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Magic Huskies
Here’s another OC story that has been floating about my brain for a few years. This story centers around a clan of husky dogs that practice magic. They focus on potions and meditative telekinetic powers that can form glowing smoke around them as a show of their strength in magic. The members of the clan live on the outskirts of town, utilizing a lot of nature based ingredients and rituals. Within the storytelling of the tribe there is said to be a powerful child born, with stronger magic than any leader prior. This is the chosen child, the greatest leader the tribe will ever have, ushering in a new era of magic.
The story follows the children of the current leader. Above, left to right: Noël, Audra, Naïf. Audra is the eldest child and shows exemplary skill in the magics of this clan. Not many can conjure magic that is visible in broad daylight, but she can! She may very well be the most talented magic husky the tribe has ever seen! How unfortunate that her younger brothers are not too good with magic. Naïf is too much of a brooding teenager to bother studying and improving his magic. Everyone in the clan is born with a star mark…And poor Noël was born with a dark star mark of ‘no magic’. The entire tribe elevates and celebrates Audra as nearly a saint, definitely the powerful one from the stories. She makes the purest potions, and has been able to craft dozens of her own new spells, teaching the entire clan new magic techniques. She is constantly studying preparing herself for her journey as the chosen child.
The approach to the story is…. What if the “hero from prophecy” gets ignored in the story? What if the story follows everyone ELSE but the hero? How would that unfold?
Turns out Noël has magic. A lot of it.
Turns out, no one notices.
Turns out he is the true chosen child.
But… Noël is not the main character. Audra is the main character! Naïf is…. a sidekick.
I designed naïf first, and normally that makes them the main character in my mind, but I drew Audra so much more after I designed her. Which made me ask the question “what if the main character wasn’t the actual main character?” and inspired creating a story about that. Which meant I designed the main character last, completely backwards from how I usually would do things.
I have a general story planned out, but I would like to do a lot of research so I can get into the minutiae of how the magic could work in this world, as it’s supposed to be set modern day, US au with furries. I often draw Naïf with a Tool hoodie. He’s that guy.
Naïf
Naïf is the middle child of the elder chief of his tribe of magic huskies. He is a moody teenager and does his best to appear mysterious and edgy. In reality he is kind of a brat dressed in black hoodies.
Despite any effort he puts forth, Naïf magic skills are abysmal. He should be able to conjure smoke energy like his older sister Audra, but he has yet to get the hang of it. He once was able to exert a fair amount of magic energy to ‘blot his eyes out’ so he could ‘look really cool’ but hasn’t figured out how to get his irises back. This is something that usually happens to the older members of the tribe from the years of exposure to this magic energy, so the assumption is he may have used up his entire reserve of magic *just* to look cool, and now he can’t do anything else.
Naïf lives on tribal lands near the outskirts of town in an area with lots of mountains and trees. He goes into town for high school. Since he is so moody he doesn’t attract a lot of friends. He somehow caught the eye of Rahtti, who he can’t stand because she is so perky. He, like most teens, is miserable at school. He does nothing to improve this, instead wallows in self pity frequently.
