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🪐 — brian walker / tags.
🪐 — @hargrovetm sent a hc meme : HC + brian !
● brian walker does not remember his mother at all. he was seized from her by cps & put into foster care when he was only one year old, & as such, he has literally no memories of her. he also knows nothing about her, with no one around him while he was growing up who knew her personally that he could ask. although there are a lot of hard things in his life, the hardest part for brian will always be the not knowing how to find her, or what her situation was, or even the barest details of why she could not raise him herself. ● brian is... gross. & i don’t mean this in a hygiene way, i mean it in a “dirtbag boy” kind of way. as a foster kid who was shuffled around several homes in his youth, brian learned early on that saying the most shocking possible thing will lend him attention. & even negative attention is preferable to none. so as he grows, the habit sticks, & brian develops the tendency to loudly interject vulgar or crude comments into casual conversations where they do not belong. it’s not that he has poor social skills — he knows it makes people angry & uncomfortable. that’s the point of it. he really just wants to cause a reaction. ● brian gets four tattoos by the time he’s 18. he has a barbed wire around his right bicep (terribly cliche), a red herring fish on left pectoral, a headless skeleton holding a beer bottle on the back of his right shoulder, & a cluster of stars on his right hipbone. they don’t mean anything — though it could be argued that the red herring over his heart is subconsciously symbolic of the fact that for brian, if he appears to show real genuine vulnerability, you should be very concerned that it’s a distraction from the truth, because brian doesn’t show his real feelings to anyone. ● brian has an addictive personality & a genetic predisposition toward substance abuse. he has his first drink at age 13 : a pint of vodka which he stole from an older kid’s backpack at the foster home he was in at the time. in his teenage years he mostly drinks, with only occasional experimentation with drugs. but as he gets older — & in especially verses where the band he plays in actually becomes successful — brian experiments with uppers, & opiates. he doesn’t like weed; it’s not strong enough for him. ● the only person in the world who can tell brian what to do & he will listen to them is his best & only real friend, giovanni di carlo. & the only reason gio gets away with it is because gio was the only one who was there for him when brian ran away from his foster home & was living on the streets. for this reason, when gio is around, brian is much more tolerable because he knows gio prefers to be respectful, & gio’s opinion is one of the only ones that actually matters to him.
🪐 — some lil hc’s regarding giovanni’s band :
● gio & brian are connected oc’s of mine that are in the same band, but it’s gio’s band. gio started it, & he cares a lot more about it. he originally taught brian how to play bass as a temporary fill-in for little local gigs & brian just kind of stuck around. ● gio writes most of the actual music, although the drummer, shane ( who is also an oc of mine, but he’s not currently being written on tumblr ), is actually the best at lyric structure, so he does a lot of the lyrics. brian does not help with writing, he just shows up to practice & plays what gio tells him. ● their musical style is straight up punk rock, but there’s some influence from classic blues as well — specifically in gio’s guitar melodies. ● gio's lyrics are usually pretty aggressive & political. very anarcho-punk. shane’s lyrics are softer, usually more poetic. if you know the boys, you can always tell who wrote which bits. ● the band doesn’t have a name. well, it does, but it changes every few months, so pretty much no one knows what it is at any given moment. gio thinks it has to be the perfect name if they’re going to “make it,” & always finds a reason to drop every name they try before too long. this is running joke between the members, because how are they supposed to get anywhere without name recognition. eventually they will settle on a name, but stay tuned as to what it is, as gio just hasn’t decided yet. i think when he does, it will be something that is a subtle honorary reference to his late younger brother, damiano. ● gio sings at gigs, but he doesn’t actually want to be vocalist for the long term. he feels he’s only mediocre at singing, so he’d really rather just lead on guitar. the band is perpetually looking for a permanent singer, which is also something of a joke between the members.