Player: Gray | skeksis Character: Bigby Wolf Canon: The Wolf Among Us; end of season 1, episode 5 Age: Several centuries old, but he physically looks like he’s in his mid to late thirties. Bio Blurb:Wiki.
Essentially: fairy tales are real and they live among us. Hundreds of years ago, the inhabitants of a collection of magical worlds known as the Homelands were forced from their homes by a mysterious tyrant known as the Adversary, who launched a world-conquering campaign over the Homelands and laid waste to anyone who opposed him. The survivors who were lucky enough to escape took refuge in the real world, concealing their magical identities and creating a community for themselves in what would eventually become New York City. Calling themselves Fables and their town Fabletown (yeah, they aren't very creative), these former heroes, villains, monsters and talking animals have to balance the pressures of living in a world without magic while trying to keep their existence secret from the rest of the world and the Adversary.
Bigby is Fabletown's appointed sheriff in charge of making sure they can do the latter while protecting them from each other due to the former. He's also the Big Bad Wolf. In the past, Bigby was infamous throughout the Homelands for being a malicious, murderous beast that ate hundreds — possibly thousands — of Fables, harassed little girls in red hoods, and generally made life a living hell for countless people before the Adversary showed up. This changed once the Adversary began his takeover, and over the centuries, Bigby has gone from a monster to a responsible and genuinely remorseful man determined to prove that he's changed.
Unfortunately, he's also the protagonist of a Telltale game, which means that everyone hates him regardless and nothing he does seems to matter in the long run. Oops.
Personality Blurb:
The short story: Bigby has Issues™
The long story: Bigby is a good but flawed person with a myriad of personal and interpersonal issues that keep him from fully obtaining the redemption he's chasing. Being a reformed villain and a wolf, he often struggles to rein in his animal instincts, and being the sole law enforcement official in a town full of dysfunctional and desperate magical creatures hasn't really made that easy. As a result, he can come across as temperamental, jaded and distant, capable of being callous and using aggressive language and behavior out of spite just as often as necessity. There's a sense that he's hardened himself to be tough on the job, which can give the impression that he's unsympathetic and doesn't particularly care about other people's feelings.
However, every so often the cracks show and reveal a person who's far kinder than he lets on. Living as a human for centuries has taught him empathy, but it's also given him a guilt complex the size of a small mountain. Often, he struggles with feelings of inadequacy and self-loathing, both of which are implicitly the reason why he's thrown all of his will and energy towards doing his job. However, they've also led to him developing genuine compassion for others and a responsibility to do right by them. As moody as Bigby can be, he can also be understanding, thoughtful, teasing and supportive, and when he's not letting his temper get the best of him, he's an otherwise pretty professional and even easygoing guy. While his self-worth is abysmal, at the very least it hasn't given him an ego. Even though his self-control over his emotions has a bad tendency of wavering when he's frustrated, which in turn can lead to him spiraling deeper, he never really loses sight of the kind of person he wants to be and remains driven and determined to help others and do the right thing, even if he has to put himself through hell to do it.
Preferred Essence(s): The North Wind, Snow White or Cinderella Looking For: Ideas for his abilities, his appearance while using his Essence, heck, any other kind of Essence that you think would fit him. If you know his canon, Snow White and Cinderella seem like natural fits for him because they're his besties, but so does the North Wind, who's his dad. If you haven't already figured it out, this is a really weird series.
Appearance:Like this. Bigby's actually a pretty smol guy at 5'8 who's on the leaner side of muscled. He has dark brown neck-length hair, big ol' brown Disney eyes, and perpetual five o'clock shadow.
Abilities:
I don't have a clue. Of his canon powers, I would like to see him regain his ability to transform into a wolf and all the wacky in-between forms around that, or at least get his animal senses like his superhuman sense of smell back, but everything else is up in the air. He also has a healing factor and partial immortality, but I could take it or leave it tbh.
Also, since he's canonically the son of the North Wind, he has some minor wind manipulation abilities as a wolf (basically, the huff and puff thing you read about in The Three Little Pigs) and the weirdly specific ability to indefinitely hold his breath. If I go with the North Wind for his Essence, I'd like those abilities to carry over along with giving him general wind manipulation, cold resistance, and maybe flight. As far as changes to his appearance, I'd like to give him white hair; maybe as a Quirk if I can get away with it.
For Cinderella, having a midnight clause to his powers would be neat. Maybe he can only use them before midnight and after that they enter into a cooldown period until daybreak? I also want his clothing to completely change to something elegant but practical that puts a more gender neutral spin on the Cinderella aesthetic; maybe something akin to Utena'sduelist uniforms to go with the faux-magical girl vibe he’s got going on here. As far as other abilities go, I'd like him to gain some kind of glass weapon (a rapier, probably) and the ability to talk to animals.
For Snow White, definitely some kind of poison resistance and animal communication, but idk other than that. Give me whatever ideas you have.
Quirks:
For Cinderella: He has the compulsion to constantly tidy up. This is great for him because he's such a slob. It's not so great whenever he's finding himself doing it for other people. I feel like I could do more with this, so I def have to think about it.
For the North Wind and Snow White: I'm not sure yet, but again, ideas are great.
Goal: Make new friends. Throw him up against familiar settings and themes. Make him hate his life even more. Extra: I'd throw a gif here but this is already turning into a tl;dr fest LMAO Questions: If I think of anything, I'll let you guys know!
