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Toby Moucheté ✦ Heartbreaker
It's not love, I swear! It might be closer to despair.
After a relatively normal night serving drunks at their usual hole in the wall, Toby gets bestowed with the powers of Love after Camille drunkenly bestows them with powers they never asked for.
Now divinely burdened with creating love among those around them, can Toby carry on with their everyday life with these new and annoying developments while dealing with their own personal problems? Aroace, sickly, and genderfluid, this tired bitch works as an overnight bartender in Hjertet to pay bills.
Meet the character
Toby Moucheté, a flair bartender at the hole in the wall bar of StagHop, gets the title of cupid after Camille drunkenly bestows them with powers they never asked for. Can Toby carry on with their everyday life with these new and annoying developments while dealing with their own personal problems?
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a savant on the clock and a bitch off it, Toby is practically only seen during work hours and spends the rest of her time sleeping. with no hobbies, no interests, and 1 (one) friend, they live in a sort of twilight of life. that is, of course, before getting thrown headfirst into lifetime service of Love Incarnate and tasked with spreading love and friendship and feelin good and smiles to the whole world for the rest of time!
of course Toby has no interest in annnny of that business (as their life goal is to simply be left alone) but finds himself in a whirlwind of relationships and responsibility nonetheless.
join them on this fun journey that'll likely never make it out of the concept stage.
The Story So Far...
Inebriated Beginnings
With coiffed curls, a suit, and a feather boa, Toby is a flair bartender for StagHop. It's as normal as a night in a busy bar can be, so when a disheveled frat bro looking guy thumps down in the middle of the bar and asks for something, quote, "to get me so wasted I forget what love is", Toby gives them a little bit more attention; though truthfully, it's only to stop him from disturbing the other patrons with his blubbering.
It only takes a little bit of a push before he's spilling his guts ranting about how hard it is to do his job nowadays that everyone's too busy and no one's looking to settle for good enough and that those who have settled are going back on the contracts and it's ruining his line of work!
"But you, look at you!" the drunk says, drunkenly. "You could wrap the world around your fingers, everyone would fall head over heels for someone like you!!!"
Toby placates him with a reluctant pat on the back, becoming more lost by the second as to what this guy's job is. Wedding planner, maybe? Whatever it is, they decide, it can't be that important if he's buttering ME up. Smiling at him and uttering some Comfort Words™, Toby turns back to his workstation as the drunk blows a kiss their way.
Cut to three days later as Toby is setting up shop in the early evening, the bouncer escorts a much less disheveled businessman in, utterly swamped by a gigantic bouquet, chocolates, and a handful of I'm Very Sorry and Welcome To The Team cards. Toby cocks an eyebrow to the bouncer who shrugs apologetically, and leaves them.
The not-so-drunk businessman finally introduces himself as Camille, a literal actual cupid, who accidentally made Toby one too while getting plastered a couple days ago.
Toby smiles and nods in what they hope to be their best Whatever You Say expression, when Camille is like No, Really, and summons his Actual Bow and Actual Wings, and before Toby can call poison control for a possible perscription overdose, Cam blurts out, "W-wait a second!!! Wait...hasn't anything out of the ordinary happened to you lately?"
"Not really, no."
"Cupids are invulnerable, you can't get hurt! That's something!"
"I did think it was pretty good that I had a three day streak in not cutting myself on the zester..."
"But what about seeing the extremely obvious auras of love around people?!"
"I just thought it was the ol' astigmatism flaring up again."
"Haven't people been more inclined to do what you want? Suggestions becoming reality?"
"Other than me getting a couple bucks more in tips than I'm used to, I'm a bartender, and a damn good one at that. My job is to make people like me and what I make for them."
Cam freezes. Did he not after all? He says sorry and goodbye to Toby before scampering out, while Toby writes a reminder for the bouncer not to let that freak in again.
It's not until Camille gets home that he remembers that only cupids can see each others' wings.
No one can hate you more than someone who used to love you. That goes triple if that "someone" was you.
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Backstory
Canada • late 90's
Toby's mom had remarried and moved to Canada a decade before they were born. Their brother, Pat Maxton, was never in their life in any meaningful way, having ran away as early as the last year of high school, right before Toby's 8th birthday. Raised as an only child with two extremely, EXTREMELY doting parents, Toby didn't have a lot of time to themself.
