after a month of procrastinating i finally finished this 💔💔
this isnt my full final dess design in terms of her outfit, ill probably draw a reference sheet later for prediction purposes but for now, shes done !!!
(technically unfinished but finished-sminished i just want thes posted LOL)
Larquin (laar-kin) is a transmasc brimmed cap who abandoned the ways of the pointed caps due to him disagreeing with the laws and regulations around transformative and healing magic (more under cut)
As a child Larquin sought the assistance of a brimmed cap after hearing they knew forbidden spells that could change his body- Larquin was a young trans boy, only 13 years old, who only wanted to know if it was really possible to change your body in such ways to satiate his own curiosity. He planned on sneaking off in the middle of the night, and then returning to his atelier once his curiosity had been satiated. He never sought out this witch with intention to break his vow to follow the pact.
But Larquin did not go home. Instead, he became an apprentice under the witch he had gone to meet, Morrigane (More-igan). His old master was abusive, restrictive, and was more prioritised with making her apprentices look like well groomed dolls for her to parade around than teaching them any substancial magic, so changing Masters gave him more freedom that he otherwise would have never been given to him.
So he stayed with Morrigane, who promised to teach him everything he wanted to know from the ground up. She wouldn't do it for him, or let him do it himself straight away, instead she would teach him how to transform himself in any way he wanted when he learned what it did, and what the side effects were.
But that night she did cut his hair, and he never heard his deadname again. His fellow apprentices helped him settle on the name Larquin some time later. Until that day he was dubbed Little Catterpiller by Morrigane, named after the butterfly motif across his old apprentice's uniform, and the way Larquin would tuck himself away in blankets and burrows like a cuccoon when they needed the space. Even after they settled on Larquin, he was still Little Catterpillar to his loved ones.
It was under Morrigane he began to specialise in fire magic too, not to harm but to defend and to heal. So far he's never had to burn anyone that wasn't a member of the Knights Moralis.
