Meet My OCs: Juna and Drago
You guys I love Juna so much!
She was born Alexandra but when she was nine, she watched her parents get killed and then was kidnapped by the people who killed her parents. She managed to escape but nearly died in the process. Luckily, she was found and nursed back by a man named Drago, an aspiring crime lord. He's been investigating a serie of murders in the city, trying to figure out who is behind them. When he finds Alexandra, he changes her name to Juna and raises her where he lives, literally in the tunnels underneath the city where a lot of people on the wrong side of the law hide.
Drago doesn't find out who is behind the murders but he does find out enough to know that they are out of his reach for now. He instead devoted him time to raising Juna, homeschooling her so that the people who kidnapped her don't find out where she is, even with her changed identity. He also successfully become the crime lord of the city. Juna is trained in a variety of skills, on top of general schoolwork. Drago's inner circle all love being able to show her new things like picking locks, knife fighting, pick pocketing, and so on.
By the time Juna is in high school, they decide that she needs to return to public school so that she can spend time around "normal" people. It's been enough time that they don't think she's in danger of being discovered.
Juna becomes friends with a group of kids in her class and hangs out with them. She has to be extra aware that they don't find out where she lives because that could be disastrous.
That goes out the window when she goes over to her friend Kyle's house to work on a group project and they walk into a murder scene, the same symbol from Juna's nightmares painted on the floor in Kyle's parents' blood. Kyle's younger sister Dorothy is missing.
The story follows the three of them, but mostly Juna and Kyle, as they try to figure out what's going on and rescue Dot.
I'll be honest, I am so bad at naming people/things. I have no last names, no name for the city, no name for the group that killed Juna's parents, nothing. And I've been thinking about this story for probably eight years at this point. But I love these guys so much!
Here are picrews of Juna and Drago.
Juna loves grunge/punk fashion. She lives in her combat boots and black cargo pants. She also always keeps a knife strapped to her leg, accessible through a pocket with no bottom.
Like I mentioned earlier, she literally lives underground in the tunnels underneath the city. There are a lot of access points throughout the city since the tunnels basically house a second city of people, run by Drago. He's got strict rules for behavior and breaking them can leave you dead or exiled from the city if you're lucky.
Juna's rooms are pretty close to Drago's but far enough away that Juna is essentially living on her own by the time she reaches high school. Drago had her rooms outfitted with a stove, fridge, couch, desk and chair for studying, and a bed. She's scavenged a bunch of decorations, crocheted tapestries to cover the concrete walls, added Christmas lights around to soften things a bit, and generally made the harsh concrete rooms more her own.
Here are a few photos from my Pinterest board to kind of show Juna's style and the vibe of the tunnels where she lives. I haven't really found anything that matches her rooms though. Maybe I'll draw something out one of these days.
Also, here's a bonus picrew of Kyle!
Bro has no idea what's in store for him.