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I've got a place in the world and I found out where
Out in the night all alone in the way out there
- Bennet is a lanky, wiry Ethiopian wolf with a with a burn on his lower left front leg. He Bennet is mostly a lovely red-brown color, but he has a white chin, lower muzzle, and tail, as well as white sock markings on his back legs. His scraggly tail is a deep black-brown with a spot of white. His head is almost triangular, and his sparkling eyes are hazel.
- Bennet also has a winter coat that he obtained a few years ago since he’s not made for Pelik’s cold weather. It’s made of light, warm vicuña fur and the inside is lined with even warm, insulating white fur. It wraps around his front legs like a coat and has a belt-like rope thingy around his waist to tie the whole thing together.
Bennet enjoys good insults, and you’ll often find him insulting you even if he does respect you. He’s also super friendly! He has a lot of empathy for others, and will often openly express his feelings- much of the time, he wears his heart on his sleeve. He makes up a nickname for nearly everyone he knows (Rug boy, big boy, etc), and he won’t refer to them by their true names often, like in serious situations or ones that are important to him. He is a ceaseless collector of gossip, and he spreads it whether it’s true or not. And if someone is in trouble, he’ll lend his help- for payment. As he says himself, he can’t live off of nothing! (This doesn’t always hold true for good friends.)
He’s also self-important and abrasive. It‘s hard for him to know how to stop with all the nicknames, insults, and joking around, and he’s ruined several friendships this way. Most canines might tolerate him in the beginning or even find his insults endearing, but they often grow tired of it. He’s a workaholic too, often working late in the night to keep Banlet City running with the help of his (business? Leadership?) partner Taavet.
He can cook and clean and sing a mean song, but the only songs he plays on his stringed instrument and sings about are songs that he’s written about how awesome he is. (And Taavet. He also sings about Taavet.) Despite him being somewhere on the asexual spectrum, he likes singing raunchy songs (sometimes just to get a reaction out of people).
On the subject of his cooking: he can cook well, if given the right ingredients, but his talent more comes from his ability to stretch a meal between many canines, no matter how badly it tastes. Gruel, mystery soup, and stale chitin bread are some of his specialities.
He’s also extremely clueless romantically. Though he might be seen flirting with others (jokingly or not), it’s hard for him to tell if others are flirting with him. He miiight have a tiny crush on Taavet. Just a tiny one. One that he’ll never share with anyone ever because it might make their friendship awkward and ruin the entirety of Banlet City. And there’s probably no way she likes him back.
I ain't lonely- I'm long lost
SingingHe can cook and clean and sing a mean song, but the only songs he plays on his stringed instrument and sings about are songs that he’s written about how awesome he is. (And Taavet. He also sings about Taavet.) Despite him being somewhere on the asexual spectrum, he likes singing raunchy songs (sometimes just to get a reaction out of people).
CookingOn the subject of his cooking: he can cook well, if given the right ingredients, but his talent more comes from his ability to stretch a meal between many canines, no matter how badly it tastes. Gruel, mystery soup, and stale chitin bread are some of his specialities.
Born and raised in the Morning Highlands, Bennet grew up in an isolated area where not many canines passed through. Its canines were metalworkers, makers of metal weapons and tools, and they kept their secrets closely guarded, teaching them only to members of he next generation sworn to secrecy. The metal tools were brought down from the highlands to a river delta were canines were plenty, and they were traded for goods and food from far away.
When Bennet was barely one year old, he was allowed to go to the delta, and once he got his first taste of the world he wasn’t able to let it go. Only a few weeks later the young, inexperienced idiot set out to find fun and adventure with nothing but a bag of metalworking tools, a blanket, and some food he’d stolen. He hardly said goodbye.
Not long after, he came in contact and started traveling with a tiny fox with a talent for stabbing things. They headed together into the great unknown to the north, where great beasts were said to roam and ancient structures said to stand. The perfect adventure!
They didn’t see any other canines for a long time. Somehow they were lucky enough to find easy food for Taavet to spear, and shelter enough. Until they got to the lakes. Winter was in the air, and as soon as they reached the place where Banlet now stands there was a drop in temperature. They dug into the side of the hill a little and built a primitive covering of sticks and grass to insulate the shelter, but it hardly worked. Winter hit, and it was a bad one. The snowstorms prevented them from going outside of the tent, and half the time the wind prevented them from lighting fires.
They were at the brink of death when the first canine they’d seen in months showed up, a medic sheepdog who helped them heal (in exchange for a share of their shelter and food). The sheepdog stayed until spring, when they went off into the mountains in search of a fabled pack that worshiped the stars (Bennet and Taavet thought it was pure bunk). Later they received news that the medic had died in an avalanche in the mountains.
