TSIME: Meet Bobby's Crew (part 1)

TSIME: Meet Bobby's Crew (part 1)

One of my favorite parts of writing is actually just character creation. I love knowing exactly what they look like and all kinds of fun details about them, even if those details never end up in the actual story. So I figure, since I wasted tons of time making long character profiles for them, I figured I might as well write them up, make them pretty, and share them. Why am I doing this? Because sharing is caring. Duh. Defnitely not because I'm avoiding editing. How dare you?

ANYWAY. In this post we're meeting Bobby's best friend, his husband, and their daughter.

Meet Louis:

Interesting facts:

🗸 Louis is a loving, generous soul and does not charge Bobby rent. But he does occassionally ask for baked goods and Bobby always obliges.

🗸 Before they even got engaged, he insisted on paying for all of Dean's sick mum's housing and care, to take the stress off of his beloved.

🗸 He's a homebody who hates traveling. He finds it stressful and doesn't like feeling unmoored. He decided against going to a prestigious culinary school because he didn't want to leave Glasgow.

🗸 He and Lili get along because they're both type-A snugglers.

🗸 Comes from a wealthy family. His mother is a very successful estate agent and his father was a popular rugger (now retired). He's an only child.

🗸 His father, who grew up working class, decided that Louis should go to public school so he'd experience the real world outside of their wealthy bubble.

🗸 In school Louis was routinely, sometimes viciously bullied for being posh. Something he never told his family. But he didn't come out until he was twenty years old because he feared even more bullying for being gay. His parents had already guessed and gave him nothing but love and support.

🗸 Louis was not happy when Bobby added Jonno to their friend group in P6 and even less happy when Fenella was added when they were adults. He puts up with them because he loves Bobby and just accepts that his best friend is the type who brings mangy strays home, thinking they're beautiful. And who is Louis to tell him they're not? That said, they're not all mingin'. He adores Maitland and Nivaan.

Meet Dean:

Interesting facts: (there's a lot for Dean)

🗸 Despite being so tall and muscular, Dean is a fluffy bunny of a man. Very sentimental and kind. He will not kill bugs. If Louis wants a spider squashed, he's on his own.

🗸 He has four siblings, one sister and three brothers. He was the youngest. His home life was not great. His family was incredibly poor and his dad was abusive, sexist, and homophobic (among other award-winning personality traits). His mother was loving, but very passive and preferred not to rock the boat.

🗸 When he was fourteen he was trying to make sense of his bisexuality, so he confided in his mum. One of his older brothers overheard and told their dad. To say it was handled poorly would be an understatment. Hurt, scared, and unwelcome in his home, he moved in with his sister, an artist who lives in Rochdale. He says she is the person who actually raised him to be a decent person.

🗸 His mum and dad divorced when she had two strokes and his fuckface father wasn't interested in caring for her. Dean routinely comes down to Norfolk to take care of her affairs as she didn't want to move. His brothers do care about their mum, but theyre mostly skivers who don't know how to be helpful. His sister keeps in contact with Dean, but she has no interest in being near the the rest of the family so he's the only one taking care of his mum.

🗸 His dad and brothers actually have the nerve to try demanding money and help from him, because they know Louis is wealthy. Never mind that they have not supported their marriage and have never said a kind word to either of them. Dean has never given them a dime.

🗸 He has never and will never ever admit this to anyone, but the night he met Bobby at the pub, he assumed the Scot was grafting and he was 100% ready to take him back to his hotel room. So he was confused when Bobby told him he'd called his friend Louis and he was coming to the pub to meet Dean. Then Louis showed up and Dean could hardly speak because he was so instantly and completely smitten. It was weeks later that he realized Bobby was just obliviously flirtatious with everyone.

MEET ISLA:

Interesting facts:

🗸 There are none. She's three. Toddlers are generally low on interesting backstory.

Stay tuned for part 2 to meet Maitland, Fen, Nivaan, Jonno, and Samantha!

THEY KISSED THEY KISSED THEY KISSED !

let them be happy now 🤣🤞!

really lovely chapter btw ✨✨✨

THEY KISSED AND SORT OF DRY HUMPED!

Hmm, let them be happy now? Whaaaaat? It's like my readers don't know me at all 🤣

Thank you so much, Anon! It means the world to me to hear from readers!

rereading the sun in my eyes as it is one of my fave reads, and i can honestly say you’ve done an amazing job with it ! cant wait to see what’s next but take ur time ! hope you’re feeling better 💘💘💘

🥺💖 It means so much to me that you stopped by to let me know this, it really does. I posted last night and I'll be posting again in February I *think*.

Bunches of half-dressed, attractive people are suddenly following me here on Tumblr. Pretty sure the world has finally discovered how freakin' hot and sexy I am. Took it long enough.

A white person with locs? Are you serious?

I don't really understand the tone of the question, but... yes. The character of Fenella has always been described as a blonde woman with locs. She's a white try-hard hipster trustifarian. The Ras Trent of Bobby's friends if you will. Bada ding ding ding ding whoaaaaa.

Honestly, my writing philosophy is that I'm not here to write characters who are perfectly politically correct. I'm just writing people. Good. Bad. Problematic. Just people making choices. And people like Fen exist.

I certainly didn't glorify her behavior, though. Thanks for the ask, maybe?

I cannot. handle. this. Gorgeous.

Also, kudos on giving his hair such perfect texture. Dunno if you drew it or modified something that already existed, but either way, I'm impressed. I've seen a lot of artists do Bobby dirty because they don't know how to draw locs or even understand the hair texture of people of color and they don't really bother trying. I'm always impressed by you, but even more so with how absolutely beautiful this is.

My Valentine’s card Bobby came out soooo CUTE omg 🫢💕

I can’t wait to send a lucky winner the final product!