. He would read too, when he had the time, about magic and artifacts and legends. Most of it was nonsense. Imagine, a crown that gives you limitless power! What bullshit. The things he could do with something like that, though… No one would ever call him a runt again, that's for sure!

After some years, a particularly bad string of luck landed him on the miserable planet of Halcandra. He had crashed, or perhaps been marooned; either way, he was stranded. He scoured the small planet for something, anything that might let him escape, eventually finding, of all things, a Starcutter!! It was broken down and hadn't seen maintenance in years, but there was a scrapyard nearby. Surely he could fix her up. He'd dabbled in engineering as a hobby, and he'd read about these things before. No reason not to try.

And as he was scavenging for parts one night, he caught sight of a dragon flying through the sky, wearing a… well, the rest is a bit of a blur for him.

As for what would happen had he encountered Gamiel again while bolstered by the crown, well… he perhaps would not have handled it as gracefully as he could have.