in their time wandering from town to town in the Wilds, Shiloh and Jackass assist, antagonize, befriend, charm, and beleaguer many people in stations high and low. although most are simply passing aquantances - someone to share a shelter on a stormy night, someone to pay for the meal, someone to chat with on the job - there are those who didn't forget their face by the next week.
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he/him
ranch wizard and travelling cattleherd with healing specialty. strangely determined to hire shiloh specifically as a bodyguard. never learned to navigate the wilds on his own.
very eager to trust shiloh, and seems leery of upsetting them. bears a somewhat unsettling resemblance to the boss.
she/her
resident of small monastery of the ninth. was the one who found Shiloh/Jackass post-Fuse and helped them recover and separate their consciousnesses.
offended that Shiloh won't confess what it did to become branded by the church. views it as her responsibility in some way.
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she/her
Runs the inn and tavern in "shiloh's" town. regards it as her charge, and was the first to defend it and Jackass from being burnt after being discovered.
initially regarded Shiloh as just another hand-for-hire, if unusual. sometimes finds that they remind her of Florine.
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she/her
Euphemia's adult daughter, currently attending university classes. quiet, unsocial. finds Shiloh a little unsettling. does not know of Jackass.
florine was the first townsperson to learn what shiloh was when it was 'fatally' shot while travelling with her to collect supplies for her schooling.
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she/her
professional leech colony hunter and spernatural infestation exterminator, call-code Peregrine. attended school with Jackass before the Fuse, became a hunter due to some incident with her that Jackass cannot remember.
Jackass can only remember her nickname for the peregrine, 'Texie', and the hunter will not tell her anything more until she regains more of her memories. apparently, the two were quite close.
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ze/zir
drifter and sheperd, travelling to and from small outposts which may not have the resources or numbers for year-round support. friend of Jackass - knows she is not human, does not know of Shiloh.
Jonah-Rose's Beast companion. fiercely protective - can smell that Jackass is a colony. does not trust her.
Jonah-Rose is very, very fond of jackass, despite Whiskey's protests.
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he/him
one of the children of the town. admires Jackass deeply, wishes to become a similarly skilled shooter one day. allowed to call Jackass 'Jackie'.
they/he
Dee's father and local game hunter. resentful of Jackass for taking away their chance to teach Dee to shoot.
Although he is polite, Markus Briarson makes it clear that he does not approve of Jackass tutoring Dee. Dee has her on a pedestal that seems a little high for her actual skills...
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he/him
boss of Shiloh's former gang. ruthless, highly successful leader. convinced that Shiloh is his rival, will stop at nothing to have them killed. knows Shiloh is not human, does not know of Jackass.
lives a deceptively quiet life on a secluded, entirely underling-staffed ranch with his family. constantly annoyed by the percieved incompetence of his workers.
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he/him
hunter-in-training, lost to Shiloh and Jackass in their first shooting tourney despite cheating. once tried to reveal shiloh as the Curse.
after Shiloh managed to discredit Penn's accusations, he became a boy cried wolf to many of his friends. extremely smug during Shiloh's trial.
the main reason those Shiloh and Jackass nearly never assume that Shiloh is an infested colony (rather than cursed as they claim) is that it is impossible for the host consciousness to remain after infestation - even those that are told directly initially refuse to believe the circumstances. Additionally, an individual red colony doesn't actually posses a great deal of the 'quirks' that shiloh and jackass do, and inversely CAN do many things they cannot. to an outside observer, the situation really is bizarre enough to be written off as a curse, alongside Shiloh's being branded by the church of the Ninth.
anyone who travels regularly through the wilds, even if they arent enough of an idiot to try to leave the trails, is generally considered already on thin ice to stationary folk. someone working such a respectable station as a caravan guard may just as easily turn to bounty hunting, mercenary work, or even banditry after the job is done. it's no surprise that at least a few were foolish enough to get themselves cursed.