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edited to add some more things, since I learned some stuff since I first did the ref :3c

no I will still never name my refs seriously

at laaasttttt, al's ref to match emil'sss! 'u'
the very first without a mbti personality type, because I took the test for him as I always do, but he had too many 50/50's, so he just doesn't fit into one I guess ahah

~~~

• emil is a very softhearted, cheerful, gentle, and kind boy, who loves nature and his family and the earth itself. he is spiritual, follows his clan's traditional rituals, and is adept at hunting and both spiritual and natural magic

• his older brother by three years is alastair, and the two have been inseparable since emil was born; so close that everyone jokingly calls them "twins a few years apart" (their birthdays are even separated by only two days). the two are always seen together wandering the tundra, hunting, playing, sleeping, doing everything together... and of course being mischievous little gremlins to the other

• they're both somewhere on the ace/aro spectrum, so have never really bothered with romantic relationships, especially since they feel they get all their "super closest dear best friend" needs met by each other :')

• their last name is aqillutaq, meaning "fresh snow" in inuktitut, and their alternate names are "kaneq" for emil, being 'frost', and "qanuk" for alastair, 'snowflake' :3c

• alastair is taller, slimmer, and has a bigger rack than emil due to age (they resemble antlers but are still technically 'horns', as cervitaur ones are permanent and never shed, acting as a visual tell of age and health)

~

modern day:

cervitaurs and centaurs are the closest relatives to each other, having branched off from each other about 40 million years ago (next closest relative being the faun, 20 million years prior). cervitaurs have more physical variance than centaurs, including vastly varying horns, fur length and colour, size, and other aspects, and almost never lack fur on their torsos like centaurs do. emil here is part of a northern branch who have come to somewhat resemble caribou, with the longer and thicker fur, wider hooves to spread their weight over snow, and rather similar 'antlers' (though they're still technically 'horns', as cervitaur ones are permanent and ever shed, acting as a visual tell of age and health). unlike many cervitaurs/centaurs, his people for the most part retain the migratory culture of their ancestors and follow the herds of caribou they rely on. they treat their prey with dignity and respect, seeing themselves as the sort of 'protectors' of their sacred and valuable kin, two sides of a very ancient coin.

when colonialists tried to push north to assimilate inuit cultures to their own, cervitaurs rejected their evangelism more successfully than their human brethren, and fled further to the wilderness and the north to avoid confrontation. despite many a disagreement, they've still fought to retain their independence and cultural identity as much as possible and currently the government has marked vast territories for the people to continue as they please, as they always have. they sometimes visit villages and towns from time to time, to trade and stock up, and some have chosen to live a more modern-style life, even moving off reserve further south to reside in larger cities. to this day they still retain close friendly relations with human inuit peoples.

emil's family group lives a mostly traditional life, following and hunting the deer most of the time, but still making use of certain technology like satellite phones for emergency use and returning to small towns occasionally. the longest emil has spent in urbania was when it came time for him to undergo his top surgery as a teen, which was done in the biggest city he's ever seen, and he spent a little time relaxing there before being sent home to the north. the scars have long since healed and are now mostly only visible under his shorter summer coat.

in modern day, emil's family group lives a mostly traditional life, following and hunting the great herds of caribou most of the time, but still making use of certain technology like satellite phones for emergency use and returning to small towns occasionally. the longest emil has spent in urbania was when it came time for him to undergo his top surgery as a teen, which was done in the biggest city he's ever seen, and he spent a little time relaxing there before being sent home to the north. the scars have long since healed and are now mostly only visible under his shorter summer coat.

fun fact: a game cervitaurs like to play is 'hornlock', pushing their antlers against those of an opponent and seeing who can push the other entirely past a line of rope or marked snow on the ground, basically the equivalent of arm-wrestling :ℙ
if one is notably stronger than the other, it tends to end pretty quick, but more equal players can draw the match out into one of stamina instead. tournaments exist for it, where spectators can watch professionals at work!

DnD version:

a lot of things are the same but instead it all takes place in the far north of faerûn, the area known as icewind dale, his people part of the great elk clan, nomadic but visiting the ten towns for trade every now and again. more crucially, in this universe the huge prey alastair recklessly took on alone was a huge mammoth rather than a caribou bull and he did not manage to survive this deadly encounter; he ends up very quickly losing his life while emil helplessly watches, but in his anguish the younger brother somehow calls upon a great unknown force of magic (perhaps from their ancestors? perhaps related to the other strange happenings of the land?), which temporarily bestows upon him the knowledge and power to “bind” his brother’s soul to his own. they now wander the frozen north seeking some sort of solution and becoming accustomed to this new situation of sharing emil's singular body, with al’s consciousness alive and active in his head with emil, at least presently, at the helm.

he's currently a very adept ranger, as his brother’s spirit infuses power into him, as well as a gifted user of druidic spirit magic, and eventually will also become an echo fighter when alastair has become independent enough to project his spirit from emil's body and fight alongside him uvu

(he also lacks both female chest and scars, as the clan shaman cast a potent ritual at puberty to indefinitely shut it down. so he's a bit androgynous, partially by choice)

~~~

his darling brother:

more stuff of them:

even mooore ~

my floofy lil brothers ♥

ps I know I draw antlers differently like EVERY single time, so basically you can draw them however you prefer, so long as al's are a bit bigger than emil's, since he's older :3c

