Since I’m rewriting everything anyway, I think I kind of like the idea of Flick and Lagoon being friends. I’ve been wanting a way to integrate the two of them more fully into ‘lore’ rather than ‘concepts’, and I think I’m starting to sort it.
Flick came to the Labyrinth at a young age, as an immigrant from the Contagion. My personal headcanon is that Plague emigres tend to have a really dangerous time in the Labyrinth, especially if they come in small groups or aren’t immediately adopted into a larger clan. A little while after that, he was lured into the Wilds by a playmate of his, essentially as a meal. Not an uncommon tactic, probably, for the lazy and unscrupulous hunter. Flick managed to escape, but given he was very young and the Wilds are very wide, he was still lost as all hell. Long story short, he basically doesn’t find his way back out of the woods for years, and by the time he does, his family has long since moved on, presumably to less hostile territories.
But there are a lot of lost souls in the Wilds. At some point, he probably met Lagoon. Probably named Lagoon, Lagoon was lost as an egg and essentially, raised by Toridae. Lagoon, at this point, is basically entirely feral. And I kind of like the idea of these two kids kinda sort of raising each other in the wild- Lagoon teaches Flick how to survive and Flick teaches Lagoon how to talk and essentially, both of them are maybe more than a little fucked up from all this. They’re excellent guides, they’ll get you from one side of the Wilds to the other in one piece, but neither of them really know how to handle people.
Lagoon I think, is more okay with this. Lagoon is absolutely content being a wild thing, but it’s definitely harder on Flick. He’s been part of a clan before, he’s had a ‘real’ family, and I don’t think he was ever really afforded the opportunity to get over losing them. He survived, yeah, like any good plague-kin would, but survival doesn’t always allow time for grief.
And every time he gets chased out of another clan he limps back to Lagoon who doesn’t have the tact to say more than “I told you so.”
