Shimo and Mercier

Verrrry old ocs that I've had longer than I've had Noel but just around the same age. My boys  Shimo and Mercier are very personal babies that I've kept with me since middle/high school. They've changed a lot since then and so have their stories, so bear with me when I type it all out ;v; 

Starting with Mercier (His nickname is 'Ion' so just remember that lol), he's somewhat of a typical case of 'straight A student becomes a rebellious wild case' due to a number of things in his upbringing that caused a huge change in personality. Though he's blunt, brash and overall rude, he's got a good heart when it counts for people he cares about. But being someone that is a loooot more destructive than most of my OCs, Ion dabbles in really shitty friend circles that promote shitty behavior. He thinks himself to be garbage and doesn't really wanna change, but his better friends (his best friend and roommate, Zadoc, and a couple other bros, which includes Shimo), all keep him from ultimately doing the worst kind of shit he possibly can. He can't technically 'die' due to a rapid healing ability of his (which he negatively exploits for fun), so there's a lot less care for himself in a lot of his actions. 

Shimo on the other hand, likes to think he's very different from Mercier. They're both very sure they're stark opposites but it's more in how they carry themselves. Shimo is a lot less of a blunt asshole, and tends to keep his actual emotions to himself. He's used to unwarranted attention so he puts on smiles a lot. It also comes at the cost of his own ability of reading minds, which he honestly hates. Having that chance of knowing people's true intentions or emotions and hearing them openly lie about it, whether it's for the best or not really irks Shimo in a bad way. He too is exactly like that and he's just not okay with it. Honesty is very important to him and for that he kind of admires Mercier for being so blunt about everything (vice versa, Mercier is jealous that Shimo can keep his emotions and issues to himself). It also doesn't help that having albinism has brought very unwanted attention from a male teacher that has acted on very damaging thoughts to which Shimo has suffered abuse from that. So he and Mercier can relate with one another on these shared experiences that they mostly talk to each other about. It's the one connecting tissue that brings these two together as friends as they used to hate one another due to Mercier's brash personality. 

Both boys come to a place of admiration of one another, though there's a lot of rough patches thanks to Ion being so openly shitty to Shimo from time to time. They're basically the trope of 'two dudes that hate each other but are more alike than they want to admit'. They come together at some point and Shimo dates the girl Mercier used to like lol. It's not a scummy sort of way, they just liked the same girl and she picked Shimo. Mercier gets his own gf who also fits his high libido later on... but that's after he goes through his really bad and really horrible womanizing stage from partying all the time. Mercier is a hypersexual boy who uses sex and alcohol to cope with his problems;;;  

These two have... a lot of history... and a few of my last surviving straight boys LOL. I love them so much, it's taken me a long while to feel anything motivating me to draw them again ;o; <3