Unlike their brother who turned to delinquency, Toby was very quiet and polite. A little too quiet and polite. Instead of recess, they sat on the bench playing with crayons and printer paper, rarely opting to bother speaking to classmates, let alone participate; a personality trait that continued well into high school.
When they continued to drift aimlessly into their local community college, that's when they met Zoey. Taking the same general ed classes and her infectious loudness, combined with her wonderfully bitchy attitude, Toby started to break out of their shell. (and also get doctors appointments at her behest bc they got serious depression and was always in pain? who knew!)
While going to college for Fashion Design, they found out that their patience and steady hands made them an amazing alcohol mixer ugh I'm getting a headache writing this yeah no they basically started getting hired for gigs on campus and used their new coping mechanisms to act sociable and cool which landed them more and more gigs even though they were never properly trained. Mixology on the side while they worked towards their major, kinda worked themself dry but it worked since they got hired right out of college to the local bar. they're kinda scared that this is their career path even though they want to work as a professional designer and it's a large source of stress for them that they're wasting their life here.
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Behind the Design
• hilariously, Toby has no connection to the design of Lucy Marlowe from Never Satisfied. started reading the webcomic far after.
• their hair curl's closest real life counterpart would be a very tightly wound 50's style curl with lots of hairspray.
• #FF004B is both Toby's favorite and their signature color.
• closest voice claim would be a younger Danny Sexbang. mostly for the irony.
• I do NOT remember where the buttwings idea came from. rip.
Trivia Tidbits
• fun fact, the cat design came first. predictable of me? maybe.
• the astigmatism in their eye is just early cataracts. genetic, sadly.
• Toby Moucheté is their full name, but NOT a deadname. Toby is just a nickname!
• in a non-canonical oneshot, Toby was an alcoholic cupid, unknowingly trapped in a town of plushies unable to feel love, and therefore unable to feed Toby. don't worry though! they got out.
• Moucheté means "spot" in french. get it?
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Supporting Cast
Camille Fera [he/him]
Cam's the cupid who, while getting drunk, mistakenly changed Toby from normal human to a bona fide, bow bearing, wing toting cupid. Now he decided he's going to help Toby through these changes!
Toby would honestly just like him to leave them alone, but Cam ignores that for FRIENDSHIP TIME!
Zoey Rodriguez [she/her]
Toby's best friend in and out of work, Zoey's a college senior who's a regular club fiend, but struggles with connecting to people in any way other than drinking.
Can Toby guide her to making healthy friendships, something they themself struggle with?
Equinox Stitch-Heart [he/they]
Equinox, Toby's little cousin, just moved to the area and Toby gets roped into watching the little rascal after school before work until their aunt can hire a babysitter.
Can Toby and lil' Equi work out the distance between them caused by age gaps and familial rifts?
Mavis Darter [they/them]
A semi-regular designated driver for some friends of theirs, Mavis catches Toby's eye by not having an aura of love around them for some reason.
Toby is immediately intrigued and wants to get to know them better, much to their own surprise.
Warriors: another world
deputy of moonclan, drama queen, fluffy tail haver
DUMBEST VERSION ALERT \\\ UPDATES COMING SOON
the name came from a random wc name generator that I saved bc it sounded like a planet name a la saturn. one thing led to another and soon enough they were being approved as the high rank deputy position in a brand new rp. as the deputy of MoonClan, they strived for actual enjoyment of the situation instead of wallowing in angst. they were known for their long, fluffy tail that kits loved to play with and their loyalty to not just the clan, not just the warrior code, but to the ideals of what it means to be a warrior.
backstory was fun, they were apprenticed to the second to last deputy Stoneflower when on a one-on-one training session, the ground gave way to a writhing nest of adders below Redpaw, Stoneflower wrenching them out by the scruff but falling partway in, and yelling for Redpaw to run. They made it back to camp, barely, and lost use of one eye due to the venom. Stoneflower died saving Redpaw, less than a moon before their warrior ceremony.
After that, they got shocked out of dreams of glory and honor and instead realized that being a warrior isn't about fighting, it's about working towards a brighter, more comfortable tomorrow.
Made their way up to Deputy after calling for a retreat that saved many lives, and now work to make life in the forest not suck as bad as Erin Hunter wants you to think it is.
(heads up, this is HEAVILY edited; check out Eggy for the second and third parts, Hj7 for the first part, and picture galleries code from this)
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