Crimson

Other Names: Sonny (the name his dog form goes by), One Eye (the name his werewolf form goes by)

Species: Werewolf / dog

Gender: intersex trans man

Pronouns: he / him

Sexuality: Polyamorous pansexual

Occupation: Founder and ruler of the Factory

Physical Description 

• SONNY:
  • is a dog
  • is about 5'6" tall
  • wears a hoodie and cargo shorts
  • keeps his hair swept over his right eye (or rather, where his right eye used to be)
  • has a bit of an underbite
  • speaks slowly and softly, and exhales wisps of heated exhaust (more easily visible on cold days)
• ONE EYE:
  • is a werewolf
  • is easily nine feet tall standing up straight
  • usually wears nothing at all, save for an eyepatch
  • carries around a giant wrench
  • reeks of diesel
  • has a hoarse, deep voice, and expels thick black clouds of hot exhaust as he speaks (more exhaust = more emotion, since he burns through more fuel when he's emotional)
• BOTH:
  • have black fur (rendered as dark grey to preserve detail)
  • have an unusually large, fluffy tail
  • have three scars across the bridge of the nose
  • are cyborgs, with diesel fuel instead of blood and adaptive metal "bones" that grow and shrink with them
  • are the same person

Personality 

• SONNY:
  • is soft-spoken and calm
  • avoids confrontation whenever possible
  • prefers to defuse conflicts with diplomacy
  • is determined to make a positive impact on people around him
  • helps out wherever he can
  • has nearly unending patience
  • tends to handle issues with rationality and logic
• ONE EYE:
  • is generally gruff
  • has a bad case of resting brimming-with-rage face
  • is fiercely protective
  • can get overly controlling
  • has a fairly short fuse, and gets irritated when he perceives his time is being wasted
  • tends to handle issues impulsively
  • is heavily influenced by his emotions when acting
• BOTH:
  • have a real soft spot for kids
  • are the same person, who feels things more strongly when he's a werewolf
    • as "Sonny," he's calm and detached
    • as "One Eye," he's irritable and impassioned

Likes 

• Ferrous
  • He's so sweet and gentle and supportive and he's such a good father to their kids
  • One Eye and Ferrous have always been close and he's so happy they get to have a family together
  • They've known each other since childhood and they've supported each other through all the shit they both went through
• Scarlet
  • She's gorgeous and soft like a living plush toy and she feels so nice sleeping against his neck
  • She's fiery but delicate and comes up with all the raunchy in-jokes they laugh about
  • She keeps him honest and drives him to keep working to be a better person
• Gladstone
  • He's so obviously smitten with One Eye it's just adorable, but One Eye can tell he's hesitant because he's not comfortable in a poly relationship and he feels like a third (fourth?) wheel
  • He's known One Eye almost as long as Ferrous, but he seems to consider him out of his league
  • In One Eye's opinion, he's the only thing their family's missing (though he doesn't want to pressure Gladstone, and is happy to give him however much space he needs)
• Order
• Being in control
• Power
• Feeling important
• People depending on him
• Feeling like he's made a mark on the world
• Hot tea on a cold day, on a less existential note

Dislikes 

• Insubordination
• Inefficiency
• Feeling helpless
• Things spiraling out of control
• Endangering the people he aims to protect

Personal Info 

• In a relationship with Ferrous and Scarlet
  • They're also on-again-off-again with Gladstone, who's not as comfortable in polyamorous relationships
• Has two kids: Vinnigo (Vinnie) and Zinnabee (Zinnie), lets them get away with everything
  • They call him "Babi"
    • He's not comfortable being called a "mother," but he didn't exactly father Vinnie and Zinnie, so he took a third option
• Doesn't use the name "Crimson;" answers to either "Sonny" or "One Eye" (if someone calls him "Crimson," it throws him for a loop, because who even knows about that)
• He's a variety of werewolf that can transform essentially at will, but he doesn't like to switch often
  • For starters, growing to twice his size or shrinking to half his size is physically painful
  • Also, turning into a werewolf floods his body with testosterone
    • It not only changes some things, it also tends to make him a piece of shit for a little while, which isn't fun for him or anyone around him
  • Thirdly, his actual trigger for turning into a werewolf is especially strong emotions, particularly anger
    • He doesn't have any trouble dredging up some bitter feelings to make himself "hulk out," but then he's a giant testosterone-fueled metal monster whose entire body has just finished painfully rearranging itself from the inside out who had to already be angry to kickstart this whole process
    • There's a reason he "shifts" away from anyone he cares about, because he's not going to be fun to be around for a hot second
• One Eye has incredible physical strength and rules his Factory with benevolence
• Sonny has great people skills and makes friends easily
• Has serious daddy issues
• Enjoys building things out of scrap metal
  • He's an expert engineer; his automatons have sometimes been mistaken for living things

Brief Backstory 

• Had an unfortunate childhood that left him with daddy issues
• Technically could give himself a new eye (like he did for Ferrous), but won't because the missing eye is his personal reminder not to be a completely irredeemable person
• Only found out he was queer when he visited Sugarhead's bar for the first time
  • To clarify: he knew that gender didn't play a role in how attractive he found someone, he knew he was comfortable in a committed relationship with multiple partners, and he knew his sex organs weren't the quote-unquote "norm," but he didn't know that there were words for those things, or that there were other people like him.

Trivia 

• Those cyborg enhancements are of his own design
  • The diesel blood was part of his attempt to make himself able to run indefinitely (i.e. without having to stop and sleep or eat or whatever) as long as he has fuel, and it worked - which really begs the question of how on earth his brain (and entire body) is working without hemoglobin shuttling oxygen around
    • You'd probably have to dissect him to find out the answer, because he keeps the exact schematics a secret
  • The metal bones were intended to make his transformations less painful, but it didn't really work; his whole body still has to stretch and shift around, except now it's also full of pointy metal bits at the same time
  • His lungs are obsolete because his circulatory system is all out of whack - he only has "lungs" to eliminate exhaust and let him talk
• Lawful Neutral (Sonny)
• Lawful Evil (One Eye)
• Theme songs: "My Window," by the Residents (Sonny), and "Underground," by Tom Waits (One Eye)
• One Eye was made to be the antagonist for a group of basic-ass wolf characters when I was into Flipnote Hatena.  I quickly grew to like him way more than any of the protagonists, and he got more and more sympathetic and kept stealing the spotlight until finally, here we are.  Those basic-ass wolves are all resting in peace, but One Eye and a few of his morally ambiguous buddies are still around, redesigned and updated for maximum edge.
  • "Sonny" is a recent addition, because up until around the end of 2015, there was only One Eye.  He used to basically just be an abnormally large wolf, but when I considered his parentage for more than two seconds, that didn't make any sense.  Since he's part werewolf, I thought it would be interesting to give him a "second form," so to speak, and thus Sonny happened.

Date of Creation / Adoption: Exact date unknown, but it was definitely sometime in 2010

Other Notes:  At first glance, it looks like I've gone and done some sort of poorly-researched "split personalities" garbage with this guy.  I haven't.  Sonny and One Eye are the same person, he just expresses himself differently depending on whether or not he's a werewolf.