Modeus is taking the place of the frightening but lovable Ludo, Sir Baynard is of course taking the place of Sir Didymus, as recommended by KeyInk/Ray on the discord, His squire Peres replaces Didymus’s steed Ambrosius, and Kirsi’s cat Knave, takes the place of Hoggle
I will admit this bunch were the ones I was the most uncertain of.
The horns on the skull on his belt and the fur were the only ways i could think to incorporate Ludo’s design into Modeus.
Sir Baynard’s supposed to be based off of a wolf, partially because I wanted to keep some of the canine aspects of Sir Didymus, and partially because I felt that a wolf suited him
Otherwise his outfits a sort of mix between his and Didymus’s with some guesstimation for the lower half
Rather than making Peres’s animal pieces canine to match with Ambrosius, I decided to make his based off of an albino raven. Raven because they’re known to hunt and work with wolves and I felt that matched the relationship between him and Baynard, but an albino one to match his colors
The patterns on his outfit though are pulled from Ambrosius’s saddle think, though adjustments were made to match his and Baynard’s design.
Literally the file I’ve been drawing these in is called THE CAT.kra because the thought of Knave taking Hoggles place came to me and I just had to try drawing it out.
The similarities are mostly in personality, but the jewelry he’s decked out in is the biggest thing I pulled from Hoggle.
my queue has run out so y'all get dumb headcanons from me to fill it till i can add some stuff
So food/Drink headcanons
Lucia seems to be the kind of person who favors sweeter foods and drinks but makes sure she has a healthy assortment of stuff on her plate, keeping the sweets for a treat
Lady Kirsi strikes me as having similar fancies but also having a secret love for sweet and sour together, like eating lemon tarts and drinking lemonade if she could.
King Reimund I feel like would be your classic meat and potatoes kind of guy, but also someone who could handle a decent deal of spice.
Sir Baynard probably eats healthily given his knighthood and physical needs. Drinking though, beyond water I could see him favoring a dry red wine.
I said before that Norrix looks like he'd live off coffee and I'm standing by that. He seems to be the kind of person who only eats cause he has to and not because he wants too. The only reasons there would be any seasoning or spice in his food is to make it palatable or he's eating with the nobles for some reason.
Modeus probably doesn't need to eat, but the image of him trying something Lucia gives him and it just, clanking inside of him is too funny to me.
switching down to one post a day for now but uhhh au ideas? for the modern au i sorta started thinking of b4
Thinking maybe it's at a college with King Reimund being like one of the deans or something. Kirsi's already married to him, but when a job opens up in like the arts department (or biology I could see Lucia doing both) she pulls some strings to help get her adoptive sister a job at the school
Norrix would be a professor who is only really there for research, not that into teaching or mentoring, takes the bare minimum of responsibilities in that department. He'x probably specialize in robotics and engineering as I said before.
It could be a mix of modern and magic since that's always cool too, and would keep the license to practice thing too. In that case I think Norrix would do research in merging magic and tech aince I could see the two as traditionally being kept separate.
In either case, Modeus would be the result of Norrix's work, intended to be an AI security guard, but ofc becomes more than that because he's also designed to be able to learn and adjust and that makes him more human than intended.
Sir Baynard and Peres, along with any knights and squires would serve as campus security. They're very proud of their work and take Modeus's presence and Norrix's work as an insult.