HAHA!!! Here's where it gets fussy!! So Bugsy is another player's OC, and they were going to be Maeve's sibling in the tabletop campaign. Unfortunately, the player had to duck out before beginning due to RL constraints, so we never really hashed out Bugsy's personality much besides "thinks with their heart more than their head" and that they brought Maeve in off the street. Maeve's backstory snippet says this about Bugsy:
"Bugsy was the one who found her, rescued her, and took her in somewhere safe. Tried to treat her nice. They were nothing like the people she’d spent all her time around before. Around Bugsy, the screeching, snarled knot of feelings calmed down."
Where it gets complicated is that Maeve hasn't actually seen Bugsy in years, during which time, Bugsy's backstory was that they went and got got by a parasite that uses them as a host, slightly changing Bugsy's personality to more self-serving, more "think with the head, not the heart", and even to view Maeve as an asset more than a sibling. This was all supposed to happen during the campaign with the parasite reveal happening late down the line, but as of right now in the campaign, Maeve hasn't even met Bugsy again (just in case the player can later join us if RL permits). I don't think it's a thing the Lonely could use Bugsy's uhhhh "new" personality against Maeve because she doesn't know it's happened yet.
BUT! This means that the Lonely can basically superimpose any kind of slightly-kind/nurturing personality onto its approximation of Bugsy and warp it from there, and Maeve will do all kinds of mental gymnastics to convince herself that yep, that's her sibling! Maeve's previous life before Bugsy was living in a shitty flat and prowling the streets with fairweather mugger friends who would use her as the muscle/knife gal, and they weren't particularly kind to her, mostly just used her as a tool, and even threw her to the cops when they all got busted for mugging people. So, like, if Maeve can reason that they were her friends... then even a warped Bugsy is still going to Have To Be Bugsy to her, or else it means none of it was
real?? :')));;;;
I REALIZE THIS ISN'T SUPER HELPFUL i just can't make the calls about someone else's oc afhsdfsdjf
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"Bugsy was the one who found her, rescued her, and took her in somewhere safe. Tried to treat her nice. They were nothing like the people she’d spent all her time around before. Around Bugsy, the screeching, snarled knot of feelings calmed down."
Where it gets complicated is that Maeve hasn't actually seen Bugsy in years, during which time, Bugsy's backstory was that they went and got got by a parasite that uses them as a host, slightly changing Bugsy's personality to more self-serving, more "think with the head, not the heart", and even to view Maeve as an asset more than a sibling. This was all supposed to happen during the campaign with the parasite reveal happening late down the line, but as of right now in the campaign, Maeve hasn't even met Bugsy again (just in case the player can later join us if RL permits). I don't think it's a thing the Lonely could use Bugsy's uhhhh "new" personality against Maeve because she doesn't know it's happened yet.
BUT! This means that the Lonely can basically superimpose any kind of slightly-kind/nurturing personality onto its approximation of Bugsy and warp it from there, and Maeve will do all kinds of mental gymnastics to convince herself that yep, that's her sibling! Maeve's previous life before Bugsy was living in a shitty flat and prowling the streets with fairweather mugger friends who would use her as the muscle/knife gal, and they weren't particularly kind to her, mostly just used her as a tool, and even threw her to the cops when they all got busted for mugging people. So, like, if Maeve can reason that they were her friends... then even a warped Bugsy is still going to Have To Be Bugsy to her, or else it means none of it was
real?? :')));;;;
I REALIZE THIS ISN'T SUPER HELPFUL i just can't make the calls about someone else's oc afhsdfsdjf