Another day, another doggy you can’t pet. Meet the dhole (Cuon alpinus). Found widely across parts of Asia from India to China to Indonesia, this social canid typically lives in groups of up to 12 individuals. Sometimes it even socializes with other groups of dholes to form “super packs” of more than 30 members! Teamwork enables these hunters to take down prey ten times their size. And unlike many other species of canid, dholes allow their pups to feed first on kills. Their diet includes pigs, deer, and buffalo.
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A lil guy. :3
Okay! So, been thinking of some stuff for my TMA AU! Note that I am only in Season Two, so a lot of things will change the more I listen. So, don’t expect things to be fully finished and stuff.
Tim, Sasha, Michael, and an oc of mine named Miroslov are the main characters. So, lemme share some info/Headcannons!
Tim:
Tim was born and raised till 10 years old in North Carolina near the Appalachian Mountains. He grew up with many interactions with the things of that area. He doesn’t remember them because of how young he was. He moved to London at ten, and then the rest of his cannon story happens.
Tim also has an amazing shot and was AMAZING at hide and seek while growing up. When he was a kid, he did befriend a weird being in the woods. Since befriending it, he’s always been good at finding things, almost like he’s hunting for it.
And though things have been crappy for Tim, he always seems to have really good luck. Almost like a dream. His mother jokes he’s blessed… maybe she’s not wrong.
Michael: Michael’s lore is gonna be revealed more through the drawings and story beats. It’s not gonna be fully revealed yet. But he did escape the domain of The Distortion; not without something taken from him. He lost part of his mind in behind the door, and he can always tell where that part is. Always.
Michael isn’t all there, but he does get close with Tim and Sasha. He also becomes close with Martin and to a friend of Miroslov, named Linnet.
Sasha: Sasha, like Tim, has always had good luck. Always. She’s had many near death experiences, but never did die. As a kid, she was saved by her “Guardian Angel”, who she swears was an actual person. Her childhood and backstory for this universe will be revealed more through the drawings and story, like Michael.
When Sasha and Tim become friends, things got more complicated with her luck. It seemed things were getting worse. Then she did die. But she was still around.
She is still in the Archives… But not to be seen yet.
Miroslov: He was born in Norilsk, Russia. Raised by a neglectful and horrific father and a mother who was trying her best to take care of her children.
Miro was always close to The Flesh. His father was what made him close to it. He ended up following in his father’s footsteps in his youth. Then he ran away to London. He worked hard to learn English, though it was very broken, and he was hired by The Magnus Institute.
After an incident, he left. Going back to Russia for a few years. He specifically went to Yakutsk for those years. He later came back and worked for the institute as a second archivist.
He is the legal guardian of his nephew, named Aleksi, or Zip. And he seems to know more than he is willing to share.
Let me know your thoughts and ask any questions about the AU of you have any. I’ll be sharing sketches of the cast soon! ^^
Begräbnis in einer Burg, c.1803 by Franz Ludwig Catel (German, 1778–1856)