Taavet and Bennet have lived in Banlet City ever since. At some point they named it and began calling it a city, and at some point they made up the Council of the Lakes (the only members being themselves), the Banlet Coalition, and the Constables of Banlet (the only members also being themselves). A family of clothesmaking collies stopped by. Loners came and went. Bennet and Taavet raided Bugler Ruins for a cooking pot and scrap metal, and heard the ghostly yowls of what might have been ghosts, and graceful silhouettes that melted away once they’d been spotted. They built reinforced shelters with the help of passing loners. Taavet left Banlet for the summer to collect information on the area, and while she was gone Bennet created a metal-tipped spear for her. He learned how to cook a bit better. Loners stopped by, wintered at Banlet. Taavet left for the summer again.
Years passed- nearly five, and that’s where everything started. Ye story of TGE.
- Bennet’s family was one he doesn’t remember well. He left them a long time ago, looking for adventure and to make a name for himself, and he’s somewhat ashamed to say that he doesn’t remember some of their names. He was raised by his metalworking mother and her family and didn’t have much contact with his father, who grew more distant as Bennet grew older. He remembers that he had a brother and a few cousins whom he was friendly with.
- With no formal education except in that of metalworking, Bennet has had to learn nearly everything he knows on his own and with Taavet. He’s learned from the people who pass through Banlet, from watching them and from asking them questions, and from simply experimenting himself.
- Bennet isn’t sure when he stopped believing in any gods, but he isn’t religious anymore. If there are any gods, they haven’t presented themselves to him, and he hasn’t heard of any except by word of mouth. He doesn’t concern himself with those things, and they don’t play a part in his daily life- they don’t really matter to him.
- His adopted family and friends includes everyone at Banlet City, prominently Taavet, as well as a few loners who used to pass through Banlet frequently to visit Bennet and Taavet. He doesn’t know where they’ve gone, or if they’re even alive anymore, but he would like to see them again.
- One of his nicknames is the "Bastard of Banlet", simply because he thinks it sounds cool. His other, bucket lover, was given to him by a friend.
Say goodbye- long lost....
There is much to say of Bennet's relationship with Taavet.
Taavet is Bennet's dearest friend, closest confidant, and co-councilmember of the Council of the Lakes, of which they are the only two members. They have been by eachothers' sides since the beginning of Banlet, and long before that, and though they sometimes disagree they get along surprisingly well. Bennet takes Taavet's fireyness and sarcasm in stride, and Taavet Bennet's name-calling and cooking. Taavet is one of the only canines whom Bennet does not address by a nickname- other than Tavi, she is Taavet to him.
Rug boy, o glorious Rug Boy, carrier of buckets and failed raider of Banlet!
Bennet is fond of this half-tailed wild dog. Despite him attempting to ransack a tent and take their stuff, Bennet has grown to rejoice upon his periodic returns to Banlet and whatever they may bring. Rug boy he is, and rug boy he shall forever be.
Big boy, Oaky, ram's-head, wolf of Ila and searcher of chimmichangas.
When Oaky came from the southeast, Bennet was wary of him, letting him stay in Banlet so long as he didn't cause trouble. To him Bennet taught partially the making of fire, the way of cooking, and perhaps soon... the way of chimmichangas. Ōkami has earned Bennet's trust, mostly, and Bennet has even considered the possibility of him and his son staying forever in Banlet, if they do not wish to return to the Ila.
Mostly. Bennet has doubts, as faint as they are. He and Taavet know of the Ila's tail-taking, their hatred towards loners, and he has seen their punishments firsthand. After all, how did rug boy lose half his tail? Bennet does not know if Ōkami still harbors this loner-hatred, but he is worried it lurks beneath the surface.
Kiddo. Child. Big boy's demon spawn. Jubei, a very young fox whom Bennet loves dearly.
He is precious, a small child worthy of soup and affection, fur blankets and warm fires. Bennet has very few worries for Jubei- Big Boy seems to keep him safe enough.
Fuzzy. Fluffbutt. A rotund ball of fur whom Bennet has promised to teach metalworking to- if only because he needs an extra paw around Banlet.
Bennet is set on keeping the secrets of his trade to himself until the day he dies, maaaaybe teaching one apprentice in the last years of his life to pass down his knowledge. Apprentice Fluffbutt was not part of the plan. Bennet truly appreciates Kenichi and his help around Banlet, but isn't interested in teaching him metalworking at all- and he's not exactly sure how much longer he can keep up the facade.
To some degree, he feels guilty. To some degree, he thinks that maybe Kenichi can be THE apprentice- the one who carries on Bennet's craft once he passes. But he does not know if the idea is out of pity, or of genuine desire for Kenichi to perhaps become master metalworker of Bennet.
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