Sawyer Mennd

**Biography:** The older son of two artists living in the small Ech’kent town of Endlyn, Sawyer grew up comfortable and happy with his family. Though he didn’t show either of his dads’ aptitude for art, he had been developing an aptitude for the business side of their work, and had been taking on an increased role in helping them sell their work in Jdinrma-Hash. This came to an abrupt end not long ago when the rebellion in which his parents were involved came to the attention of Ech’kent’s tyrannical Sorcerer King, and everyone in Endlyn was executed as a statement to the rest of the plateau’s population. Saved with only his brother, his boyfriend and his best friend to support him, Sawyer turned to Ech’kent’s old gods, the dragons, for help, and ended up nominally leading the renewed rebellion against the Sorcerer King. Until, that is, the rebellion’s main attack failed and he and his co-conspirators ended up permanent and unwilling guests in the Sorcerer King’s castle. Abandoned by their real leader, Sawyer now keeps his group together as best he can while they wait for their chance to attack again.

**Notes:**

* Sawyer loves camping and used to take Sean and Gino on campouts all the time
* Prior to Gino, Sawyer dated a girl named Marsha for a year and a half. He broke up with her because she thought he spent too much time with Cyrus
* Sawyer has always found himself getting down when it rains or is cloudy for a long time
* After the first time he kissed Gino, Sawyer wanted to do it again, and pretended to be grumpy when Gino followed him around demanding more kisses while secretly hoping it would keep up
* Sawyer has exceptionally good hearing
* Unlike Sean, Sawyer retains a few memories of their birth parents. He prefers to pretend that they’re just bad dreams that didn’t really happen
* Sawyer can navigate most of the plateau with his eyes closed
* Sawyer had no intention of ever leaving Endlyn when he got older. He thought it was a perfect place
* Though it took him a few weeks to warm up to Cyrus, Sawyer rapidly found him to be the person he trusted more than anyone in the world
* Sawyer’s biggest fear in Sam’s castle is that one of his people will get hurt and it will be his fault

**Quotes:**

* “Just because they built churches doesn’t mean we didn’t keep telling stories.”
* “Whatever you want. We’ll do whatever you want. Please help us.”
* “The problem is my family’s dead!”
* “N-no, it’s…we’ll figure that out later. We just need…someone to fight for us, someone to protect us. Someone to help us rally the people of the plateau against the king. You can do that. People will listen to a dragon.”
* “We haven’t proven that we can keep them safe”
* “Doesn’t matter. They’re just clouds.”
* “We can’t blow up the cathedral. We’re not the bad guys here.”
* “What would I do if something happened to you?”
* “I don’t know, Cyrus knows stuff. It’s what he does.”
* “I, I didn’t mean to. I’m sorry, I didn’t mean…”
* “Stop crying. You’re upsetting Gino.”
* “Help you? You expect us to help you after you betrayed us?”
* “We, we were tricked, your Majesty. We were lied to by a…a foreigner who tricked us into…”

**Trivia:**

* If Sawyer naps during the day, he cannot sleep at night at all
* Sawyer wore all his clothes inside out from the day he could dress himself until he was thirteen
* Sawyer has been putting things up his butt for fun since before he was old enough to properly masturbate
* Sawyer’s first sexual moments were all with his friend Ori, including his first penetrative sex, which happened on his twelfth birthday
* Sawyer is afraid of goats
* As a child, Sawyer used to dig holes and then try to bury himself in them
* Sawyer tried to keep his sex with Gino physically distant from Sean, but since he couldn’t come up with realistic reasons to spend time alone with Gino without Sean, after their second time they ended up having sex while Sean slept beside them most of the time
* Sawyer was once bit by a large dog in Jdinrma-Hash, but fortunately a mage was passing through and healed him before he’d even lost much blood
* Sawyer once started jerking Gino off in his sleep in the middle of the night, only to realize partway through that it was Sean. Sean slept through the whole thing, and Sawyer never told anyone
* Sawyer’s first word was “potato”

**Modern AU:** Modern Sawyer used to live a reasonably straightforward life. He went to school, he ran his parents’ online shop for them, and his biggest worry was that people would find out that he’d started having sex with his younger boyfriend and think he was a creep. All that changed when his apartment building was burned down by the mob and he, his brother, and their friends were made homeless. Now his life is equally straightforward. He goes to school, films child pornography in exchange for help getting revenge, no longer worries that people will think he’s a creep and instead worries that people will find out what he does for a living with his brother, his boyfriend and any other kids that Cassius brings home. Sawyer plays as a defender on his school’s soccer team, and has recently gotten interested in the audio-visual club as well. When not at school or work, Sawyer enjoys hiking and amateur web design. He spends a lot of his time learning how to shoot a gun and drive a car, as well as trying to come up with clever ways to resist having to film scenes with his brother.