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Rain is, technically, a centaur-- in the world that *CarnelianKey and I have more or less worked out for our characters, centaurs are an indicator species, much like frogs. This means, basically, that around areas of intense pollution, whether air, water, ground, or magic, centaur birth defects get pretty fucked up. Rain's parents were both perfectly normal, and so intensely freaked out by their progeny that they left him within the limits of Saragardo and ran like hell while he was still unconscious-- centaurs, like many other ungulates, can run more or less the day they're born, and therefore leaving when he was still conscious would have resulted in him toddling arachnoidally after.

Incidentally, he doesn't start going by 'Rain' for quite awhile-- throughout most of his childhood he goes by the only name anyone's ever called him, that being 'You Horrible Thing', or, of course, 'Horrible' for short.

Needless to say, having the back end of a centipede has made life pretty difficult for him. Here he is as a kid, quickly discovering that his nice safe alleyway could be greatly improved by a roof.

Description
Rain is, technically, a centaur-- in the world that *CarnelianKey and I have more or less worked out for our characters, centaurs are an indicator species, much like frogs. This means, basically, that around areas of intense pollution, whether air, water, ground, or magic, centaur birth defects get pretty fucked up. Rain's parents were both perfectly normal, and so intensely freaked out by their progeny that they left him within the limits of Saragardo and ran like hell while he was still unconscious-- centaurs, like many other ungulates, can run more or less the day they're born, and therefore leaving when he was still conscious would have resulted in him toddling arachnoidally after.

Incidentally, he doesn't start going by 'Rain' for quite awhile-- throughout most of his childhood he goes by the only name anyone's ever called him, that being 'You Horrible Thing', or, of course, 'Horrible' for short.

Needless to say, having the back end of a centipede has made life pretty difficult for him. Here he is as a kid, quickly discovering that his nice safe alleyway could be greatly improved by a roof.