Asino

Asino

### Relatives

Vanda Talusan (Mother), Hyacinth Roy (Father, Chester Talusan (Brother), Odona Talusan (Sister), 3 other siblings

## Biographical information

### Place of death

The Lab (Ending 1 (Chapter 23)), Alive (Ending 2 (Epilogue))

## Physical description

### Height

5'7

**Warning: MAJOR Iskong Aspin Spoilers**

> *"Hello, I am Asino. I am 16 years old. I live in Batingan with my 1 brother. Because my dad left when we were young fuck dont include that"*
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> -Asino
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Asino Talusan is the protagonist of Iskong Aspin. Born as a child to the famous Coretouched researcher, Vanda Talusan, quickly, his supposed 'normal non-Witch life' begins to fall apart after her death.

## Appearance

Asino is a mutt with fur like a golden retriever's, but mostly without any roots of any identifiable breed. He has spots of orange lining his cheeks and ears and brown eyes.

His Coretouched mutation makes him grow waling-waling patterns out of the left side of his body. The entire left portion of his fur is tangled up with vine patterns and pink splotches of fur.

Later on in the story, however, Asino cuts all of this off leaving him either bald or with uneven patches of fur on the left side of his body.

## Background

He comes from a borderline poor family which used to be prosperous before his parents' annulment.

In reality, he was a clone of his own infertile mother, along with his other siblings, made with the intention of his only purpose being to replace his mother after her death.

## Plot

Due to social pressures from society and peers, Asino was taught to despise Coretouched and not to be one. One of his closest friends, Judas, actively protests against Coretouched rights. It's a popular rumour that his mother was a Coretouched researcher back in the day. Asino believes that he can just leave that part of his and his mother's life behind, and eventually the world will just forget about it and he can live a normal life, but when she dies, she passes on all her Coretouched research and her lab onto him and Asino is left in a state of conflict where he loves his mother, but hates her as a witch.

Judas, Asino's friend, knows of the rumours and tells his boyfriend, Axle to help him harass Asino into giving him the Coretouched cure, the Corebane. After their curiosity is tickled that Asino may be a Coretouched, eventually they just snap, push him down the stairs, and steal his phone to find out that, yes, he has been at the lab.

Well, it would've been easy to just lie that he wasn't and call the cops on the lab if it weren't for Asino's boyfriend, Rody, getting run over by Aileen's car and dying on the very same day, but shortly after, coming back to life when Asino suddenly realizes he's a Coretouched and could transfer one of his two souls to other people.

## Power and Abilities

* **Double-Souled**: As a Coretouched, he was born with two souls. One of the material plane, and one of the Domain of Life.
* **Resurrection**: His ability as a Coretouched is to gift one of his souls to a person of his choice. As a person with 2 souls, he can only use this power twice before dying. However, because one of his souls is of the Domain of Life, if he ever revives someone with that soul, they become a Coretouched. After he revived Rody, Rody was reborn as a Coretouched with mutations of their own.

## Trivia

* Asino's main motif is waling-walings and the colour pink.
* His name comes from the Latin word asinus meaning 'fool', but it also comes from Anisoptera being the infraorder for dragonflies.
* Asino originated from a piece of BEASTARS fanart Tsaacho did, but quickly spiraled into becoming an OC.