Description
edited to add some more things, since I learned some stuff since I first did the ref :3c

no I will still never name my refs seriously

at laaasttttt, al's ref to match emil'sss! 'u'
the very first without a mbti personality type, because I took the test for him as I always do, but he had too many 50/50's, so he just doesn't fit into one I guess ahah

~~~

• emil is a very softhearted, cheerful, gentle, and kind boy, who loves nature and his family and the earth itself. he is spiritual, follows his clan's traditional rituals, and is adept at hunting and both spiritual and natural magic

• his older brother by three years is alastair, and the two have been inseparable since emil was born; so close that everyone jokingly calls them "twins a few years apart" (their birthdays are even separated by only two days). the two are always seen together wandering the tundra, hunting, playing, sleeping, doing everything together... and of course being mischievous little gremlins to the other

• they're both somewhere on the ace/aro spectrum, so have never really bothered with romantic relationships, especially since they feel they get all their "super closest dear best friend" needs met by each other :')

• their last name is aqillutaq, meaning "fresh snow" in inuktitut, and their alternate names are "kaneq" for emil, being 'frost', and "qanuk" for alastair, 'snowflake' :3c

• alastair is taller, slimmer, and has a bigger rack than emil due to age (they resemble antlers but are still technically 'horns', as cervitaur ones are permanent and never shed, acting as a visual tell of age and health)

~

modern day:

cervitaurs and centaurs are the closest relatives to each other, having branched off from each other about 40 million years ago (next closest relative being the faun, 20 million years prior). cervitaurs have more physical variance than centaurs, including vastly varying horns, fur length and colour, size, and other aspects, and almost never lack fur on their torsos like centaurs do. emil here is part of a northern branch who have come to somewhat resemble caribou, with the longer and thicker fur, wider hooves to spread their weight over snow, and rather similar 'antlers' (though they're still technically 'horns', as cervitaur ones are permanent and ever shed, acting as a visual tell of age and health). unlike many cervitaurs/centaurs, his people for the most part retain the migratory culture of their ancestors and follow the herds of caribou they rely on. they treat their prey with dignity and respect, seeing themselves as the sort of 'protectors' of their sacred and valuable kin, two sides of a very ancient coin.

when colonialists tried to push north to assimilate inuit cultures to their own, cervitaurs rejected their evangelism more successfully than their human brethren, and fled further to the wilderness and the north to avoid confrontation. despite many a disagreement, they've still fought to retain their independence and cultural identity as much as possible and currently the government has marked vast territories for the people to continue as they please, as they always have. they sometimes visit villages and towns from time to time, to trade and stock up, and some have chosen to live a more modern-style life, even moving off reserve further south to reside in larger cities. to this day they still retain close friendly relations with human inuit peoples.

emil's family group lives a mostly traditional life, following and hunting the deer most of the time, but still making use of certain technology like satellite phones for emergency use and returning to small towns occasionally. the longest emil has spent in urbania was when it came time for him to undergo his top surgery as a teen, which was done in the biggest city he's ever seen, and he spent a little time relaxing there before being sent home to the north. the scars have long since healed and are now mostly only visible under his shorter summer coat.

in modern day, emil's family group lives a mostly traditional life, following and hunting the great herds of caribou most of the time, but still making use of certain technology like satellite phones for emergency use and returning to small towns occasionally. the longest emil has spent in urbania was when it came time for him to undergo his top surgery as a teen, which was done in the biggest city he's ever seen, and he spent a little time relaxing there before being sent home to the north. the scars have long since healed and are now mostly only visible under his shorter summer coat.

fun fact: a game cervitaurs like to play is 'hornlock', pushing their antlers against those of an opponent and seeing who can push the other entirely past a line of rope or marked snow on the ground, basically the equivalent of arm-wrestling :ℙ
if one is notably stronger than the other, it tends to end pretty quick, but more equal players can draw the match out into one of stamina instead. tournaments exist for it, where spectators can watch professionals at work!

DnD version:

a lot of things are the same but instead it all takes place in the far north of faerûn, the area known as icewind dale, his people part of the great elk clan, nomadic but visiting the ten towns for trade every now and again. more crucially, in this universe the huge prey alastair recklessly took on alone was a huge mammoth rather than a caribou bull and he did not manage to survive this deadly encounter; he ends up very quickly losing his life while emil helplessly watches, but in his anguish the younger brother somehow calls upon a great unknown force of magic (perhaps from their ancestors? perhaps related to the other strange happenings of the land?), which temporarily bestows upon him the knowledge and power to “bind” his brother’s soul to his own. they now wander the frozen north seeking some sort of solution and becoming accustomed to this new situation of sharing emil's singular body, with al’s consciousness alive and active in his head with emil, at least presently, at the helm.

he's currently a very adept ranger, as his brother’s spirit infuses power into him, as well as a gifted user of druidic spirit magic, and eventually will also become an echo fighter when alastair has become independent enough to project his spirit from emil's body and fight alongside him uvu

(he also lacks both female chest and scars, as the clan shaman cast a potent ritual at puberty to indefinitely shut it down. so he's a bit androgynous, partially by choice)

~~~

his darling brother:

more stuff of them:

even mooore ~

my floofy lil brothers ♥

ps I know I draw antlers differently like EVERY single time, so basically you can draw them however you prefer, so long as al's are a bit bigger than emil's, since he's older :3c