Alistair is a Donner who is plagued by an unending hunger and need to consume flesh and blood. While capable of being temporarily sated, it is a continuous obsession that will never go away, and is constantly on his mind.
Due to the vast majority of the monster community finding him a nuisance who is annoying to socialize with, he becomes Braxton's best friend for several years, as Braxton is very tolerate and accepting of his boastful and rude demeanor, and Alistair does not find an urge to eat him like he does most others because of Braxton's alien biology and lack of earthling blood. Due to being an empath, Braxton can still tell Alistair enjoys his company, and thus had no problems continuing to spend time with him, even if Alistair is unkind towards him.
Appearance
As a human who has transmuted into a Donner, Alistair lost all his hair on both his head and body, his eyes brightened into a eerie cadmium yellow, and his skin faded into an unnatural pallid off-white. Due to transforming into a Donner at such a young age, he does not remember what his hair and eye color once was when he was human. He is not even sure what his race or ethnicity once was, as his transmutation altered much of his facial features as well.
He has a shorter than average stature for a man, only being 5'5" with a relatively lean and light frame; this unnatural shortness contributes to his desire to assert himself.
His teeth have all transition into canine-like points, and his nails thickened and became resistant to breakage. To utilize them as a weapon, he purposely sharpens and cuts them into deadly claws.
Both his teeth and nails are stained red, due to his lack of hygiene and tendency to keep his mouth and hands caked with old blood and gore to the point of staining. It is this lack of hygiene that often results in him "wearing" his most recent meals in the form of dried or fresh blood on him, and he often reeks of decay and gore.
His whole body is cold to the touch, and his heart stopped beating upon transformation and crystallized into frigid ice. Lack of food will result in him growing ill and beginning to vomit shards of ice from his mummified heart, which will eventually kill if he expels all his ice.
Personality
Alistair is characterized by being bold, rude, boastful, and cold. He adheres to a lot of philosophies from "toxic masculinity", including a repulsion to doing anything that might be misconstrued as "gay", including holding Braxton's hand, despite Braxton needing physical contact to telepathically speak. In addition to that, he finds violence and aggression to be admirable and respectable traits, and those who don't agree he sees as bleeding-hearts.
As a Donner, he embodies selfishness and emptiness, and that lack of fulfillment becomes a driving factor in his desire to put others down, particularly when threatened with insecurity.
Having a temper, he can act out without thinking when he is annoyed or enraged, although he often regrets his actions rapidly when he contains himself. When his temper is not flaring up, he instead has a softer and more tolerant side that can sometimes come out, but due to his hang-ups with his masculinity, he is opposed to being too open about it. However, he is fine that Braxton, as an empath, is very aware of how much he does care about their friendship and the few people he is attached to in his life.
Extending off his temper, he has a much darker side that is entangled with his bloodlust as a Donner. In a frenzy, he is capable of ruthless and violent cruelty, even towards loved ones. In this state, usually the sight or taste of blood is the only thing that could bring him down and stabilize him again. This mood is rare for him, but a very dangerous reality for those he spends long periods of time around.
History
Timeline Disclaimer
- The narrative of Alistair’s life outstretches over many written stories at various points in the timeline.
- There are five major arcs in the timeline all stories fall under, and below are the narrative summaries from his standpoint.
Pre-Arc I: Before Braxton Met Garmr
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Alistair was born to a working class family in a strained marriage. While still a toddler, his father left his mother, leading to him to not only be raised by a single mother, but to be resented by his mom as the scapegoat for her failed marriage.
Thus began a period of neglect, where she became strict with various rules around the house that Alistair would inevitably fail to follow, and she would consequently deny him food and lock him in his room for long stretches of time. Eventually, he stopped attempting to please her or follow rules, and began behaviorally taking after the pet dogs as he ran around the house on hands and feet, and growled at his mother when she scolded him. In her frustration, her neglect escalated to occasional physical abuse, back-handing him or pushing him to the floor when he got into feral tantrums over lack of food and lack of stimulation in his empty room.
By the time he was eight, he had grown too weak from malnutrition to continue acting out. In desperation for food he was still being deprived, he began tearing out pages from books and eating them. His resistance against his mother drastically cut down, much to her relief.
At first only doing so when frightened, Alistair began retreating under his bed often, and eventually took to sleeping there during the night. He began having dreams and fantasies of eating his mother, and desired deeply to bite her hard enough to break skin. One day, he was delirious with hunger and sprang upon her as she was cooking in the kitchen, only to be effortlessly shoved away. Taking a kitchen knife, he pounce back upon her with advantage now, and stabbed her to death, before going into a frenzy to tear off pieces of her flesh and eat it while she was still warm. This event started his transformation into a Donner.
One breeding season he unintentionally enter a bloodlust frenzy and bit her to death. He now carries immense guilt over her death, as it was the closest he had ever gotten to a romantic relationship.
Arc I: Relationship between Braxton & Garmr
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TBA
Trivia
- Alistair's favorite color is blue
- Alistair is prone to using slurs when enraged
References