Bigby Wolf | The Wolf Among Us
Character: Bigby Wolf
Canon: The Wolf Among Us; end of season 1, episode 5
Age: Several centuries old, but he physically looks like he’s in his mid to late thirties.
Bio Blurb: Wiki.
Essentially: fairy tales are real and they live among us. Hundreds of years ago, the inhabitants of a collection of magical worlds known as the Homelands were forced from their homes by a mysterious tyrant known as the Adversary, who launched a world-conquering campaign over the Homelands and laid waste to anyone who opposed him. The survivors who were lucky enough to escape took refuge in the real world, concealing their magical identities and creating a community for themselves in what would eventually become New York City. Calling themselves Fables and their town Fabletown (yeah, they aren't very creative), these former heroes, villains, monsters and talking animals have to balance the pressures of living in a world without magic while trying to keep their existence secret from the rest of the world and the Adversary.
Bigby is Fabletown's appointed sheriff in charge of making sure they can do the latter while protecting them from each other due to the former. He's also the Big Bad Wolf. In the past, Bigby was infamous throughout the Homelands for being a malicious, murderous beast that ate hundreds — possibly thousands — of Fables, harassed little girls in red hoods, and generally made life a living hell for countless people before the Adversary showed up. This changed once the Adversary began his takeover, and over the centuries, Bigby has gone from a monster to a responsible and genuinely remorseful man determined to prove that he's changed.
Unfortunately, he's also the protagonist of a Telltale game, which means that everyone hates him regardless and nothing he does seems to matter in the long run. Oops.
Personality Blurb:
The short story: Bigby has Issues™
The long story: Bigby is a good but flawed person with a myriad of personal and interpersonal issues that keep him from fully obtaining the redemption he's chasing. Being a reformed villain and a wolf, he often struggles to rein in his animal instincts, and being the sole law enforcement official in a town full of dysfunctional and desperate magical creatures hasn't really made that easy. As a result, he can come across as temperamental, jaded and distant, capable of being callous and using aggressive language and behavior out of spite just as often as necessity. There's a sense that he's hardened himself to be tough on the job, which can give the impression that he's unsympathetic and doesn't particularly care about other people's feelings.
However, every so often the cracks show and reveal a person who's far kinder than he lets on. Living as a human for centuries has taught him empathy, but it's also given him a guilt complex the size of a small mountain. Often, he struggles with feelings of inadequacy and self-loathing, both of which are implicitly the reason why he's thrown all of his will and energy towards doing his job. However, they've also led to him developing genuine compassion for others and a responsibility to do right by them. As moody as Bigby can be, he can also be understanding, thoughtful, teasing and supportive, and when he's not letting his temper get the best of him, he's an otherwise pretty professional and even easygoing guy. While his self-worth is abysmal, at the very least it hasn't given him an ego. Even though his self-control over his emotions has a bad tendency of wavering when he's frustrated, which in turn can lead to him spiraling deeper, he never really loses sight of the kind of person he wants to be and remains driven and determined to help others and do the right thing, even if he has to put himself through hell to do it.
Preferred Essence(s): The North Wind, Snow White or Cinderella
Looking For: Ideas for his abilities, his appearance while using his Essence, heck, any other kind of Essence that you think would fit him. If you know his canon, Snow White and Cinderella seem like natural fits for him because they're his besties, but so does the North Wind, who's his dad. If you haven't already figured it out, this is a really weird series.
Appearance: Like this. Bigby's actually a pretty smol guy at 5'8 who's on the leaner side of muscled. He has dark brown neck-length hair, big ol' brown Disney eyes, and perpetual five o'clock shadow.
Abilities:
I don't have a clue. Of his canon powers, I would like to see him regain his ability to transform into a wolf and all the wacky in-between forms around that, or at least get his animal senses like his superhuman sense of smell back, but everything else is up in the air. He also has a healing factor and partial immortality, but I could take it or leave it tbh.
Also, since he's canonically the son of the North Wind, he has some minor wind manipulation abilities as a wolf (basically, the huff and puff thing you read about in The Three Little Pigs) and the weirdly specific ability to indefinitely hold his breath. If I go with the North Wind for his Essence, I'd like those abilities to carry over along with giving him general wind manipulation, cold resistance, and maybe flight. As far as changes to his appearance, I'd like to give him white hair; maybe as a Quirk if I can get away with it.
For Cinderella, having a midnight clause to his powers would be neat. Maybe he can only use them before midnight and after that they enter into a cooldown period until daybreak? I also want his clothing to completely change to something elegant but practical that puts a more gender neutral spin on the Cinderella aesthetic; maybe something akin to Utena's duelist uniforms to go with the faux-magical girl vibe he’s got going on here. As far as other abilities go, I'd like him to gain some kind of glass weapon (a rapier, probably) and the ability to talk to animals.
For Snow White, definitely some kind of poison resistance and animal communication, but idk other than that. Give me whatever ideas you have.
Quirks:
For Cinderella: He has the compulsion to constantly tidy up. This is great for him because he's such a slob. It's not so great whenever he's finding himself doing it for other people. I feel like I could do more with this, so I def have to think about it.
For the North Wind and Snow White: I'm not sure yet, but again, ideas are great.
Goal: Make new friends. Throw him up against familiar settings and themes. Make him hate his life even more.
Extra: I'd throw a gif here but this is already turning into a tl;dr fest LMAO
Questions: If I think of anything, I'll let you guys know!